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this is tonight deadlines for the elimination of syria's chemical weapons a set but finding a country to take and destroy the toxic stockpiles proving far more challenging than expected. a warning for will still blowing a u.s. attack against ten years behind bars after breaking into a private company spying database which revealed the white house was keeping an eye on human rights activists nationwide. and japan backed down on a promise to return all evacuees to their homes near fukushima despite alarming radiation levels well outside the exclusion zone. because this close to the average level of the girls down. their own only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living.
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below the very good even she has just joined us just after ten pm here in moscow my name is kevin irwin this is our take our top story most of syria's toxic arsenal then will have to be taken out of the country by the end of the year according to a newly adopted plan by the chemical weapons watchdog but the most pressing question now tonight is where more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials are said to go next that question remains unanswered so far it looks unlikely that any country set to volunteer as a middle east correspondent reports. organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has laid out a road map for the removal and the destruction of syria's chemical weapons the problem though is that there were banking on albania to take these weapons in and albania has since indicated that it will not be party to this decision and this
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announcement by albania came as a shock to the united states and the european union albanian is seen as a very strong partner with a so-called unshakeable alliance to the waste it is also a very poor country but there were wide scale protests in albania with people saying that they refuse to allow their government to be party to taking in the weapons from syria now the problem is that only a norway also indicated that it would not allow these weapons to be brought to shore no way however saying that it will send a ship that will help with transferring the weapons to wherever they are taken but this is the problem it's not yet clear where in fact they will be taken and the latest word from the united states is that it has other options on the table but no indication as to what these options are this is a very ambitious time frame that has been saved by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons it says that by the end of march next year most of syria's chemical weapons will have been destroyed and that by the end of june all
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of them will have been destroyed but again it seems as if it's facing an uphill battle not least of all with the decision as to whether in fact to destroy these weapons or france belgium a big target it is possible to take serious chemical weapons for food you're listening with a robot how this explains why paris would probably have to agree if. the reason why france is a fierce candidate is that france has a considerable program of running all the time disposing of chemical weapons left over from the second world war which keep being uncovered so they have the technical capacity to deal with the problem there are political reasons why they might not want to get involved because it's a sort of recognition of the basher al assad government which france is but the last government to want to do so they may try and wriggle out of it but they may also be under pressure of the americans to be helpful my guess is that france will say yes because they'll want to look positive the trap of the french apart from the fact that they appear to be recognizing bashar al assad who they have spent months
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and years decrying on every possible ground is that says the public may well say that if france minded his own business in the first place they would be in this awkward position now having to be helpful over chemical weapons. but even if it doesn't host syria's chemical weapons the is becoming increasingly tangled up in the conflict european spy chief are warning of a rapid growth in the number of citizens going there to fight alongside the islamist opposition one reason official site for the surge of support are muslim europeans promoting jihad on social networks across the continent that's the story . i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do you know subscribe to any religion. who guided me. all our knuckles himself. having found islam on the internet in two thousand and nine in this video he's urging muslims to join the fight in syria his younger brother john daniel was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo.
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it will save your soul from help. you to. forgive and this is just one of many such videos online of young europeans calling their peers to arms french and western intelligence services have intensified their warnings and europeans heading to syria to fight nowadays they've noticed not all the extra rise in the number of individuals heading over there but also in the kind of people who are joining the fight they say that more and more they are more committed to the struggle and upon their return to europe there's still no clear cut way to deal radicalize these individuals estimates of the number of european study in syria between five hundred and seven hundred most of whom are from the u.k. and france and france is the more newspaper quotes of french intelligence sources saying these levels are passed even those seen for afghanistan.
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are. many of the media joining the groups really. in groups which not only wants to work through a sad but the global jihad rhetoric and share fully the project of many of them will get back in europe much more radical for the french the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mama morale that killed seven people is still fresh fears of a repeat one radicalized young then returned to france most of those people are native french people traveled to afghanistan and pakistan we were able not to arrest him. on grounds that he had been fighting again against and or at least training zero this summer germany's interior minister suggested a temporary ban on fighters returning home belgium on the other hand had been working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back the rest of europe
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and more would have been named but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the news and intelligence says more could there be a difficulty remains. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't just there is still there are thirty paris. thousands of people who were evacuated from their homes after fukushima disaster may never be able to return that's from a group of japanese officials who want the government to give up on the promise that it will make those homes safe to live in again instead of the government decided to change the definition of what's safe ideally the radiation levels should be one millisieverts per year but now japan's government subsidies certain acceptable exposure level it twenty times that to be able to return evacuees back to their homes. in some of the worst affected areas the radiation detector show measurements were fifty times the recommended level that's about halfway the doctors think cancer causing levels lecture traveled to the nuclear exclusion zone
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. it's hard to say what gives you a creepier feeling the trail of destruction left by the twenty eleven tsunami all the houses untouched by natural disaster but abandoned after the nuclear accident walking through the deserted streets of the fukushima exclusion zone we can see plenty of both technically were now well within the goes on we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami in twenty eleven still standing here and nowhere near to being with stuart you'd be surprised to learn that radiation levels here are in fact lower than in some of the european cities and this prompted the decision by the japanese government to allow the people to return to their homes. but scientists say that's suicidal because radiation migrates and because it exists in hot spots scattered all across the area . in the hot spots there is a huge amount of the radioactive material it's concentrated stored it is almost
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impossible to find out all the hot spot to. remove all the. material from their houses we actually stumbled upon this process radiated material from personal belongings to contaminated soil is put in plastic bags and buried the radiation meter when even from a considerable distance imagine our surprise when we found similar levels in an area which had never been included in the no go zone. i've traveled through the church noble exclusion zone more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we put a radiation meter on the ground in a layer of loss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrongs per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here sixty kilometers something took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the goes down in the shallows zone only with one
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exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. mrs morey's ono is one of them she bought a radiation meter and now patrols the area looking for hot spots as we had after school classes for children at our house but had to close it because of high radiation. in her short life this girl has already got used to seeing a lot of radiation meters just like mrs morris her mother joined an ngo group of ordinary women united by fear for the future of their children and distrust of the government's actions. we're sending our data to government and tepco officials every day and we get no reply don't see an action from down as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are all. red is suffering from fire already she is. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco as spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima daiichi you're walking or we have it under control it's
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a challenging process but we have the equipment to perform it anti-nuclear protesters in talk you say no one should be allowed back into the fukushima area until it's completely safe which in truth may not happen for centuries there pickett has just served eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. r.t. reporting from japan cost meantime to fukushima operators in the process of removing those hazardous spent fuel nuclear rods from the crippled power plant but it recently emerged that some of those rods have been damaged decades before the twenty eleven tsunami and earthquake could read up on a lot more details now the nuclear developments in japan on our website are two dot com. hackers who exposed the u.s. government's espion our john human rights groups has been sentenced to a decade behind bars jeremy hammond was found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of the private intelligence company struck for as well as law enforcement
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and government service and this is reports next from a quarter some how it's being seen as a warning shot that to whistleblowers. after two hour hearing in a packed courtroom in the federal courthouse in lower manhattan twenty eight year old activist and hacker jeremy hammond was sentenced to one hundred twenty months behind bars he's going to spend the next decade in jail and march twenty. fifth for breaking into two hundred gigabytes of five million e-mails of information of private security firm stratfor and leaking this information to transparency organization. in these e-mails it was revealed that the private security firm was spying on human rights activists upon the request of corporation and the u.s. government earlier hamad had pled guilty to one count of the computer abuse and fraud act this was a classic case of whistle blowing where. criminal activity by a private corporation on behalf of both corporations and the government was exposed
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to the government and the judge felt that the idea of causing mayhem or causing destruction was incompatible with that jeremy's stated political goals and. we disagree with that and some of hammon supporters have dubbed him the robin hood of our times the defense team inside the courtroom argued that he fought for the better good trying to bring about real change to the system and shed more light on what the u.s. government was doing the prosecution however said that he stole the numbers of sixty thousand credit cards causing a damage of one to two point five million dollars to businesses and individuals if people who have influence and people whom here do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not. bella or dr king i was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive human this as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference if we don't have jeremy hammond's if we don't have had word snowden's if
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we don't have chelsea manning barrett brown's we don't have a free press this sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a. scandal continuing the debate on what should and should not. be kept secret in the u.s. and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information and stacy. new york who do support his claim everything was stage managed by the f.b.i. which manipulated him to carry out attacks from several foreign government websites david seaman the us journalist who's been keeping close tabs on the high tech snooping story he believes the jailed activist was bled every step of the way he was approached by an f.b.i. informant this came out an article in wired magazine this f.b.i. informant is apparently the one who quote unquote cheer lead jeremy into hacking into this organization this f.b.i. informant also allegedly gave them a list of other targets that jeremy should go after and which he did not go after and when c.
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once he received the information he apparently downloaded it to an f.b.i. controlled server at the request of this f.b.i. informant so if this was basically an f.b.i. operation they should have probably sent him a paycheck and sort of sending him to prison for the next ten years. caught up with the u.s. spying the europeans a secret powerful ally in a different light these days in a couple of minutes we hear from a former austrian chancellor on how washington's worldwide snooping is diminishing trust among the partners beating away at the team spirit.
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margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. dramas that try to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world. to picture of today's thieves. from around the globe. up to. fifty. terrorists killed along with other militants in
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a police shootout in dagestan admitted organizing last month's deadly attack in volgograd in southern russia during the raid the details from a tease to buy one say. that confession by the by dimitri sokolov happened during a one hour standoff between police and the gunmen for there was barricaded themselves in the house and the rest of the region of dagestan during the negotiation assault of the mother was called in to try and come in and help with the negotiation and speak to his son and say you know i'd given yourself to the police this is when he then confessed to actually be masa mind he put them into that helped propel what happened on the table twenty first to happen at that bombing that happened you know volgograd on the twenty first of october they killed six people now during that siege of a woman as well as a child were also released who were in that house with those gunmen a gun slide continued after that three of the gunmen where killed and
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two of them are believed to have been killed inside that house they had been on the hunt hunted by the police and were found all of them in that house they accused of orchestrating terror attacks around russia so this really wasn't the end for them at this point in time. taking. pictures kids. online reporting all the fears for these impressionable young also to online. this. brotherhood. making news britain follow us on twitter for coverage of the b.b.c.
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protest in london which is accusing the corporation of ignoring the big stuff. right. first right. and i would think that your. orders would. be in the. and on to drone rally in washington smart the growing discontent among americans for the country's amanda strikes protesters gathered outside the white house claiming that collateral damage as civilian killings unknown is too high given his who lost family members in one attack to the u.s. to join the n.c. drone campaign calling it a first step son of a family who testified before congress on the innocent deaths caused by the aerial
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attacks moves well the latest rally. these drone strikes victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear to put an end to the drone can i kill in yemen they are asking also asking for the memos that justified the drone program to be released for those documents to be made public and for the break down towards him to get a call our station we've heard from a young man that says his brother in law and nephew work killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the waiting list knowledge getting cut to pieces by these missiles he says there is a brother in law was a very outspoken critic of al qaeda and thought if you were to be killed that it would actually be bought by a terrorist a member of al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house it was all over. the renewed clashes in the suburbs of the libyan
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capital between militias just a day off the protesters tried to kick them out of tripoli it's notice to the at least forty eight people died during that rally on friday the campaigners were shot at as they approached the group. said cortis. and that only inflame the situation even more demonstrators then drew weapons themselves tripoli has long been a hotbed of violence ever since the assassination of leader moammar gadhafi book friday's incidents the most bloodshed the capital seen in months militias there and elsewhere in libya are entrenched despite public discontent and government demands they disband the fed consulted more in route he believes they're just too tough to handle. the only person who kept the nation united was the revolutionary mama gaddafi yes the western forces and nato nations member states saw this coming knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions in there they can't seem to succeed so they resort to murdering
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each other they disbanded the military and the civil service there is in effect no central military role to be played by anyone there is no security aside it's iraq two point zero so the there are all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli. train carrier will explode in western kazakstan after collided with a fuel truck it's thought lorry was passing a level crossing as the train approached causing the collision or mass one of the drivers of the train was killed and those thought be missing police said the drive the truck tried to escape he's now been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters have been tackling the blaze which is now believed to be under control more world news a suicide bombers rammed his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan it's left at least ten dead it happened near where next week's talks are actually on the controversial security agreement that the u.s. has said take place in the just hours after the afghan president declared that the
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final draft of the treaty was ready if adopted it will allow american troops to stay in afghanistan even after next year's withdrawal of international forces. riots in children here was italian students turned on police during an anti as territory marched around to under protest as wave flags and lit flares before clashing with offices the march was part of nationwide instructions against fourteen billion euros worth of cuts which will kick in next year the big college protests across the european union to greece sweden and bulgaria. thousands of kurds from across germany marched in berlin against a ban on the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. they also demanded freedom from kurdish political leaders are you serving a life sentence in turkey p k k started to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations nato and the e.u. . the atlantic feels like it's got
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a little bit wider lately has made since america was caught prying where it shouldn't have been against europeans who considered washington a close friend peter all of has been talking to a prominent austrian politician about how far the bombs are being stretched these days public relationship between the european union and the united states seems to have hit something of a rocky patch of late and that's why i've come here to vienna to meet with a former europe. leader gave his opinion on the current situation just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal being for you u.s. relations it effected the public perception more than in the perceptions among politicians everybody who is a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information and information is the fact that the currency can be polluted urea arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception especially in germany is america is our friend and you should never spy
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on your friend. what. does skeet guy have me that this cannot happen and should not happen is it possible or even healthy for an idea of american exceptionalism to exist in the modern age i don't think that. someone is exceptional of course some think they are exceptional but they are not everybody is exceptional or we are equals we are brothers and sisters and you can be larger or you can be more powerful economical are military really but at the end we are no longer individual builds on the notion we are on the same ship and we have to steer the same ship we have to find common rules we have to find a clear cause for the future this is the important thing and exceptionalism this is a rather dangerous i think is a little bit outdated by the way to
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a concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals it's better. we've got more for news team in half an hour in the meantime r.t. desex more the news you know the stories you don't. president obama despite being king liberal loves to flatter the troops he loves their courage selflessness and teamwork as he said in his state of the union address but he doesn't love are there expensive injuries which the troops are going to have to pay three times more for according to yahoo news the president's administration wants to force military retirees to get out of tri-care their current plan added to obamacare the plan calls for them to raise premiums from up to ninety to three hundred forty five percent within five years one example provided by the free beacon estimates that a retired army colonel with
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a family currently paid four hundred sixty dollars a year for health care would have to pay around two thousand dollars make you pay even more for your war injuries apparently that's what obama is actually planning while he is reading those lovely speeches off of teleprompters people who are against the post nine eleven war against who knows what are often told that they don't support the troops well do the people who say bring the troops home never advocate tripling their health care premiums no they don't all of the chicken hawks who send the troops off to die in questionable wars are the ones who want to make them pay even more for their injuries but that's just my opinion. what has that is absolutely. the fragility of the fungus was system appears to be absolutely done i think and if we want to never see that again we have to correct the who because if you target on you one scapegoat then you know there will not
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correcting you had you do not get what you want which is much more so in the world with. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set. so here's some interesting news coming out of ten downing street the british prime minister david cameron has taken heavy criticism of the purging of a decade's worth of speeches and videos from the conservative party's website that's right i think there's a wave of historical revisionism sweeping cameron's government after all it's hard to prove that you haven't lived up to any of your initial promises if they're completely expunged from the public record now of course party members are defending the move saying that purging the content is a campaign strategy aimed at replacing old messages with new ones but cameron's former speech writer in burrell disagrees that this is just
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a campaign strategy that quote the use of sophisticated software to ensure search engines do not stumble upon these archives slightly just slightly undermines this claim is that as it turns out the party went as far as instructing websites such as an internet archive and google to fully remove deleted pages from their databases pages that these websites often keep for posterity usually with the way until cultures and died have their history advised but now it looks like if you have the money and if you have the power it's as easy as getting divorced from the royal family. the. it's a. very hard to take. that back with that right there.

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