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eleven pm saturday night in moscow tonight deadlines for limitation 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 so bloody us how to get to 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 won't back down on a promise to return all evacuees to their homes near fukushima despite alarming radiation levels well outside the exclusion zone. this is close to the average level of the girls down of. 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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very good even just showing this is kevin owen here this hour out international with you and our top story than most of syria's toxic are still will have to be taken out of the country by the end of the year according to the newly adopted plan by the chemical weapons watchdog but the most pressing question is where more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials are going to go next that remains unanswered so far it looks unlikely that any country set to volunteer for it as a middle east correspondent reports. the 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 announcement by albania came as
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a shock to the united states and the european union of the union is seen as a very strong partner with a so-called and shakable 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 in a 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 timeframe that has been stated 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 of them will have been destroyed but again it seems as if it's facing an uphill
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battle not least of all with the decision as to where in fact to destroy these weapons so from some bones remembering tell it is possible alternatives to take serious chemical weapons. nor the rubber hardness explained to be why the pyros would probably have to agree. 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 traps of the french apart from the fact that they appear to be recognizing bashar al assad who they have spent months and years decrying on every possible ground is that says the public may well
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say that if france minded the same 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 post syria's chemical weapons the e.u. more generally is becoming increasingly tangled up in the conflict european spy chief the warning of a rapid growth in the number of citizens going there to fight alongside the islamist opposition one reason official side for the surge of support muslim europeans promoting jihad duty on social networks across the continent. the story. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do you know subscribe to any religion. who guided me. nicola now calls himself abu abdullah 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 hell fire. for you and this is just one of many such videos online of young europeans holding 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 european spread 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 a french intelligence sources saying these levels are parents even those seen for afghanistan. are.
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many of the media joining the groups. and groups which not only wants to work through a sad but the global jihad rhetoric and share fully the project many of them will get back in europe much more radical for the french the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mohamed merah that killed seven people is still fresh heightening fears of a repeat of one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people native french people traveled to afghanistan and pakistan we were able not to arrest him. on the grounds that he had been fighting in afghanistan 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 to the rest of
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europe have already been named but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the e.u. sandy taylor chief says more could there be a difficulty for me. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't just there is still there r t paris. thousands of people who were evacuated from their homes after the fukushima disaster may never be able to return and that's why a group of japanese officials who want the government to give up the promise that they will make those homes safe to live in again instead the government's decided to change the definition of what safe and what's not ideally the radiation level should be one millisieverts per year but now japan's government hopes to certain acceptable exposure level twenty times that to be able to return evacuees back to their homes and if indeed some of the worst affected areas the radiation detector show measurements for around fifty times the recommended amount now doctors say that's half way to cancer causing levels. travel to the nuclear exclusion zone for
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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 aware now well within. the we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami in twenty eleven still standing here 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 plan that the decision by the japanese government to allow the people to return to their homes but scientists say that suicidal because radiation migrates and because it exists in hotspots scattered all across the area. in the hot spots there is a huge amount of the radioactive material it's concentrated stored. all
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the hot spots. 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 moss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong hands per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here sixty kilometers selling coke machine when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the ghost town of prepacked in the chernobyl zone only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more
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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 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 and we're sending our data to government and tepco officials every day and we get no reply i don't see an action from the un as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are already suffering from. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima dai ichi. we have it under control it's
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a challenging process. when 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 their peak it has just eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. r.t. reporting from japan as alexey mentioned there of course officials operators are in the process of removing the hazardous spent nuclear fuel from one of those reactors retta for the crippled plant but it recently emerged and some of those rods have been damaged decades before the twenty eleven tsunami and earthquake killing up to speed on it and keep abreast of all the nuclear developments in japan but r.t. dot com. the hacker who exposed the u.s. government's espionage and human rights groups has been sentenced to a decade behind bars jeremy hammond was found guilty of breaking into the computer
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systems of the private intelligence company struck for as well as law enforcement and government service and it's to see a churkin in next reports from the courthouse on how it's being seen as a warning shot to other 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 in march twenty twelve hammond was arrested for breaking into two hundred gigabytes of five million e-mails of information of private security firms stratfor and leaking this information to transparency organization leaks 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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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 who care do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not you know i'm a dell 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 defense
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if we don't have jeremy hammond's if we don't have edward snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning baron 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 i want the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information and. new york well how did his supporters claim everything was stage managed by the f.b.i. which manipulated to carry out attacks on several foreign government websites david seaman is a us journalist who's been keeping a close eye on the high tech snooping old story he believes the jailed activist was led 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
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and when c. 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. because they are caught up in the u.s. spying that europeans are saying they're powerful ally in a different light these days in a couple of minutes that if i'm a former austrian chancellor on t.v. but washington's boiled wide snooping is diminishing trust among those in the eating away at the team spirit. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct your. don't want to be in bed.
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give don't want to be gangstas you don't want to be. they don't want to blow with the time that he came to be we can see. you just me as i was when i was in the hood. i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel. egypt syria turkey and even iran and then each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region merely being on.
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the terrorist killed along with other militants in a police shootout in dagestan's admitted organizing last month's deadly attack in volgograd in southern russia during the raid the details next from what 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 out 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 minding the whip him into that helped propel what happened on the table twenty first it happened there that bombing that happened on the twenty first of october they killed six people now during the siege of a woman as well as a child were also released who were in that house all with of those gunmen
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a gun slide continued after that three of the gunmen where killed and two of them are believed to have been killed inside of 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. with a gun happy culture in dagestan could be taking root in the picture there and you screams kids imitating videos and sending threats to out. of these are just. others are far more sinister online we're reporting on the fears for these impressionable youngsters also online. lecture into jek guests to university a lot of speaker was heckled off angry muslim brotherhood activists will tell you.
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making the news makes more sense in britain follow us on twitter for coverage of the b.b.c. protest in london which accuses 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 washington smart the growing discontent among americans with the countries on the strikes protesters gather outside the white house claiming that collateral damage as civilian killings you know is too hard a group of yemenis who lost family members in one attack came to the u.s.
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to join the anti drone campaign all of course in the footsteps of the pakistani from testified before congress recently on the innocent deaths caused by the tax but he says well without this latest rally. these drone strike 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 justify the drone program to be released for those documents to be made public and for the breakdown in security to get a guard station we've heard from a young man that says his brother in law and nephew work killed by u.s. drone strikes we go there and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding last night 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
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white house it was all over. there a new try shoes in the suburbs of the libyan capital between militias just a day after protesters tried to kick them out of tripoli it's now destroyed that at least forty eight people died during that rally on friday the company is was shot at as they approached the. groups headquarters. that only inflame the situation further as some demonstrators then threw and drew weapons themselves at tripoli's that long been a hotbed of violence ever since the sas nation of women khadafi but friday's instant is the most bloodshed the capital seen in months militias there and bells were in libya are entrenched despite public discontent and government money that they disband defense consulted told me he believes are just too tough to handle. the only person who could have kept the nation united was the revolutionary mama gaddafi yes the western forces the nato nations member states
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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 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 they 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. a train carrying oils exploded in western style and after colliding to a fuel truck it's thought the lorry was passing a level crossing as the train approached causing the collision one of the drivers of the train was killed another thought to be missing police said the driver of the truck tried to escape he's now been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters attacked in a blaze which is now believed going to control. another world news headlines a suicide bomber's run his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan it's left at least ten dead in the next two weeks
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talks on a controversial security breach with us where those talks are set to take place in news just hours after the afghan president declared that the 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. you see here right cinci rain is italian students turned on police during and hysterically march around two hundred protesters wave flags and flares before clashing with officers the march was part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of cuts which will kick in next year the big college protests all across the european union including 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 for kurdish political leader abdul are you serving a life sentence in turkey p k k s fighting to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered
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a terrorist organization by the united nations nato and the e.u. . the atlantic feels like it's got a little bit wider lately 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 european leader and gauge his opinion on the current situation just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal being for e.u. u.s. relations it effected the public perception more then the perceptions among politicians everybody who is a professional politician knows that all countries are are looking around for information and information is developed with the currency in the political area
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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. be your friend like what good america does skeet guy to 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 that 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 or militarily but at the end we are no longer individual boards 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 fly and be clear
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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 concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals better. speaking to our take our news or your service twenty four seven clubs our web r.t. dot com next after the break could the pope be the pope. role model for bankers would be finding out the cars are a boy. you know i love these rare moments where action of something totally sounds positive to
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share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trans fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones and beef and gitmo is being produced why does this ban have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to a hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you but dude weed is better for you than beer and that's legal man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position isn't really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route and let it be everything be legal let people make their own choices or do what i think would be much much better actually really ban all the things that are destructive to our health both of these paths have positive and negative effects but they are
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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know in a sermon this wake pope francis suggested we tie cement shoes to the banks tears and throw them into the river of course i paraphrase is exact words may have been slightly more nuanced but the gist was the same in my opinion meanwhile in vietnam cock out the former general director of agra bank financial faces the death penalty for embezzling five hundred thirty three billion dong that's about twenty five million dollars chop shop for food bangkok and how also this week a former u.s. fed official confessed to complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing since many more dongs than five hundred thirty billion were embezzled from the american people according to andrew who are who admitted to a gruesome.
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