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this is our duty tonight deadlines for elimination of syria's chemical weapons a set but finding a country to take and destroy the toxic stockpile is proving challenging than expected. a warning for a u.s. hacker gets 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 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 ghost town of. only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living.
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in a very good morning to you. know in here at the new center this morning in moscow our top story this morning most of serious talks ago arsenal 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 when more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials are said to go there still remains unanswered this morning so far it looks unlikely that any country is actually going to volunteer to take 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 this decision in this
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announcement by albania came as a shock to the united states and the european union of the union 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 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
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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 where in fact to destroy these weapons. from supposedly no big tells it is possible to do to take serious chemical weapons. north of robot hardy's explode to be what paris would probably have to agree if. the reason why france is a previous candidate is that france has a considerable program 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 bashar 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 for the french apart from the fact that they have here to be recognizing bashar al assad whom they have spent
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months 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 wouldn't be in this awkward position and now having to be helpful over chemical weapons. but even if it doesn't host syria's chemical weapons will generally these become 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 these in the midst opposition one reason official site for the surge of support muslim europeans promoting jihad judy on social networks across the continent test about side of the story. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do not 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 is younger brother john daniel was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo
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. converted to islam it will save your soul from hell fire. series for you 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 are 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 with the number of europeans fighting 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 paris even though seen for afghanistan.
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many of the mainly joining the groups really. and groups which not only wants to work through assad 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 mama morale that killed seven people is still fresh fears of a repeat one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people native french people traveled to afghanistan and pakistan da we were able not to arrest him. on the grounds that he had been fighting in afghanistan or at least trainings there this summer germany's interior minister suggested a temporary ban on fighters returning home belgium on the other hand had been
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working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back over estimate europe have already been made but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the e.u. sandy terror chief says or could there be the 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 the homes of the fukushima disaster may never be able to return much from a group of japanese officials who want the government to give up the promise that it will make those homes safe any time soon to live in again instead the government wants to change the definition of what's safe now ideally the radiation level should be one milli sieverts per year but you promise government now hopes a certain acceptable exposure level twenty times that to be able to let evacuees return back to their homes near fukushima in some of the worst affected areas the radiation detectors show measurements of around fifty times the recommended amount doctors say that's half way to cancer causing levels jet ski travel to the nuclear
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exclusion zone for us. 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 we're now well within the goes on we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami twenty eleven still stand here nowhere near to being restored 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 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 hotspots. 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 brazil 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 to 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 wrong hands per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here sixty kilometers took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the ghost town of. those known 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 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 i don't see an action from them as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are all. red is suffering from fire issues is. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco a spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima dai ichi walking on 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 to 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 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 for the lecture report of the two fish it was operators are in the process of removing the hazardous spent nuclear fuel from the crippled director for but it recently emerged as some of those rods have been damaged decades before the twenty eleven tsunami and earthquake we want to keep up to speed on also the other nuclear developments in japan and check it out at r.t. dot com. next a hacker who exposed the u.s. government's espionage and human rights group has been sentenced to a decade behind bars jeremy hammond was found guilty of breaking into the computer systems of the private intelligence company stratfor as well as law enforcement and
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government service and to sit churkin to reports them from a quarter on how it's being seen as a warning shot to whistle blows. 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. 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 whom care do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not. a dell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive human this is 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 us and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information. r t. how and under supporters' club everything was stage managed by the f.b.i. which manipulated to carry out attacks of 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 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 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 in the u.s. spying the europeans saying the powerful in a different light these days in a couple of minutes we hear from a former austrian johnstone how washington's worldwide snooping is diminishing trust him and. eating away at the teen spirit. zesty what happened there i don't know but if i killed. years later is when i got arrested. for a crime or did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to the police officers don't beat people anymore i
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mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation because there's been this is like no because the psychological techniques. are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.
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terrorists killed along with other militants in a police shootout it got to start admitted organizing last month's deadly attack in volgograd in southern russia during the raid the details now from artie's to buy much say. that confession by the by dimitri sokolov the happened during a one hour standoff between police and the gunmen for them barricaded themselves in the house in the restive region of dagestan during the negotiation a sort of 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 minding the whitman's that helped propel what happened on the table twenty first to happen of that bombing that happened 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 in that house and 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 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. could be taking. the young age to think of these pictures. and videos and sending them. on long report on the fears for these impressionable young also online to. interject gassed universe to speak it was called off muslim brotherhood. i'm making big news. coverage of the.
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b.b.c. protest in london which accuses the corporation of ignoring the big stuff. right . first strike. and i think. and i'm to drug rally washington's march the growing discontent among americans for the country's strikes protesters gathered outside the white house claiming that collateral damage civilian killings are known these days is too high a group of yemenis who lost family members of one of the us to join the drone campaign from a course in the footsteps of the pakistani family who testified before congress
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recently on innocent deaths caused by the aerial attacks ati's lives while this latest round of. 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 break down towards him to get it wrong our 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 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. there were new clashes in the suburbs of the libyan
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capital between militias just a day after protesters tried to kick them out of tripoli it's now understood that at least forty eight people died during that rally on friday the companies were shot as they approached the group's headquarters. thank you that only inflame the situation even more some demonstrators then drew weapons themselves tripoli has long been a hotbed of violence ever since the assassination of leader moammar gadhafi but friday's instant is the most bloodshed the capital seen in months militias there and elsewhere in libya are entrenched despite public discontent and government demands that they disband according to friends consulted when ruth people leave it's just too tough to handle. the only person who kept the nation united was the revolutionary mama gaddafi yes the western forces the nato nations the member states saw this coming and then knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions in there they can't seem to
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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 yes 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 oil is exploded in western style after colliding with a fuel truck real mess there it's thought the lorry was passing a level crossing is the train approached causing the crash one of the drivers of the train was killed another was injured police said the driver of the truck tried to escape he's now been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters work to bring that fire under control. in other world news headlines as suicide bombers rammed his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan it killed at least ten it happened close to where next week's talks on a controversial security agreement with the us are set to take place i was just
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hours after the afghan president declared that the final draft of the treaty was ready if adopted that treaty would allow american troops to stay in afghanistan even after next year's withdrawal of international forces. reporting right cinci really seeing here is a tally and students turned on police during an anti a stereotype march around two hundred protesters wave flags and flares before clashing with police the march was part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of cuts which will kick in next year as being college protests all across the european union this week in fact including greece sweden and bulgaria. thousands of kurds from across germany have marched in berlin against a ban on the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. he also demanded freedom for the kurdish political leader. serving a life sentence in turkey case fighting to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations and the e.u. . the atlantic feels like it's got
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a little bit wider lately since america was called prying or it shouldn't have been against europeans who considered washington a close friend peter all of us been talking to a prominent austrian politician about how far the bombs are being stretched these days that. 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 been for e.u. u.s. relations it affected the public perception more than in the perceptions among politicians everybody who's a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information and information is the fact that the currency he pleaded urea arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception
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especially in germany is america is our friend you should never spy on your friend like what good america does good guy or me 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 lou militarily 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 fly and be 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 to better the next news thirty four minutes from now with me kevin owen coming away after the break though caught on camera with us please go too far during interrogations that's next for international audience even do you mean time for our british series even to you as well we have a new show called going on the ground this is r.t. international. 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 their 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 and it to obamacare the plan calls for them to raise premiums from up
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to ninety to three hundred forty five percent within five years one example provided by the free beacon estimates and a retired army colonel with a family currently paying 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 to 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. the video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy used by us police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this
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woman called dalia that husbands just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have hired a hitman to murder her spouse. or the like or. tell you. carol. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse. and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation everything might fall into place which explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogation take place
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is it an exact science can you tell when the suspect is lying and can you trust the confessions. in the united states everything is aimed at making the suspect crack from the architecture of the interrogation room it's a small room that disorientate suspects and allows for physical proximity. but does it work tiffany pawson son has definite views on this kind of police procedure. after a robust session in the interrogation room she confessed to killing her best friend on the fifteenth of april one thousand nine hundred ninety seven.

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