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the world's chemical watchdogs for the elimination of syria's chemical arsenal but what country will host the destruction of the. paycheck and a prison for the next ten years doing time for truth. a decade behind bars for leaking private security documents but there are. the authorities come under pressure to admit that the areas around the crippled nuclear plant. only with one exception the place where i'm at right now. people are living we
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report on the radio people in the nearby. studios in moscow this is our thomas glad to have you with us now according to the chemical weapons watchdogs newly adopted framework the most toxic arms in syria's arsenal are to be taken out of the country by the end of the year but the debate continues over what nation should host of the destruction of the more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials so far it looks unlikely that there are going to be any volunteers or middle east correspondent reports the organization for the. to roadmap for the removal and the destruction of syria's
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chemical weapons the problem though is that they 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 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 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 off this is
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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 battle not least of all with the decision as to whether in fact to destroy these weapons friends or to belgium or know among possible destinations for syria's chemical stockpile foreign affairs journalist robert harness explains why pairs would probably have a group have to agree. 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 chandrika
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a lot 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 have here 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 say that if france minded the sound business in the first place they wouldn't be in this awkward position of now having to be helpful over chemical weapons. even if it doesn't host of the elimination of syria's chemical weapons that the e.u. is still getting involved in the issue of rapid surge in the number of citizens going to the country to join the ranks of the islamist opposition is sending an alarm bell ringing across the continent more and more muslims europeans are promoting jihad duty on social networks as artist as our cilia reports. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do no subscribe to any religion praise be to allah who guided me. nicola now calls himself abu abdullah
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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. françois alone for to convert to islam it will save your soul from hell fire. 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 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 put the number of europeans fighting in syria between five hundred and seven hundred most of whom are from the
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u.k. and france and france is the more newspaper quotes of french intelligence sources saying these levels are passive even though seen for afghanistan. many of the may need joining the groups. and groups which not only wants to are true sad but the global jihad rhetoric and share fully the project sophisticated 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 fears of a repeat of one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people all native french people traveled to afghanistan and pakistan. not to arrest him. on grounds that he had been fighting again against
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trainings in the 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 i western europe have already been made but there still isn't a one size fits all solution and the terror chief says nor could there be the difficulty for me. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't tesser is still there r t paris it is likely that the thousands of people who were evacuated from fukushima neighborhoods won't be able to return to their homes a group of officials are now pressing the government to admit that the costly cleanup that is about to be launched at the nuclear plant won't make the areas around it any safer now so far the authorities have been playing down the health risks while raising the acceptable radiation levels ideally they should be about
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one millisievert poor year but tokyo now has the exposure levels set at twenty times more than that in order to return back to their homes near fukushima in some of the worst affected areas though radiation detectors are showing measurements of around fifty times the recommended amount doctors say that that is half way to levels that cause cancer. traveled to the nuclear 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 aware now well within. the we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these hours as ravaged by the tsunami twenty eleven still standing here nowhere near to being with stored you'd be surprised to learn that radiation levels here are in fact lower than in some of the european thirty
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three 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 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 impossible to find out all the hotspots. 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 through the church noble exclusion zone more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we put
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a radiation meter on the ground in a layer of loss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong against 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 goes down in the shallows zone only with one 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
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every day and we get no reply don't see inaction from them 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 a spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima dai ichi. we have it under control it's a challenging process but we have the equipment to perform it anti-nuclear protesters in tokyo 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 has just served eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. reporting from japan. the man who revealed that a private security firm was spying on human rights groups on behalf of the u.s. government will spend the next decade in prison germany has received the maximum
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possible sentence under a plea deal for hacking into intelligence companies start for and sending its internal materials to wiki leaks he was originally looking at thirty years in prison because his legs included customer information and of their credit card numbers and never benefited financially from this breach saying his main goal was to let the public know what exactly the government and intelligence companies are doing behind closed doors his lawyer says that hammond's case highlights the fact that more and more people are concerned about state surveillance. i think he was motivated by police political beliefs his desire for transparency and his desire to highlight what's wrong with the private security industry and with government surveillance i you know i i think those are deeply held beliefs where in a moment in history where a lot of people are standing up and taking the risks the charity tech this is a growing area of concern and debate and our world is changing as.
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jeremy's conduct in this case. i'm into says a hacker known as sub who turned out to be an f.b.i. informant i asked him to target for david seaman is an independent journalist who has been following the case he told me that there's no way that hammond should be in prison right now if he was a victim of entrapment. 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. 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
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the u.s. spy net europeans are seeking america seeing america and a different light. just a few minutes we hear from a former austrian chancellor on how washington's worldwide snooping is diminishing trust amongst allies. plus russian security forces kill a partner of the volgograd suicide bomber in the republic of dagestan in a shoot out after he refused to surrender the stories much more after a short break. meanwhile in vietnam who cock out of 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 chopped up for the bangkok and now also this week a former u.s. senate physical faster complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing since many more dongs than five hundred thirty billion were embezzled from
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the american people according to andrew hutaree who admitted to a gruesome bond buying spree that had financially butchered main street america their bloated carcasses fed to the gluttonous money changers and derivative devils on wall street i'm sorry said the repent of quantitative easing. this immediately though so we need to be. part of the scene motion secure. for your party there's a good. shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. politic. you're watching our terrorist killed along with other militants in a police shootout and. admitted during the raid to organizing last month's deadly
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attack in volgograd in southern russia details now from. that confession by the by dimitri happened during a one hour standoff between police and. barricaded themselves. in the restive region. during the negotiation a 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. actually mohsin minding the government that helped propel what happened on the. bombing that happened on the train for they killed six people. continued off to the three of of the gunmen killed and two of them are believed to have been killed inside of that house they have been hunted by the police and with all of them.
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accused of orchestrating terror attacks around russia. a politician in india's largest party has been accused of scaring people he forced voters to elect candidates of his congress party telling them that electronic voting machines would electroshock them if they chose other politicians so you can head to our tea dot com for the full story. plus the retro trolleybuses crawl along the russian capital's main streets to mark the eightieth anniversary of service on the in motion section of our website we've got footage of the vintage public transport vehicle. simmering tensions over america's controversial drone program have reached the boiling point activists have staged an anti drone rally sending a clear message to lawmakers to stop unmanned aerial strikes protesters gathered outside the white house and then marched to the headquarters of one of the most notorious weapons manufacturers in the world the public outcry has been triggered
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by the drones of programs collateral damage and civilian casualties are called which has claimed hundreds of months activists have also pointed to a lack of transparency and accountability for the strikes a group of yemenis who lost family members in one attack came to the u.s. to join the anti-drug campaign they followed in the footsteps of a pakistani family who testified before congress on the innocent deaths caused by airstrikes. these drone strike victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear it's a plan and the drone can i mean 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 breakdown to get our station we've heard from a young man that has a brother in law and now if you were killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding last night
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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 from a member of al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house it was all over. four people have been killed in fresh clashes between militias in the libyan capital of tripoli after of blood shed a day earlier left at least forty three people dead the violence first erupted on friday when militia men started shooting on peaceful protesters. people marched to the armed groups base to demand that they leave the city where they were then met with machine gun fire since then fighting between rival militias has been on and off on the outskirts of tripoli with some of them raiding a military base authorities have failed to disband the armed groups that are controlling parts of the country defense consultant says that the current
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government is too weak to succeed in putting an end to the chaos the only. nation united was the revolutionary moammar gadhafi. yes the west and. they should. discard me knew there would be chaos in the country because just so many different factions and there seem to succeed the result 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 as such it's iraq two point zero so that 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. it train carrying oil has exploded in western kazakhstan after colliding with a fuel truck the crash happened because the vehicle passed a railway crossing as the train approached one of the drivers of the train was
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killed while another was injured police say the truck driver tried to escape and has since been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control. some more stories from around the world this hour a suicide bomber has rammed his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan killing at least ten people there occurred close to where next week's talks on the controversial security agreement with the u.s. will take place it also came 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 withdraw all international forces. demonstration against heavy handed tactics used by turkish police on protesters has turned violent and he's down bowl of officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rally in crowds at least one woman was injured according to local media reports people rallied to protest an alleged case of police brutality during
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clashes in june a teenage boy was put in a coma after being struck in the head by a tear gas canister. thousands of kurds from across germany have marched in berlin against a ban on the kurdistan workers party the p k k they also demanded freedom for kurdish political leader. who is serving a life sentence in turkey b p k k is fighting to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations nato and the e.u. . in the bulgarian city of the. country's largest opposition party has staged a mass rally urging the government to step down thousands of people have taken part in the demonstration accusing the lawmakers of corruption the nation among. poised in europe has seen a number of political crisis over the last year with frequent protests calling the for political reforms. and the atlantic ocean feels like it's gotten
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a little bit wider since america was caught prying where it shouldn't have against europeans who consider washington a close friend artie's peter oliver has been talking to a prominent austrian politician about how far the bonds 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. and sure sol was the chancellor of austria between two thousand and two thousand and seven he remains very involved in both international and european affairs dr hughes thank you very much for talking to us just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal been for you u.s. relations it effected the public perception more than in the perception.
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everybody who is a professional politician knows that all countries are are looking around for information of the formation is the fact that the currency in the political area arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception specially in germany is america is our friend and you should never spy on your friend like what i get america you said the guy or me that this can not 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
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are no longer. 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 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 to better. could the pope be the perfect role model for bankers find out what max kinds of things about that after a short break right here or. you know i love these rare moments where action of something totally sounds
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positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance 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 is the span of 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 to do that we does better for you than beer and that's the gold man and the 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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a lot better than our current plan of bans some harmful things for some reason and a lot other harmful things because while they lobby better but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know in a sermon this way pope francis suggested we tie cement shoes to the bank stairs 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 who call cal the former general director of agra bank financial faces the death penalty for embezzling five hundred thirty three billion dong. that's about twenty
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five million dollars chopped up for the bangkok and a half also this week a former u.s. fed officials confess to complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing sins many more dongs than five hundred thirty billion were embezzled from the american people according to andrew who are who admitted to a gruesome bomb blowing spree that had financially butchered main street america their bloated carcasses fed it gluttonous money changers and derivative devils on wall street i'm sorry said the repentant quantitative easer. alas andrew the pope was spoken has spoken and he says harry's of london does a nice line of cement shoes it's a lovely maxwell the pope headline reads as follows pope francis corruption fury tie them to a rock and throw them in the sea he was talking about corrupt officials whether or not he was speaking about the church or government officials it's up open to interpretation but i think your cement shoe quote came from the king keiser version
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of the bible right you know member over there goldman sachs you have the head of the c.e.o. saying he does god's work lloyd blankfein well probably the pope who is the god's bishop on earth begs to differ the nice say basically saying that lloyd blankfein should be thrown in to the river with a stone tied to his neck if these politicians and these governments aren't going to enforce justice then they want some vigilante old style just the only. instance is of this type of vigilantism in the greater interest of the greater good by the greater being and that's why people like blankfein and jamie diamond according to the pope. that a majority of the book that's according to the king kaiser. he just sent to iraq to the next of the over the river. well and you hoss are confessions of a quantitative easing or was another her.

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