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the world's chemical watchdog sets deadlines for the elimination of syria's chemical arsenal but what country will host the destruction of the top it. remains unknown. they should probably send him a paycheck and sort of sending him to prison for the next ten years. doing time for truth hacker jeremy hammond gets a decade behind bars for leaking private security documents but there are claims he was led to do so by the f.b.i. . and there may be no homecoming for fukushima evacuees as the authorities come under pressure to admit that the areas around the crippled nuclear plant may never become say. this is close to the average level. only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand
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people are currently living we report on how the radiation scare haunts people in the nearby towns declared by the authorities as livable. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t.m. john thomas going to have you with us according to the chemical weapons watchdogs newly attempted it framework the most toxic arms in syria arsenal are to be taken out of the country by the end of the year but the debate continues over what nation should host in 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 as our middle east correspondent paula sleeper 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
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problem though is that they were banking on albania to take these weapons in and albania has since indicated that it will not be pointing to members of this decision in this 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 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 a very ambitious timeframe that has been stated by the organization for the
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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 where in fact to destroy these weapons policy reported force there now france and belgium are now among possible destinations for syria's chemical stockpile foreign affairs journalist robert harness explains why paris would probably have to agree here for asked. the reason why france is a vias 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 they may try to wriggle out of it but they
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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 appear to be recognizing bashar al assad whom 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. now even if it doesn't host of the elimination of syria's chemical weapons the e.u. is still getting involved in the issue a rapid surge in the number of its citizens going to the country to join the ranks of the islamist opposition is sending alarm bells ringing across the continent more and more muslim europeans are promoting jihad duty on social networks as art he says are sillier explains. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do not subscribe to any religion praise be to allah who guided me. call on now calls himself abu abdullah having found islam on the
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internet in two thousand and nine in this video he's urging muslims to join the fight in syria is younger brother john danielle was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo. converted 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 with the number of european spotting in syria between five
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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. are. many of the media joining the groups. groups which nobody wants to are true i said 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 in 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 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
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training zia 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 by 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 remains. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't deserters still there are t. harris well it is likely that the thousands of people who were evacuated from fukushima neighborhoods that won't be able to return to their homes and 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 and 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 mil per year but tokyo now has that exposure level up to twenty times more than that in order to return evacuees back to their homes near fukushima and some of the worst affected areas the radiation detectors are now showing that measurements around fifty times the recommended and. this is half way to the levels that should be causing cancer or. 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 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
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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 impossible to find out all the hotspot to. remove all the. 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 through the church noble exclusion zone more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we poured a radiation meter on the ground on
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a layer of moss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong guns per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here. just a little shit when you clear parkland the ratings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the ghost town in the shadows own 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 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 morey's on 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 i don't see an action 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 daiichi. 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 it 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 a very private security firm was spying on human rights groups on behalf of the u.s. government will spend the next decade in prison jeremy hammond has received the maximum possible sentence under a plea deal after hiking into intelligence company and sending its internal e-mails
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to wiki leaks he was originally looking at thirty years in prison because his leaks included customer information and their credit card numbers and never benefited financially from this breach but he says 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 that 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 view is changing as.
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jeremy's conduct in this case. into says a hacker known as sob who turned out to be an f.b.i. informant asked him to target for david seaman is an independent journalist who has been following the case he told r.t. that there is no way him and 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. we're caught up in the u.s. spying matter europeans are seeing america in
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a different light in just a few minutes we'll hear from an former austrian chancellor on how washington's worldwide snooping is diminishing trust among 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 and much more after a short break you're watching our team. exactly what happened there i don't know but i killed. piers later is when i got arrested. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to consent to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are
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more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even a week 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. the back you're watching our team now a terrorist killed along with other militants in a police shootout and on the stand admittedly during the raided to organizing last month's deadly attack in volgograd in southern russia the details of from our teams
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to on monday. for the. rest of the region. during that. mother was called in to come in and help with the negotiation and speak to his son and say you know given yourself. this is when he. actually. helped propel what happened on the. bombing that happened on the train for. six people. continued off to three of the gunmen killed and two of them are believed to have been killed inside but we have you have to buy the c.d.'s and with all of the. terror attacks around russia a politician in india's largest party has been accused of scaring people. he forced
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voters to select candidates of his congress party by telling them that electronic voting machines would electroshock them they chose other politicians and head to our t.v. dot com for the full story. plus retro trolleybuses crawling along the russian capital's brain streets to mark the anniversary of service on the in motion section of our website we've got footage of the vintage public transport vehicles. 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 in the tories weapons manufacturers in the world public outcry has been triggered by the drone programs collateral damage as civilian casualties are called which has
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claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. have also pointed to a lack of transparency and accountability for the strikes a group of yemenis who lost a family member in one of the attacks came to the u.s. to join the anti-drug campaign and followed in the footsteps of the pakistani family who testified before congress on the innocent deaths caused by airstrikes. these drone strikes victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear plain and to the drone can heal and men 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 it wrong our station we've heard from a young man that says his brother in law and nephew were killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the waiting room getting cut to pieces by these missile he says there is a brother in law was
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a very outspoken critic of al qaeda and thought if you were to. that it would actually be terrorists from a member of al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house i was wrong. forty eight hour state of emergency has been announced in the libyan capital of tripoli following two days of violence that left at least forty seven people dead on friday scores were killed when militia men started shooting on peaceful protesters demanding event the armed groups leave the city. since then fighting between rival militias has been on and off in the outskirts of tripoli with some of them raiding a military base government of groups established street patrols and tried to prevent more fighters from entering the capital authorities have failed to disband the militias that are controlling parts of the country defense consultant says that the current government is too weak to succeed in putting an end to the chaos. the
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only person who kept the nation united was the revolutionary moammar gadhafi yes the western forces the nato nations the member states so this got me didn't knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions and there seem to succeed so they have 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 the all sorts of militias coming from different tallents and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli. a train carrying oil has exploded in western kazakhstan after colliding with a fuel truck the crash happened because of a vehicle past a railway crossing as the train approached one of the drivers was of the train was
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killed while another was injured police say that the truck driver. and has since been arrested more than one hundred forty firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control. more news from around the globe this hour a suicide bomber has rammed his car into a military vehicle in afghanistan killing at least ten people occurred close to where next week's talks on a controversial security agreement with the u.s. will take place the attack 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 withdrawal of international forces. the demonstration against heavy handed tactics used by turkish police on protesters has turned violent. officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds at least one woman was injured there according to local media reports people rallied to protest. pace of police brutality during clashes in june
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a teenage boy was put into a coma after being struck in the head by a tear gas canister. thousands of kurds from across germany have marched in berlin against the 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 the p.k. k. is fighting to create a kurdish state within turkey but is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations and the e.u. . severe flooding in vietnam has left at least thirty one people dead and has forced thousands to flee their homes heavy rains caused water levels to soar while landslides occurred after typhoon haiyan made landfall there several people are reported missing. in the philippines the worst hit nation by a storm around three thousand people have been killed and about half a million have been left almost as well you know.
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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 demonstrations accusing lawmakers of ruction nation among the poorest in europe see a number of political crisis over the last year with frequent protests calling for political reform. the atlantic ocean feels like it's got a bit wider since america. shouldn't have against europeans who considered washington a close friend or to put it all over has been talking to a prominent australian austrian excuse me 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
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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 then the perceptions among politicians everybody who's a professional politician knows that all countries are are looking around for information of the formation is different 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. you said the skate guy had me this cannot happen and should not happen is it possible or even healthy for an idea of
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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. 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 think is a little bit outdated by the way to a concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals better. coming up after the break caught on camera when u.s. and police go too far during interrogations are watching.
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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 expense of 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 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 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
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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 will 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. the video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy used by us police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this woman called dalia that her husband's just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have hired a hitman to murder his spouse. ok
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look at that. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse done. what they want is a confession and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination of dogs that lead to the truth and then eased the way to help prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where 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 is it an exact science can you tell when the saw specter is lying and can you trust the confessions.
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in the united states everything is aimed at making the suspect crime 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 tiffany received a life sentence the memories of when she stepped into the interrogation room a still vivid. you know. into a dentist's office and he smelled the gun to smell and hear it.

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