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theory of efficiency of markets was also part of the school's. brushes republic of tartus stan is in mourning after a plane burst into flames on landing killing all fifty people on board. investigators are working at the scene of the crash here at the airport and looking at the possible causes of will be explosion. in just a few moments. human rights violations and forced labor in cattle are condemned by amnesty international in a report highlighting the brutal conditions faced by migrant workers preparing the gulf nation for the twenty twenty two world cup. and german media reveal that british intelligence is using hundreds of luxury hotels across the globe to spy on international diplomats while the bundestag calls for action to curb mass
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surveillance. welcome watching r.t. with me. monday has been declared a day of mourning in the republic the russian republic of tire to stand after a plane crash landed killing all fifty people on board including a son of the region's top official locals have been bringing flowers to cause an international airport the scene of the tragedy. is there for us. that there is very heavy police security here right now we know that the site of the crash itself is also still blocked some relative saw the victims saw it here as well we saw a woman whose face was covered in tears she really did seem
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a bit lost like she didn't didn't know what was going on she said that her nephew was among the killed passengers on board of that flight there are flowers here near the airport buildings a list of the victims as well and psychologists are here since their help is really necessary right now they're assistance and later on monday also with the relatives of the victims are going to be allowed to start identifying them for the plane crash happened on the on sunday evening this was a flight from moscow to cazan it's not a long flight still less than two hours and as the plane was landing what we know is that it exploded killing all fifty people on board including the son of the republic's president and the head of the a local department of the federal security service so forty four passengers and six crew members all of them were killed there are several versions into what happened and what caused this explosion from
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a human error technical malfunction off the airplane and saw from the reports that the crew prior to the landing runway five hundred meters before they actually attempted landing they did allegedly report some technical problems with the aircraft there's also a version of that there may have been some problems with the fuel the plane was fueled at the demise of the airport in moscow the samples of that fuel have been taken they're now being analyzed but so far no official version has been. adopted that still could still yet to be announced and we're going to find out more about what happens when the data from the flight recorders is analyzed as well. social networks have seen an outpouring of grief from relatives of those who were on that tragic flight one of them a sports commentator for russian state television who lost his wife and step daughter in the crash asked on twitter why live after this russia's president
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vladimir putin expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in a phone conversation with the head of the republican star minicon of whose eldest son was on board twenty five year old iraq was recently married and his pregnant wife narrowly missed taking the flight after he talked her out of it. the plane itself was over twenty years old and tired to stand airlines had planned to take it out of service a year ago but then went against that decision however they claim they were there were no known technical problems with the aircraft before it took off on sunday but earlier in the day the same plane had flown from khazan to moscow and passengers reported huge vibrations during landing is pilot but instead be ideal never mind the flight itself when quite smoothly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating few sleep initially i thought it was the worst but when we got talent of the plane it turned out to where the spring the plane was shaking it
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was from side to side linton our first attempt that it was really bad lending and they felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway. investigators have reportedly located the plane's all important flight data recorders which could give clues as to what went wrong david lim into operations and safety editor of flight global magazine told us how the procedure works. two boxes one of them records all of the communications on the flight deck that's what the pilots say to each other what the pilots say on the radio all the incoming voice messages from air traffic control and also you can even hear things like the engine noise if there was an explosion on board you would hear that in the other box is is i suppose you could say the main one but they're both very important in their own way is the flight data recorder which records basically the health of the airplane to records what the engines are doing it records the profile of the aircraft speed it's as you
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tube it records all sorts of parameters of the airlines you know what the airline is doing from minute to minute and there will be at least half an hour of recording of this and it may be more before the time that the actual accident actually happened so your therapist will have a great deal of information to work with that has been a wide range of factors causing air tragedies worldwide over the years according to statistics from plane crash dot com more than half are caused by areas made by flight crews technical problems with aircraft are responsible for just under a quarter of problems getting to accidents and of course bad weather conditions can play a role and last but not least terrorist attacks or hijackings make up nine percent of air crashes. earlier we asked civil aviation consultant mark vice who used to fly the same type of plane that crashed in cars than what he thinks
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could have led to this catastrophe. that was the or poor repair that led to fatigue and obviously there is traffic failure all of these factors. normally in of emergency you want to get the aircraft on the ground safely as quickly as possible so what would have caused the aircraft to not live on its first attempt was weather a factor words crew fatigue crew onus there are going to be so many things that are to be looked at keeping in mind there are accidents generally don't have been from a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. migrant
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workers in cattle feel they are being treated like cattle according to damning report from amnesty international the rights group has released the results of its probe into the gulf war nicky's construction industry the report found numerous violations in the country which is steaming ahead with preparations for the twenty twenty two will come up and the sea says migrant workers are being deprived of pay and placed in a overcrowded unsanitized thing the rights group also expresses dismay that one of the richest countries in the world is allowing this to happen a spokesman for the organization told r.t. that some of the workers are being treated like slaves. what we found was. there are systemic problems with the who make it workers encounter and many of them are subjected to david expectation for example which i think people who. were deceived about the baby getting caught or some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were doing there we found many workers who had not been paid.
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for a long time. some of them had not been paid for months at a time we found groups of workers who had been stuck in the country trying to leave their desperate in some cases the suicide of trying to be put on able to because they play would not give them that makes it a mic each is required to undercut the result in some circumstances there. were people who were in conditions that most favor. well jim in filmic a piece of guy's a went to investigate the situation but after interviewing migrants he and his camera man with a tank and put behind bars they were accused of filming the mission and attempting to spock i write mystic guys all told r.t. what he discovered. four of them they haven't got paid for seven months in a row right now trying to file the case as well all of those workers have one
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major problem they have to work with in the so-called system let me try and explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm is working for the cup ration. and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors of the state take the passports away from the migrant workers and that puts zero numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. germany's to speak will magazine claims that the british intelligence service g c h q operates a surveillance network of hundreds of undisclosed luxury hotels around the globe to spy on diplomats and government delegations the program infiltrates the hotel's booking system so the agency can prepare the rooms for detail surveillance meaning
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bug phones and computers the scheme is also reportedly used to get the premises ready for the deployment of on site agents for closer monitoring the article puts britain in an awkward situation at a time when germany is preparing to hold a special parliamentary session on the issue of spying as peter all of the reports . later on monday the german parliament will be sitting just behind me for a special session of the bundestag to talk about allegations of spying on the german people by the n.s.a. and the tapping of anglo merkel's private mobile telephone now the german opposition parties had long been calling for a full investigation into these allegations that have come out following leaks by edward snowden that germany was targeted extensively by united states operations seamy a parliamentarian here in germany and actually called on the government themselves
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to be very candid with their says this of course comes after allegations that the german security services may have actually been complicit in spying on the german people so this whole session is there to try and to find out who knew what about what exactly and as it goes on throughout the day i'll be bringing you all of the information that comes out of the book me thing here on r.t. . well arty's afshin rattansi spoke to henry porter a political commentator for the observer and he gave his assessment on high the snowden scandal has affected the reputation of the country's intelligence agency after it forced the guardian newspaper to destroy leaked data. they imported two technicians to grind these computers down into tiny slivers of metal because they said that the chinese could wave a wand over these these computers and find out everything that had been on these actual hard drives i seen them i mean there are just these very obviously grew up.
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pieces of metal and i said look we should sell them on e-bay to the editors they were all in the middle of his desk the other day. that this is something which is going to be framed by people is a moment when the british press was really threatened really oppressed by the british and i notice the b.b.c. has been absolutely pathetic in the coverage of the initial very very big revelations they have. here which is a piece of advice that comes from the got they deny that they exist exist but they do because i've seen in the past that we advise you that this may damage britain's security and we'd very much like you not to mention it or not to refer to it in any way that british media can then mention that they receive the do you know it's often is often does more you've got a super injunction. they deny the knowledge of what if i'd been issued will i mean i think the snowden revelations see i think snowden. for the understanding about
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democracies and the way they work he's done enormous amount to shining sea the way the british media very complacent british media has operated over the last six months he's done a lot to make ourselves look into us and say well actually we're not that good. watch the full episode going underground ten thirty u.k. time this morning. is about avoiding government supervision but doing all they can to challenge that we look at why the u.s. government is trying to take the digital currency sales make up the story in a couple of minutes.
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wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report.
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pleasure to have you with us here today. come back the french president says his country will be taking a tough stance against iran at the next round of international nuclear talks on wednesday. speaking in israel which is now it all with its. main ally the u.s. over the best way to proceed the negotiations the first meeting in geneva failed to produce any results after unexpected objections from france the white house is now urging congress to give diplomacy a chance but the powerful israeli lobby is insisting on harsher sanctions to iran has been urged to suspend all nuclear activity for six months in return for a limited easing of trade restrictions we talked to side has seen mousavi dan who
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who used to represent iran's nuclear negotiations with the i.a.e.a. he thinks france's behavior is contradictory. for a block. because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i. am old five thousand. inspection. nuclear program and frequently has a reason no evidence of day version toward that in his asian this is clear but i really do have the real concern of france is a nuclear bomb because france has a strategic relations with israel who is not a member of n.p.t. . to four hundred nuclear bombs therefore france should not be concerned about nuclear bomb france help israel to master nuclear bomb france heard in the two
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master nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record and while the obama administration's influence over the iran negotiations and the middle east as a whole seem to be slipping some are saying america's closest allies in the region are to blame well that's being discussed by peter lavelle and his guests in cross talk and we'll be showing that throughout the day here on r.t. . the u.s. is trying to start talks with the iranian government and yet it's getting quadrate in the middle east by the saudis who don't want to do it by the israelis or don't want to do a very good good friends nobody can. refute. your car itself the doesn't want to do it here he's trying to do a good thing for the world for bringing peace of media nature to the middle east and he's getting do you know killed from all sides i mean you can't win in these
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situations but you've got to believe in what you want to do when you want to bring some sort of settlement he might believe that negotiations are the most important thing as opposed to saying actions but he's letting all these competing voices drown out his his mission. the renegade cryptocurrency that is used to avoid the watchful eye of financial authorities has made history yet again because values surged past five hundred dollars this weekend after months of steady growth but as the currency is scoring more and more points it keeps raising eyebrows in washington as. reports. there's around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big coin is still a very small phenomenon but it's growing and very rapidly the value of a big coin has increased ten fold since early two thousand and thirteen bitcoin
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bypasses government currency this is not subject to any regulations and at the moment the government is looking at it with suspicion citing concerns that the virtual currency is being useful facilitating illegal activity like drug trade. we've seen things like bitcoin and others these internet based currencies that are not subject to regulation or oversight and we're working very hard to look at how we can counteract that. but bitcoin supporters are pointing to the fact that this new peer to peer payments system is being used in a widening variety of transactions corners for example are now actively chipping in to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines the u.s. government and the u.s. federal reserve obviously chance they're not either rapid development of bitcoin and are right now thinking how to maybe incorporate bitcoin into the conventional
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money system possibly wishing to see bitcoin as more of a technological innovation rather than a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check out. so with what is at the heart of the digital currency success big stored in anonymous online wallets and users can carry out transactions between them bypassing the banks middlemen a much more important the government's or three executive editor of laissez faire books jeffrey tucker says officials have no chance of bringing bitcoin under their full control. governments always like to control money they like to control currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about bitcoin a year ago it was a laughing stock and now people are starting to worry. they don't want anything that happens out of their control and become really just doesn't care actually it's a perfect currency. as it is immune from deuce governments and
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regulators no one controls it's purely a product of a little international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a revolutionary tool to free people from oppression from their nation states governments can try to control it but ultimately they cannot. forget we've got a website packed full of stories to you on there at the moment russians aren't said to the prying eyes of drones and spy planes find out how the cutting edge system you can see on your screen right now will be keeping secrets safe. also this is what happened to a syrian army base outside damascus during a blistering attack by rebel forces had to r.t. dot com to find out why the offensive was so crucial the enemies of presents are sad.
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thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets of athens to commemorate the victims of a bloody student uprising four decades ago that event was instrumental in toppling the right wing military john to that rule greece for seven years until one thousand nine hundred seventy four but as lindsey france now reports for many this is about more than just history. this demonstration isn't a commemorating the forty nine of us are in the public sector next uprising which changed so much and makes the side you specifically in the government is not only drawing people who were former students and current students of people who want government to change but it's also drawing people who are the aussie affected by the economic reforms the austerity measures that greece must undertake to get these bailout packages the latest the many people laid off the journalists and possibly university administrators they're here getting their voices heard is also a heavy police presence to make sure that everything goes beastly anarchists
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infiltrated many of the demonstrations because a lot of the violence but everyone here so far seems very peaceful with this so this protest was started in the afternoon has gathered thousands of people move all over athens all age groups many people from teachers unions journalists and fascist movement people from all sectors of society really because it was from the seeds of what took place forty years ago which was students rising up to ask for their representation with the government and still feeling that leadership needs to change in greece for that to happen. some international news in brief now in egypt at least twenty four people have been killed and many more injured in the collision between a freight train and a minibus crashed at a level crossing to the south of cairo also involved several of the vehicles most of the casualties were reportedly members of a family returning from a wedding ambulances arrive quickly to take the injured to hospital but there are
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fears the death toll could rise. the series of deadly attacks across the iraqi capital baghdad have left at least twenty people dead multiple bombings occurred in commercial areas and city markets targeting soldiers on patrol as well as civilians iraq is experiencing its worst violence in years but the rate of killing that hasn't been seen since two thousand and eight the u.n. says nearly a thousand people lost their lives in shootings in bombings last month alone. engineers at the crippled fukushima nuclear power plants have started removing radioactive fuel rods from one of the four reactors the procedure is considered highly dangerous but is a crucial first test of plant operator tepco has ability to move forward with securing the whole facility which could take decades it reactor has a radiation potential of ten times higher than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima local authorities say they will immediately notify all residents of living living
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nearby if anything goes wrong. and in chile left wing candidate michelle bush has won the first round of voting in the country's presidential race she is seeking a second term is legal but did fall short of the fifty percent needed to secure and right victory one of the chalets main campaign pledges is to rewrite the constitution which does date back to the dictatorship of pinochet chile is also one of the richest nations in latin america but millions have staged protests in recent years demanding more wealth equality and higher education standards. up next a special report from a u.s. city with one of the highest murder rates in the country.
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there is now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness but a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and if they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars this secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project
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is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a tiny tiny drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of many americans but that's just my opinion. as part of their mission to transform the state juvenile justice system j g p l holds you failures to educate young people. well how the law can affect the lives and number of national studies have looked at the fact that when you take a child away from their community you take them out of school you take them away from any support system they're often housed in inhumane or brutal conditions
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rarely get adequate education or treatment you're disrupting their lives without actually providing them with any positive interventions are positive supports and so what happens is that upon release they're even less prepared to deal with society too often with time in jail on the criminal record many youth find it hard to finish school or to find employers that will hire them. one block away from the prison because liberty's kitchen and organization dedicated to helping at risk youth right now mobile various oh i'm sorry scream i pad but i'm going to. i was on a gun show i want to know if it's so that bad of a police. dog and ization trying sixteen the twenty year olds in a working restaurant work often began.

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