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somebody to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood ambushed by success and online activists face a six years behind bars after a series of legal battles started by us movie makers where they are declining profits. they were all either tortured killed or used as human shields r.t. here is from the syrian city of andro where rebel forces have reportedly carried out one of the most barbaric massacres since the beginning of the conflict. ukraine's multi-billion dollar agreement with russia from defaulting on its loans but fails to call for a task in the capital with some opposition leaders branding the deal treason.
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it is not i am a mosque you are watching r t international with me marina josh in hollywood and pirates don't always go together but what started as a legal battle against copyright infringement for the co-founder of the file sharing service the pirate bay has snowballed into a tide of hacking accusations from around the world now god for its well run could end up in jail for six more years a spear all over reports. banged up abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a gold for its walk home vog seen the inside of jail cells in cambodia sweden and now solitary confinement in denmark it's just terrible as his mother to see that he is being treated like in this way like as if he were a terrorist hard criminal or violent criminal or some kind acquitted on computer
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hacking charges by the appeals court in sweden he now has to wait and see what he'll be charged with in denmark due to the intricacies of danish law there's no way you forgot for it to know how long he'll have to stay in solitary if it was you know a decision or warrant that was made by a judge i was i was able to tell him you know for two weeks and then we we can go and see the judge but now because it's a decision made by the prison service i'm not able to tell him if there is i can't give him an a deadline whatever case is brought against got fred for now he spends twenty three hours a day locked in a cell by himself and the thing that upset him most didn't me as well worse at the worse until now to have his books in this cell even scandinavia is most notorious mass murderer anders breivik has access to reading material as he serves his sentence in norway for the slaying of seventy seven people support for godfrey it
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is coming in from all across the world the likes of julian assange the activist collective anonymous of throwing their weight behind the campaign to get better treatment for a man they claim is being persecuted because of his online activism on twitter using the hash tag an account got for its online alias his supporters flooded the social media site some accusing the danish authorities not knowing what they're doing in the case just see if somebody does something online. online means bad they agree can't control it but they don't really seem to get what they are actually accusing him of for his family his mother is allowed an hour long visit once a week for which she has to make a thirteen hundred kilometer round trip it's immoral i would say and i don't think the danish people understand what's going on in that person's saw tom denies the
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accusations of illegal online activity and the longer he waits for prosecutors to put together their case the more he becomes the face of online activism peter all of a r.t. germany this wish by a party says so our home is being set up as an example to scare others away we can observe that throughout this entire ordeal starting with the raid against the pirate bay on may thirty first twenty six a number of rights violations some more egregious than others have been committed and it's very hard to escape the feeling that governments are seeking to make an example out of rogue known as on a cart or just to be scare others that might challenge the status quo and be frankly please the united states which kind of disgusts me to be honest so
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julian assange. called him a political prisoner i would certainly agree that he is a victim that somebody is to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood. now children and adults kidnapped tortured and b. had a horrifying reports of atrocities carried out by islamist rebels keep coming to a t from the rebel occupied syrian town of drop at least eighty people were massacred there a but as the army advances on the rebel held positions the number of civilian casualties could rise in the city remains cut off but our crew got to speak to a few survivors who managed to skate. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town about drugs they saw panicked disoriented people running for their lives and they ran themselves they will never forget the despair in the eyes of those who were forced to stay behind we have no reliable way
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to communicate with the people trapped inside address but officials are saying the atrocities against the civilian population are continuing and people are being butchered and even burned alive and every bit of news coming out of the town is doing the new blow to those whose families are still being held by the militants everyone working for the local authorities was to be killed regardless of their religion argue nomination they were all taken to be killed they took everyone even those who supported neither the government nor the rebels they were all either tortured killed or used as human shields the things being done in the drawer unthinkable they're slaughtering children and throwing them out of windows and no one's doing anything about it the syrian authorities as well as human rights organizations say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address the dad taqiyya and many other areas which remain under the control of the armed opposition that the situation in syria has now deteriorated to the point that
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international norms of combat are no longer being observed it. is an industrial town with a lot of the president's working both in the private sector and for government adnan sees horrifying crying as have been committed in this town houses who are set on fire with people trapped inside. the syrian army which is a position just outside the town that continues to carry out surgical strikes as part of their effort to liberate address which is now the only hope of the families waiting for news of their loved ones inside the town. r.t. . well it's not only nonzero where the bloodshed is growing thirteen people have been killed after the military launched an airstrike on rebel held positions in aleppo it's the third day of an army assault on the opposition's northern stronghold according to local activist at least one hundred people have been killed including twenty children. well the u.s.
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has strongly can damned the bombing of aleppo at the same time trying to forge ties with a newly formed radical islamic front rebel group western support for the rebels and whether the militant groups want democracy is up for debate and cross talk later on r.t. . some a lot of these people are fighting against assad and they might be religious but they fighting gates assad because they want freedom for their country and the he and the thought is that dictator so he does not a democratic country and he's a dictator let's not pretend that around that you know are they interested in democracy have mentioned this before here they're not interested in democracy at all so they're not he's very much you know everybody. keeps the country together that's that's that's what russia has been supporting this sovereign country they're killing christians they're killing druze they're killing alawite it's they're killing. you know disagreeable sunni's who are they are killing is the question so i think the idea that they would form a stable government let alone
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a. secular one is insane. you. ukraine's newly srong deals with moscow may have given some respite to the countries troubled economy but they're also further fuel protests in kiev that's despite the fact that a contentious issue of ukraine joining a customs union with russia that the opposition fear it could be agreed on was not even touched upon during the talks let's see what exactly that deals mean for ukraine well first and foremost moscow agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of ukrainian government bonds would save here from the fall and prevent currency crisis furthermore russia has agreed to slash the cost of gas supply to ukraine by
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almost a third which also gives substantial relief to the country's economy jeffrey summers who is an associate professor of political economy at the university of wisconsin milwaukee thinks the deal is a perk of magic not a political step on the part of the ukrainian president. i think he's actually been trying to strike such a d. bill all along and indeed i think he's probably going to go into all parties trying to see if he could indeed find the financing for ukraine's rather substantial external debt has probably been going to china or the e.u. and of course russia seeing what he could find i think in terms of trying to get some debt relief the best option of course was russia i don't think the european union was going to offer this much what they were offering was the prospect of a better future so they were offering a vision more of the resources of vision is important but it must be backed by reality and my concern is that the european union it represents a vision of its past rather than the direction that it's moving in the future so i think the western ukrainian protesters in particular think that if they join the
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e.u. they're signing up floors that old social market model i think unfortunately what they would discover is that they're signing up for something very different which is this kind of neoliberal model which is a delivery in debt you know labor immigration and a whole host of other problems. as we mentioned earlier ukraine's deals with russia have failed to placate anti-government protesters in kiev one of the most vocal critics of the lifeline moscow provided is a leader of the nationalist party who called the country's president a traitor for signing the agreement or to lecture chefs he takes a closer look at the rhetoric of one of the most controversial opposition leaders in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine z. u.s. durations was not enough to persuade one of the country's opposition leaders and yet to book drop shoulders with the german foreign minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerly is openly gay and the lefty books party suborder has made its position on homosexuals quite clear attacking gay
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parades to move us to but we want to build a country based on harmony and social justice issues were being dragged into homo sexual values by the western states and we will not allow advance but homosexuals and people of different races are clearly not terribly books biggest foes. of any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed oh. did he looks forward did not make up the core of the protest movement but there are clearly it's loudest voices and it's actions as well as words and the salt of the city hall and scuffles around it ten days ago they told the lengths that you can t. of an event described as the full of the tyrant by the guards and reckless vandalism by many others this is a crack in the pavement where the toppled lenin monument literally lost its head and if we walk around the pedestal of what used to be the morning into the former soviet leader we can see some graffiti over here first one here says yellow card
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which you're next and the one at the bottom says glory to the insurgent army of the 1940's in ukraine which some in this country believe to be freedom fighters who fought for independence while many others described as nazi collaborators on top of that and no militant field commanders believe were spotted at my done a man who fought as a mercenary in creation and south of setia in all cases against the russians until the end of my days i will kill muscovites jews and communists. british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine and of the you were twenty twelve football championships he went undercover into their training camp these are people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and i watched while they followed live weapons in the presence of such people among the protesting crowd seems to cause no concern among european officials walking on the same square. which is rather extraordinary isn't it to say
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somebody that the united states has banned from entering the country on the same platform as senator mccain to see somebody who is being done by the us says francis mistake statements for denying the holocaust who supporters actually in the streets of kiev still do make hand his meticulous empty russian. gestures and tromso and it does signify that the west and politicians are quite happy to use nationalist forces when it suits them that lack of reaction is particularly bewildering given many european statements about ukraine's right wing factions in the boss and the burning over ukrainian football ground for not the slogans in the stands so if you create does make it into the view someday it will be interesting to see how people with such different values sit at the same negotiating table. let's see the forty from t. of ukraine. you know with r.t. international coming up later this hour high tac hypocrisy bosses of the world's
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biggest thank you companies ban together against the n.s.a. spying but man i just don't believe their call is genuine plus. victims of physical anime u.k. need the euro veterans claim compensation for their service that was recognized and a man countries except their own. took right from the scene took. the first trick to use a knife gripping pictures. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. it's on mom.
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to notice. food since changing the world writes now. the old picture of today's events long gone to run from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. i know c.n.n. the amazon b c news have taken some lots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the mike thank. you for the goods because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here.
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at our teenagers we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not have a look. at. you guys sort of jokes well handled and said. oh well go back to watching r t international the military mission in afghanistan is accomplished at least that's what the u.k. prime minister told soldiers there in a christmas visit his cheering words come as drug trafficking in the country reaches record levels and the afghan national army surrenders key checkpoints in southern afghanistan to taliban in return for an anti-tax we spoke to an iraq war veteran who believes that cameron is trying to put a brave face on
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a story business. mission accomplished was used by cameron because you know politicians don't really say hey you know that wildly unpopular war that we sent you and your children to die and it was like for over a decade well we messed up and it was all of which they're not going to say mission accomplished by camera needs that we died for years in a colonial exercise that was a total blood soaked disaster due to the arrogance of rich politicians we thought they could dominate the land and resources of poor people in afghanistan using the blood of working class people from the united states and from the u.k. and it's almost you know for chairman to assert that there has been so called progress against the insurgency there is an absolute fantasy and the resistance in afghanistan has forced this more year withdrawal of u.s. and nato forces so this withdraw that we're hearing of this is a retreat but a retreat in slow motion because the forces in afghanistan where fighting the
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occupation i have been successful marriage militarily. and news just in a nato base in eastern afghanistan has been attacked by taliban gunmen and suicide bombers three insurgents and want to hold or have reportedly been killed in the firefight is the second such attack on the base that is a vital checkpoint on the border between afghanistan and pakistan of course we'll keep you updated as the situation develops. and it better to dot com our web site for you right now putting pressure on israel scholars and researchers in the u.s. call for an academic boycott of israeli call just pushing them to rethink their middle east politics or in that online. class mind control we tell you about soviet n.z. us work to develop superpowers for human beings that border on true science fiction . right see.
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first street. and i were being featured. on our reporters. now tech giants have paid a visit to the white house urging barack obama to overhaul the national security agency surveillance program bosses of the world's biggest i.t. companies including google yahoo and apple press their case right after a federal judge ruled that the spying may be unconstitutional former cia officer ray mcgovern things the move is simply a p.r. stunt. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money at it so in ciphering their their establishment and then
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a permitting the united states government to get trapdoors behind it they're losing business that's the name of the game for them and so yes states like to have a sensible rules that make it easier for them to do business particularly overseas but it's long since time for them to speak out about a violation of the fourth amendment. and a week before meeting obama tech companies send an open letter to the president and congress saying that anastase spying undermines freedom and here's what abby martin has to say about it. after publicly opposing government surveillance last week internet search giant google has enjoyed a wave of good press before we all decide to instill our full faith and trust the benevolent an almighty google we might just want to use their search bar to google boston dynamics he said yesterday sergey brin the little company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties the military's defense advanced
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research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about terrifying and jaw dropping robots such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most lifelike pet man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs yeah i don't know if i'm ready for google to have a private army of iron man. and i was like ok let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world the united nations estimates the number of dead from two days of fighting in the capital of south sudan has now reached five hundred. around eight hundred people have also been reported injured with thousands seeking shelter in u.n. compounds violence erupted on monday after a failed coup led by the former deputy prime minister of the country is now facing
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the largest crisis since its independence from sudan in two thousand and eleven. a demonstration of african migrants in jerusalem has anded in scuffles with police they were rallying against a new law allowing authorities to keep them in detention centers indefinitely around one hundred fifty african migrants abandoned one search center and walked to jerusalem where they were joined by rise groups at least stand for testers bafta custody after dispersing their rally. to the u.s. state of nevada now where a gunman opened fire in the neurology department of a local medical center be attacked and killed one person injured two more and then turned the gun on himself no details have been released on the identity of the assailant and possible motive of the attack the incident comes just days after a colorado teenager one did a classmate in danvers high school before taking his own life.
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and a visible terror that's taking its toll years later british veterans of nuclear bomb test in the one hundred fifty s. attribute most of the current elss to the radiation they were exposed to and the raskin the governments for compensation u.k. authorities however have rejected their claim despite other countries recognizing their service men are just as arsole has more. jeff lydiard was seventeen when he joined the royal air force and was eventually posted to mary lincoln in south australia nuclear tests were carried out there in the fifty's with some publicity but minor trials reportedly continued in secrecy until the my nine hundred sixty s. run through being. we knew every or for every four aircraft flew in with a nuclear flask. which we are loaded onto a lorry and it was taken away by the scientists who didn't know what they were doing with what he termed fifty illnesses he believes were caused by his exposure
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to radiation that matter linga started manifesting i started off with i had tb i then started having degeneration of my spine my daughter. pancreatic condition which can only be of traced back to genetic source so i have the question in my mind. was it many was it because i was there and many others are asking the same questions even before world war two radiation was a hazard. measuring its meaningful way very very difficult indeed nevertheless there is undoubtedly i think tradition among the british authorities not to own up to any responsibility these people were experimented on quite honestly it was disgraceful how those soldiers were created and they've long been
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asking the government for recognition and compensation their service is part of history of war you allies of future generations will not forget but for those who would actually serve the forgetting is not an option especially for those who feel that a decision they made decades ago may have cast a shadow on dillard's of those of their loved ones if you look out of the country's nuclear countries a treaty that veterans and compensate them and recognize that we are standing right at the bottom of the table that is wrong france the united states and even the tiny aisle of men have already done so but the ministry of defense maintains that while there is a quote huge debt of gratitude owed to the veterans the government rejects any link between veterans' health problems and their military service citing a two thousand and ten health needs audit. overall the rage and severity of problems reported was typical of older people in the u.k. in general and a veteran who believes they have suffered ill health due to service has the right
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to apply for a no fault compensation jeff knows the clock is ticking and while he's hopeful he has no illusions about how difficult the fight will be at the very least what he wants is this insight from cuban we need cost money money to say thank you we are like ghosts. we don't exist does or sylvia r.t.e. london and ever had r t international will look at the achievements of god as economy and whether it's really brought change to the people there and if you're in the u.k. it's going underground but if she returns he. margins consumer p.c.'s and i see what many in the country is the federal government to
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