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flexing its muscle all kind of voices and banners over swathes of iraq while washington panels arms of his state forces for what's predicted to be a bloody contact. and syrian rebels turn on each other in a merciless truth war with over five hundred one just killed in the slums clashes over just one week sparking a change of poverty among some of the of foreign backers. while the month before the winter olympics doll to the city is putting a priority in security to make sure the games remain safe and just are. still coming up confidence in the leaders has never been that low walk into a new poll at least in the hard hit areas of your government that's going to mean local solutions to women trench on the price of something.
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is just one pasta a little after ten o'clock am here in moscow you live with us on our to international you with me to almost say for this week's the weekly. the black flag of al qaeda was this week a waste over to iraq's cities which are now under control of jihad is spent on creating a new islamic nation but the real bloodletting is yet to began one expert says iraqi army and tribal militias mobilize and prepare to counterattack artie's gannett she can reports. they run on care emboldened by the fighting in syria these are all qaeda linked militants overran parts of iraq including the city of fallujah. we have said earlier that the
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syria story will actually go into iraq and this is what we were warning about chaos in neighboring syria deep and as the u.s. and its allies threaten the syrian government sending the signal to the rebels to fight on to the detriment of a political outcome islamic groups have now taken over the opposition movement there and have even chased the western backed leader of the free syrian army out of the country. to be honest you the relieve it alone because if you kick it they're going to come out and bite you and that's what we did when we invaded iraq you know three and it can bite not just somewhere far in a war zone but here in the u.s. american intelligence and counterterrorism officials now say islamic extremist groups in syria with ties talk to recruiting and training americans who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home there are dozens of extremist islamist forces that are operating both inside syria and over the syrian borders you walk has been
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a breeding ground for extremists since the u.s. invasion now residents of and other parts of the country are bracing themselves for the iraqi army's assault as it attempts to drive militants out of seized areas the u.s. is supplying hellfire missiles and other weapons to help the iraqi government in the fight the last thing for needs is more missiles we heard the u.s. government say they decimated al qaeda is leaving but the groups that continue their cause expand and what they thrive on best is chaos the u.s. backed chaos to iraq and in syria washington support for armed opposition has benefited extremists in washington i'm going to check on our quiz. the jihadist groups are now said to be in control of illusion and ramadi is the islamic state of iraq and the levant also known as isis is seen as a formidable fighting force and its militants are also among the most radical in
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syria isis self dates back to the early years of the iraq war it was formed in april two thousand and four by sunni insurgents and soon after a pledge allegiance to bin laden two years later it was rebranded as the islamic state of iraq in two thousand and thirteen its military successes successes against assad and gained a strong influence in syria with all its ad want to its name and of course in the latest developments the group has taken control of fallujah and other parts of the province in iraq and proclaimed and islamic state security analyst and former pentagon official a michael maloof believes al qaeda today is stronger than ever the whole movement is stronger than it's ever been contrary to what president obama nationally so that they were on the ropes that they were decimated that's not true and when you look at over time the extent to which has branched out from from the
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arabian peninsula into africa northern africa into the magreb and also now into russia using the chechens there it's a very serious development in terms of their of their growth over time because it's evolutionary we don't see it it's not one big event and so this this is emerging as a as an increasingly serious problem in terms of al-qaeda spread and it's getting worse and it's all done at the behest of the saudis the saudis are controlling all of this and they've made it well known prince bandar has made it very well known that he can switch them on and switch them off like a light switch. in syria western nations are watching in horror as their favored derivable groups turn on each other just this week almost five hundred opposition fighters have died fighting each other in a turf war that appears to demonstrate its the more hard line islamists are running the show now that fact is a causing quite
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a scare among the leads and prompting them to change stance former cia director michael hayden said the assad regime is beginning to look like the lesser of all evils the former u.s. ambassador to syria iraq and afghanistan ryan crocker said that as it is not as bad as the jihad is russian foreign minister sergey lavrov welcome the change of stance now my money and right a german journalist who has just returned from syria says of the moderate opposition is now extinct. the term syrian opposition is as strong as it could be this these groups are neither syrian nor opposition so they don't have in their interest the the good the benefit of the people or of the country these groups are very very often influenced by the west by turkey by the goal of states we have to imagine or to see those groups more like steve militant gangs
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like a sort of mafia so those groups who claim about themselves that they represent the moderate opposition of the moderate moderate rebels don't have any influence on the battlefield we know in the meanwhile that the fights on the ground are told by slamming extremists. u.s. afghanistan relations are put under more strain stalling negotiations and the security deal which washington sees as essential it was american troops accidentally killed a toddler it's taking him four minutes and that's coming up feeling like you. saw the host city of the twenty fourteen winter olympics is seeing one of the biggest security operations in the game's history tens of thousands of police officers have been deployed in access to the area strictly monitored with the aim of preventing any disruption when events begin artie's paul scott takes a look. the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen i wore
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the to the city of sochi i assume is russia's black sea resort was awarded the game seven years ago i sell observed as a question the choice of host city such as close proximity to the volatile caucasus region was they argued a cause for concern. and the recent twin terror attacks in volgograd some seven hundred kilometers from sochi every ignited some of those worries. same security has been their main priority since day one from the very beginning of the construction phase the state that sort is made those all that must prepare the special measures to stop them from the screen in all their all materials checking all the venues and preparing incredible measures of the security to provide this safe environment here with less than
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a month to go now until the games begin tight security measures are already in place around forty thousand police and security offices are expected to be on patrol all sales of dangerous hunting equipment a bond for the duration of the games there's also a controlled stretching sixty kilometers along the coast and twenty five kilometers inland and encompassing all venues so. in terms of security sochi is a special case because this whole area is authorized to visit this only there are security details from a number of countries including the u.k. and u.s. working here but no security forces will be coming together to protect places like this is the brand new purpose built train station in the olympic village is going to be one of the main transport hubs during the games moving thousands of spectators but what's your point unless we have cameras into comes that connects you with an engineer and a police presence at train stations and on the train and security is pretty tight.
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with the bulk of the work now complete with all venues and transport networks built and tested sochi is now just waiting for the sporting world to descend pull scott's altie tsotsi. the traditional olympic torch relay has been a collection of firsts to ever so this time around it's been taken to the north pole underwater and into open space and r.t. has followed it all the way and one of the torches even ended up in our studio brought to my colleague lindsey franz the by our team james brown this is my. personal torch it's as you can see very one of the kind souvenir let me let me have a look at it i mean this this is not light by any means heavy in this respect but yeah it is what two kilos about four actually really yeah you could make your own train that you hold it out that is heavy quite and this is
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a better record breaking relay for the olympic torch going places it's never been before you were following it which one of the milestones do you think was the last memorable or important i think for me i've been to several going to by car was amazing they took under water into my car so you have the burning flare torches specially made and then passed very impressive on the water and then flew the torch back with with a man with a jet pack on to the on to the show very good video so it was it was a sight to be seen but there was one amazing moment and a real once in a lifetime moment was going with the torch to the north pole you see on t.v. and you read it and then you think wow that must be really must be very interesting never going to go and then this opportunity came up to go on this nuclear icebreaker he's huge. ship can come through to me to. fuel by two gigantic reaction. to that which is which is
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a strange feeling in it so yeah. but we were going to go to the north pole with the flame and we made a. lesson for hope that it was a world record pace and rowing in the middle of the polar moments with the liberty torch in the north pole for the very first time in history. we've got the highlights of the olympic torch is journey across russia on our website to check out the follow the flame section also while you're at archie dot com our focus shimmery irradiation spreads despite efforts to contain the hazardous leaks readings have hit eight times the japanese government safety standards even at the edges are contaminated more on that story online. plus a u.k. school sake the fingerprints of over eight hundred thousand students a third of those without their parents' consent officials say it's done for the
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sake of security parents and civil liberties groups are questioning the methods better and more stories on r.t. dot com. many europeans are blaming the politicians for the difficult economic predicament that's according to a new continent wide poll the newest very low approval ratings for the e.u. leadership and in economically devastated spain for example more people than ever before think top politicians have done a poor job through the financial crisis and in ireland has seen a strong believe in evil in order way by increasing financial hardship there seventy percent of people used to approve but that's just drop to just under half and the euro skeptic u.k. just under a third now think that the leadership is doing a good job. and as public facing even deeper to record levels in economically hard hit countries governments have been selling off
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the family silver to pay their debts out is so silly a reports now. it's been dubbed the great european fire sale in a bid for cash these are just some of what's been up for grabs but even funds raised from headline grabbing deals might not be enough like six greek island sold for eight point five million euros and italian island sold for two point nine million exclusive rights to use the coliseums image on their products for fifteen years twenty five million euros government debt in the euro zone is greater now than it was a year ago and some of the sales have led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture there selling. a priceless they would touch the price tag to it i think that's absolutely reprehensible there's absolutely no guarantee that that privatization will help consumers which will and one of the most surprising items recently put off the market was. for a little over
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a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore become an e.u. says it a move that's been put on hold is two thirds of the public at opposition leaders cry foul. splitting the same legal gone three s. which. meant huge international dunnit which was uncalled for because more go to date has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the whole european union it's a question of principle over citizenship should not be full of on sale proponents of privatization see it as a necessity for either nations that are in dire straits but also warned that by europe at a bargain may not be as much of a jackpot as one might think if i were investor i wouldn't be buying many of these things all of these countries have serious political risks for any kind of foreign investor anybody trying to. buy a house and italy has to reckon with the possibility that ten twenty years down the
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line a government is just going to nationalize whatever they whatever they want to nationalize but for what it's worth this sale continues tesser sylvia. we spoke with financial expert patrick young on the response to his huge debt levels he doesn't believe the big selloff is any way to solve the real problems of the eurozone when you've had a swinge ing incredible recession as we've seen in many parts of europe there will all to muttley be a point in time when the economy binds the spark to some degree but truly the problem is that the euro is still fundamentally a counsellor as disorganized monetary system at the core of the european union the mediterranean countries have still done little or nothing to organize what is effectively an intergenerational warfare older people can keep and get and hold on to their jobs younger people simply have no chance of getting any jobs in the first
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place let alone keeping them. about head banking on the wrong guy you need to british businessman who say a major national lend us window when i'm out of a hotel they'd work hard to get up to me have to shop break out on our international. censure what you argue for is that courage should push back after making identity above that national identity let me ask you a personal question are you a kurd first or an iraq at first i am a kurd first then i'm your rocky i am not the iraqi that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i am from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to me iraq and it brought to me the killing so people might as grace four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed.
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right to see. her street. and i were being put. on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. things we're seeing with us here on arch international for all of this week's of the week bad news for washington came out of ghana stunned this week a top american negotiate it said it was highly unlikely a new security agreement would be reached before the afghan presidential election
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in april the deal. if signed would allow a portion of u.s. troops to remain in the country for the official were drawn later this year tensions between washington and kabul have been aggravated recently after american soldiers killed a toddler mistaking the child for militant and all a british lieutenant colonel richard williamson says that in this difficult period it's also crucial how the afghan government copes with internal problems. what we try to achieve to set the conditions for an afghan government that can be done in the way we. think. if those conditions are certain easily years then what we're likely to see. a compromise between. the taliban once which will see afghanistan not along
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over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but that in itself won't be a great strategic victory if we want to call it that a really great strategic outcome. a diplomatic spat between russia and semi go after the west african nation has seized a fishing trawler eighty two crew members of the vessel where arrested amid allegations they actively teams in the area where illegal greenpeace also stepped into the route taking the side of the sun a goal causing russia to accuse the government of being the group's puppet however later the organization condemned to the use of force that is a russian ship and denied putting pressure on senegalese authorities. to other news now making headlines around the world of the human rights activist lawyers and here in the states must state marches across the us demanding guantanamo bay detention center be shut down the date was symbolic it was the facilities twelfth anniversary protesters demanded president obama deliver on his
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broken promise to shut down the prison willing in a dark mark on america's records. toiling brush brandishing demonstrators marching through the german capital and the city of hamburg they were protesting the set up of so-called danger zones in hamburg where police are allowed to stop and search people at will the areas were established following a violent late december protest against the infection of a local on accused community young usual symbol was chosen by the activists after a policewoman reportedly arrested someone carrying a toilet brush seeing it as a potentially dangerous weapon. to get a small business off the ground junee the backing of a bank but choose carefully because some are accused of not exacting having entrepreneurial interests at heart or smith's been to meet one couple in britain
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who found the lender more predatory than protective and discovered they are far away chris richardson and ernie bernstein used to own this hotel but not anymore three years ago out of the blue they say their bank took it from them not with. a hotel resort will be on me here because i was always will and it will be coming back if there's justice in this country these gores will be arrested. and we will be giving this october back in two thousand and ten chris and ernie had a loan from now west to do up the coniston hotel and conference center in north kent they were just eleven days from opening when their bank manager told them there was a problem releasing the latest tranche of their loan he said no worries don't worry about it. and that is the last we've ever heard of. we have not heard from him later the owners know the bank was saying they'd run out of money despite having
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one point six million pounds of their agreed loan left now west then revalue to the hotel at just over a third of its original price so the hotel found itself in administration from where it was snapped up by west register the bank's property. the kicker r.b.s. and its subsidiary now west are majority owned by the taxpayer but it's a ruse r.b.s. has been accused of many times over lawrence timing is a small business and by the to the government his recent report exposes the seemingly duplicitous nature of banking operations my report focuses on r.b.s. and what we're saying is that restructuring division georgi acted in a way that the businesses that they were supposed to be helping get back to health were taken put into distress for the benefit of the bank we actually see b.s. has it's own property company called west register and we're seeing r.b.s.
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owning those customers property after they've been in distress told linton's report is twenty pages of examples and findings under headings like engineering and defaults and extensive fees in response r.b.s. said in a statement no evidence had been provided to support the allegation that the bank had systematically profited on the backs of their customers and they'd be looking into it fully christened ernie's hotel is now a thriving business fitted out exactly as they left it but it belongs to the bank and their lives have been destroyed. from a very wealthy man back on tax credits. more family suffered heavily through this. west register of banks property company in the hotel more was last year. she sadly. got cancer and
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more this year and she'd already my. three three girls that one of them justice determined to fight back chris and ernie cling to the idea that one day they'll walk through these doors as owners of the hotel again laura smith artie kent this week author of christians around the world celebrates had christmas. in moscow around a quarter of a million believe a strict party in open life services in the capital three hundred and twenty six churches the biggest one was held at the main christ the savior cathedral it was a double celebration for worshippers as at the same time moscow hosted a relic known as the gifts of that jai said to be the gives given to jesus by the three wise men long queues formed to take a look at the relic. coming up next
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it's of the latest edition of worlds apart with us on a boy. there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v.
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will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at it this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves more money for parents to buy you video games being individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to all the part of one of the largest affluent groups without a state kurds have long been both the victims and the active participants of large
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and geo political adventures and as the middle east goes through one of the biggest the peoples in its recent history can the current turn these powers try. i'll go into a benefit for that cause i want to discuss that i'm now joined by him in me at high ranking member of the democratic party thank you very much for your answer i know that kurdish clore has very rich tradition and one of the one of the characters fear most often encounter and kurdish tales are songs is that one of faux and it's interesting that that animal is often praised for its truth and kindness but also you know he's stunned and see of overplaying his smarts lance human rather precarious situation sometimes and i think this is very characteristic of kurdish approach to politics in general but it doesn't seem to further your own cause that much i wonder why is that in your view first the kurdish questions in
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the middle east has been the victim of the lack of democracy lack of peaceful coexistence lack of the non acceptance of the others on the rise of the other so if you could because the kurds in the middle east were not arabs we are not turks we are not our cities we are a different national group and we have no rights in that area so as i said we are the largest nation in the world without a state and we are realistic we have been divided into four countries with the acceptance of the asking so for people and now we understand the realities of poor countries and each part of kurdistan within the countries that we are living in its own peculiarities so we don't want to copy paste what we have in iraqi kurdistan to the other part we do believe that this is the time for accepting the kurds as they are to live in a democratic situation that they can have a guarantee of their constitutional rights in their own country absolutely and i think this is the argument that various kurdish political parties have been making probably for day kids but if you look at your recent most.

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