tv [untitled] January 29, 2014 1:00pm-1:31pm EST
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and eight. ukrainian lawmakers are about to vote. for those arrested during riots and protests in past months this could mark a turning point in the on going on rest well for the demonstrators will have to leave the streets and take down the barricades something the more radical right is refusing to do reports from. right now we're seeing lawmakers thrashing out any kind of compromise that they can come to in the ukrainian parliament there they they have the bait seeing a potential amnesty for anybody who's being detained so far during the unrest that we've seen in the country you know i was talking to some of the more extreme
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members the of the nationalist organizations that have been out on the streets here they've been telling me that there's no way that the city would see them put down their air the weapons that they have and leave the barricades that was a stipulation that the government had put forward president victory in a covert you put forward and concessions he made to opposition leaders and talks that took place over the weekend he said that as long as people left the streets then those who had been detained would receive amnesty the opposition leaders though saying they want that amnesty without any conditions in terms of what we're seeing from the nationalists on the streets right now a group of around five thousand marched from here on independence square over to a monument elsewhere in kiev this is a monument to those who fought against the bolsheviks in one thousand eight seeing now they were waving nationalist flags a lot of them carrying some kind of of homemade weaponry sticks helmets the likes
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where ukraine has seen bloody violence in the past involving nationalist groups my colleague. has this report so i must warn you though some of the images in alexa's report some viewers may find disturbing. skee barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. one of them caught up and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear it touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and thought and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes me this love survived to become poland's first and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews and their medians
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were not as lucky some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing by troops were extremely gruesome people cut in pieces with a saw in one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing of poles in ukraine that is to destroy all poles living on a territory they considered their property after the volleying slaughter the murders of both continue both of the internet open regions of their worry craniums we try to help all them provide them with shelter but those ukrainians riffling through. seven decades later when ukraine's opposition faced off with the government pictures of those behind the slaughter resurfaced in the heart of the protest the man who formed the 1940's insurgent movement in ukraine step on when there is still pretty much tearing the country apart while many call him a killer and cannot forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john are clearly guarding him as
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a hero warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished murders which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave meus laughed in a machete says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. reporting from kiev in ukraine. the ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the anti running laws which were fueling the protests but the demonstrators are still demanding he steps down steve i am a former us police chief and police training expert says the crowds are being emboldened by the tolerance of the authorities. videos that i have seen have shown a remarkable level of restraint basically rioters attacking the police and the
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police not even fighting back just holding the line and receiving the petrol bombs and the strikes from it look like everything from metal pipe to large sticks which is internationally very uncommon mostly say agencies will not stand there and basically become punching bags for rioters it's pretty clear that when the crowd is that confident that they can be on the police and have nothing happen that they don't fear the police intervention pretty clearly and when crowds don't fear the police in my experience that causes the crowd to become much more dangerous much more active in property damage and assaults today's cross-talk debates whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital were just a myth. they've shown extreme violence the opposition they have shown themselves to be very radical they've demanded of course the resignation of the president which they haven't yet attained moments is deplorable but when you're in
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a revolutionary situation it's inevitable that extremists get attracted to large scale demonstrations and the responsibility for creating that situation unfortunately lay with the government and president you know covert for better or worse he's making compromises he did over the weekend it was rejected by the opposition i mean what more do they want us we should remember that violence started back in december last all day long riot police attacked peaceful demonstrators on november thirtieth but they tried to attack the presidential administration and you remember what how terrible was the fight that i'm not going to call these people protest us i'm going to call them now and not. cross talk throughout the day here on national the u.s. president of once again promise to close the guantanamo bay prison and bypass congress if needed to help lift people out of poverty as a tease lucy couple of reports his state of the union address is being seen as more
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of a barebones wish for this than a plan of action. a year of action and that was the rallying cry from the u.s. president at the state of the union address here in washington but it does of course come at a time when action is anything but guaranteed and has been an incredibly difficult year for this administration obama is facing some of the low to the lowest voter approval ratings of his presidency and a divided congress that has effectively blocked him at nearly every churn and so this year we saw a president who seem to frankly a knowledge has limitations he wasn't able to get the gun control measures he called for last year the same goes for tax reform immigration climate change closing guantanamo i mean the list really does go on in fact according to some political scientists of forty one items that the president had asked for in a state of the union address only two he's been able to achieve so now obama did try to assert himself by vowing to sidestep congress on
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a number of issues for example using his executive. for federal workers but on the big ticket items his hands really are tied obama needs congress to play ball and given the current. simply not very likely that he's going to get it now this speech was very light on foreign policy obama did remind viewers that he's imposed limits on the use of drones and also promised again to reform u.s. surveillance but no details on how he plans to do that the president did also mention ukraine saying the u.s. stands for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully and have a say in their country's future so really coming out on the side of the protesters they are not really straying from the administration response over the past few weeks and so when it comes to the actual policy proposals really not much in terms of what's new we really are seeing obama sort of try to call yet again from many of the things he's called for before whether it's immigration reform the tax code
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overhaul things that he simply has not been able to achieve perhaps trying to to hope that twenty fourteen will be the year that he'll be able to do it but also at the same time acknowledging his limitations that those promises won't necessarily turn to action obama spoke for more than an hour but he left some things old he said what i believe you know it's the people of this nation is the profound belief in opportunity for all but a recent polls are just two thirds of americans think the gap between rich and poor is widening obama said democrats have a bill to lift the minimum wage to ten dollars ten cents he wants to boost pay for every u.s. citizen but one report says that still list them what's needed in even the cheapest places to live the president also said americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty but eight point nine million americans do find themselves in that tough situation u.s.
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journalist and national policy analyst norman solomon says the president's address is are likely to change much. basically what we had tonight at the speech from the president which was a kind of hollow populism the rhetoric was there about wanting to help those who are in financial need but the programs and the proposals were basically absent this president had the least power than he's ever had since he was sworn in in january of two thousand and nine and one of the sad thing is that wall street exercised tremendous power and presence in the obama administration during the first term and now with much less leverage or capacity to push anything through congress he's speaking about how he wants to achieve so much for the working people of the country but in fact he has much less capacity to bring that about even if he were truly interested in accomplishing such thing. big business is beginning to circle
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around iran is progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to allege the country's doors of coolness and he is setting the pace with his own to propose planning to invest fifteen million euros in tehran well prime minister also wants to boost trade but some critics are reading the companies to rein in the appetites for profit and he said in english to find out why. this could very well be the world's newest gold rush but in the not so wild east a population of some seventy five million people a youth literacy rate of ninety percent and and some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves in a country that's been isolated from the world for decades if this doesn't sound like a recipe for business but very little else will. right now iran is ready to host investors in segments like building royal ways construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources and these
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resources need investment technology capability so when the sanctions are over. western companies are allowed to go and i think there will be plenty of potential tehran appears to have fulfilled the first two requirements of the recent geneva agreement by halting production of high grade uranium and stopping its most powerful centrifuges now it's waiting for the other side in the talks to deliver on their promises and ease some of the sanctions iran's new president seems to be in with enthusiasm and determination to show his country's ready for a new era of business that figure out their own growth iran's economy has the potential to be in the top ten within the next three decades ago which i pursued through a wider planning of social economic as well as wider domestic and foreign policy while some investors may be looking into making a first ever foray into iran's market others like auto giant renault are eager to
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get back to doing business in a familiar territory. ourselves and a lot of come when you factor us would love to contribute to the development of the iranian market which is already the largest market in the middle east despite the sanctions those trading restrictions caused the french automotive company to write off five hundred million jews last year so it's understandably keen to get back to its previous ten percent market share in the country and even expand on other giants like french german siemens italy's any and norway's status while all reportedly sending planeloads of representatives to iran eager to talk cooperation despite the fact the ink on the geneva agreement is barely dry after all anyone who knows business also knows the timing is crucial in a ghost party. while some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the first shoots of optimism over iran and are instead mulling
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more sanctions record of over iterated any such initiative would have to deal with his presidential veto reza marashi who's a research director at the national iranian american companies thinks the push to increase the cycle of pressure is leading to a dead end. president of the united states. together with the state department gone out and made a concerted effort to show members of congress that new sanctions right now would be destructive to the diplomatic process and it would show the international community of the problem lies primarily in washington as opposed to teheran but this problem is far from over you've only bought yourself a little bit of time and this kind of crisis could very well come back up bubble back up to the forefront sooner rather than later there has been a long standing and unproven argument not just from congress but especially from congress that sanctions have brought the iranians to the negotiating table so more sanctions will get america a better deal a lot of analysts myself included dispute the notion that it was say that brought
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iran to the table what we need right now is to trade concessions on our end for concessions on the iranian and that's how you win the peace we don't need to increase the cycle of escalation that brought us to the precipice of a war that's the worst possible thing that could happen right now. international law still to come in the program. and hope to politicians and with good stuff i think it ethics training and putting morals and integrity back into public life also. if a web site in the netherlands is called says all attempts to. fail in the. internet that's the great.
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the russian embassy in sudan has tightened security after a knife attack on the consul and his wife needed treatment in hospital but have since been discharged police say the suspect was from the central african republic he was reportedly seeking to avenge the killing of his brother by foreign troops well for more insight on the story i'm not joined live by jeremy corbin he's british labor party the. front says almost two thousand troops deployed there in the central african republic all these peacekeepers them proving not to be provoking violence when i think western intervention in north africa or any part of africa obviously produces a huge reaction because that's the tradition is almost such that it's the former
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colonial power to in the case of france that goes in to intervene whenever there's any problems there and whilst they are intervening in central african republic to try to bring about some kind of peace in the pashtun in reality there is a huge political issue that has to be resolved and the political conflicts throughout the whole region actually stemmed from the drawing of colonial boundaries in one thousand nine hundred four in berlin and the conduct of the colonial powers after that when they divide their power for amongst themselves and the british and french for the most part or keep all of that region who wouldn't leave them to solve their political differences resulted in even more violence if we seem catastrophic and huge loss of life there surely intervention is necessary now is not. it's necessary to have some kind of peacekeeping operation because there's clearly been a failure by the existing state operators in the central african republic and other
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countries to maintain order now that may be stemming from the lack of political inclusiveness in the whole process it may be because of other differences that are being stirred up by outside forces but when the former colonial powers come in to impose some kind of settlement there is often a suspicion of what their long term motives are so for example are those cologne acts colonial powers coming in also accompanied by the possibilities of future mineral exploitation and are they more interested in protecting the international companies that invest in those places or are they genuine bring about a peace process i think it is much better if the countries concerned and use the african union to try to bring about a resolution of those difficulties but in the long run it has to be a political settlement it has to be an inclusive dialogue it has to be one respects
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all faiths and all religions and all ethnic groups with in the modern state boundaries the modern state boundaries are going to disappear and the times and indeed the african union generally speaking does not support boundary changes within africa. germy called a member of parliament the british labor party thank you very much indeed for joining us good to hear from me there in london. a new bill that puts limits on the amount of money that can be spent on election campaigning is now already squeaked through the british parliament but that won't stop the peddling of political influence that goes on at other times often ending in scandal smith reports. being exerting influence or no make is this become something of a dirty word around westminster methods of lobbying according to the parliament website can include sending letters and making presentations of course it doesn't mention lobbying m.p.'s awards of cash but it's the scandal that lobbying is most
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famous for officials taking cash for questions cash for cameron a quarter of a mill to have dinner with the pm and cash for doing parliamentary work coarseness sunday times staying westminster is so scandal ridden that the standards watchdog and its chairman lord you have decided m.p.'s need special training to help them not to abuse their position so it seems pretty obvious to me that n.p.c. shouldn't be for example accepting cash to ask questions in parliament or selling time with the prime minister why isn't the obvious two m.p.'s themselves well you're talking about things there which are at the extreme end of the behavior and one of the things that we're concerned about is things which aren't quite so clear cut where people find themselves that morally and people are drawn certain difficult situations are on predictable situations this committee has a long term role and
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a long term rule is to defend certain ethical principles of selflessness take all the city openness of public life. we're looking at ways to actually promulgated those principles throughout the public sector to the property a better back in two thousand and nine david cameron said lobbying would be the next big scandal and sure enough the stories keep coming and the latest example experts who are advising the government on sugar consumption have been revealed to be working so confectionery giants including mas and coca-cola these measures are meant to increase people's confidence in the people they elect to represent them but. one wonders if it's cold feet and do you think that they need teaching role the real kicker the training will be based on course is given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bank. for sharing service power will seal the seas of the dutch internet freely after
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a court ruled providers no longer have to block the website the existing ban had proven to be of little effect as users easily found loopholes to get the to the torrent tracker. she's the candidate for the european parliament elections and also president of the young parts of europe i spoke to earlier she thinks that the ruling is an important milestone in the political battle for the internet if you want to have a convenient way of accessing stuff fast and this is often not done by legal office but when it is like for example with i tunes or with spotify then you have people are willing to pay a fair price for the content but of course if the illegal offer ends up being more convenient and has a higher quality which is often the case then people are going to go with if you have any information or any large file that you want to share bittorrent is just the best way of doing this this is a political battle we have to figure out as
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a society how we want to deal with culture and how we can ensure sharing culture and at the same time that artists can live off their works so i don't think a court ruling should kind of finish the debates but it's still important that people in europe can share music and other culture with each other so that we can grow into one community of people. it's known as the roller coaster of winter sports but you won't see any loops or corkscrews the stunning new ski jumping center in sochi will make spectators hold their breath while competitors fly through the skies to beaumont say just came back from the olympic venue where she took a closer look at how the jumps are being readied for action. if the thought of jumping off a ninety five need to ramp doesn't vary then maybe one hundred twenty five meters
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the trick. these are the highs after these will be braving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie jump essentail with the sportsmen and women flying without the wings. the name. which translates to russian mountains in the english is quite fitting as the events held here known as the roller coaster of winter sports but will they be enough snow coasters. jumping. on the field as you can see. it's interesting. world. joyce.
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and you got all these really interesting buttons. utilizing the well. water into the machines that are turning it into this official. all said and done what's left to see get all the sports men and women out of the crowd. cheering on a favorite to win gold. from the first day of picks we'll be bringing you special coverage from our own studio keeping up to date with everything that's happening in the run up to the big games we'll continue to give you a preview. and then. on our web site. i'll be back with more news for in just over half an hour from now with the news team in the meantime a report on drug money from the u.s.
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