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stuart it was a shame that and prescribe them but it did very little to carry through with that and to force its allies to equally prescribe those groups. welcome back now this week marks the second anniversary of june in the sand being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks still faces an arrest warrant issued by the swedish government but as the songes lawyer explains it's not sweden that he's particularly scared off his main concern is and has always been the risk of
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a man extradition to the united states and the ongoing u.s. grand jury and criminal investigation into a he thinks that we know is ongoing and we know that because of court documents released in the last few months so that is our main concern and i think it's important to remember the street that it is as a result of the u.s. action in relation to ricki lake's and the persecution and rastan of wiki leaks that julian remains inside that embassy. will have is in the u.k. who threaten national security might face life sentences according to legislation proposed by the government but activists fear that whistle blows could end up in the same category as cyber terrorists expects. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence under the serious crime bill proposed in the queen's speech computer hackers who launched devastating attacks on u.k. infrastructure could soon face life behind bars as a single attack can have such
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a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in there electricity for a week and the impact that would have had no lights no power to do engineering on manufacturing business or to you know for people to boil water you know to sterilize baby feeding equipment that actually has a tangible effect on people's daily existence and actually worse case scenario on people's very very lives at the moment impairing a computer as it's written in law carries a maximum ten year sentence according to ministers that's disproportionate to the potential damage a malicious hacker could wreak but computer security experts have questioned what cyber terrorism really means and whether the term could be used to prosecute citizens who try to whistle blow on the government or a company i honestly think if you will if you're hacking in order to harm life then there will be sentences already available differently computers are more central to
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us. that might mean that people can do more harmful things but things that we have to publish them for all of the results you know if you killed people have you attempted to done damage property would disrupt the capital's transport those are concrete eric columns the the trying to do those things are actually doing that that's what people should be sentenced for benevolent security researchers are also concerned their work often involves behaving like hakas with the intention of finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those working for the common. good of the internet could end up behind bars so if it were a major threat here is somebody simply trying to reverse engineer a site maybe see that show that it isn't properly secure and that people shouldn't trust it and that the operators need to sort themselves out those are the kinds of
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problems where people can to face computer misuse charges without really having done anything wrong playboy kayo r.t. london. let's have a quick look at some other world news now a south korean soldier who were earlier went on a rampage at a military checkpoint has been surrounded by security forces at a school in a nearby town reports say he's exchanging fire with the army twenty two year old sergeant killed five years com rage and injured seven more at a border post with north korea the motives for the shooting is still unclear. heavy rainstorms that triggered massive floods in eastern south china have left over a dozen people dead officials say some three million people have been affected and thousands forced to seek refuge but am paul's also caused major power outages and blocked roads. hundreds of afghans have rallied in kabul over alleged fraud during presidential runoff elections held last week earlier front runner and former foreign minister abdullah abdullah said he would refuse to recognize poll results
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he also promised to appeal to the united nations to deal with the case the move was being supported by the current president karzai. want animo bay prison is once again at the epicenter of a scandal is authorities there are accused of a cover up in june two thousand and six three detainees were found hanged in their cells in the parent suicide but the latest report suggests they died while being tortured and prison authorities say using special wording to make it difficult to find the truth well in two thousand and two the u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing them as acts of self harm who. tool chair has been replaced with and hunched interrogation techniques and when it comes to the natori practice of waterboarding hunger strikes and i long to know malaysia's fossum force feeding is called medical management of prisoners with white loss professor mark denbeaux whose probe into the two thousand
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and two thousand and six deaths cost times on the official story at the fence what we have is compelling evidence however of the men they didn't appear to have done in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is that there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and alternatives including several walking the short little corridor presently and videos and if you read through that the n.c.i. as investigators for you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and then rigor mortis you know if you have five guards guarding or eighteen to twenty people and three of them die
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and are flipped hanging in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply with their obligation. now russian football fans may cause their national team to be deducted points in the world cup reportedly displaying the n r c banners during their side's first match in brazil if proven the incident could add to a considerable track record of russian football hooliganism that also features pitch attacks mass tree rallies and nationalist clashes but as the country prepares to host the next tournament in four years' time it's working hard on solutions as r.t. selectee hour shifts kaye reports. showing support for your team in russia could mean this this. or this. your first book either in one thousand nine hundred eighty when sports act was
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playing cisco in moscow we had a huge fight great blue warriors came up against us there was more than eight hundred people involved in a brawl but you know and that is just one of the fights very silly described now a retired hooligan he says fan culture has changed massively in russia you know if you a stereotype of an english football hooligan or an italian ultras is no longer applied to us we went our own way now there are no loud criminal cases against you look at them compared to the ninety's back in the soviet days football was considered one of the nation's prides history's best goalkeeper left us and the team which won the first ever european championship and the police of revolutionary managers with the break up of the soviet union football just as many other spheres of life suffered a major setback it may be a coincidence but along with these problems came calling in isn't. it's still unclear what caused this surge in violence but in recent years russian hooligans have remained visible from violent pitch invasions to mass treat rallies and racist
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incidents involving swastikas in the stands near nazi views and phobia are among the most debated issues back in twenty ten when a fan was killed during fighting in moscow that escalated into ethnic violence thousands of ultras made themselves heard right outside the walls of the kremlin. politically motivated people have always been close to find groups not only have a propaganda is the cult of violence but they explained why this violence was needed that's why i know c.v.s. a popular there because force and violence are the basis of naziism and fascism but for more and found of russia's largest fan movement the market and i have believes the issue is often blown up in the press and problems are usually solved even before they appear. who spearheaded events at the my down in ukraine some of them are in the national guard now so potentially this is a very dangerous part of society but are all for it is a pursuing a very clever strategy with hooligan communities so there's no danger from them in
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russia these fights happen every weekend but no one knows if they happen out of town or in forests and strictly upon agreement from. twenty thirteen movie football or tells the story of a firm of consistent bochy of white collar workers where death and destruction rubbed shoulders with love and friendship one of its just keeps asking the question why do you fight the days when the whole aggression. the movie slogan is we cannot change real life has proven they can insist of a sealy it's just a matter of whether the rest of the world will be happy with this evolution of the russian fan culture when the country hosts the next world cup in twenty eight. moscow. you're watching r.t. international after the break we take a look at some facts about the u.k.'s core system that were intended to be kept under lock and key.
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his name was joseph copas he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the midst that he created exists to this day. hubris gerbils propaganda was supposed to actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german soldier steams who. keep its complete use of goodwill snooze precisely what the masses need to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the pipe a prayer from the fairy tale who made grants fall to the tune of the spite of. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tal saw in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who was in the second world war.
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dramas the trying to be ignored to the. stories of others who refused to notice. food since changing the world lights no. food picture of today's leaves. from around the globe. doesn't really matter what your views on any for all about what they're going to do budget this releasing the european union joe they don't listen to i'm sure they're a new. what can we do mean if the european union got very upset what can you do about the ukraine for example.
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the prospect of the u.k.'s first secret trial has had defenders of the british justice system up in arms the case of tell you suspected terrorist was planned to be held behind closed doors in the name of national security but last week an appeals court flashed a red light to the proposal questions still remain though some of the main proceedings will be kept secret r.t. sarah firth has this report. these are the names of the t. defendants in the terrorism case until last week they'd been known only by the initials a b. and c d g twenty application from prosecutors to ban the press and public from
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proceedings on the grounds of protecting national security the whole case was close to being completely in secret well the court of appeal blocks that attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the u.k. the judge is saying that the core of the terrorism trial could be heard in secret but that other parts must be public but campaign is the worried that despite the ruling this case marks yet another step toward secret courts becoming a therm part of the legal system only partial victory large parts of going to be held in secret the important issue here is the very issue of open justice because we have a long tradition that for justice to it's not enough for justice to be done it's got to be seen to be done this case was an extraordinary departure by initially allowing the whole of the case to be heard in secret at the heart of the debate
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around secret courts is this can now tional security information ever be made public the government's stance there is no there are people who are saying that it's a dangerous precedent they are wrong it's neither dangerous nor a precedent as far as the precedent point is concerned the have been many trials in which part of the hearing has been held in secret for national security reasons house for being dangerous it's not dangerous because the judge will god the firmness of the trial done in public if a top possible will for hundreds of years we've been able to have jurisprudence on cases that involve sensitive issues there are always ways in which the evidence can be presented that will protect for example surveillance or secret service operations there's no need to bar the press from it whatsoever if we don't know what's going on what's being reported it could easily lead to an increase in miscarriages of justice ultimately it is the.

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