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the revelation has sparked an outcry the british people deserve to know what the government has done in their name and their loss will only fuel accuse ations of a cover up as a historian it's impossible to believe this loss the declassified files themselves show governments view the public largely as a threat the threat of democracy is deeply embedded if it happened in russia for example would be up in arms about corrupt governments but hey this is the british way to avoid scrutiny of its past misdeeds. and which pages of history have been left. well the national archive is a very important resource especially for people like historians and journalists because it keeps documents relating to the country's history and the idea is a perfectly transparent system whereby once government documents are decursive fide anyone over the age of sixteen can go to the national archives and access these files but not all of them because it appears that some of them have gone missing
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some of the files relating to thought a moment in british history among the files missing are papers relating to the folk lin's war there are documents missing relating to the northern ireland troubles as well and perhaps most controversially the files relating to the famous. letter from way back in nineteen twenty four that was a huge political scandal at the time because m i six almost certainly forged a letter that was then leaked to the press that well it was just discredited the labor government at the time and ultimately resulted in its downfall now the files missing are all listed as misplaced while on loan to government departments so there is this situation now where a number of different government departments are under pressure to explain why they
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have taken these bits of paper but they have failed to return them now we've asked the home office for a comment on that letter we still haven't got a response we have however heard from the foreign office now the foreign office had misplaced a file relating to the markov case that was way back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight it was the shooting of a dissident both gary and journalist on waterloo bridge which isn't too far from where i'm sitting now this is what the foreign office. to say about those documents take a listen seventeen of nineteen documents have been recovered and we're sending them back into the national archives we're still searching for the documents that have not yet been accounted for so an explanation there and clearly efforts being made to shall we say correct what has happened because the public care has a right to access these files access these chapters of british history rather than
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finding that they have been misplaced and according to some misplaced a little too conveniently. we contacted the national archives they told us that when they learned files missing they request that action be taken international affairs commentator jonathan steele says that the huge loss of sensitive documents raises many questions which is an absolute scandal because as you pointed out most of them refer to incidents in the past britain was in a very bad position there was a crust of torture in northern ireland there was no obvious. interest in the time when we're talking about a free news we used to tamper with elections all kinds of allegations being made we haven't got the evidence that was once a variable has now gone missing. to do do do do do you keep documents did you make copies did you make duplications where are the duplications why didn't you then
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send the originals back if you were making a copy why didn't the government department to send it back to the national archives where they belong to the gist of the term prevent a whole series of questions that need to be answered. the leader of russia's chechen republic has had his facebook and instagram account blocked after the us treasury included his name in the list of sanctioned individuals and explained so since last weekend the facebook and instagram accounts of the head of russia's change their region right there of have been unavailable that's more than just regular offline status isn't it the pages were blocked it was big news in russia and chechnya since mr could tear off is a really big fan of social media it's a bit like donald trump and twitter on a smaller scale but the total of four million subscribers that's something that's more than changing its population could arabs instagram became one of the main if
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not the number one new source in the region the reasons for taking the chechen president offline were first unclear but it's. see to start drawing conclusions given the bad followed us sanctions so quickly and there you have it a few days later facebook admits it if you read the network's terms of use you'll find it rather difficult to interpret the rules on banning people but the question is why have the pages of russian companies for instance mostly hardware producers which are also under sanctions not also been blocked so after all facebook seems to be quite vulnerable to pressure from washington some may now even say that they could have seen it coming after hearings like this in america the extent to which the russians exploited your platforms maybe this isn't some this isn't some just
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the government has to do this is something that you guys have to deal with and fix this brings us to the question of who won or who lost in this indeed the band is an inconvenience for and i was on he ends up having to switch to russian equivalents of facebook and instagram think of it as let's say switching from apple to android but where does this leave the reputation of facebook and its attempts to keep up the image of being independent time will tell but i bet users will start having second thoughts about their social media lives after this not only in russia but around the world three u.s. cities are saving the pentagon a story and more still to come. it's. a
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robot governments can be much more rational and large more compassionate than the current all the dark human governments that we have i suspect people will be more happy with that new situation. with the.
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welcome back to the program the pentagon is being sued by three major us cities new york philadelphia and san francisco accuse it of failing to report back soldiers who should not be allowed to purchase a gun the u.s. military is supposed to report the equivalent court martial convictions for certain crimes to a federal database the pentagon has admitted failing to submit information about individuals who went on to commit massacres one case in facet of an air force serviceman who was discharged over domestic assault and in november killed twenty six people at a texas church. working. the nineteen southern. baptist church personnel. with phones video that we talked about. jennifer breeden an attorney an
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international and criminal believes the case highlights a lack of coordination between government agencies. three cities this is still adelphia new york and san francisco who are claiming that the that the department of defense is failing to do this well but the only example that they're green is the serviceman in texas that the texas church shooting which was a former air force person on the facts itself on the merits of the case they do have a strong case because the air force has admitted that some of their lower officers are in noncompliance with current federal statutes that say they have to report when there is a criminal act by a military servicemen and not only is the air force admitted that but some other departments of the military such as the army the marines and then maybe they have stated there are failures on their parts and some of their lower service men to report these crimes to the f.b.i. for the national gun registry things like that to see people stand up and say look there's going to be oversight you're going to lose your jobs if you don't comply
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with federal laws we have to see more of that from the top down and we have to see more compliance between different agencies and local law enforcement these are the kinds of federal oversight programs that are supposed to prevent especially some of our most highly trained military men and women from purchasing a firearm if they have a criminal conviction. and if korean soldier who defected to the south earlier this year has been found to be carrying anthrax antibodies in his blood the discovery has raised concerns that pyongyang may have developed biological weapons kim jong un has the capability to weaponize more than a dozen biological agents within just a few days if he wants to wreak havoc on the korean peninsula i mean he was either exposed to or vaccinated for the deadly bacteria it comes of it increased concern that pyongyang is developing biological weapons something long suspected by the international community and. recently the south korean government reportedly
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purchased one thousand doses of the vaccine against anthrax the supplies were delivered in november according to media reports. to give you some background back in twenty fifteen the u.s. military admitted to accidentally sending a batch of anthrax samples to a base in south korea however no personnel were inject infected and the deadly bacteria were destroyed security analyst charles superior told us any accusations against north korea should be treated with a dose of skepticism north korea is a public whipping boy at the moment for some of the western media in the west governments and so therefore it's not surprising perhaps that we see a similar. train or trail of actually sessions as we've seen in other examples we all know that for example claims of w m d including biological weapons were made as a pretext for the two thousand and three invasion of iraq by britain and america those claims proved to be totally false no doubt this news will be used to say that
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we need to take stronger action against north korea but also in terms of further alienating an isolating this government which of course in the past has only served to make it act in a more extreme manner. to near zero has demanded an apology from the united arab emirates after emirates airlines women from boarding flights to the u.a.e. last friday citing a possible terrorist threat the move has caused widespread anger. i wish him she would believe my would i go to a country that wonder exactly if that's the case and we should also be imposed on the united arab emirates. these operations are a force preventing an hour of visiting arab countries is unacceptable when we see the westerners going from country to country freely. is one of those statements defend the rights of two museum women and force the u.s.
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to apologize. the passenger ban was lifted the same day the gulf states foreign minister later tweeted that the measure was necessary for security stressing the. respect and values in women but that wasn't enough achiness year which retaliated by banning all emirates flight from landing at its airports this tweet was posted by the airline informing customers that flight had been suspended we heard from a tunisian blogger and activist it. happened. lation of tunisian women rights but it's a violation of women rights and general the spokesperson for the presidency talking about security problems but this doesn't justify what happened if a small female babies were not allowed to go on planes i don't think that.
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the generation government is still asking for of apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in tunisia. well round up of the news for now don't forget to check us out on social media on our website which is all to dot com on the back of the top of the out with more so don't go away. with. all. the. snow we're good them to come in your studio to eat.
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last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words and hope so. put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with the death of this one to. speak to now because there are no other takers. to lend that mainstream media has met its maker.
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the pittsburgh police internal report states that the officer had repeatedly violated the rules he shouldn't have such in the calm despite this why in hospital told that he received twenty years of imprisonment. and putting the lives of policemen in danger. today with his family by his side tries to get back to a normal life. the officer who shot lee and still works in the pittsburgh police
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department. well i know that. he was working around here he knocked on her door one day to say this. so. called the police for another matter because the same officer arrived i just couldn't believe my eyes i mean it felt like my legs was common it was just so stark that you believed. that i was just scared that you know he may do something to me it is this is another person so. if you want to shoot a black man join the police who are police. in addition to his disability leon is now suffering from severe anxiety and depression he sued the pittsburgh police department. the prosecutor counseled the charges against you and if you weeks ago
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in order to improve the relationship between the police and the black community he said. something that's something that is. in pittsburgh the relationship between the police and the black community is far from being good it was in homewood an afro-american neighborhood that the police shot and forward. in these disadvantaged districts with high crime rates the gap between police and citizens is huge. we met these americans who live in poverty and who are the first victims of police abuse. people are more afraid of police than of criminals. faced with this fear the community gets organized. after school the young gather in
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the house they all live in homewood and are between ten and sixteen years of age because you guys can make it. there are we passing a side issues around us. so we can get started going when or how or not to coming to the teacher is like the big brother this situation is hard to believe that he is teaching them how to protect themselves from the police. don't say your parents. because with that you're fitting into a stereotype that's the kind of stuff they can avoid to keep you out of any kind of situation or keep you out of trouble or not go horrible on you just because we're not. we're dormant because i don't want to be the next person that we point you to as some i just killed by a police officer because that can happen remember tamer rice where we talk about the killing it's twelve years old do it with. who ordered
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twelve and here. who's two zero. broke that could've been your man. that could have been one of either your three that could have been you know he has three teaches a part of an indian for the protection of the black community based on they attend this cost twice a month we're here because we saw the need to educate the young people who are community on things that really matter and their lives are things that can really save their lives or we see the police behind us we usually put the laser as the belts on we look straight forward we know not to turn around using proper you know grammar when they do pull you over try to be polite no matter what the situation around you occurs whatever officers on duty how they feel and basically you just got to go off of his prayers and hope you can find a way out a situation
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a lot of people look at as a threat they think they were all violent or all criminals and things like that so just try to be respectful and carry yourself differently just so people on first they will look at you different you carry yourself to. the young people who listen carefully to the advice i terrified at the thought of meeting the police. i feel like they're bigger split in the people around me now. do you feel safe when you have to go to school so you know like because in the past so many people have been in jail for doing nothing when there are some clues i suppose and i know i say so. you can see something happening in this is like i don't want to call the cops well . because well it's a it's a it's a day where it's a fight is an assault something happens and a group of people are fighting i would rather fit in either i can see let that
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happen rather than call the cops in those young black men lose their lives. if the trade it is because they're constantly controlled without reason in the classroom to have. has already been stopped just in districts baedeker it's. to them by how many times. by the way they were walking when my frame was going at that point for three or four or five times. the rich reason was to see just walking. no walking of friends and. family seats. walking home around nine o'clock this. family's house just on
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the disc on the stump and the reason. and the story goes on and all the neighborhood. does for enough of those walking down the street. in my lifetime let's say maybe. six or seven times so there's that whole law i'll be a follower of holies i'm not there like i get pulled over for you know what have i done wrong. i can't even tell you no it's not stopped that's more than i can i can't even count but you mean it ten times. maybe. ten eleven twelve i don't count i don't start out i don't keep track beauty in the us the police is allowed to stop any passes by if it suspects a risk or criminal threats according to the agents this practice is a way to prevent crime but from professor james brown's point of view it increases the risk of making huge blunders the idea was you want to increase the contact
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between the police and only certain public you know not everybody is mostly folks in high crime or poor urban communities any time you increase the contact between police and citizens. you are increased the likelihood that something can go. in two thousand and thirteen in pittsburgh half of the time these controls did not lead to any arrests and blacks who represent twenty six percent of the population were controlled in sixty two percent of cases. like. this practice had its heyday in new york in two thousand and eleven where the police record and yet he choose thousand checks a day in one cases out of ten they were unjustified and as always those who are most targeted where the black people. in the figures are vocal but no policeman dares to admit it. i've.
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yet former officer has agreed to break the silence his assessment is alarming the hunt for black people in which he participated is part of a racist system that he condemns today. greatly wastes lives out in the countryside far from philadelphia where he said for twenty three years. now retired he insisted on putting on his uniform to reveal the open erases practices of his former colleagues the first thing he denounces is a quote server rests imposed on us police in many large cities this race for numbers pushes them to control black people for no reason quotas lito arrests for no reason. that isn't credibly. disgusting they would take
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a person's freedom away to meet a quota. minorities have no one to call if they're only arrested the white person will call their local political committee man a person they'll call the parents perhaps of a teenager we'll call the local politician you know what's going on here my child was arrested just because he didn't have his license why don't you just tell him to go home and get his license and things like so the white person has more power than people have no connection to the people in power so you know there's not going to be any. blowback on arresting a minority because they don't have any power to complain and after americans an attorney unjustly arrested they're not cheated with the same respect as the white people on iran because nobody else around again if you stop somebody from going through like it was a out of your car out of your car show me id you would say that to
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a white person you would go up and say. may i see your driver's license please and blacks know that blacks know when you look at your car now and then they say well what did i do will don't what did i do don't say that don't ask me why i'm stopping you i said get out of the car and that's right there you forced this respect and i saw that happening and blacks know what's happening they know it's not happening to white people so automatically they start resenting the police just from little things command verbal commands let alone the physicality of grabbing somebody and putting them in handcuffs while you check their id and unfortunately when i. would tell other officers well that's enough is enough then they would think a what are you. an end for the word what are you an and lover and and for and. in front of
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a camera that used between policeman is unpronounceable for a waste since he retired he campaigns openly against the racist behavior of the police the former officer has even made a very explicit count. it's. a play for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside god's. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending to the twenty million all plumb playa. it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so chimes with.

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