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we are now witnessing the third day of violent protests across china as they are now the protests started peacefully but since monday night they've taken a violent nature of the army and the police have accused protesters of attacking government officials of trying to take up the shopping centers of blockading roads for example whereas the protesters in response have accused the security forces of using a heavy hand and conducting a heavy crackdown all of that is in response to the government's announcement at the beginning of january of the two thousand and eighteen budget plan and now this budget plan has seen a dramatic increase in taxes on basic goods so you have for example fuel increases you have tax hikes on food items and all of this is of course being met with fury and outrage on the streets of tunis at the same time we do witness some of the
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protests happening in another country also focused on the economic situation and that of course is iran but there is a noticeable difference while there has been international outrage against the situation in iran and the way the government is dealing with it there when it comes to tunisia basically the international community is keeping mum so for example with iran you had the french president calling you had the head of the european union high commission and you had the american president donald trump basically calling for regime change here in chin is the same situation and yet we're hearing nothing from the international community and it might be because back in two thousand and eleven at the start of the arab spring was the first country to a dictator in a move that the western world widely hailed as democratic change but since then there have been no less the governments in place internet and none of them have been able to get a grip on the economic situation there. russia's defense ministry has
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warned of the terror threat posed by attack drones easily assembled from parts bought online as after there was a failed attempt to attack two of its bases in syria over the weekend by a fleet of drones launched from rebel held territory here's the deal with more details. after the attempted strikes the russian army was able to get ahold of some of these drones they've done some serious research and are now saying that on the one hand the machines were quite primitive in the sense that they could be self assembled away from a factory but the other hands to it and to use them as attack drones which are capable of reaching a specific target requires expertise human expertise in fact from people that were trained in countries that produce and operate on manned aircraft the defense ministry says that they're confident it knowledge and expertise from outside syria
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to make sure that the drones were able to carry out their mission to try and strike the wash in military facilities in syria they are also saying that the explosives came from abroad and russian experts are currently trying to determine the origin the final thought from the russian ministry of defense was that the threat of such attack currently extends far beyond syria it is now global and it's not only the military objects that are now vulnerable so the russian army is calling on countries around the world to get together and come up with ways to tackle this new threat. e.u. officials delivered a joint statement to once again show their full backing to the iran nuclear deal in the face of donald trump's criticism of the agreement despite his verbal attack the u.s. president is still expected to extend sanctions relief or to run this week as agreed
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under the deal. the great values of the p.o. way that you deal with iran the deal is working you want to. protect just if you were a world wide support for this do you make sure that the lifting of nuclear related sanctions has a positive impact on trade iran is in compliance with this agreement of the only agreement which prevents us from the proliferation of nuclear weapons is crucial for the security of the region but also for the security of. the iran nuclear deal was signed in two thousand and fifteen with the other six countries including the u.s. it was reached after nine long years of negotiations as a result and it ended a twelve year confrontation over the country's nuclear activities it was seen as a breakthrough at the time that the us president donald trump would go on to branded the worst deal one of the worst deals i've ever seen disasters deal with
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a rare one of the dumbest deals or one of the weakest ground drax the people that negotiated their deal namely kerry and his friends are incompetent one of the worst deals ever negotiated we spoke to politics professor at the university have to run science mohammad marandi who thinks president trump is trying to damage every legacy of the obama years. if the europeans were to completely abide by the agreement not just burbles if they stood up to the americans and defended their businesses and their companies and prevented the united states from shutting down. european businesses with iran then there may be some hope for the deal but if the europeans want to just simply virtually oppose the united states then i think that will be the end of the deal i don't think trump has any problem in particular with
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the deal because i'm not even sure he's ever read the deal but one thing is clear and that trump has a problem with anything that obama has done before him anything that obama has. considered to be a part of obama's legacy is something that trump wants to demolish. the british army is trying to keep up with the times by recognizing that its soldiers have emotional needs here's a look at how the new approach compares with the old you know nothing not only organized classic case is that. it will not like this but the more you read the more you will learn. the army is from. told the friends away from you there's always someone that. you can just meet. the british army at is part of a campaign to attract
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a more diverse range of recruits here you can see the new ads compared with much older ones it's clear that the twenty first century campaign is more about emotional support well former u.k. intelligence officer philip ingram doesn't believe the inclusive approach will help to swell the ranks. i was quite surprised to see these videos that are coming out i do understand that there's been market research done suggesting that they should target more minority groups but if the country cruet enough people from the majority groups that the british military have traditionally recruited from i don't see what the senses and targeting of these minority groups but i think the whole program the advertising campaign is flawed because they're spending an awful lot of money on this because the british army spent until september last year ten million pounds on this recruiting come pins but one. piece of
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press from the not looking after one of the veterans or one of the current serving soldiers is enough to undo that ten million pound company and the best people to recruit are the soldiers themselves and if they can come out with positive stories to say what it is that they've achieved their academic achievements their training achievements the adventurous activities that they get involved in the team spirit that they build up and then they can take that and reflect whenever they come back into society again as veterans and veterans come out with a good experience of not just how they've been looked after when ever they served but how that set them up to go into civilian life. john and police have stopped a u.s. army convoy of trucks in the middle of a highway in eastern germany their vehicles were transporting six u.s. tanks from poland to germany police officers that the truck that didn't have the proper documentation and were overloaded their vehicles are being prevented from
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continuing their journey until all the necessary requirements are filled the truck drivers as well as the haulage company will now face fines. of the back with more news after this short break. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars pass through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examined.
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me all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. was telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police
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to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle for food still. produce offspring to tell you the gossip of public life one day. off the bad guys and tell me you are not full enough to buy your product. these are the hawks for me i'm on the board of one. welcome back now the u.s. state of north carolina has been ordered to redraw is congressional map which shows how the state is divided into voting districts to republicans that admits it's to manipulating borders for political gain something known as gerrymandering caleb maupin takes a closer look here's an old political hack courtesy of us politicians redraw the
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voting districts in order to favor your party that's what the republican party did in north carolina in two thousand and sixteen but they went too far the federal courts have stepped in and said that they rial aid in the us constitution we. to the extent of going to use political data to draw in this manner it is to gain support of some advantage on the back. gerrymandering runs contrary to numerous fundamental democratic principles and individual rights let's take a look at how the twelve congressional district in north carolina was drawn now that's clearly not exactly a random sampling of the population but that's not the only place that happens all across the country this is an old trick in u.s. politics and even has a name gerrymandering the process of redrawing district lines to give an advantage to one party over another. imagine that we have a state of fifty people twenty of them are democrats thirty republicans blues
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living on one side the state and reds on the other now the state needs to be divided into districts with each sending one representative to the house first option to divide them into five separate districts horizontally with three republican representatives and two democrats but if the republican party in the state is more powerful it can be divided in the reds favor with each district getting six republicans and four democrats which means that all the representatives will be republican and vice versa say the democratic party controls the state then its territory can be divided into districts in quite a chaotic way in order to give more house representation for democrats so even though the state has a republican majority democrats win three seats and republicans only two. so we do apologize for interrupting that report but we're going to take you live now to ecuador away a press conference is being held right now about wiki leaks chief julian a son who had just granted an i.d. to let's listen in. court or according to his constitution needs to for the norms.
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of the international. regulations in order to protect human rights and dignity. and the principles. are the. principles that. if we do not act in this way. then the government would not be able to act in accordance with all these requirements of international law this is why i quote door has. no merit it started a number of turn it saves what could be done in this situation the first alternative was. to apply to. enter american court of human rights. and
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define mr sanchez status. as an asylum seeker. the second alternative was to provide to grant citizenship to mr sands. she applied to the ministry of internal affairs of ecuador and asked for. sixteen for the country to provide citizenship to him up until that point she was protected by international laws for five years she remained. on the in the premises on the premises of. doors. c. in london. she was.

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