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point one percent of the people they have very little concern about or what the rest of the people are getting so it's one big club and it's a deal making club again all those other little things about you know gay rights equal pay oh that's just a lot of nonsense and it said the media to write about when they don't want to write about the hard facts of how the so few own so much of how so many own so little. on saturday a taliban suicide bomber killed one hundred three people and injured two hundred thirty five of this in the afghan capital kabul those are the latest figures provided by the country's interior ministry. did not. have a store near the site of the blasts when the confluence i fell to the ground my brother was injured i took him to hospital that was already overwhelmed so i put
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a bandage on my brother's wound and took him to another facility has. suffered lots of shopkeepers who were wounded and killed the attack was devastating i saw people's limbs line on the ground. well saturday's bombing in kabul is the deadliest terrorist trustee in afghanistan since a truck blast in may last year claimed one hundred fifty lives and this comes as part of a recent upturn in violence that has caused much bloodshed on wednesday are militants attack to save the children office in the city of jalalabad moments later a car bomb exploded outside that premises six people were reportedly killed dozens
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more were injured eisel claimed responsibility. so that france now a prison guards have been striking over conditions have agreed with the justice minister's plan for improving security in jails some of the demands made by the prison staff of now been accepted such as housing fifteen hundred radicalised inmates in special units the nationwide two week strike began after an increase in violent attacks by inmates on staff on of the hot spots in the protest is the three . near paris is the largest in europe and it holds almost four thousand people it's also used to monitor potential or suspected terrorists among men. who faces trial over the two thousand and fifteen paris terrorist attack and the staff walked out in protest clashes erupted with police outside the prison.
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we continue because today there is nothing the few things that have been announced by the chancery and trade unions to staff the project entirely we're blocking everything with blocking the prison larry we will block all of france in terms of security we want concrete things including materials that allow prison staff to work in safety or not you lose it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything they hate for them we are enemies by definition . the protests were triggered by a says and razorblade attack by an inmate which left three prison guards injured
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a string of other incidents followed the latest of which left two guards leaving hospital treatment some of the attacks were reportedly carried out by radicalized prisoners. the number of islamic extremists in southeastern europe has been under reported by the german government that's based on classified documents that were obtained by germany's left party and were poured in the press this week on these peta oliver has the story there's a growing threat from islamic extremism in europe based in the balkans and the german government is keeping it to itself that's according to a highly classified report that's being seen by some party m.p.'s the media. the german federal government cannot discount the basic threat posed by individuals and splinter groups in the islamist scene in bosnia-herzegovina. the hush hush document goes as far as to claim that there is a direct link between radical islamic groups in bosnia herzegovina and people in
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germany the true nature of what this heavily classified report says doesn't come out parts of it were redacted from the copy that was shown to the left party the federal government has been trying to downplay the growing islamist threat in public furthermore it's entirely unacceptable that the government continues to cover up the role of the gulf states my colleague charlotta bin ski travel to bosnia herzegovina back in december she witnessed firsthand the situation on the ground there regarding islamic radicalization the local and mom is telling me that some of the residents have joined islamic state in this one minute of the road and there are people who went to syria and forty on the side of i still but we tried to stop them. it looks like an ordinary sleepy village a few houses nestled between the hills not how you might imagine a cradle of terror. a local a
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man says he fears for his life after speaking out against those who joined eisel we would do with these radical elements are always unpredictable and these people breed with me the aid at the same table as me and they want to shoot me this has been edited version of the report issued by the government raises a lot of questions over what exactly germany knows about islamic radicalization in the balkans and how bad the situation actually is as we see in the arts or to our parliamentarian question the german government gives the extra tight expertize that it doesn't explicitly in the gate the possibility that single persons or groups be longing to islamistic seen or bosnia or else they go in there could be a threat to germany and europe but in the same time the government in dice to speak about it financial transactions that are provided for example by the group states or turkey to the bike and states as well as the sending of the moms. in contrary to
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the german secret service is now fish the german government tries to hide the fact of growing danger coming from islam is that groups from the public russian opposition demonstrators headed by election are vanny to take to the streets in a number of russian cities in protest of the upcoming presidential election that another major stories of the week after this break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be that's . going to be for the survival before three of the more people. interested always in the logs in the. first six.
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back more than three thousand supporters of russian opposition figure looks enough
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i mean gathering in a number of cities they've been protesting against the upcoming presidential election only as it is done of has details. around a thousand people have been gathering here in moscow calling for the boycott of the upcoming this march presidential election they're saying that the vote is illegitimate since their candidate alexei navalny has not been allowed to run this because he's still serving a five year long suspended criminal sentence after he had been found guilty of embezzlement and a person like that cannot hold public office in russia now the location of this demonstration has not been approved by the authorities they had no problem with the protest itself but they offered a different place for a but the valley supporters decided to carry on with this place with this location literally hundreds of meters away from the kremlin now alexina valley himself as the you organizer of the event has been detained our own his way here as long as
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a bunch of his other supporters who tried to prevent his detention. now the offices of his anticorruption fund have been raided by the police here in moscow as well but in terms of troubles with the law here in the russian capital that has been it also this action is not just in moscow demonstrations have been held in farias russian cities we know some people some protesters have been detained there as well but in general very peaceful people have gathered they have voiced their discontent and they have seemingly dispersed. families in the west african nation of mali seeking answers of a french strike which is claimed killed eleven local soldiers it's been more than two months since the bombing raids and officials from both sides have given conflicting versions of what occurred on the spot with the relatives of one of the soldiers. my nephew was taken prisoner during the attack on the no power security
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post there were people dead people wounded and people missing. i ask for anyone who can help us get out of here don't leave us in this place. he saw the french intervened to destroy a jihadi camp during this intervention eleven million soldiers lost their lives. the operations are good so that sara's training camp and the notes on was the presence of mali soldiers established. that there were eleven hostages found on this site and all of them died during this operation one day they tell us that the hostages were there during the bombing and the next day they tell us otherwise. certainly via wanted to say that
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their levon mali and hostages that were at this site had joined the jihadi movement we consider that to be an insult to the memory of these men who lost their lives in the service of the nation. they were indeed hostages of terrorists and there should not be any ambiguity between our friends friends and pass. book our superior phone me saying that after checking they found no evidence as to whether boubacar is dead or alive and well waiting to receive news regarding our son. in france launched its intervention in mali back in two thousand and fourteen after islamist militants and seized parts of the country around four thousand french troops are involved in the anti terror operation which is still ongoing and just a few weeks ago the u.k. agreed to bolster that campaign with attack helicopters. now if someone asks where are you from would you be offended that very question has
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stirred debate about racism after a social media campaign was launched in sweden and he said he explains. well from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually had to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want to believe that we live in the world's most tolerant country there dearest shakespearean says of being subjected to racism and tens out asking why are you from rep some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put are you decide where my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't matter i say shouldn't we ever ask people about their country of origin to be on
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the safe side. well here's some advice from a man behind the hash tag no stranger campaign you can also question just make sure you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about. because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs so it's name fest all right tonight and no follow up questions got it.
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thanks to a saudi arabian beauty pageant is seeing competitors going that extra mile in their bid to win buses left with the home of which. thank you for. her. courage. she makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like oh look at how big that head hits it has big lips a big nose. they are cheating everyone i find should be applied.
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if you didn't expect that story digic ok you're right up to date join me for more in just over half an hour. if i were of public opinion i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level to a national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation anymore i plead with the public opinion to do each of the nonviolent struggle because if you use violence you will never get the support of the israelis or the world. because there's survival guide extinction just like all the stored safely at least . you should. get
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a. good repatriation look at the rest of seventy years. bill of the century the skies are toward. using the press the right. way. to. respond just. as how to really negotiate that over and over and over again.
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and again water can scream in. the summer. never really knew what to expect from a. particularly bad swing. desperate. she put us all in the bronco and to the spread drive down of the river. before we got to the river she was just. she decided it was time for. my memories of the men were really involved in life. i'm not sure that i ever really met my mom again after that plane.
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strange story out of florida this morning where the mother of three children drove into the ocean off of daytona beach. the pregnant mom spoken demons before driving into the atlantic. police say they've never seen anything like this. the tiny city of newburgh new york is trying to come to grips with the deaths of three young children who died when their mother drove them into the hudson river among the victims are two year old lance pierre and his a loving month old sister tabs we should take nothing for granted not our loves nor our lives our families or friends even a sanity one minute all is well the next we're plunged into darkness unable to process what is real and what is not nice. for them stringin realized this
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old too young was the summer after i turned eight she should not be alive and she knows it was the moment. that shattered trust. you know how do you know how to trust anybody after that. forced to confront a mystery beyond comprehension she spent decades haunted in search of answers in pursuit of peace when something like killing all six of her children. made sense enough to put the kids in the bronco and drive into the river i see it. gravels it again water flying and kids screaming and somehow she managed to dig it up to back out of that. and that's an incredible victory for somebody in that state of mind you know there are other mothers don't win that battle. autumn's
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mom did eventually die by suicide alone on a country tony steph and was now we're done with. children. i'm laying in bed at night in my room. listening to a houseful of morning. just shattered the whole family just shattered the children shattered me it has become so commonplace these irrational acts and horrific scenes that we've almost become numb to it we've seen them in schools and public spaces in homes and churches. all over the news try as we might to understand them we can't try as we might to ignore them they call to us still we called the paramedics. they tried the roughly the reviver. outside their about those with those patients but. it was cold it's two thousand and four and the downings world has just
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been shattered his daughter a victim of an unimaginable act of violence but it was how this eleven year old girl died the truly horrified the world how cats candace hanged herself when candace first died we just we asked ourselves how could we not know she was then unhappy the downings didn't realize it at the time of course but her case was not a rare event no candace was far from alone she started on this drug somewhere around january and these things make you unafraid they make you do things you wouldn't do normally they make you able to put a rope around your neck and hang yourself. they were still dizzy from death traumatized and broken when they solve the mystery the drugs responsible they say
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a cold s s r i's and they're among the best selling drugs in the world s s r i's better known as antidepressants these are some symptoms of the primary psychiatric drugs like assess our eyes have been defended with religious zeal by their believes and damned by others as some of the most dangerous drugs on the planet distinguishing truth from fiction has been a challenge and this is placed the public in the an enviable position of deconstructing the scientific and medical dogma on their own in the midst of a thirty years social experiment as director of the national institutes of mental health thomas insel has been at the center of a storm of contradictions about the use of these drugs so i think we have to be very humble about this right now because we've often been so self-congratulatory because we have after all many people feel made great strides. the numbers don't really support that dr insoles candor is sure to shock and upset many on all sides
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of the debate the word failure is one few have dad to utter fundamentally why we failed here why has the suicide rate not come down why have as they measures disability whatever those might be why have those continued to go up instead of down well all the numbers are going in the wrong direction so we're already failed what's gone wrong here a lot of people say it's because of stigma and access the fact is that actually more people are getting more treatment than ever before so it's hard for me to quite believe that i would just submit that from the end i am age perspective. the answer about why we failed is a little more disruptive and that answer is that we don't know enough to hear the director of the and i am h. say now that all of the axle taishan is about psychotropics. from the media from academia from the profession from governments were not merited is unsettling after
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billions of prescriptions and hundreds of billions of dollars in drug company profits how did this occur i think that to our field has gone off track here by devoting so much of its resources over the last twenty or thirty years both publicly and privately to under trying to understand how the drugs work but you've got medications here that at most reduce some of the symptoms of mood disorders of psychotic disorders they don't in any sense provide a cure this change of heart contradicts what we've been told about psychiatric drugs for a generation now and raises serious questions about how and why these drugs have been dispensed so indiscriminately using antidepressants or any of the psychiatric drugs is simply not it's not understood is not explained it's not do well to ponder i think they're in a different class of drugs from most of the drugs that we take for our other
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elements in the eighty's and ninety's s.-s. our eyes were the first in a class of new mental health potions heralded as wonder drugs and miracle curious they were extolled as safe and effective solutions for the age old problem of depression and were marketed as such thus began an aggressive march towards a new era in psychiatry one which boasted chemicals for the mental health conditions that a dog humankind for millennia thirty years later however the window on that era and its bold proclamations appears to be closing in the immediate it can make a huge difference you could have someone going from being psychotic to being non-psychotic which is a pretty amazing change in behavior. but i think what we we need to recognize had that happened or last fifty years is that they haven't. shown to be as good as we thought they were. while the drug companies ruthlessly defended their magic bullets in the courts and through the press they were in effect stigmatizing people who
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were harmed by using them in the early one nine hundred ninety s. this issue had reached a peak was prozac causing violence and suicide but what happened was that there psychopharmacology committee almost everybody on the committee worked for the drug companies so the conflicts of interest was so enormous that the f.d.a. had to give them or letters for giving them with their conflicts of interest they can be sued it was a manner of how do we cover it up how do we hide it at every step of the process towards approval and marketing thereafter was designed to hide and mislead the public and physicians about the suicide side effect lilly's own secret files implicate the f.d.a. poorly by robert temple and thomas as being complicit in a scheme to whitewash the dark facts about prozac. has been called the house the president before the drug was introduced clearly reported earnings of six hundred
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million dollars annually prozac changeless fortunes and the company banked at least twenty one billion dollars in profits from the drug over the life of the patent. head. and i say to some people prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in our society that seems to be the dividing line or some people who already know what's true or have read about it understand it and then there's others who think of that's a myth that can't be true they simply can't conceive of that so they stop listening terence young is a member of parliament in canada serving oakville ontario just outside of toronto after a prescription drug caused the death of his daughter vanessa he founded an advocacy group drug safety canada vanessa collapsed in front of me her heart had stopped basically she said. it up to go upstairs when you lose a child your world is upside down and i was thrown into
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a study of medicine of medical jargon of how the health care system works and when it doesn't work and i didn't ask for it but it was my way of dealing with the loss of an s. or so it was in a sense my way of grieving and it started the day she died for five years young investigated the practices of the medical and drug industries and in doing so he says he realized have pharmacy influence had permeated every construct of modern society the loss of his daughter coupled with the shocking truth she uncovered through his medical research led him to write death by prescription and become one of canada's most od and proponents of informed choice.
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