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tv   Worlds Apart  RT  February 22, 2018 2:30pm-3:01pm EST

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it will die but great so what more chance for. the geeks it's going to. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fails to finish it to do it living for you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going to have no phil saviano maybe a bit. old john without a telescope of a ship the only palestinians it gets the most help from its tourists from counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision of not only could give us. and the earth is a laugh at that as to how to display any of them a salvage yard i'm not going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more the most awesome don't piss off.
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some of talk here in moscow headlining this decades of environmental damage on a picturesque portuguese island in the atlantic has led locals would be fearing for their well being as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates they blame the u.s. air force for the contamination. don't think i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in trying to be doing right by the entrance of the american base both of my parents died of cancer and when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer and. had heated debates on germany's migration policy sees anglo merkel storm out of parliament just as the member of the anti immigration have day party launched another attack on the chancellor will cross that one. and also in
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germany to a leading tabloid published what it called what is indisputable evidence of russian meddling only to realize eventually you've been pranked by a satirical magazine feeding them you see. we knew how to feel like an editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie like a spy and it was a good laugh but. we are the international broadcaster from moscow r.t. international thanks for watching my name so that the winds were portuguese island of tests in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of contamination we can reveal decades of u.s. air force activity of allegedly left and polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals to say they're extremely worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses.
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but back to twenty thousand years this is not constant it oscillates of the same releases and of a constant as the now that's eighteen twenty twenty eight hours and twenty thousand twenty thousand. of them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long. we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper zinc molybdenum base all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause
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to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more the pill ation asks why is this happening and why if private story or other roads is that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours. gov.
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is a pretty place as you can see but the u.s. has maintained a presence on that island since one nine hundred forty three serious serves as a stop of a transatlantic military flight states home to the sixty fifth air base group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at that facility say they've also been exposed to. goldenbridge of view going to have meant there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who would die enough to unlock cancer if you were exposed to radioactivity on to so they were here for about a week and journalists are not found out that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the island radioactive contamination with. the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked
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it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel released when a pipeline was intentionally activated that was back in one thousand nine hundred four there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil the air and in the water is a local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior. year and the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of those or cases being in prior difference or while the area has only eight point five two percent of those already in the population of. this israel the repeat itself on various islands occupied by the americans wife
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this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance and maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations well i can let you know we contacted both the us some portuguese government so far we received no responses back to the very specific questions we are asked we did though hear from the us government and forwarded a press release at least from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are trying to seek expert advice on how best to sort it out. in germany the top representative of the nationalist a half day parties launched a scathing attack on chancellor merkel he told a parliamentary session thursday that her policies are a failure and that she's part of a push to impose multiculturalism not just on germany but all of europe is our europe correspondent. finger pointing and
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a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin angela merkel was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed
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e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees. countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported co-operation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them alternative for germany how are the folks there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's going to decide she has
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somewhere else better to be. peter all of the reporting while merkel's being bashed by the opposition a prominent politician from germany second biggest part of the s.p. days been embroiled in a scandal we'll tell you about that the country's best selling newspaper has published what it thought was smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics but in the rush to break the story the tabloid failed to check its sources and that backfired spectacularly as more galatea of explains build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here's the meat of it build published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d.
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youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel no grow cold campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy a movie deal to kill him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who campaign thanks for your mail j. already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as he can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh marty ginger oh dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me. basically we can offer you everything an opinion
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campaign with schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from tamika magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and said to build but build rabbits without jew checks and very few cation what with their and t. s.p.d. stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was fake he couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but to tally it explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email two or three calls and billed prints everything that
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piece his agenda remember the drinks name me oh me oh matty ginger well that's now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build. kevin coon out in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and he's posted he's also enjoying the show just about a sense of humor aside the social democratic party's youth wing leader insists he would have flatly refused any offer of this kind if it had genuinely been made to a myriad. but of on me have to see in this book i don't know but this group but of course who would refuse any of these offers who would work with social mobs and
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this is the major they won't even listen and your. mean time milking it milking it the satirical magazine behind the hoax posted this triumph of photo online it shows one of its employees posing with a transcript of those fake emails and the build article tongue in cheek the pranksters at titanic even turned on kevin there for dismissing the story is a clumsy fake they said this but all of three hours dreaming up this whole convoluted prank we had to turn it over to record magazine we were up with the same . methods as the built so we knew how to think like and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie and like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like this for four built they don't care about details it's only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed it was. like
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a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime the readers of built just like b.l. it was a builder but there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we have to turn ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. and i think that's worth something. when some talk years democrats seem determined to keep the focus on russia they say they want to additional three hundred million dollars now from congress to help prevent meddling in future elections the call was made by senate minority leader chuck schumer and former speaker nancy pelosi in a letter to the senate they say that the additional funding would help to counter the influence of hostile foreign actors.

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