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really was that one of the demonstrations. there are around three four hundred people here at this protest against the visit of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell but the protesters from back radio position activists protesting against saudi arabia's continued involvement since they helped to suppress the revolution of two thousand and eleven to those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisers to be involved but succeed to a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain's reputation as a nation the stance of the human rights that we've got no place it seems to me selling almost to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the war by having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardment of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over four and
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a half billion pounds worth of weapons while the us. still worth over one hundred ten billion pounds some of the biggest deal in u.s. history and the visits of the have been selma also being raised in parliament today by the labor leader jeremy corbett a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales have shot me increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her governments this is cannot be right that her government is true looting in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes but it's also to
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be meant. that's in addition to these hundreds of protesters that are in the school council protests numbering a couple of dozen people who are here to welcome the haven't been selma so long that but in any case this protest definitely the larger of the two. a former russian policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for a series of murders which have shocked the nation you have got it you pinsky killed at least nineteen young women starting in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but was only courts two years ago.
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you know with us killed so much in the mass and you know it's not. going to last this mistake at least let me. tell you.
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didn't you learn to do those new movie. is not the. truth. which i just want you to see the deal. now there's been an outcry in the us software to merge the saudi national with suspected links to al qaida was able to live freely in the country for seven years nor make has a now asking why the state department going to the man if he's a little open has the details may be hard to believe but the alleged al qaeda terrorist has been living in the united states for seven years unnoticed saudi national naive flower flogged is now been arrested and at this point members of congress want answers about how this was allowed to happen in two thousand he attended an al qaeda training camp two thousand and eleven he moved to oklahoma on
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nonimmigrant visa joining his wife in two thousand and sixteen he was even able to get a pilot's license however that was revoked when the f.b.i. finally started an investigation now he is in custody awaiting trial on a number of charges the indictment charges two counts of these a fraud. the third gun charges self launch with making a false statement to the f.b.i. when he denied ever having associated with anyone from a foreign terrorist group he may not have been able to enter the united states of authorities had actually been able to pay more attention it turns out that back in two thousand and one his fingerprints were actually found on an application to a terrorist training camp furthermore his father was named as a person of trust in an al qaeda document now at this point that data was not able to be analyzed until twenty seventeen. i'd say there was a number of breakdowns going back to where the original intelligence was maintained
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and stools he should have been on the watch list you know who was on the list oh marmont teen the pulse nightclub shooter recently released cell phone records indicate that just days before the attack he was considering whether or not to attack disneyland he was on the f.b.i.'s radar screen after making threats against his coworkers and claiming to have ties to jihad ists however after ten months of monitoring and three f.b.i. interviews they determined that he was quote not violent or dangerous after he did carry out his attack the f.b.i. said he had self radicalized on the internet we're working hard to understand it and his motives and his sources of inspiration. but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some port through the internet so the internet did it ah well remember that florida school shooter apparently he left tips on the internet that he was planning to shoot up the school people called the
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f.b.i. about it but they never bothered to look into the matter is the term in the protocol was not followed. the information was not provided above and below. it no further investigation was conducted that. this is an ongoing failure of the united states and it's not just the u.s. it's also in europe to properly vet these people and the f.b.i. had ample warning that the orlando attacker was a threat because he was muslim but they did not want to look into it they did not want to seem that they were targeting these certain religious groups even reports that come out with school shootings in the united states where the f.b.i. many times received a phone call warning them about the shooters and nothing happened because of that the f.b.i. did not follow up so i think it's not so much a lack of resources at it as it is a lack of knowledge or understanding about threats that matter the most. ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gazprom
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following the long term dispute over gas supplies. joined kevin owen in the studio to discuss the story. well it's one of these cases when you can easily say not again russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again as you said kiev's begun seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gazprom but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev however there is something for you to bear in mind no matter what happens in politics all the difficulties between kiev and moscow the ultimate reality has been that ukraine has been relying on gas imports from russia all along for all these years eastern and central europe to a massive share of these gas supplies is delivered through ukraine if there's jenga
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tower of contracts for the purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapses staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue the there's been a blip couple years by a nasty said there was a blip in the. believe ukraine was siphoning off some of the guys will come out of it i'm sitting ok because russia wants to be seen as a reliable partner doesn't it so to try and get this kind of the caucus for will be a was a recent. well ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes in a style called arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the firm to pay the russians a sum of about two billion u.s.
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dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas brom must pay. ukraine's nafta gatt is more than four point six billion u.s. dollars and that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow and he have more than two point five billion u.s. dollars and the boss is aghast more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas that they were buying now bitrate is justified the decision by the sharp deterioration in the economy we're categorically against the grain is economic problems been solved it expands so russia ukraine gas wars have happened before and it has previously led to energy crises in the region those in the west as you were
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saying for now they don't have to worry about anything and again it's not in any of russia's interest to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia had to protect its political and economic interests in technically it wasn't gas rahm's fault. head of nato yen stoltenberg says the alliance plans to maintain its military presence in iraq as long as it has the approval of the country's government believed to only be wrong if we are invited to the government wrong. the reasons why we are planning for scaling up our training. quest from the iraqi government.
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the second we have no intentions to stay longer than necessary. stoltenberg was speaking during a rare visit to baghdad after the iraq e. prime minister also rawest for the nato operations against arsenal but the premier's willingness to allow foreign troops to remain in the country is in stark contrast to the views of parliament last week lawmakers called on the government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign forces well there are currently six thousand five hundred foreign troops stationed in iraq more than half of them a u.s. person know a strain has the second largest contingent followed by italy and former u.s. congressman ron paul believes there's no justification for the continued military presence in iraq. our governments whether they are of the democrat party republican party they are generally in dorsey's the idea that we have this moral obligation to straighten everything out and they use it as an excuse but there's always other reasons for doing this there's
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a group of people who see some secondary gain and there's a lot of property being made in oil is important all these things it's just time to come home where i'm buying their own business and we ought to save the money and we would be as strong as ever if not a lot stronger with our independence. because of the disruption in the chaos in iraq al qaeda has moved in so they weren't a problem under saddam hussein was not friendly with with al qaida it's a reaction to our policies our policies stir up these hatreds in the organizations of the radicals. palestinians living close to jerusalem's old city say their homes are being ruined by an excavation project israeli archaeologists are investigating an ancient tunnel recently discovered under temple mount.
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it's out on after the excavation work started the ground began to sink our house was leaning about twenty centimeters to watch sign and the water started to crack the floor has also grant. them to have it done a look at the house she relayed until it collapses under children and my son and his wife look at the destruction look at how crooked the house is look at the walls they're all broke in the roof once fell in on my grandson.
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who mostly hear them working at night and the thing all starts to shake of course i'm against it this is our home we're also supposed to go north can stop them this is what they want they want the arabs to leave this home so that they can take them . for many years we've been complaining but no one helps us one day we felt the house moving to call the police they made us all leave but it rains now with lance and the furniture we have lost everything there's nothing left for us he. plans for a new fighter jet base in the u.s. state of the moment triggered a furious backlash from locals during
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a protest in the city of burlington campaign was placed john speakers on the truck blasting out the noise of an f. so she five jet engine. well activists say people in the flight path will be hearing that noise on a daily basis during saturday's rally police made a high profile arrest detaining ben cohen one of the co-founders of the ice cream brand and cherries but despite local opposition the vermont's national guard said on tuesday night that the f. thirty five as well arrive in vermont in the autumn of twenty nineteen. the airport in burlington is located in a very heavily densely populated area so there are one hundred twenty four thousand people that live within about five miles of the runway is half a dozen of us put on
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a demonstration of what that sounds like and people came running out and said stop this is horrible my children my animals my family it is not appropriate for a city it's one of the causes of heart disease it's a cause of cognitive impairment in children according to the best medical studies what happens is children have delayed reading learning disabilities memory and concentration become impaired we have thirty five jet program is the most expensive u.s. weapon system to date costing around one point five billion dollars and yet out of two hundred eighty aircraft produced hoth still grounded america and seven allies currently use the jets nine countries were involved in the f. thirty five element which has been plagued by production delays and cost overruns well the f. thirty five project has been described as too big to fail james leaves who runs
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a campaign against the new base believes it will be hugely damaging for the state of vermont. the air force didn't make this decision to base f. thirty five fighter jets in the city of burlington based on the facts so we don't want an f. thirty five based here it's going to be damaging to the people of vermont it's going to be in it's going to make us a collaborator with any kind of foreign intervention that the president decides on . back of the headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on one of our stories. you know when you don't. see the teachers who are. not through only ten spaces it. may. lead to no he.
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said. no turning to message that. if you speak french. you. could busy. here we're going underground as u.k. prime minister to raise him a opens the door to the crown prince of saudi arabia a man who has escalated bombing in yemen where billions of pounds of british arms have helped create what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis coming up on the show was it david
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cameron's war in libya that did it for establishment apologies in italy we investigate the prospects for quickly following brics edward silvio berlusconi's foreign minister franco frattini and a hard boiled it on the middle of the irish sea we speak to shin fein and the following their meetings with michel body in brussels this week after tourism a double down on britain's exit from the e.u. customs union all the civil war going up in today's going on the ground but first day of prayer. that poses a headache for brussels the neoliberal e.u. project now faces more arguable chaos after sunday's italian elections the country with the highest government debt ratio in the e.u. with youth unemployment standing at thirty two percent arguably responded to statements from selvi news right wing northern league about migration he's warned of a social war leading to crime even though crime figures in italy down except hate crimes like one last month are up ten fold heavy police presence in the central italian
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town of mustard arthur where earlier on saturday a man opened fire on foreigners winning six people few in italy it appears during sunday's election thought to remember that without migrants wherever they come from italy will face a shortfall in its labor market given a plummeting birth rate for now it is a matter of how anti you and anti near liberal any coalition government in italy might be joining me now from the italian embassy in monte carlo is twice italian foreign minister in silvio berlusconi's cabinets and a former european commissioner for justice freedom and security franco frattini franco frattini welcome back to going underground so a disaster for for there tahlia no it is not a job that will be able to shine your way as usual we did still in even wars circumstances quote optimistic because we are in
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a wiser. president. who is a statesman he will be able to manage if some difficult situations ok there's going to be a lot of dealing going on between the parties but you don't think that the members of fours are eternally including silvio berlusconi have to rethink their strategy as regards their pro european union stance given italy's reject of it. well it is absolutely true those who would on the elections do they want to rediscuss d. it our european policies and european and italian position visit the euro this is absolutely true goes awol not people for the norden the five stars that being even a book eighteen for italy is getting out from you are sol i don't think it will happen neither. nor militant league will be proposing
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in case all their ruling a county like italy to get out to a problem eurozone will but nevertheless party like force. probably ask you to take note and to understand it is kind of bureaucratic europe dictating routes now listen to the people and so on and so forth we need their european. lucian we need to check and and we negotiate even some basic bit of the us of european union. this kind of political response and it you know the british electorate thought of that and then rejected that idea as ever even being attainable i know we are in the middle of a difficult move in europe d. so cool front good german axis. grex it negotiations and
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now italian election alt come politicians will have to take into full account a lot million seven million. voters decided to stop to discuss and of your let's change let's have you wrote more prone. active on growth and jobs rather than simple simply proceed yours and dictate the rules and blocking everything would you blame brussels for the huge support of the former fascist or leader of the both will be known as the northern league. well i wouldn't if i ignored in league at the fastest northern league archy used to be a member of the government under berlusconi government i was in the same
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governmental people coming from lord and there where good ministers and frankly speaking this is the result of many mistakes made by europe europe has been making mistakes there while in the middle of the crisis is it trying to can team year two in polls is simple i'll stay read to rules instead of moving to the rules to see a development and to see finding a new way to create good jobs and do you think the libya war had an effect in the sense that immigration seems to be such an issue and of course the libya was called the core capone which african refugees there were all that out through libya. well i did already another crisis during the still cold arris brings italian pulled
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into sense and italian government worse than most reluctant to engage on to do war against gadhafi regime because of their time prime minister berlusconi used to ask a very simple question what next what next do you war there was no answer there was america and gauging this sarkozy deciding to go i had anyway to bohem being bengazi and of course older partners for loyalty where we wear a blue eyes to goal i had but it was not a war was the pasta war all regional good migration crises with left libya and the whole we left libya to its destiny and our european partners left eternally as old with bill sort of guy ritchie with no cooperation and of
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course when our eternally onstott da facing they re our invasion of towels and so how's uncertain talos and so migrants the top male ie economic migrants all are if you g.'s n. minor or are we to g.'s the large majority it cannot make migrants we cannot accept people by elating all d'italia ruth committing crimes these is it leading to a reaction crime is not sure i was actually down in italy though. yes but if the perception is not crime is down if you look at statistics but look at the perception look at this feeling people are a threat to go out of the houses and all in all we're not out or during the not why because they feel to be under threat and you can do to under the eyes
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statistics on crime decline and get get and get him down and die there would be not at all curse you wait it is the reality do you think anyone from brussels will meet with the big party leaders and offer a say six billion dollars that they offered to turkey regarding migration. no because italy as i said that's been left on the whole i criticize happily. very beginning deep agreement between you and your keep putting billions of euros in the hands of we're told why allowing our door if you will had with the repression and i would say it destroying in number of fundamental rights in his country these was a serious mistake in the meantime you will remember when you were met and
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they decided that you wrote africa instructed g. they put on big table few hundreds well millions kobe at four dollars you who compare it to billions of europe only man's dollar it gives the idea of an balance and easy sell their perception italians and this is the be they pay the price if you're in deep elections you mentioned the franco german axis macro is electorally arguably in trouble merkel has put some coalition together isn't it it's really fighting against the e.u. in a better position to talk to donald trump now that we seem to be having the beginnings of a full scale trade war trade tariff war. very much will depend on who'll be in the next government of beatle but anyway my personal opinion is
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whoever would be the prime minister or the foreign minister dairies a room full eternally to be listened to from the other member states of europe by a raising the boys by putting on the table some uninstalled problems. that dot like it's you fish and see all different good german axis through europe and need for change need for change i would include a good old reflection on how to remember she ate some of the dealers of the economic foundations like european common it cannot make space is not possible to have an european central band that doesn't give us the ability to act like the america center back all right national
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