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she was one of the seven women and fourteen children brought back to russia in the autumn twenty seventeen as part of a companion organized by chechen officials to repaginate the families of men who went to fight with islam make terrorists. i am very grateful to everyone who helped launch this conveying to save many women and children. but while they were lucky to escape from the war in syria upon arrival in grozny she was detained by police three months later she was convicted and sentenced for being part of an illegal armed group. and while the law she broke is designed to help thwarted terror attacks some people argue that family members of radicalized individuals should not be targeted. these people need rehabilitation they need to be close to their family members under the care of their mothers they're under huge stress and prison
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will not help them he will only meet them more harsh i believe it's wrong to put them behind bars for now that good at leaves with her mother in dagestan she has to report to the police every month and can't leave the region it's difficult for both her and her brother to find work as they're on the official police list it means they will have to get by on their mother a small salary as a post office worker despite all this they could add sas she's just happy to see her children. to go i was literally suffering that because i was unable to provide food for my children he told me constantly mom we are hungry they were colliding. and now he's as nicholas let's go to the merry go round let's go to the seaside now we go after where i don't now we go everywhere. money is hard and so my lovely who say fuck. it was you.
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yeah earlier this week we heard the two other episodes in the series russian sisters found in an iraqi orphanage on people desperate for news of family members that pledged allegiance to the terror group in case you missed them they're available on our you tube channel. more of the week's top news stories in ninety seconds.
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eighteen minutes into the program welcomed by media and how it operates has been in the spotlight again over the last number of days numerous accounts belonging to libertarian conservative figures in the united states have been banned after accusations they were spreading hate speech gathered pace. what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then usually follow that topic in the news countries and cultures are brought together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all fluids to any of those pesky
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folks trying to set limits and two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are spots of your world that shouldn't be discovered what if you're keen to know what someone has to say let it be former u.s. diplomat peter van buren you might as well unfollowing your interests the man's profile is shut down for good because he jokingly wish someone had eaten the face of his opponent in a twitter rant honestly that's by far not the most offensive thing you can find online but what's abusive about showing mr van buren some support to users who did so got bands to it's not about me it's not about the group of us who have band together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised its head this week people like us who are not part of the legacy media we're not new york times shapers of opinion we're also allowed to have our say so if someone from the new york times or the washington post put something up that we know is false we can refute it almost
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in real time that's very threatening i think for the powers that be this tendency to want to shut people down if they disagree with you is very dangerous it's going down a very slippery slippery slope toward totalitarianism there's a word for that see and ask. someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking head alex jones was told get outta here by all major platforms we remove hate speach. to keep people safe after all they all have to stick to their own rules and keep people safe from hate speech but then even those anti-left to come to hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big
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territory. i'm no fan of jones so among other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k. but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is their call and if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info was is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear on nation oppose these companies must do more than take down one website the survival of our democracy depends on it the world is getting older and a bit more author a tarion only lately a top u.s.
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intelligence committee democrat has come up with twenty legislative proposals for keeping online platforms under a close watch brace yourself as you might soon have to say goodbye to things like anonymous posts or accounts that can be tracked down yep that covers just two of the twenty. and you've been trying to with the reports well we've got reaction from . who's hoping to be the u.s. libertarian party's next presidential candidate he thing social media has deviated from its original purpose the idea freedom of speech is a legal protection that says the government cannot restrict any freedom of speech it doesn't say whether or not private companies can and what facebook and twitter are doing are ok legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give
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a huge buy to the established pros state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space to the ideas that challenge the status quo that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not taking true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. and there's all this has been happening donald trump as also fallen victim to the censors with his place on hollywood's walk of fame threatened.
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he's doing just fine. the city council or the council can ask for anything they want they have no jurisdiction it's the hollywood chamber of commerce they are the ones who decide how only one itself is failed failed and stowage that people have been convicted of crimes and murder when mayhem and abuse and they've said no this becomes a part of history it goes to show you their trump. syndrome has
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completely hit critical mass and they have all gone completely off the rails. by land spike throughout the week in the israeli palestinian conflict both sides exchange heavy fire on a police three people were killed including a pregnant palestinian woman and her eighteen month old child a strike on a cultural center in gaza city also injured a further eighteen people. i i really military carried out a series of strikes on the gals or strip the night before and that was in response to palestinian missiles being fired into israel. the israeli defense forces reported that iran one hundred eighty rockets being
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fired from gaza and the i.d.f. and its retaliatory shelling targeted over one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes hit open spaces but at least two landed in this really seven people and damaging property. well there's also been violence all nice really gaza border an ongoing demonstration against the occupation of palestinian territory. i don't really know. but i. was.
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covering both europe and asia nations bordering the caspian sea have signed a historic agreement after more than two decades of talks russia iran. turkmenistan and the countries surrounding the world's largest body of law unlock water reached a diplomatic breakthrough on trade security and environmental issues while they were putin called the summit a milestone event adding that the accord limits military presence in the caspian sea only to certain agreed upon areas close to the shore the end of the summit the
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