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you know. the. top of the news feed this weekend saudi arabia admits that missing journalist was killed in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul riyadh now faces a big backlash for the explanation of how he died. police of belgium sickleave protesting direct action against extra hours of pension reform. because if you want to do it we ask questions but we don't get answers they say we're lazy and just as used to sick little for the minister has no facts to back up his claim that happens all the time and we're sick and tired of it. the former f.b.i. agent is sentenced to four years in prison for leaking classified information terry already said he'd hoped his revelations would simply make
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a difference. hello good evening from moscow my name is kevin oh it's just turned seven pm here this is r.t. international over the next hour far all updates on the top stories then starting with this saudi arabia has finally admitted that a journalist who went missing over a fortnight ago in turkey died in what they describe as a fistfight inside its consulate in istanbul riyadh's already sacked two senior officials and arrested eighteen others linked to the case new in the last few hours german chancellor angela merkel now demanding further clarification from the saudis over what happened press freedom group reporters without borders is also calling for sustained international pressure to establish just how the incident played out the explanation provided by riyadh was swiftly dismissed as improbable. oh and
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sparked an intense backlash from journalists and politicians it also contradicts two earlier saudi claims that left the consulate shortly after arriving there recalls now for the gulf monarchy to bear full responsibility for what happened as for u.s. president donald trump he says he's satisfied with the latest account the discussions that took place with the citizen jamal khashoggi during his presence in the consulates of the kingdom in istanbul by the suspects did not go as required and developed in a negative way led to a fight and a quarrel between some of them and the citizen jamal khashoggi yet liberal aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened in the river. i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't traditionally view or investigation but it's. i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would happen fifty nine year old jamal khashoggi had lived in the u.s.
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for the past year working as a washington post columnist it's thought years prior to that he had been close at some points to the saudi monarchy but was later critical of crown prince mohammed bin someone's policies because she argued also drawn attention to saudi women's rights and the war in yemen that day entered the saudi consulate in istanbul it was october the second to pick up a document apparently for his upcoming wedding shortly after his disappearance turkey announced it had video and ordeal accounts of the journalists alleged killing by a saudi hit team that still has not been made public when the case first garnered global attention president trump threatened riyadh with severe punishment but that appears not to include scrapping the multi-billion dollar arms contracts between the gulf monarchy and washington. saudi arabia has been a great ally but what happened is unacceptable but i would prefer that we don't use retribution canceling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of the border russia wanted
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it china wanted it we wanted it we got it and we are all of it every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military but then there are things that create jobs create jobs and others for this country columnist for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz gideon levy told me the saudis week explanation here is a relevant one single lonely person we know he entered the consulate by himself nobody in company team he was not armed so the whole story is so far fetched i don't think that anyone can take this seriously but what worries me much more is the american reaction i mean on the stand the president except see it and that's the power or often the loaf one hundred ten billion dollars one hundred ten
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billion dollars can buy any troops can sell any lie i'm not sure that there's going to be any price for it the world is far too cynical. there's more artie's going underground host afshin rattansi spoke to a friend of jamal khashoggi who says the journalist expected to be arrested. your marks actually always insisted until the day he died and i had a discussion with him only hours before he disappeared he insisted he wasn't an opposition member against the royal family he was just a critic of some of the policies adopted by the crown prince he was very anxious that the country was taking a turn into what is worse he was he was afraid or he was concerned about its future that's why he wrote what he wrote of he was never a member of the opposition he knew if he went back to saudi arabia he would have been arrested and probably sent behind bars like that like some of his other
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friends. elsewhere least forty four people have been killed over two hundred injured in several blasts that rocked the afghan capital during saturday's parliamentary election multiple explosions targeting polling stations took place in different areas of kabul as of yet no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but taliban insurgents had vowed to interfere with the vote nearly two hundred security incidents involving grenades and taken place across the country two candidates were also killed in the run up to this election day while polling in the province of kandahar has been delayed now for a week because of ongoing security concerns. in europe around fifteen hundred belgian police offices of called in sick on mass there protesting having to work extra hours caused by staff shortages as well as reforms to their pensions. it was.
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for. our. security people so after the police the police motorcycle units from. brussels is reinforcement video you saw me feel that all of them called in disabled obviously as we found out the prime minister even had to go in the army he told. little bits of gold the police are severely understaffed and we've been talking about that for many months now the interior minister is also in mulling reform that plague actively be an attack on the status of police officers he.
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just recently another police officer was killed in the. last week and two more was badly injured in a shootout people didn't hesitate to open fire on lord officers. we ask a question of sport we don't get. they say we're lazy and distribution simply for the minister has no facts to back up if i hear all that happens all the time and we shake inside of it the. next day huge protests in central london the south are known seems over said. hundred thousand anti brits or protesters gathered to demand a second referendum vote the march was organized by the people's vote campaign who
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say this protest could well be the biggest action yet some trouble from all over the country to take part of the rally a separate probe wrecks that rally was held in hara get up in the north of england that was led by the former ukip leader nigel farage british prime minister treason may have a hard time right now she has dismissed calls for a second referendum on bret's it but some m.p.'s are in support of the protests the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. by a narrow margin in twenty sixty with a deadline for negotiations with brussels set for march next year. in crimea grieving friends and relatives who said their final goodbyes to the twenty victims of a gunman opened fire on fellow students at a college in the city of courage but amid the pain stories of emerged of heroic quick thinking actions which prevented more deaths.
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urges a quiet place a small seaside town kind of place where the neighborhoods everyone knows everyone it is one of the last places in the world where you would expect a school or college shooting or thought they did but some hatreds evidently buried too deep because i stalk a few it's so common music very common tragedy our town is really small everyone knows each other the blast and the following rampage with catastrophic injury and killing dozens upon dozens. of people sparking panic and styria as teenagers and staff fled for their lives. in that chaos heroes were made. my friend willing feen was there
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he helped his friend corner who was injured in the blast he covered him to shield him from the bullets they're both in hospital now one has a shrapnel wound and been in thousands paralyzed nobody knows whether he will be able to mark again but from the horrors of this massacre some good has emerged selflessness sacrifice courage and bravery teenagers barely older than children acted as few adults ever could but it got the better of course if you're going to they were first he is to you. when this happened these guys were thrown rocks. they were trying to distract him because behind his back there was a group of kids mostly girls trying to escape so the boys decided to divert attention to help the girls these four boys are dead now which was. so unique you know i certainly knew them on the wounded i tried to save her i carried
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her to the ambulance i left her there and went to help the others i saw a lot of people bleeding land on benches it was awful. about. immutability mines i saw a guy being attacked i try to help him but it was too late then i saw my friend something was wrong with his lax he couldn't walk so i dragged him all the way to the ponce. the mushy i didn't know you will never know every accept heroism and kindness that took place last now in the confusion the adrenaline the modesty and in death but it wasn't just the students it was also bystanders volunteers and good samaritans. who said i work nearby when i heard what happened i came here to help anyone i could see there were people without limbs just lying on the street everyone tried to help more just to get more of. when the wounded were well local
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clinics the medical students jumped in to help. them but when it happened we were at our medical college we were in class when a teacher stormed in and said they need people to help with the injured so we rushed to the hospital we had no time to even put our lab coats on we started to take people out of the ambulances for emergency help people just kept on coming for several hours it's fair to say that when the killer struck the stuff. the students were utterly unprepared it's also fair to say that no amount of readiness in the world would prepare any sort of school for an explosion that size in the cafeteria or an armed maniac blitz through a car do it but even amidst all the confusion the panic the fear there were
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those who set aside self-preservation in order to help others risking life and limb. once again even in acts of overwhelming evil there is space for good. correspond to have covering all the horrors of this last week after the break in the program a former f.b.i. agent tries to make a difference but ends up facing criminal charges his story ninety seconds away. the grim reaper of the bond market has appeared with this with this guy and he's looking at the global bond market he's got all. this up on
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apocalypse it's a tsunami that paper and it's. going to be the greatest collapse ever. did the war planning for the principal force provider command in the united states military for four years i've worked on this region for years i do not understand this saudi arabia is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world still today and yet we call here on that we lie when we say that we outright blatantly lie when we say that and moreover we know we're lucky.
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again a former f.b.i. agent who worked in the u.s. state of minnesota has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the media he says he simply wanted to make a difference but the colts found his leaks about alleged abuse of power a threat to national security that whole conflicts play. a veteran of the agency an impeccable service record three years from the time and now charged to try and and found guilty for whistle blowing the only black asian to the f.b.i.'s minneapolis field office several where he grew uneasy over his seventeen year career. he says he saw discrimination racial profiling rule bending and abuse of power by the agency he felt the public needed to know i truly wanted to make a difference and never intended to put anyone in danger the f.b.i. and court saw things differently tried under the espionage act he was branded a traitor who put national security at risk he isn't the first whistleblower to
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face the wrath of war thora te's edward snowden chelsea manning are two of the best known in recent years but this case was slightly different terry allbery was charged with the leak of just two documents to the media and retaining another focusing on methods used by the f.b.i. supporters claim the only damage caused was not to national security but the egos of all thora g.'s the u.s. attorney general has made things clear amongst the crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers the risk of exposing perceived wrongdoing and injustice is higher than ever we are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in department history crimes like the one committed by the defendant in this case will not be tolerated they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and punished and it seems for now whatever the motive alleged racism or spying lawbreaking or corruption whistleblowers call bori will face the tough choice of
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trusting their conscience or risking everything. what is happening with mr over isn't a chilling effect throughout the entire. throughout the entire federal bureaucracy that if you league you are going to go to prison and you've got to go to prison for a very long time any type of harsh punishment all is. other similar situation twice before they had the question is. is the action. in this current trouble ministration going to be something that people can be quiet about all the action in the end on the other federal bureaucracies only being able to be. given the large amount of corruption that is going on. in the least and palestinian officials several other people have been injured during a protest against eviction in the west bank israeli offices were seen using force
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against the demonstrators this. problem this time locals were opposing plans to demolish their village seems around fifty two families rejected an offer to relocate to another area israel says that it was build illegally and is dangerously close to the highway when time close by related on the israel gaza border one hundred thirty palestinians including over two dozen children were hurt in the latest riots last friday evening according to the palestinian health ministry crowds again gathered at the border have been doing so every friday since march demanding the right to reclaim what they see and say are their lands get them back from israel test as tires to create a smokescreen and they threw rocks at israeli soldiers they responded the game with life fire since that unrest began seven months ago more than two hundred palestinians and think killed israel maintains its position of defending the border
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from terror. says it puts it with the latest from a frontier on the gaza side his gaza based journalist. today marks the thirtieth friday in the great march every terry as we can see hundreds of palestinian protesters have gathered here is usual to protest today palestinian protesters have started burning tires in an attempt to block the vision on the israeli snipers division in front of the israeli forces are these really snipers is almost totally blocked but yet they are firing live ammunition in gas cans trees at the palestinian protesters gathering there as we can see the israeli forces are firing gas canisters on the palestinian protesters. there are numbers of injuries that have been taken by paramedics to the ambulances as you can see in the area it's full of protesters all sectors men women and children. we
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have paramedics we have a lot of press we have also palestinian volunteers who have come here in order to save the other protesters we have seven injuries four shot for life shooting until now and people are chalking because of old a gas that has been fired and then you have another injury i know there is injury. in the eye. and other injury in the i. mean. as you can see here there are still a number of injuries that are coming in every now and then. israeli military says it was forced to respond on friday after terrorists in gaza sent several incendiary balloons into israel as a footnote for now to this story. the russian foreign ministry is warning that next month's midterm election in the u.s.
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will be used as a convenient pretext they say for a small income by the against moscow it is followed the u.s. justice department filing criminal charges against a russian woman for allegedly orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the congressional poll reporting from new york next kalam open. the u.s. department of justice has indicted a woman who is forty four years old an accountant living in st petersburg now she is the first person to be indicted and it is alleged that she was meddling in the upcoming midterm congressional elections in the united states she's being charged by the u.s. department of justice with conspiracy to defraud the united states it's alleged that she had millions of dollars invested into social media activity that was intended to quote so division and discord in the u.s. political system in july we heard from christopher ray he's the director of the f.b.i. and he says that no evidence of such a plot by russia actually had been discovered so far we haven't yet seen an effort
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to target specific election infrastructure at this point it's not alleged that any voting machines were targeted it's not alleged any voter registration records or any election infrastructure was in any way targeted now this comes in the aftermath of twitter releasing a collection of tweets it says came from russian trolls quite a large number of tweets and the report itself actually admits that these tweets their influence was rather negligible they really didn't have much of an impact on the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen strangely enough you know these tweets are not only directed against hillary clinton but also directed against donald trump and in fact they were more effective when they were targeting trump so the allegation that there was some sort of russian conspiracy to get donald trump in the white house doesn't exactly add up if that were the case why would these russian bots and trolls of the working to hurt donald trump rather than help him and why would they be working for the benefit of hillary clinton now this woman has been named in
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previous indictments from the u.s. department of justice the bob mueller investigation regarding the twenty sixteen election she was named however at this point we're now seeing her named and charged in connection to alleged meddling in the twenty eight. eighteen elections which have not yet taken place which are coming up in november that more details of this the criminal complaint by the justice department talks of a probable cause to believe that the woman in question was conspiring to undermine the u.s. democratic system further it states that the so-called troll tree she allegedly worked for didn't as just heard from caleb support a single candidate but posted content in favor of both democrats and republicans the social media accounts dealt with a wide variety of topics already controversial at the time including immigration gun control and race relations executive director the room for peace institute believes these charges could have worrying implications for general freedom of speech here is it illegal for other people to even write or comment about internal
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american affairs i thought that's what a democracy less what a free debate of ideas was about was about we don't have freedom of speech to talk about the weather we have freedom of speech to talk about very difficult issues of heart of accuracy is so weak that even bringing up these issues can undermine the faith and democracy in our problem is a lot more serious than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america was a massive purged of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target.
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so much more on the inside out team working round the clock to bring you the latest as it happens i can get you all those headlines straight to mobile devices two for now here in moscow this early saturday evening is kevin knowing saying thanks for watching this update and have a great weekend. and that. being the. season and. you know.
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i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to be culled from rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. north korea's history this is seventeen years we are one of the only few matches.
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that has seventeen years of history of diplomatic relationship with them we are. you know nuclear free status country and this policy is working for us and we're trying to communicate you know this to nuclear waste you know situation contribute much better to their security then the. nuclear you know program. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent it was like
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gold rush is very very similar to gold but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the mountains to slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing it's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. them through their accident night the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents yes thank you it's good to be with fellow foreign agents. you probably already heard that last week the monsters crushing antiestablishment anti-corporate voices took some steroids injections right in the go nads or the john ors eight hundred pages were banned. from facebook
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last week without so much as a warning but if you the mainstream media then you would say these were eight hundred spam account the seas are not real pages but the truth is all of those eight hundred many were legitimate journalistic enterprises like anti medio free thought project police the police and block other pages were just heavily restricted for example the anti censorship social media platform mines dot com can no longer be shared on facebook and if you're even thinking about minds facebook will fill your timeline with photos of your ex's wedding. and images of people exactly ten pounds lighter than you. this is a full frontal crushing of dissident voices let's find out let's find out what's going on and let's get it directly from those sources and time media.

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