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rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent your home with four hundred to five hundred three per second. and. twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need to remember is one show the myth one can only. gather in washington d.c. seeking a joint strategy to wipe states. promises that goal will be achieved. some time probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate
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also coming up on the program. stays there is a special place in hell for those who pushed for brakes it without any plan to make it happen or perry's a plea for help in. toxic outlets for your bullying and harassment report lays bare the working conditions were non human rights organization the interest. it's. your day here in moscow thursday february the seventh welcome to our to international i mean and on the top story the u.s. president has just given a speech to some eighty nations on a country terrorism conference in washington d.c. so main coalition to defeat al. it ways of eliminating the terror group in the
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middle east let's go live to the correspondent kill a buffet he has been following the conference for a skill take us through it donald trump to see what's come out of it so far yes trump sounded rather upbeat as he addressed the different countries gathered for this coalition to defeat i still conference now they are gathered from all over the world hearing from donald trump as well as u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh now some of the upbeat words that trump had to say well this is some of what we heard. it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word and i want to say too early. now that certainly sounds inspiring however people will recall the trump has made similar
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statements in the past let's review what he's previously said. knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon we have just absolutely decimated isis is absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back now folks will remember that back in twenty seven team folks will remember that back in twenty seventeen there was talk of forming an era of nato for the purpose of coordinating antiterrorism efforts in the middle east region was to include six gulf states as well as egypt and jordan now today we heard from mike pompei oh and he spoke about kind of a new stage and a shift in tactics for the region and for countering terrorism around the world this is some of what we heard from mike palm pale. the fight is one that we will continue to wage alongside of you. the drawdown of troops is essentially
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a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or thirty's on which the campaign has been based. it simply represents a new stage in an old fight now what we did not hear from either trump or pompei always what exactly this new stage in the fight against the ice will terrorists will entail and what these new tactics in fighting them will be i guess they're leaving us guessing when it comes to that breaking down the story for us this hour from new york kill a bump and our correspondent there. the head of the e.u. council put the count's amongst the pigeons by saying there's a special place in hell for people who promoted briggs and with plug our europe correspondent peter all over break stunts reaction force another. well yes i think certainly the european council president letting off a little steam at
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a press conference he was giving in brussels earlier on wednesday pulled no punches and left nobody with any question what he thought about those who pushed the brakes of campaign who supported brakes that he told people to vote for break this without ultimately having a plan to follow through on the dream we've been wondering what that special place . in her looks like for those who promoted groups it was out even a sketch of a plan on how to carry it safely but he was stood alongside the irish prime minister there while he was saying that at the end of the press conference the mikes did pick up the irish leaning in and saying the british press are going to give you plenty of stick for this they've done exactly that we'll get a bit of the reaction from politicians first though andrea led them who's the leader of the house of commons said that doll to most apologize while the british
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home secretary has said that he was out of order this is also being accompanied by well every arch breaks a tear in the british press that it's a round clutching their pearls rending garments and saying see see this this is why we told you we wanted to leave because they're mean to us and they say mean things to us at times has really been the good cop when it comes to relations dealings with the british side over break this this time around though after his statement about the special place in hell it fell to the european commission president john claude younker to try and lighten the spirits a little bit although only he could manage a bit dark humor really i'm in a skeptic that my good friend going to. be reduced to only believe you now but i'll presume you know how. i believe in heaven i have never seen out of you in the time . well this is all provided
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a bit of distraction from the actual business of break that on wednesday there was some announcements make though statement made by john quote younker the european commission president saying that there would be no allowances for britain to unilaterally pull out of an irish backstop theresa may is in brussels on thursday for more talks and we are fifty one days out from britain leaving as it would be at the moment with a no deal break that and everything that. it all over well the european parliament's representative in the break said negotiations has also weighed in suggesting the devil would have turned his back on brakes in tears saying the u.k.'s leave campaigners could manage to even divide hell or we spoke to political commentators on pretty small brussels is making an example of the u.k. the european union has made every possible effort to make the if you can because if it less easy then the ideal is other countries made leave and that's where they
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don't want them in the problem with this because he is just of bureaucracy that needs to preserve itself it's not to heal the unity of the people that it's looking at. and this little love between the different lead us to divorce they should be divorced when you can consent if you do is countless other than trying to maintain and that if union which is only in the end she. says. is still counting on the british parliament to have heard it and accept their agreements with dating they want to do so makes it becomes more. on the other hand then the interest in the deal breaks it will be such a disaster after a few weeks or months. to another headline stories this hour a leading global human rights group is being accused by its own staff of bullying discrimination and abuse of power unless the international is one of the world's
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oldest humanitarian groups but a review of its workplace practices has revealed a toxic culture. there are multiple reports of managers belittling staff in meetings deliberately excluding certain staff from reporting or making demeaning menacing comments like yours or you should quit if you seen this position your life will be misery the wellbeing review was launched after two employees committed suicide within six weeks of each other last year roseland mcgregor worked as an inter ellis said to have developed acute anxiety during her time with the humanitarian group research guy to move to was on the sea much longer more than thirty years and blame the organization for pressures at work before taking his own life with more on the review here's a list to see a church in the. face of a situation where this world renowned human rights organization amnesty international is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons following revelations
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about a quote talk saying work culture in this organization that was discovered by an independent review carried out by the cantera group consultancy that found that things like bullying public humiliation nepotism discrimination over work are widespread at amnesty international this was discovered following interviews and discussions with as many as seventy percent of staff and the situation has been described as quote a state of emergency or it has to do with the atmosphere and working culture in the organization that is very isolating i've never before worked in the place where everyone works so well alone it's because of a system where everyone they scared stressed and overworked and thus can only focus on their own survival. there was
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a real culture of bullying right up until i left several years ago particularly of middle managers well this review found also what it described to be as a martyrdom culture because of this reputation and status that amnesty international has throughout the world and according to this review the credibility of this organization could now come under question and the organization the touts protecting human rights as its mission but is itself mired in a conflictual an adversarial culture will lose credibility as organizational rifts and evidence of nepotism and hypocrisy become public knowledge they will be used by the government and other opponents of amnesties work to undercut or dismiss amnesties advocacy around the world fundamentally jeopardizing the organization's mission and journey of some numbers that were provided it was said that as many as over fifty percent of employees feel like they're not valued and as many as thirty nine percent have developed health and or mental issues as
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a result of the work that they do and in terms of the reaction we've seen from amnesty we know that they have found these conclusions troubling and have said that they will try to carry out some kind of reforms and all of this of course gets revealed following two suicides of employees of amnesty international that took place back in twenty thousand within six weeks of each other that prompted a series of reviews including this latest one. was facebook turns fifteen mark zuckerberg has published impulsion defense of his creation he claims the platform is a force for good and has helped to revolutionize the way in which people communicate it comes as the company faces increasing scrutiny over how it's handling users personal information. this has been an intense year.
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yeah mark wouldn't say that for nothing last year personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users transferred face for data to cambridge and lived in violation of fair use for its data policy the largest security breach in the company's history this is this is a challenge for our cloud companies and i'm really sorry that this happened and it was a big mistake i'm sorry you think having to do so much damage control must have definitely taken its toll on facebook but apart from their fiftieth anniversary mark zuckerberg and co have another great reason to throw a big party not only they didn't lose money actually they've set a record in profit for the final three months of twenty teeing it almost reached seven billion bucks privacy issues illegal datta harvesting and not doing enough about what the russians were up to all attempts to bring the tech giant to account
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made people on capitol hill realize the many many times that marks our cover has had to apologize and the takeaway for me for that is that we can't rely on self-regulation that facebook is not going to regulate itself and that we have to pass some laws well for now realizing and saying that way too often hasn't led to much action is facebook really being regulated the answer is no and with all that big money could they care less well to keep enjoying that confort at least for now they once hired some very smart and influential people like joe kaplan as the president said in his remarks president the president the president laid out in his speech yes here's george w. bush and here's mr kaplan he used to have an important job in the second bush administration and here you can see what he's up to now being called facebook's
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policy boss who else would be behind shoulder at all these troublesome government hearings. now that is him again alongside mariah jordan the tech giant's director of public policy guess what she worked for the white house administration to anything from the democrat era. there you have it . and he was once in charge of writing what president obama says here they are an american century welcoming of everybody. who was spiers to do something will go that was emotional well nowadays his dealing with economic and social impact issues at facebook and that's just a few such career twist examples it helps to know people. i mean
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even better if the people you know no more right people. let's tell you could be prime minister is seriously testing the country's already strained relations with france by meeting key figures from the yellow fast movement and also european election candidates from the so-called r a a c group who want referendums to decide national policy fronts as reacted furiously. this new provocation is not acceptable between neighboring countries and partners and the european union mr de mar you holds government responsibilities must take care not to undermine through he's repeated interferences our bilateral relations in the interest of both france and italy. well patience appears to be wearing thin ahead of the european parliament elections in may seen as a battle between centrists like the french president who wants closer e.u.
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integration and populists like the italian interior minister who's pushing to challenge the political dominance of germany and france luigi demaio is the yellow vests which have been a thorn in the french presidency since november have much in common with italy's five star movement which is currently the country's biggest individual party he highlighted direct democracy and social rights a shared concern. well leaders in rome been very vocal against the french president in recent weeks with interior minister salvini even urging the french public to get themselves an upgrade on the money while. we in the i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come or may the twenty sixth when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and pride which are poorly represented by carries a light macro earlier i got the thoughts of independent journalist lucrative a who believes the italian deputy prime minister had solid reasons to meet with french
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best figures. put it in my home could expected because he started this rob he was the one who said the left and right populist form the government in italy it was say saying that this was electricity coming to italy in french it was incredible a swear word to speak about the government and it's very normal that the study mio gifts you might call something back and so it's fairly normal and meant to change we said a moment five stars oh and tries to find friends on the french side the lists the potential lists are launched by some yellow vests. let's turn attention to south america where the venice will an interior ministry has claimed the country's authorities have intercepted
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a weapons shipment alleging they were delivered from the us the cash included high caliber ammunition rifles and cartridges as well as radio and mobile communication equipment were discovered at an international airports in the city of valencia it's being claimed the shipment arrived from miami the bus turns being called part of a cracked on an organized crime financing terror with an investigation under way to determine who is to to receive the weapons while we discuss the situation with lucas kerner political analyst base then caucus. very alarming if you can there that c.n.n. reported just a little while ago that that didn't benefit a military opt out of the country were calling on the ministration to provide them with arms and training in order to topple mother i mean the court this week brings us back to the u.n. support are the in the conference war the bionic eye when mercenaries invaded nick i was eighty under elliott abrams as secretary of what you have it's your. barrett
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was now brought back to oversee that as well as a democratic transition in the top administration moreover we think we did that morning just today that the british military and british navy in particular are going to ducting military action. and additionally. indicated. u.s. military intervention and well it remains quote unquote an option on the table for the white house meanwhile the fenice with the military has barred humanitarian aid intended for the opposition from entering the country president maduro ordered the blockades on a border bridge with colombia which is a huge border with us were using large tankers trailers to shucked on the routes the venice will and leader described attempts to get aid into the country as a catalyst for foreign intervention well positioned leader one why do so deliveries
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will test the military's loyalty to. well international group the red cross so far refused to help ship in aid from colombia saying it is inconsistent with their principles. according to the fundamental principles of impartiality neutrality and independence the i.c.r.c. cannot take part in the initiatives to hand over assistance for venezuela from colombia. the collapse of a residential building in the turkish city of istanbul has left at least two people dead these are live pictures right now as you can see a sizable amount of emergency services are riots it is of course darkness in istanbul a lot of people rubble there as well we can also take a look at earlier simply terrifying c.c.t.v. footage capturing the moment all on the floor that on the busy street officials say
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there were a fourteen apartments in the eight story building located in the working class area of the city it's believed so has a total of thirty residents there six people have been recovered from not debris and the live pictures that we were just looking at the recovery operation is still ongoing as an investigation gets on the way into the cause of the challenge now as we see those pictures right now from istanbul hoping to recover more than those six people all ready taken from the rubble in istanbul we'll continue to keep a very close eye on developments in the turkish city. new york times opinion piece earlier this week claimed controversy that corruption is hard wired into russian society and its very nature. corruption is in
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russia's d.n.a. sharing is not the russian way of the pieces accompanied by a menacing photo of love america and a number of russian words are thrown in for dramatic effect including those meaning lies and deceit information one however has been mistranslated that means compromising material not compromise but of a difference well the article on some of us more spurious claims was met with harsh criticism from a number of journalists on readers of the publication itself imagine a new york times oh parent cares real estate corruption is in the jewish d.n.a. but as long as we're talking about russians these kind of groups you know phobia is totally fine corruption is in russia's d.n.a. this is racism masquerading as analysis it also undermines the author's argument because if true who can blame volodya scary photo by the way this photo and the article are reminiscent of the hearst papers in a phobic and hysterical war fever drummed up to sell papers before the
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spanish-american war it is designed to build up hatred and not knowledge well it's not the first time rush's critics have made reference to genetics either a former u.s. national intelligence director once said the russians are genetically driven to co-opt pilate legal and media analysts lionel believes the new york times piece is outrageous. i don't even know the adjectives though the word shocking disgusting deplorable racist let me make this very very clear if you had replaced the term russian with any other ethnicity nationality a group of people there would have been. just a cavalcade an avalanche of attack you would have been indicted for that by russians back. that goes about jake that so kay i never thought i could say this we always say well this hits a new low lower journalistic. netgear
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a new chasm of the this has no depth this is the black hole of journalism this is so much so so consumed so does the gravity is so intense that light kid xscape truth can't escape i mean this is full lab or gas staying. who spent fourteen years and one of the world's toughest prisons without ever being charged with a crime has described life in guantanamo as hell months or a day phoebe was jailed when he was just nineteen he talks about what he endured there in the latest edition of going underground on r.t. imagine a boy at nineteen years old was shipped to guantanamo to a know where it was like a cemetery was like we were we were not alive or dead but we were in like in between life and death. so when we get there i like from for there was a parent especially when you get that come back straight in comes at you want to i
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was a three when them tradition started applying some. torture techniques to interrogate detainees and it was like hell really. is what some tonys lose their minds break down i mean i was nineteen years old i didn't know why i was there i was in the front of the instate we are i thought that he described it to the world outside i was afraid confused as. no one's going to have been totally without like they're going to kill us because we. are the situation we were before as the cia or at the petition which i thought is going ok they're going to get us in and get us and they were telling us that they said that we are going to kill or guys with you and them to see they told us yes he said the world not brought you here we are for the purpose of interrogation to get information with you on the seat. or reminder that all of those stories can be found in death
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on our web site plenty to keep you busy there are more great programs though ahead here on our two international starting in moments. as a presidential candidate donald trump lambasted america's endless and wasteful wars but as president q. surrounded himself with individuals who have made defending and advancing american empire a full time career why did trump cave and what could be the consequences for him and his presidency. you know if putin said suddenly that oh if we recognize nancy pelosi as the president united states that we're not going to talk with donald trump the world of the you know how
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rage but of course the u.s. has a stereo exceptionalism and that no law applies to them and so they can do whatever they want but by the central banks behind gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee you they're going to start fishing around and that one market. is very different people who divorced with against mubarak will have another political system that's. more of a social justice more rule and a spectrum of human dignity and so on but if you look close to what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better. mubarak could you know they don't feel indian beautician new situation.
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in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises. a world without waste outside objective. but behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew any alternatives to plastic like the return bottle i think obviously is shelf. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview. it's a message we don't love so well. when i did it to see. how polite and welcome.
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in the publishing world. if you want to go through the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. question a good news a short little political move every thought well wait a minute back up and see how he was all wrong. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to on so all questions will he has worked for coca-cola for twenty one years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. a middle seat on the wall or i was at the new dot com thanks click on over. jerry b. twenty odd. real interview is done in french book i could ask a little sample. some dish say all digital is convulsing supposed human behavior. i think gets me to what they all plus.
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