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they should. italy's prime minister resigns amid tensions in the ruling coalition after the interior minister. creating workable conditions. for snap elections. u.s. attorney general william remove the acting director of prisons after the suicide of jeffrey ups thing we discussed in the conditions at the jail where upstream took his life with his former lawyer that's fundamentally wrong with that is that jeffrey have seen did not belong in that facility to begin with. the u.s. military announces plans for new intermediate range hypersonic missiles after pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty with russia and test launching
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a new cruise missile. from moscow thanks for joining us in our international diner hawking's with you tonight welcome to the program. more than a year of tensions in italy's ruling coalition after come to heads with the italian prime minister resigning after the country's interior minister. called for a vote of no confidence once again leaves italy in a deep political crisis. well that resignation over its lease prime minister said because they had been widely speculated for the last few days and now it's happened to force plunging italy into a fresh political crisis in his resignation speech on cheese the often he notes
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that blistering attack on the deputy prime minister mean to you in the cemetery you so beany over the leak basically accusing him of doing everything to profiteer himself and profiteers party the government and he accused mattel you so binnie of being the one who's driving the governments to crisis you will get all up to the poll mantra debate is over we'll go to the president of the republic to officially communicate the end of this government intended my resignation this prime minister well sylvia nihad cooled 2 weeks ago for snap elections amidst the summer holidays in italy saying that the coalition government as it stood was simply not workable saying that he just couldn't work under the constraints of that government. in the world of business of the man as those that produce things but it's really demands action so the only thing that is really cannot afford is to waste time anyone who is wasting time is doing so because they're afraid of losing this seat we asked
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that we vote as soon as possible the italians would choose a government to govern a coalition government was formed back in june of 2018 and it was put in or pretty or coupling between the left wing party of the 5 star movement and the anti immigration anti establishment party over the believe the 2 coming together to form that government back in june of last year following the elections in march since then what we have seen is a rather rocky road that the party is having several disagreements including recently about a rare willing. between france and italy what also has happened is this been a reversal in the fortunes of the 2 parties since those elections about 14 months ago back then we saw the 5 star movement taking the lion's share of the vote compared to the league and now it seems to have flipped on its head with poll suggesting if a vote was held today that the league that's material being his party would take
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some 38 percent of the boat significantly higher than what the polls say would happen to the 5 star movement so what does this all mean for italy now well that's perhaps the $1000000.00 question there is the chance that the feinstein movement to last through the biggest party could now go on to form another coalition government with of the parties leading the democratic party led by italy's former prime minister much to your renzi and that was something that the material sylvie actually hinted about today when he launched his own attack in the senate we could also see a technocrat government or a national unity government or of course there could be those snap elections research for at a time in center for actual studies believe such a coalition never had a chance of long term survival. it was the 1st government made these who bought these devices and were never been in government and they're legal previously in government but with certain right governments so this was
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a new experimental quality showing governments we have problems that clearly show governments that these unique one was not expected to last a bit longer regardless of what that didn't mean is there is hope in the end be clear in the beginning but of course nobody expected these 4 let along so close a balance to beat up on but this is legally surprising and even m.p.'s from the league didn't really understand why salvini moves so fast in this very moment. u.s. attorney general william barr has removed the acting director of u.s. prisons from his post after the recent death of disgraced millionaire geoffrey epstein some lawmakers have praised the decision amid concerns over the conditions at the jail where he took his own life well it's the you know it was convicted of paedophilia back in 2007 now at the time he was sentenced to 13 months in prison that was part of a deal signed by then u.s. attorney alexander across the. many friends in high places among them donald trump
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bill clinton and prince andrew at the time of his death the financier was awaiting trial for sex trafficking traffic and events as he was being held at a facility reserved for the most dangerous criminals among them the drug el chapo epstein had been taken off suicide watch at the spike having made a recent attempt on his own life we spoke to his former lawyer mark furnish he thinks conditions in the jail may have pushed him over the edge. the conditions to which he was subjected would go even the needs of the strongest among us it's this is one of the toughest federal pretrial detention facilities in the country and the conditions are inhumane epstein was subjected to conditions that were similar to those of guzman but not remotely justified by his character or what he was accused of because he was not. a violent
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individual like chapo was alleged to have been he's not a guy who has escaped from prior facilities like guzman was alleged to have done so one would be comparing apples and oranges to liken the 2 to each other but yet their conditions of confinement were strikingly similar and there's something fundamentally wrong with that and what's fundamentally wrong with that is that geoffrey abstain did not belong in that facility to begin with. just my own personal opinion it wouldn't surprise me to learn of anything that might have happened with jeffrey epstein and in my view at that in that facility the real story the real miracle is that we don't hear about these sort of things more about murdered pretrial detainees or suicidal pretrial detainees because the facility. is barbaric and it's a whole it's it's it's like i don't use the word lightly lightly but it's sort of
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like an american go log for people who have not yet been convicted of anything so the real shock here is that we don't hear about deaths at pretrial oppressive onerous pretrial detention facilities like the m.c.c. more often. any of us could one day find ourselves rightly or wrongly on on the. business and of of the united states department of justice and nobody nobody sued should be subjected to the conditions that epstein was exposed to for many reasons one of which is that compromises your mental and physical functioning and you can't assist adequately in preparing your own defense and it crushes people we don't really know what happened to mr epstein but certainly i believe personally that being a locked in a facility like that under extraordinary conditions would logically
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wreak havoc with one's mind and body so i certainly i certainly believe that they personally that they could have played a role absolutely i mean i think we would be foolish to to deny that but again one doesn't want to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease and the disease is. how people are routinely denied bail with a shocking ease given the laws that congress passed allowing prosecutors and judge to do that epstein did not belong locked up pending trial and he didn't belong in a hellhole like that before he had been convicted of anything. the u.s. military has announced plans to develop new hypersonic missiles with into media a range it would have been under the n f treaty with russia which was recently scrubbed by washington and this follows the test of an american cruise missile which was also outlawed on the agreement russia's foreign minister claims the u.s.
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was preparing for the test long before the treaty expires on the 2nd of all with. it should be known from october of last year when the us national security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump statement about washington's withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue but a final decision then or maybe even earlier the us started preparing the missile tests conducted on sunday and landed by the i.n.f. treaty the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground launch cruise missile of the us west coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 kilometers of flight the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed between 2 rivaling superpowers in the cold war back in 1807 by and certain types of short and medium range missiles that expired on the 2nd of august with
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donald trump saying he's got no willingness to extend it due to alleged violations by the kremlin russia denied the claims and repeatedly invited washington for talks with some parts of the us establishment want welcoming to the idea. the united states must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct those research and development activities bento to an f. treaty so the department of defense will stardust have some building though system they couldn't before the united states has said that this is not nuclear capable and the united states is planning for another test probably in november this one is somewhere between 508000 kilometers a range but the one that they're testing in november is miscreants 300-4000 kilometers or range that's another one this year is a very unfortunate moves that have been going on for the past couple years at least
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well we can actually dated back to 2001 with the announcement that the u.s. is going to clarify the a.b.m. treaty there's only one major nonproliferation treaty remaining the new start treaty which ends and 2021 and the united states has already indicated that it is certainly all out of that one also or not when they do that one which means we are on the verge of nuclear and r.k. . social media platforms twitter and facebook say they've blocked a number of chinese accounts for trying to undermine the protests in hong kong. we are disclosing a significant stayed back to informational pression focused on the situation hong kong this disclosure consists of 936 a cancer video 1000 from within the people's republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically tempting to sell political discord in hong kong including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the
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protest movement on the ground we removed 7 pages 3 groups and 5 facebook accounts involved in coordinated in authentic behavior as part of a small network that originated in china and focused on hong kong. the protest movement in hong kong's thoughts and back in june over drof legislation allowing the extradition of suspects the mainland china demonstrations of since broadened to other political issues over the last 11 weeks rallies have frequently turned violent with police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters auntie's donald quarter takes a closer look at what's motivating the demonstrators. freedom fair elections democracy it's words like these you'll find throughout the western media coverage of the protests in hong kong but the reality of it is all much more complicated was. god.
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it's not just politics motivating the violence racial slurs against people from mainland china can be heard throughout the crowds and seen graffitied on official buildings protesters have also been seen brandishing the infamously racist pepe the frog me an internet hate symbol and this is enough phobic violence has even spilled over to protests in other countries. was. this anti china extremism comes from a concept called hong kong exceptionalism the idea that hong kong has more in common with the west than with china because of its british colonial past and that ideologies it here in sa are not exactly shy about their love for all things anti china 6 6. despite all the american flags and anthem singing donald trump says he had no idea
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why protests were being blamed on the u.s. but his cabinet might have an explanation since they've been meeting with one of the opposition's main icons jimmy lie i'm hit. we should lies a self-made billionaire who's made a huge mark on hong kong's opposition movement he landed himself in hot water with beijing back in 2012 when his newspaper published an ad portraying pregnant chinese women as locusts and he's very open about his feelings for american values we need to know that america is behind us but back in arse america is showing moral authority because we are the only place in china which shares your values and is fighting the same battle you have with china but there's another younger and not so rich rebel leader at play here too joshua wong a fresh 22 year old face of revolution a face loved in many corridors of washington to marco rubio was so in all he nominated wong for a nobel peace prize leave it to washington to nominate
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a leader of violent protests for peace when it suits an agenda the us is very determinately supporting these protesters every arm of the corporate media. radio television social media is is raising them and always referring to them as pro-democracy protesters where they're not at all this has nothing to do with democracy and they are determined to sabotage in every way that they can any normal relations between china with hong kong and it is creating intentionally a great deal of confusion among young people who have been pulled into this against their own interests. and we asked the u.s. state department done the leaders of the hong kong protest movement to come until navigations only alleged links we highlighted so far we've not had
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a response china the united states has over the sale of fighter jets to taiwan moral not to the short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. with more make this manufacture come sentenced to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous
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merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. the real news is. welcome back to the program i knew i was developing between beijing and washington over taiwan the chinese government's furious the trumpet ministration has approved the sale of fighter jets to the island and is warning it will take action if the deal goes ahead. china has made numerous solemn representation to the u.s.
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on the sale of the f. 16 v. jets to taiwan the u.s. just about all the consequences triggered by the sale it's $8000000000.00 u.s. dollars it's a lot of money that's a lot of jobs and we know they're going to use this f. $16.00 responsibly for the deal still needs to be approved by the u.s. senate but it fit goes through it will be the 1st sale of f. 16 fighters the taiwanese since 1902 previous requests for jets by taiwan were rejected by the obama administration last month the u.s. state department approved another arms deal with taiwan includes $100.00 make tanks and more than $200.00 missiles the deals worth $2200000000.00 at the time beijing also accused the u.s. of meddling saying it would cut ties with every american company involved in the deal. or taiwan's officially recognized by only 18 countries the u.s. as an officially been supporting the island's military since the 1980s china sees taiwan as part of its territory china expert anneliese says beijing will point the
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finger at washington if tensions do escalate. there is some unity in washington to go hard on china and some of these folks who are elected they're basically elected with the same funding for the people who got people into the trumpet mr gratian and who fund the think tanks in washington and so it's all basically representing the same elite interests china sees this as an aggressive move by the u.s. to try to provoke them into war the chinese basically up and say that the u.s. is going to be at fault here because there are not being consistent and not honoring promises that were made in previous administrations and so this big departure is going to be on the u.s. and that's where they want to place the blame here if there is any military escalation that happens. senior u.s.
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democrats have been accused of funding some of the cool values invented to get rid of donald trump in 2020 so if they collaborated on a book on how to defeat him all the boys someone accused of sexual harassment. given him a book once again put him in the position of authority and that is a slap in the face to all of the woman that he has victimized. for the 1st time many women felt empowered to speak about their own experiences because society took them seriously and to their claims to be credible as an awakening taking place across the country women and yes men to
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a well aware of the sexual misconduct and harassment that has gone on for yes i think the policy has been quite equivalent and strong in saying we have a 0 tolerance policy. was the media a warning russian radiation monitoring stations have gone silent following an explosion earlier this month at a military site in the country's north but in a question it has been digging deeper into the story. 2 russian radiation money touring stations have resumed operation and this news follows a number of alarming reports that were made earlier by a number of foreign news media claiming that several russian radiation money touring stations went offline allegedly after a nuclear accident that happened in russia north on august 8th now the wall street journal wrote that 4 stations that were designed to detect nuclear radiation all
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went silent right after the blast the article raised concerns that russia was attempting to conceal evidence from the explosion at a missile test site the wall street journal quoted. both the executive director of the comprehensive nuclear attack. and we received data from monitoring stations around the world now he per jack to the potential path of the plume from the explosion and posted it on his twitter feed now right after the accident russia send special access various to the site to monitor the situation and just yesterday the country's president vladimir putin said that there was no threat of a radiation leak. but there is new and there's new spike in british and levels experts including independent ones are monitoring the situation i receive reports from both military and civilian specialists and there's no significant change there but we are still taking precautionary measures to avoid any surprises. me
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now right after the accidents there were indeed very few details of what happened and that mostly the fuel the western tabloid the with the rumors of a true novel like disaster whispered radiation leak also appearing in the media with some even writing about the number of the disease to being higher now later the russian nuclear agency issued a report. revealing that the accidental happened on a c platform after a serious of trials and that there was no threat of a radiation leak programming from a documentary travel coming up next the teams back in 30 minutes with the latest global news headlines for you.
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or anyone else seem wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out just days after. and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. why a paradise with some old around turned into a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise
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why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. welcome to everyone 2 special. friends.
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troubles here for the burial. we same say only time that we may cheer up as a community to a funeral. is just happens all the time and we always sigh we must stop meeting like this bus. after another after. take the booking you'll raise taxes repeat after me i swear by almighty god i swear by almighty god the evidence i should give evidence i shall give me the truth shall be the truth a whole tree the whole truth and nothing about nothing but the truth if you stay gone for john what we're.
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in for tonight. i was diagnosed very late at the age of 3 years old spent a lot of time in hospital the doctors didn't know what was wrong with my neck from time to stand while i was getting swellings and bruises all over my body. richard has a form of. or even just a bruise irreparable damage. every day richard inject himself with the blood factor 8 these days it's safe but in the mid seventy's and eighty's a treatment like. people in the u.k.
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with either. or even both. richard was a month and he had to undergo a series of treatments. side effects mood swings and stretching. to take. drugs. in the 1970 s. a new drug called factor 8 was released to using human blood it promised a much easier life for him affiliate they no longer needed to go to hospital and could self administered the treatment by injection at any time or convenient place . but it had one fatal flaw about which patients knew nothing until too late.
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of your treatment might contain the donation of 4050000 people. a lot of products in the u.k. came from america and one of the things we now know that the people giving the. people who were in prison. and i encouraged to give that. to provide. this is a result that you were 8. years and you were. not were you told that you were being.

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