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the french president bush's political maneuvering takes the leaders of the g. 7 surprise. me and foreign minister to the g. 7 summit for crisis talks. rules are enforced with a text telling employees. political debates were. coming up this hour the family of a british sudanese monikers mean languishing in jail. with charge for over $100.00
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days and the u.k. foreign office as they put it this appalling thing that's all. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neal a little. iran's foreign minister made an impromptu visit to the g. 7 summit in southwest france on sunday the whole crisis talks with president among you all mohammad javad zarif the rival the other world leaders off guard though reportedly leaving the u.s. delegation blindsided charlotte dubin ski reports. traumatic diplomatic move kind of went down like a lead balloon with the white house delegation we're fusing to meet the a rainy and
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foreign minister discuss that iranian deal of course the iranian foreign minister himself under u.s. sanctions at the moment so no meeting between them you might remember that there was an iranian nuclear deal signed a few years ago and there were in trump became president of the united states he said this deal it's not good enough i'm pulling this out of it and he did that back last year now since then there's been a war of words with iran they have been these sanctions that have been put on iran by the u.s. and the u.s. has demanded that other leaders who are signatories to that iranian nuclear deal kowtow to his demands and also pull out now the e.u. leaders who are at this cheese 7 summit and others say they're not pulling out their signatories to this accord they want it to work and perhaps one of the biggest people who supported this or a new nuclear deal is none other than french president amat corps who is also this g 7 president now he had quite a few tricks up his sleeve during the summit but he tried to ease the u.s.
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into his way of thinking very easily instead fast early on we discussed our various initiatives. has taken initiatives towards iran i have taken several initiatives and we have reported on them the g. 7 is an informal club there is no formal mandate given within the g 7. no i just. told you are. you can stop people from going there were a dog and dog in spite that i did setting in the south of france it was one g. 7 summit that hasn't gone without its own controversy well most of the leaders with there are new to get accords on the table to find agreement there was one who just didn't want to play ball and that was the president of the united. states yes donald trump so no agreement on easing trade tensions across the world no agreement so far on environmental issues all those
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a suggestion that there will be some sort of formalization of how the leaders of the g. 7 will want to help with those fires in south america in the amazon rain forest and of course they wouldn't be g 7 in france without protests thousands of people took to the streets over the weekend in cities around to show their armies and their discontent with the g. 7 summit in fact many of them had actually been participating in an anti g 7 for the last week there were clashes with the police although the protests were largely peaceful many arrest taking place some people injured and the security forces a huge number some 13000 in the south of france around this summit using tear gas and water cannons the main overall king thievin the main point of this summit it seems was to try and get a chord over iran and so far it's failed so we saw plenty of images of the french
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president there but did he pull off a diplomatic coup by inviting a rams foreign minister we've been hearing reaction from both europe and iran about the potential implications of what happens. by the beginning i thought like most journalists that it was an all or p.r. stunt public relations effort of mr mark or 2 to make such a success but the fact that. the foreign affairs minister of iran is there is in doubt it's a few meters away from the trouble is is astonishing is astounding and it seems that is more to it if germany and france have discussed with the arabians over the last few days and i'll discuss it now with the office own in beats it was the french they came to the ukrainians that convinced them to stay in the deal and essentially what that did it actually prolonged the period that you're on fully of lies by the deal and that was very good for the americans i mean it will definitely
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have an impact iran is plain a major role in the discussions in the g. 7 and donald trump actually made it yesterday that major decisions will be coming in the next few days so i think it is important nevertheless i think it's very very early to talk about an actual agreement between iran and the united states or. visit to be or it's comes as his country continues to suffer the effects of crippling u.s. sanctions on international isolation but politics aside among those bearing the brunt of a reunion celts are patients who say they're struggling to access the vital treatment needed.
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myth number one the united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian. truth is that the united states exempts medicine and medical devices for the iranian people iranian people know all too well that the real issue preventing access is the regime itself. the reality is that the us is pushing iran under pressure from their justifying their acts with these laws like the one said by mr hook in the video you need chemotherapy medicine is near impossible. and expensive on the market mr hook says we give the runs government access to the medicine but when the money transfer system is blocked. by.
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the realities of financing the wrong reynolds may be. wrong. and we cannot pay the foreign currency and therefore you know the provides even the most generic tax law our government has to impose from countries which are not developed in this industry. to another of our headlines stories this monday once celebrated also affirm the promoted free thoughts and lively discussion google has issued a new set of community guidelines bombing political debate at work the decision marks the culmination of several years of intense scrutiny over its policies both internal and external and influence on public discourse. i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and that i think not just in united states but around the world is what's fueling concerns zina phobia hatred and a desire for answers that may or may not be there what we all need right now is
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google's management has had enough after contending with so much bad p.r. over the last year the bosses have decided to say no more politics on the shop floor while sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community districts in the work day to have a raging debate over policy so the latest news story does not our primary responsibility is to do the work we've each been hired to do not to spend working time on debates about no one topics companies new guidelines demand that employees stop insulting demeaning or humiliating their coworkers and others plans or even already in place to hire a team to moderate coworkers internal message boards and while political debates are generally frowned upon at work google's earned quite the reputation. and.
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on top of that recent leaks by google employees sparked accusations of widespread political bias in the company from manipulating search algorithms to fit a liberal agenda i see google executives go to congress and say that it's not going to be late it is not political and i'm just so sure that's not true to punishing those who oppose the company's political line one former worker of google even said he was fired for being conservative when i joined google i saw a lot of employees being mistreated interviews. and harassed for sharing conservative views or just for questioning company policies maybe one of the most powerful companies in the world but it seems when it comes to controlling its own staff management just needs to google it there are always guidelines governing
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employee behavior of course but this these are unusual guidelines because they're specifically at targeting political speech now that i've not really seen and that it's just tremendous concern because what they're really doing here is when they're trying to suppress political speech by employees they're really trying to suppress political speech by conservative employees leakers the whistleblowers so far have come forward have been conservative employees that's what's google is most concerned about apparently even starting last year google began to restrict access to documents by its own employees so i think if you look internally in the company you'll find that they're probably doing much more extreme sayings to try to get their employees under control
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then we're aware of i don't think it will work i think it will backfire. for the family of a british sudanese man who's been held for over 3 months in a sudanese prison have strongly condemned what they call the u.k. government's disappointing lack of action. made all this imprisoned in may after criticizing the african nations transitional military council of social media but later cleared by prosecutors of any wrongdoing. or had the chance to speak to one of mr all meds daughter isabel it is continuing detention. on the 11th of may 6th year old. british sudanese citizen was arrested and detained in khartoum despite a prosecutor finding him not guilty of any alleged crimes the sudanese authorities refuse to release him i've come to liverpool where one of kamala's daughters lives she tells me her father's story and how anger at the british government for its failure to take action and protecting one of its own citizens were extremely
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worried obviously it's been 3 months now we're going into the 4th month of his detention despite the fact that he has not been charged with anything and his release has been ordered. it still hasn't been carried out gaining access to kemal in prison is difficult and unreliable even his own lawyer has not been allowed to visit him but as it has been once and described the conditions there are very isolated from the outside world they don't have access to telephone calls we've tried to send in newspapers he's not allowed access to newspapers. he's not been allowed access to his lawyer which is a basic human right for all detainees kemal moved to the u.k. in 1986 and worked for the n.h.s. as a doctor for 20 years all 4 of his children are british citizens too but the foreign office has been unresponsive to pleas from commands family to step in and secure
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his freedom the embassy in khartoum haven't actually had direct contact with my father we as a family have been in contact with them updating them on my father's condition unfortunately they've had very little input so our only contact with the foreign office has been through our m.p. . and they've been very slow to respond their responses have been very disappointing i think it's very shameful it reflects very badly on the british government. whether you're a jewel national or british national if there's injustice happening then you need to take action early on. in his detention kemal went on an 8 day hunger strike hoping to draw attention to his plight but though it sparked protests in his hometown the international community failed to take notice it was a cry for attention and he went on a hunger strike for 8 days but unfortunately fell on deaf ears it's obvious this is a human rights violation and i would call upon human you know international human
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rights organizations to get involved in my father's case i think that does need to be more attention on this to pressurize the british government into taking action against unjust attention i'm also case is not unique a recent petition to force the foreign office to make its protection of citizens an obligation not a choice reveals that as many as 1000 brits apart and being detained abroad without trial as as un others like take matters into their own hands one can also the question is do you take government doing all it can to secure the welfare and human rights of all its citizens sask taylor all team liverpool the u.k. foreign office has told r.t. it is in contact with the sudanese authorities concerning kamau. the tension. coming up till this hour we look at the case of a texas man who was executed on rape murder charges last week despite insisting
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well to live area and he was innocent. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the. and shouting past each other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront
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a shim let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be preached. to the right to be close this is what before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and not out. there should. seem wrong when old rules just don't call. me that you get to say
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proud disdain it comes to as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. it's in minutes into the programming very welcome back a texas man has been put to death over the rape and murder of a college student over 2 decades ago a crime laurie swearingen always insists that he did not commit.
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well prosecutors say they are certain swearing was responsible for the murder they argue there are mountains of evidence demonstrating his guilt including for instance bits of the victim's clothing which were found in his trailer he had also lost a fellow inmate to write a letter to his lawyer purporting to be the real killer swear engine also had a track record of violence against women. at this point that his defense claimed there were discrepancies quite big ones as well in the prosecution's chronology and
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on the basis he could not have been responsible they also allege that the clothing in the former electrician his trailer may have belonged to someone else on that the blood fall and under the victim's fingernails did not belong to either her or swearing that the executed lawyer told us more about the conflicting evidence we presented the opinions of no less than 5 medical examiners who reviewed the path ology who reviewed the histology and all converged on a single conclusion which was that the body was left in the woods after mr sware engine was incarcerated they all work pro bono on mr square engines case they did not ask for a dime the examiner that 1st compared those 2 pieces of pantyhose said they were not a physical match it took 2 and a half days and eventually she made them match mr swear engine was poor he was an
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educated and he did very ignorant things that made him look guilty we believe that the state needs to take some action. about how the scientific evidence is presented and the value added by the court. and all their news from across the world violence broke out between police and protesters in hong kong. as the city state saw its worst on the wrist since the start of its. receipt campaign in june during the clashes white officers use water against activists for the 1st time pointed guns at protesters place say they arrested 36 people demonstrations in the chinese territory originally began in response to a controversial extradition bill it's more a movement calling for broad social. country self-defense forces have conducted. 2 months in the countryside the 4 days of exercises
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involved over $2400.00. 80. feet and 20 helicopters. held every year since 1900 people. government has been expanding its military capabilities in 2015 legislation allowing japan's military to participate in foreign. to the other side of the globe protests something held across brazil will be unprecedented number of fires raging in the amazon rain forest tens of thousands of white breaks being recorded this summer many deliberately started by farmers who with government support are clearing their land for cattle ranching facing immense international pressure and financial penalties from the european union the administration on sunday deployed 44000 troops to tackle the fires. on the employee. island. striking what they say are
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abysmal working conditions. their rights be upheld. treat them as professional field. tells made previously the work is akin to the stress on the. ok finally this news hour history could have been made in space but for all the wrong reasons an astronaut has been accused of committing a crime in near earth orbits while on board the international space station. but.
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there's unequivocally no truth to these claims we've been going through a painful personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media. ok i'm sorry but if this was me i would definitely own up to this how cool would it be to be the 1st human intergalactic space criminal. that potentially the 1st crime in space may have been committed by a woman and a lesbian speaks to how far we've come. that would be astronauts and mclean if this is true will have us her legacy this crime instead of anything else she accomplished.
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you know i'm not quite sure what to make of all out britain's new prime minister gets the cross talk treatment next join the pitcher uncurious us they debate whether boris johnson will survive the break said process to coax. oh why a paradise with some all year round turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have
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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. seemed wrong. but all roles just all. i mean you didn't get to stamp out these days to come to agitate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she stood up for common ground.
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check with tony you know. i'm a little but i think you might. feel when the news we're buddies. gave blood on. one of them one night you should have been there so. i don't want or i can't that's i mean yes i knew she needed that comment with me and i did yeah i am kind of whom he could feel that he had a ticking time bomb i need to move i want to follow the lead here i want to i don't come before i had a. lot
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that's my life that you know i started on wall street 40 years ago and i've been living in the luxury areas life of ever cheaper money ever since literally not having to work a day in my life because that yeah so spotted 4 years ago i've gone straight up. knocked up close to. god it. was. a good. league.
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hello and welcome across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle prime minister boris johnson did you ever think you would say that it seems we live in a world where anything can happen now after all who would have thought briggs it would destroy the premiership of to rest of me will to break that process do the same with boris johnson. talking bojo and brags that i'm joined by my guest we jasper in london he is a former deputy mayor of london in lancaster we have mark arnett he is a senior lecturer in politics at lancaster university and in plymouth we cross to
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james tweedy he is a journalist and commentator on world affairs all right gentlemen gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in in any time you want and i always appreciate it and i also know it's sweltering in the u.k. so well everybody don't get hyperventilated here because i don't want anybody to faint ok let me go to james 1st in plymouth james ok we have a new prime minister a figure that most people know of some very much like some obviously don't and he's larger than life ok that's all nice and fine that's good for media it's good for clicks it's good for eyeballs but how does it change the equation for britain visa v brags it how can boris johnson avoid the fate of may go ahead james well that i think that's what worries of seen the rising only about. the. sense.
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