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productivity in this plant is due to one makes its technology. is all how it seems within the ranks of the g. 7 summit wraps up out there look. it's in france with hopes of the money. widespread tension conflicts. coming up in force but the tech telling employees not to engage in political debate at work. on the family of a british sudanese mom who's been languishing in jail and. charge for over $100.00
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. years they publicly duke a foreign office is disappointing response. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to the program and i mean as you know the top story the french president. has opened up about an earth tension on conflicts playing out at the g. 7 summit he just tell a joint press conference with donald trump in the southwest of france where it seems the leaders initially look to play doll in the apartment for its. punk president and with all the heads of state and government. extremely productive. discussions that the. evening together. i. want to thank you very much mr president for the credible job you did
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this is a truly successful g 7 there was tremendous unity there was great unity. across the story for us or from space correspondent charlotte dubin ski hi there charlotte is this really a case of reading between the lines here or there's a lot of flowery very diplomatic language but not all of it. well they were nice as pie when they stood in front of the press conference coming to the end of the g. 7 in beer it's trump saying that president might call and done a wonderful job praising him and his wife for their hosting ability but mock or had said just before that that they had huge number of tensions at this particular g 7 so let's go through what some of the issues were and where they are now well one of the burning issues at this year's g. 7 was iran and the problems with the future of the european union and you know this
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was an accord that was signed by several countries including the united states and european countries a number of years ago before trump was elected when he was elected he said he would also good enough and he took the united states away signatory away from the article would last year since then there has been a rocketing of tensions between the 2 countries with sanctions being imposed on iran and they have been tensions in the dog sees around iran now for his part president has said several times nobody speaks to the united states despite the fact that front some president tried several times to intervene but what we understand now from president back on is that he hopes that a wrong that president rouhani and trump will meet in the next few weeks we're not sure if that will be a meeting of telephone or a meeting. we know that it's not 100 percent concrete but it is something that
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president matalin is happening opening happening now he also pulled a bit of an ace out of his sleeve during this this g. 7 summit he flew in the a rainy and foreign minister to the surprise of many a diplomatic move which apparently didn't go down very well though president trump has since said that he had given mark on his full ok to do that if you wanted to so still no further progress in terms of iran in terms of concrete progress but this suggestion that president is hoping this meeting between trump and rouhani will take place president makar also saying that you know he would never allow iran to disturb the stability of the region nor would he ever want iran to gain access to nuclear weapons now another burning issue between the 2 countries france and united states was the gaff attacks this is the tax on the digital giants that was
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announced by france just in the last couple of months to. funerary from the white house delegation and from trump himself there had been this threat of potentially putting additional tariffs on french products such as wine in retaliation to that america just saying you know double taxation it's just not fair but we understand today that the 2 have come to an agreement over that digital taxation and it does look like france will be stepping back and rolling back on that taxation also on china we heard today that trump says that china wants a very good trade deal and it looks like those talks start later this week that's after tensions between the 2 countries over imposing tariffs over trade and finally and certainly not the last is on russia's return to default something that had been muted given that president putin had been in france. last week before the g 7
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meeting face to face with president mack want to discuss many of the issues many people saying you know the issues they were discussing libya syria north korea none of those issues really can go very far without him put on the agreement of russia so will russia be reintegrated back into the fold it seems that president trump had suggested at supper on over the weekend that he wanted russia to be fully reintegrated but that was met with a big no no from the other leaders so a showing of unity in front of the cameras today but it looks like those underlying tensions are still there and there are still some very big disagreements between the several countries bring the sort of the main news lines of the g. 7 summit closer to charlotte like. no. visit to be a ritz charlotte was alluding to there comes as his country continues to suffer the
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effects of crippling u.s. sanctions on international isolation but politics aside among those bearing the brunt of a reunion culture patients who say they're struggling to access vital supplies. myth number one the united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian people the 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.
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as the reality is that the us is pushing iran under pressure and they are justifying their acts with these lawyers like the one said by mr hook in the video it will cause you need chemotherapy medicine is near impossible to access and expensive on the market mr hook says we give iran's government access to the medicine but when the money transfer system is closed how can we even buy it. with. the realities good financial corridors in the wrong the books maybe it's important to come to mend some from the original providers and brands which are mostly in europe and we cannot pay the foreign currency and therefore you know the provides even the most generic paxil our government has to import from countries which are not developed in this industry. ok to more world stories this hour once celebrated as a firm promoted free thoughts and lively discussion google has issued
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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 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 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 non-work topics company's new guidelines demand that
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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. 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
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those who oppose the company's political why 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 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
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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 then we're aware of i don't think it will work i think it will backfire. to another story we're closely following 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 like a faction. that was imprisoned in may after criticizing the own social media the african nations transitional military council but was later cleared by prosecutors
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of any wrongdoing. or had the chance to speak to one of mr ahmed's daughters about his continuing detention. on the 11th of may 6th year old. british sudanese simpson 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 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
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visit him but as it has been once and describes the conditions there very isolated from the outside world they don't have access to telephone calls we try 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 me to step in and secure 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
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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 is obvious this is a human rights violation and i would call upon human international human rights organizations to get involved in my father's case i think does need to be more attention on this to pressurize the british government into taking action against his unjust attention i'm all for 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
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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 wealth that human rights of all its citizens. ought to liverpool is just a small data almost the u.k. foreign office has stated it's in contact with the sudanese authorities concerning kamal. and we will of course became top of the situation so we look at the case of a texas man who was accused executed excuse me. charges last week despite insisting until the very very end he was innocent stay with our teachers. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one fine
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day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit 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 bath shouting past each other it's time 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.
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look at a moment texas has been executed over the rape and murder of a college student from over 2 decades ago a crime laurie swearing gen always insisted he did not commit. well prosecutors are meant swearing generals responsible for the murder they
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earlier argued there were quote monckton's of evidence demonstrating his guilt sing through being for instance bits of the victim's clothing found in his trailer swearing jane had also lost a fellow inmate to write a letter to his lawyer purporting to be the real killer he also had a track record of violence against women about his defense claims there were significant discrepancies in the prosecution's chronology and on the basis he could not get some pain response he also alleged that the clothing in the former alec christian's trailer may have belonged to someone else and that the blood fall into under the victim's fingernails didn't belong to either her or aspiring to the executed man's 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 wood after mr square
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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 sware engine was poor he was an 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 evaluated by the courts. let's bring each to hong kong where violence broke out between police and protesters there and sunday as the city state saw its worst on wrist since the start of the pro-democracy campaign in june in scenes that were widely circulated
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in the media one of the rallies saw a mosque the activists attacking riot officers responded by inning pistols of demonstrators the photos of police threatening protesters were prominently displayed in a number of leading publications going to show you the one video of the incident the footage presents a far less clear picture of which side was actually in the wrong. life spoke to a political analyst and journalist check thinks the police are acting with a relative restraint. it's a better situation now in hong kong. the. so-called protests those are using are throwing stones at the police they are using all kind of sharp
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objects elise finds themselves. to isolate didn't use a walker. fired 2 shots and to be police is to get up early today and you compare it to see. their water cannons the. poisonous nature being used for many weeks now here to the home alone. it's actually a good year it's a shooting. going to be using water cannons would have for a start so this is the really this is not the only thing to do the math. let's stay in the region to japan were the country self-defense forces and ducted you will military drills close to month fuji in the countryside the 40 exercises involved over 2000 soldiers 80 tanks and armored vehicles on 20 helicopters the drills are
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being held every year since 1960. government has been expanding its military capability and in 2015 passed legislation allowing japan's military to participate in foreign conflicts. around the world unprecedented fires raging for the amazon rain forest have triggered protests in the present and city of rio de janeiro this summer around 10000 bricks have been recorded many deliberately brazil supports farmers clearing areas for cattle facing immense international pressure and financial penalties the bolton oro administration on sunday deployed 44000 troops to tackle the fires. and employees out a luxury hotel on the spanish island of i mean striking over what they say are abysmal working conditions they're demanding their rights be apel to a lot of employers them as professionals though tells me some previously claimed off their work is akin to slavery causing them stress and injury.
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ok let's finish this hour with quite a particular story history may have been made in space but for all the wrong reasons an astronaut has been accused of committing a crime a near earth orbit while on board the international space station. there's unequivocally no truth to these claims we've been going through a painful personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media.
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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 on mclean who if this is true will how much her legacy this crime instead of anything else she accomplished. you know we're we have to see what comes out of the story but so far it seems altogether ok britain's new prime minister gets the cross-talk treatment next join peering guests as they debate whether boris johnson will survive the brags that
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process goes. on that's my life as you know i started on wall street 40 years ago and i've been living the empty the log cheeriest life of ever cheaper money ever since and literally not having to work a day in my life because the assets product 40 years ago have gone straight up. when else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any you won't get to shape out just they become educated and indeed from an equals betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. why a paradise with some ground 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 why would 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 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
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they can get away with this because the people have less political power. hello and welcome to cross talk or 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 up to resume the breaks that process do the same to boris johnson. talking bojo and brags that i'm joined by my guest we jasper in london he is
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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 crossed to james tweedy he is a journalist and commentator on world affairs all right gentlemen gentlemen cry. 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 harrison and there 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 these a v. brags it how can boris johnson avoid the fate of may go ahead james well though i think the tories have seen the rising on the wall about brit's thanks to
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the party and their. success in the recent elections so the tory policy a very very good party is going to. vote. because that's where they get most of it's. that's where they got rid of to resume it now or it's johnson he's not entirely trustworthy on. about tinkering with the political coloration so that we you would drop all agreement and the political that the regime doesn't really mean anything it's the road remember that's legally binding and that's what the problem is. his election he's been elected to. run. and to say that stories from electoral. ok and we've got to leave here but leave it.

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