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thank. 2 you had. the u.k. government delays the release of an intelligence report on the alleged threat posed by russia to britain's democratic institutions documents will not be published into last december's election as parliament will shut down for the vote from tomorrow. thanks to a u.s. court ruled that a homeowner whose house was destroyed during a police search for a thief one seek any compensation from new york authorities. they proceeded to destroy the whole house until finally they ended up the opposite was really nothing left of the house. and mixed messages from facebook because some of its apps are found to be facilitating people trafficking and jihadi groups that bans other
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people for using suggestive m o g. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with mina cairns great to have you with us our top story this hour the u.k. government has put off releasing an intelligence report into alleged russian interference in british affair as prime minister boris johnson has been accused of burying the documents that looked into the brakes at referendum on the 2017 general election downing street say is the amount of time it's taken to be released as standard as it was only sent to mr johnson a fortnight ago despite it being finished in march well our senior correspondent mark gans you have takes a closer look at the delay. oh boris how you've messed things up rags it bungled election let's toss a corps in and now with the holding a report on russian meddling the latest one number 50 to 60 i don't think anyone
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bothers keep track anymore regardless that is now boris's problem we thus have a committee of parliament waiting to lay a report before this house which comments directly on what has been seen as a perceived threat to our democratic processes if the report is being called for and written and should be in the public domain the more difficult to hide go to say the irony here is off the charts conservatives spent years bashing corbett and the left for being russian stooges so why is the prime minister being difficult people will be justified in drawing the conclusion that the reporters findings are compromising or worse for the government and the tory party allegedly the report which is titled russia that said just russia contains evidence that russian money is making the rounds in british political circles as it has been doing is the
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legend since churchill was in power in this case in the conservative party in case you had your hopes up for a sober report which would reveal the truth knew that it includes christopher steele yes the author of the debunked steel dossier which detailed trumps ties to russia prostitutes and you're a nation that guy gave testimony for this report but boris is stalling the prime minister apparently a slew reader wants 42 days to review a 50 page dossier before he releases it a very slow reader there are a number of administrative stages and processes which reports such as this which often contain sensitive information have to go. before they're published this usually takes several weeks to complete the committee is well informed of this process now someone's telling fibs and it's either boris who couldn't read faster than the page a day or dominic grieve dominic is almost
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a radical romina in who is interested is to damage the conservative party in the real breaks it ahead of the december election the suggestion that 6 weeks unneeded is just astonishing i really begin to worry about what the number 10 spokesman are saying nowadays they're coming out with things which are quite simply whopping untruths westminster doesn't like to rush things or do the normal speed it likes to take things take rx it 3 years it's been since the vote everyone still waiting for the prime minister's apparent reading speed a page a day or so sit down mr grieve and relax no one in your government likes the hari historian martin mccauley suspects the document is lacking substance unbanked why it won't be made public before the election. i think that had the been any evidence pretty strong evidence that russia had been
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a differing in the 26 train of really more what is the british. government would have brought it to being public attention. but both johnson doesn't want a conflict with russia. because he's only been probably used for a short time is very conservative briggs and so therefore presumably there's nothing very strong in that. it could be that the opposition will try our opposition parties will try to break this subject to public attention because they must discover what is in the report and they would like it to be born was great for russia gate to east of dallas the present government the average person would say that's passed that's history. but the present parliament which ends on tuesday should have dealt with it and don't let's bother with that now so the general public from the general public's point of view is it's not really relevant to the
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general election at present. homeowner in the us claims he's been left with massive debts off the police operation destroyed his house in 2015 police surrounded leo let his property that had been renting to his son in search of an armed shoplifter he had shot at office as well as fleeing from a store after a 19 hour standoff the house was essentially left in ruins by the military grade weapons used to flush out the suspect was the latch described events for us. a single armed gunman he had a handgun and he just randomly ran into our neighborhood and he started opening up the garage door at least they proceeded to call in 2 armored vehicles they called in over 100 officers proceeded to fire 40 millimeter bunker buster 'd rounds into the house just room by room by room by room they they proceeded to destroy the
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whole house until finally they ended up you know because there was really nothing left of the house and appeals court upheld an earlier ruling and threw out the family's call for compensation saying officers acted within the powers that granted on them under the law local police did offer an apology of thoughts though i did people think that it was their main concern my mission is to get that individual out on harmed and make sure my team and everyone else around including the community goes home and harmed sometimes that means promise to protect you should be possible to end any stadium bus or social event without getting any comments online threats prompted strong reactions this is not the 1st time we see far right groups targeting politicians in the country just last june a pro refugee politician and member of merkel's christian democratic union party was brutally murdered at his house by a neo nazi extremist that also in the beginning of the year the i if their leader in bremen was badly beaten by 3 masked men these string of events are quite
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alarming because they are showing the trend of nazi resurgence such ultra right sentiment is out of the 3rd reich something that germans would like to leave in the past i guess from what right wing and left wing parties have said their own experience of death threats in danger of radicalism on both sides of the politicos both sides of the political spectrum. it is a problem this problem was long hide it in german public and it's good that. there is a version as of this problem and we have to. step up the fight against these kind of right wing terrorism we had a lot of threats for the local politicians of our party that are the there were bombs. placed near a hols this bombs exploded for us. in july. rooted to cause some more not everything lived or. burning
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of the car off another city called solo in. it's an expression of. office of a growing poisoning of the political debate in germany. part of the right wing movement because. this is the sort of situation we in our party have been facing for years now and increasing beasts in recent months there were. almost daily demonstrations against me at my university some of the activists including some anti far activists well i thought german or sent over from germany threatened to drag me i thought out of my office or the election hole if i were found teaching at the
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university again and currently i've gotten in turn who is. a regional f.t. member in. frankfurt and in the course of a year or 2 this young man has been subjected to physical threats he was told that if he doesn't stop his activities then he'd be. he'll be beaten up so badly that he'll spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair or for the handicapped from our perspective in our party threats to. liberty and physical security as well as personal property here almost daily occurrences which are shared by very many members of the european parliament and the german parliament with also members of our party. authorities in kuwait have launched an
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investigation into online slave traders a probe earlier revealed the domestic workers were being bought and sold on apps made available by google apple and facebook owned instagram saskia taylor looks into the apparent policy failures which led to such a situation the 21st century the dream era for the lazy now days you can get almost anything you want without even leaving the comfort of your home food shoes of a dead mouse have clip or haunted rubber duck even some want to stand in line few why not but alongside the good and downright outlandish options out there that also comes the ugly and undercover investigation by b.b.c. has found that in kuwait domestic workers are being bought and sold online and if you thought you'd need to know gone to the dark web to access the slave market think again it turns out that all you really need is an instagram account. some of
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the trade has been carried out on facebook and instagram where police have been promoted for our good reason boosted hashtags and so it was negotiated via private messages probably not what the creators had in mind when they launched the slogan capture and share the world's moments simply searching the arabic hash tag made for transfer on facebook instagram will bring you to the profiles of hundreds of women from places like the philippines and into nisha and given that 9 in 10 kuwaitis have domestic workers it's a potential gold mine with some sellers even able to double their money little wonder then that they're eager to highlight that investment selling points trust me she's very nice she laughs and has a smiley face even if you keep her up to 5 am she won't complain the past pools don't give it to you her sponsor why would you give her her passport confiscation of passports confinement to the house no time off or even access to the outside
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world is common place. kuwait is really huey houses are very bad no sleep no food nothing they used to shout at me and call me and then i'm alive it hurt it made me sad but there was nothing i could do and it's not just in kuwait across the border in saudi arabia hundreds including children are also being sold via instagram now facebook has since the discovery deleted the hashtag and reiterated its commitment to preventing such behavior we will continue to work with law enforcement experts organizations and industry to prevent this behavior or more platforms but a simple edit to the hash tag has kept the trade alive but apparently not top of facebook's list of concerns far more pressing it seems the launch of its new project facebook news also not top of the priority list editing the existing
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guidelines which as with instagram wax lyrical about being kind and thoughtful towards the online community but are a bit moot economic or not engaging in naughty activities like trading drugs weapons or heaven forbid you pair that eggplant emerging with its fruity companion the peach that stuff could get you banned if you walked into the whole weapons thing no i don't know what to facebook but instead of saying you'll sending a gun just say you'll selling a gun case that really confuses the clever facebook algorithm or if extremists are hard as content is your thing also head on over to facebook the social media giant has pages with thousands of followers dedicated to promoting the ideology of al qaeda all because those clever terrorists simply registered the pages as educational and tagged extremist pamphlets as books which are which of those thora
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contant checkers and silicon valley the same content checkers that hasn't taken down for. of the massacre of 51 people at 2 mosques in christchurch almost 8 months ago so if someone doesn't take your fancy on line and you decide to place a bed carry on as you walk just make sure that when you agree a good price you're in celebrate with any of those naughty and no jeans social network certainly do not do enough to come by illegal activity is. occurring all a daily basis when it comes to political issues facebook seem to be very quick to close down accounts on the basis that its uses deserve better it is just extraordinary to when it comes to do human trafficking accounts that promote doubt facebook is in is adamant about the rights of its users once governments
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start goes a very very serious financial fines on social media companies particularly on facebook only day and with those companies stop take. the fight against human trafficking the fight against terrorist activities and more seriously. still to come a deadly current between security forces and protesters in the iraqi capital when it came to all the reports on that after this very sharp crack they would have. imagine being 635 and you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer things like that in an office. perhaps you sort of getting to see circuit t.v.
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you could have to stop doing all this i mean this is how you lose the minutes before my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out of a very strong magnetic field. you know in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure on my skin burns and that wireless access point here just continues on saying with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. the people who are printing the money don't rely on taxes to get wealthy they're not part of the real economy that's a does the same thing as saying the rulers of saudi arabia rely on the wages of the people living in saudi arabia to get rich they they don't they just print more or
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pump more oil so in that america the princes that run our economy just print more money they don't need the workers they don't need their taxes that's why they don't have wage growth that's why there's been that this aeration because there are needed. to. welcome back now on rest in hong kong because they can turn bloody with 5 people left badly injured during a knife attack on sunday one of those wounded with a pro-democracy politician who also had written off disturbing images or had.
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oh. so place outside a mall crowded by protesters as riot police stormed the building to thwart further demonstrations the city witnessed a 22nd straight weekend of protests the latest filled with violence and destruction police say they arrested over 200 people involved in unlawful assemblies and unrest over the past couple of days clashes have continued this monday what they will parities firing tear gas at protesters international affairs on and i found china expert andrew young say the beijing will now stake on tentative ways to keep order in the future. another feeling was that. there was a kind of back in dealing with this and this is an unprecedented kind of protest certainly in the national security. agency in the sense that the both this is no. less the end of the writing of the country one country 2 systems and it tries to. by using. closure. and so that the feeling is
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that. the security mechanism will call to strengthen including in future. screening the kind of principal off issues that get the order . and also there was reference to even. doing more than the education call because the feeling is that whole fall and beijing have lost the whole generation of young people of the vote we've got themselves the chinese they regard themselves as something that. in the short term they hope to. make sure that the coming elections the elections is not going to be over time to the. labor because that would have cations full. choice of the.
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cause of death to america has been ringing out across the iranian capital this moaned day as the country marks 40 years since the takeover of the united states embassy in tehran in 1799 months after the islamic revolution toppled the pro western shah student storms the diplomatic compound taking 52 americans hostage they were demanding that washington extradite mohammad reza pahlavi who had been receiving medical treatment in america so that he could stand trial for alleged crimes the crisis continued for 444 days before the u.s. citizens were released and marked a pivotal moment in relations between 2 iran and washington. meanwhile the u.s. military convoy in syria has come under fire from turkish backed militants according to russia's ministry of defense no casualties have been reported it comes amid a partial withdrawal of american troops in northern syria according to the pentagon some will remain in the country to protect oil fields from islamic states. a
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visit by the spanish king has seen catalan independence supporters out in force this monday in barcelona the protesters are be continuing their call for the release of the region's jailed separatist leaders rallies took place overnight as well with 2000 demonstrators chanting anti monarchy slogans. it's been another outburst of violence in the iraqi capital this monday with 5 people reportedly killed in clashes between security forces and protesters they don't rest follows a wave of mass rallies in both baghdad and the country's shiite majority south over the weekend. demonstrators in baghdad blocks major roads and burned tires forcing government offices and business is to close schools and universities across the country have also. iraqi government is accused of rampant corruption and of failing to provide
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basic public services according to the anger it's attempted to brutally suppressed protests with over 250 people killed in the security crackdown. the dissolution of this government do not want a partial solution says replacing the prime minister who want a sweeping change of this government that political parties have not served a record all. these protests are sending a message if our demands are not mad we will hold even bigger demonstrations. lead the people decide for themselves but the people form the government please the little girl what people are protesting and say the government should resign everyone is taking to the streets students young people the elderly when everyone is in the streets middle east affairs analyst only risk told is that corruption has gripped the country since washington toppled be iraqi government 16 years ago. do you want to eventually bring about a 6 year insists the iraq president has to be kurdish for a minister sharon and the speaker of the parliament sunni there are many iraq you
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so i think who are maybe dismayed or angry set aside with such an arrangement but i think that 1st and foremost we do have a corruption problem which still has not been solved that's the problem which is many many years old in iraq you know ever since the senate has been hearing about this and they haven't been serious efforts taken to really tackle it so i think it's up to new york you are going to start out a lot to lead the also others empower us to meet the demands of the current sources provided these are insists that remain as i said. when i would actually love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us from social media and the comments that we're back at the top of down with later thing either.
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what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be press it's like well before 3 in the morning can't be good but i'm interested always in the waters of our. question. of today there are good tennis and bad deadens the bad news in the end when the united states deems to be a threat the looked at it is those what in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were
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assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army and death squads there's no phones anymore because there's always a small cult of people for really good that's good for profit. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. time after time they were going underground on the birthday of india's most famous bandit queen who learned their view full for justice for the poor about the
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countryside and parliament before a $21.00 assassination coming up in the show as nuclear armed nations attack each other over india's unilateral decision to take control of kashmir prominent b.j. people additions of romani and swami tells us it will be maybe 3 or 4 weeks before journalists phones in the internet will work again in one of the most militarized places on a bus will genocide to be next for the people of kashmir we speak to pakistan's high commissioner in london about prime minister imran khan calling on the international community is moral courage to intervene all of them all coming of a days going underground or 1st in a week when the threat of nuclear conflict has roots line colonialism capitalism in the so-called cold war nobel literature laureate toni morrison died at the age of 88 this week here is the author of beloved destroying the idea that the so-called cold war was ever called the consequences of becoming a democracy. out there. we emphasize that part but we're also
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a major capitalist capitalist to conform to country. and that's true of all of europe i mean you know the slaves come home from the plantation the wars are still going on the cold war that keep talking about these years of peace peace. what peace they've been fighting 30 years of wars else where all the blood was shed in the world. a confrontation with russia a confrontation with communism there was no nuclear explosion there were no you know there was another but they still fought well one flashpoint of the so-called cold war was china's war within the year of the kashmir and after the 3.
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