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and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 18. award winning journalist glenn greenwald is charged with cyber crimes in brazil over his role in reporting on a high profile corruption scandal in the country the case drawn condemnation worldwide. experts call for approval to allegations the saudi crown prince was involved in the. baseless investigators believe it was an attempt to influence. the psychologist designer of. torture techniques in the wake of $911.00 justifies his actions during a pretrial testimony at guantanamo bay detention center. i believe there was
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a genuine threat of an imminent attack. and do it again. around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team and myself you know neal. federal prosecutors in brazil have charged award winning journalist glenn greenwald with committing cyber crimes authorities say he coordinated top officials phones to get information on a high profile corruption case last year the intercept news site in brazil co-founded by greenwald was behind the release of damaging conversations between top figures in the probe quarter picks up the story for us. brazil's president has never been a big fan of journalists if you don't go there was a look at you the money we've got the secular go off i fell for that but no money.
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but now what they're doing with them i'm sure you know what i do i usually have a legal right to do it every day in order to deliver a bit of both of us on palm thank you. but i asked if i wasn't going on this so it's no surprise freedom of the press is once again under attack in the country american journalist glenn greenwald is facing cybercrime charges for leaking text messages of government officials glenn greenwald in a free conscious involuntary way directly assisted encourage and guided to criminal group of hackers during a criminal practice acting as a guarantor of said group and also narrow is more than a little defensive he should not be here he says to him brazil where is he he was denounced by the justice system don't you believe in the system at the same time the president's son who is also an m.p. cannot contain his glee. glenn greenwald always said he loved brazil and wanted to
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get to move the country in depth maybe he will even get to know the inside of a jail the charges come after greenwald's news outlet exposed a possible conspiracy within the judicial system based on the leaked private text messages they purported to show the event federal judge colluding with the prosecution in a high profile corruption case the same one that landed both scenarios main rival lula da silva in jail preventing him from running for another presidential term the federal judge denied everything and even went on to head the justice ministry as for the journalist to shed light on the scandal he found himself under investigation even though the federal police and the supreme court told the administration to drop the case in our government president bush norah multiple members of his government simply don't believe in a free press we don't believe in prosper they don't even believe in democracy they've repeatedly and explicitly praised the military dictatorship that ruled the country until they need to 5 years disappear your form of government and this is
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all about ushering in that level of repression whistleblowers and watchdog organizations are calling the situation a blatant attack on journalistic freedom absolute resolute this is unbelievably could retaliation for revealing the extreme corruption at the highest levels of both scenarios administration and the next who stands truth through it to investigative journalism in brazil. in an outrageous violation of press freedom the brazilian government has ignored a supreme court order in charge journalist glenn greenwald with cyber crimes for the intercepts investigative series on widespread corruption in brazil. how the government must immediately condemned this outrageous assault on the freedom of the press and recognize that its attacks on press freedoms at home have consequences for american journalists doing their jobs abroad leg langrune world the prosecution of glenn greenwald is once again putting the spotlight on the current administration's alleged corrupt dealings it's no wonder balsa naro has no love for
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journalists. human rights experts for the un are urging for an investigation into the hocking of the mobile phone of the world's richest man jeff bates also there are concerns about allegations the saudi crown prince was possibly involved in a data breach which was caused by an encrypted message sent to the billionaire funder something the gulf monarchy strongly denies. the alleged hacking of mr bezos is phone m those of others demand immediate investigation by the u.s. and other relevant authorities including investigation of the continuous montie a direct and personal involvement of the crown prince in efforts to target perceived opponents. let's go live now. and killed a lot of elements to this story and involve the saudi crown prince in potentially yet another compromising situation what more is known. well it
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appears according to the information that has been presented that the phone of jeff bezos was hacked via the messenger application known as whatsapp and now saudi arabia denies that that's the case now it's important to note that not only is jeff bezos very wealthy a billionaire in the united states but he's also the owner of the washington post and the washington post was the employer of jamal khashoggi folks will recall jamal khashoggi is brutal killing so at this point that raises some interesting concerns this is what has been presented about the possible hacking. the information we've received suggests the possible involvement of the crown prince in surveillance of mr bezos in an effort to influence if my son it's to washington post reporting in saudi arabia these allegations a run of and as well to own going evaluation of claims about the chrome prince's involvement in the $2900.00 muddle of saudi and washington post during this timo.
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now in october of 28 teen jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in istanbul and he never came out of the of the embassy he was dismantled within it cut into pieces and at that point there was a lot of international outrage about the incident now sense then they came of saudi arabia has declared this was simply a rogue operation 5 individuals have actually been sentenced to death for their involvement in it however 3 top officials were cleared of any wrong doing and many observers noted that it took a long time for the trumpet ministration to criticize the actions of saudi arabia or to even give any response to the answer let's review what the response from the trump administration when it finally came was this is how they responded to the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi employed by the washington post. i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending
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$110000000000.00 on military equipment and things that create. others for this country we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other saudi ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show these death. now the possible hacking of the phone of jeff bezos the billionaire and owner of the washington post adds a new chapter to this case however many observers have noted that the ties between the united states and the kingdom of saudi arabia are not small and the trumpet administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom tromps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident
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that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia will be keeping a close eye on the outcome of this one kill a month and live in new york for us thank you. the psychology of the architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques post $911.00 is almost polar jessica his rule in any torture program the admission came during a military tribunals which is preparing a trial against the self-proclaimed muster mind on 4 others of the attacks on new york and washington in 2000 and. whatever personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweigh the temporary discomforts of terrorists i get so today and do it again. james mitchell was contracted by the cia in the wake of $911.00 to consult on create an interrogation program for al qaeda suspects he even admitted
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personally using waterboarding a torture technique that simulates drawing on several prisoners later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations the cia's program included illegal coercive messrs. in the immediate aftermath of $911.00 we tortured some lawyers for the folly of detainees are now seeking for any statements made in turkey ation to be disqualified from the trial on the grounds of torture on to war activists sort of flounders believe that guantanamo bay court proceedings are deeply flawed. well
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none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture. the media isn't allowed in except for conditions so strict that they can't even have a picture of the court room all the testimony is restricted. none of this none of this layers and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power their power over people's lives and we should just note that there were juveniles who were a youth who were held for years i've kuantan them oh there were people who had nothing to do were simply sold for bounty who were kuantan m o 780 prisoners and then the thousands who were held in secret rendition or around
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the world no accounting for them so this was a huge program and its ramifications were still feeling today the 1st detainee mr mitchell water boarded was a palestinian man known as a beta he's never been charged with a crime but remember. means indefinitely in guantanamo he was the 1st known cia prisoner to undergo enhanced interrogation even lost an eye whilst being tortured during his time there is a beta has attempted to illustrate his experiences and a warning you may find some of the following images distressing.
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as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . the.
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long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard. there's absolutely no justification that can ever be given or accepted for the horrendous and systematic torture that was used and it was used and authorized from the highest levels from the presidency f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were no. and this isn't just one or 2 people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture of pain of waterboarding of slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify
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any of this and none of this torture provided any real information of course not that that that would even be an excuse it was done to hundreds of prisoners there were also hundreds of secret prisons secret rendition and a geisha in centers all of this really has to be exposed and then an accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these camps ok let me bring in some interesting words there from german chancellor angela merkel who has coal to all my world to include china in the pursuit of common goals and not to return to cold war era exclusion. of course we also have to build up fairness of course we have to practice multilateralism so the rules apply to everyone but i believe for us not to fall into new bipolarity but
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rather that we try was the result of experience we have to include a country like china multilateralism and treated at least equally. yet those remarks come as the u.s. and china moments to reach a truce for in their trade war german manufacturers suffered collateral damage from tensions between washington and beijing that mostly hit its car industry another flashpoint tallest chinese tech giant while away the u.s. is continuing to pressure the european union to bomb while away 5 g. equipment over fears it could spy for beijing and steal intellectual property the company denies all accusations against that in germany the question of 5 g. has long been debated by law me appears with beijing promising a box while way is by order to appease washington. if germany will to make a decision that led to the exclusion from the german market there will be consequences
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the chinese government will not stand by. while we've been giving insight into all of this here some of what's being said on the program. for germany and for e.u. to maintain its independence to maintain its own judgment on major issues in the world rather than purely passively justifiable the leadership of another major country makes a lot of sense china after all is a permanent member of the security council of the united nations and it is the 2nd largest economy in the world and to marginalize china will not succeed on the one hand and also will bring a lot of economic it is advantage to whichever country which tries to push china down on the ground the e.u. in general is one of the poles than in a global order and china doubtless needs another one so were there would be more
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collaboration been done but been a continuous agender and also because of a shared his devon's dong very soon and there be a new as a sector so maybe it is a plan to install a new policy to create as a new concerns among the concert and for china of course right now is grades on critical and or the period of a sign u.s. trade war and shows government always will engage the european countries as a remote island to kind of kind of balance. automotive electrical energy giant tesla divided the residents of a time near the german capital over plans to create its 1st european gigafactory there let's go through the story dozens of demonstrators have been denouncing possible environmental damage with plans to cut down $300.00 hectares of forest for the factory but they were met by counter protesters to who appeared to be enthusiastic over the promise of thousands of jobs. it killed
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a good many people are absolutely not aware of these decisions great fallout our water management agency it has already admitted that there is no guarantee the locals will be supplied with enough water after the launch of the factory and they have to think about it because they've got not sure whether it's good or not i'm worried about the environment being advanced there will be new jobs and new transpired but it's hard to imagine anything about her that's got this nickel it's a good opportunity for our region but electric cause once over everything and then manufacture causes environmental damage as it's a money ah but i'm in favor of job creation and tesla as a company but wasn't there any other place for this fracturing and.
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you know it julian the young graduates haven't been able to find work that fits their skill was hearing growing haida so a lot of them how to move to other cities and i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region because of downs of course we're concerned about it on the one hand we're glad that investors are interested in brandenburg on the other hand we're talking about serious interviewer ince natural processes we should be carefully considered that we should do everything to me to get damage based on the deforestation area the implications will be very grave we're talking about total deforestation and the extinction of all the animal and plant species which once inhabited this rude.
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the british government has announced plans to introduce lie detector tests to assess whether prisoners convicted on terrorism charges are safe enough to be released the move comes in light of a terror attack in london bridge late last year by a former terrorist inmate the proposal comes as part of the government's plans for a quote major overhaul of the system other measures include a minimum 14 year sentence for those convicted of serious offenses like directing terrorist groups also the removal of early release for those categorized as dangerous and more especially trained psychologist son and moms who will also assess the risk of releasing or fenders in 2012. and was sentenced to a minimum of 8 years in jail after pleading guilty to multiple high profile terror
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plots and even after the the requirement given for his release was not a parole board will assess how dangerous he'd be to the public he was however released in $2818.00 after completing a terrorist rehabilitation program less than a year later while attending a conference for former offenders he killed 2 and injured 3 in a stopping attack you can get people who are in effect sleepers for many years and then suddenly back come the hatreds and prejudices and we see atrocities like the one we did at fishmongers hall which is why i think the introduction of polygraphs the lies testing devices which are already being used in sex offenders improve the tools that we have in terms of trying to assess that risk to minimize that risk. look question of when to release radicalized prisoners isn't the only issue facing the british criminal justice system in this regard in 2017 the prison service established a special section in one g.l.
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to host hundreds of radicals which the media dubbed. a report last year a fine of extremism within prisons was so out of control of up they were at risk of becoming a fertile breeding ground that's the quote for potential to have just another report found that a gang of extremist muslims calling itself the brotherhood dominates britain's jails. well joining us live i'm happy to say this story as chief executive of the ramadan. u.k. mohamed chef week. mohamed. just going through this the problem has been been building for years hasn't it the government i suppose is responding to what the public expects that what the public demands are we moving in the right direction with what is a tougher response. i think it's important that we have a tougher response if you are involved 'd in preparing for terrorism acts than the
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usual get long custodial sentences and many people in britain whatever your background whatever your diversity would support. how is it possible for somebody who was convicted of a terror plot like this and for him to be released 6 years into his sentence and then go on you know undetected to the point where he carries our. innocent civilians at the bridge so yes we need to offer sentences but we need to government to take control and i think over the past few years we've seen a government there's been obsessed about breaks in another issues and the last 3 years we haven't been able to address any of these issues why there is the n.h.s. why there is education why there is counterterrorism what you lead are perfectly just that issue about resupplying care and what is the better way then of assessing inmates. i think firstly if you are involved in terrorism and
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you kill people or you injure people then you should receive a full life sentence so i don't make any apologies for taking a hard line view on that but if you're involved in preparing for a terrorist attack and you've stopped then you want to hear bullet 8 1st you've got to serve the full sentence that you've been given and then lie detected to test. extra support and investigation around that person's background and what they are released for them to be continuously monitor in the terms of their internet history in terms of how the trial. around the country to make sure that there are not a danger to the public i mean we can't you know 100 percent protect our country but if the service is involved why there is a probation service and prison service you know has. massively over the last 10 years then that is obviously going to have an effect in terms of people attention or prisoners what about within the prison themself and we've heard that
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term. fertile breeding drawn for for generally isn't so you've got some hardline people who've been at war zones and also within the country itself mixing with other criminals may be more easily led criminals are nuts expanding this group what can be dharma both within the prison system itself. well i think that is a very big worry for me and many people here in the u.k. there is a concern that prisoners who convicted of terrorism are then able to use vulnerable other prisoners to groom them into you know trying to get involved get them involved in terrorism and i think that's really worrying for is one of the things that should be mixing together lumbered investigation. well i think that's one of the issues which the prison service is going to have to address you know should the
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more dangerous prisoners in our country who are convicted of terrorism and extremism you know isolated in places where they can cause harm it's a very big worry it's not a building building more prisons it is that moving them to a particular location what what is it. what i think secure units or belmarsh prison which is the high security prison in london i think that should be used in a more stronger way and we've got an audio problem in this country are far right extremism and terrorism that's a massively on the rise we've seen a number of plots there been foiled and people are being convicted for that so that you know it's a big ground we could have managed up in a better way and it's gone through resources but also it's done by the moms and scholars and muslim organizations and mainstream organizations been able to get into those prisons to educate those prisoners to make sure that they realize that terrorism is evil or wrong and is not supported by any faith. similar measures are
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in place across england and wales for those convicted of sexual offenses and i think this is possibly what the public are are really responding to that you've got a group one group of criminals perhaps not a series of terrorists i think people would agree so why especially special treatment for for what are must murders by another name for a long time there was no. certain questioning being able to to use those lie detectors whether or not they're going to be a good thing but this seems to be lesser importance than other criminal. i think what the government or the authorities in this country were more interested in was to get a conviction and tick. those people behind bars what they would so interested in is how they were going to protect the fellow prisoners from being groomed into
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supported extremism and how they were going to protect the public schools prisoners are released because we've seen a number of those prisoners over the last few years have been released what safeguards are in place to protect the country and you know what monitoring and screening these been done before those prisoners are released it's a big worry john just in a few words. is this a good move forward by what is the government is proposing we have about 30 seconds . what yes if the government is serious about tackling this issue then people in the muslim community we're very responsible and respectful of the government's responsibility to protect our country and we do whatever we can support them mohamed always appreciate your time your thoughts on the program chief executive the ramadan foundation u.k. mohamed feet. ok we're all set to crack on with more great programs here in moments in our to international to stay close with i'll see you at the top.
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action are tense here we're going underground on day 2 of us president donald trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate even as the man himself rubbed shoulders with the billionaires of dallas coming up on the show we often will trump's lawyer alan dershowitz what is the actual point of the impeachment trial and we go to egypt where some of the 2000 richest to own will.

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