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post secret cia report on perceptions of do you want us as an ex border terrorism. adrenaline rush rush and you are turning to a new extreme activity known as train surfing for cheap. and outcast lovers a growing number of young couples in india are facing their families and communities anger choosing to marry my traditional handsome young. lad from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's two pm here in the russian capital eleven am in london first this hour at the record high temperatures that gripped russia this summer have triggered a dramatic rise in the number of mosquitoes the insects are being blamed for the
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spread of a deadly tropical disease uncommon in this part of the world the west nile virus has been carried to the south of the country where five people have already died from the disease and almost two hundred more have been infected are. reports. a steady stream of patients has been arriving at this hospital near volgograd all with the same diagnosis where. five dead more than one hundred are seriously ill and five of the real number of those affected moderate several times a lot of people are being treated at home without knowing what's wrong with them and don't ask for help until it was too late west nile fever affects different people in different ways for those who are young it might pass without symptoms others might suffer a mild form of flu or something like that but for those most seriously affected put those who are vulnerable for all the people it can be critical it starts off with headaches with vomiting with diarrhea i don't progress is the damage that central nervous system. eventually leading to death i was allowed to see some of the
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patients myself many are still too ill to speak. but are still suffering the severe aftereffects of what they have been through many don't remember how they fell ill they don't even remember where they live or how old they are they're simply full of terror that their mental faculties will never recover from this ordeal outside their relatives or in twenty four hour watch they're begging to be left inside outside a visiting hours. as exotic as it sounds it's much more typical for countries around the mediterranean it was never discovered until eleven years ago just as the summer it was a period of particularly hot weather and this allows the mosquitoes to spread the disease if the mosquitoes it was in spite of that they buy the humans and then the humans get infected now here doctors are issuing warnings to everybody to keep clothes with long sleeves to spray them so the mosquitoes spray and so on but they're saying that people are refusing to follow these instructions that they have
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the threat quite seriously enough but they're saying that the threat will remain until october when the weather is expected to become cooler. life from the russian capital you're with r t still to come for you this hour on live t.v. is the american diet really appetizing for the rest of the world r.t. takes a look at the health of the nation. the whistleblower wiki leaks is back in the headlines after publishing an internal cia report on the internet the document classified as secret focuses on the perception of the u.s. as an exporter of terrorism meanwhile the website founder will be questioned by the swedish authorities over allegations of molestation more and has more. there's been much less of a media florrie surrounding this than there was at the beginning of the month when the war diaries were released and i think there are two possible reasons for that one because when the were released it was seventy five thousand separate documents
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that came from inside the us military and such a huge volume of information always creates an impression whereas to compare it with this this is just three pages although having said that it is a secret document from inside the cia or diaries. commence that came exclusively from the u.s. military also the other thing is that the afghan war diaries concrete evidence each of those documents was concrete evidence of events to take place the death of civilian casualties of reporting of those casualties whereas this is all very it's an internal cia document describes a hypothetical situation which looks at what would happen if the international community perceived the u.s. as an export of terrorism it's written by departments in the cia called the red cell which is specifically charged with coming up with hypothetical scenarios and looking at what might happen so obviously the impacts of how we believe the world works is much less than the impacts of the afghan war diaries this report takes
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a couple of examples of u.s. citizens taking terror abroad it talks about young muslim americans who travel from north to pakistan allegedly were hoping to join the pakistani taliban while they were that and also a case that you may remember from november two thousand and eight when a man called david headley who was a pakistani american. and he took part in this is valence leading up to the mumbai bombings which killed more than one hundred sixty people that we do have to ask ourselves why has this report being released now particularly as it's so short and describes this hypothetical situation. has been in sweden and over last weekend it became. two swedish women had come forward one of the was accusing him of rape and the other was accusing him of molestation rape charges being dropped but we recently heard that the swedish prosecutor will want to question. about the
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molestation charge which is a lesser charge it's been suggested that this is a smear campaign following the war diaries the lawyers for these two swedish women say that's absolute nonsense as do the two swedish women themselves but we do have to ask ourselves whether this report is being released now in order to deflect attention from. the problems he is really the sort of self-appointed spokesman for wiki leaks i've asked him whether he sees himself or whether he thinks he can be considered as a publicist you seek he said we're not he said he felt that when they were making these releases wiki leaks in terms of the media and bringing it to the general public at large had to have some sort of spokesperson some sort of front man and he appointed himself as that man but still we do have to ask ourselves is this a case of the tail wagging the dog rather than the other way around. this time we can leaks won't get the same overwhelming reaction as they did a month ago when the website publish secret afghan war reports that's according to
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investigative journalist wayne madsen who believes the full truth about the cia's activities has yet to emerge. if we were going to see something really earthshaking leaked from the cia how about some something that has to do with the cia involvement with what's known as state sponsored terrorism for example the united states during the vietnam war targeted people in vietnam for assassination it was operation phoenix and we also had the shock and all in iraq where civilians were indiscriminately killed we've seen the same thing in afghanistan and where do we see these revelations there's nothing here that should. anyone in the cia and i think this really is just another case where where wiki leaks selected this document looking for a big publicity run but i don't think they have this got the same reaction a have received in the past. the final stage of antiterrorism drills got
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underway in southern russia with security forces demonstrating how to handle a potential hostage situation security representatives from the shanghai cooperation organization came together to take part in the joint exercises the military style demonstration aims to coordinate both west few words and victims in the event of a terrorist attack a similar drill was also staged on the volga river where security forces carried out carried out reenactments of terrorist incidents the enter terror dr khan says russia continues its struggle against our wives extremists and. now a great way to get your kicks or an irresponsible act that puts lives in danger train surfing is the latest extreme activity that's gaining popularity among adrenaline hungry teenagers in moscow our teens jacob grieve spoke to some of those who are willing to risk everything for a thrill. some. even crazy but for those who
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take part of what's become internationally known as tres surfing it's about the adrenalin rush the great involves riding on top or at the side of moving trains with their hands or the aid of a belt the danger involved this is for many a major attraction but authorities are worried that those taking part are fully aware of the risks running along these cables above me of three thousand volts of electricity if you touch one you most likely be killed just one of the dangers. from the train and being crushed but that hasn't deterred these guys they took up the whole be at an early age gave them and a growing to that escape from reality. we get to you and me we mostly just ride the trains are not pulling any crazy. this is just a hobby the gigs are generally not yet. and as if that wasn't daring enough to even take you to writing them. just to get their daily kicks to these young men is also
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become a form of expression and they don't see why this extreme sport is being seen differently to other why the practice pastimes stop the corporate people start idle climb mountains but we ride trains on the outside mean certainly there's a risk but we plan all our steps if we know trains very well where different things you can hold on to are we have certain safety guidelines. they and other adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei made the activity has had tragic consequences for some additional. have not been any tragic accidents in our group things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater's swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andreas unlikely to
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keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the price they might pay jake agrees. with the growth of globalization features of the american way of life have spread to other countries and it's not as movies and pop culture it's also food but along with hamburgers and coca-cola america is exporting one of its major health problems obesity you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. among all developed countries americans are the fattest in the world that's according to the world health organization where over sixty percent of the general population in the u.s. is obese what's even more disturbing the u.s. is the only country in the developed world to label obesity as a prime national security health threat. it's all part of a growing epidemic in america supersizing questions like why are americans so fat. and what brought the fast food nation to rely heavily on food most developed
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countries banned decades ago there's a lot of innovation that's going on in the united states at all levels whether be organic or genetically engineered activity we begin with monsanto the former manufacturer of killer herbicide agent orange that's the chemical spray to the jungles of vietnam during the war with the united states agent orange eventually produced symptoms like these decades later monsanto is now responsible for more than half of the country's food and produce supply i believe that food is medicine and that genetically modifying. the food that we eat is going to have a great health impact on it the united states also holds the record for the largest production of genetically modified products in the world according to g.m.o. compass ninety five percent of american corn and eighty five percent of the soybean industry is genetically modified the ingredients in all processed foods contain
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g.m. ingredients the grocers manufacturers of america estimates seventy to seventy five percent of the food we eat every day is genetically engineered this is one of the most dangerous massive experiments we've ever conducted all of our planet and the men one nine hundred ninety s. the f.d.a. and the u.s.d.a. allowed genetically modified food products and ingredients to flourish through the american food supply and farming industry. when g.m. was rendered use to ninety ninety six seven percent of americans had three or more chronic illnesses within our years that went to thirteen percent to allergies doubled in less time food related illnesses doubled to nine hundred ninety four in two thousand and one autism is up obesity is a diabetes is up no one is checking to see if the most radical change in the human food supply the introduction of genetically modified. contributing to these
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dangerous just six however statistics that lower income areas very according to a report conducted by trust for america's health minority communities in the country are more vulnerable and factor to sticks recorded and african-american as panic in native american communities are nearly double the rates of white american dr carolyn alexander suggests the alarming numbers plaguing minority communities is directly linked to g.m.o. foods i believe that these are certainly at the root cause of a lot of our children's health issues in particular in low income communities because they don't have the access to real food or feeding the products of an entrance to the entire population so the food is slowly killing us making us unhealthy and fat why is it on our stupid market shelves and even more important why aren't you know products labeled. as r t washington d c.
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despite cast discrimination being used legal in india many face harassment and hostility on a daily basis because of their social status those choosing to tie the knot with a member of a different caste can find themselves rejected by both their community and family but as our current thing reports more and more young people are trying to break with tradition. have upset their families well into different castes they would expect it to matty one of their own but they have broken what is considered. an intercom is considered a sin here our society wants to continue its traditions that people have been following for centuries her family has a much higher cost than mine this hurt their ego but the bridegroom is lower in status. the couple who have been listed the help of outsiders the end you unite humanity movement often deals with marriages that have been more than one type. thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the be hard state. we want
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to discuss based society based mindset and caste based discrimination a society can only be brought about by intercourse marriages and religious marriage just the birth and she looked ten years ago not chickens father filed a case of kidnapping against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple. my family allowed me to visit them only after seven years but not with my husband and even now if i do visit my father doesn't speak to me she is still angry with me . the police in bihar. dealing with aidid five and young couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old. formatting. madi . we are seeing many cases such as these with both a boy and girl wanting to get married if
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a girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the person of her choice but if she is younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes like. a divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities gas divisions are now less important while in rural india many refused to let go of their traditions. anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by us no one in the village gives the couple any water or food or even talks that if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. caste is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation the ration who considers caste and even if we do the next generation will definitely not even think of it discrimination on the basis of cost is illegal in india but in large parts of the country dreaminess the overriding factor when choosing an. the sooner this changes the sooner we'll divisions will cost lose
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their relevance here got unseeing r g india. let's take a look now at some other stories dominating world news palestinians have clashed with jewish settlers and border guards in east jerusalem the incident saw arab friends of inciting cars alight and throwing stones at soldiers demonstrators say clashes began in one of those tried to break down a gate to a mosque and accusation they deny government plans to demolish illegal housing developments have raised tensions in the region. coalition forces in afghanistan have seized drugs worth over one million dollars officials claim this is the biggest battle ever confiscated in the world almost eighteen tons of opium heroin and marijuana were found during an operation against the taliban in the southern province of helmand in the course of the fighting sixty three militants were killed ten people were arrested and fourteen hostages were freed.
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biologists say humpback whale stranded on a beach in southern brazil is on likely to survive the eleven metre twenty five ton animal has beached on the same patch of sand for the second time in as many days activists are trying to coax it back into the ocean but say it is breathing with difficulty and is probably. here with r t coming up next hour it's the kaiser report in which analyst max kaiser and stacey herbert predicts financial doom for the u.s. here's a preview. that have withdrawn thirty three point one two billion dollars from the stock market and in the first seven months of this year you know the chopping down piece of the house to burn is fire word you know they're still there liquidating because they need that money for food you know at what point should a country like china just commit financial euthanasia and just pull the plug on america and put it out of its misery because watching it rise like this. pain liquidating itself to buy cookies and prosthetic is painful just sell those
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treasury bonds and put this dome down. and perhaps a new bush will have some better business or a more positive hi there daniel he said it looks like you have news about chinese cars coming to europe so that the head of their launch they probe is there much safer than a few years ago when they were criticised for their quality we'll have those details in the program but first russia's biggest carmaker after is back in the black or the profits of less than a million dollars for the first seven months is small it represents a considerable turnaround for a company that required a federal bailout just twelve months ago the improvements been widely attributed to the government's cash for clunkers program which is helped lift sales by around fifty percent. speaking at the moscow international motor show after us president victor carr said the company aim to stay profitable for the rest of the year his
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ambitions could be helped by a broader rebuild in the russian car market which is being targeted by manufacturers all over the world as i found out yesterday when i visited the much. there's been several will permit is here at the most going to national mode to show after this pushing a new competitor to the globally dominant g.p.s. sat nav system is cool blown us has been in development in russia for decades and. will now put it in his calls from next year but the key focus is luxury must go ready as more are luxury cars than anywhere else and jaguar hopes the new almost jag will tickle the locals find see i remember two years ago the head of b.m.w. here showing me my brand new bulletproof be my m this follows in that tradition there's also world full slike the new landrover and the most powerful ever porsche nine one one. the show was counseled last year as the months long but i spent today the same balls but there was two years ago and then deal sales in russia call sales
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have jumped almost fifty percent last month on july two thousand and nine the company with one of the most ambitious strategies these guys is trying to revamp its entire range russia's number two called make up says the sales hope back on the rise between on the end of the year told to go sales sales would be around seventy five thousand think we can finish roughly twenty five percent higher on sales for this year versus last year and a if that keeps the more important thing for all those trucks then we've got to be up fifty percent european call john poser citron has just started production in russia with the citron c four but the head of pars show told all to you that that's just the beginning we don't as such of them on the phone they had just one guy and then we started to speak eight and then we will go to. the pool. seven and then we hop all the ideas considering the market and we believe
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that the market is going to be called for the next the next step and i told you what jackson we believe that up you know. value it's a target that we should be reaching before cells in the future. that brings the first day of twelve to an end here at the most going to national mall to show the world call joints really hoping this show will relaunch the fortunes of the car industry which of course have been down in the doldrums for the last two years. chinese cherry says it's dramatically up quality standards ahead of a launch in western europe next year chery self appealed dissolves to three years ago when this crash test did on precedented damage to its best selling amulets but at the mosco motor show the company showcasing its new small call hope this eleven which is this will be perfect for european roads. what we are focusing on is
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proof of the proof that connotate have a truly improve the product among. so this is a war type of thing and also we were focusing on that. for europe to market the would move but that's not a lot of models these are just the model i come to love and it's me and a small model like that and the love that we have the support for the culture among . the stock markets here in moscow trade is very quiet as investors enjoyed the last week of the summer holiday gained over a percent on both forces as the price of light sweet crude cost seventy three dollars a barrel. a week again pushed up exporters all the nikkei take joins canon and panasonic puts on one and a half percent over in tokyo property stocks outweighed files for china life insurance which are lower than expected results. and frank swung into the positive
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corporate news no real posted a twenty one percent jump in first half minutes pushing its. shares over four percent of the world's largest whiskey produced at the edge of one percent in london of the worse than expected incomes of. profits at russia's x. five retail group plummeted eighty one percent year on year in the second quarter to twenty five million dollars that's worse than analysts forecasts the country's biggest grocer by sales took a seventy two million dollars hit on foreign exchange due to significant depreciation x five was one of the first retailers to cut prices during the downturn when increasingly cost conscious customers is now reaping some of the benefits of the recovery and margins are improving. russia's second largest airline trans are increased passenger traffic by more than a third for the seven months to july compared to the same period last year cargo
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turnover also jumped helping lift sells revenues to eight hundred million dollars trans aros net profit increased five times to over twenty six million that's according to russian accounting standards. staying with the trade russian airlines carried almost a third more passengers in the seven months of july than the same period last year numbers rose to thirty one million the federal transport agency said transit led the way with a thirty nine percent increase. that's the latest you can find more stories on our website r.t. dot com. wealthy british style. time.
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