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this week's top stories egypt's military dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution of the brotherhood barak steps down and hands power to the army while the west hailed it as a triumph of democracy analysts wonder if an external a durned could be behind the bads. also russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov claims responsibility for january's blast which killed thirty six times has prompted a huge security review of major transport hubs revealing this instance far from perfect. and with some blood sure that our songs must wait until later this month to see if he'll be extradited from london to stockholm overt sexual assault charges his supporters claim that the geisha is
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a which were previously trumped up politically motivated to assist the seek his transfer for trial. learned welcome to the program the weekly review. the main story now taking power from deposed president hosni mubarak egypt's own forces supreme council has dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution under which the country was ruled by nearly three decades the military has begun clearing eighteen days worth of debris including makeshift shelters and burned out cars from square in cairo it's been the epicenter of the nationwide uprising that brought hundreds of thousands of egyptians on to the streets demanding china after nearly three weeks of protest and bottled president hosni mubarak resigned and what u.s.
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president barack obama called a great victory for democracy but it's also he's got an education now reports thirty years of crucial financial and political support for the mubarak regime has raised questions about washington's sudden change of spirit. hosni mubarak ousted from power is eventual departure not without the help of washington he had a phone call from the white house persuaded him to leave. the former egyptian president left cairo just hours after he addressed the nation saying he was not going anywhere the screws have been put upon him by the on they no doubt by the u.s. state department it was a very serious risk for washington and in the end they decided it would be safe to dump mobarak in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy with the cheerleader in chief buraq obama gyptian said made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day but it's
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egypt's military largely financed by the united states which will now control the country until egyptians choose their next president they have a very close relationship with the pensacola don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the phone at least five times this past week so always the washington will be supervising him missing that happens that's unlikely to satisfy the overwhelming desire of many egyptians for change which drove the revolutionary events of the past few weeks if you heard the slogans that were being chanted it was egypt egypt egypt meaning we are fed up of being bullied by foreign powers and forced into peace treaties makes don't do us any good and our generals bowl to directly with billions of dollars by the pentagon mubarak is yesterday's man for the us now after thirty years of being their top pants man in the arab
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world when a blind eye was turned in the west to appalling human rights abuses under his rule bigger problem with the us policy and that is cozying up to. dictators in the first place that we really don't need to cozy up to and then when they get into trouble we get into this hypocritical position of supporting an autocratic regime when we're spouting democratic rhetoric here in the united states mubarak was kept in. our by american support and huge payments to making him one of the richest men in the world we had a lot to do with mubarak being in power and staying in power like we subsidize and we own him he's our puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he gives so much money he's gotten probably sixty to seventy billion dollars and i understand his family probably has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts and other places around the world as if this is the second largest
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recipient of american aid in the world after its neighbor israel the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which gives washington huge control over the running of the country and its future egypt now celebrates the end of rule by an autocratic leader restricted political freedoms and economic progress so too did people rejoice for a time on the streets of carious then and ukraine in recent years after so called democratic revolutions with western approval that the leaders who came to power were later rejected by their own people even though there's a lot of celebration in jubilation going on in cairo we don't know really whether the military is going to give up its power and authority and if they do to whom how far will they share or what's going to happen some say the lesson that the west could learn from recent revolutions is to abstain from supporting a leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much they can do for their people got a check on our t. washington d.c.
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. and author and journalist option return told us that while the bar may be gone the political climate in egypt and the region will remain turns for. well i think the people in tahrir square certainly don't want to see field marshal tantawi and. vice president that they don't want these people in power people like mama del baradar you do have close ties with international institutions such as the international monetary fund and those kinds of globalized institutions how far these people can really play a part egypt's economy is in the doldrums it's in chaos a lot of those companies that are stationed there have been stealing the money so a lot of the egyptian people might see the companies can be named b.p. shell trans ocean they're masses of companies there that are enjoying huge privileges because tony blair is really a reverse barometers if he says that they could be a breakthrough of democracy in the maghreb would probably have to be a bit pessimistic for the peoples of north africa i think algeria is the one to
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watch the french are certainly watching it with hawkers because their oil interests there the people have suffered have not benefited from masses of money masses of exports we'll have to see what happens in algeria and i think that's the country to watch at the moment. political discontent spreads through the region thousands of old derrius have been gathering in the competition to demand that presidents resignation ten thousand people turned out for a routine bronte by the government on saturday the state's deployed more than twenty five thousand police to prevent an uprising similar to a recent revolt in tunisia and egypt algeria has been under a state of emergency for ninety days allowing your sources to outlaw public demonstrations human rights campaign it said police detained about four hundred people but there were no injuries reported. we've got more had figured this out american dream for american. cities across the south hot hate of the government
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faced with the bread called slashers and wages and consequence will say. i don't vote i have more guns per person than any other european countries swayze does have rejected proposals for tighter control. of the problem of under-age drinking russian youngsters of finding it easy to buy spirits without being asked for id as law enforcement is leaving the country with thousands of teenage alcoholics. this week russia's most wanted terrorist doc of claimed responsibility for last month's moscow airport says side bombing which killed set a six while some observers question maurice claim the outrage is forcing the also ratings to wrestling security in the country and as president medvedev discovered himself the situation behaves much to be decide. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain
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chechen born. this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the idea of the airport when one of made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described the suicide bombing as his special open ration and promised more terrorist attacks security experts say the massachusetts enforces why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist these groups morph asli round the world you know their own down to the chechens operating in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether mark was indeed behind the bombing the terrorist is stalking himself they say as a self-styled bin ladin to make sure foreign investments. he is a man who wants to put all the trappings of bin ladin is and if you will a sort of ground. to his actions and therefore it's not always clear how much
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authority he really has in fact from within his own group and there was a rebellion i think of last year when he resigned and then he remained his resignation and the younger members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear where they can directly is in charge of a barge a number of these militant groups or where they can simply putting himself in a position of their own near in order to gain more authority him self and meanwhile this week security forces arrested three suspected accomplices of the former. all three are from the north caucasus republic of english and are believed to have known about the attack by twenty wrote evil with a manhunt is on for seven other suspects wanted in connection with the bombing at the security operation gathers pace the president shifted focus from what has been down to sort out the off to mop of the tragedy what is being done to prevent similar tragedies from happening again and the best thing to do he decided is to go
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on inspection personally. he checked security at one of moscow's busiest railway stations and was left unimpressed to say the least. as i see private security agents here but where is the police and where are any metal detectors i don't see them we don't have metal detectors that's true these specs and didn't reveal any says the t.v. either and just to compound concerns no police in sight. through the whole station and i haven't seen a single policeman no police but there's a church shop well at least you have some place to pray. but the time when people relied soley on god not police may finally be over russia's anti terror law is likely to be seriously amended so just as the country's police force is now undergoing a major overhaul it's hoped the changes to the police will put an end to cop corruption and security lapses. are teeth.
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extradition hearing in london and a wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the twenty fourth of february a songe appeared in court on friday going to fight against a base sense to sweden where he faces questioning of a sex crime which were previously dropped the case is politically motivated and has been fabricated so the u.s. going to save his extradition from sweden autism is in now explores the cozy relationship between washington and stockholm. sweden a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films
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but in sweden it seems to. the supersized just the other day the deer hunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for. the sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda in politics through the back door like swedens times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross reading intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assange to terrorist suspects to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there is. a willingness to.
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do the ariens of the united states over many years from. question of. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a raid leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange just ticks off the u.s. with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source unloveable and he see as a you know tamil in my mind as it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish. and just happens
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to be advising the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songs for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured the question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exacting within me the big question now is there enough room in the british justice system to protect julian assange from the united states of sweden america and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's in no way are to stockholm sweden. well there's another legal battle looms for jet and the song find out about it it's a break between the bedfellows the u.k.'s guardian newspaper clutches with his sex collaborator we can meet so on days i'm threatened with libel by the whistle
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blowing web site that's coming your way in the next hour along with. iraq we'll look at the plight of christians forced to flee their homes after being continuously targeted by extremist groups. drinking is a growing problem in russia where the government is considering reforms to call bought alcohol abuse some say the plan is to tighten restrictions on distribution and sales maybe missing the real root of the problem going to find out how russia's you may be under the age limit but also an over the train thing that. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to feel so when they are brought to us the grossest has already been for not always we can pull them out of this tough situation according to n.g.o.s
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there anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand in the country and many believe the fact that it's far too easy for a teenager to buy a. legal drinking age in russia is eighteen years old so how easy is it for a teenager to get his or her hands on some hard liquor we're going to follow a couple of enthusiasm a russian youth organization into that liquor store right across the street which is one of the largest supermarkets selling hard alcohol to find out whether or not they will be successful in getting their hands on a couple of bottles of whiskey we've been in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go here the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were asked for identification when they didn't provide it they were refused service. we're going to go to another place just down the street and see whether they will be able to get some vodka or beer there. sure enough each of them had no trouble getting a beer from this kiosk. when confronted this series woman got defensive but didn't
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seem too fazed with breaking the law oh no no don't call me time soon we tell you not to sell alcohol to the under-aged and you still continue to do that if you live in your forties unfortunately practically every second or supermarket sell cigarettes and alcohol to adolescents and we have to mark positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians have been trying to implement stringent punishment for those who sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress parents are responsible for the children until they turn eighteen and i think if we make parents pay a fine when the kids know good drink we raise the level of responsibility because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. several routes of this problem alcohol became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have a tradition to drink for any reason and that's
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a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the scope of the problem part of it as life they want to relax to feel grown up but i don't think if you drink two three bottles of beer you automatically become an adult as things stand there is little consequence or punishment for kiosk or store owners willing to cash in on minors health but it could be the country's future at stake it even goes corti mosco. and you can always find no one hundred of your say on the stories we're covering on our website home and have us on line for you right . here at twenty twelve championship promises a new wave of excitement around a brand new sound trying to find out about the traditional instrument which hopes to strike a chord with. out of the months of space travel that finally about to pale with the landing on the brad planet find out how the crew of the simulated mission is preparing to go where no one has gone the full.
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as a comic troubles continue to wreak havoc on the u. was many states and city authorities a cutting case services in a desperate attempt to save cash lauren vista takes a look at how budget cutting is pushing the american dream further and so either way from reality. that it's the reality america cannot escape with the city's roughly two hundred eighty million dollars debt more and more people are talking about bankruptcy news of debt like that hitting cash strapped cities and states all over the country altogether it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many may not be able to pay the problem of the state and local debt is more serious than the real estate bubble serious because with millions of americans
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still unemployed and losing their homes there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay creditors local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash this means some may be choosing between default or devastation in many cases it will be fairly simple for cities to cut services before they actually default on their debt cities and states coast to coast seem to be trying this route and the toll it's taking on the streets of america is undeniable. camden new jersey is the second most dangerous city in the country you didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now may release any the city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force in detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead the city's too broke to repair dying infrastructure to fix roads or lights in the desert state of arizona
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cuts have been a matter of life and death. governor jan brewer taking a lot of heat over the death of another transplant patient after the state cut funding for the operations here in new york city huge piles of garbage like this one are all over city streets this city's behind on picking up trash after getting behind cleaning up after our snowstorm public officials blame that on any number of reasons but one accusation that keeps coming up is this is the result of budget cuts cuts have consequences you can't just sort of cut and there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut you're actually do have to cut services that people depend on analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering of wages dragging more americans down and the economy with it while the prospect of bankruptcy is threaten the pensions of public workers and may cause a run on municipal bonds so that will push the city counties over the over the cliff well it's not something you should either scenario seems to be causing
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a widespread decline in the american city once relegated to ancient history it's a feedback towards economic shrinking downsizing and the urban ization exactly the same thing happened in the roman empire when in the end broom was left almost a deserted city and all of the production shifted back onto the land that's what you're faced here although the land in this case looks like it'll be broad rather than in the united states as investment flees to other countries threatening to take with it the american dream lauren lyster r.t. new york. political activist and rapper and one says many americans are ready to axe against a government entity is coming up for you next hour but here's a preview of what he had to say. we have young african black and brown. community colonial subject being sat down in the street in an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty shots laying on our stomach in our back as
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we run or as we walk or flee in retreat from the scene this is an abuse of power which is a powder keg upon which we said no and we discussed our already the jobless rate we've discussed already the idea that there's a crisis even in the ideology of america and who would be the next to lead so there isn't a competition about that happening as well and people are charged people are stars and are waiting to jump into action. so we have rejected a proposal for tighter controls on gun ownership following a long running debate in the country the anti gun lobby said they nish they would have reduced firearm suicides which had the highest in europe however the argument has widened into whether the neutral sways need an army at all.
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training for combat preparing for war. except these soldiers are from neutral switzerland and are unlikely to ever experience wartime combat more and more the country centuries old militia is being challenged the swiss are voting on the longstanding tradition of keeping a government issued weapon at home as part of military obligations public outcry about high rates of fire arms suicide and lot of calls to tighten gun ownership regulations but the militia and the country's beloved village shooting clubs under fire whatever the result it's just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger battle local activists likely stuff by day has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as normal cold war we totally surrounded by the european union which is. militarily speaking totally friendly so we have no war in the me so the army has no reason to be no enemy just a tradition do you think that's what someone should have an army. for.
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certainly not a joke just make fun you know. just play a big war against but we don't. we don't need. a nine hundred eighty nine referendum on the issue revealed that more than a third of the swiss are in favor of dissolution a figure significant enough to pressure the government to take some action to rein in military activity the size of the army and its budget while still a substantial four point five billion dollars have been cut and the option of joining the civil service instead was introduced it's not enough there is a political clout which means that the parliament is made moves a lot of rich people. i mean people want a moment to feel because they feel insecure there's still about two hundred thousand army personnel with compulsory military service for swiss males and private gun ownership for all conscripts living up to
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a local saying switzerland does not have an army it is an army not a pleasant prospect for young draftees like adrian feller who just don't see the point. to shoot. more. or. in my opinion an army to some kind of. security. well i saw two army can do. anything against risking anything to social problems and disorder so why should we. of swiss francs for something to help us solve the problems we have the arguments are there get the swiss where jordi still cannot imagine a nation without their men in uniform. not only the political left supporting a belief we're still a minority in this country it's hard to convince the population because it's really
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a tradition that is deeply rooted in this. last there's the rise of populism and demagoguery war is leading. many swiss feel that abolishing the armed forces is a kid to letting go of a tradition of losing that sense of security real or imagined so does a neutral country with no enemies really need an army while support for abolition is elusive the question has been asked and the debate is about to continue just or so you're r.t. switzerland. of the week's top stories i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay tuned.
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