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ffs. a double bluff to say russia southern republican. outside a police station. and many more will bring you the latest on that story. we failed to provide a vision. to which they feel. western european leaders multiculturalism is a failure and a potential threat to security but immigrants solutions instead of criticism. plus the. tensions remain high at this point the u.s. applauding the country's journey to democracy some political experts could be a recipe for disaster. revolutionary virtual trip bringing us closer to
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space. in the program. live from our studios here in central moscow this is twenty four hours a day two suicide bomb blasts of rocked the southern russian republic of dagestan killing at least two policeman and injuring several others the explosions went off just hours apart in the village of more details now from our correspondents. what we know so far. carrying outside a police station in the village of. the republican. native a.p.i. and those sets of by a female suicide bomber he tried to enter
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a police station in the village coming through the security checkpoint had been stopped at that point that's need to be explained we need that killed one please. and injured many more and then less than a few hours later at ten forty pm a male suicide bomber. also killing another police officer and injuring many more now we're hearing that the maybe the save the seventeen people injured of course the police offices. he being killed and of course investigate. exactly who these suicide bombers of. this latest attack comes in the wake of last month's suicide bombing adamah down of an airport in moscow in which thirty six died what measures are the authorities taking to deal with the ongoing threat generally. well after that terrorist type we saw the thing up with the security throughout the country in fact we heard at the time the president and the mare's most case saying that this wasn't just about assuring that security in
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the main hubs in the central cities this is really about ensuring that those countrywide security so we see a lot of checks happening not to push for getting the security checkpoints in place it's interesting to note that when these suicide bombings went off as he said the first one the female suicide bomber that she tried to enter the police station has been stopped at a checkpoint for tenchi they could be many more lives lost perhaps a security measure to be put in place coming into effect but of course they're really going to be wanting to know you know what more could have been done to try and find out whether these people could have been stopped at an earlier stage as we said the security measures in this country are being watched very closely the last president a visiting region such as dagestan where you visited giving advice on how best to make sure the systems are in place to ensure that terror attacks like this aren't a common occurrence so thanks very much indeed for that update. no doubt will get more information as soon as we get it but in the meantime thanks very much. other
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news now european politicians are calling for total overhaul of immigration policies many leaders admit integration in the e.u. has failed and with a new wave of migrants following the political chaos in north africa the problem only looks set to get more complex. has this report. the concept of multiculturalism seems to be failing all around europe we fail to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to the law oh this approach has failed utterly now. my answer is clearly yes it's a failure. they have two states are now admitting what many observers and radicals have been saying for some time mordecai tourism will only function if the people come into the country have a job to own their own money and feel responsible for the for the community otherwise was jobless people and if they live a passive life with social welfare and the passive approach can sometimes evolve
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into extreme action denmark is home to more than half a million immigrants making up almost ten percent of the population or didn't see it quite the nice town the birthplace of hans christian andersen one of the world's best known storytellers but the story unfolding here has nothing magical about it clashes between days in groups of somalian postin in youth have rattled this neighborhood then more than here locals say car burnings and violence between immigrants and police or a familiar sight one neighborhood two different worlds and their voices are being raised about doing something before tensions involves get out of hand the situation remains far from being a fairytale story there have been some suggestions on how to ease the tensions if we take those two hundred persons. split from all over the city. with the help from the state and police and kick them out of the country we won't
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have any problems but some immigrants believe the main issue isn't the different issue of integration. dormant in the danes things like integration means becoming fully danish immigrants have to eat drink and live just like the danes but those who come here think integration means earning some money. having the kids speak danish and going to schools. that's why there is a discord. so perhaps a difference in expectations is resolved because tensions in europe will persist but admitting that the problem exists may be the first step on the way to finding a solution. r.t. well writer and columnist. told me earlier that the failure of multiculturalism in europe has been caused by government soft immigration policies it's a fall of the government's not facing the facts standing up to reality standing up
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to the social phenomena popping up throughout europe in sweden and denmark as well you can you can't blame a whole. group of people for not doing this or that but you can you can blame the politicians for not dealing with the problems not not turning them into subjects can be criticized and and be painted with it we've allowed it too much multicultural. it being represented in the public sphere and now we've gone even further to to. practice legislation against hate speech against the defamation and limiting the free speech and and the soul which is european we have to start opening up to criticism and start forming a new policy. that was writer and columnist yelling when a little later we'll be telling you hell pills for. flying off the shelves in the u.s. but some americans say it's yet another example that shows the pharmaceutical industry is all about profit. stories still to come but first
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egyptians have managed to oust president hosni mubarak but the democracy they were hoping to get in is questioning it's questionable the military has assumed power after thirty decades dictatorship stepped down on friday passing on parts of the military after running the country for three decades with western and american support and huge financial backing turning into one of the world's richest men. residence. on sunday the generals dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution under which the country being run for thirty years by emergency powers he would in a new want to be drafted and put to a referendum of the people sitting in the middle east expert all of a model says the country's future direction however is still uncertain. we know from bitter experience that revolutions are going to go can go terribly wrong and the fact is that egypt faces appalling problems. the same problems essentially that
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it was facing in the low bar the same problems that other countries in the region are also facing economic problems over rising food prices unemployment under-employment and so on problems of corruption problems of ingrained habits of brutality in the security forces all these things can perhaps be put right but they can't be put right overnight now the army in egypt is secretive and probably nobody outside the the egyptian army knows exactly what their intentions are of course plenty of other examples where revolutions have been hijacked by the military what we need is to see which way the military are going to take egypt and that for the moment we don't know. and that was retired diplomat and middle east expert on of the models. when the events in egypt are reverberating throughout the middle east on monday anti-government demonstrators clashed with police in tehran police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who were throwing stones at the offices it's the first such clash in the country for over a year before the protest the u.s.
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state department began sending twitter messages to iranians in their native tongue preferred professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says washington is losing ground in the region the united states seems very desperate because this is a very desperate measure americans know they are losing out in the middle east and the middle east is becoming independent even its key allies are no longer stable countries regimes like jordan and saudi arabia and yemen it's not clear how long they will last the united states is in serious trouble on all fronts it's in trouble in iraq and afghanistan and lebanon in tunisia in egypt the americans are desperately trying to bring about change in iran but the fact is that republic of iran is highly popular the small group of people who rioted and downtown tehran today which are no more than three hundred they constitute
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a small minority the iranians basically want their independence they want to remain independent apartheid in palestine if the americans are able to come to terms with the reality in iran the iranians are quite willing to move towards rapprochement two cosmonauts are taking their first steps on mars during a revolutionary experiment masterminded by russian scientists even though it's a simulated mission researches all over the world agree that the project is an important scientific breakthrough you can of reports now on the huge step for mankind. italy's india. and russia. they made their first steps on the surface of mars the installed the flags there they took the samples off the surface and measured the imaginary magnetic level of the red planet of course this is a simulation but it is pretty real for the volunteers who spent over two hundred
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days in isolation during the simulation of the actual trip to the red planet just previously they were broken up into two groups one group stayed in the mothership simulator and two or three people a chinese an italian and a russian volunteer they went to the martian surface they're going to spend around a month there and are going to conduct three or walks in total after that they will be reunited with the team and will begin their simulation of the journey back home even though this is a simulation it's a real step forward. towards a mission to the red planet because scientists on both sides both in european space agency and in the russian space agency they say that before a real flight to the red planet it's possible hundreds and hundreds of various tests and experiments are needed to be conducted this is definitely a massive psychological test for these people since these six men are locked in
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this scientific model absolutely isolated from the rest of the world with the limited communication even messages from mission control or received would be delays simulating a real spaceflight and actually a russian the russian space agency has now announced that the see a real flight to mars possible in around twenty years so that kind of give some time for some more tests of why. it is just really important who are these scientists to see how people can live together and work together most importantly in isolated simulated conditions there even beam being given simulations of emergency situations which can also turn up during a real space flight so there is no t.v. no internet no radio show me the six of them and mission control with the from who
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me get these messages to very difficult psychologically and also this is only middle of the mission since they still have to come back and that is going to be over two hundred more days that they will have to spend inside the module walks or perhaps the most difficult psychologically part of the experiment is still ahead. of reporting on the mars five hundred project. russian officials are dismissed claims that the sentence handed to the former head of the yukos oil company. was made under pressure the judges assistant had said that he was forced to prolong the tycoon's jail term but according to court official the charge was the only person who had access to all the details of the case and could not have been dictated the terms of the verdict. in his partner were found guilty of oil theft and money laundering last december which saw their prison terms extended for another six years in two thousand and five the two men were found guilty of several offenses
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including fraud and tax evasion. time now for a quick look at some other world news in brief more than a hundred pro-government demonstrators a clash with hundreds of students in yemen the young people were marching through the capital sanaa to demand political reform and the resignation of president salih a leader who's been in power for more than thirty years has already pledged to step down in twenty thirteen but as previously broken promises to quit. two security guards are being killed in what police say was a suicide attack in the afghan capital kabul the blast occurred in a well known building near a hotel and shopping mall in the center of the city gunfire was heard after the explosion and is said to be continuing last year the same building was heavily damaged in a suicide attack on nearby towns. a pakistani court is charging police commando a terrorism a murder of a politician. has confessed to killing the governor of punjab province and says he doesn't regret shooting him last month he says he was angered by politicians
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opposition to the country's blasphemy law which sentences to death anyone convicted of defaming the prophet muhammad is the most high profile political killing in pakistan since the former prime minister benazir bhutto's assassination more than four years ago. on a few approaches feeling in a low these days fear no more there are companies that claim they're just the right pill for it canine prozac is one of many pet products in a very lucrative market but as the pharmaceutical industry keeps growing some fear it's turning into a cash cow. lister investigates if there's a conflict of interest when it comes to profit and quality. the most common things that we prescribe medication for in dogs are aggression and anxiety disorders. yes project works great on dogs you heard it right doggie prozac a b. flavored version of the well known human anti-depressant government approved and
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being prescribed by veterinarians for canines in crisis there is a significant population of dogs that really have suffering from separation anxiety the drug company one of the largest is banking on that they believe up to seventeen percent of us dogs are suffering from this mental affliction it's an idea some would scoff at i definitely understand being skeptical so is this really a quest to help feisty fido's or is it a sign of this problem is desperate to keep up their profit margin doing things to keep the margins up even though the job or drugs that are reported in the pipeline is diminish it turns out those companies don't need doggie drugs in order for critics to make that case medical researchers crunched the numbers and found the pharmaceutical industry now tops the defense industry as the number one de fraud or of the u.s. government that was a following that i didn't expect nor ever looked at before and it shows you how out
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of control for a suitable industry is in some cases criminally out of control perhaps helping this industry go from selling forty billion dollars to two hundred thirty four billion dollars a year in prescription drugs over the last two decades companies have been cheating and in danger in patients their biggest violations are overcharging the government by billions and illegally marketing their drugs for uses they are proven safe or effective for while side the world headquarters of one of the largest offenders one of the biggest criminal penalties that ever levied against any american corporation and. this drug giant pfizer their illegal practices included eventually hiring physicians to spread buzz about a drug telling their colleagues to prescribe it for a condition it wasn't approved for drug pushers as. we've described. difficulty for again and when it comes to the drug companies disease pushers may
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not be an unfair way of describing them either that's what one filmmaker found tracing a newly minted disorder female sexual dysfunction itself was definitely something that the pharmaceutical industry really pushed for and had a hand and creating that's the conclusion cancer came to after following the process of a drug company developing female viagra she says only a small number of women need it but the company has other plans their marketing and the amount of money that they were pouring into it really is says that they're trying to sell this to the whole population restless leg syndrome and with commercials for prescription drugs airing on t.v. in the us companies are in a position to do just that you feel better with billions being made and not much to lose critics say even in the case of crime for this industry nothing is likely to change it less people go to jail worst of five or much larger. companies will
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follow that is cheaper to cheat stopping short of nothing to find some syndrome someone or something new to medicate lauren lyster r.t. new york exactly twenty minutes past the hour in the russian capital i'll be back at half past the hour with a summary of all my new stories in the meantime it's an interview with u.s. congressman ron paul he told. you that washington was not really to blame for the shortcomings of the mubarak regime and was behind the revolution that toppled him that interview is next.
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congressman ron paul is talking to us here in washington d.c. about the situation in egypt the future of the conservative movement and possible presidential run in two thousand and twelve congressman thank you so much for being here i understand paul let's start off with egypt as usual you have a very different take on the situation in egypt something that many lawmakers most lawmakers aren't even talking about you say that this is our thirty year mistake that this this mass happened because of us foreign policy what do you mean by that we had a lot to do with mubarak being in power and staying in power like we subsidize them 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
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accounts and other places around the world so we bone here and and we're supposed to get you know perpetual peace and cooperation but in times after a time the people rebel against this they know about it and they see dictators as being nothing more than public you know if they sell government and they rebel and that's what they've done so even though there's been stability and we could afford the over those years now there's no stability and we can't afford it anymore so the sooner we quit this foreign policy subsidizing people they say well he's our only friend if we have to pay that much money for a friend he's not much of a friend the way i figure but your critics would say look we have to look out for the best interest. the united states therefore we can not have a noninterventionist foreign policy intervention hasn't helped us very well very much at all because if you look at how many americans have been killed in korea and vietnam in the middle east and around the world and how many others how much collateral damage there's been and how many civilians are being killed around the
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world i would say hasn't done us a bit of good in this helped move us toward our own bankruptcy so i don't believe our our national security required it i think we're realists say for it the threat of terrorism is related to our foreign policy so i feel less safe because we're over there i never feel safer for the foreign policy that we have today here's something that shocked a lot of people this is something that you had mentioned the telegraph reported on it it was part of the wiki leaks revelations the fact that the united states was actually supporting some of these activists that we saw on the streets for several years now how do we make sense of that where we're always involved on both sides if if if if our puppet dictator can last we keep propping him up when we see the tide taint changing then i'm sure our cia is involved in the opposition they can be in earlier and later they try to pick up the pieces that doesn't mean they have total control you know we controlled the iranian situation we had the shah in there for a while but eventually the next revolution we didn't have control and then we end
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up with the ayatollah so long term i think it hurts us on the short term we will always try to buy the influence and stay involved and can be see american people that our national security will be threatened if we don't control these governments i just don't believe that a lot of folks over at that conservative political action conference doesn't disagree with a lot of your especially when it comes to foreign policy and now especially this year with go proud being included in the conference and you winning the straw poll last year there's this sort of fear as as they say that see pac is becoming more libertarian why do you think that for some folks that's such a dirty word some people. who call themselves conservatives or big government conservatives so my opposition are big government conservatives and big government liberals i want libertarians and constitutional conservatives who say they will follow the constitution we believe in personal liberty and they come from our own right tradition there is a tradition in the republican party that objects to us policing the world so
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although you hear that and they've had lots of influence these last several decades there's still a lot of influence in the past at least by republicans who believed in in limited government and a noninterventionist foreign policy what do you think their ideal america looks like they are conclusion is because we're exceptional and so special that we have this neo jacob in ism where we have this moral obligation to spread our goodness even if we have to use force we reject the notion of using force to move people survive and change the world so that's where the separation is a big government conservative and more libertarian constitutionalist because we believe we can persuade people rather than forcing people to accept our views and act the way we do and you see pac is usually a platform or perhaps a task for future presidential candidates are you going to be one of them and twenty truthfully. no decision to make i am undecided and
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some days i am sympathetic to the idea because i have a lot of supporters urging me to then there are other days i think well you know maybe i have better things to do or other things to do so i am still undecided i have a couple months to make a decision i don't know if you got a chance to see this but there was an article circulating on the internet amongst your supporters and the title of it was a radical idea ron paul runs as a democrat in two thousand and twelve and if we listed all of the quote unquote good reasons as to why you should run as a democrat for example your anti-war views the fact that you want to end the drug war and many republicans associate you know smoking a joint with him or ality i have a. consider that running as a democrat you know i have but then i realize it's impractical but it would be great to do it because it would just just drive the progressives nuts because they would be agreeing with me but they wouldn't be able to stand the idea of supporting somebody like me because i don't address i don't endorse their principles of
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redistribution of wealth you know from one group to another so there's a limit they might agree with me on civil liberties and war and they would in we could expose the. the conflicts and the inconsistency of a president because he has the endorsement of the progressives but they get annoyed too because it is up there promoting no already been doing about the drug war and all these things and we call moats a patriot act and endorses assassinations and secret prisons nothing really changed so that would that will really stir the hearts of all dressed in the progressives would say oh yeah he doesn't want to give more food stamps to the american people and you know it's back to that but it's an interesting thing it's fascinating to think about congressman paul as always thank you so much thank you. for sure is that so much to play the huge music machine on the market the egyptian
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