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tester's all the clashes have now spread to the capitol where police are said to be using tear gas and live rounds to disperse rioters now meanwhile the best in this crowd and further through the region as thousands took to the streets of morocco's capital rabat demanding a king mohamed give up some of his powers well in examines capitalism our protesters continue to clash with government supporters as the country enters a twelfth day of rest while in bahrain it is partially paralyzed by a general strike after deadly clashes with government forces saw six people killed and dozens wounded middle east expert oversell goofy says that global dominance groups are behind the wave of evolves. we might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty euro regime but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly libya are certainly in tunisia growing that might be getting themselves into just as bad or even worse trouble if they don't really understand the social proof so
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what is going on along and the powerful interests that may be driving them from outside of the middle east because i think this ties into a more global problem where we have to understand the major geo political maturity climate emanating from such organizations as the council of foreign relations to try lottery commission and the buddha or groups who have for decades been fighting the arab world and have been fighting the sovereign nation state as an institution on a global basis so in a way if they can get rid of these strong mad men whether it be hosni mubarak in egypt or colonel gadhafi in libya and try to transition as i was saying before to a more liberal chaotic and more controllable the worse you style democracy that you serve in privilege to serve what we have to be very careful about the various readings of make of this. last week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. it's rated calls for restricted internet access
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for all promising another twenty five million dollars to help fight repressive regimes online the investigative journalist webster tarpley told r.t. that washington is using social media to drive revolts in the greater middle east the color revolutions of the post soviet space. the thing that hillary clinton talked about is digital activists in other words there's a huge ball you round the world they want to mobilize these people i think what she's got in mind is a secret army of hackers and indeed trolls that will be the shock and awe of the new decade and this is what they were able to deploy in egypt it's simple you get the rich kids using facebook and twitter you get the rich kids into the square you put that on television you convince the rest of the society that the government is deeply unpopular and the revolution takes off it's a way to manipulate an entire society and that's this is what a color revolution or cia people power coup or post-modern co actually is. two
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iranian warships were delayed entry in egypt was cut out all this comes after israel and the u.s. expressed strong concerns over the dispatch of first for terrazas navy well earlier egyptian officials said they tracked the cargo alarm this time of vessels to pass or the passage was attacked by israeli ministers who called for the world to act against iran's quote recurring provocations or to use policy or is keeping a cross developments. there's many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with most gravity the posturing of these two iranian warships through the suez canal to the mediterranean sea he says that it's really an attempt to take advantage of the current situation to exploited and to extend its regional influence we also heard today from the israeli foreign minister of a door lieberman he says that this is nothing short of provocation israel and iran have not had diplomatic relations for the past thirty years and israel is concerned
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that iran is sending weapons to its neighbors that will ultimately be used against the jewish state is really soon relations are strained israel convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately land in the hands of hizbollah in lebanon now the united states is adding fuel to the whole situation the u.s. state department recently set up a twitter account and it is using their twitter account to post tweets in flossy that supports anti iranian government demonstrators out on the streets of tehran we haven't seen the u.s. state department do anything like that supporting or even expressing any kind of opinion on the same kind of demonstrations that are happening in yemen since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution they have been you know iranian warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling
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military council as you well know. mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand was strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reported is that it took in officials have checked the cargo they all confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed this for gate on the supply ship to go through. coming up later today in the latest edition of crosstalk peter lavelle and his guests discuss why countries in the middle east spend so much on military and who is actually benefiting from it. is divided over claims that the country's jews should be compensated for the property they lost during the second world war while many including the government say the country was fighting against bolshevik occupation at any cost necessary but lot this jewish communities claim that that was just a pretext to rob jews of their property as peter all they were discovered.
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thousands of lives been jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi treats one of the major issues is how much only sign of nazi germany of today so really new words unfortunately many believe the latvian waffen s.s. who fought against the bolsheviks were liberators but they in fact were bandits and robbers they have seen documents listing real estate that belong to jews killed in ghettos i think their property should be returned the amount of reparations claimed by latvian jews is around sixty five million dollars the country's government says that they will continue to hold talks with religious leaders in order to come up with a solution however those in power draw their support from nationalist groups who are far less diplomatic when it comes to the issue. lottery and administration is not responsible for the night you're going to do this and the holocaust began before our country was under our education by definitional lightly and i thought he
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said cannot be responsible for the actions of occupants local jewish leaders say that they only want what was stolen to be returned however they realize that this may be difficult with current attitudes in latvia. they wish as we need to drop as if to solve social problems like develop an education culturally if that is meant to know synagogues and cemeteries of course it is hard to find out when you need to take back certain problems while in the real world i hope people will understand that and justice will be done a short distance from the capital is the forest where thousands of jews were executed it serves as a poignant memorial to those who lost their lives but in central reader there are equally chilling monuments to the holocaust like this synagogue which was burned to the ground with worshipers still inside over sixty five years after the end of the second world war the burnt out shell of this synagogue serves as a reminder to the tensions that still bubble between the local jewish community and
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those latvians that consider the s.s. troops to have been heroes while the government continues to draw most of its support from nationalist organizations a resolution to this conflict seems a long way off peter all of our riga latvia. and still ahead for you this hour the heavy price for miscalculating operations in afghanistan. surgeons to pride some mistakes of the government of the international community really a cancer surge in civilian deaths in the northeast which denies and also. they say that the is the amount that's bad but of course if you apply a guide dog it's a bit more than just killed. the duty of care is a two way street with peter bligh who went to every right to save this kmart helper was losing her sight as well. the recession is proving that
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getting to university is not the meal ticket to a study career that it once was well millions of american graduates saddled with college debts from funding their future find that they're also laden with skills employers won't pay for as an associate you're going to discovered only the blue color option remains. the international children's fund has worked for almost a century help the less fortunate for another nation now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for whom only fifteen thousand and he said today you'll get everything you need to survive the idea of adopt a grad maybe a joke but modern day post college survival is most certainly not have seventy six thousand dollars or hunted by tuition debt larrys one of america's college degree owners facing a job market that has long ago thrown out the welcome mat young people have twice the unemployment rate of most americans college grads are stepping out into the
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world in the worst time to try to land a job with around two million of them unemployed forcing many to forget about their skills and agree to any job for over three hundred thousand waders and over eighteen thousand parking lot of time. those working in the us are said to have a college degree moreover the u.s. bureau of labor statistics suggests as many as seventeen million americans with college degrees are forced to work jobs requiring less skills than a bachelor's degree provide raising an entire generation of janitors with ph d.'s as we have an ever higher percentage of kids in college and ever higher percentage of kids graduating at the same time as ever more kompany are hiring fewer people so what better time to question whether education really is the best investment bed with america's traditional promise of a dream life after college students aren't told however is that the cash and time
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they are investing is going to come back to bite them. at twenty two charles with a bachelor's in films and a dream of directing is already getting ready to settle for less. because. he's looking for any of the label jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. sixty five seventy thousand dollars. apart from weaving a dream career goodbye another big trend according to analysts debt driving much more than career choice if you want to help poor children as a physician good luck with your four hundred thousand dollars and other words people's college and university that is beginning to pick their careers who they marry where they live with the economy in other countries pumping in full mode job hunting overseas is becoming a lot more attractive than in the u.s.
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a lot of my friends are considering jobs outside of the u.s. in india they're considering i do and try to do sri with fifty thousand dollars of college debt says debt walks hand in hand with american culture take it or leave it but it's the call. a living the american life its educational and its dead taking out loans as it is the car isn't safe so you just live one day to another and the u.s. wants to hold top position as world leader in the number of college graduates at the same time not enough jobs are being created and dead piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when called getting that higher education and. all the stories we're covering for you are available right. dot com here's a selection of what else is there. discover why a twenty million dollar fleet of yachts be exiled russian tycoon buddies but it's
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also has been seized and frags. as the spy in the sky former russian agent at a trap is turning her attention to cost me tap water glass to add some glamour to the country's space industry all the details are at our. scores of civilians have reportedly been killed in nato led operations in the north east of afghanistan over the past few days well women and children are said to make up almost half of the victims a further thirteen who were killed have been identified as taliban militants nato has officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground and air operations but denied a civilian deaths afghan m.p.
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. says such incidents only help the taliban recruit new members among desperate locals. it's an ugly war nor no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes of the government of the international community and civilian casualties are the perfect mistakes for them to drive on and to seize up on in a news public opinion in their own favor and also government inefficiency and government problems so this is something that the international community and afghan government has to. learn and also try to isolate the population from insurgency. and later this hour we'll hear how u.s. operations in afghanistan are not only doomed to failure there but how the consequences will reverberate for washington's wider global role all peace and conflict. has been studying america's moves for years and here's some of what he
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has to say. well that's going to happen to have come of this. in my view through that of an axis. beijing. increasing irrelevance or change some will even come to the conclusion that enough is enough somebody will say that maybe that somebody would be a more isolationist president. as american politicians in congress wrangle over the slashing of the world's biggest military budget the state department is asking for more money lets justification is that alongside the agency for international development its role is to help poor countries stand on their own but as our military contributor explains the cash for brings very different consequences. the main case in
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favor of saving or even marginally increasing the u.s. state department and the budget is based on their false premise that id rich officially stands for american international development allegedly does develop their client states and consequently. promotes the pax americana all over the world on a shoestring budget in reality it's quiet the opposite because for the recipient countries id stands for american international dependence not development consider egypt for example. the us a ideally have invested one point five billion dollars annually in promoting their
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so of sufficiency and independence of egypt agricultural sector. but in reality age of dependence on the import off you as grave is as big as it's ever been and that's why i strongly and sincerely support. senator rand paul initiative to completely abolish the us idea outfeed as they counterproductive and totally on effective reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings and resentment towards us state department hypocrisy all over the world. well let's have a look at some other international headlines right now uganda's incumbent president has been declared the winner of the latest election extending his twenty five year rule his main challenger who want twenty six percent of the goat has rejected the
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results accusing your wedding was severely of fraud the governing party is also accused of using state resources to bribe voters but while the election was largely peaceful the president vowed to lock up any protesters attempting any egyptian style demonstrations. twelve people have been killed in a string of attacks on taxis in the mexican city of police say both the passengers and drivers are among the dead. ahead of monday's mexican open tennis tournament the city has been at the scene of bloody drug cartel wars for years of the taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion and recruited to transport drugs and act as lookouts for guess. ten children have been killed in a blaze at an orphanage for youngsters with disabilities in western a stone here on adults and thirty seven children were in the wooden building when
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the fire started most of the children at the home used wheelchairs and were unable to escape the flames were the cause of the far has not been determined yet is still in government has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the city. now a dog's devotion to its owner is often reciprocated but one blind man in moscow has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that his guard dog gets a second chance however as. gifted animals are in short supply. again leading you astray even rather than a visual aid this might be more of a case of the blind leading the blind to the. suspicions. we find contracts on the. but as they say a dog is for life and despite the large cost of the operation lexie he was determined to find a solution. i don't like to think about how much it cost me i took extra work and
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saved my pension for surgery and it was worth. it. we had to stop the inflammation and then remove the islands from the dog severely damaged by the surgery was successful and the dog's now able to see again. in a country with a very quarter of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is where you feel inadequate training center on the outskirts is one of the relatively few and the only one that's government funded there up to eighty dogs being chained here in the center at the moment now the training of the dogs typically start somewhere between ten months and two years old and many of the puppies are bred in the third. but the schools in a catch twenty two situation when we see further government funding to increase the numbers trained until demand is higher but the demand remains low for many simply can't afford the expense of keeping a patch and in
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a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind guy don't valuable as alexis. is like a member of the family is always in the same room as me. they say the dog is a man's best friend but of course if you're blind a guide dog is so much more than just companionship it's a chance to mobilize is so to really get your life back and that's why it's so important the more guys like this are trained up so. i'll be back with the headlines our first business update with your ear. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update the ongoing dispute between shareholders in the world could be coming to a close to the company made a renewed offer to buy back twenty percent of the chairs from one of its own us and it didn't pass up so as the middle of last year to nichols majority shareholders
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the c.e.o. . and the head of interrupts for jim at the time and have been buying full control of the nickel producer. both of us having twenty five percent looking stakes and refusing to yield to one another any further development of the company is being blocked chris with think believes whether that the outstanding issue in ending the row is now just a matter of price. it does appear we're now entering the the end stages of this long running dispute we noted some key minority shareholders and russo are pressing. the board to accept this deal and even the controlling shareholder himself has no acknowledged that they're likely to sell it's no question of price hike so we certainly see that we are you know more likely to get a deal over the next few weeks or maybe my you can take the next few months but at
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least i think the principle to we're now talking about the price of the exit rather than the principle of the exit of things that's now been established. let's have a look at the markets now asian markets are mostly trading lower on monday as it has just continued to worry about the growing unrest in the middle east and the latest monetary tightening move by china japan's nikkei is flat in morning trading and hong kong's hang seng is down marginally. and in russia indices good down point one seven percent at the close of friday's session with electricity shares the biggest drag but overall the previous week was positive with the r.t.s. gaining one point two percent on the my six point eight percent. now mark rubenstein at i've seen metropole says this week traders will be waiting for new market drivers and reveals why russian bank for you t.v. will be on investors' minds there is a certain a lack of ideas lack over. short term drivers lack of instant drivers in the market
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the most significant and wars the completion of the. placement in the market and one very successful in my way and this time had to be played i think quite small of a good market or a discount and it left some room for growth going forward be to me share price is going to increase because we to be the market number one the investment banking unit is a very strong market again a very strong cash cow for the bank that's going to continue. and another thing. is getting ready to make a very important was asian. in a way or bank of moscow which is going to be very significant addition to be to be earnings be in flow foreign direct investment sense for the russian economy dropped by a third last year to around thirteen billion dollars speaking exclusively to our chief
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of the chairman of gas group sic for its wall says that despite this russia remains very attractive for investors. my personal view is it's getting better because the market is in favor for investment market is there seeing people who really would like to buy products and that's very good on the other hand if you see how positive . see russia discovered after the crisis this is the next very positive sign for that reason and possibly for russia that's it for me you are up to date now join me in just under an hour time for more business news.
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you're watching are to use a recap of our top stories this hour the raging middle east that has already led to hundreds of deaths is putting some countries on the verge of civil war leader some experts are blaming foreign meddling for fueling the mass protests. afghanistan britain says the surge of civilian deaths during a nato led operation is in the northeast the alliance did rise the top of which all the reports of women and children. call for the return of property seized during the 1940's holocaust well they accuse the country's authorities of new labeling good war as liberation from the bolsheviks
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glorifying nazi collaborators to justify robbery and murder. some experts believe that the us bogged down in war suppressed by emerging powers will have to rethink its role in world affairs where. a peace and conflict goes one step further by predicting the fall of the us part those interview is next on r.t. . r t sitting down with professor johann an internationally recognized founder of peace studies and author of more than one hundred fifty books his most recent book is titled the fall of the us empire and then what. professor galton thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. today my pleasure in two thousand you had predicted in forecasts that that the united states would.

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