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it often said only fourteen people died also dismissing reports that his father has fled the country and all the address continues to spread further through the region with protests in yemen and bahrain and mako regional expert adrian subgroup she says that global dominance groups are behind the wave of revolts. we might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty euro regime but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly libya or 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 this is going on and we will fall the interest that may be driving them from outside of the middle east because i think this ties into a more global power where we have to understand the major geo political maturity clamming emanating from such organizations as the council of foreign relations the trilateral commission and the bluebird group who for decades been fighting the arab
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world and have been fighting the sovereign nation state as an institution. 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 has always seen before to a more liberal and more controllable list you start democracy and then it sort of really what we have to be very careful about the viewer is reading said make of this. as u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calls for unrestricted internet access for all some experts are taking a more skeptical view of her campaign vested in journalist webster tarpley told r.t. that washington is using social media to drive revolts in the greater middle east mirroring be color revolution so the post soviet space. hillary clinton talked about digital activists in other words there's
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a huge ball you around 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 shock and awe. this is what they were able to. you get the rich kids using facebook and twitter you get the rich kids into the square you put it on television you convince the rest of the society that the government is deeply unpopular and the revolution it's a way to manipulate an entire society and this is what a couple revolution or cia people power post-modern actually is. to iranian warships were delayed entry. all this comes after israel and the us expressed strong concerns over the dispatch first for terror navy earlier egyptian official said that the cargo allowing the two vessels to pass the passage was attacked by israeli ministers who called for the world to act against quote recurring
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publications. across develop. these 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 avigdor lieberman and 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 that iran is sending weapons to its neighbors that will ultimately be used against the jewish state israeli 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 may have been on now the united states is adding fuel to the whole
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situation the u.s. state department recently set up a twitter account and it is using their twitter account to post tweets in farsi that supports anti 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 no 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 military council as you well know president 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 were 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 are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board
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and as a result they have allowed there for data on the supply ship to go through. coming up in the latest edition of cross talk peter lavelle and his gas discuss why countries and the middle east spend so much on the military and how the u.s. justifies its big business in the region. saudi. arabia partner somewhat comparable to a singapore of switzerland their small populations they want people to know they have basically want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions into yemen and he's using a china kit purchased from the u.s. and other states so i don't want sure about the banana so i won't kind of course discuss the problem there but to say that they're not using it at all i think it would be a question now. and it. is
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divided over claims that the countries 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 occupation at any cost necessary but lovely as a jewish communities claim that that was just a pretext to rob she was of their property as peter all over discovered. being jews were property money and in many cases. one of the major issues is. on the side of nazi germany. so really. unfortunately many believed a lot from the s.s. who fought against the bill were liberators but they in fact were bandits and robbers documents listing real estate that belonged to jews killed in ghettos i think the property should be richer and the amount of reparations claimed by jews 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
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a solution however those in power draw their support for national. groups who are far less diplomatic when it comes to the issue. lottery and administration is not responsible for the night you're doing to do this in the holocaust began before our country was under occupation by definition allied to me and i thought he should not be responsible for 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 now they wish as we need to be broken to solve our social problems and we still like develop an education culture because that's what is meant to know synagogues and cemeteries and of course it's hard to find out when you need to take back certain property while in the 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 says is a poignant memorial to those who lost their lives but in central riga there is
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equally chilling monuments to the holocaust like this synagogue which was burned to the ground with which is 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 those latvians that consider the s.s. troops to be in 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 oliver r.t. riga latvia. still ahead for you this hour the heavy price for miscalculating operations in afghanistan. mistakes of the government of the international community we look into the surge into civilian deaths in the northeast which made till denies also. a faded though is the month best friend but of course if you're blind it's
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a bit more than just companionship and the duty of care is a two way street and why i went to every lengths to save history might help or who was using her side as well. well recession is proving that 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 for funding their future find that they are also rated with skills employers just won't pay for as artists and this is see a trick and i've discovered only the blue color option remains. the international children's fund has worked for almost a century help the less fortunate than other nations now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for only fifteen thousand pennies a day he'll give everything he needs to survive the idea of adopt a grad maybe a joke but modern day post college survival is most certainly not have seventy six
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thousand dollars haunted by tuition debt larry's 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 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 are now for over three hundred thousand waiters and over eighteen thousand parking lot attendant working in the u.s. 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
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of kids graduating at the same time as ever more companies 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 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. he's looking for any available jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. sixty five seventy thousand college. tuition. 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
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a physician good luck with your four hundred thousand dollars and other words people's college and university debt 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. a lot of my friends are considering jobs outside of the u.s. in india they're considering i didn't and try to do with fifty thousand dollars of college debt so this debt works hand in hand with american culture take it or leave it but it's the cost of living the american life that educational. dead taking out loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from 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 debt piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when commenting that
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higher education and. all the stories we're covering for you are available right now at our t dot com let's run through a selection of what else is there discover why one hundred million dollar fleet of yachts belong to self x.l. buddies has been seems to be in france. and the spy in the sky a former russian agent is turning her attention because macau for the last what some plot from space industry details are to die. now scores of civilians several portably been killed and nato led operations in the northeast of again the sand over the past few days women and children are said to
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make up almost half of the victims a further thirteen who were killed have been identified as taliban militants well nato has officially confirmed its troops were involved in the ground and air operations but denied civilian deaths. would sort of choice says such incidents only help the taliban recruit new members among desperate locals. it's an ugly or nor an 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 thrive on and to seize up on in a news public opinion and they're all in favor and also government leadership is the government problems. this is something that the international community and afghan government has to. learn and also right through isolate the population from insurgency. we hear how u.s.
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operations in afghanistan are not only doomed to failure there but how the consequences will reverberate for washington's wider global world will be some conflict expert has been studying america's moves for years and here's some of what he has to say. what is going to happen to of this the bush era it may be with the axis. beijing. russia. increasing irrelevance so. some would even come to the conclusion that enough is enough somebody will say that maybe that somebody would be a more isolationist president. now as american politicians in congress raggle over the world's biggest military budget
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the state department is asking for more money its justification is that alongside agency for international development its role is to help poor countries stand on their own but as our military contributor explains the cash brings very different consequences. the main case in favor of saving or even marginally increasing the u.s. state department and i d. budget is based on their false premise that id officially stands for american international development allegedly develop their client states and consequently promotes their pax americana all over the world on in a shoestring budget in reality it's quiet opposite because for the recipient countries ideas stands for american international dependence not development consider egypt for example the us id has been invested one point five billion
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dollars annually in promoting self-sufficiency and independence of agricultural sector but in reality the age of dependence on import a few as grain and as big as it's ever be and that's why i use strong and sincerely supportive senator rand paul initiated to completely abolish idea as a counterproductive and totally unaffected reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings and resentment. state department all over the world. let's have a look at some other international headlines now twelve people have been killed in a string of attacks on taxis in the mexican city of acapulco police say both passengers and drivers are among the dead it comes ahead of monday's mexican open tennis tournament and this city has been the scene of bloody drug cartel wars for
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years taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion and recruited to transport drugs and act as lookouts for gerunds. ten children have been killed in a blaze at an orphanage for youngsters with disabilities in western estonia nine adults and thirty seven children were in the wooden building when the fire started most of the children at home used the real chairs and were unable to escape the flames were the cause of the far has not yet been determined to be a storm and government has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. uganda as incumbent president who is a close ally of the us has been declared the winner of the latest election extending his twenty five year rule his main challenger who won twenty six percent of the vote has rejected the result alleging fraud is also accused of secretly training militia groups to antagonize the opposition and steer on registering voters to ballots but the election was largely peaceful but the president vowed to
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lock up any protesters attempting any egyptian style demonstrations. that would dogs devotion to its owners often reciprocated but one man in moscow has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that his guide dog gets a second chance however as. these 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 chimp to the vet. confirmed his worst suspicions. we find cataracts on the dogs eyes and how to take urgent measures. but as they say a dog is for life and despite the large cost of the operation lexie was determined to find a solution. i don't like to think about how much it cost me i took extra work and saved my pension for surgery it was worse. we had to stop the inflammation and then
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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 dogs available is. training center on the outskirts one of the many 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. a catch twenty situation when we see further government funding to increase the numbers trained until demand is higher the demand remains low many simply can't afford the expense of keeping a pet and in a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind. valuable as alexis.
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just like a member of the family. they say that 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 refer. you back with the headlines for me but first the business update with your ear.
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hello time for your business update a very warm welcome yandex this plenty to place an initial public offering worth up to one billion dollars the sum up russia's leading internet search engine has hired deutsche bank and morgan stanley as underwriters for the i.p.o. and plans to trade on the nasdaq stock exchange the search engines offering could become one of the largest companies in twenty eleven and mail dot our use nine hundred twenty and twelve million dollar i.p.o. last november which recently landed in the top fifteen most innovative companies previously planned to issue an i.p.o. back in two thousand and eight but halted its plans due to the crisis. the ongoing dispute between shareholders and nickel could be coming to a close after the company made a renewed offer to buy but twenty percent of its shares from one of its own as a league city plus cup since the middle of last year two of neurons to nichols majority's shareholders the c.e.o.
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roussel alexander pastor and the head of interop splitting up a time in have been buying for control in the coproducer but with both billionaires having twenty five percent blocking stakes and refusing to yield to one another any further development of the company is being blocked chris with the world still believes how well that the outstanding issue is ending the route 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 now acknowledged that they're likely to sell it's no question of price hiking so we certainly see that we are you know more likely to get a deal over craps. the next few weeks or maybe my you can take the next few months but it at least i think the principle to the we're now talking about the price of
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the exit rather than the principle of the exit i think that's now been established . time to see how the indices the ferry and the solid asian markets are mostly trading lower on monday as this is continue to worry about the growing unrest in the middle east and the latest months for a tightening move by china but japan's nikkei finished monday's trading slightly up and then saying is down just now. and russia says we're down point one seven percent at the close of friday's session with electricity shares the biggest drag but overall the premise week was positive with the r.t.s. gaining one point two percent on the my six point eight so. far for this time from much pull i've seen says this week traders will be waiting for a new market dr sandra feels why russian bank 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 when very successful in my way and this time it's to be played i think quite small of the good market or discount and left some room for growth going forward between the share price is going to increase because we are market gainer number one. 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. in a way or bank of moscow which is going to be a very significant addition to read to be earnings. martin stein i've seen metropole there and stay with investments in for foreign direct investment center of the russian economy dropped by a thirty last year to around thirteen billion dollars speaking exclusively to our t. the chairman of gas group six wall says that despite this rush remains very attractive
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for investors my personal view is it's getting better because the market is in favor for investment market is there missing people who really would like to buy products and that that's where a good on the other hand if you see how positive let's see russia discovered after the crisis this is the next very positive sign for that reason the positive for russia that's it from me you are up to date you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.
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well here's a quick recap of the stories we're covering here on our. middle east that has already led to hundreds of deaths is putting some confidence on the civil war. that's foreign meddling for fuel. protests. afghanistan witnesses a surge in civilian deaths during. the alliance denies the totalities. or didn't. call for the return.
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of cost the country's authorities every laboring liberation from the baltics and glorify the collaborators to justify the. adventure james brown head south to the present region for the latest discovered russia series. in russian to the pens region is just a short haul. around six hundred fifty kilometers southeast and only a plane journey away it's an area that any travelers should explore. the capital cleanser is home to more than a million people and although it's a modern city with a thriving business and cultural scene there are plenty of twits paul just sit around the streets. so this is where the history of penza began sixteen sixty three it was founded as a frontier town.
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