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and their allies forced to cross the libyan coast following five days of strikes against moammar gadhafi his forces during commanders in sr all the targets were hit precisely despite reports of dozens of civilian casualties. several weeks after the unrest in egypt ended president control activists from the revolution fear they've been manipulated turned down his allies to stay in power. protestors in the u.s. demand better treatment for the man accused of leaking data. he makes his supporters say bradley manning has been
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a traitor and is being held in degrading conditions. for you watching r.t. grow costing around the world in the heart of the russian capital welcome allied forces have conducted air strikes against troops in the world and libyan leader moammar gadhafi of the country's western city of misrata it's reportedly broken up by any assault by pro-government forces on the rebel stronghold chief of staff mission in libya says the no fly zone has now been enforced across the entire bin coast. exist wednesday night is the first night of coalition air strikes over libya a short time ago it was an explosion some fifty two kilometers to the east of the capital city tripoli at a military barracks but other than that the not so far has been quiet on the ground
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looking government continues to insist that it is in full swing a cease fire between say we continue to hear reports of heavy. clashes between both sides in three cities on wednesday and no more than sixteen people were killed in the city of misrata by gadhafi snipers in the city of intent six people were killed and in the city to be intensifying between both sides continues as you can well imagine the mood on the ground is incredibly tense people here are very very anxious and within this climate we have been asking the government if they can allow us to go and see the reports of civilians that have been killed if we can go into came in from you verified as we participated on wednesday on a government sponsored media tour this is the only way as journalists we can work in tripoli and that is because if you hundred meters there are roadblocks and if you don't have a government person with you you have no way of getting through those low clouds you run the risk of being detained or arrested possibly even worse so we were on one of these governments wanted to was we were being told that we were taken to see
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the family of a civilian who had been injured and in fact was later found but the story as it transpired was that it was a fifty two old man who was an arabic literature teacher and according to sami fee had volunteered to join in good luck his army now those first strikes last saturday by the french planes he was the one of the first casualties to be killed in those planes and this is what his family had to say there is that we have no choices only victory on this we have no other reason to leave the. children we will not give up. wherever we went there were almost spontaneous demonstrations it's as if people see journalists and they want to get their message across but that message is always the same and that is that libyans support gadhafi not only is he the leader but he's also the father and many people coming up to us and say tell the truth make sure the international community understands just how much support he has here
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now certainly duffy wants those kind of messages to get out there are you sure i'm sure one hundred kilometers that we all know this all. they don't kill sure there's not a moment. around them their child can. only. be given the look of the most stupid and the american on the pitch i'm going on the other side of the story you have the coalition leaders the political leaders as well as the army commanders who are also desperate to get across their version of events and they take on the story is that not only is this operation legal it's been extremely successful that all of the targets that have been hit have been precise as journalists we are caught in the middle of the story it very often becomes confusing and one man's not to trust either side that the beginning of march almost preempting what would unfold it was a joke that was caught on camera between the u.s. defense secretary robert gates as well as the top american commander in afghanistan
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general david petraeus now they didn't realize that they were being recorded that gates had arrived in kabul to which he had been well comes back interesting patris had remarked that he was flying in a larger plane and normal and he asked whether or not this was because he intended on firing shells an attack in libya gates his reply was yes exactly it seems as if maybe joke there is an element of truth and our job as journalists and his view is is trying to cover the truth want to see our teeth to pretty. well very latest. on the situation indeed be remember you can always go to our twitter feed system post their energy shortages in the green capital security forces stopping journalists from filming their. former gas stations. and put her under school because. it's from a cost. michael hoffman author and editor of the revisionist
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history newsletter. shows greater members are divided over how the operation should continue it. and there seems to be quite a rivalry between david cameron and nicolas sarkozy and turkey has also dissenting because the turks have already said that all they want is a no fly zone nothing more than man the germans are now stating that they are removing their navy from nato control this seems like an appears to be another type of imperialism it has to be seen that way in the arab world but it can't be about protecting people i reject that rationale because where are the people being protected in bahrain where is the no fly zone in gaza there are all kinds of areas in the world where the united states nato the u.n. the arab league could intervene and they are not. western powers have always seen libyan leader moammar gadhafi as a dangerous interests in the world of carving their own kin and expert in
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international relations or more incentives in some fifteen minutes from now here's a quick test. it was unacceptable to lead searcher unpredictable leader not friendly to the west and there was a sort of also feeling over again to what he has done to the western states and there were considerations for the perp more friend with regime in libya along with on this seashore along with the need egypt he was presenting some alternatives to the glow goal paradigm our systems give them a liberal western type of society and regimes it or some alternative and this alternative was don't remember with the interests of the promotion of this liberal democracy in their wardrobe. and staying in the region nearly eighty percent of voters have supported the
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changes in egypt a constitutional referendum that was seen as well as the main aims of the recent uprising both of them more than a month after picturing an egyptian still feel they haven't yet it's quite what they fought for. the store. several weeks have passed since the revolt but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning restart now oh oh it can usually live nation didn't finish here we need to there we need you'll be able. to govern ourselves. out again that would be made about you c.f.a. used to be an anchor on egypt's national state run radio she claims even though president mubarak has already stepped down the media is still being manipulated by the main demand is it will. be around all those who are perhaps including.
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alec picked this up at that meeting and making. a financial correction that now that you know that people are. in late january several hundred thousand people took to the streets of cairo demanding president mubarak stepped down after several weeks of violence the president he's right according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured. since then the interim government has held a nationwide referendum which said parliamentary elections could be held before the end of the year but many activists say it's too soon for the newly emerged political movements to gain enough momentum before the vote elections coming very soon nobody is speaking. and for a lot of the leftists and look for a built up political opposition they're thinking that maybe this will be staged as a way to be in power in the n.d.p. alongside the president for the last three decades the national democratic party
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was the ruling authority in the country and many fear with state media still under its control it may gain enough force to come back to power. even though the traces of the recent violence are still obvious life on the. the streets seems to be returning to normal here or where most of. heavy traffic has returned to but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilize to get rid of the authorities whether it be in muling emerge political powers will be able to get their act together in time for the election and what direction it will be. a big question even to the revolutionaries themselves. r.t. . turmoil in egypt is occurring across borders as we find out in a few minutes triple sense for the rest of the arab world turning to waves of
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immigration to. the commies. supporters growing for the u.s. army soldier arrested for allegedly passing classified information to the whistleblower web site wiki leaks activists protesting for bradley manning's release arguing that the recent prison and inhumane however well some call him a hero. national security risk getting. here in quantico hundreds of activists and veterans have gathered outside of the military base for bradley manning is being held in solitary confinement twenty three hours a day they say he's being tortured to call for his immediate release although president obama says otherwise i have actually asked the pentagon whether or not. the procedures that have been taken terms of his confinement or appropriate and are
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meeting our basic standards they assure me that they are state department spokesman p.j. crowley called manning's treatment quote ridiculous counterproductive and stupid and was forced to resign. while manning's father denounced the pentagon for stripping his son as his clothing and forcing him to stand at attention naked i mean it's shocking enough that i would come out of our silence as a family and say you know now that you know you've crossed the line this is wrong protesters here denounced obama and say guantanamo bay has been brought to virginia they say the president can do better than simply trusting manning's jailers i've been seeing growth in confinement so i can tell you probably is not true because well like it's really not a good mother she probably thinks the final whistle blower daniel ellsberg responsible for leaking the vietnam war logs known as the pentagon papers called manning a hero but i want his example to give courage for other people and the more that
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other people realize that the descriptions rick you're bound to give us the world traitor. to the american troops. appreciate everybody that we. had to go there before being arrested it with thirty five others for refusing to move from the entrance to quantico. cannot be. everyone in the speech town felt bradley had done the right thing knowing. that this man who the people are protesting who are my husbands like my husband's friends lives in danger. it's frustrating and denied that he was being tortured they were tortured they could do it to give him stale bread but it's not he's not being tortured even as amnesty international and other human rights groups say his conditions are quote degraded and bring back memories graeme the pentagon
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has not set a trial date for manning who faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy which could carry the death penalty activists here and around the world so they won't back down until he's free in florida r t triangle virginia. more than twenty five thousand people have been called missing in japan. devastating earthquake and tsunami however the police say this. isn't about innocence and it's cool to treat as just for the smaller contamination that is growing in tokyo. around the school for instance to avoid some of the things that's normal countries have so. control struggle to design its own crisis i think. it can't work because evacuating often black smoke emerge from one of its reactions on wednesday . think they can our program next kaiser and stacy herbert discuss how radiation
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could possibly be a benefit health. stories of the week because reports has a pink. max keiser i brought you a present when you go for it we're. calling it the c. herbert functional macand it's a little bit of a plutonium mix of uranium and coulter and she wrote on her blog that regarding japan the good news is that any want exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer arsenic and very loved else just. mild beneficial health benefits as i recall but of course you would want us all a gallon of it she's got. the same kind of misinformation gets people to think that radiation is good for you made global warming is good for
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smoking cigarettes is good it's a manufactured manufactured ignorance. of a number of immigrants trying to reach europe has dramatically increased since the uprisings in north africa pounds of people have rushed to the states we haven't sent them seventy cents and government protests continue so sometimes when the school reports the grass isn't necessarily greener cross the mediterranean. under-used in egypt. and the fall out civil war in libya is northern africa a city for or with the rest of the region if you keep us in your home countries many end up in greece where their lives hardly get any simpler one of two hundred fifty migrants living in. makeshift refugee camp in the center of the greek capital
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. frankly though greece is a european country the quality of life here is not much better than it home after the financial crisis it's nearly impossible to find a job here the economy here is lagging behind many other european states. tens of thousands of liberians come into country every year most of them are hoping to move on to other countries like france and germany using greece as a transfer grace however a lot of them end up staying hoping to make it in the country yet the country is not able to handle such an influx of migrants and some are calling the situation catastrophic last year alone thirty six thousand migrants knows that from the group countries were arrested for illegally crossing into the country now the situation in which they have a good region has gone from bad to worse the number of migrants seeking to escape the term is sure to rise of course there are many that is obvious no one can best describe. this. to do nothing.
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otherwise the existing problems of social visit the glacier. with migration. migrants themselves only have one hope that the situation in north africa will stabilize and they will be able to return home. every person must leave and work in the country and not in a foreign land we must feel human at home the man his loved ones has right now who have no home countries is impossible and while the coalition forces are busy boarding levy seeking to coerce the country to peace its european nations like greece that ended up getting here the hardest hit in athens greece. program a special report of the corruption. industry. health. in
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canada and the us that it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby they contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of this trying to wrap them up put into print they are sponsored but in the spirit and most of the time great doma creates a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. and nobody with cancer in my family therefore i predict. because of the nature of ninety five percent of cancers heard from people with family history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress.
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it's very prime minister binyamin netanyahu is due to arrive in moscow on thursday to hold talks with president dmitry medvedev in the middle east settlement on the situation in libya the main focus for the president and the pm on the earliest possible resumption of the palestinian israeli peace talks. is of palestinian leader mahmoud abbas who also spoke with the russian president of the peaceful settlement of the middle east but despite these efforts tensions and violence continue to escalate. into one dozens of people injured in a bus blast which rocked central jerusalem some. political science or zeit university has. i think the israelis should grab. a good will. go. as as far. christian.
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countries iran. countries such as egypt. and gulf. things mike graham if you. think. the security should find a solution. to the rights. take a look at some other news making headlines around the world this hour but portuguese prime minister resigned after the country's own makers rejected an austerity budget all thought position parties voted against the proposed measures which are spending cuts and you cannot survive since it was not a bailout that cynical but i'm not greece except in austria. and we are paying union says it's being targeted by serious cyber attack on the commission
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and external action service in brussels the scandal comes ahead of a crucial summit into structural them over the next tragedy and libya on the table . commission's order to change their passwords rather authorizations assessing the state of the current threat. that injury american actress elizabeth taylor has passed away in the age of seventeen or starting out as a child star turned into quite a writer a sense of commitment long range but personally also added to her stardom eight marriages to seven husband stream glamorous lifestyle and much of it charity for greater awareness of aids and scottish in a frantic. he says he is now. thanks for staying with us here on r t i match reza with your business poet in
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russian consumer prices jumped point eight percent in february much less than in january but still twice the rate of the european average starting from january prices grew by three point six percent that's approximately the government's target for this year we prices rose the most with wheat and eggs close behind earlier finance minister alexei cruger and call for extra measures to curb inflation we're going by a lot of summer's drought and high crude prices but as john davies explains officials here may have limited power. has been a mounting problem since for the third quarter of last year it's not a specific russia problem and you've got nine point four percent i think your readers c.p.i. for february on the producer price level it's more than twenty but this is really broadly an emerging market theme which is now spilling over and translating into inflationary pressures in the rest the world in developed markets to give you a snapshot of the markets as our japanese shares trading flat to positive with downward pressure coming from tech and auto stocks made concerns of parts shortages
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following the earthquake hitachi down sharply following three point five percent toyotas down to port or two percent nissan dropping twice as much hong kong shares rise as metal and energy producers climb higher commodity prices and banks and local blogger it's taking the lead on positive reports from wall street here and russia markets finished yesterday's trading session in the black the r.t.s. game one percent my sex was higher by more than one and a half percent among the leaders russia's second largest oil producer lukoil rose two per cent as concerns that oil supplies from libya could remain disrupted pushed oil to a two week high the country's largest gold producer paul yours gold gained more than two percent as the yellow metal climbed to a near record in london. right. tycoon dimitri mazza pain is looking to sell fertilizer producer you're ok. with the company's one point four billion dollar debt according to the vet
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a mostly newspaper chemical firm say they've been approached by him as a pin for a deal that might exceed one point five billion dollars cam is one of russia's leading producers of ammonium nitrate and nitrogen fertilizer is. two more russian companies have announced plans to list on the london stock exchange one of the country's largest real estate developers at all on group is expecting to raise around five hundred million dollars from the flotation the company says it intends to use the funds to acquire land plots and replenish working capital. russia's second largest privately owned bank nomos announced its intention to raise seven hundred million dollars the offering will consist of one hundred ninety five million dollars worth of primary shares as well as existing shares from a minority shareholder but while some russian companies are pushing ahead with their listing others seem to be having second thoughts national telecom operator ross telecom is reportedly holding back its i.p.o. in london a source close to the deal cites the uncertain situation on the financial markets created by events in libya and japan for the delay but it also appears or may not
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make the deadline for preparing financial reports and other documentation for getting listed on the exchange telecom was due to list in may or june no final decision on the delay has yet been enough just. sold with business news for now i'll be back next hour with more and you can always find the latest r t dot com slash business.
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claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer from my father and therefore i protect focus because ninety two ninety five percent of cancers hurts the most people with health funding. these thirds of just a pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget a research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress.
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