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who told the children of each college. that you know what you know. to make their children killed their ability to know and your mom turns. in serbia letters available in moscow and hyatt regency they are going to. be terrorists mount over the future of egypt where the al-qaeda linked muslim brotherhood movement is poised to clinch victory in the coming election. the son of the russian antivirus software google you didn't just disappear to be put to the ransom in moscow for all the details in just a few moments. doctors one of the people exposed to the gulf of mexico oil spill could face a greater risk of cancer a year on and many who took part of the clean up operation are seriously ill while officials try to sweep the story under the rug. superjet the first
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civil aircraft built in russia of the past twenty years touches down in sheremetyevo airport in moscow just first commercial flight more on that in our business builds on the frenzy that. you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program now ahead of september election educations are erasing the memory of ousted president hosni mubarak by destroying icons and remaining streets and while the west is cheering for democracy in egypt there are fears the vote could bring about another unwanted regime archy's there and that explains. the more things change the more they stay the same certainly that's how it seems in egypt where the army is clearing qarase tahrir square of demonstrators to show everything's back to. and they're not
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wrong after months of up evil it's very much the same people in charge as before this is a concern that they may have already the dictator they haven't been to the dictatorship or deep concerns as to whether the reforms have gone far enough whether the restrictions on the role the military is still too great for true freedom to emerge in egypt and that is the debate this can only polarizing society but without the army a power vacuum and poised to step into that vacuum the muslim brotherhood links to al-qaeda the brotherhood is understood to be multiplying and organizing from the mosques according to their spokesperson they expect to win seventy five percent of the electoral seats they contest in september's election sun expect something more sinister there might be a deal. between the army and between the muslim brotherhood to share power and basically hijack the whole revolution this is the all those and the best organized political movement in the opposition and of course if the field is more or less
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been leveled now after mubarak has gone they have more chances than others who are not well organized back at the beginning of the year european leaders appeared to adopt a hands off approach to supporting democracy in egypt. to show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen for growth and freedom and democracy in egypt. but americans are now arriving in droves to exert their influence over the democratization process it's very worrying to see so many advisers from washington arrive in cairo and perhaps try and hijack the revolution for washington but we must always remember that egypt was a strategic lynchpin of washington foreign policy that all important issue is going to l. and the nile river basin so we'll see the forces aligned against any leader of the. but what if it's the muslim
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brotherhood although the west has had some dealings with the brotherhood it acted very differently towards its roots organization hamas classified by some countries are the terrorist organization in two thousand and six how mass won a democratic election in the palestinian authority in response the middle east quartet imposed severe sanctions according to the merriam webster dictionary the definition of democracy is government by the people what will happen if european corridors of power if the people of egypt choose what's perceived abroad to be the role of government the world awaits the results of september's election you are. going to. meanwhile in libya an arab nation inspired by egypt's example is struggling to overthrow gadhafi regime after two months of fighting nato allies have announced plans to send military advisers to the rebels headquarters to help
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the opposition break the stalemate with pro-government forces well russia's foreign minister has warned that putting international bodies on the ground could have unpredictable consequences. we have those are the latest developments in libya not making us happy it's a clear launch of the ground conflicts we consider these music streaming risky which could lead to unpredictable consequences there's been cases in history when it all started we seem to get military advisors and then it drags out for years and resulted in hundreds and thousands dead on both sides we call on everyone to respect the un resolution in solving this conflict but it's because libyan rebels armed with heavy weaponry are moving further west from their base in benghazi towards the capital reports of just over a terror thousand people have died since the uprising began in february well france has promised to intensify nato led airstrikes to offensive antiwar activists brian
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becker told r.t. yes creation of force by the allies could eventually lead to a full scale invasion. the real goal from the beginning has been to topple the regime they never say we're going in to take oil that would not be a very popular cause they have to give the mission some sort of noble cause in this case protecting civilians in other cases protecting your freedom or stopping terrorism i think a lot of people see through this in the american people by the way they see the war in afghanistan ten years in the war in iraq eight years in another war in a muslim country the american people don't want this they are being told that there's no money for nurses and teachers and firefighters because the country is broke but soon it seemingly endless funds for another war in another muslim country can really sarkozy and obama say conducting must go in the family doesn't work doesn't back then in order not to feel that there has to be endless escalation an escalation ultimately we to a military invasion if they can't stop or oust gadhafi i think that's where this is
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going even though they say it will never happen. well we turn now to moscow where the son of russia's most prominent antivirus guru yevgeny has reportedly been a kidnap for ransom our correspondent your piece kind of is standing by with the latest on this now your core is a manhunt under way what are the authorities saying well the kidnapping itself or rather the alleged kidnapping happened several days ago it was just the news of it came out on thursday and according to reports twenty year old yesterday was kidnapped right near his work in moscow and on the scene be his father you get the founder of one of the biggest buyers production companies in the world he allegedly received a phone call from the kidnappers who demanded three million euros in ransom at the moment this has not been confirmed by the authorities although he did confirm that
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. he is missing. his welfare is the estimated to be around eight hundred million dollars and at the moment police and even the federal security service are involved in the search operation for his son unfortunately at the moment this is all we know and we'll be monitoring this story as it unfolds certainly thank you for that update artie's this kind of reporting from moscow. and coming up a blast from the past streaks across siberia will find out why thousands of russians are volunteered to build a new rheumy system in a remote region of the country which is still running strong today. now we're here after one of the worst environmental disasters in history the gulf of mexico oil spill b.p. is trying to shift the blame by suing its contractors well millions of gallons of oil spilled from the deepwater rig following an explosion which killed eleven
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people and all the the fights over big bucks in court it's the locals that are bearing the brunt aren't he's gay and it's just has the story. five million barrels of oil in combination with almost two million gallons of highly toxic chemical dispersants used to fight the oil spill a cocktail that contaminated not just the water in the gulf but found its way into people's blood a year after the disaster and environmental group tested the lot of dozens of cleanup workers as well as residents of coastal areas they found levels of ban seen thirty six times higher than normal or call. shader truly want to work in the open a problem or even the. clinton matter and worked as
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a boat engineer he says he was in perfect health before he was exposed to the toxic chemicals in the gulf now he's fighting a bouquet of illnesses cardinal flugel got a lecture military officials from clayton is not alone in his fight george price owns a small boat yard in louisiana perfectly healthy just a year ago he has lost thirty pounds in the last few months george was diagnosed with severe anaemia us sooner and must still. be no you know dr michael robbie chom who's been practicing medicine in louisiana for forty years says he's never have such an influx of patients with respiratory and blood issues he fears the worst it's going to search through the tortoise for calls robbie cha is one of a few doctors who is outspoken about gulf coast residents same terms connection with the toxic chemicals that they've been exposed to many other doctors refuse to
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recognize the cause as dr robert shaw says either because they don't have the necessary training or they don't work in court or. programmers and environmental justice group polled residents in several coastal communities almost half said they have experienced health problems like coughing skin an eye irritation or headaches that are consistent with common symptoms of chemical exposure doctors say the consequences of having for example being seen in the blood could be a lot more serious it can cause a decrease in red blood cells leading to a need or cancer of the blood forming organs it's very clear when you look at the ingredients which is considered so. it is considered as rather a hazardous material couple with the ingredients in the tops of dispersants. and when you mix those together it actually creates a substance or its own is more toxic and these are exactly the types of chemicals
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that are truly not literally in people's blood many of us back to the gulf coast residents and those involved in the cleanup of the gulf say beer alone in their fight with the consequences of last year disaster many of them likely don't even have health coverage shoes through. your should worship every day marine biologists are saying it's going to take at least twenty years for the gulf ecosystem to recover president obama signed the country's environmental agency to investigate health impacts of the spill but many gulf coast residents are sure the agency will do its best to sweep the findings under the rug i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . well it seems that no lessons have been learned since last year's calamitous gulf of mexico oil spill filmmaker scott roberts says that oil corporations are more concerned with making profits than regulating the industry don't. care about the consumer you know it's business as usual they're making
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billions billions of dollars in profits we like our big choice we really don't like to sacrifice our lifestyle for the better of the long term good it seems in the car companies are producing cars that has u.v.'s trucks things that really aren't that great on fuel economy we as consumers are buying them so they're going to keep making them i think it comes down to money i think oil companies they throw some money towards the alternative fuel industry and doing research you know a lot of that is green washing but why change business as usual when you're making billions of dollars we need powerful leadership in washington d.c. who's not afraid to point the finger at the oil industry create new legislation consumers need to find you know we live in a society where people know more about the american idol contestants than they do their own representatives we all have to get involved we have to push legislation and we have to vote in the people that are going to make
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a difference and do something about it. well if you want to voice your opinion on any of the stories we're covering just go over to our website and have your say that's our dot com and it's staffed with plenty of thinkers all waiting to be discovered around the clock and here's a quick look at what's on life like out be careful where you go your i phone is tracking you researchers are ringing the privacy alarm after discovering that i phones trace and store their users every movement. plus the u.s. pastor who rose to infamy by burning a koran is now planning an armed rally outside the largest mosque in america all the details on r.t. dot com.
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now dozens of militants have been killed and many terrorist attacks prevented following recent security raids in russia but the country saw the republic of dagestan still remains a hotbed for extremists with police putting their lives on the line hoping to put an end to the violence. and reports from the north caucasus. in the frontline and dagger stone in southern russia but this isn't about the field of missiles which have daily scream issues. and it's run the turks are traitors. i'm afraid there has to be someone to do this job and recently the dangers of the drug reach home with a bang. as this easy t.v. footage shows militant destroyed up in fire from a kalashnikov into the police station for speeding off. five minutes later the second car left behind explodes seven a policeman would the local prosecutor's office and federal security service
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building took the brunt of the blast. the local police chief is and no illusions about the viciousness of their opponents. as police we have to use only legal means to fight these militants however there is one birth here when these bad it is things like blowing up cars in busy street must fight them in their own way the town of itself is a modest trading center surrounded by villages many of which are friendly to the hardline we'll have a form of islam and militants it's typical of many such places throughout bush's north caucasus which is struggling with radical islamic insurgency locals refer to people joining the militants as having gone to the forest but can't understand how they justify their acts of god then i know that it's crucial to find a common language for those in a forest but there should be a way to reach some compromise question others sometimes it feels like i live not
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in dagestan but in afghanistan where real muslims wouldn't go to the forest islam is a social religion and the forest is for all animals not people. are these the bruce i knew would not i not curse the harness they're killing their brothers they're not real most times you will see one stars that are not the towns five hundred police are mostly muslim just like the militants even so they are usually the main terror target but they came to distinguish between hardened terrorists and new recruits. of course young people who made a mistake in wake of the forest should be given a chance to mend their ways but those who persisted killing civilians and policeman will destroy them. had seen enough of his opponents to know about and it's motives however dangerous they are and doesn't think he faces a special threat for. those who go to the. forest are just. they're just scum and it's awful that we use islam to disguise the. fact that the police
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station reinforcing the barricades they won't be prepared for the next wave of compassion flips problems as a checkpoint on the outskirts of the town police say their life here over the past decade has been one of the parties around here and yet nobody seems to be able to answer those two most obvious questions when it might tend tom watson are to see it like a stone. a quick look at some other news stories from around the world now asylum seekers have burned down an immigration detention center during the riots in sydney they through the roof tiles and other all drugs a far far those who were called in to put out the blaze while the riots started with detainees protesting over rejected asylum applications we say that no injuries have been reported and bad order has been restored australia has recently seen an increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving from sri lanka afghanistan and
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iraq. japan has declared the twenty kilometer evacuation area around the stricken fukushima nuclear plant an official no entry zone with a bad comes after a police more than sixty families still living inside the affected area follow week of march disaster however the authorities a little rage revisits for residents allowing them to return for up to two hours to collect the vital belongings paralyzed crippled by both the earthquake and the massive tsunami has been hit by a series of explosions and radiation leaks for six weeks. to a cargo ships are believed to have been hard drafted by somali pirates in the indian ocean italian vessel has been seized about four hundred miles off of coast. but noted for ransom has yet to be made now the second best so a south korean cargo ship is carrying
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a crew of fourteen south koreans and six indonesia its soul has sent a warship to the scene to help locate the vessel or piracy is that all time high in the area that's despite multinational patrol efforts. but now it's time for something a little bit different as we join our close up team for a new journey through russia's most exciting locations well the hot spot this side route is the mountainous region in eastern siberia. it lies some six thousand kilometers away from moscow when borders mongolia or this location became the bedrock for one of the if not the most ambitious project of the soviet union construction of the so-called guard railway ride guide over seventy years ago linking people from different parts of the country r.t.
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stacy givens talked with some of those people who drop everything and headed east. young and optimistic they came from different soviet republics are unified in the same belief that if they built more mainline regional prosperity would come known as the bam it was meant to protect the country's border with china to support the trans iberian railroad and to transport the area's natural resources patriotic romanticism fueled the project but it also diversified the region by bringing indigenous people together with newcomers like bam crew members in libya shandor. we don't regret coming here will love the beauty of the north in one thousand nine hundred ninety two during the collapse of the u.s.s.r. we moved back to cause us down for a while but then returned in july we will mark our thirty first anniversary living here prison labor early the first tracks in one nine hundred thirty eight but world
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war two construction in building back up again in one nine hundred seventy four with a soviet secretary general famously declaring that only clean hands would build a dam thus the recruitment of members of a communist you and of you put politics to plans after course the soviet union as the construction of a century or word processor matters will that many things fail and for worship with the fall of the u.s.s.r. came the stolid mining projects companies simply stopped investing in the exploration of natural resources so with little to no product to transport and a peaceful relationship with china critics challenge the banns worthiness of its multi-billion dollar price tag retired geologist alexander has mixed feelings he's proud of what he and his colleagues accomplished however it is also disillusioned by time and really it's dried up when the nation transition to democracy. people
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with romantic notions didn't search for the past on benefits or profits of time i may be young and healthy. our older not. the cane temporary homes guarding the picturesque landscape visually reminds locals that economic prosperity has not yet come but a new anticipation hands and the real world that was a really traveled and increasing passenger and cargo commutes companies are investing in mining explorations revving up hope the real will be key in transporting natural resources in bringing military local economy a cubicle bonnets came to work the band from ukraine russia is burning in my native town they think that is the road to nowhere but i think it's the road to the future we did the best we could and we were not paid much but did the utmost for the whole want that's how we lived. to build a long lasting legacy for the nation that he and shannon and many who worked in
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line believe will finally meet the benefits of their sacrifices so you see that our team. ultimately is sex whether business. and welcomes a business that's a good to have your company russia's top government officials will have to step down from the boards of state run companies they are to be replaced with independent directors they want it was signed by president of prove the country's investment climate the head of the association of independent directors says the move will help boost the market value of state corporations state owned companies are still represents a significant part of g.d.p. and so markets capitalisation that's why the government is playing a very important role in the program the overall more country economic efficiency and competitive mass improvements of the water for months and the state owned companies will increase their way out of this and this and on so on and also world
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removed for so all corporate governance discount it by by the international investors. moscow's sheremetyevo airport has played host to the arrival of the first commercial flight of the new super jet the armenian airlines aircraft named up the cosmonaut yuri god it was carrying its all complement of passengers on the trip from get involved is the first russian passenger plane produced in twenty years super jets is intended to be a competitor to rival medium range aircraft manufactured by canada's and brazil's embraer. the market's performance in europe stocks are mixed in the footsie is down by just north of the x. is up zero point seven percent technology sectors leading the gains with the shape of making a s. and l. holding up more than one percent also chemical group so noble is gaining four percent after reports of a jump in first with a profit. here in russia the markets are also a mix of this hour with investors getting ready for eastern for european easter
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holidays the r.t.s. is gating half a percent my sixes down point three percent stake in some individual share movement lukoil is down one percent that's despite edging slightly higher this gazprom however is three quarters of a percent higher volume it sours among the top losers the supply of precious metal prices that's after the company published disappointing results. as take a look at commodities now and as i was mentioning oil is edging slightly higher light sweet crude is up by one hundred twelve dollars per barrel brant is just over one hundred twenty four with a four percent gain so far this month following a ten percent rise in march crude prices are keeping their heads up. and gold prices did further on today is still over fifteen hundred dollars per troy ounce is just that gold is edging slightly lower this hour we did see record highs of
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fifty you know seven dollars is what i saw last. silver is up forty five dollars seventy three cents worldwide inflation and concerns of bolstering of us is determined to precious metals. in economic news consumer prices in russia grew as much as four point one percent this year the pace of growth accelerated compared to last year when it reached three point four percent in the same period of crude senator lee pledged to tame and you inflation just seven point five percent. russia is international reserves jumped to the highest level in more than two years helped by the rising euro euro denominated assets account for forty percent of reserves which now are equal to more than five hundred billion dollars but that's still lower than in china and japan the ruble is said a new record high oil prices are fueling prospects of faster economic growth in the country russian currency gained for most one percent versus the dollar on wednesday a buck now costs around twenty seven point nine rubles that's the lowest in twenty
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seven months prime minister putin is calling to further strengthen the ruble not to make it a reserve currency on the post soviet space russian oil pipeline monopoly transnet says it may file a lawsuit against china in a london court over under payments for oil supplies the ground for legal action lies in the chinese part the c.r.t.c. is failure to meet the agreed price but before going to court both companies hope to settle the issue through negotiations transnet says it's not the losses are valid around twenty million dollars while the overall debt well supplied by a pacific ocean pipeline has exceeded one hundred million dollars. next business update is in the around fifty five minutes time i think that. the phone.
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closer to you has been to the chilled out inspiration for the long lost secret of dhamma steel has been discovered. now archie goes east of lake baikal with the longest russian railway line runs. for the sunday desert lies in the siberian mansions looking for people full of the same roots as hundreds of years ago. welcome to the trance like come it. was a close up come party.
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