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as president obama pledges with his british counterpart to grease pressure on the legal leader there's a growing opinion of the defense of tandem has changed defensive by only bringing more conflict to the middle east. thousands of jordan for the past first press harder for president top truly to resign as many in the country struggle with the jackpot already and corruption. the war in the middle east moves from the front line to long lines palestinians and israelis clash over facts on with the p.t.o. .
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this is r g coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie walking to the program warm greetings and a while back in the opulent surroundings of buckingham palace britain has well and truly rolled out the red carpet for barack obama designed to affirm the so-called special relationship between the two nations all eyes remain on london for the second day of the u.s. president's state visit which will see talks on middle east violence that's amid increasing calls for obama and british pm david cameron to overcome their addiction to war games. all smiles and handshakes as the u.k. and the u.s. take that special relationship to the next level washington's preparing to open up its highly secretive national security council to london as the two countries pledged to deal jointly with perceived security and foreign policy challenges but it will cost to the rest of the world. i don't think it will change foreign policy
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in any dramatic way now remember that britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can actually launch a nuclear missile on its own so in fact what is happening today is largely symbolic the special relationship phrase was a deeply contested one when blair was in power and his relationship with bush was seen in britain being much more one of approval rather than a partner and yes in a sense it will describe these unpopular wars. not everyone welcomes president obama's presence in the u.k. a range of groups are using it as an opportunity to demonstrate against what they see as the anglo-saxon machine and islamist fringe organizations linked aggressive foreign policy led by the u.s. and the u.k. supported variously by france and other nato allies with terror attacks there's a war taking place since our last until they leave and that's not supporting the
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dictators it was the countries to stop torturing us supporting the parsed out of his role. models you know. the u.s. and u.k. have been involved in two major wars in the last ten years in both iraq and afghanistan america persuaded person to come in with the reinforcing push reputation as the u.s. is lap dog. but this time it's different in libya it's britain taking the lead in nato with the us keen to keep its role to a minimum the deepening of cooperation between the two is something this group of demonstrators of payment lee objects to these are the cars local. are starting to take a look at. the three major wars in ten years those good news for those of us who want peace in the world to see those three cars corporate
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involved closely. is outside buckingham palace where obama is staying these protesters are trying to persuade him and british prime minister cameron to stop waging war in foreign lands so far it hasn't worked on cheese day obama and cameron were united in their intention to increase pressure on colonel gadhafi in libya obama's visit and its demonstration come as nato escalates its involvement in the war in libya france's that it will deploy helicopters bringing fighting closer to the ground big lupul goal machine crumbles with the alliance of london and washington in the engine room and this new agreements to pull information and resources may only fuel to the fire your average r.t. . since the start of a campaign in libya the u.s. has taken a step back from the military action leaving its allies particularly easy ok there and here williamson the new york based foreign policy in focus think tank says
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america chose britain as the best servant in its war so obama can prepare for the next presidential elections it seems to be a part of britain acting as the sort of the mercenaries for the united states i mean the u.s. is pulling out not because it's opposed to what nato is doing there it's to limit the domestic fallout for the obama presidency that's why it's its power. yes forces out and also because i think wisely realizes that it's time that you in the middle east is a problem can only get worse with this continuing. it is one of the changing signs that as america gets weaker commercially and military relatively speaking europe could exert itself a little more of its ever got its act together and one of the reasons it can get its act together is because of this sluggish relationship between the u.k. and the us. in the media nato is keeping up its guardians of the capital tripoli
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launching its heaviest attack there since the start of the military intervention state t.v. says that multiple air strikes including one uncurled look at these compounds killed nineteen people and injured one hundred fifty others in while the u.s. has invited the rebels' transitional council to open a washington office marking a new step towards recognizing them as the country's official representatives. you want to be going to live from moscow more stories to come for you this hour and in about ten minutes time we travel to russia's republic of dagestan for a rare point. this path leads to a man who how to walk through three same trees was getting his biography it is possible terms of the development other country's history people come to visit and talk to him and has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us too. in georgia thousands of opposition supporters have protested against the government for four days straight they are demanding an end
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to state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president saakashvili who they accuse of of using his position to maintain power artists are first has the details from tbilisi. nancy government protesters continue that the station's cooling the present exactly that down and you can see the crisis coming at the moment that listening to told this is being held by picking up and across the united georgia. the people's assembly but now what we saw at the beginning of the case that's maybe we can but thousands of the state is putting out some people calling it the still the revolution those in the older generation of people here felt that they were really struggling it was in the right and late actions in the opposition parties fighting against what they call an undemocratic authoritarian system we still don't want you come together and what they said was that they were
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planning for wednesday to a big day of rage but they vowed thousand president saakashvili that now what we see with the demonstration is this undercurrents of disorganization between the opposition parties and certainly effect of the turnout and it's not know yet whether the parties i am going to come together what we do know is a protest it's a certainly seems to not have been killed by the message that they sent in as he said that things are back to the turned out. to new way ahead of the day of independence day helping to run the military parade that will be taking place on freedoms. reporting there and on our web site r.t. dot com we've got more on the building straight in georgia. the opposition claims protests there are building out for president saakashvili we've got pictures of how the georgians the word easy answer the street demos and of course the way the some
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things on our twitter page that starts now underscore. speaking before the u.s. congress israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced peace with palestine wasn't an option unless israel keeps the occupied territories address cause or among palestinians who cried the speech as propaganda we're told with a wise and as our reports it's certain to add tension to yet another battleground between what seems sides. the israeli palestinian conflict has reached an unlikely
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new field of battle where no borders and no generals calling the shots there is an all therapists. fact checking or a committee or something like that there is no chief editor or anything like that which is why we keep pedia and online encyclopedia is one of the world's most popular websites with sixteen million entries open for anyone to edit re white or even raise the most popular of those pages the middle east there is an article i think practically about any village a palestinian village that was destroyed during the forty eight war there is a really deep independence war and there are think articles about ending military operation that any side launched during the history of the conflict but both israelis and palestinians complain their side of the story is not properly covered propaganda is putting a label on israel and calling us the apartheid state we fight that by bringing in
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the actual facts where israel is the most progressive democracy in the middle east and for that matter the only democracy in the middle east and that's why not please you should cancel every present the israeli settler movement has been organizing workshops to teach people how to post revise and even rewrite some of the most disputed pages on line there's disagreement around terminology such as the word occupation and history of what happened in certain conflicts even the names of certain cities and towns what we do is we monitor our various media outlets and when we see for example that a certain media calls israel an apartheid then we send our people to engage in discussion and to give the facts but the palestinians have less people to send in which is why the battlefield is not equal according to abbott are not so who heads the association of palestinian journalists he says he wishes he had the kind of cash the israelis have trained. it's kenyans to brush up on their knowledge of we
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could. i think people should stick to the truth and not try to learn how to put their point of view in a wiki pedia article i mean if you have sources just show them. put these wikipedia experts say it has nothing to do with training and everything to do with the truth i think people should stick to the truth and not try to learn how to put their point of view you know it could be an article i mean if you have sources just bring them on but in this war every push of ammunition counts it's no secret that the revolutions sweeping the arab world found their support online hundreds of thousands of people signed up on a facebook page calling for a third palestinian uprising or into farther that page has since been closed down for inciting violence but the fight on line continues policy our team from either. the spy washington's intensified efforts to bring the palestinians and israelis to the negotiating table the two sides find ourselves no closer to resolution are
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disputable they are his guests discuss what it might take to achieve the long awaited an elusive peace process is coming your way waiter today. you have to understand palestinians see all of israel also as part of their patrimony your homeland and in one nine hundred forty seven forty eight when israel was created palestinians were at least three quarters majority now when they recognize israel in its sixty seven borders they gave up seventy eight percent of what they regard as their country it is the mother of all compromisers and i think to ignore that and to look at the occupied territories in isolation from the rest of mandatory problems so i don't see all poor israel's me. this is very important territory as ignores what palestinians already agreed to.
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the international monetary fund is currently searching for a new managing director following last week's resignation of dominic strauss kahn over a sex scandal france's finance minister christine lagarde tops the list of contenders however the fastest growing economies in the world also known as the brics countries are calling for a non european and critics say their demand certainly has crowns this is an important first step we may not see it through this round we don't we want us to these countries really organizing the successful coalition to block the western europe. in this round we're going forward this could be a sign of things to come not just in terms of the nominee decent conditions after our real decisions are often being elsewhere not by me but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual post russia and brazil are
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countries there suffer tremendously under i.m.f. pasties children one thousand nine hundred ninety when they went through crises much like the crises they do greece is going through today and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework temporarily suffer tremendously but then both countries had restoration of of growth so these are countries that have actually repudiated the advice of the international monetary fund and so their natural leaders for a move against. three years from the u.s. financial meltdown nobody in these talismans or banking industry has to trial or even been blamed spoke to an investigative journalist to find out of this leaves the door open to a new crisis or you can watch the whole interview later this hour here in r.t.e. . if you could literally describe the relationship between wall street and
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washington in one sentence really what it's completely. it's. it's a revolving door of interests where people on wall street are either directly or for sponsoring the politicians in washington with campaign contributions and soft money and that sort of thing or else they are actually politicians wall street heavily sponsors both the republican and the democratic parties so automatically no matter who becomes the front running candidate for the presidency is going to be a creature of wall street look at barack obama i personally admired her on his campaign of two thousand and eight but if you look at his his record goldman sachs was his number one private campaign contributor. when he was born the world was a different place and that's not surprising when you consider it was three centuries ago artie's missing the question of when to be the man who's staking
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a claim to be the oldest person on the planet the revolution the russian civil war the birth of the soviet union even two world wars this man has seen them all because he claims to be one hundred twenty one years old. says he's the oldest person living in russia and perhaps across the globe people come to visit and talk to him. has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us too. despite only humble surroundings. his neighborhood has provided him with their legs they're off life. only what i raise myself i drink milk the milk products vegetables from my garden all my life i was a foreigner i worked a lot with buffaloes and horses hard work is good for you. well his body
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may not be as nimble as it once was his soul remains strong and determined all his life his strictly followed all religious traditions he prays five times a day and does all the proper rationed himself. the official information we could find a vulgar grammy a dates back to the nine hundred sixty s. when he moved to get this done in these documents it is sad that he was born in eighty ninety and there's also a database about him and his family for the rest of the archive to prove his path in life was destroyed in a fire in the nine hundred thirty is in change now where he was born recently the title the all just living person was awarded by the guinness book of records to a brazilian woman most violent him who is one hundred fourteen years old but my god it's family remains under turds and wants to see him crowned with the title this is
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awful we have thought a certain application of the guinness book of records we all are really really few truly it is a record of ninety nine percent of claims about people being one hundred fifteen or over are said to be fools on documentable the guinness book of records applicants must have a original proof of birth issued within twenty years of that birth and prove that the person alive today is the same person in their original certificate and what the north he advocates official recognition when it comes to tracing your roots named will always stand proud of his family tree like in the courtroom or r.t. bags done. now stick a look at some other stories from around the world and at least five people have been killed and thirty others injured after a car bomb tore through a police station in pakistan's northern city of peshawar many people are believed to be buried in the ruins the incident took place just half
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a mile away from the u.s. consulate were a week earlier taliban militants detonated another car bomb targeting a u.s. convoy this is the latest attack in pakistan since the group vowed to avenge the killing of osama bin laden. a giant ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in iceland is continuing to disrupt air travel is as it moves towards europe more than five hundred delays and cancellations have been reported in northern europe following saturday's eruption last year ash from another icelandic volcano left millions stranded after european air space was closed for a week. rescue teams are continuing to pick through the rubble in the u.s. city of joplin after a series of devastating twisters pummeled over the weekend at least one hundred twenty people were killed and five hundred others injured the storms the deadliest in the last sixty years and also destroyed thousands of buildings causing mass damage to the city's infrastructure more tornadoes have already hit oklahoma and
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kansas with further storms expected. hundreds of somalis are falling ill while barrels of nuclear waste are frequently found on the shores of a country but who's dumping them there and who's making money from people's deaths watch our documentary coming your way in three hour star.
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in the world of business. hello and welcome to our series business person russia's economic growth is excel arising propped up by strong commodities prices the economic growth this year is expected to be around four point two percent that's twenty basis points higher than last year prime minister vladimir putin says the economy will recover to its pre-crisis levels by the beginning of the next year. it's not going to supply only twenty twelve the russian economy will compensate the setback caused by the crisis
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we are your stated that we will reach these levels by twenty twelve but now we have good reason to think that by the end of this year or in the beginning of next year the national economy will fully recover. that russia is facing persistent capital outflow despite strong oil prices eight billion dollars have left the country's economy in april compared with six billion in march president eight arcady to quote the valk of it is skeptical about the future saying cash inflows are unlikely to exceed outflows this year. people thought from russia this year or even a way to political uncertainty in the direction year but i believe the keys and have a different one it is but investment climate we still have russian c.p.u.'s. direction so for a forthright and corruption people for. provision in improved mines from state property are worth a not so private place of the sort people are. in direction
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and therefore where the government right now. by. the same visible by the middle of this year. one of the most highly anticipated i.p.o. hours of the year has kicked off was roaring success shares and russia's most popular search engine yandex have soared forty percent on the nasdaq debut as many call it the google of russia priced at stock and michelin at twenty five dollars a share seventeen times oversubscribed the company's stock raise one point three billion dollars that makes it the biggest internet i.p.o. since google back in two thousand and four the timing could hardly be better as is growing interest in internet stocks as seen by the successful share photos of linked in and russian mail dot are you earlier this year the c.e.o. of yes explains what the company spend the money on. to
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the company. was just untrue. of course. now let's have a look at the markets crude prices are edging lower as the u.s. dollar is strengthening during asian trading hours investors are closely watching the u.s. inventory report on oil and other energy products to be issued later today process asia japanese stocks are trading in the red some tech majors allow us overnight losses on wall street but also makers are advancing on a weekly gain in hong kong shares are losing ground with worries about chinese economic growth weighing on banks and resource stocks and here in moscow the r.c.s. has already opened and a raised its previous gains and the my sense will start trading in just
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a few minutes a close one point six percent in the black on tuesday with energy stocks among the main gainers. russian markets are rebounding from the massive hit they take in the last months role in national capital says the i.p.o. of yandex and positive u.s. data could help russian equity reverse earlier losses. good numbers coming out of the u.s. and i think i provide a little bit of confidence. brilliantly and therefore it's quite a good outlook for the obvious today on wednesday so i would imagine that we're going to see you can see with continuation of the of the bounce from story on tuesday. you know it's going to be a broad based rally generally speaking markets are still going to be focused on what's happening in europe is this contagion going to spread outside of greece and portugal and ireland towards some of the really poor countries not just anybody mislead people talking about right now so i think that's really where the risk is in general russia tends to be more volatile oil than almost anywhere else so if we
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see volatility in europe i'm afraid you're going to see increased volatility in russia belarus has pledged to sell seven point five billion dollars worth of state assets over the next three years according to russian finance minister alexey who didn't russian companies are expected to get most of the part gas and awfully gazprom could buy fifty percent of the country's gas pipeline network for two and a half billion dollars to secure their supply networks last week moscow urged its privacy privatized and carry out other market reforms this was put forward as a condition for getting the loans to keep the crisis hit economy afloat. the world's industrial giant siemens and high on di are offering moscow their services to help expand the city's metro system i was next six years of russian capital's planning to build a tattoo promises of new lines bad experts warn the city's construction capabilities short oh and our says it can build fifteen kilometers of underground
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railway a year and siemens can provide cars and outrun it's both companies are also offering to manage full operation of the new lines though an agreement has not yet been right the companies are discussing the legal formalities of the deal. and that's all it is business for now we'll have more feeling just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines now.
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