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the. my old. mission street with the palm of your. machine. as president obama pledges with his british counterpart to increase pressure on the libyan leader there's a growing opinion the defense of tandem has changed the offensive by only increasing conflict zones. thousands of georgian protesters press harder for president saakashvili to resign as many in the country struggle with a jack poverty and corruption. the war in the middle east moves from the front line here on line as palestinians and israelis clash over facts which p.t. .
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this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm josh welcome to the program warm greetings and our well banquet in the opulence 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 and that's made 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 their 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 at what cost to the rest of the world i don't think it will change foreign policy
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in any dramatic way remember that britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can't 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 tested one when blair was in power and his relationship with bush was seen in britain to be much more one of approval rather than a partner and yes in a sense it will describe its 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 warmachine and islamist fringe organizations linked aggressive foreign policy led by the us in the u.k. supported variously by france and other nato allies with terror attacks there's
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a real ticket prices to go some of the sins of the last until the elite was allowed to stop supporting the it takes a muslim countries to stop torturing us supporting the parsed out of his role the violence. 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 britain to come in with them reinforcing britain's reputation as the us is a lapdog. 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 a deepening of cooperation between the two is something this group of demonstrators of a moment lee objects to these cars go through. the starting xi to libya. three major wars the ten year lows get really bad news for those of us who want peace in
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the world to see a st charles corp more closely affairs 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 this demonstration come as need to escalate since involvement in the war in libya frances says it will deploy helicopters bringing the fighting closer to the grounds of the global war machine grumbles with the alliance of london and washington in the engine room and this new agreements to pull information and resources may only adds fuel to the fire your avatar. since the start of the campaign in libya the u.s. has taken a step back from the military action leaving its allies particularly came meyer
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there and williams of the new york based foreign policy in focus think tank says america chose britain as the best servant in its war so bomber can prepare for the next presidential elections. it seems to be a pattern 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 supposed to work nato is doing there it's to limit the domestic fallout for the obama presidency that's why it's it's pulling its forces out and also because i think wisely it realizes that it's standing in the middle east is brodman can only get worse with this continuing. it is one of the changing signs the present merica gets weaker commercially and militarily relatively speaking europe could exert itself a little more of it ever got its act together one of the reasons it can't get its act together is because of the sluggish relationship between the u.k. and the u.s.
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. in libya nato is keeping up its providing of the capital tripoli launching its heaviest tad's there is just the start of the military intervention state t.v. says that multiple air strikes including one of her without his compound killed nineteen people and injured one hundred fifty others meanwhile the u.s. has invited the rebels transitional council to open a washington office walking a step towards recognizing the country's official representatives. war stories to come for you this hour here in r.t. in about ten minutes time we travel to russia's republic of dagestan for a rare acquaintance. this path leads to a man who has walked through three centuries was planning his biography and it's possible terms of the development of the country's history people come to visit and talk to him and today madame and has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us too. in georgia thousands of opposition supporters have
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protested against the government for four days straight and are demanding an end to state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president saakashvili who there queues of abusing his position to maintain power archie sir first has the details from tbilisi. nancy government this continuing that demonstrations cooling the president exactly is that you can see the fact that something at the moment they're listening to told you this is being held by. the democrats they need with. the people's assembly now what we saw at the beginning of the case that's maybe we can with thousands of them as fate is turning out some people calling it the silver revolution those in the older generation of people felt that they were really struggling it was in the fight there and later. on the opposition parties i think as they call it undemocratic search area and system now we still did not come
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together that what they said is that they were planning when they did big day of rage but they vowed to one thousand president saakashvili that now what we see with the demonstration is this undercurrent so disorganized station that when the opposition parties and certainly effected the turnout and is not knowing yet whether the parties are again going to come together what we do know is that protested the certainly seems to be lots of being confused by the message that they sense and as he said that things have affected the turned out but now these gray said he continued ahead to the day of independence day they came to the military parade that will be taking place on freedoms. so first recording there and on our website as archie dot com we've got more on the developing situation and georgia the opposition claims protests they are building our presence our feeling we've got pictures of how the georgian authorities answer the streets down a list of course get the latest updates and follow us on our twitter page that's r
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t underscore com. speaking before the u.s. congress the israelis benjamin netanyahu announced peace with palestine a wasn't an option unless israel keeps the occupied territories it rest cause for among palestinians who decried the speech as propaganda riddled with lies and as our reports it's certain to add tension to yet another battleground between the two sides. the israeli palestinian conflict has reached an unlikely new field of
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battle where there are no borders and no generals calling the shots there is an author. a fact checking or a committee or something like that there is no chief editor or anything like that which is why we could pedia an online encyclopedia as one of the world's most popular websites with sixteen million entries open for anyone to edit rewrite or even raise the most popular of those pages the middle east there is an article i think in the village of palestinian village that was destroyed during. the war there's really independent swore and i think articles about any 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 apartheid state we fight that by bringing the
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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 i'm after these issues council that represents the israeli settler movement has been organizing workshops to teach people how to post who have eyes and even rewrite some of the most disputed pages online there's disagreement around terminology such as the word occupation the 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 cause 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 our good our not so who heads the association of palestinian journalists he says he wishes he had the kind of cash the israelis have to train. it's been used to brush up on the knowledge of
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wikipedia and. i think people should stick to the truth and not try to learn how to put their point of view in a wikipedia article i mean if you have sources just show them. but these were completely 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 working 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 the sweeping the arab world found their support online hundreds of thousands of people signed up on a facebook page calling for third palestinian uprising or into farther that page or something close down for inciting violence but the fight online continues policy r.t. from either. the spy washington's intensified afterwards to bring the palestinians and israelis to the negotiating table the two sides find selves no closer to
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resolution artist peter lavelle his guest discuss a lot of my take to achieve a long awaited and elusive peace process uk is coming your way later today. you have to understand palestinians see all of israel also as part of their patrimony your own land and you 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 compromises and i think to ignore that and to have to look at the occupied territories in isolation from the rest of mandatory problems so it's the old poor israel is being asked to give up this is very important territory that so dear to us ignores what palestinians have already agreed to. get.
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paid a national monitoring find 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 grounds. this is an important first step we may not see its fruit of this round we don't and we wanted us to these countries really organizing a successful call to block the western europe you know in this round we're going forward this could be a sign of things to carve not just in terms of the needs these institutions after all the real decisions are often being elsewhere not by that but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual post russia and brazil are
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countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. past these children one thousand nine hundred ninety when they went through crises much like the crazies the greece is going through today and the emotionally pulled out of the i.m.f. framework temporarily suffer tremendously but they're both countries had restoration of growth so these are countries that have actually repudiated the advice of the international monetary fund and. their natural leaders for a movement against these. three years since the u.s. financial meltdown nobody in the establishment or a banking industry has stood trial or even been blamed actually spoke to an investigative journalist to find out of this leaves the door open to a new crisis then watch the whole interview later this hour. if you could literally
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describe the relationship between wall street and washington in one sentence really what would that it's completely commingled. it's. it's a revolving door of interests where. people on wall street are either directly effect 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 who i personally admired her on during his campaign of two thousand and eight but if you look at his 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 the nineteenth
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century artist medina going to be the man whose claim to be a little person on the planet. the of tobar revolution the russian civil war the birth and out 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. son of says he's the oldest person living in russia and perhaps across the globe people come to visit and talk to him and today madame has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us to. this point only humble surroundings as his neighborhood has provided him with a legacy or off life. only what i raise myself to drink milk products. for my garden all my life i was a former i worked
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a lot with buffaloes and horses hard work is good for you. while his body may not be as limbaugh 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 preparations himself. the official information we could find about one grammy a dates back to the nine hundred sixty s. when he moved to go to stand in these documents it is sad that he was born in eight hundred ninety and there's also a database about him and his family however the rust of the archive to prove his half in life was destroyed in a fire in the nine hundred thirty s. in change now where he was born recently the title of the oldest living person was awarded by the guinness book of records to a brazilian woman. who is one hundred fourteen years old with more than its
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family remains under turds and wants to see him crowned with the title this is a forward we have thought in certain applications for the guinness book of records . all. money really deserves a record of ninety nine percent of claims about people being one hundred fifteen or over are said to be fools who are documents of the guinness book of records applicants must have a original proof of birth issued within twenty years of that group and prove that the person alive today is the same person in their original certificate and with the north average gansa visual recognition when it comes to tracing your roots name will always stand proud of his family tree. legend of course the artsy that is done now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world at least five people have been killed and thirty others injured after a car bomb tore through a police station in the city is more than
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a sea of peshawar many people are believed to be buried in the ruins the incident took place just half a mile away from the u.s. consulate were a week earlier taliban militants detonated and now the car bomb targeting a u.s. convoy this is the latest attack in pakistan since the group about to avenge the killing of osama bin laden. a giant ash cloud from of all canada or option in iceland is continuing to disrupt air travel with airspace being closed down in northern germany in total war of the five hundred delays and cancellations have been reported throughout who are following saturday's eruption last year ash from another a sly and the 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 have also destroyed thousands of buildings causing massive
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damage to the city's infrastructure what radios have already hit oklahoma and kansas with further storms expected. hundreds of somalis are falling in l. while barrels of nuclear waste are frequently found on the shores of the country but dumping them they are and who's making money from people's debts watch our special reports coming your way in an hour's time.
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next the latest of the world of business with katrina hops. our growth into the business goes on with antti russia's economic growth is accelerating propped up by strong commodities prices the economic growth for 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 next year. pleasure confidence of by only twenty twelve the russian economy will compensate the setback caused by the crisis we earlier stated that we will reach these levels by mid 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. but despite
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rising economic prospects russia is facing persistent capital outflow eight billion dollars have left the country's economy in april compared with six billion and larch presidential aide arkady dvorkovich is skeptical about the future saying cash inflows are unlikely to exceed outflows this year. control flow from russia this year is a way for the political uncertainty reduction year but i believe the key isn't of a different one but investment climate that we still have in russia. are the key direction so for forces fighting corruption killer for. procreation improvement from the street proper to work as a for not so. the short people are reducing commuter barriers in all those directions in france or for the government. forced to
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by. the same piece of work for the middle of june this year. let's have a look at the markets now crude prices are continuing to edge lower as the u.s. dollar strengthens investors waiting on the results of the u.s. oil and energy products report expected later today across asia japanese stops have closed in the red wedding today with the hang saying flat as are some tech majors are lower after overnight losses on wall street but also makers are dancing on a weekly yen in hong kong shares are losing ground with worries about chinese economic growth weighing on banks and resource stocks european stocks are in the red in early training early trading on the heels of weaker u.s. and asian sessions investor sentiment is also backed by concerns of a possible greek default and its potential impact on other debt laden eurozone countries and here in moscow the r.t.s. is continuing losses this hour trading almost
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a percent in the red with fears continuing over the europe european debt crisis there my six is also down at around twenty five percent. let's have a look at some individual share moves on the my sex oil stocks are among the main gainers despite lower lower crude prices and lukoil are in the black this hour however gazprom is point seven percent. in the red. the currency crisis in belarus is turning into an economic collapse people are emptying supermarket shelves as prices show double digit rises on a weekly basis to keep the economy afloat the crisis stricken country needs foreign cash russia is ready to bailout dollars but this comes under the condition it carries out market reforms among them is privatization finance minister alexey cooper says assets are over seven billion dollars over the next three years analysts agree market reforms are the only way to overcome this crisis. in the end
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the only country which has the ability to be able to help belarus is actually better as they are the ones that have to make the structural changes that they need to get their economy back on why it's not that you can help solve the problem but by providing funding in the short term either from the i.m.f. or more likely from russia but it's not going to us over the longer term issues in the in the medium term when when things actually do turn around and out of this because they have to in the markets of force and joins now in belarus when they do turn around then they're going to be a lot of opportunity for russian companies to move into batteries use the experience of a god use the connections they have in belarus. to help rebuild the economy to. world industrial giants siemens and high on di are offering moscow their services to help expand the city's metro system over the next six years the russian capsules planning to build eighty two kilometers of new lines but experts warn the city's construction capabilities may fall short i understand they can build fifteen kilometers of underground railway each year and siemens can provide cars and alec
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tronics bus companies are also offering to manage the operation of the new lines companies are discussing a deal although an agreement has not yet been reached. well that brings up the date for business for this hour we'll have more for you in just an hour's time stay with us now.
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