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video. omissions for. thousands of pakistanis protesting against deadly u.s. drone strikes could soon be joined by angry americans as washington looks to bring on manned air superiority closer to home. as the e.u. right is the next lot of cash to save greece from financial collapse frustration mounts among germans the main sponsors of the bailout they question why they're paying for athens mistakes. applying stream forests a democracy that's how door to justify his actions against peaceful protesters many of whom remain missing after a bloody crackdown two weeks ago. ten
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am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me. and other u.s. drone attack has reportedly killed twelve people in pakistan washington has kept up the airstrikes despite a recent declaration from the pakistani parliament calling for their end but it was the u.s. government's i have an investment in drone technology americans fear they could soon find themselves binny's a steel sky artist ganesh to count records. so that when he u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of thrones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody at
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a command center in langley virginia they're watching a gun video on a video screen there pressing them right now deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia and suburban maryland homes and who pays the price the people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars wars that seem to have no state all the gold boundaries we've all been over new realm of warfare a new room of breaking reaching international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated their drone attacks killed fifty non targeted persons for each intended target and one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better judge able to judge what is
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good for other people and therefore we are entitled to inflict our judgement on them and that we presume they will be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and it's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously enraged with us washington is looking to increase the funding food room development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards an armed surveillance drones the u.s. has for years been using them in another of its undeclared wars against drug traffickers in mexico the mexican government allows you. u.s. spy planes this spy public discontent there's a lot of concern that these drones by the u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory actually going out to the drug lords and winning the drug war while issues of international law and sovereignty trigger little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the
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u.s. itself surely does us police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms and specially when you look at constitution free speech activities are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war or protests and some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech and your old will be equipped with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to only should you are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states alone two thousand servant protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragon well it turned out they were robo flies and what by the pentagon now surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality to killing at intelligence gathering in pakistan people leave in fear that it needed time they could become a target in someone's deadly video game and media here in the last year that with
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their rapid expansion of supply drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know into my police state i'm going to check on reporting from r.t. r t. so how do the program whereabouts unknown will work out how dozens of anti-government protesters are still missing in georgia almost two weeks after a bloody police crackdown. to greece now where public anger is mounting over a stricter of staring the government's promise to implement so it can get its hands on more eight european leaders have approved the next payment in its bailout for athens being to save the country and euro from a default but as it is daniel bushell has been finding out those who are to pay the price of the new way packets could soon take to the streets. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop it bailing out bankrupt neighbors you cannot say thank you.
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to all the country you have to get rid of these weasels no longer words and candidates and all the words. of the union the nation's labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain must drop the currency now before they drag down other members wards kerber although athens last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement other countries believe that greek workers work less will bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel but if you want cash in future you must work longer. we can't have a common currency us some get lots of occasions i'm and others very less and that won't work in the long term. the statements caused up through greece but they're not happy in the e.u. capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy cause if we are
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going to jail sixty seven it's not possible to declare why other people should go with sixty fifty nine which are certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece and the big states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all three people well we have to work along as well germans or wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets say some experts if the problems with the euro become more more bigger we go higher and higher and it is also not excluded the german people go on the street because their say ok we don't want to pay anymore the powerful greens n l suing merkel's government claiming it to keep facts about wales from the public people in germany i ask you do we have to pay it is so we have to give answers and the answer is we don't get from our government even the ruling party's revolting close pizza will
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she's fighting all rescues since your views leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we have our victory structures those who gave them money for high interest rate we missed some of their money and then they can qualify again for the euro maybe after ten fifteen years greece protests the euro's a straight jacket which blocks traditional ways to boost your economy like devaluing the currency or adjusting interest rates. even greece's european commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is that ruth unless athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribe by the e.u. and the oil greeks no agree with germans who threw the bit out of control the
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question is will we states quit the euro and reorganize. and bring the single cause the down with the new bush or r t. professor of political science told r.t. the bailout want to revive the greek economy but courses further into the corner of europe and the i.m.f. one greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no no way greece by itself can get out of the crisis is if you tighten your belt more and more you create a recession and if you create a recession this situation get worse and worse and it's harder and harder for you to be back it gets i don't see how this money can we start the economy if people stand less and less i think the remedy suggested now goes on there's a real danger greece will have to back out of the europe in order to be able to do their new its currency to have more tour is just sell more products and start all regionally when you the euro was very to the left in europe was there much against
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it because you had a strong economy used a strong. germany forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble spain's another european country on the brain got a bailout by of a different kind it's fruit and vegetable exports have been wiped out after germany wrongly blamed spanish to converse for europe's deadly e. coli outbreak it's now believed the source was a farm within germany itself and until analyst a gentle bookie believes the initial allegations could be part of a plan to scrape things apart. when something goes wrong it is only human nature to try and blame on somebody else germany did that very powerfully accusing poor innocent spanish cucumbers of being the cause of the coli outbreak now nevertheless i think there's probably a more subtle german to be highly all of this that is closely related to the fact
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that there are increasing since critical forces within the european union that already made a lot of people's talk about fractures powerful break ups we just heard in the previous nodes that if greece doesn't find its way around it's cool it's financial crisis in my book a lot of the european monetary make use of the year old very often one can even imagine the german leader many germans would need our help we will ensure we are probably wondering why the able got themselves into europe to begin with so i think that it's not it's it's wrong to just jump to the first obvious conclusion of a piece of news or we'll pay because we must try and find other layers of truth and reason that might be a bit. belarus is also desperate for international help as a struggles to stay afloat we can now cross live to our business desk for more earlier corrina so we're excited skyrocketing by one fifth since the beginning of the year has meant planning to drag itself out of the crisis well hello in
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a yes well there are several several measures the government wants to decrease the budget deficit two times now the country's economy is in freefall as we know inflation is skyrocketed by twenty by twenty percent in five months only and all this is forcing the government to freeze the key food prices now present look at sankoh is also seeking financial help from the international monetary fund that will bring you more in our business program in about ten minutes from now. ok karen thanks for writing the you know looking forward to your business or bait in the studio later is you sad. now you're watching out you live from moscow we've got plenty more stories for you just ahead including preparing for blast as we start the countdown of the baikonur cosmodrome launch pad or the next mission to the international space station is getting ready to orbit. the fate of manny opposition supporters remains unknown in georgia nearly two weeks
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since a brutal police crackdown on protesters in the capital tbilisi while president saakashvili claims to be a champion of democracy in the country human rights groups say finding out what happens to the missing people is practically impossible and as archie sarah firth reports some families fear they will never see their loved ones again. when the riots were dispersed in the persian caterpillar to believe think it's a few weeks ago it's crazy around the international community present but if it speaks of bringing a weapon about the lock with the security but the thing is the witness with the years of experience both by his police operation against largely peaceful protests the even more disturbing we're going finding out that in the aftermath they've been tales of aggression behind bars of people going if they will think big concerns among their friends and their relatives he really was a member of an opposition group he was arrested as part of the crackdown on
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opposition three days the pool the protest take place she hasn't seen or heard from him since and has no idea where he is now. i was told he was at one police station so i went there but they said he had been moved to a police station in another region and i went to that one they said he wasn't there either so now he's missing i don't know why and she's not the only one with questions in the days leading up to the protest during and after many people had been arrested and finding all these people is proving extremely difficult in some cases were her problems because these people are moved from one potential center to another without providing us information where those people were taken so we have to. work. towards a potential places and find peace people we can absolutely. almost impossible for us in consistencies in official information and even more troubling when it comes to some of the deaths surrounding the protests these are the demonstration he kicks
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in drugs these body was found on a wreath near the protest area he was last seen photographed amongst those being detained the circumstances of his death remain extremely unclear there are lots of questions about those bodies because we were receiving working for. nation inside where people were just leaving police beating people are there was drugs there some people have been beaten so terribly. there were even cases of that's with official insulation proving inconsistent and chaotic attempts to establish exactly what happened to those he died and those still missing it's extremely hard in the eyes of the police the minister of interior they didn't give us his point where these people were sold a defense keeble to any information who was detained where the person was and so it was a huge mess then you'll get i think sions and now working on establishing just what
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has been happening recently in georgia the images of violence from the protest will stick in people's minds for a long while to come that this was a struggle that started long before that night except to continue for some time after their affairs arcee tbilisi. and mouse take a look at some other stories from around the world and. these are the live pictures that we're showing there where you can see israeli troops are bracing themselves for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro palestinian protesters on the syrian foreign to europe at least twenty people were reportedly killed and more than three hundred injured on sunday after israeli security forces opened fire to block protesters from entering israeli controlled territory thousands have marched to the border to mark the anniversary of the nine hundred sixty seven middle east war when israel seized the golan heights from syria israel blamed the regime damascus for the
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violence. sow's of people in yemen have been celebrating the news that the president has left the country ali abdullah saleh has traveled to saudi arabia for treatment injuries received in an attack on his presidential compound friday it's unclear when he plans to return home protests against his rule have been raging since january killing hundreds of people. in portugal the opposition social democrats have won the general election and they are expected to form a majority government was the conservatives x. prime minister and socialist party leaders or was this a crowd has stepped down from running the country in march that's after he failed to win parliamentary support for steri ventures in a move that portugal into political crisis and you government must implement a demanding program of cuts as a condition for an e.u. bailout. former i.m.f. chief is due to appear in new york supreme court to plead not guilty over charges
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of sexual assault dominic strauss kahn was arrested three weeks ago and faces seven different counts including the attempted rape of a hotel maid thirty two year old employer we claim attacked her when she was cleaning his room french politicians is he will clear his name if convicted however it's face up to twenty five years in prison. the global war on drugs has failed and it's high time for certain substances to be legalized that's according to an international group of back sports which has been slammed the world over for its recent report argues military contributor thinks the group is actually lobbying the interest of the drug lords global commission drug policy report stirred big time controversy but in fact it makes perfect sense this self-appointed global commission does not represent the drug busters and counter narcotics community on the contrary it is
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a collective body of global lobbies on behalf of the drug lords all across the world from the lead in america cocaine plantations back to the killing fields of afghanistan saying typically this report only makes sense if you believe like those commissioners in a social darwinism theory mahfouz isn't and eugenics in essence all those racists theories based on the very simple with some shit the reason master race and there is a human waste that's the larger the silent was stands behind the conclusion of this global commission on drug policy. the countdown has begun of the by going to cosmic where revamped version of the so you spacecraft has been moved into position ready for blast off in just a few days or carry three crew members to the international space station for
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a six month mission on board mankind's most remote outpost are designs of france reports from the launch pad. the twenty eighth expedition to the international space station blast off from here at the pike nor cause madrone so far everything is run according to plan very smooth indeed we've got three people heading out into space from here russian cosmonauts sergei volkov japanese astronaut fluke our and american astronaut mike fossum and with us is mike fossum son he's going to give us a little inside story as to how it's been living and preparing for a space expedition with an astronaut what is it like actually living with an astronaut day in and day out he's just a normal guy you know we were just talking a minute ago about how he seems like a nice guy and he really is he is really down to earth and i feel like a lot of these guys are they just they just do to manage to get this job and now is going to space it's going to go to the things you notice about your dad being comes
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back from a trip up there where you know he's kind of a macho man and so you know he likes to think that he's going to be ok when he comes back but we'll see because you know really we're going to come back and be up there for six months and his muscles will be weak it's going to be weak so we'll see if he if he takes that wheelchair like so many of the other astronauts do or not thank you so much for talking. all right guys this rock is being put into position to hold steady upright for the next three days until launch until then we'll be keeping a close eye on the operations seeing how everything is going to make sure that it is smooth sailing for blastoff on june eighth. follow don's arts you know com our web site to learn more on the stories we're covering and here's what we have for you right now. the over the radio military jet crashing during an air show in tehran services online two years on from the tragedy find out the details on our website and also. the government in belarus is fighting the opposition using the newest internet technologies of popular social networking sites and. on this day we
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remember the birthday of one of russia's most prominent poets exam pushkin whose stories and poems are framed the world over. the. more top stories i have for you but first we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business korea meltdown is here. and a welcome to our business poets and the world's top element and producer who sells says it plans to produce four point one million tons of other mediums this year despite the think of being roughly the same as last year companies investing heavily in new capacities now the head of capital markets spoke exclusively to our t. about the company's production outlook in the coming years. this year we plan to
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have quite the plant level of production so it should be at four point one million tons pretty much in line with. the for the medium produced last year and going forward we definitely will increase so production mostly come in for all you need to project a new smelter so we're building inside you're you know europe was concussed by us creedence coal to be mined by ship so do all the old additional capacity will be about one million dollars in the next three four years. now stuff below us has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel the country has won approval for a three billion dollar loan from russia and its partners now alone will be over a period of ten years with repayments starting only after three years the country's economy is in freefall inflation has skyrocketed by twenty percent in five months forcing the government to freeze some key food prices people have been desperately
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trying to buy foreign currency as republics lost almost half of its value president look assange has also seeking financial help from the international monetary fund but analysts warn you know bailout could save the country from collapse if it doesn't undertake massive reforms. now as they collect the markets now low prices likely lower on concerns about the amount that small and poor job state or from the main consuming united states have a softer dollar and of evil in the middle east on linux and the loss it's not even shares are trading in the red pressured by disappointing u.s. economic data the nikkei is down over a percent the stock into confidential as a mostly lower stock in tokyo electric power corporation fell twenty six point nine percent after kyoto news reports that the company will report a massive loss for the carcass per year. here in moscow equity markets started the day higher reality has advanced point two percent in the first minutes of trading
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them isaacs is still. quote and here you see friday's closing pickett's russia's equity markets ended last week in the red not rubinstein it i have seen metropole predicts a more positive outcome this week with investors further developments in europe and the united states. this week is going to be interesting to watch because following their worse than expected numbers. and labor market out of the united states on friday on line in hand and a second bailout package for greece on the other hand the markets are going to be tempted to go either way where i think the talks can start in the market this week is that the fed could step in with a q e number three or at least the. fed could give some signals that it would even envision something of that sort i think the bulls the optimists in the market and they're going to start talking about q e three now and i think there's some to this to all the i think there's some certainly there's some
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sense to this story because again the numbers are coming much softer than expected so i think this week is going to be again bolzan and there's fighting hard then i think we're likely to close from flat to higher. that's all we have for you this hour but i'll be back and less than forty five minutes from now with more here this is out.
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