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thousands of pakistanis protesting against deadly u.s. drone strikes could soon be joined by angry americans as washington looks for bring on manned air superiority closer to home. economist war and more european aid for greece could bring the country to the brink of default debts as a major sponsors of appeal out germans question why they have to pay for athens financial failures. activists accuse the georgian government of sansa peaceful protesters and keeping their whereabouts secret after a bloody crackdown two weeks ago they say its police is employing severe methods in the name of democracy. the business of the sabel rose secures
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a three billion dollar loan from a russian led bailout fund but it needs a billion more from the international monetary fund could mean for that more of those bullets into the hands. this is r.c. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie a series of u.s. drone attacks have reportedly killed at least sixteen people in pakistan washington has kept up the airstrikes despite a recent declaration from the pakistani parliament calling for the air and but it was a us government i have investments in drone technology americans fear they could soon find selves the nisa steel sky are she's going to reports this so that when a u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost the. i both legs and
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three family members of these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody in the command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing a button they're 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 legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new rumor of. international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief
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counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated the drone attacks killed fifty non targeted persons for each intended target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better just able to judge what is 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 for droom development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards unarmed 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 us by planes this fight public discontent there's a lot of concern that the use of these drones by the u.s. government. has more to do with u.s.
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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 us itself surely don't you as police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms especially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities that are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war protesting some are governmental action they'll be chilling free speech should roll be equipped with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to only show the students who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states and in two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects for your head it looked like right in turned out they were robo flies to battle but it really got
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a surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing it intelligence gathering in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target in some ways deadly video game and maybe hearing be the last year that with the rapid expansion of spy drones of their own territory they could one day wake up even on to a police state i'm going to check our reporting from washington. also had in the program here in our whereabouts unknown we'll look at how dozens of anti-government protesters are still missing in georgia almost two weeks after a while the police crackdown. and to greece now where a public anger is mounting over a stricter a stereo the government's promise to implement so it can get its hands on more a european leaders have approved the next payment and its bailout for athens betting to save the country and hero from a default but as our team. finding out those who are to pay the price of a new
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a package could soon take to the streets. the euro's did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus he's suing the german government to stop its bankrupt neighbors you can say thank you. to the country you have to get rid of greece is no longer a candidate. number of the european union the nations labeled in delusion by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most drop the currency now before they drag down other members wards kerber. things 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
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longer we can't have a common currency us some get lots of education time and others very less so that won't work in the long term. the statements caused greece but they're not happy in the e.u. use cash capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy of cars if we are going to chill sixty seven it's not possible to clear why other people should go with sixty fifteen which are certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece in the pit states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all the 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. bigger and bigger higher and higher it is also not excluded. people go under sweet because they're
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say ok we don't want to pay any more powerful greens n l suing merkel's government claiming it did facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you we have to play it is so we have to give answers and the answers we don't get from our government even the ruling party's revolting close pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries should take the chance to say ok we get out we solve our problems we have our structures. for money for high interest rate we lose some of their money and. qualify again for your 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
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commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is that risk athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the i.m.f. greeks now agree with germans who say that bit's out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single cause it down with the new bush you'll see. a faster political science fair girl and told r.t. . won't revive the greek economy but push it further into the corner. europe and the i.m.f. on greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no no way greece 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 the situation gets worse and worse and it's harder and harder for you
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to pay back your debts i don't see how this money can we start the economy if people spend less and less i think suggests it now goes on there's a real danger that greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do that you its currency to have more tour is to sell more products and originally when you the euro was created the left in europe was very much against it because you had a strong economy used a strong currency the dean mark germany forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble. spain is another european country on the brink of a bailout but of a different kind of fruit and vegetable exports have been wiped out after germany wrongly blamed spanish cucumbers for europe's delhi ecolab rate it's now believed the source was a farm within germany itself and to alice address of voting release the initial allegations could be part of a plan to split the euro zone apart. when something goes wrong when it is only
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human nature to try and put the blame on somebody else germany did that very powerfully accusing poor innocent spanish cucumbers of being the cause of the e-coli outbreak now nevertheless i think that there's probably a more subtle agenda be highly all of these that is closely related to the fact that there are increasing centrifugal forces within the european union that already made a lot of people's talk about partial fractions partial breakup so we just heard in the previous notice that if greece doesn't find its way around it's cool its financial crisis your money might put a lot of the european monetary mechanism the euro very often want to get even imagine the german leader many germans or many powerful people in serbia are probably wondering why they haven't got themselves into europe to begin with so i think it's not it's it's wrong to just jump to the first obvious conclusion of a piece of news or wheel of papers we must try and find other layers of truth and reasoning that my blood. are you watching i feel i can ask you we've got
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a story for you just ahead including preparing for the last hour we start the countdown and if i get a positron launch pad a word the next mission to the international space station is getting ready into orbit. in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph greenstreet university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. gone or the main risk issues. is that ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are verkin for produce a cite and only five percent are really again i mean the independent. there is not a lot of science that says transgenic fish is unhealthy. for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there is
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a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if the trench genic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population you don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states legislatures throughout the will be vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth. culture is the so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a shame because the bottom people have areas saving the euro in the financial and political costs of doing so is it all worth it does it your approach you need a serious rethink should there be.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. china operations are ruled today . the fate of many opposition supporters remains unknown in georgia nearly two weeks since a brutal police crackdown on protesters in the capital tbilisi while president saakashvili claims to be a champion of the mark receive the country human rights groups say finding out what's happened to the missing people is practically impossible and as r.t. sara first reports some families fear they will never see their loved ones again. when the riots were dispersed and the good in capital of tbilisi think it's a few weeks ago that shock waves around the international community present back if only speaks of bringing a weapon about democracy to georgia but the things that were witnessed with the use
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of extreme force by his police operation against largely peaceful protests the even more disturbing we've been finding out that in the out the mass they have been tales of aggression behind the bars of people going missing who think deep concern among their friends and their relatives. who is a member of the opposition great he was arrested as part of the crackdown a look was issued in three days that fool the traitors take place she hasn't seen or heard from him since and has no idea where he is now. i was still he was it one police station so when there but they said he had been moved to the police station in another region when i went to that one may said he wasn't there either so now he's missing i don't know why but she's not the only one with questions in the days leading up to the pretest jury and our many people have been arrested and finding all these people is proving extremely difficult in some cases we hope problems
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because these people are moved from one potential center to another without providing us information where those people were taken so we have to go. and see residuals attention places and find these people which is absolutely. true almost. impossible for us inconsistency as an official information and even more troubling when it comes to some of the deaths surrounding the protests these of the demonstration iquique for enjoyed seize body was found in a wreath near the protest area he was last seen photographed amongst those being detained the circumstances of his remain extremely unclear there are lots of questions of our. bodies because we were receiving a lot of information from inside where people were just leaving police beating people. some people have been beaten so terribly. that we're even cases of this with official information treating inconsistent and chaotic attempts
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to establish exactly what happened to those he dies and to those still missing it's extremely hard. the police being in history interior going to give us his point of where these people are so. who was detained where the person was and so it was a huge mess then you'll get i think and now working on establishing just what has been happening recently in july the images of violence from the protest will stick in people's minds for a long while to come but this was a struggle that started long before that night's except to continue for some time after south. tbilisi. well it's now take a look at some other stories from around the world. and now we're looking at live pictures here where israeli troops are bracing themselves for more who are violence after a day of deadly clashes with broke our senior task force on the syrian front here
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at least twenty people were reportedly killed more than three hundred injured on sunday after israeli security forces opened fire to block protesters from answering israeli controlled territory thousands have marched to the border to mark the anniversary of the nine hundred sixty seven middle east war. what israel sees the golan heights from syria. a suicide car bomb has exploded in the central iraqi city of to create killing at least thirteen people and injuring nineteen the blast occurred at the entrance to a complex of palaces in the city one hundred fifty kilometers north of baghdad the buildings have previously been used by saddam hussein police say many of the victims were security personnel last week at least twenty one people were killed and more than seventy injured in two bomb attacks in the same city the hometown of former dictator. violence in yemen has claimed six more lives amid the celebrations dedicated to the temporary absence of president ali abdullah saleh
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from the country man were shot dead in the capital during clashes of protesters with government forces the president has traveled to saudi arabia for a treatment to injuries received in an attack on his presidential compound on friday it's unclear when he plans to return home protest 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 now expected to form a majority government with the conservatives that's prime minister and socialist party leaders was a surprise triggered the lection when stepped down from running the country in march that's after parliament failed to back his score of the security package in less than a year the new government must implement a demanding programme of cuts as a condition for e.u. bailout. all russian gas giant gazprom is on the verge of striking a massive energy deal with china but there are still some hadlee over the price
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just over an hour the company's deputy chairman tells r.t. why we're lovelife can help fuel business interests. who's going to be making a bigger compromise and so it would assure you if you will forward who. should do should agree for the most. from. a local step so that if you were trying to there was a ritual. of the steps of the true. speaker of the world for the totals. for the proposal that. the countdown has begun in the baikonur cosmodrome where revamped version of the so you spacecraft has been moved into position ready for blast off in just a few days it will carry three crew members to the international space station for six months mission on board mankind's most remote outpost of france reports from
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the launch pad. the twenty eighth expedition to the international space station blasts off from here at the baikonur cosmodrome so far everything is run according to plan very smooth indeed we've got three people heading up into space from here russian cosmonauts sergei volkov japanese astronaut. 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're just they're just due to managed to get this job and now as i was going into space it's kind of what are the things you notice about your dad ray comes back from a trip up there where you know he's kind of
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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 they're really weak when they come back will be out 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 with it we will all right guys this rocket 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 of last off on june eighth. well gondar if you go consular more on the stories we're covering here is what we have for you there today. video of an iraqi military jet crashing during an air show in tehran surfaces on why in two years on from the tragedy find out the details on our website archie dot com. the government in valorous is fighting the opposition using the newest internet technologies popular social networking sites. and all this
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day we remember the birthday of lot of russia's most prominent poets now examples kid whose stories and poems are famed the world over. ok he is here with the latest business news next. her welcome to our business bulletin with the merger of losses to stock markets r.t.s. and noise excess on the way central bank says the alliance could be beef with the inclusion of a global financial institution european bank for reconstruction and development and the international finance corporation are both potential partners the central bank is ready for talks but says it's premature to discuss except as etiology try to buy
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into the r.t.s. last summer but the loop was blocked by the regulator now analysts say a reputable international market could pull the both of the merger stock remote stock exchange. russia's becoming more attractive to foreign investors inspired by strong oil and gas revenues financial indicators show they're willing to lend to ross at a much cheaper rate then to other emerging countries a yield on russian dollar bonds is ninety six basis points below the average for developing markets that's the biggest gap in three months high energy prices fueling russia's hopes of ending the year with a budget deficit are just one percent instead of the previously predicted four percent. now castro bellows could finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel the country has won approval for three billion dollar loan from russia and its c.i.s. partners inflation has skyrocketed by twenty percent in five months forcing the government to free some key food prices people have been desperately trying to buy
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foreign currency the bird with rubles lost almost half its value president lukashenko is also seeking financial help from the international monetary fund but analysts warn no bailout could save the country from collapse if it doesn't take enough reforms. well let's take a look at all the markets are doing all drops for a second day on signs of a slowdown in the u.s. to non and before this week's opec meeting to decide production cts stocks in europe mostly lower on monday driven by weak economic data go buy a rose to successful drug trial the stock was the strongest before more the dax which is down per four percent lead by one point four percent for infinium technologies bank stocks were also lower across much of the rest of europe torture bank fell one point one percent in frankfurt very credit was down one point two percent in milan. and here in moscow equity markets are lower class crude slid the
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one hundred dollars a barrel the r.t.s. is down over a quarter of a percent of them issacson this point eight percent lower now let's look at some individual share moves energy majors are selling losses nafta's down half a percent look all dropped a quarter of a percent cotton the trend is known was bank after it reported a one hundred fifteen million dollars profit in the first quarter. now the e.u. debt crisis is exposed fundamental structural flaws and its financial system danio finally. business consulting ways out of the current situation but none of them are good three or four scenarios moving forward and none of them a good one is one hardly fault which destroys the european economy second germany leaves the euro which destroys europe thirdly very bad would be greece ireland portugal or spain leaving this would be very chaotic and in the fall scenario is
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that the least bad want and this will be a modified slow restructuring of greek debt this will happen next week or in six months or nine months and the sooner the better. the world's top i mean producer roussel says it plans to produce four point one million tonnes this year despite the figure being roughly the same as last year the companies investing heavily in new capacity and head of results capital markets outlines the production outlook. this year we plan to have quiet their flat level of production so it should be at the four point one million tons pretty much in line with the i'm on the phone immediately i juz last year and going forward we definitely will increase cell production mostly come in for all my new projects a new smelter suite building and say dear. old skin trust me yesterday just cold i'd be mine by chance so the old all additional capacity will be about one meal and
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don'ts in the next three four years. that's the latest we have for you here in business i'll be back with more in just under one. for the full story we've got it for us has the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.
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