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the. amid allegations of the ruling military is bloody practices a gypsy is question whether their revolution for justice and democracy has only put in place and other dictatorship. economy to security leaders of russia and china joined their central asian counterparts for a key summit focusing on the challenges facing the region. and more anger of breton's to spill on the streets of greece in the face of the public as people's trust in the government want for the nation's economy.
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a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua welcome to the program the jailing of at least seven thousand people by egypt's military rulers will be reviewed by the nation's interim leaders amid allegations of torture and abuse the behavior of the army since taking over from the ousted hosni mubarak is causing anger amongst those who took part in the revolution many are skeptical whether the generals are able or even willing to bring about the democratic changes so many died for artie's moreas the national reports. pace to his age it never sleeps. the eighteen day uprising that ousted president mubarak has woken up the hell nation this has become a common scene here and this two. amnesty international estimates at least eight hundred forty people were killed and more than six thousand wounded during the protest that forced a tyrant to step down but even in
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a barrack free country the resume for fear and frustration. read his brother was among fifteen young men killed in the violent religious strife that hit cairo just weeks after the revolution egyptian christians and muslims clashed following reports the d.m. christian woman was kidnapped and held in a coptic church after she married a muslim and converted to islam but even then he was a christian coptic it wasn't a muslim that killed read his brother. and honest neither should my brother dead a bullet went through his forehead and it came out on the other side and i saw it with no one here has a weapon like this on a soldier's there it's hard to grasp what happened. rather blames the army for taking the life of his younger brother and the revolution from giving the army so much power. and as. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't
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mind answering but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that all of that it that the people of egypt didn't expect many things they didn't expect the economy to collapse they didn't imagine the path to a free and democratic society would be such a bloody and painful one they just wanted to free from dictatorship and didn't expect it all to find themselves under get another one in military one the power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military chiefs of staff. they were sitting literally in the pentagon war room when the twitter revolution started and they are running the show there has been no displacement about military power but this is a washington installed as i call it in my book full spectrum dominance to democracy the people who stood on deaf ears where we jubilant the regime that oppressed them for more than three decades was going whole pharaoh as they call the dictator would
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soon finally face justice for what he's done but months on the revolutionary euphoria has done as well and people are asking themselves was that really was the hundreds of victims and did they really get a better country in. egypt is at the crossroads it could go towards chaos or democracy the worst scenario would be the army continues to rule in the country sinks into blood from a civil war it's up to the people to decide. months since the free it shook the arab world it's clear the revolution may now be a part of history but the fight is far from over narration ocean r.t. . human rights watch dogs report little side of positive change in egypt since president mubarak was forced to leave but act as david says there is growing evidence of crimes committed by the military. some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on spirits charges of quote
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unquote insulting the military but increasingly and certainly given the incredible high number of detentions detentions of civilians not the tensions of people who have you know tried to undermine the regime but people simply criticizing the military this is a very dangerous trend egyptian dissidents and bloggers who were imprisoned in military prisons and they describe incredible torture they describe electrocution they describe waterboarding to describe regular beatings and this was the egyptian military that stood behind mubarak until the last minute so while there have been gains and we hope that egypt has a brighter future ahead of it there are still many many challenges that it still has to overcome if you just is going to move towards democracy and liberalism and openness in the west in fact has a very important role to play. human rights activists david talking to us. from fighting terrorism and extremism to the economy across central asia
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a powerful security group including regional heavyweights russia and china is meeting and stan the presidents of iraq and afghanistan were also invited to the tampa anniversary c.e.o. summit and will hold talks with russia's president to start feeling is following the event. with the tempest shanghai cooperation organization is taking place now starting it off are the six member nations of the coming together basically to look back at the ten years and see the accomplishments that they have achieved to set the future objectives that they may have will they are also going to be joined by the heads of india and pakistan all three of which are observer. and all three have also expressed their intention to become full members there are still some obstacles over the requirements of the process of each of the countries also here is the head of the country is here as an invited guest has also applied for observer status and it is expected that at the end of the summit
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a decision will be made. by. now when this was first performed ten years ago the problems that they wanted to come together are the three forces they named terrorism separatism and extremism as well as to receive all of or to avoid border disputes and ensure. but ten years later it has expanded far beyond that and for this specific summit they said they want to give full time to economic and financial issues and specifically setting up a special account or a special fund for its part has already committed ten billion dollars for use by member nations should they ever ever needed to get over. now for russia what's important to the foreign minister. has stated before the summit that russia is looking forward to signing the five year time to draw the
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strategy it is a very big issue for russia here is a good thing they will be able to discuss issues between the two countries especially since the source of ninety percent of the drugs coming into russia now also the group of course will come up with a common approach to be issue. but the world is facing today such as the situation in north africa and the middle east and also they will be discussing post nato afghanistan again it is good to have a set is here to discuss that issue with before the security of that country is essential to disappear or of this group of nations now again only ten years old is trying to break into the world stage so to speak and they are looking forward to adopting a un resolution stating the stronger cooperation between the u.n. and the c.e.o. and of course at summits like these it's not just the main event that's interesting there will be meetings on the sideline us for a russian president dmitri medvedev he will be meeting with iraq. and afghanistan
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hamid karzai so it'll be interesting to see what comes out of those meetings reporting from. well there is plenty i had for you in the program here in our clothing why the u.s. is building a secret cia drone base and a person gone to fight militants in yemen. into the waters of the arctic and winds down to look at the titanic but where are the two russian themselves doing at the bottom of one of your largest lakes. a second rescue package for greece is once again on the table of european finance officials athens has already received one hundred ten billion euros in aid at a new one will go hand in hand with even more crippling cuts forced out of public angry at. placed on them are to sarah ferguson outside the greek parliament which has been the epicenter of protest. athens is widely expected to receive.
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packets from its very same. european finance hammering out the details of that rest at the moment that trying to prevent your area's. opinions on whether greece is going to the polls this pain is very well. some people are saying that it's fantasy to imagine now be allowed to happen now that people are saying really now it's a question of when and not a single thing happening here on the streets of greece where here this entire process can lace on today you're going to see he's now on the protesters taking to the streets they're going to be ending up at the main parliament building and they're going to be protesting against the proposals full of these new austerity measures that they say a completely unreasonable now they said the angus we've been building for a year they've come up against incredibly tough economic conditions there's a huge number of unemployed the late stages say the sixteen percent between what
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pulls out of the job so really the food of new measures being put in place to that isn't reasonable and there's been lots of people asking when the troika that the i.m.f. year if his central bank and the edict provided the initial to the chain of one hundred ten billion euro it's going to look pos the bad move on supplant v. because the thought that grace can manage another bet out packets and pay back that loan for a lot of people is simply unrealistic in the process of having happening have outside the parliament buildings have been compared to the arab spring uprisings what's interesting about the process we've seen happening in these here you think countries like spain like greece is that these are countries with an established democracy many people consider greece the best place in democracy will people here are saying is a wise inning in the gap between what the government implements and what the electorate a cooling full in the thirty thirty five years old proper parliamentary democracy
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in greece there has never been a government freezing such a crisis over legitimacy it's an open political crisis here the government is trying to grumble but the people refuse. to go over and do this way and what they're saying is when you have a truly millions of people taking to the streets and protesting against these measures and the government still pressing ahead with the well at that point it really have to not go see any more so they're going to be taking to the states my message is very clear that's a tilt that's a pocket and there are patients who we bring you all the latest from the states about this later on today. sarah first reporting there from europe's paymaster germany is expected to bear the brunt of greece's second bailout german m.p. calls peter welch says the people in his country are unhappy about footing the bill and doubts whether it will have any effect anyway. and you would treaties.
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was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise. you will. ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it and as long as. each country is responsible for its budget. it's to take responsibility and the only right answer to that is no we decided to say ok we have to work. and. it is hard to explain to people when you get the reports from. greece or so. every time. people. that's what did you feel.
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and watch the full interview with german m.p. calls peter welsh in just fifteen minutes time here on our team. the cia is reportedly building a secret air base in the persian gulf to target al qaida terrorists in yemen the plan is meant a strong. it's in america's military presence there with the u.s. saying it's concerned militants make spoil the current unrest in the country to seize power but as reports introducing cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with tracing down in marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes so if in cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now with the power vacuum
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and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have quote greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate they are greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to bomb the country the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after months of violent popular revolt against him and his government for many years had been supported by the u.s. in exchange for letting americans go after all yemen as we could make of cable shows often taking credit for the u.s. drone strikes we have to remember that scores of civilians were killed in those strikes so the support of the yemeni authorities was much needed for the u.s. should carry on with the operations on the other hand the government of allie abdul hadi salah who had been in power for some thirty years was so unpopular in recent years among the people of yemen that many analysts say it was only due to the u.s.
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support that sally had stayed in power for so long so for years sally needed the u.s. and the u.s. needed solly but now with the political turmoil there the u.s. shows they will continue to bomb yemen whether or not they have the commission to do so from actually. the people of the country pakistan is one example of popular revolt against the cia drone strikes thousands of civilians were killed by the u.s. drone drone attacks an enormous help responsible for that even though the pakistani parliament has demanded to stop the strikes the country's leadership continues to allow the americans to carry out the operations although the pakistani leadership criticizes the killing of civilians but they little too many analysts say their support for the bombings will continue as long as they continue to receive billions of dollars from washington people there are furious in one year the u.s. u.s. drone drones killed seven hundred civilians in pakistan but they netted only five
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actual militant leaders numbers that some experts are giving or gruesome the former chief counterinsurgency strategist with the u.s. state department has estimated that drone attacks kill fifty nine targeted persons for each intended target nonetheless we now see the rapid expansion of the cia drone war. now you can also catch up was the stories we're covering online dot com there's plenty for you to explore. money never sleeps u.s. auditors look into the disappearance of more than six billion dollars meant for iraq where the cash now i can't afford. and sauna diplomacy finished diplomats are awarded the prize for promoting sauna culture abroad and helping forge international relations find out more dot com. meantime syrian authorities are being accused of using a scorched earth strategy to suppress anti-government rebels in border areas of
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civilians forced to flee across the border are being housed in refugee camps in turkey according to activists over fourteen hundred people have died since the beginning of the anti-government uprising and mid march united states is trying to put more pressure on president washington of course what's happening by russia and china oppose any attempts to intervene in serious internal affairs through the u.n. and investigative journalist simon johnson of things the security council resolution would have little effect anyway. well it appears that both russia and china are going to show that there will be no u.n. security council resolution but even i think even if even if one would have been passed i don't think would have much credibility you see but the problem is is that the those who support the syrian regime and the syrian government can point to. a very simple fact that is there be many u.n. resolutions for the middle east and there's always been ignored when they apply to his road and also you know other people say well yes today it will be this
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resolution but any impact tomorrow they will strengthen it on the day after that it will be even stronger so you'll get an incremental move towards some kind of military intervention so people i think are very very suspicious of the reasoning behind the resolution if it falls in the same way as it did in iraq. that is foreign intervention destroying the country then you can see it plunging into it into a kind of civil war that we saw in lebanon the u.s. would like to see would like to take the opportunity to be able to kind of we can. have to weaken the regime. now take a look at some other stories from around the world nato warplanes bombed tripoli overnight as rebels moved closer to the capital by forcing back broken troops smoke and fire were seen rising from a number of areas across the city state t.v. said the blast had rocked military and civilian areas although there were no immediate reports of casualties. the u.n.
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has accused the sudanese government of blogging aid deliveries to thousands of people fleeing fighting in the disputed region the saudis are also blamed for tearing out a devastating bombing campaign near the north-south border almost one hundred fifty thousand people have been displaced on either side of the border because of tensions ahead of south sudan's formal independence which comes into force on the ninth of july and. the chairman of the us federal reserve has warned that any delay in making payments on the government's debt could lead to a new crisis in the financial markets and worsen the economy bamber donkey warns of dollar status as a reserve currency could be damaged he wants republican support to raise the country's borrowing limit by august warning that america could default on its obligations if an agreement isn't reached. they dive deep into the icy waters of the arctic to see the wreck of the titanic and went to the bottom of by call the world's largest fresh lake now to the state of the art russian many subs are plumbing the depths of switzerland. explains why. for the first
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time ever to rush. the legend three meters have made it to the ball similar. to getting about try dear about its job with going to maine lake geneva within the next two months research from switzerland germany the united states will carry all its physical chemical micro biological experiments given that lake geneva is the main source of potable water in the region will be our submersibles will be used to . or call in siberia the also reached the board ocean in two thousand and seven and baghdad part of the russian expedition presidential envoy to the north and south poles. planted a titanium capsule on the all take ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be an inch of reserves beneath the sea bat and again this time a capsule of the russian joe graphical society was blown to on the lake geneva in
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his seventieth second to hear russia's number one pole amounts that he was willing to take to the depths once again. as a politician i feel it's better to meet in the water than to have arms races and compare anti missile defense. and one of the participants of today's comes from a renowned family which actually invented. hello mr pickard i know you tell us more about your father renowned grandfather. grandfather or. made first first ride to the stratosphere with a pressurized cabin that you had invented and then he invented about this case to go to the deepest spot in the ocean he built it with my father and then my father in one thousand sixty together with the walsh who is one of the greatest friends of my family he gave me the deepest dive to the absolute bottom of the ocean the eleven thousand meters in the trench so i know my father has passed away and we did
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the dive or do you know their day in the lake of geneva so that was really great and all that she took part in a legend rick's position in the first dive in the marianna trench tell us what does the wont look like from the boys from from down there different inner space it's another planet. and we saw another spaceship lower down there. the other mir submersible coming out of the dark with the lights on just like a hollywood movie you know getting closer and closer and to spaceships meeting. at the bottom of the sea amazing thank you so much well definitely historic events both for the russian researches and the people of geneva the dives will shed light on the deep dark secrets of one of the biggest and the most beautiful lakes in the world before the russian subs made it there no detailed exploration of lake geneva had been done before because they are to reporting there from switzerland well in
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just a few minutes we'll talk to a german politician who is less than happy a b. a package is being offered to the euro zone's weaker members and that's hafter katrina updates us on the business news this hour. hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. volkswagen is stepping up its presence in russia's flourishing comma it's agreed to jointly produce new cars with gaz group which makes the gazelle and vulgar brands total investment will be up to two hundred million euros with the german company contributing more than half the firms will assemble volkswagen and skoda models the first vehicles a g to roll off the production line this the head of gas group explains why the company has chosen volkswagen as a partner. we have been very successful with over else should be production and sales. secondly we had an issue what to do with or personal core.
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capacity and here we look at different options for drug and became the best option . and in business we will produce some of them toes and vehicles for eighty years before targeting and we would invest from goes right peter i mean you are. that twenty five percent rise in the oil prices here has not seen a similar a in russian oil stocks hundred twenty dollars per barrel of brain crude may be causing pain for some consumers but according to constantine suman of at the national energy security fund this is still not enough for energy company companies to comfortably develop new fields the more scaffold also for the producers is a price corridor from where the other sixty dollars not more because you for price will be well fed if you have one hundred sixty it's a group or simple through the worst mobile new greenfields. to
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share. what you for proving more expensive you by saying that in the rest of the big. begin to invest more more money to production for nubile so of course it's not the best scenario for the producers for. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing crude is struggling for direction concerns about rising demand are supporting the price as the american value institute reports a declining u.s. inventories for the last week limiting the gains though is the news that u.s. retail sales are not as bad as expected. and asian stocks are mixed this hour the nikkei is flat to positive with strong oil prices supporting energy firms in hong kong banks are leading the losses as the people's bank of china raised reserve requirement ratios for lenders bank of china is down more than one percent heavyweight h.s.b.c. is also losing nearly one percent and here in russia the markets close with both
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key indexes slightly lower because he has dropped and just a notch and the my sense of loss point one four percent. there won't be much change in the market this week according to the head of equity trading at v.t. b. capital who says investors are nervous and closely monitoring events in china and in greece. there's not really a lot of risk that we see most of the upward movements in the russian market has been mainly driven by short covering and hedge fund buying i think that the momentum is that has exhausted a little bit where we see don't see that much demand for oil and gas stocks right now it does seem that there is a bit more skepticism towards commodities given the weaker outlook for china that maybe economists have expressed so in that light i think the russian market is closed to be higher end of the range we expected to be trained in the next month or so which is that a thousand mark is pretty close to level and i think it will be penetrated if anything i think from these levels we're likely to. shift downwards a little bit more to the mark next couple weeks. russia is becoming more
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attractive to foreign companies with many expanding operations in the country is one of them it's hoping to tap into the market through its know how in power management and electrical systems the company is aiming to reach two hundred fifty million in revenues by two thousand and fifteen but the expansion is not without challenges as the c.e.o. explains one of the large challenges right now obviously is a many people understand this is an expanding make tract of marketplace so attracting highly qualified local employees is a significant challenge we want to ramp up very quickly we want to be in twenty cities by the end of this year we're active in just for today and so i'd say are a number one challenge today is is finding those individuals who want to join a multinational company for a really exciting career and we offer that kind of opportunity for people but we need to get people hired. well it's all the business news for now stay with us the headlines.
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