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i mean allegations of the ruling military is bloody practice is a different question whether the a revolution for justice and democracy has only put in place and other dictatorship . economy to security the leaders of russia china iran and afghanistan join or a central asian counterparts for the summit focusing on the challenges facing the region. and these are live pictures from greece where more anger spills onto the streets in the face of public causes the stress to the government plummets to the economy. and in businesses how the other thing of the russian
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markets was largely subdued today however things could be looking more positive as investors await the decision as to whether they'll bailout greece already the full bill isn't there on twenty minutes time. so let me i'm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. i'm going to joshua the jailing of 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 many financial reports. nervously.
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each in day out tries in. asked him presently barack has been out the hell nation these has become a common scene here and this to. amnesty international estimates at least eight hundred forty people were killed and more than six thousand wounded during the protests that forced a tyrant to step down but even in a violent free country the resume for fear and frustration. read his brother was among fifteen young man killed in the violent religious strife that his cairo just weeks after the revolution egyptian christians and muslims clashed following reports that a young 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's killed read his brother as an anonymous sniper shot my brother dead the bullet went through his forehead and it came out only
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a side i saw it was that no one here has a weapon like this on this so it is there it's hard to grasp what happened. granted lames the army for taking the life of his younger brother and the revolution from giving the army so much power. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't know ireland's free but instead they started to kill people themselves are we didn't expect that all of that it with a people of egypt didn't extract many things they didn't expand the economy to collapse they didn't imagine the path to 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 gives another one in military one the power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military truth that. they were sitting literally in the pentagon war room when the twitter
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revolution started they are running the show there has been all displacement about military power but this is a washington insider as i call it in my book full spectrum dominance totalitarian democracy the people who stood on deaf ears where we jubilant the regime that oppressed them for more than three decades was going to vajra how pharaoh as they call that a turk would soon finally face justice for what he's done but once 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 worse scenario would be of the army continues to rule and the country sinks into blood from a civil war it's up to the people to decide. so a month since the fleet should be held arab world it's clear the revolution may now be part of history but the fight is far from over the reef and ocean are t.
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. human rights watch dogs report little sign of positive change in egypt since president mubarak was forced to leave but activists david keys 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 charges of insulting the military but increasingly and certainly given the incredible high number of detentions detentions of civilians not the clintons 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 water according to describe the regular beatings and this was the egyptian military that stood behind mubarak until the last minute so while there
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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 can is going to move towards democracy and liberalism and openness in the west in fact has a very important role to play human rights activist david keyes commenting on reports thousands been arrested on in egypt by military rulers since taking over from else that hosni mubarak. now a group of influential central asian states including regional heavy weights russia and china are meeting and has a stand to discuss them against terrorism in an area with more than its share of issues with pakistan and afghanistan in the neighborhood the shanghai cooperation organization faces a number of challenges i think tests are still years following the gathering and explains why they are. presence of countries such as pakistan iran and afghanistan he will certainly bring a whole range of issues to the table however before these countries as well as other participants join the original six members which include of course china
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russia india as c.e.o. summit the original members will sit together and a look at the past ten years this is the right of verse three see what they have actually accomplished and redefine the goals they have for the future because these goals definitely have is not going far beyond the original goals of fighting terrorism and extremism all those still these are very important issues as well as cross border talks but they have extended as you mentioned earlier it to the economy and the economic trade deals that they have set up even across cooperation in energy sectors even education and culture and these countries will also come together to have a common approach to world affairs such as the situation in the middle east and in north africa now with regard to the presence of iran here it is expected that they will be talking for example of the nuclear program of the country. is in town although an observer state that is it does seek a full membership however there are un sanctions against it and this can prove to
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be quite a hurdle because there are u.n. representatives here m.p.'s does want to work continuous relationship with u.n. as well as c.n.n. c.i.s. countries but with the presence of afghanistan the country is here as a guest it is very timely because the members do want to discuss a post nato about galveston after nato troops withdraw there have been doubts expressed that afghanistan may not be ready and so they want to discuss what is the future plot of a country dealing with the threat that they think is going to be dangerous to the stability of this region and this grouping also in relation to russia's concerned russia is looking forward to the approval of the five year anti drug strategy we know that ninety percent of the drugs in russia does comfort afghanistan so the presence of the president of the country here is very welcome a lot of important issues they want to lay out on the table. certainly reporting there well there's plenty had a unit program including by the u.s. building
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a secret cia drone base in the persian gulf to fight militants in yemen plus. the one into the waters of the arctic and plunged down to look at the titanic what were the two russian many subs doing at the bottom of one of you were largest lakes. the greek prime minister is facing tough opposition as he tries to push through more crowds to persuade europe to hand over more billions and new bailout demonstrators gathering in the heart of athens want to prevent a vote on a stereo measure by stopping him piece from entering parliament our he's our first is there for us. latins is likely expected to receive a. package for this year as a part so they invite european finance to hammering out the details of that rescue plan at the moment they're trying to revive your area's first. opinions on whether greece is going to the polls or his pain is very widely some people say it's fantasy to imagine that will be allowed to happen now the people are saying really
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now it's a question of when it will be in happening hit the streets of greece where here this entire process later on today we're going to see huge number of protesters taking to the streets they're going to be by the name calling the building they're going to be protesting against the proposals full of these new austerity measures that they say 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 number of unemployed the latest figures say the sixteen percent pulls out of the job so really the measures being put in place to that is a reasonable and that's been loads of people also when the troika that the i.m.f. years his central bank and the edict provided the initial to the chief one hundred ten. a billion years get a little hoss the bed and move on so plan b. because the thought that grace commanded another bet up package and payback for
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a lot of people is that they are realistic in the process of the been happening here outside the parliament building for the entire the arab spring uprisings what's so interesting about the places we've seen happening in this year i think countries like spain like greece that these are countries within to stop this democracy many people consider greece the first place if democracy will people here are saying is a wise inning in the cap basically what the government implements think and what the electorate according fal in the thirty thirty five years of proper parliamentary democracy in greece there has never been a government facing such a crisis over legitimacy it's an open political crisis here the government is trying to grumble but the people refuse to be governed in this way and what they're saying is that when you have literally millions of people taking to the streets and
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protesting against these measures and the government still pushing ahead with the well at that point it really have to not to see any more than this is very clear that until there's a pocket and there are patients who bring you all the latest from the states about this they sense a. sort of first reporting there from greece now you're spain master germany is expected to bear the brunt of greece a second but you are german m.p. calls peter well says the people in this country are unhappy about footing the bill and doubts whether it will have an effect anyway. in the treaties it was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise. you wouldn't. believe it. it's time for the circle. and so long as each country is responsible
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for it's not just. good for you still it's a pretty. and the only right answer to that is no but we decided to say ok we have to be worth watching. and then. you give talks to explain people when you get the reports from. the resource so. you have rich working. people. that's what we like to do from. and watch the full interview with german m.p. klaus peter welch in just over an hour here on our team. yemen's government says dozens of people have been killed in u.s. drone attacks in the country over the last few weeks many of them civilians russians and recently resumed its unofficial military campaign against al qaida terrorists there fearing they make spoil the current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret air base in the persian gulf to target militants that is going to council
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as introducing cia spokes will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with chasing down given 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 beat us is waging against hurt 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 you cooperate with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now that power vacuum 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 one reader latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate dear reader of the last. in other words they don't have to ask anybody's for mission creep on the phone for the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after months of violent popular revolt against him and his
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government will many years at least a little while the u.s. in exchange for letting americans block their own quieting gehman as we can leaks cables so often taking credit for the u.s. drone strikes we have to remember that scores of civilians were killed in those strikes or the support of the yemeni authorities was much you should carry on with you also on the other hand the government of alley abu. salim who has been in power for some thirty years was so unpopular in recent years among the people of yemen that many analysts say he was only due to the u.s. 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 permission to do so from actually the people of this country pakistan is one example of popular revolt against cia drone strikes thousands of civilians were moved by the u.s.
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drone drone attacks and you know most 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 the little piece many analysts say their support for the bombings will continue as long as they continue to receive billions of dollars for lushington people there are furious in one year the u.s. u.s. drone drones killed seven hundred civilians in pakistan but the netted only five actual militant leaders numbers that some experts are giving more gruesome the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated the draw to pax kill fifty nine targeted persons for each intended target nonetheless we now see the rapid expansion of the cia drone war. now we can also catch up with the stories we're covering online energy dot com
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there's plenty for you to explore for instance some money never sleeps u.s. auditors look into the disappearance of more than six billion dollars for iraq with the cash now on account of four. and saw diplomacy finished diplomats are held word of a steamy prize for promoting sauna culture abroad and helping forge international relations find out more at r.t. dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world nato warplanes bombed tripoli overnight as the rebels move closer to the capital but forcing back broke out in troops smoke and fire were seen rising from a number of areas across the city state t.v. said the blast of rock military and civilian areas although there were no immediate reports of casualties. the u.s. has accused of the sudanese government of blocking a delivery thousands of people fleeing fighting in the disputed region and us president barack obama has called for a cease fire following a devastating bombing campaign near the north south border by the us one hundred
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fifty thousand people have been displaced either side of the border because of tensions ahead of south sudan's formal interest payments which comes into force on the ninth of july. the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve has warned any delay in making payments on the government's debt could lead to a new crisis in the financial markets and worsen the economy than bernanke he warned the dollar status of the reserve currency could be damaged he wants republican support to raise the country's limit by august warning that america could default on its obligations and agree the. syrian authorities are being accused of using a scorched earth strategy to suppress anti-government rebels border areas according to activists over fourteen hundred people have died since the beginning of the uprising in mid march the united states is trying to put more pressure on president assad saying washington of course what's happening but russia and china oppose any attempts to intervene in syria its internal affairs through the u.n.
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. now they dive deep into the icy waters of the arctic saw the rack of the titanic and went to the bottom of the world's largest fresh lake now to state of the art russian mini selves are plumbing the depths of winter a once lake ice is made which explains why for the first time ever two russian deep sea subs the legendary mirrors have made it to the floor some of switzerland's a large water to gain about try dear about its joly contamination levels of lake geneva within the next two months research shows switzerland germany france and the united states will carry out physical chemical micro biological experiments even that are the main source of kosovo you are in the region well the nearest muscles more used to call in siberia they also reached the border all to ocean in two thousand and seven and back than house of the russian expedition presidential envoy
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to the north and south poles are two trillion dollars of planted a titanium capsule on the arctic ocean floor to symbolically claim water could be vost on it you reserves beneath the sea bat and again this time a capsule of the russian good a graphical society was planted on the lake geneva in a seventy second year russia's number one poll amounts that he was willing to take to the depths. as a politician i feel especially in the water. and compare it to french. and one of the participants of today's comes from a renowned family which actually invented. hello mr ricardo you tell us more about your father grandfather. grandfather or. first first first flight to the stratosphere. and then he invented about this case to go to the deepest spot
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in the ocean he built it with. and then my father in one thousand sixty together with the walsh who is whether the greatest friends of my family but he gave me the deepest dives to the absolute bottom of the ocean eleven thousand meters in the married us trench so nobody father has passed away and. you know you're there again today. so that was really great i know that you took part in a legend edition of the first dive in the marianna trench tell us what does the will to look like from the balls from from down there different inner space is another planet. and we saw another spaceship powered down there are trying it the other mir submersible coming out of the dark with the lights on just like a hollywood movie you know getting closer and closer into space ships meeting at the bottom of the sea amazing thank you so much will definitely historic events for the russian research is and the people of geneva will shut lights on the deep dark
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secrets of one of the biggest and the most beautiful lakes in the world because the russian subs needed their no detailed exploration of late geneva had been done before president of the reporting was on will join me for a minor main stories after the business update with katrina. thanks marina and welcome to the business person here on r.t. russia is full speed ahead in his bid to become europe's largest kamarck it and foreign carmakers are getting in on the act six leading produces have agreed to strongly boost russian output in exchange for tax benefits a citizen who some produce three hundred thousand vehicles a year it's thought that the russian market can handle that ambitious figure because it's still relatively unsaturated. if you look at the current age of the car park if you look at the current. number of cars per inhabitants
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there are russia is still a long way to go to reach levels like you have in other eastern european countries and this of course is the great potential it makes to russia for before. volkswagen is one of those six companies it's a great to join you produce new cars with gas group which makes the gazelle and walda brands total investment will be up to two hundred million euros with the german company contributing more than half that amount the firms want to sample volkswagen and skoda models the first vehicles are due to roll off the production line this is also the hands of jazz group explain why the company has chosen volkswagen as a partner. we have been very successful with over l.c.d. production and sales. secondly we had a nice she'll want to do with or personal. capacity and here we look at different options of four children became the best option. and in just deal
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we will produce under ten thousand vehicles for eight years before target and we didn't just from go through upbeats i mean you're. at twenty five percent rise in the oil price this year has not seen a similar rally in russian oil stocks hundred twenty dollars per barrel of frank crude may be causing pain for consumers but according to constantine siminoff at the national energy security fund this is still not enough for energy companies companies are to constantly develop new fields. the most profitable solution for the producers is price corridor from branded to one five or six dollars not more because you full price will be welcomed if you are one hundred sixty if a group or simple through the rest might have a new greenfields. down your. share from what you few the more expensive pricing that in the rest of the big.
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production for you of course it's not the best and therefore the produce for. let's have a look at how the markets are performing crude is struggling for direction concerns about rising demand of supporting the price as the american petroleum institute reports of decline in u.s. inventories for the last week limiting the gains that is the news in the u.s. retail sales not as bad as expected. in asia stocks are mixed the nikkei is in the black with strong oil prices supporting energy in hong kong though 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 s.b.c. is also losing nearly one percent. here in russia the markets have had a subdued start to trading with and stayed with the my six up just point one of the percent and the r.t.s. is flat to negative. russia is becoming more attractive to foreign companies with
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many expanding operations in the country it is one of those companies it's hoping to tap into the market through its know how and power management and electrical systems but companies are aiming to reach two hundred fifty million in revenues by two thousand and fifteen but the expansion is not without its challenges as the c.e.o. explains. it one of the large charges right now obviously is that many people understand this is an expanding corrective 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 say are a number one challenge today as it is finding those individuals who want to join a multinational company for a really exciting career and work out but we offer that kind of opportunity for people but we need to get people hired. well that's all of business at this hour back in just under an hour stay with us the headlines next.
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to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is an approaching upon all over. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms the belief empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s.
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troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross bases are fine are the noises i would ne of those of all the us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here from space. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals to get everything you need to. issues that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean it's position is a real mystery and it is being described as one of the worst meetings we've ever had.
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