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this is. democracy all yes take a ship the alleged brutal methods of egypt's military rulers force people to question if the revolution actually brought a change for the better. the leaders of russia china and iran and afghanistan joined central asian counterparts for a key summit focusing on the challenges facing the. fighting terrorism extremism drug staminate a gathering of the heads of state here in kazakhstan join me for the details in a few moments. and greece is paralyzed by
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a new wave of the austerity protests the government battles to push cost cutting reforms through parliament to secure yet another international bailout. it would r.t. a lot from moscow on the recent shanghai welcome to the program. of at least seven thousand people by egypt's military rulers will be reviewed by the nation's interim leaders. of torture and abuse the behavior of the army since taking over from the ouster of 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. reports on the story. never sleeps the agency uprising that ousted president mubarak has been out the
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hell nation these has become a common scene here and this. amnesty international estimates at least eighty. hundred and 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 there is room for fear and frustration. read his brother was among fifteen young man here and 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 around his brother. and amish neither showed my brother dead the bullet went through his forehead and it can mount on leah's side and i saw it with no one here has
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a weapon like this only soldiers 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. and. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't my lands free but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that at all that it was that the people of egypt didn't extract many things they didn't expect the economy to collapse they didn't imagine the path to free and democratic society which they such a blessing and a painful one ages twenty to free from dictatorship and didn't expect it all to find themselves and to get another one in military one with power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military chiefs of staff. they were sitting in literally in the pentagon war room when the twitter revolution
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started they are running the show all there has been well displacement of that military power but this is a washington installed as i call it in my book full spectrum dominance totalitarian democracy the people who stood on deaf ears where we do that the regime that the press them for more than three decades was going on the road how terrible as they call the dictator would soon finally face justice was done but months on the revolutionary euphoria has gone as well and people are asking themselves was that's really worth 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 if the army continues to rule and the country sinks into blood from the civil war it's up to the people to decide i mean. months since the fleet should be held the arab world it's clear the revolution may now be part of history the fight is far from over the region ocean r t.
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what a human rights watch dogs report little sign of any positive change in egypt since president barack was forced to leave but activist david keene says there is a growing evidence of crimes being committed by the military. some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on spirits charges of quote unquote insulting the military but increasingly and certainly given the incredible high number of attention this detentions of civilians not tensions of people who have you know tried to undermine the regime of 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 the regular beatings and this was the egyptian military that stood behind mubarak until the last minute so why there have been gains and we hope that egypt has a brother
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a future ahead of it there are still many many challenges that it starts to overcome if egypt is going to move towards democracy and liberalism and openness in the west in fact is a very important role to play. that was a human rights activist david keyes there commenting on reports that thousands have been arrested in egypt by military rulers since taking over from after hosni mubarak. now a group of influential central asian states including regional heavyweights russia and china they're all meeting in catholics not to discuss the fight against terrorism an area with more than its fair share of issues in pakistan and afghanistan in the neighborhood the shanghai cooperation organization faces a number of challenges that's australia following the annual gathering. as c.e.o. the shanghai cooperation organization was in fact formed to tackle extremism as separatism countries are today giving their speeches have expressed their concern in a still the growing threat within their countries their own countries and in the region
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as well also the threat of a civility and security internationally they want to come up with a common agenda a common approach to the problems threatening global stability especially what's happening in north africa and the middle east in fact statement was released by a foreign minister sergey lavrov asking the u.s. security council not to simplify the situation in syria with regard to the proposed u.n. resolution that they haven't yet c.e.o. is a strongly asking that a military operations not be involved in this situation this security issue has gone beyond just a land security of the traditional threats that we have seen in the past in fact some of the leaders have brought up the concept of each board and the security so they want to extend their efforts into via some cyber world in cyberspace also of course in the participation of countries such as iran afghanistan to pakistan make for very interesting discussion now on iran for example have given speech will basically consisting of more questions rather than statements of its usual anti
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western as if you know you listen sentiment got over to the job does express in afghanistan a very big issue on the a flight of the nato forces being in that country they want to discuss a post natal afghanistan i mean that in the past have expressed doubts on whether the country is able to deal with this threat on their own however afghanistan said that they are willing to take responsibility and they are ready to take on this role actually the president hamid karzai had also said that he would like to see nato and foreign forces adhere to afghan law he would like them to respect that afghanistan is a sovereign nation and he said that they are currently negotiating. how to implement this course we also have talks on the economy economic trade in all of the countries of ghana send again at the forefront when the persistent problem of drugs and drug production and trafficking and afghanistan russian president dmitri medvedev have reiterated that afghanistan being here as
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a potential observer state is a partner in combating this problem let's hear what he had to say. afghanistan. and it. can be. as far as i understand. it's a country which hugely impacts. the assyrian has always been and i'm sure. the meeting between president dmitri medvedev and iran. will touch of expected touch on the topic of the nuclear program as well as security in the region and possibly common approaches between the two countries a bilateral approach to the situation in north africa and the middle east now with the president hamid karzai of course as we have seen in the past the talks will definitely be dominated by finding a solution to drugs again that the countries here had said that they want
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a nonmilitary military solution to the problems that afghanistan is facing so we expect to hear this as well as trade deals between russia and afghanistan russia being very willing to invest in afghanistan and help its economy in order to lift the country out of the problems that it is facing. saucily reporting right now you are what you're going to use with your company today and still ahead for you in the program why the u.s. is building a secret cia drone base in the potion to fight militants in yemen. well the greek prime minister's facing tough position as he tries to push through more cuts to persuade europe to hand over. a new bailout at least so far prevented thousands of demonstrators gathered in the heart of the things from blocking access to the parliament building their plan to physically stop and payments from voting on austerity measures. is in the greek capital for. the expected to
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receive. its for this year is aimed. at european finance pounding out the details of that at the moment that trying to prevent your areas. opinions on whether greece is going to the polls this pain is very widely some people are saying that it's fantasy to be about to happen now the people are saying really now it's a question of when. will things happening here on the streets of greece we're here this entire process. taking to the street and you've got the name calling the building protesting against the place was full of these new austerity measures that they say completely unreasonable now they said the angus will be building for a year they can't think credit be tough economic conditions there's a number of unemployed the late stage is so thick skinned the sun's. out of the job
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so really the mess is being put in place to that isn't reasonable and that's the loss of people also when that's the i.m.f. here his central bank and the edict provided that initial to the scene of one hundred ten billion euros to live the bailout loans a plan b. because we can. not it's not that that cap is in payback that length for a lot of people is that the army list a few other places to be toughening outside the parliament building being compared to the arab spring uprisings what's interesting about the place is he still happening in the sea i think countries like spain like we see these the countries within to stop this democracy many people consider greece the first place in democracy the people hair is seen as a licensing in the got the sweet won't become men and women think it will be a let the cooling full in the thirty thirty five years of proper parliamentary democracy in greece there has never been a government facing such
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a crisis of legitimacy it's an open political crisis here the government is trying to govern but the people refuse to be governed in this way and what they're saying is that when you have it's really millions of people taking to the streets and protesting against these measures and the government still pushing ahead with them well at that point get reading have to not to see anymore and this is very clear that until that's the pocket and place ensued we bring you the latest from the state. you sara forth now europe's paymaster germany is expected to bed the brunt of greece's second bailout german m.p. klaus filch says the people of this country on happy about footing the bill and don't see whether it will have any effect anyway. and you treaties. that was regulated that there must be any risk because.
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otherwise you. would be he. says. those countries are a country. and. each country. responsibility for its part should. take full responsibility. and the only right answer to that is nobody decided to say ok we have to work one hundred sixty seven and then. it is hard to explain people when you get the reports from. the resource so. the average working time the. people are so it's will be elected you for. you can watch the full interview with the german m.p. kloster dilshan are just about fifteen minutes time right here.
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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 being civilians washington recently resumed its unofficial military campaign against al qaeda terrorists fearing they may exploit the current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret in the persian gulf to target militants as artie's a guy in a chicken says introducing cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with tracing down in yemen 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 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 can walk ration would be yemeni counterterrorism units but now that power
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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 greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate they are. you're lucky you know the worst they don't have to ask anybody's permission to go through 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 us in exchange for letting americans to work there all crying yemen as we could leaks cables 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 needed to carry on with iraq war on the other hand the government the alley abu. salim who's been in power for some thirty years was so unpopular in recent years among the people of yemen
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that many analysts say it 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 the cia drone strikes thousand with civilians were killed by the u.s. drones drama paxson no one was 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 to stop it 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 groups of the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for 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. right that now you can always catch up over all the stories we're covering online and artsy thought plenty for you to explore for example as the nato continues its humanitarian bombing campaign in libya people in the oil rich country say they're being robbed of both the fuel supplies and the safety. and deep sea vessels and in geneva supporters find out how one wide two russian navy subs went to the bottom of one of europe's largest lake starts dot com you can also catch up with our best videos on art and using you tube channel.
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he. says. the official tea allocation. pod touch from the. video on demand all she's mine. and. all of your. questions on the dot com. just one hundred twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without c let's get some other headlines now from around the world this
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hour the other songs a tough guy you can see has arrested five people accused of informing the cia ahead of the raid in which are some of bin laden was killed the owner of a safe house rented by the cia to watch bin laden's compound the owner is believed to be one of the detainees another is an army major reportedly copy the license plate numbers. to meet its cause. the director of the cia raised to be sure during a surprise visit to pakistan last. summer syria so it's not safe for thousands of people who fled violence in the town of. which are eight thousand civilians had taken refuge in it may bring in turkey is following a military crackdown on the uprising against president bashar al assad government says security and communications have been restored in the town as well as the atrocity of water meanwhile according to reports the crackdown is still widening across the border areas. the un has accused the sudanese government of blocking
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aid delivery to thousands of people fleeing fighting in the disputed region and us president barack obama's call for a cease fire following a devastating bombing campaign may be more water almost one hundred fifty thousand people have been displaced from either side of the border because of tensions ahead of south sudan's independence which comes into force of the ninth of july right on our time for the business with katrina. thanks rory and welcome to the bullet business bulletin here on r.t. russia is full speed ahead in its bid to become europe's largest car market and foreign carmakers are getting in on the act six leading producers have agreed to strongly boost russian output in exchange for tech spanish fits each of them has to produce three hundred thousand vehicles a year it's not of the russian good market can handle that ambitious figure because
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it is 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 there are russia is still a long way to go to reach levels like you have in. european countries now and this of course is the great potential that makes russia tech before. and volkswagen is one of those six companies it's agreed to join to produce new cars with gas group which makes the gazelle and vulgar brands total investment will be up to two hundred million euro with the german company contributing more than half of that amount the fans will assemble volkswagen and skoda models the first vehicles a cue to roll off the production line this autumn ahead of gazprom explains why the company has chosen both mike and as a partner. we have been very successful with our l.c.d. production and sales. secondly we had
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a nice you want to do with your personal core. capacity and here we look to different options some for choice and became the best option. and in just deal we will produce another ten thousand vehicles for eighty years for folks are going to and we did invest some gastro feats i mean you're. the twenty five percent rise in the oil price this year has not seen a similar rally in russian oil stocks according to constantine seaman off at the national energy security fund this is because the hike is still not enough for all companies to comfortably develop new fields. the more scaffold also for the producers is a prize crew from where the other sixty dollars not more because prize would be welcome if you feel that it's mixed if it were possible through the worst one of the new green fields. around you to share. what you for a few of the more expensive pricing that in the rest of the. big improvements
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more. production from you of course it's not the best move produced for now let's have a look at how the markets are performing crude is struggling for direction and concerns about rising demand of supporting a product as the american institute reports a declining u.s. in countries for the last week limiting grains though is the news that u.s. retail circles and i know the bears expected. european markets have made a soft start to the day concerns that discussions about a bailout package for greece may be more protracted than originally thought are also souring sentiment the banks especially are way down by the inability of e.u. officials to come to an agreement over greets the footsie and the dax up close down around point four percent and here in russia the markets are also also had a subdued start of trading this hour my face is up point four percent and the r.t.s. is moving into positive territory now let's have
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a look at some of the individual share moves gazprom as low as investors are concerned about potential losses the company could suffer from an increase in tax burden banks and mostly in the red spur bank is what's negative despite reports it's more than doubled net profit in the first five months of the year investors are concerned the growth of profits is slowing down and the electricity sector in surround is on the rise on reports about the company's possible cooperation with chinese firms chinua. russia is becoming more attractive to foreign companies with many expanding operations in the country. eton is one of those companies 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. it one of the large realities right now obviously is a many people understand this is an expanding and corrective marketplace sort of
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tracking highly qualified long form ploys as 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 and just for today there's a way to number one care is finding those individuals who want to join a multinational company for a really exciting career and work out that we offer that kind of opportunity for people but we need to get people hired. and the russian government has put its shares an s seven airlines up for sale for the third time this time but company is being valued at two hundred sixty two million dollars thank you it's twenty five and a half percent blocking stake worth sixty seven million this is about a third cheaper than when it was put up for sale in two thousand and seven analysts believe continued negative sentiment towards russia's aviation industry is behind the failure to sell its stake in the past an auction will begin on the twenty seventh of july. and that's present business for this hour but you can always find our stories online at our teams are conforti business back in just under an hour
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