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deadly mistake the nato defense forces killed civilians in a bush strike on a residential area in tripoli on sunday with gadhafi regime officials say nine died including two babies. three tragic become trees prime minister says it needs another one hundred ten billion euro bailout void default on its huge loans as a star achieved klaus turned central athens into our virtual. i knew your constant dollars on the extradition of alleged russian arms dealer big to boot from thailand to the united states saying the evidence is lindsey. and
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then the developments tree out of the russian president and rounds of the international economic forum in st petersburg the question of his of running for a second term remains unanswered. hello and welcome to the program this is a weekly review of our top story now nato has admitted its forces killed civilians in unfortunate and a strike on a residential area in tripoli on sunday could suffer a regime officials say nine died including two babies in a statement the line said one of its weapons one just tree systems failure as it was targeting a military missile site nato is looking into reports of civilian casualties following nato air strikes early hours this morning. that and has sparked
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widespread public outrage among leaders with khadafi officials saying it proves their long held argument that nato is trying to ignore military targets even so the western military alliance launched more strikes on tripoli just hours later resonators campaign and is that for some months leaders health ministry claims almost nine hundred civilians have been killed by the west in that offensive. reports now from the capital tripoli and you might find some of the pictures disturbing. residents of secrecy i'm a distance here in tripoli have been hooking up by a strike in the middle of the night and mom for several moments landed here this story as you can see behind me the room three story buildings quite a densely populated area where the buildings standing very close to each other times and many people found them very poor as we were told at least two families have been living in the damaged houses which is from twelve to fourteen people.
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under the rubble who were able to shine for children and two adults a man and woman who will of about zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero people here on the ground saying that there is little hope that's someone could be alive the buildings on the opposite side of this street have also been partially damaged but we were told that no one from there has been hurt the government's first person look at him aside for him has come from since shortly after this happened and he has this civilian area had been hit by may take pride they want that by rockets in the sky people were killed children with my own hands with my own eyes still and helping out people there was we were killed and getting boys the father the mother june homecoming is. on with this attack you cannot justify this that the enemy. this incident consummates continuing intense bombardment all the way by nato bombs are actually being taught day and
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night we are all the time hearing sounds of having explosions prosser which has always been against ministry means to suffer with the protracted leave in conflict has recently signed peace we see a chance to leave it to fight this fight the war inside the straw poll pain often missing the rebels in benghazi and pro productive people here in st louis making money off us. he believes there is for peaceful solution to all these crises both sides say they are ready for negotiations with the knees are now ready to provide an appropriate location for tolls but people actually extremely exhausted after months of a state of war which has already taken many many lives and has actually completely destroyed the country's infrastructure. and we've been wars already causing division in washington where the lawmakers demanding obama explain his charge into
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media and account for the expense and lack of progress of political radio host comment right thoughts chance he says he doesn't believe congress will really pull the plug. the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's our foray into the former yugoslavia dennis consideration a group of other congressmen even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court for the district courts the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing but the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are star you know we're going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and someone else is not going to you know in mass come and say that we shouldn't be doing this and try to define it and besides obama is currently using discretionary department of funds discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective it would be it works. to their benefit we do live in a military industrial complex type of world where they have they have the purse
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strings they have the power. this is our she understood a lot ahead for you this hour including the tragedy of teen suicides russia's goals to rein in an epidemic even though experts say there's an all to all this right media and. also russia and china agree on pumping gas though the price proves to be a problem let's not think that leave the summit empty handed after securing billions of dollars in business. but the greek prime minister has admitted his country needs another one hundred ten billion euro bailout package to avoid defaulting on its debts be tossed to convince the view to learn to gain rests on the shoulders of the new finance minister in athens as he faces a real war in carrying out a raft of painful austerity measures and he'll face and fears opposition from angry greeks to plans for more constant job services unpaid appointment was part of a major cabinet reshuffle to try and calm the white spread fury which has sparked
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violent demonstrators demonstrations appealing for a vote of confidence the prime minister warns that without another bailout loan athens soon run out of cash inviting a global financial crisis. has been following developments in the troubled country for. the clashes between the police and the protesters are still going. to start. but the area that. people here. was going on at the moment the police trying to. find it still right now we've. got i love the people on the street. but they got small still they really don't want any old. people. provoking the. people still moving back on such a list but even though you can hear the. talk by the police they plan. it's
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a great time to get prepared to start there i guess about the economic situation that's happening in their country and they want to know going to be able to. see the tensions between the people cry things in. the police about getting ready to retaliate. for the situation that the terrorists say the toughest police back in the police are trying. their managing by the looks of things to push back the police actually off the such a skirt so that a lot of the protesters to throwing things so i guess the students we spoke to some of the main organizers from the t.v. into a large protest today they said that they wanted it to be peaceful until the end of jena show any of these measures will cause see the police killing of take gas into the crowd that incredibly hard to breathe only strays not so pleasant for anyone
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there's a lot of people getting medical treatment around the place. but the pilots just really are up saying we're not entirely sure if these people wearing the gas masks that are provoking the police are actually part of the same process as you said the people we spoke to said they wanted it to be peaceful and it has been up until now up until it's day when that provocation happened when the police started to try to push them back and it's not just the unions that are against a ceratin they're just proposed by the government a recent poor should or should that forty seven percent of all greeks they were close any new spending cuts and among them as journalists and honest crisco systematists who blamed international bank is full year increase into a debt trap from which it confiscated. we cannot pay all the money they hear it's they interest rates all the money we take is in order to pay the high interest rates this is this is robbery this is theft this is swindle i can't describe it any
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more and the problem for them now is that people know that they realize that they see their income don't going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else unemployment you think unemployment is this is what they clearly you know realign employment rich twenty five percent sure and this is a chaotic situation and the owner responsible for this situation is the international monetary fund the minister of finance this government has failed. the czech republic announced this week it will pull out of the u.s. missile defense project out of frustration at its diminished troll in the system they original plan included stationing a raid a facility in the czech republic to counter potential threats from iraq and north korea the bush era proposals were scrapped by president obama's administration leaving the tracks only with its simple and early warning system the project is facing stiff opposition from russia which considers it thrashed states national security around one of the outspoken critics of the project is activist young
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tanisha who says such a system will only fuel global tension. the czech people don't want such a pain here in this country we are actually undermine the security of the czech republic and europe as a continent and so we completely contradictory to social system here in europe this system without incorporating russia with talking to also other world superpowers way china. india or the following or superpowers that will be the biggest world economies in years is really going to make a lot of tensions on the global scale and so it we should be wise and just start thinking about the building security mechanisms and structures will include all the big super powers not just. a motorized economy cured of corruption is one of the top priorities and president of that is to do list in which he outlined russia's direction in st petersburg this week thing to national economic forum staged to
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breathe new life into the country's investment climate and attracted some of the world's business and political heavyweights and he's and he said now it sums up the showcase highlights. wired as they sent based on stifling corruption dees rationalizing power and government reforms all goals voiced by president mediated at this year's international economic forum here in st petersburg were how russia is going to attempt to become one of the world's biggest and most active economies was laid out. we shouldn't hesitate to say goodbye to many bad habits we should focus on the following improving the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions the creation of a modern police service and over security forces improving the effectiveness of the justice system and finally the modernization of government of course the main bad habit as the president calls it is corruption which he says is choking russia's economy this was his message to the country's officials they don't do business
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according to the what. the noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be tightened and the whole of russia or agrees with this without any exception if the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way and for that purpose we should in hans the way those suspected of corruption are dismissed from public service another issue that's hampering russia's economic development is it not being a member of the world trade organization lately we're hearing from a lot of officials that expression to the w.t. over russia is possible by the end of this year the president agrees but says only under very specific circumstances. we have long been ready to join the w t o more than many other countries small or large still we are asked to make an unseemly large number of concessions this kind of approach is unacceptable russia will not agree to any evidently unfavorable solutions and of course presumably the one question on all of the minds of the business executives the top innovators and
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world leaders will president medvedev run for reelection well it was the official last question of the form and this is what madrid it had to say yes. when i consider. it appropriate to tell you whether i will do it or not i will come out and say it this forum is not the best place for that one thing you can be sure of is that i won't be able to avoid making that statement so you will not have to wait much longer. every story requires some kind of intrigue with the boys will be no interest in living. so let's keep the intrigue a bit longer. and certainly no intrigue surrounding what platform event if would run and if he doesn't out he's running for reelection it will be all about modernization reporting from st petersburg anything now a party. chinese leader came to china gathering in the northern capital and called for more efforts to put the global economy back on an even keel president hu jintao
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called for additional reforms to cope with the slow pace of the recovery but to say it is bad was followed by a trip to north korea where the two countries they'll to agree on the volume and price of russian natural gas to be exported to china however neighbors intends to quadruple their bilateral trade worth with a decade and energy analyst could only hold out here that's a close alliance between moscow and beijing will bring and i. just try not to be hugely important trade partner for russia both in energy terms only in general trade these are two countries that for many decades shared a political ideology leads to some extent they share the longest land border in the world to be much much greater partners than they are now if we look at russia is extremely keen to do. gas resources in the east of the country exporting anywhere other than asia just doesn't make logistical or economic sense so really
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this is about russia spreading its wings. everybody who can export anything is looking at the asian market because that's where the growth is. the case against the russian alleged arms dealer big to boot has been called unconvincing by u.s. judge citing a lack of evidence it was extradited from thailand to america over charges of helping to arm leftist rebels in colombia but snow has claimed the u.s. doesn't have jurisdiction to prosecute him one hundred one for the case dismissed after his marine output nine new york times has for years. he is the russian citizen america thought relentlessly to adopt the actor but was secretly and swiftly extradited to the u.s. seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if sound guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges if you use convicted he's looking at life there's no parole there's no early release in the federal system really the
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only way in the federal system to get a reduction in your simple. a significant reduction is if you cooperate with the united states government some have argued mr blue needs to be on captain america's team however captain america is being accused of playing dirty and illegally to remove the air cargo business man from thailand according to documents released by wiki leaks all levels of washington top to bottom now did political pressure against bangkok to gain custody of boot in a us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine u.s. president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about boot the u.s. attorney general and state department were encouraged to call the thai ambassador highlighting a massive drug enforcement administration commitment to thailand and the us ambassador in bangkok urged the thai government to issue
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a public statement of disappointment at the judge's ruling not to extradite the way things stand right now they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the extradite him or kidnap and google was arrested in bangkok in march two thousand and eight during a u.s. sting operation he was charged with conspiring to sell weapons to colombian fark rebels i'm talking agents that high court rejected america's extradition request when an entourage of armed u.s. agents removed him from thailand following a decision of the thai government his extradition was still not legally approved the covert operation was kept secret from russia but it's family and his attorney. was not finalized and was moved to the u.s. and europe to use various means political and others outside the boundaries of jus legal process to get there to prove that means that it is not getting
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a fair deal to this day tired fishes have not provided official documents explaining the legal grounds behind extradition. meantime victor boot remains in the u.s. prison held in solitary confinement his wife doubts her husband will receive a fair trial from the country she says violated international and bilateral laws to get water you need is that it's clear to everyone that the case has long been moved from the sphere of laws of politics i think or rather i would love to think that the american court is unbiased but i'm strong doubts about it because i think such pressure could be put on anyone including the jury. the country accusing victor boot of arms dealing now finds itself appears a little cold heartless to come october an american jury will decide picked a future wanted a political pressure at your side by the u.s. army and evidently the arena fortnight r t v your. grandson's
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analysis had a four hour to go home where those full details of the history our entire lives of the victims case. iran promised to be constructive and transparent with the u.n. nuclear watchdog came at the united nations conceded new sanctions on tehran as atomic blast demanding prove their program was peaceful and was spoke to iran's envoy to the i.a.e.a. said his country no longer had anything to prove. many allegations was raised by united and i approved of that investigation taking samples and early diggle process all these allegations are baseless in fact before coming to the un i was in charge of escorting all these specters and i was with them in this video to size which
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would prove that this allegation had no basis this is a very unfortunate after eight years the early picking is boring the stories one thing is clear that we do not have daily programs. but we are fully cooperating with. the unprecedented the most robust inspection in the history of board five thousand mandy's wage and how far on their leaders of divergence of nuclear material to prove we did purposes and the. claim by the ocean with due respect i can't they're going to give regenerate. but one of the highest teen suicide rates in the wild russia has been jolted into action to reverse the worrying trend but experts say it's not that simple because there are several causes that can lead to tragedy if left and noticed this and his acts and avoid reports compression is a cure all but it's a remedy that's too hard to come by. just days before final exams a t.v.
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crew was reporting and students gearing up for their lives that lay ahead of them but he pointed to paulina their brightest student who it seemed had her future figured out a stage i want to become a journalist because it's a very interesting and creative profession which would open doors to the world for me. but instead of risk pooling celebration colinas classmates gathered for his funeral something she may not be the best she and everything and hank herself. have been getting ready for the example weeks and pollini i was the one who worked the hardest of all she saw loads of math problems and she was very nervous she wanted to graduate isn't a great student in many countries this chasseur exams in late december and early june sees peaks in the number of children taking their own lives but in russia it's a year round problem roughly one and
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a half thousand children and teenagers kill themselves every year that's much higher than the average scene in the united states and britain. the problem is so out of hand that when i was informing the president's about it i found it hard to believe that the figures are truly frightening every year thousands children make attempts on their lives the girls are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide it is to boys who by a long way actually succeed in killing themselves. eager is different his try to take his life three times the latest a time just six months ago. i just had enough i was tired of fighting with my mom my girlfriend left me it was fun it was starting i couldn't stand seeing the streets and hearing all this noise i just wanted everything to end and i wanted peace what's driving the problem in russia is what x. parents call a low emotional literacy psychological or psychiatric help is underdeveloped and
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not easily available then there is the stigma. suicide to return to do a committed in a state of emotional distress which builds over time there are warning signs that even if parents notice them many would rather ignore them and to take the kid to a psychologist or psychiatrist added to that continuing social and economic shift making it harder for parents to provide for their children leaving little time for talking and listening this morning meant is that a kid had to children fallen victim to adult vices alcoholism drug abuse prosecution any one of those can drive a child to take his or her own life but in the fancher of this overly wicket takers there was one that seems policy broadening almost commonplace yet it represents what experts say is the main reason why russia is leaving europe and the number of kids suicide and that is indifference seeing no evil hearing now cries.
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artsy. and also making news tonight three civilians have been killed and wounded after a suicide bomber struck. a german convoy in northern afghanistan no nato casualties have been reported the taliban has said it was to blame for their time where they are lions has confirmed eight of its members have been killed on saturday bringing the overall number of casualties to two hundred forty four. argentinian coast guards have seized more than four hundred kilos of cocaine and all that luxury you as a registered yacht to supply news. of the day before the police raid authorities say weapons were also bought including a machine gun which was primed for use as a vessel capable of transatlantic sailing was about to head to europe. a bomb threat has sparked a full scale alert internal flights landing in washington d.c.
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an emergency operation began when a person at the ticket desk at dayton airport in ohio claimed there could be a bomb on board a u.s. airways plane heading from there to the u.s. capitol searches of the plane by b.r. absolutes have found nothing while the forty four passengers are being interviewed the person who made the threat is in custody. the operator of japan's devastated nuclear plant has again suspend common terminations applets a filter expected to take several weeks to remove radioactive material became overloaded and just find out as pressure on the company to step up recovery efforts remains intense as contaminated water as one of this size is just centimeters away from spilling out of the containment time engineers have also been forced to open the doors or reactor building to prevent another explosion meaning however that more radiation is leaking out. and the latest setbacks after the u.n.
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nuclear agency criticized tepco for its no response to the disaster and for conceding not ranger actually reeks school that there's an online journal it's a no scientist says this they're not itself it's the risk of a major remains very real any new leaks of any kind are going to be an incredible burden on the efforts that are already underway to try to clean up the water contaminated because they are now running out of space to actually store the contaminated water in the fukushima immediate vicinity of the plant and i believe within two weeks they're actually going to run out of space so they're trying to get a system online for treating the water but apparently the test for that is going to be pushed back another few days it's already been pushed back from last friday so there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure that any level of radiation exposure increases the risk of cancer and however negligible that risk with any particular person on
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any particular day at any particular spot when it's averaged out over a large population like it's living in the fukushima region unfortunately means there will be over time an increase in cancer rates there. it's really just a question of how many. ok it's got everything from tennis to taissa turn on the football pitch or now we can't sports round up in just over fifteen minutes and up and back with the headlines in just a month. of
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