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any of whom are against the u.s. involvement in libya there is also an interesting point that some experts have made with regards to the public perception of the war in libya it's off the headlines american use channels have been focused on congress one winner squash out for weeks now and there's fear that certain inertia develops in a public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous. reporting there and they have the u.s. center for constitutional rights michael ratner says president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the perspective i have is why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when it's all operation it's much harder to control them and i think you're seeing a really strong opposition building to the war what's interesting is that i think obama looks like he made a real mistake to go into an illegal war that's contrary to the u.s.
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constitution and contrary to the war powers resolution which is a statute that was passed by congress a number of years ago and this principally a legal issue of the really reflects your underlying discomfort right now with this war and i think there's tremendous discomfort despite the fact that costs are nothing compared to afghanistan america straight to say look we're not losing soldiers are getting sick and tired of war. the foreign finance minister hosni mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found safe haven in the u.k. and that's despite the fact has been sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail for corruption profiteering and abusing state assets by a cairo court artie's lore and it looks at why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from their regime at the same time as a publicly backs the arab spring. when egypt erupted into violence at the start of the year the u.k. was among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in
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with a new era of democracy the old guard was swept aside but many running in fear for their lives ran straight to a new life in london and the local egyptian community is horrified angry disappointed some of them call it shame when in the end. because it is a long time now with the british government being allowed to have people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world youssef boutros ghali is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle mint in egypt he's said to be running around london a free man who trusts god he was convicted in absentia of corruption profiteering and abusing state and private assets he's also been ordered to repay more than ten million dollars and p. andris slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but is disappointed by the response but expect to see some more action both against the
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money and other goods has been extorted from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i feel pressing the governor here today we do have a very strong tradition in this country of upholding international law and i want to see that continue i don't want to be the current government to neglect that you too many think they're already negligent in boutros ghali case an international arrest warrant has reportedly been issued by egypt but critics feel money and connections secure a ticket to freedom in the u.k. what is going to be would not have approved them to get into the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money has got i mean you can get to remain with your money in the u.k. if your money. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide she's not
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a stranger to the west very much one of the websites men in egypt was one of the worst men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to anybody be chips in diaspora in the u.k. it's called a million strong tends to hit london to community to say that people assume angry that's no guarantee took ali will stay safe and the if you remain the more you pay lousy big queues to pull chrissy pledging support for the middle east and pro-democracy movement well paid bring to the polls great great see your avatar take. well there's plenty more still to come for your the program here on r t but here's a quick taste of what's ahead. why some purist skeptics think the european currency has no future and have decided to bury it quite literally. plus we look at what it takes to work and survive in antarctica one of the most dangerous
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environments on the planet. well it's a state created for millions of jewish people from all over the world to call their home but now growing numbers of israelis are lining up to leave fears over security mean manny are opting for american citizenship to meet their expectations of a promised land fall asleep or has the story. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born there before the second world war and within six years had been expelled and most of her family killed but the irony is she now wants a german passport. or money or one of the join citizenship to help my children and grandchildren which might be shocking if it wasn't so common in israel today in the last decade some fifty thousand israelis have applied for european citizenship a quarter of a million already have a second passport it's unlikely that any other country in the world has such
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a large percentage of new immigrants preparing to leave. the story because it is or was a stubborn to become a shelter for the jewish people now europe becomes the shell of the. death of my place the american heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more english than hebrew and you'll be forgiven for thinking that you're in the us and not the promised land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad or have a parent who came from another country canadian israeli and i would never give up my canadian and probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family there and i want to go to go there any time british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunities eight years ago the bar was blown up by a suicide bomber three people were killed and fifty injured the bar didn't close down but some say the rush for new passports heated up in very peak off of the suicide bombings when there was
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a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase both in immigration and in the demand for passports and that demand has only grown in the last five years israel has been in two wars and many fear another is not far off and the government's policy of settlement expansion has only isolated the country internationally so it's no surprise his leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone leadership basing its leadership on creating. fear frying comparing against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. dan the sun has processed nearly five thousand applications for a second passport in the last ten years that works out at about forty passports a month and he's only one lawyer working in the field afraid of the truth in world war two the one who are through were the ones who got the. call.
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if you're going to go that. can help you to move all of danger zone when you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the skates and then the other way around one in five soviet jews has already returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli and security about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon point c a r t tel of of. as the us is looking for a way out of afghanistan and everyone is happy with president obama's troops withdrawal plan pulling out ten thousand soldiers by the end of the year and twice as many by next summer is considered premature by military commanders but now fast enough for anti-war activist artist military contributors says despite staying in the country for ten years conventional u.s. war tactics have yielded few tangible results. if anybody was impressed
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by a barrage of bomb a speech regarding the tempo and scale of u.s. forces withdraw from afghanistan it was afghan president hamid karzai on the one side the afghan leader was a happy camper regarding the american president announcement and on the other side there was so much after hanchen regarding there we action from the u.s. military and from afghan vox populi as far as the military effort hanchen is concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos and the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates in fact to the admiral michael mullen opinion represents the bunker mentality and conventional wisdom conventional group thing because only part of the u.s. military and intelligence committee really have
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a grasp of the situation less likely to step up to the t.v. cameras and to spill their guts that after ten years all for us uphill battle in afghanistan it turns out that ninety percent of the failure comes to the conventional forces due to conventional thinking. and now to some other international news this hour thousands of anti-government protesters have marched across syria with the least fifteen people killed in separate cities after security forces fired on crowds syrian state t.v. says identify gunmen who were responsible for the deaths this comes as the e.u. has introduced fresh sanctions against a mascot for its crackdown on protesters for morris you're young companies and seven new individuals were added to the black list topped by president bashar asad and his brother. is the leader of hezbollah says the group has
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captured three spies among its low level members it's claimed two of them were recruited by the cia although the agents were not considered a serious threat to the movement the u.s. embassy in the country has dismissed the militant group's claims as empty accusations. new york lawmakers have voted to legalize same sex marriage the decision to send hundreds of people to the streets to celebrate what they described as a victory for civil rights the york has become six american states were gay couples are officially allowed to marry and have families comes after president obama encourage lawmakers to support the rights of sexual minorities. well to greece now where people are a facing tax rises and fresh cuts to services as leaders calling politicians to support slashing spending if they want more rescue cash to be handed over the government will vote on a proposed twenty billion euro budget cut over five years next week if approved it will mean a second bailout of twelve billion euros the money will save the country from
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defaulting on its debts an option the prime minister has repeatedly ruled out mary argue that attempts to rescue greece are too little too late and that happens going to failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters i just hope that the skeptics who believe the euro is dead and buried. this is a funeral procession in the sense. brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debt and of the eurozone itself they believe the euro can be salvaged but most people including euro skeptics believe that it is impossible and there will be no resurrection of the euro well to me and i think a lot of people it's beginning to collapse around them really seeing bailouts billions of pounds of taxpayers' money especially from the germans putting a lot of this bill and i think the public about enough of it and i've had enough of it if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with draconian conditions in order for the country to receive the remainder of its bailout
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unfortunately for greece they will have to take extreme measures which are incredibly unpopular in the country and that presents a major challenge for the greek government right immediately after it has just been shuffled the leaders are unanimously wrong again. they'd be wrong about greece from the very start she should never have been allowed to join the euro in the first place she wasn't suited to it they were wrong to buy her out first time they're wrong drawn by the rope a second time and if the greek parliament on tuesday except this package then this time next year i'll be talking to you i will be a third bailout so while the european leaders are extremely excited about the fact that the future of the euro could still be resurrected most of the people in europe do not believe so and unfortunately for the european leaders the common europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. reporting they're now on the other side of the atlantic things aren't looking too promising either bankers are being laid
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off in huge numbers almost twelve thousand jobs have already been cut since the beginning of the year and there's hardly much sympathy for wall street high flyers among ordinary americans but as financial journalist watch tell it's plain they should be concerned as it hints at a new low for the u.s. economy. i think that what happened was there was kind of an idea that was happening that maybe a recovery was on the way because banks were making money again there were huge bonuses being paid out last year and that was an issue there was a lot of backlash and i think that's one of the reasons actually salaries instead of keeping bonuses the fact now that they're not making money shows that perhaps the economy isn't growing as fast as i thought it was numbers keep coming out suggesting that growing across various sectors and i think that if there's not money being made on main street. kind of a fix the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading in these
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banks can keep the bankers on. that was business insider concha watched sharing her opinion on america's stuttering financial plight but what do people in the streets think about these problems the resident talk show host laurie harshness finds out in new york. all the latest data indicates the global economy is going limp are you personally affected this week let's talk about that have you felt the effects of a bad economy need a better job of this economy is not get me a better job here desire to try to go to college and i can't because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's on the vicious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me it's good so is that kind of the way it goes when when some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad spain is looking bad but i feel like we're on the
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right. so they're just exaggerated not in greece and spain no no i feel like the reports in the u.s. are i'm actually in the military so i do not feel it at all that's the only perk i . park my job i've been getting steady paychecks for five years yet i can't see that the american military is going to go out of it if they do any time soon and i guess we have bigger problems to worry about the economy and we had cut back but we had to come back even so we could take cruises to come to new york this. crucial british first time in new york city today so that doesn't sound like you're hurting that it sounds like you're doing ok we haven't to cut back on a lot of other things do you think that we've seen the bottom of this crisis or are we headed for bread lines and even worse things that we've seen the bottom what is the bottom look like. well it was pretty bad during the great depression is a bottom that we can compare it to i don't know if we'll get that bad but i don't
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think we're there yet so do you think we can fix it i'm a global level or do you think it's time countries started looking at themselves first i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country have to lower their their expectations of. the living standard i think we all have to go dawn whether or not you've been personally affected the bottom line as the global economy apparently continues to fall flat so. well don't forget to check out our ti online we have a lot more news and eye catching videos on our website here's what's online there right now. by any other name correspondents found a middle lot in this compound reveals the top terrorist was planning to grant the organization of mid to losing a p.r. war with the west. and a moscow graduation bash and whether the bag as
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home. as one of the most unpredictable climates in the world but for people who go to antarctica in the name of science dealing with environmental extremes is a daily reality and the latest in a series of special reports are on thomas has witnessed how people survive at the ends of the earth. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing those who have to endure them to take safe harbor it was pretty bad it was. thirty thirty thirty five. so it was just rolling around. you had to. get it in between us. so we were rolling around. trying to make very good rudder. here
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the crew of this ship was able to pull through the tempest and even work with nearby stations to repair their damaged vessel but they were lucky operating in such a remote environment means that replacement parts aren't always available and the workers here have to make do with what they can it is pretty hard to get here good equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so. one challenge is to try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the hearts and three weather conditions and part that there is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of this operating down here logistically it can be more than a convenience it can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would go on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career in such moments i start to sing that good just once is to try is out here. but in
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antarctica time is a valuable commodity and work crews have limited time to prepare the base for winter after the accident happened we didn't even have time to make a stop which the moment required a stop to think to express compassion we had to go on with our work which we finished at about four am the next day the incident sparked an outpouring of international support from the surrounding bases but in a twist all too appropriate for the harsh realities of working in antarctica the chilean air force plane that was to airlift. the body back to south america suffered an explosion in the left engine as it was taking off the pilots on board of hurting another fatal tragedy by a matter of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties we're not going to get under the key thing is to tackle all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response because shien's and avoid actions that me get one of those hurt for example in the airplane engine field we have avoided doing anything that could
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have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have to airlift anybody else out of here we have void in the wrists until another airplane arrives when a system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe is possible in antarctica sean thomas. well he was called the father of the bolshevik revolution and though highly debated his role in russia's history cannot be underestimated a little later we retrace lessons paths in moscow. more strictly to change the course of the straits and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow from the johnny martin andrews as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life hands down.
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was. a mascot of here in around five minutes time and i'll be back with a reminder our top stories in just a few moments this. hungry
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for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v. . today children play war in the old keys me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. senators and breasts were dying one by one under ceaselessly. water. cooler. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.
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you want to order. to street still keeps its secrets. to feel. the soviet files on. the length.
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of the mag you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories the u.s. congress would be expressed in so bomb a military intervention in libya by refusing to authorize it but lawmakers stopped short of cutting off funding. for the campaign. the former finance minister in hosni mubarak's ouster of gyptian government has reportedly found shelter in britain despite being convicted of a beslan back at home that's growing anger among egyptians over one stance which have supported the revolution overthrowing the old regime. and more and more israelis are lining up to immigrate opting for the e.u.
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or america and they accuse the government of failing to make the country safe place . those are the headlines here next week's floor of the life of the father of the baltic revolution to find out why lennon's role in russia's history remains a divisive issue. hello and welcome to the show in this week's program i'll be exploring that in slice. the ball straight lead to change the course of the straight and starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and
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. names associated with. the eight hundred seventy s. . it shows his pseudo name in ninety nine as one of the leading political figures and revolution we think is of the twentieth century he changed the world. bolshevik takeover of power in russia in nine hundred seventeen the communist party religion wanted a class free equal life for an adopted form of marxism but what is the soviet leaders like to see today. for the developments in syria who. might say. those guys are really able to take a philosophy and turn it in if they turn it into something the whole society could use and think it was well intentioned begin. this man was to. time and he's still i do list now.

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