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arrangement three. three stooges three. three volunteers in video for your media project a free media oh god r.t. dot com. russian a billionaire mikhail prokhorov enters a big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and sets his sights on the position of prime minister . in an exclusive interview towards the russia's richest man says if not me then. all the details in just a few moments. dozens of tara bombings in afghanistan iraq obama promises to follow through with the decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country. london is accused of harboring a foreign a fugitive former egyptian finance minister to live openly and despite
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a thirty year jail sentence backup. party is coming to you live from moscow city center welcome to the program now one of russia's richest man has set his sights on politics after conquering the world of business mikhail prokhorov had been elected now to the right cause party which plans to run in december parliamentary elections as easy as going off as spoken exclusively to the billionaire. because a lot of it is not yet known as a successful politician but he is known as a very successful businessman and when it comes to profit off and the right cause they have quite ambitious goals as well which are not only to get into the state duma after the next election but also to become the second most powerful political
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force in the country right there next to the united russia party and even though we call. political career is just starting he's already aiming for the senior levels off for russia's political elite i'm not the kind of person who turns a dream or plunges into illusion we are particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes what i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for this position we call brought up himself has asked the members of the right course party not to refer to themselves as the opposition explaining that cruelly the term opposition is critically understood by millions of russians who according to prof of see the current opposition in russia as a disorganized a marginal force on capable of making any changes the changes that pull her off and
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his party are talking about and they are already getting concrete ideas off continuing the modernization off russia and making a liberal improvements we've brought up surely is quite a colorful character starting from these heights this man is over two meters tall to basically all the things that he undertakes has become quite successful he's known to be quite a sports fan morsel arts expert he's known to be quite an active a jet skier he holds of the new jersey nets a successful us and basketball team one of his latest projects the your my b. which is a quarterly being. even though it's not yet being produced there's a fairly huge huge for these course for years and years ahead of most of the projects that was undertaken really did become successful that's why there is a reason to believe that the right course party really does stand
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a chance. right there and you can see the full exclusive interview with me. all day sunday right here on r.t. . on the way as financial woes of europe we take to the streets of new york to find out if people there feel they're heading down the same road. greece is looking bad spain is looking they feel like we're on the right i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we are each country have to know where they live their expectations 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 think we're there yet. with r.t. now egypt's former finance minister sentenced to thirty years in prison is living openly in london despite being wanted by cairo. garley he was convicted of abusing
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power for personal profit but fled the country after the january revolution. reports this isn't the first time that london has provided a safe haven for which foreign fugitives. when egypt abruptly 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 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 calling she wanted. because it is a long time now that the british government. people running away not just from egypt from all over the world you said goalie is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle ment's in egypt he said to be running around london
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a free man boutros ghali 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 he under the slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but it's disappointed by the response but it's actually some more action both against the money and all the goods that's been exported from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i have to press him to cover here exactly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of holding international law. and i want to see that continue i don't want the current government to neglect that usually many think they're already negligent in picturesque ali's case an international arrest warrant has reportedly been issued by egypt that critics feel money and connections secure a ticket to freedom in the u.k. which is their only would not have a brougham to get into the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one
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of them is the money has got i mean you can get to remain as you money in newquay if your money. is. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised indian states say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide he's not a stranger to the west very much one of the west's men in egypt was one of the worst men in egypt so there is sound refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the egyptian diaspora in the u.k. is half a million strong tendency here in london to community leaders say that people assume there's no guarantee of big brother carly will save face and the only remaining. lousy excuse to pop christie. to the middle east to create democracy in the. great great sea your
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avatar team. and your opinion is important to us here if you go online to visit our website artsy talk calm you can take part in the latest poll today we're asking you why does the u.k. exiles and so far the most popular response to the question is because that money doesn't smell not far behind on thirty six percent is because if they do not turn their backs on what may one day become and come in handy and not many of you agree that is because political leverage is better than none all of the u.k. is a truly democratic country log on and have your phone. bill a suicide bomb blast at a hospital in eastern afghanistan has killed at least twenty five and wounded dozens more the attack comes a day after a bomb ripped through a market in another part of the country killing turned back to spite the recent surge of violence in afghanistan barack obama has announced the withdrawal of over thirty thousand u.s. soldiers by the end of next year military commanders are calling the plan risky and
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advise a much smaller troop reduction. as international investigators say the nearly ten year long u.s. mission has failed to produce corruption among afghan officials. if you could just as much internet as i had to admit shortcomings of the campaign. if anybody was impressed 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 own the one side of the afghan leader was a happy camper regarding the american president announcement and on the other side there was so much effort hanchen regarding their we action from the u.s. military and from locke's pluckily as far as the military it's concerned it was mostly limited only to armchair commandos stand with a you as secretary of defense robert gates in fact to the admiral michael mullen
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opinion represents the bunker mentality and conventional wisdom conventional group thing only a part of the us military and intelligence community who really have a grasp of the situation less likely to step up to the t.v. cameras and to spill their guts that after ten years off us uphill battle in afghanistan it turns out that ninety percent of the failure comes to the conventional forces due to conventional thinking. six children were among forty people injured by a gas explosion and russian's republic of north of santa the last happened during a wedding in the city of light a cough pass within a question of what is that all this cost lives and i guess more details on this tragic. explosion at a wedding how how did it happen. well everything happened during
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a wedding ceremony and weddings here in russia's north caucuses are big celebrations were no less than three hundred guests coming the food is usually being cooked outside in special councils and this requires gas canister as well one of those gas canister exploded and injured dozens of people many have been taken to hospital and the moaning of them are children were of the savannah burns now according to the latest information coming from the hospital many are seriously enjoy eleven are in intensive care and among them are children now a plaintiff russia's emergency ministry is a ready to fly off to bring the most injured people to moscow for special treatment you know the news about the blast to quickly spread around the city of the capital of the republic of north and so many people are worried at the moment there are chucking there were no one of their friends all relative so who were injured during the blast. thanks very much.
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well coming up here on our twenty first century exodus find out why thousands of israelis are applying for european and american passports in the hope of leaving the promised land. plus we discover what the unpredictable south paul has in store for those brave enough to work try and whether it. you were darting live from moscow to check out some other world news for you in brief pakistan it says at least fifteen islamic militants have been killed near the afghan border the shoot out was reportedly between two rival groups of taliban commanders well it was not known why they fired on each other pakistan's army declared victory in the aurukun side tribal region last year but violence continues in an area still used by taliban and al qaeda insurgents as. the mauritanian army says they have destroyed an al qaeda training camp in neighboring
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mali the assault in the forest region of why do involve the airstrikes followed by fierce fighting earlier this month mali and mauritania agreed on a joint military operation to crush al qaeda in the region a terrorist group is believed to have bases in mali where it carries out armed attacks and kidnappings as well as trafficking of arms and drugs. fifteen people have been killed in a nato air strike on civilian sites this is according to libyan state television more than twenty others were reported by the attack in the eastern town of brega and t.v. reporter not specify exactly when they are sort of place the alliance meantime has rejected the allegations saying that only here but military targets. in syria twenty people including three children were killed when security forces reportedly opened fire on demonstrators in a new wave of protests thousands took to the streets of several cities to call on president bashar al assad to step down after four decades of his family's in the
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capital damascus protesters all. so it came under fire i think blocked roads leading to the second center a three month long crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people. and we have more on the situation in syria online for you to go to our web site of course that's our dot com where you can watch an interview with one independent journalist who says the e.u. sanctions will not bring any resolution to the crisis in syria. because also online there's no the fairy tale ending for a real life cinderella the russian girl turned the global supermodel to the tally of what young i spit splits rather from having one husband. and a smooth jazz legend the saxophonist dave cause the visits must go and talk to us here at our t.v. about his passion for music course that interview with him on our website artie dot
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com. if. it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow israel was created as the promised land to provide a home for all the jews of the world but tens of thousands of fled the country over the past few years and more are lining up to leave he's found that fears over security mean that many are seeking a new safer life in europe or the us. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born a 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. another german citizenship to help my children and grandchildren which might be shocking if it wasn't so common in israel today in the
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last decade some thirty thousand israelis have applied for us citizenship a quarter of a million already have a second passport it's unlikely that any other country in the world has such a large percentage of new immigrants preparing to leave it's really. because these are the stubborn. europe becomes the shell of the can sleep in its. effort might face the making heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more english in hebrew and you'll be forgiven for thinking that you're in the u.s. and not the promised land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad we have a parent who came from another country canadian israeli and i would never give them a canadian and i probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family. i want to go to go there anytime british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunity is eight years ago the bar was blown up by suicide bomber
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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 bombings when there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase both in immigration and in command for passports and that demand has only grown in the last five years israel has been in two walls 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 is leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone. releasing its own creating all the. thing you frightening. against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. than a son has processed nearly five thousand applications for a second passport in the last ten years that works out at about forty passports
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a month and he's only one lawyer working in the field but in world war two the one who are were the one who got the wide where you perth call you if you can go up. there can help you. move. out of danger zone then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the states then the other way around one in five or so if you choose has a really returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli insecurity about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon pointlessly r.t. television. and r.t. is coming to life in the heart of the russian capital good news stories for the u.s. economy are few and far between with job cuts layoffs and a growing national debt however some are staying optimistic saying things could be
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even worse as a resident 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 impact of a bad economy a better job this economy is not a good job yes i try to go to college and i can't because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so small nutritious i feel 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 mark yeah greece is looking bad spain is looking bad i feel like we're on the right path so they're just exaggerating not in greece and spain no no i feel like reports in the us are i'm actually in the military so i feel it at all that's the only perk
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i. park my job i've been getting steady paycheck for five years yet i can't 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 economies but. we have come back even more we're sure we could take cruises to come to new york this. crucial force time in new york city today but it doesn't sound like you're hurting that it sounds like you're doing ok we have to cut back on a lot of other things 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 line 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 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
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have to lower their their expectations of. the living standard i think we all have to go down whether or not you've been personally impacted the bottom line is the global economy apparently continues to fall flat. six twenty one pm on a saturday here in moscow devoted scientists give up the comfort of their homes and their company of family and friends to work in extreme conditions of the ends of the earth thomas investigates the price that people have to pay to fulfill their passion for new discoveries. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing those who have to endure them to take safe harbor it was there it was there and it worked thirty to thirty. years the book was rolling around he had a little. bit. in the in between us. so we're rolling
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around pretty violently trying to make a good road or we can have. 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 and it's 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 rather conditions and i think there is considered one of the most. credit and because of this operating down here would be more going to really and it could be done right deadly during the same storm the crew from that would have why on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into
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a frigid antarctic lake. that was the most difficult experience in my career in such moments i start to think that good just wants us to try is out here. but in 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 have 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 of 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. the key things all problems as soon as possible or the
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opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response to precautions and avoid actions let me get one of those heard. in the airplane engine field we avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have anybody else but a fear we have void in the wrists until another airplane in iraq was. 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. there are more videos and stories from shores adventures around the world on his blog of course that's on our website a simple con. within a mile of. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive from nearly the wildlife
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in antarctica. and the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. now a century of a sweet victories and little loss and russians and the big committee has been around for exactly one hundred years it is a celebrating his birthday with festivities across the country to coincide with the international olympic day our sports best sport look at what's been happening in moscow in about twenty minutes time. about that will be after our must go out scene we traces the steps of the father of the bolshevik revolution and before all that a recap of our top stories children can stay with us.
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you want to. hear. this is true still since. it's time to reveal that in the soviet files on r.c.c. . today children play war in the old piecemeal. but in june one hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. unders impressed were dying one by one under ceaselessly without food water.
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in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. they faced it this is not a provocation but a war. to complete forces and the second step is what is sure it's a pretty crazy streaks they have no idea about the hardships the face. plate wanted to say of them to this and for any army the life of a using them is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully you have to live a. real life stories from world will too.

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