tv [untitled] June 25, 2011 4:01pm-4:30pm EDT
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wealthy british style sun it's time to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. russian. politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and sets his sights on the prime minister's position. if not me then. all the details in just a few moments. in afghanistan as barack obama
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promises to follow through with the decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country. london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives allowing the egyptian finance minister to live openly in britain despite a thirty year jail sentence back home. international news income and live from our studios here in central moscow this is . one of russia's richest men has set his sights on politics after conquering the world of business because has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december parliamentary elections. spoken exclusively to the billionaire. mccall is not yet known as a successful politician but he is known as
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a very successful businessman and when it comes to pull her off and the a 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 force in the country right there next to the united russia party and even though. political career is just starting he's already aiming for the senior levels all for russia's political elite i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunges into illusion we have 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 disposition. of himself has asked the members of the right cause party not to refer to themselves as the opposition explaining that the currently the term opposition is critically
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understood by millions of russians who according to see the current opposition in russia as a disorganized marginal force on capable of making any changes to the changes that paul and his party are talking about and they are already giving concrete ideas of continuing the modernization off russia and making a liberal improvements. surely is quite a colorful character starting from his time to this man is over two metres tall to basically all the things that he undertakes has become quite successful he's known to be quite a sports fan a morsel arts expert he's known to be quite an active a jet skier he also the new jersey nets successful the u.s. a basketball team one of his latest projects the your my b. which is a core currently being developed. in russia and even though it's not yet being produced there is apparently already
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a huge queue for these course for years and years ahead of most of the projects that. undertaken really did become successful that's why there is a reason to believe that the right course party really does stand a chance. of reporting then you can see the full exclusive interview with all day sunday here on r.t. . well on the way this. is financial woes grip europe we take to the streets of new york to find out of people there feel they're heading down the same road. greece is looking bad spain is looking bad but i feel like we're on the right but i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country have to lower their their expectations it was pretty bad during the great depression that 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.
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a suicide bomb blast at a hospital in eastern afghanistan has killed at least thirty five and wounded dozens more the attack comes a day after a bomb ripped through a market in another part of the country killing ten despite 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 a-bomb his military commanders are calling the plan risky and advise a much smaller troop reduction as international investigators say the nearly ten year long u.s. mission has failed to reduce corruption among afghan officials based journalist doesn't mean because as i says the ongoing nato occupation is infuriating the afghan people. why did the actions and the good thing was again as they were and specially. religious and. seven is. turning people to join insurgencies again is
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this government. going to say you're living in tensions and. because of this. because of this not because of this wrong and fix but you. look at intelligence services some people. are doing taliban don't really do not have this tension. this trial. so in a country of. this government in government under the support of here so we have some achievement i should and. i should try that we have some achievement we have some construction but most of them. in the use of.
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egypt's former. finance minister sentenced to thirty years in prison is living openly in london despite being want to buy current use of boutros ghali was convicted of abusing power for personal profit but fled the country after the revolution and reports this isn't the first time london has provided a safe haven for rich foreign fugitives. when egypt abrupt it 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. because it is a long time the british government. not just from egypt from all over the world. is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning
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a thirty year prison sentence for embezzlement in egypt he said to be running around london 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 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 money and all the goods that's been extorted from egypt and other . arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that pressing to govern 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 the current government to neglect that you take many think they're already negligent in case an international arrest warrant has reportedly been issued by egypt. critics feel money and connections secure
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a ticket to freedom in the u.k. you 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 get to remain with your money in the u.k. if your money is. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they 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 west's men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the egyptian diaspora in the u.k. is familiar benefit here in london to community leaders say to people is to angry there's no guarantee it will stay safe and alone if you remain a lousy excuse to put christie support to the middle east and create democracy me.
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bring it to the great great sea your avatar. your opinion is important to us so go online and visit our website is to take part in the latest poll screen you'll see that we're asking you why does the u.k. . so far the most popular response to this question is because money talks. because they do not turn their backs on what may one day come in handy many of you that is because bad political leverage is better than none or. is a truly democratic country log on and vote to hear what you have to say. still to come this hour marty twenty first century exodus find out why thousands of israelis are applying for european and american passports. leaving the promised. us to discover what the unpredictable south pole has in store for those brain.
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enough to try and weather in. those stories still to come a person number of wounded in a gas explosion in russia's north caucasus has risen to fifty five with twenty in a serious condition the blast happened at a wedding ceremony in the capital of north lottie's medina question over is in a block of casts with the latest. as of the moment of the number of injured people has risen to over thirty with the sum of twenty being any serious condition now some of those people have even burns all across their bodies and they're all have been placed in three different local hospitals here in of lead meanwhile russian emergencies ministry's plane has arrived and it brought medical specialists from moscow and these x. person well a chunk of point those injured and work out a list of a dozen people were the most severe ones to bring them to moscow for special treatment the blast happened during a wedding ceremony and here in russia's north caucasus weddings are big
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celebrations and usually are not last on three hundred guests are invited for this type of ceremonies and the food is being cooked outside in special capsules that's why it requires gas canisters and one of these gas canister used exploded and seriously injured a significant number of people and for this very was saying over four hundred guests were invited but at the time of the blast only one hundred were present in the yard near the residential area so the scale of this accident could have been bigger. from other world news in brief and. triple blasts have been heard at a police state. in the northwest of pakistan at least ten officers have reportedly been killed some two dozen of these are believed to be trapped inside the compound was just the latest assault in recent weeks involving teams of all of the insurgents targeting security forces the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was in revenge for the killing of osama bin
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laden. at least eleven people have died after a militia group allegedly to the northern government attacked a southern town. tens of thousands of refugees displaced by five thousand officials say the attacks are part of a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the self before it gains independence next month but it's. ended more than two decades of a civil war in two thousand and five which had claimed over two million lives. fifteen people have been killed in a nato air strike on civilian sites according to libyan state television more than twenty others were reportedly the attack in the eastern town of brega the t.v. report did not specify exactly when the assault took place has rejected the education saying that it only hit legitimate military targets. in syria twenty people including two children were killed when security forces reportedly opened fire and demonstrators without warning a new wave of protests thousands took to the streets of several cities to call on
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president bashar al assad to step down after four decades of his family's rule the capital damascus protesters also can under fire as they built roads leading to the city center three months one crackdown has reported enough to fourteen hundred people dead. and we have more on the situation in syria the moment just visit our website you can watch an interview there with one independent journalist who says the e.u. sanctions will not bring any resolution to the crisis in syria. no fairy tale ending for a real life cinderella a russian girl turned global supermodel. splits from heiress to credit has been in the u.k. . and jazz legend calls visits moscow and talks to you about his passion for music and you can watch of that interview on our website at all to calm.
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a. cool. would be so rich brighton if you knew a song from silence to pressure these. stunts on t.v. dot com. news continues here in r.t. with israel creating as it was of course created as the promised land to provide a home for all the jews of the world but tens of thousands have fled the country over the past few years or more are lining up to leave or to support a slayer farm that fears over security mean that many are seeking
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a new safer life in europe or the u.s. 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. get money i want the german 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 you appeal 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. because he is or was a stubborn to become a shelter for the jews now europe becomes the shelter of the truce leave it is. this is my face 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
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promised land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad or have a parent who came from another country i have canadian israeli and i would never give up my canadian and i probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family there and i want to be out to go there any time british passport or european passport is 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 vain because of the suicide bombings and there was 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 this meeting israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired
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of living in a war zone the israeli leadership basing its leadership on creating all the. frying comparing against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. damn 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 the fate of the drop in world war two. the one who are favored were the ones who got the wide berth for. if you're going to go out. that can help your dog move out of danger zone then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the skates then the other way around and one in five of soviet jews has already returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli insecurity
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about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon points leader r. t. television. good news stories for the u.s. economy are few and far between with mass job cuts layoffs and the growing national debt however some are staying optimistic saying that things could be even worse as a resident in new york has been finding elf. 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 a better job this economy is not a better job yeah exactly try to go to college and then i can because car my car gas is all expensive school still expensive so it's one that vicious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me it's good so is that
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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 i feel like we're on the right. so they're just exaggerating 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 would say that's the number one perk 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 you had to cut back or we had to cut back even more would show 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
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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 have to lower their their expectations of 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. devoted scientists give up the comfort of their homes in the company of family and friends to work in extreme conditions at the ends of the earth r.t. shaun thomas investigates the price people have to pay to fulfill their passion for new discoveries. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing
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those who have to endure them to take safe harbor and it was pretty bad it was. and it was thirty thirty thirty five. so it was rolling around. had to. get in between us. so we were rolling around pretty violently trying to make a good writer. here 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 why don't want challengers to try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the hearts and extreme weather
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conditions 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 the most difficult experience of my career in such moments i start to sing that good just once is 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 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
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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 when the key thing is 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 when i was hurt for example when the airplane engine field we have avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have to airlift anybody else here we have void in the wrists until another airplane arrives. the system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe is possible in antarctica sean thomas. stories from shawn's adventures across the antarctic on his blog and that you can see on our website dot com.
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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. so special and attractive from the wildlife. and. expedition to the bottom of the earth. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes from now what's go out and the sport still ahead for you this i'll stay with us live here in moscow this is ought to.
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if. was. today children play war in the old piecemeal. module nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from an. see troops on their way to moscow and. senators and restless dying one by one under ceaselessly. water or lower. than 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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