tv [untitled] June 27, 2011 2:01am-2:31am EDT
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in the government. as a country as authorities launch massive radiation check ups three months after the fukushima disaster a local people are angered by the late response and the lack of transparency. germany is under pressure to walk up in a tourist nazi war criminal who found a safe haven in the country over half a century ago. and russia split over a proposed restrictions on abortion with some saying the move aimed at tackling demographic decline will breach pregnant women's rights and result in a ban on children. ten am in the russian capital we are watching r t the japanese government is starting radiation checkups for more than two million people living near the crippled fukushima plant it's part of
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a long term health monitoring program launched over three months after the nuclear crisis started and as our own thomas reports confusion over where safe and where isn't it seeing manny lose trust in the authorities. in a culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient when val's ins take to the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of discontent if after this crisis it is true that the people are more conscious and we need to take advantage of it this is the first time since the second world war the japanese people have no trust in the government he was a coastal city devastated by the earthquake the tsunami and on the edge of the radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery but the people living here say the government just isn't doing enough from the city hall like iraq city they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government they said different things. they are not together. or. part of the
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country. they are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientists who know that large doses of radiation given in one blast is a significant health threat but they say there isn't enough information about long term exposure to lower doses of radiation and the types of damage it can do if you check it here or a radiation level and then you check debriefs it when you take water you always feel have different values because it's so close and it's so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceed what a normal person would have by year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful lush green valley behind me but in fact this is the very edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up in fact we're trying to get a little bit closer but were escorted out by a police officer and
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a tepco of course will now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still between seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or me. understanding that people who live in the affected areas don't always take the proper precautions here a volunteer works to clean up toxic radioactive hot spots with hardly any protection at all a problem that some say is compounded by government propaganda accentuating the benefits while neglecting to inform about the dangers of nuclear waste. the first thing the government should do is let the citizens know the real cost of nuclear energy until now the priority has been to profit from energy the p.r. machine of the government has been emphasising the benefit of nuclear energy and the citizens have been brainwashed to believe it now in the wake of an international crisis and there are allegations that the government and the power companies have worked out a deal to help each other and that the media has been bought off the t.v.
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channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with it this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up about the situation the newspapers have this problem as well a move that if true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan shun thomas or teehee. the japanese government is pushing people to get back to normal life without creating safe enough conditions for it that's the view of a greenpeace activist who is part of a team conducting an independent investigation into the fukushima health effect his interview is coming up in less than half an hour but here's a quick preview. but essentially what it disturbing because on one hand you see the japanese are three peace forcing people and the society to be back to normal kind of so that people will do the work again kids go to the schools farmers start to actually plant your fields because it's a growing season and yet at the same time there are still extremely high levels of
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radiation and the contamination of both in the soil but also potentially in the food this is three months after the accident started but the japanese these japanese are very few sexually we can hold information they don't tell people the rules and they don't provide them with any kind of support. they call him the butcher one of the last surviving nazi s.s. officers who has been convicted of war crimes but who remains at large the families of his victims thing that putting him behind bars is they are a last chance for justice but they face a race against time and german law as artie's daniel bushell reports this is where the man dubbed the nazi executioner lives german media's phone from revealing his address but we know he's even if he has a message for the families of his victims. do you have a message for. those from the close carol for volunteered for the nazis in
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world war two he tortured victims before killing them at westerbork concentration camp in the netherlands where doris and frank was held to have been. systematically beat up people in the night they had to dig their own graves and she was part of the firing squad which shot down. a dutch court jailed for of the war for twenty two murders he's suspected of many more but in one thousand nine hundred fifty two he escaped to germany which let him go and gave him full german citizenship he was basically sure of that are protected for extradition in the netherlands has applied time of the time to have returned to serve his sentence but germany doesn't extradite its citizens no matter how horrific the crime this is the man who ruled for book can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to
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enforce. and prosecutors like criminals. no difference. the killers. and the other person germany the netherlands this is a criminal this. really was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted for her and asked him if he had any remorse for responded with sneers and mockery that was four years ago neighbors say farber's know how spell and i'm close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's a king. people say sometimes say well why put him in jail now but you know his face. never lifted in a second place you had never felt sorry for you this is deeds so if you go to
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munich you tried to talk to me you just can't you know you just don't want to talk at all if we don't put him in jail before he dies you know it will always hang as a dark cloud a ball you know why didn't you put your fairy last real cruel not since where he belongs last month germany convicted ukrainian american john demjanjuk of nazi war crimes or much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cost pins and another for foreigners about the younger but he's from russia you know they don't mind kicking him around here as long as it's in germans or even foreign to you because of a german national their faith or the dutch making a final push to put him behind bars this week they applied to have him serve sentence in germany activists say it's the last chance to jail the butcher of west
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to ball the new bush will see english. well log on to our web site r t dot com to discover how similar cases to that one have been handled. you can find out more on the john demjanjuk trial including his victim's evidence as well as comments from he's a lawyer all that and much more is just a click away. see here venezuelan officials have denied that the country's president who chavez has cancer this comes after its towards signing a u.s. intelligence source saying the staunchly anti-american leader isn't that critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba chavez has been in cuba for more than two weeks but the man is well and officials say he's being treated for
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a pelvic abscess and that he will return home and around a week author and researcher adrian so bucci things the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to stabilize chavez's government. what we are seeing the generalized change promoted by the united states britain france and even israel behind the scenes in north africa. as a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of u.s. promoted regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view a logical country to start moving. to another has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement blue united states at the top level to declare and classified as a quote unquote terrorist state apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain which said on global regime change as they move i believe closer and closer to
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a more formal world government well similar talk about the us fostering regime change has appeared after the state department announced its new programs aimed at spreading democracy around the world it's going to provide finance and technology to opposition groups but it only appears to apply to those countries which the u.s. would like to see the leadership toppled are just going to count has more. the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau of democracy human rights and labor has announced the request for proposals on how to foster change in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa as well as cuba the u.s. claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independent civil society groups in those countries it's just in really another form of provoking regime change they're just trying to do it under a different guise under a different facade saying that somehow and with the best of intentions they're promoting democracy but in reality it's just promoting us agenda among other things
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the state department is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like iran syria and libya according to participate in the projects other programs include a so-called internet in a suitcase a powerful portable wireless transmitter that activists can use to set up their own networks in order to circumvent state control but at the same time american companies provide authorities in bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites those double standards. and everybody should be fully aware of those things and understand the. us or united states government austrian regime change that's what centrally color of our technology is not all the u.s. provides to instigate change in certain countries some opposition movements get
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a direct cash supply for example we can leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups it's done in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more controlled really aligned with the. use of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their effectiveness in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the us does they're right out in the open on their website help most often comes with strings attached many say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and
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political support from washington are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially their. system with. the u.s. government even that's necessarily. going to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . well we have more in washington's less subtle involvement in other countries that later this hour. the us is about to start its troop withdrawal from afghanistan will bring you expert opinion on what legacy the americans are leaving behind. a push by the russian government to raise childbirth statistics has driven lawmakers to propose a bill limiting a pregnant woman's options over abortion legislators say they want to reduce the huge number of terminated pregnancies but there is criticism that the measures will deprive women of the right to determine their own future irish caller has the
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details. when she heard she was pregnant again lena had already been through two center in sections and had healthy sons to make her life complete along with her diabetes this pregnancy was a huge risk now though she can't imagine life without her sasha. you could relate to a miracle that i come to. imagine that once i had thought about getting rid of him i've never regretted my decision later i was able to make a choice freely had she wanted it terminations nothing would have stood in her way abortion in russia is available on request up to twelve weeks and is permitted at any stage if the pregnancy puts the mother's life in danger the proposed legislation would end free abortions of state clinics and make women wait for a week before the terminations to think over their decision the morning after pill now available at any pharmacy would also become prescription only. if we managed to
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avert at least twenty percent of abortions annually we have a clear increase in birth rates instead of a demographic decline. that's a qualified psychologist working at one of moscow's maternity hospitals says the stress of an unplanned pregnancy often makes women rush to a decision they might later regret that them as a veggie my task is not to talk a woman out of abortion just sure how they'll turn it is so that she doesn't end up terminating herself where with questions like who are all the baby would have been now and what he or she would have looked like. experts say the only way forward is to give women the security needed to embark on motherhood although found the help she was so desperate for at a moscow charity. my husband left me when i was pregnant i didn't have any means to feed the kids al ready had let alone raise another one. however opponents of the proposed legislation believe limiting a woman's choice breaches her rights both health and human my body is my business
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is just one of their slogans that. history shows that being abortions has never led to a baby born when the soviet union outlawed abortions in one hundred thirty six the result was an enormous increase in the maternal death rate and that's where doctors fear most that restrictions on legal abortions will only push women to find risky backstreet alternatives even if it threatens their health and life of those. in russia forty percent of women decide against pregnancy and if a woman is determined not to have children she won't and that includes simply abandoning them. like the mothers of these babies who found another way to escape burdens of motherhood these children are too young to understand why they were not wanted. these children didn't choose to come into this world and be deprived of their basic right for parental love one day they might find someone to call their
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family over the question is whether restricting abortions will lead to more children abandoned after being born against their mothers well. terry i wish her well r.t. moscow. well it's still waiting for political and economic reform in the wake of its uprising which saw ousted us president but for thousands of people who seek out a living rubbish dump on the outskirts of cairo it seems change is now always welcome later in the day will bring you a documentary on the challenges the community faces due to globalization and the arrival of foreign companies. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a cantata and factory. but we have less garbage now. some
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visitors who come here they don't make fun of me. picking up garbage boy i'm not bad like people saying. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me. that i feel people will start to appreciate us. and before that who have a look at what else is making news around the world at trial has opened in cambodia former khmer rouge leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity the for the fans are believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to two million people during their four year rule in the nineteen seventies the regime was trying to create a utopian society but people died from starvation disease and overwork last year
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the former khmer rouge member of comrades dutch was sentenced to thirty five years in prison. if the tale of carrying humanitarian aid to gaza is set to depart from greece its report it will consist of about ten ships with some five hundred activists on board israel's government has ordered the fans forces to stop the convoy reaching gaza and urge foreign journalists not to go on board and the tam to deliver aid to the blockaded region last year resulted in a raid by israeli forces that left nine activists dead. as greece is asking for more money to bail the country out of economic crisis more voices are accusing the eurozone of failing the debate on the e.u. members on whether to hand over more money scheduled for early july but our cross stock program is already tackling the issues. so we're trying to buy time though and we're still trying to buy time as to allow greece to more carefully consider
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what exactly it doesn't want to do because greece's resumed their lives and those are both the choice to suggest to avoid being on the politicians faces that's the key issue here they don't want to admit that the euro has been a mistake so they're doing anything that they can to try and over the cracks and try and hope the problem will go away you really think that you if you look a lot easier when you're larry as you know you don't want to. do what you want to be very rigid. and. some u.s. officials are arguing for more leeway over how the country's combat operations in afghanistan are carried out it's despite president obama's announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops are his military contributor believes
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that america should be waging an anti drug war rather than a war on terror in afghanistan during his speech related to the u.s. forces record figuration in afghanistan which was supposed to cover the old or new policy in afghanistan. president obama has never ever mentioned he's concerned or demonstrated his understanding that when it comes to afghanistan the real threat doesn't come from the i guide or it's associate but it has everything to do we have the narco terrorism the u.s. legacy in afghanistan will be mostly measured by the fact that it was due to the u.s. and nato occupation bit again a stand has been turned into narco state and the local insurgency has spread out into international narco terrorism unfortunately june karalee kolsky who is the us
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president drug advisor was not involved in the reviewing of the old and formulating the new us policy in afghanistan and it boils down to two pronged approach various counter-narcotics strategy for afghanistan and counterterrorism for pakistan and to integrate both approaches in comprehensive counter narco terrorism strategy now back to date here in our headlines in just a few moments meanwhile we're joined by dmitri is here with the latest business.
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oh you want your business out here with me to be she met with russia's biggest lenders burbank could be in line for hefty investment from china the china investment corporation is interested in buying a five percent stake in the bank in a deal that could be worth four billion dollars however market players say the lender is unlikely to sell such a big stake to just one investor burbank is a prime acid in russia's massive privatization drive the state is going to sell seven point six percent of its stake in the bank in autumn. while is extending losses with a stronger dollar and worries about global demand dropped sharply at the end of last week following a decision by the international energy agency to release strategic reserves on the markets the move is having a direct impact on the russian market which relies heavily on energy exports however you are slipping somewhat at deutsche bank says the effects are likely to be short lived. i really think the effect of these measures will
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prices is likely to be transitory i don't think it's going to have a long term significant. i think the reason why you do have an emphatic reaction from the markets is the possibility of such measures being undertaken in the possibility of them being with pete it in the future but i think is what is accounting for such a significant reaction but if things are left that and there is no continue with. sort of effort on the part of the developed world to try and raise will supply then i think it's likely to be a significant factor in the determination of oil prices for this year and we continue to project world prices averaging one hundred seventeen point five dollars poorer per barrel. all right let's look at the current oil price in
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light sweet as trading at just above ninety dollars a barrel brant is falling one and a half dollars two hundred three and a half in asia energy stocks are under pressure therefore we could crude financials also down european debt worries will stop central banks have decided most important industry carry an extra capital buffer everyway to h.s.b.c. is down more than one and a half percent in hong kong. the markets partly started trading the r.t.s. is up and running it's down point four percent as global markets also losing my sex will start trading in three minutes eighteen seconds let's take a look at what peter weston from out on has to say about the upcoming week he believes direction is hard to predict although sentiment will probably continue to be dominated by the sovereign debt crisis in europe. this will probably be another greek week given that at the end of the week we're going to have the voting by the greek parliament on the austerity measures and even though there are likely to pass
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it we're still going to have the response from the population which probably not going to be that optimistic so i think that would be what's going to taint the whole week and also we're going to see whether or not we're going to have more trouble out of the country given that we've had a hike in lending rates that means that has come up for these countries so we're going to have a lot of speculation about who's going to be next so i think it directional it's going to be extremely difficult to sort of say how hard this week is going to pan out but i think we can rest assured can be more volatility probably low volume so any upside that you're seeing is going to be a low conviction upside likes to roll over it's a very difficult market to play right now all right join me next hour we will be covering extensively their nation's capital investment forum which is going on right now in moscow be bring you live reports from there so join me in fifty minutes time for that.
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