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a report on our cheek. activists grow more vocal in their opposition to a covert us military site in northern england inspired by the reagan era star wars project saying they have a right to know what's going on. in the shadows are up in denmark because the country passes strict new laws on border controls which of already caused anger from its european neighbors who say it might reach agreements on views of free travel. nato is on the far as it claims it violated the un's libyan arms embargo as gadhafi loyalists say they've intercepted a shipment of belgian made weapons intended for rebels. international news and comment live from moscow this is. calls for independence
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from us militarization are getting louder in britain one of america's most trusted strategic allies peace activists have targeted a top secret u.s. military base in the u.k. which is due to become part of a european missile defense shield they say british authorities barely know what's going on there putting the country's security at risk. here it's a little piece of america in the heart of the u.k. so yorkshire dales where it's britons who are demanding independence from america this space symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain and the united states here we have a base that's on u.s. control over which the british government and british people have no control menwith hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance space outside the us there are thirty two satellite dishes housed inside the huge golf ball structures which can eavesdrop on telephone calls faxes and e-mails from around the world it's
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been operational since the one nine hundred six. but now is set to become part of the controversial missile defense shield to alert the u.s. to any launch of ballistic missiles as in poland and the czech republic where the u.s. also planned to site bases worried that having the facility here will put the area in danger heightening the risk of an attack by anyone who wants to disable the shield but unlike in eastern europe the government here has put up no fight to tall in fact it doesn't even know what goes on here there isn't a single british official in parliament or in the intelligence services who could give you a full picture of what is happening in this space it's the culmination of former u.s. president ronald reagan's dream as his statue is unveiled in london on monday menwith hill in bodies will rake in in visit in the early warning missile detection system that was dubbed the star wars program it secretive based for away from u.s.
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soil and some say it's a step towards the u.s. domination and militarization of space people demonstrate here campaigning for the closure of this space and the others like is around the country they want to reclaim this land and bring it back under the control of the british government and its people it's not working though as men with help becomes part of the missile defense shield it's building another golf ball satellite structure bringing the total to thirty three despite local and international opposition growing not reducing the u.s. is influence in europe. menwith hill yorkshire. the prospect of a u.s. led missile defense shield in europe has also set alarm bells ringing here in moscow nato is failing to provide legal guarantees that the system won't be aimed against russia and has also rejected proposals for a joint shield in the next hour we hear from a leading american scientists who says a bomb is administration is continuing the bush era policies. when the bush plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there was
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a lot of hope that the new system would be more agreeable to the russians but now that we have actual numbers instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama assertion the. this has raised all sorts of red flags in russia. stricter border controls are to be implemented in denmark as the country's parliament has voted in favor of permanent new legislation it will mean more security checkpoints at the country's ports and at its border with germany some e.u. officials have already condemned the move saying it might contradict mainland europe's much vaunted open border agreement. explains. but danish officials insist that this is to prevent drug flow and illegal migrants from entering the country but the move has been regarded as a bad sign not just by the left wing politicians and the opposition in denmark
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itself but also has been severely opposed to why the e.u. officials in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of the shotgun agreement of the open borders in europe and they also say that this is not a wise move at all to make during a particularly volatile time for the european union when countries are bickering over border disputes and over cash and money issue some believe that this actually may signal the end off united europe but the danish officials insist that this will law of cause and the damage to the free flow of traffic tourists and transportation across the border we have to remember that this is not the very first border dispute of course the problem of really go migrants it's particularly bitter one right now for the european union earlier this year france and italy have entered a rather bitter dispute over the flow of illegal migrants across their borders and
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we also have to take to keep in mind the fact that the extremely volatile situation in northern africa is not going to help the situation in any way since most of the migrants who do come to europe could do flood countries like denmark belgium or italy and france actually do come mostly from the north in africa region so this particular move by the danish officials may actually send quite a worrisome signal to other european countries who may also follow suit. more to mr smith to european parliament member from denmark says he's country's right to take action to tackle rising immigration. all over the european union where more and more people are realizing that the solutions we have been given by brussels are not the right where the right ones for a modern world where fighting trafficking which is the one of the most horrible crimes we see of course we're fighting groks we're fighting smugglers in various kind and illegal immigrants it's clear that we see what we see in the entire middle east is to shoot pressure on the european borders and i think we have
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a national as well as international responsibility to avoid that that illegal immigrants come to our country so that they create an environment environment that is hostile to those who are legally here i think it's reasonable to use public spending to ensure the everyday lives for the danish population i mean that's one of the main reasons why you want to pay tax that you want to police a customs control the army here and whatever publicly funded institution to protect you so i think it's reasonable that we are spending some. one hundred million kroner on this matter because we have seen the increase of criminal activity juicer the lack of control so now we pay a little bit more but we get more control and thereby more safety and on our website r.t. dot com we're asking for your opinion about what the revival of border controls between e.u. members means for the future of the union and looking on screen we can see on hold at the end of the e.u. is the only way to fend off an immigration crisis eighteen percent think that
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europe has failed to find unity in troubled times the same number say it's just a temporary setback in the integration process eighty percent think that the e.u. is proved to be unworkable cast your vote r.t. dot com. libyan officials say they seized two ships on route from qatar carrying weapons intended for gadhafi rebels they're said to have been carrying over one hundred belgian made assault rifles along with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the friendship admitted to supplying weapons to libya's government forces in the shipment of arms to libya is a violation of international law that's according to mahdi darrius not a murderer he's from the center. globalisation definitely is violating the united nations sanction as well as international law there's something called the a t t and under the a.t.v. cannot supply arms to the rebels this is not new news either they've been saying this from march that they've been sending arms to the rebels and i haven't been
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restricted here in libya i've i've i've traveled i've seen the frontier from tunisia to tripoli. the people that are resisting this are the actual people libyan people there's no real organized military here is the people the people of libya have taken arms to defend this country against nato if you go to the checkpoints you're going to see the regular people they called people people who are volunteers that it's not strictly a military a military force that's being fought against by the rebels or whatever you want to call them the transitional council forces revolution or whatever you want to call them they are a minority and they are being armed by the outside in some cases they are better weapons than the actual libyan military that the ball is in nato support the balls are in libya's court there is fighting defensively that's the reality of the situation the ones who are being bombed they don't want to have planes overhead it's not it in their hands so right now i don't see nato winning unless they invade or they continue to arm the rebels put it's way it's frankly it's too soon to say
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and i heard that hillary clinton said we're going to follow this to the end i don't think this is looking good for nato and if they invade they have to be fools every house in tripoli is armed they have neighborhood defenses set up in every single houses aren't all the people here are carrying weapons if they don't like a death if they were to turn those weapons on him. a lot more still to come on the program this hour including brand new ways to satisfy china's energy hunger some countries are starting against the nuclear future following the focus here with disaster china is searching for advanced technology to make atomic power safer. and for the children with the recognition of fragile skin and their battle to improve treatment for the problem here in russia. first the dutch court has ruled that the netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three bosnian muslims after the fall asleep in its jury the bosnian war the judges of ordered the government to pay out compensation to the relatives of those killed the victims were support
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staff for the dutch un peacekeeping force and those muslims who took shelter in the un protected. the memory executed by bosnian serbs when the peacekeepers forced them out of the compound along with thousands of others more than eight thousand bosnian muslim men and boys were killed in seven in july one thousand. and exulted a political analyst based in belgrade has told me earlier an r.t. that the un we should take responsibility. the dutch soldiers who are under un made mandate there is no question about that now on the other hand. i think maybe somebody is trying to shift the blame from the u.n. to a member state and this is tricky business because if the u.n. is liable to one lawsuit it may be liable to lawsuits all over the world at the end of the day it was under the u.n. flag that the whole mission was being run and the one had the responsibility for demilitarizing srebrenica however and we have testimony of dutch soldiers
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several dutch soldiers who actually said that when they tried to demilitarize the zone disarmed the muslim fighters actually they received instructions from new york from the seat of the u.n. to go easy on the demilitarization so at the end of the day the dutch were left holding the bag so to speak they were there were very to shoulder the blame they forget we have plenty of other stories available in addition to what you see here on screen on our website that snotty dot com here's a quick look at what's there right now to find out how laser pens are become considered dangerous. gun in russia's republic of chechnya and leader has banned and. he catches up with an italian mob or. you can make the stone magically stay afloat and even the floor of the. three.
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a flurry of new law suits have been filed in connection with the scandal surrounding former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn a french writer was charging him with attempting to rape back in two thousand and three but his noise say they will soon slander is heads to the new yorker's for the case he's already facing and it's making that case suing a newspaper which named her a prostitute after her credibility came to be questioned by the investigation however while strauss card may end up free of charges he might have got himself into too much trouble to continue a political that's the view french history professor robert zaretsky from the university of houston on his college. i don't think is political sasa nation and i think it really is a case of political suicide i really think that on the dominique strauss kahn is that the origins of this case it's significant that tristan macmanus mother who is
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a fairly important figure in the socialist party and who urged her daughter back in two thousand and three not just say anything about the attack has now come out of the closet and insist stad are strong and is sexual habits have been long known among socialists a long amended but nobody said anything about them so she may emerge a free man but whether she's freedom is going to lead to the. a completely different story and a number of women instructors are appalled at the which is what they call which they call the grand old men of the socialist party are plotting to being one another on the park right now because strong con seems to be on the verge of of being liberated from new york city's judicial system. coming up later this hour
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financial analysts max keiser and stacy parallel between the financial woes of greece and the mounting debt of the u.s. the full program for you is that nine thirty pm g.m.t. here's a quick preview we. said many times the i.m.f. is after the us next s. and p. one of the rating agencies who work hand in hand with these international banks there's the managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to de de de de de that's lower than triple say and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out of the ratings report saying america's that's where the debate therefore so you're american debt you need a place to put that cash but i agree that it will give you a play all the options on the acropolis ourselves we don't need it i am never bored like where they come in here and sell the acropolis regarded or some of the star crops.
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as a cause report a little later naughty the accident at japan's fukushima facility triggered safety fears around the world forcing some countries to think twice about using nuclear energy but for energy hungry china it seems is to monza so high there's simply no alternative as henry morton reports it's focusing instead on developing new technologies to make atomic plants safer. with the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following japan's tsunami and the problems at the fukushima daiichi plant china is looking at spearheading efforts to make the industry safer much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the element floor in a metal proponents say as common as lead and one which despite some concerns would lead to power plants with fewer safety issues as well as other benefits. thore and based reactors certainly have advantages release from thore and is
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greater than from uranium the by products from using thore and less toxic than from uranium and it's much harder to make weapons from those by products. public outcry following the problems at the fukushima plant led to beijing putting a freeze on approvals of all new nuclear power stations and safety checks at the twenty seven currently under construction however with chinese electricity consumption growing at more than five percent a year and its current reliance on fossil fuels to generate that unsustainable it's unlikely the crisis in japan will dampen china's thirst for nuclear power. it's impossible for china to give up nuclear energy and china needs to make changes to its energy structure which is closely linked to the need to reduce pollution carbon emissions and the overall direction of chinese development other new energies have no advantage in either techniques or resources. no one in china is
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under any illusions that the country desperately needs to find alternative clean ways to generate electricity the current reliance on coal which provides some eighty percent of chinese energy needs cost the economy more than two hundred billion dollars a year through air pollution alone and while beijing is investing heavily in turn it into energy supplies nuclear power is seen as the best bet by the chinese government the problem facing authorities is trying to convince a sometimes and jittery public that nuclear energy is a safe alternative so they are investing millions of dollars into foreign research like this in order to try and lay those fears to rest in so doing they may be showing the rest of the world a new path to clean energy henry morton r.t. beijing. the effects of the fukushima crisis are continue to manifest themselves in various areas including japanese politics japan's design the reconstruction minister where you has resigned only a week into the post this comes after his visit to an area hit by march's tsunamis
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and earthquakes. scolded the local governors and threatened to withhold aid to the region if he didn't provide a clear plan for the reconstruction the former minister the behavior angered local people and japan's most prominent opposition party an affront to all victims. a double bomb attacks killed at least thirty five minute forty seven in the sunday dominated town north of iraq's capital baghdad police report say insurgents first detonated a car bomb near the local council building this is followed by a second explosion at a roadside bomb targeting those who gathered to help the victims of the first blast follows a missile attack killing four people in baghdad's green zone that's where government . comes in. it's a rare and incurable disease and in russia suffer it's ignored by the medical establishment known as children have skin so delicate that even just a simple touch can break it. has met the families who are coping with illness and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. she likes dancing and no
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one would guess the amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements liza has a rare genetic condition epidermal this is below or be that makes her skin less than as a butterfly wing a slight touch or a hug can cause painful blistering that takes a long time to heal leaving the skin even more fragile. around the world sufferers like lisa are known as butterfly children however in russia it's as if they don't exist right you we're putting the doctors simply don't know of the disease and when you tell them what it is they might have heard of it but they don't know how to deal with it she knew lizzie is only five but she already knows her diagnosis better than any doctor her mother knows there is no cure with proper medication her daughter could lead an almost normal life but it's way too expensive isn't it it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no state support
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so there's no money and no specialists. yelled one of those a dermatologist and admits she's become a specialist by default no one else is dealing with patients but the mothers say her advice can conflict with what they've learned from abroad. so well it's a very complex disease with so few patients suffering from it any doctor that would take it up would have to come a very narrow specialist i myself am tied up in many other places so i don't have much time for these patients. two year old nasty is a clear example of what good care and access to proper treatment can do for a butterfly child her mother says she's probably the only girl in russia who from her very thursdays of her life was taken care of properly according to international standards when she was twenty five days old i took her away from one of the best maternity wards in the country her stomach and feet were off and the marks of the doctor's fingers are still her skin back then she did look like an a
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b. patient ever since ny still has lived a life of protection her medication costs roughly one hundred thousand rubles more than three thousand dollars per month she has three people constantly looking after her including her mother julia says life expectancy for such kids in russia is very low and she would do anything to make her daughter's life long unhappy. she's my beautiful and long speck to princess and if there is a plea that can hurt my princess i'll take them all away no matter what the cost julie is also behind a newly created foundation to help other children now people from all over the country are calling her and it seems the number of suffering children is far greater than the previously estimated one hundred s. for liza she bravely takes on life with a smile despite her deteriorating state as a sign of trust she told me her biggest dream then maybe few children with this
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disease in russia but each of them needs all the support they can get they may have learned to live with their condition but just like liza they'll dream of one day waking up to a life without paying. r.t. moscow twenty three minutes past the hour here in the russian capital of about with some of our main news that is the news next with kareena. good evening from moscow and welcome to our business books and good to have you with me ratings agencies playing hardball with greece standard and poor's say they would consider a plan by french banks to roll over privately held greek bonds as a default french banks the biggest holders of greek sovereign debt have proposed to renew bonds when they mature cooper from b.b.c. partners says a bailout is not the answer you can overcome reform is the key to its financial health. if you look at the amounts of debt that greece has you've already had one
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hundred ten billion bailout package remember this is a country of only twelve million people they just cannot afford to pay back the level of debt that they have an end the reform program is terribly important for greece making the country more productive selling off state assets reducing the size of the public sector getting private enterprise going again that is the key to the financial health of crease and yet in a way that reform program gets ignored because we have these dramas every day we have riots we have protests we have late night votes and all of that excitement to just get to greece from actually so over from sort of week to week is almost. means we forget about the underlying core problems of the economy that need to be addressed. take a look at the markets oil prices continue to climb holding a two day drop that's on speculation that there's growing demand for oil and for
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the u.s. and china because two largest energy users likes where it is trading at around ninety seven dollars a barrel and brand over one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel u.s. stocks traded mixed up the dow jones industrial average had its best we could see in two years it had been up as many as nineteen points after the commerce department reported an increase in factory orders banks are losing on the bank of america and j.p. morgan both turning over. and in russia there are tears in my eyes it's pennies in the black let's have a look at some individuals on the line six energy majors finished higher but gasp on last point eight percent banking stocks were also lower with bt be over two percent in the red bucking the trend was. the russian potage produces almost six percent after the m.s.c.i. said it will be increased the company's waiting in its worst impacts market. wraps up the day. the trend clearly remains soap were brought in to say you had a bit of
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a pullback with the chinese central bank saying that they're remaining fresher pressures so what you've got russia actually going towards the beginning of the trading session and they did have a nice rally the afternoon. they were up four hundred eleven and there's been some positive so you know the investors also names a gasper and you have good information coming from the government of the taxation and then you had names they got doing very well given that they didn't announce when they were in policy and then you had as well the world. is going to increase their weight in the index from two point seven to three point five. and russian internet retailer you seem it is planning an initial public offering in moscow the company is going to place ten percent of its equities at around six dollars a share it aims to spend the proceeds on new technologies and promotion a listing comes on the wave of successful i.p.o.'s by russian internet companies such as data banks and. inflation in the first six months of the year
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has top five percent biggest price increase was in cereals and beans which became almost twenty percent more expensive in non-food tobacco is up twelve percent and petrol traditionally inflation in russia grows faster in the second half of the year but authorities still expect it to be around seven percent. and that's the business news for today thanks for watching us i'll be back with more tomorrow meanwhile stay with us for headline news with.
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