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i hate. everybody here. is afraid for the future do you think countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable ground can the year i write out this financial storm this is really something quite frightening if indeed italy really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of this euro crisis new dimension theory fairy tale was all too appealing countries trip save themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left regretting taking the bait with that. not bad i mean the product exposed to this hallow's as one. of the more than a decade of growth businesses like badasses have been hit hard whilst the center shopping street in athens is still bustling the problems with the economy mean that
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many businesses here in greece has simply gone and joining the euro in many european prices but for many of the members with we could mean it didn't mean european wages with one botched bailout after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely heroes of this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor untold millions must suffer so that your euro dream could continue if you rob people of their identity you wrote them of their democracy but all that which is nationalism and by those countries are now waking up to the reality of the nightmare that says the euro is a political. for countries such as greece and spain they need to be liberated from
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that prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it doesn't always continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no you happily ever after. i see. and in today's crossed off peter lavelle in his guest discuss why the ears leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost here's some of what's coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. . let greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and run out of the not just pay their bills or stop the lie then you would have everybody would know it's a strong sound currency based on a strong sound economy why not let him go bankrupt. in america we've had states
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and cities go bankrupt we've had counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars a debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second hit in the financial markets it's that simple. and. the sunken volga river cruise ship is due to be refloated within the next few days with a special equipment already at the scene of last weekend's accident in tatarstan the operation is due to begin later on friday the severely overloaded vessel went down on sunday killing at least one hundred thirteen people including twenty seven children well over a dozen remain missing meanwhile two people linked to the disaster have been arrested the head of the firm which rented the vessels and the registrar who
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certified the ship are both suspected of violating safety regulations resulting in death spoke to the captain of the vessel who saved about seventy six passengers and crew from the sunken cruiser. as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although it was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out individual people from among the floating debris some people were dreadful condition man you were injured that oil all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold to pull them on board sheen children and that condition that was particularly hard breaking. the full interview with the captain many in the country are considering any excuse me hero is online right now at r.t.
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dot com. disgraced media empire is now under f.b.i. investigation over whether the voice mails of nine eleven victims were intercepted and news corp's group in britain is slipping fast abandoning a major t.v. takeover closing it leading closing its rather leading newspaper and was murdoch summoned before parliament while he fights to save his media tightened vultures are circling lower and it has been finding out. every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the scary to. not imitate life the long running simpsons takes the shorter to its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand
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names which the police have have since about two thousand and four two thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. look sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example or the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome it not it's. just drive all newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c.
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could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. do you think this is that. we should be. producing. all. this. you know good. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr
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burns is thwarted as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. can truly the media because of rupert murdoch he is one beautiful man murdoch found as did mr perkins that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a lot section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years nor of its own. and actually has been hearing how the culture of control by the murdoch media got out of hand bryan dawe and who runs a t.v. network for social activists says there are parallels with some nation's wider imperial ambitions. you can make an analogy i think on an international scale
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between what happens in takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and what do they bring the power who they employ they employ close loans and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have a man's power and again some murdoch and a few of the other parents and who they hire what type of boat he they hire not painting every journalist with that brush of thuggery but certainly if you look at murdoch whether it's on television where he got paid for with sas and so like o'reilly and hannity and united states i don't know about in britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception for an agenda and that agenda i think is the gender dominant power is both in britain and the united states. we have more video reaction and analysis on the misery dot com and here's what else
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would line up for you today. the names who is here who had to discover why the russian and been given the bomb treatment on billboards in moscow also online. the creatures in crisis is a ferret a parrot and a monkey escaped from a siberian sorta seemingly because the bad summer weather is getting them down more on the theory friends. the u.s. has long been a wide of the loudest creatures of human rights around the globe but at home with faces growing accusations of hypocrisy on its own soil thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained over the past sixty years was department of
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the fans approval but it's killing ford found out the pentagon claims the didn't know how the training was being put into practice. think it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock tech there out east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he relives every day people have survived torture in colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for the stand there and then they get shot and kill many have been disappear hector says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america and for benning georgia army major joyce of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with
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what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. army schools. use the words terror again next door sas and they. commonly. call them waits for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere of the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights in that was sent home it's for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but if that happens there's no question that our country not only gauging torture it's sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other
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countries where they were in fact torture there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs and inter. investigation by the government accountability office showed that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contained because its staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. a military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that he includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad the fact that there is an engagement with. police bodies for example that do themselves extensively practice torture
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is an embarrassment and perhaps more than an embarrassment to the united states torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practiced or enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by the cia when president bush says that he waterboard and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person with full force torture has to deal with a big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but
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a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing ford r. t. washington d. . as the u.s. intensifies its anti-terrorist focus in somalia there have been reports of secret prisons in mogadishu the sites officially belong to the local security forces by iran and paid for by the cia journalist jeremy qmail says he's visited the prisons adding that america's mainstream media makes it hard to report on what's really going they're going on there. inside this dungeon prison there are no windows there's no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who've been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is thick and disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing their minds there are also reports from prisoners that there were very young boys inside of the prison some people have been held for eighteen months without charge without access to lawyers without access to the red cross in fact the red cross
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told me that they were not aware of the prison and that they have never been given access to it i know for a fact that journalists from several major american news outlets were aware of these facilities in mogadishu and it's for those networks to answer why they've never reported on it both c.n.n. and a.b.c. have allowed their facilities their media outlets to be used as conveyer belts for the spin of the cia and that's the job of the cia and they do it well but the job of major media outlets should not be to be a conveyor belt for the propaganda of u.s. intelligence agencies so i would leave those those questions for other media outlets as to why they're not reporting on this very serious life and death issue that has to do very much with the rule of law in this country and whether or not there's been any change when it comes to respect of international human rights laws and standards. and next hour here in r.t. watch our special report on those who crusade against a global threat of atomic weapons the regular citizens but they hope their passion
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for peace can ring a wake up call for countries that refuse to relinquish their nuclear arsenals. with the end of the war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. because of that they're going to use it as a threat. as an actual event that you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up nuclear weapons are a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal
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today. welcome back you're watching our leading credit rating agencies are threatening to downgrade america's triple a credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock and its budget negotiations investment analyst maxwell believes america's debt addiction means there won't be a quick cure. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making i would like in this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out as quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully had deals struck it has become the political
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norm in the united states that whatever party is in the white house has passed to raise the debt ceiling it's always been raised in the past the party that. it's not in the white house it's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling demand gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so we have one side in the congress right now that's decided no increase in revenue is acceptable other side has decided that not raising revenue is unacceptable and so we've reached an embarrassing impasse that has dragged on for weeks longer than it should and is the reason that we're going to see the growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse. let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world in the pentagon has admitted suffering one of its largest ever happen taps with thousands of sensitive to fans' files still one deputy defense secretary william lynn says all the data was taken
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in a single intrusion in march officials blame an unspecified foreign government and comes after revealing a new internet strategy which treats cyberspace as operational terrain like land air and sea. thousands of pro-government libyans have rallied in a town west of tripoli expressed support for the embattled colonel gadhafi and demanded that nato stops its military campaign else words leave your content group of nato nations arab countries and other states is meeting in turkey to find a political solution to a five month long conflict. mexico's biggest ever marijuana plantation has been discovered by authorities two hundred fifty kilometers south of the u.s. border it covers one hundred twenty there is and as water by an advanced irrigation system last year investigators found a tunnel running from mexico to the u.s. that was fitted out with lighting and salacious way
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a way to transport drugs he also uncovered forty tons of marijuana. well that brings us up to date here in our teeth let's see what's happening in business with me. good morning and welcome to the business program. is finalizing the agreement to acquire the eastern european unit of. international deal could be the biggest acquisition by the russian led and outside the former soviet union dues expected to be closed by the end of the year sources close to talks so you could pay up to one billion dollars for the. gold prices it's a record high or coming down slightly this is investors look for. safe haven from the storm brewing in the world's biggest economies seen as a traditional store of values being driven by concerns over the u.s. debt situation and the prospect the federal reserve will print yet more money might
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not lead to our senior trade at egypt's capital believes there's no limit to the current reading. it did look like a few weeks ago that the price of gold was going to come in lower but in your view you're starting to see increased eurozone concerns increased inflationary concerns the prospect of more quantitative easing more stimulus spending from the from the federal reserve we thought that that finished at the end of june now in the last couple of days or so there's an increased likelihood that the federal reserve could start to print more money and that is going to go into areas it's going to go to gold and into equities are most likely gold at the moment so obviously sixteen hundred dollars would be an obvious level for gold to hit and then you start to see some profit being taken off the table but then you could push through that and there's no ceiling you could carry on going to seventeen hundred eighteen hundred dollars. the markets now and it will is rising in the electronic trading investors but the u.s. fuel consumption make climb out of
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a force that may show industrial production increased in june and consumer prices consumer confidence rather improved prices also again as speculation in the u.s. credit rating maybe we can the dollar but brant is slightly correcting it's down ten cents this hour. across asian markets are mixed in tokyo tech stocks and exporters among the leading advances casio sony are adding around the said yahoo japan gaining around two and a half percent saying however is trading just a notch in negative territory. well two hours ahead the opening bell in moscow's take a look at the closing picture for first day of the r.t.s. of my six managed to gain slightly at the closing bell despite concerns over debt in europe and the us. situation call for a moral soup capital expects the markets and russia to end the week as they began the characterized by low volumes and high volatility. we believe that on friday
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nothing would change except the fact that it's friday people are generally more cautious on friday to take long position was probably the markets will be in the. pressure but again we think overall over the next few weeks will stay in prison there are a trading range of the most important stuff right now with the pickups which in the statements of the us. political and economic establishment regarding the the possibility of the quantity freezing and beer regarding the station was yes that. while europe today we will be back in fifteen minutes with more marinas next week headlines.
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forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents will be a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every hear. a.
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back to what you are coming to live from moscow these are the top stories the e.u. scrambles to cut spending as a debt hole sweeping the block's reddens to sink italy it's a greatest test yet for the leadership's efforts to keep the wavering currency alive. martin smith remounts the f.b.i. looks into whether nine eleven victims phones were happy while the fallout of the british armed forces out of a multi-billion dollar t.v. takeover. and america's tuesday store tactics human rights activists uproar over the u.s. training brutal interrogators while condemning other nations for doing this say.
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fifteen minutes it's the sports of days with any farmer in the meantime though the weekend's detainment. hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from st petersburg will be exploring the pit celeste allows the never river i'm very small to transport also known as the best of the north the waterways of the focal points of the city during the summer months are a great way to see that. many of simply churches cathedrals and museums are visible from the canal trip to the store to stay in the city may be an ideal way of
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deciding what to do during a visit. peter the great grand vision of the city was to create a window to your. promise one piece scarcely populated area became a fine european capital. expense in the construction of lava spouses on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as risk truly. helped bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see on the day st petersburg the waterways and bridges still dominates the capital perched on the banks of the never river you can see how the city is set up in very spot crisscrossed by canals. create a whole atmosphere. as they call us and i think it's just amazing you can take a party down the river spend the night time it's raining nice and if you want to be a little bit more to do something.
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