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explain how he was going to carry out this act so you can maybe understand why this . among community here that he was in court before he was allowed to carry out his crimes he expressed violent anti muslim views he was briefly a member of the progress party here in norway which is anti immigrant and the ruling labor party is who we attacked first through a blast in the city center the government headquarters were hit by a car bomb that apparently he went to an oil and just outside where he attacked a group of children he was dressed in a police uniform he had a gun and he was shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die we have pictures of children swimming for survival hiding in the rocks and dramatic pictures of a ten year old boy being saved so the tragedy of a nation really hear more now in this report brave christine who was hit by the local bomb explosion in days and surrounded by broken globes she stayed in the laws
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to help the wounded waitress just standing tough thing and then suddenly it just faded i was like i come like a fish just leaving real bobbing lofted out like last bits and their eyes have been you know they got smashed glass all over them the skin and everything this show. victims before giving its whole drinks as a nation which has never suffered at the hands of terrorists before he says norwegians just didn't know how to react. strong from course on the buildings. people told things gaming. this man's wife suffered severe short when their windows were blown out by the last but he says they're lucky to be alone he's thoughts go out to the many young victims of the second attack i think about the vision to see the most. of the art. that. and so this is close to the two atrocities produced many acts of heroism
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but the dust settles on the world's worst mass shooting experts say there's also go to the attacks were allowed to happen in the first place anger the truth or ignore dozens of hate messages from suspect anders behring breivik you haven't really been prepared for right wing extremism expressed fury at the government's open door policy on immigration it numerous blogs and twitter feeds and lists at the shootings may reflect growing national opposition to fully immigration policies the political establishment of more of a are relatively well off people that live in areas where there are simply no immigrants just a poor people in orbit about being pushed out of places they used to live live in and it's also their drop stop in jeopardy muslims claim there's disappointment that the killer turned out to be white they want this guy to be muslim or how muslim you
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know. it's for them it's a little bit strange because he's never read it so they talk too much about islam and about us. it is not good norwegians are said to be fed up with their brand of what's been dubbed radical liberalism it's the country's multicultural policies that turn the government against his own playing the way the far right sentiment is . wider than norwegians are ready to admit and there's a polite and respectful attitude towards that kind of views in mainstream media but the reality is that fifty percent of norwegians are against multiculturalism as people here try to pick up the pieces and bring meaning to this twitter already thing it will sell relations between communities some expect the crackdown by police on the growing far right movement while others fear this will only fuel
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resentment against europe's muslims victims are beginning to piece spoke together they shouted lawyers but experts warn this might not be the last such a toke as outrage at the perceived failure of a multicultural society grows the new bush will see oslo. anders breivik said he needed to start a revolution to force a change in society investigative journalist tony gosling believes there's a new brad of me or nazi terrorism that authorities all over the world should be watching closely. anders breivik thought he was some kind of teutonic knight from medieval times because he's echoing the kind of crusader attitude that it's a very strange version of christianity that he. is he says he's a christian i don't think he is is maybe the same kind of strange version of christianity that bush and blair have been coming out with over the last ten years
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or so so i think that this is actually the tip of an iceberg is actually quite a lot of this neo nazi activity out there and now i think the antiterrorist or thought is right across the world we're going to have to take this brand of terrorism much more seriously and particularly worrying is that he was a freemason and but even as declared that he was a freemason i would imagine that the norwegian police are now going to be talking to all the other members of any masonic lodges that he was in because this seems to be the place where this kind of christian rather nasty racist ideology was cooked up i would also add that it was interesting that the police said they never come across him before the norwegian police but i wonder very much i wonder if the secret service in norway has been watching him because it was very strange that when he was first arrested on friday the police actually called out his name to him now it was very i would be amazed if they would have actually known as they first approached him what his name was i would have thought that from the arrest point
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that's where the investigation would have started from the whole world is now discussing what lies behind the atrocity and you can join the debate on our website our dot com now looking at the charts so far the majority think sheer fanaticism is to blame fewer people say the tension starves from multiculturalism at eight percent believe the reason is global terrorism which pelletreau it's everywhere and the rest so it's down to the failure of security forces or you can log on to r.t. dot com and have your set. and still ahead for you in the program of funding the revolt as germany prepares to send millions of euros to libyan rebels we ask how will the money be used. and they took began sobbing over control of afghan provinces to local security forces but many question if they're really up to the job. and crowds of protesters have converged on the spanish capital of madrid after marching from across the country well they're angry at soaring unemployment
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the high is still in the euro zone and that the government's failure to tackle the recession artie's if you make sure is in the center of madrid where demonstrators have set up camp. a lot of people in the spanish media and the other protesters themselves are referring to this is the spanish revolution you have to keep in mind the fact that spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone in fact its youth unemployment is the highest in the european union it's more than forty percent so almost every other young person in the country cannot get a job but it's not that they're not it's not that they're not trying it's just it's just impossible for them to do it so this entire movement which is called the fifteen m. movement started on may fifteenth of this month and since then thousands upon thousands of young spanish people have been gathering all across the country in order to call in the government and tell them express the protests and i'll call on
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them to focus more on the domestic issues they want more jobs they're trying to find out they're trying to get answers from the government as to why can they not have jobs or why is the country in their opinion going down the drain a lot of them have set up camp here in fact this particular protest which is going on right now there are thousands of people just below me they have walks a lot of them have literally walked by foot from more than one hundred sixty cities in spain to converge here and work with them so in the middle of madrid in order to call on the government to bring more jobs to stop listening to the world bank to the i.m.f. to the w t o because they're there and calling on the government to bring those jobs into focus on the domestic issues a lot of them have been camping out here for several days and their slogan right now is somewhat reminiscent to something that we've all heard several years before it's yes we can because they believe that they these young people of spain can
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actually make a difference by showing their protests well you have to understand that their hundred nine billion dollars package which has been approved for greece a lot of analysts are saying that it's not going to help the country because the. one thing you have to remember is that greece will have to pay this out at some point or another and how is the country going to do that when you have. what some analysts are saying is the issue of the rating agencies which are creating conic by saying that several countries like greece like spain like portugal who have been downgraded by rating agencies they say that these very rating agencies are creating panic which is also keeping the countries from blossoming a lot of people are saying that this what has been done for greece is not enough that something else has to be done in of course countries like germany and france that were rather banks which are which are in germany and france are just scrambling to kind of keep the euro float but a lot of pretty critics of this latest bailout are saying that the euro probably
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will not hold out for much longer and those are the very same fears which are expressed by the thousands of people who are yelling and shouting and protests a ride below me in the center of madrid right now. all the one hundred nine billion euro bailout for greece was agreed after it approved severe austerity measures sending thousands onto the streets in protest of the rescue will also involve lowering interest rates on greek debt and extending the repayment period but financial analyst max kaiser says it will only plunge people deeper into trouble. it increases the amount of debt it increases the amount of debt in the eurozone it is increased of the amount of debt in grace so this is a plan cooked up by bankers to repackage risa characterize. debt that's what they do and it crowds out the real economy so if they think that this is going to help the economy grow their way to a position of paying off this debt or paying the interest on the debt that's not going to happen because by giving bankers more dead to control the productive part
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of the economy you are eliminating that part of the economy's ability to pay off this debt so the banking cancer is just becoming worse in the eurozone and worse in greece running out the banks they're not bailing out the workers or the people who are on the ground so to speak they're bailing out european banks they're bailing out wall street banks they're bailing out other banks and so doing they're increasing the debt load so it's making the situation much worse and they're crowding out any ability for the work workers in greece to generate enough income to pay off this debt this is consigning the population to debt servitude. well that was from national analyst max kaiser talking about what the e.u. rescue package is going to mean for the greek people. now this week via phone hacking and police bribery scandal was taken to the british parliament rupert murdoch his son james and a former u.k. c.
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overbeck of brooks were all grilled by british lawmakers for several hours well the trio said they were deeply sorry for what happened however new allegations have emerged that the news international chairman james murdoch misled and piece by saying he was unaware of the true extent of illicit phone tapping bias companies reporters that murdoch's could now face legal challenges in the u.s. over claims the voice mails of nine eleven victims were also targeted meanwhile of britain's hacking scandal appears to be spreading beyond the murdoch empire with claims of the sunday mirror tabloid also celebrities mail messages as art is going to check out reports critics believe the issue is just the tip of the iceberg in a society that no longer values individual privacy. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch media empire rages on public and political fury has mainly focused on ruthless tabloids out of control prepared to invade people's
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private lives and even the dad to get the story but some say in this day and age the whole concept of privacy is falling apart and in the u.s. more rapidly than elsewhere every time you tap on your cell or click on google or use your mail service everybody's sort of just clicks through that you agree to our terms and conditions well those terms and conditions are very very heavily weighted against you and your privacy interests we see breaches of privacy happening. all across america all across the world really in every sector surveillance is rampant but really this is all a microcosm of the biggest survey earlier of all which is. the state there's little americans can do with the state having sweeping access to their private information access that followed the nine eleven terrorist attacks under a new law known as the patriot act asana law his privacy was taken away from him in two thousand and two when he was detained by the f.b.i.
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for absolutely no reason he says and scrutinized for months without charge he's response for nine years he has voluntarily documented nearly every waking hour of his life on the web he has subsequently even turned it into a form of art see all the toilets that i've used so you know that over here for example you know that on sunday november twenty fourth of two thousand and seven i've used this toilet i went grocery shopping at safeway over there on october seventeenth i got gas over here he posts copies of every debit card transaction so you can see what he bought where and when a g.p.s. device in his pocket reports his realtime physical location on a map and this is the shot he took on his way to our studio which was immediately uploaded on his website hasan says his extraordinary abandonment of his own privacy stems from the ignorance of the authorities but in the fear they decided well that guy looks a little different so he must be arab and if he's arab then he must have explosives
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everyone knows that that's a logical operating we we realize how ridiculous that logic sounds but when your country when your own country takes that on as the basis for national policy. ignorance is the basis of national policy is a pretty scary situation. and that's how i got caught up in it for haasan privacy has become a rally of the past and he says he's not surprised that journalists or anyone else really would use the same surveillance tactics as the state in that sense it might be of no surprise that the chief architect of the patriot act the lawyer who put it together happens to be one of murdoch's hand-picked news corps board directors you served as assistant attorney general in the bush administration and was described by some as the purveyor of the most sweeping curtailment of freedom in the u.s. system across the era at a time when corporations and the government can easily hack into people's private lives it doesn't come as
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a surprise when for example social networks give your personal information at companies or when other industries leave bob reaching. by the sea in the u.s. it's so widespread and people have gotten so used to it that rupert murdoch seems to be perfect part of the system rather than some special bill and with corporation has been undertaking some unique all lawful practices because here in america they are not so unique i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . germany says it will lead libya's rebels one hundred million euros for quote civilian and humanitarian purposes will berlin oppose the western military intervention in the country but promised to help oust colonel gadhafi through peaceful means well chris off course so who's the government consultant in germany says there are no guarantees the funds will be used for peaceful means. it is really a big question what this money is being used for first of all who controls that
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then next has nato ever cared for the civilian population in libya i don't think so . you know a group of countries bombing libya and using uranium weapons that of course is a group of countries not caring for the civilian population i see definitely another point here i see that the important part town of brega which is hotly debated among the rebels and the government as to who owns this town now might be a question where some of this money might be used in fact to buy the tribes to get the town into the hands of the rebels i think that's the question here quite importantly right now to use that money i doubt what is the official language of the german government. well if you've missed sent a thing we're covering on air you can head to our web site that's r t dot com where there's always more to be found and here's a taste of what song live right now and cover of leukemia that mystery will find
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out why every july since the eighty's california would so have been filled with some of the most wealthy and powerful men in the world. and russians rush to the stock up on painkillers as the government prepares to make pills containing available by prescription only provide out why the move has caused controversy at r.t. dot com. emergency services have recovered more bodies from the russian pleasure boat that sank in the volga river two weeks ago killing one hundred twenty people the rector ship has been lifted from the bottom and told to shiloh waters well the task now is to drain the halls so investigators can examine the vessel in detail to determine what the exact cause of the tragedy was the search continues for two others whose fate remains unknown and it's believed their bodies could still be trapped inside the bulgaria went down within minutes of the tenth of july
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drowning more than half of its two hundred passengers the boat's owner is under investigation and two people have already been charged with violating safety regulations. and now to some other stories making headlines around the globe this hour a cough bomb has killed eight soldiers in yemen's coastal city of aden the blast took place near the entrance of an army camp as a convoy of vehicles packed with troops was about to leave well officials said they were being sent to fight al qaeda linked militants in a nearby province the country has been hit by months of anti-government protests including clashes between security forces and armed groups. a host of celebrities and friends paid tribute to british soldier amy winehouse who was found dead in her london flat on saturday police say be a cause of her death remains unexplained well twenty seven year old star one of myriad of awards including a five grammys for her music and have been hailed as one of the most talented
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singers of her age and her success was often overshadowed by well documented battles with drugs and alcohol the subject of her hit song rehab last month she canceled her european tour after being booed off stage during a performance in serbia. now in the latest operations led by nato and afghan forces sixteen insurgents have been killed in the country south the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan well the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of twenty fourteen and nato's new military commander in the country general john allen once of quote tough times ahead for the war effort and earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards and in a separate incident one of have made karzai a top advisers he's also got down as you were activists brian becker thinks the
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u.s. led coalition is losing ground in afghanistan well the number of casualties continues to rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to give afghan face to the nato occupation that itself is now crumbling these armed attacks these assassination attempts are designed to create panic and i think in all likelihood they are creating panic within the very heart the foundation of the karzai government the u.s. is losing grown steadily its spending one hundred twenty billion dollars
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a year that's an increasing amount from a treasury that's already drained based on huge budget deficits here the number of casualties on the afghan and american side is is increasing not decreasing and yet they're no closer to victory in fact they're losing control of the country and the government that they sponsor is is in fact in danger of i would say the u.s. hasn't gained anything i think the u.s. is losing ground and spite of what david petraeus and the obama administration say this is a bad situation possibly a catastrophe for the united states. well as nato began the handover of control in a parts of afghanistan to local security forces some analysts fear the country is ill equipped to fend off insurgency without foreign aid well there is concern too that afghans are divided that with some worried it will open the door to a return of taliban rule jason won't like has a story. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul
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military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity. we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there's even the mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans of the soviet jihad this is all good
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news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen deadline to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four. combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i saw you truly need to be here late ninety's even the fighting each other really killing each other these people. are the
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back well here's a recap of today's news and this week's top stories on our t.v. grief and despair in norway as the country mourns the victims of its deadliest terrorist attack the suspect tells police of the ninety three deaths were quote grew somewhat but necessary. thousands of angry demonstrators from across spain to finally protest in madrid over the country's deaths and unemployment queues fears remain about the future of the euro despite agreement india e.u. to bail out greece which has been teetering on the brink. of rupert murdoch faces
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investigation in the u.s. in two more alleged phone hacking by his media for him and that's after he was grilled in britain over the scandal that has shaken the police politicians and the press. from challenges on earth to those in the space of a not so interview one of the first humans to step foot on the moon. well he told our team that the lunar landing is the most important part of astronauts mission well that interview is coming up next. and it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always wanted to ask you are we alone out there. there is no evidence that
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is that. we're not alone. i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are. where i don't there's no evidence but you think you know. you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in a testing of unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there many are many.
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