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in india she's available in the movie joint be the children's the iloveyou that's the great way to turn the branding period during the george weston to school until you can the letter which will close the show which it's a duty to go and booklet read this in the can it was that you know as you can retreat. egypt's former president hosni mubarak arrives see for his trial in cairo six months after mass protests force him from power it looking at live pictures there on your screen now some people say the revolution that promises to bring a change to the country they feel has delivered a very little again these are live pictures from inside the courtroom in cairo. the u.s. swallows self-made and bitter pill to avert the devastating default but experts say there's a little hope for efficient economic recovery the long term. moscow bonce against calls up the you want to target the syrian regime urging for action to push
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the warring sides towards dialogue to end the escalating violence of the country is cause of dozens more protesters were reportedly killed on tuesday. twelve noon here in the russian capital what you're watching r.t. now to our top story ousted a president hosni mubarak has arrived in a car he wrote to face trial while outside the court cautious have erupted between his supporters and opponents of the talk the leader leaving one person dead and at least fifteen wounded now we are getting live pictures again from a cairo now these are shots of a hosni mubarak this is the inside the courtroom he's waiting for the trial to begin now in mubarak is charged with the killing of protesters during the february off rising and. corruption the trial will be broadcast live as we will be bringing
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you more of these pictures throughout the day and the leader will be a tried along with he's two sons and a senior aides another charge against him carries a possible death sentence if he's found guilty of premeditated killings artie's acts on a boy has been a following events for us. the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak it's all gravy it's so sweet it's plenty of tribulations for the transitional military council which took over the country ever since mopar stepped down back in february the decision of whether to put him on trial was essentially a choice between good bad and the worse still unclear which one is which if the board is indeed forced to do that and his actions and more true his testimony could potentially set some light on some shady financial deals and compromise the political alliances and won't be home to some of his former us to see including
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people who are running the country nowadays meals to be provided for him to believe just easier for his agents three year old mubarak has been talent in a hospital reportedly being treated for horrific conditions such as close to him also say that he's suffering from a major figure to russian refusing to. take solid foods but the prevailing view theory congress especially will be testers is that only three fourths of your health nothing more important the yacht tricks aimed at putting to trial and to driving on the promised reforms maybe what's in your rejections especially people who are camping out on the talkers where back in january and february say they're my disillusioned with the fruits of their revolution because lost in nature has become so much harder as my colleague mary if i'm not sure now reports this quaint cairo is now one of the most famous in the world many around
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the globe even those with little knowledge of arabic know its name perfectly it means liberation well the revolution of january put this part of the globe on the map but apart from that what else to do greet the people of egypt. this man has been running his own pieces for thirty five. eighty. used to bring him enough money to send his son to study to canada and take his large family abroad one c. but with the economic devastation caused by and rastan the political uncertainty the harm its enterprise has been badly affected now he can barely afford to feed his children he says the wind of change may have brought freedom to egypt but it's brought a survival strong in its wake. but you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it that look at the time with a light at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to
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eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter. the plight of poverty fuel the revolution you have growth has dropped from five to just one percent some thirty million people live below the breadline unemployment has hit twelve percent. egypt's revolution was regarded as the most successful arab spring chapter it took eighteen days to end one of the world's longest dictatorships former president mubarak will face justice within days charges of corruption and sanctioning killing which carries a death penalty of five months on there is little satisfaction and dictator for egypt is far from the best place to live and the people. and. the people now walking about. and this and they're very scared because our people are indeed tired even those who
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back the changes they see young man is from the revolution youth caliche and he tries to remain optimistic or he says sounds a lot like south conviction that he cannot say we've been living under mubarak for many many years too many i'd say but it. greed will be good but we do need to be more patient and this is difficult we have a lot of problems but we do need to wait for a little longer. recently need to mistreat the few square shoe that. has been pushed to the limit and its true turn spruces patients in the battle to save egypt from crawling through the. grief r t cairo. well you're looking at a live pictures there from cairo inside the courtroom where the trial of hosni mubarak will take place and outside there have been clashes with police one person dead and fifteen wounded there are also reports that
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a police and army troops backed by armored personnel carriers are keeping be of protesters that began historic trial of hosni mubarak there we will be bringing you more live pictures throughout the day. and of course plenty more stories ahead for you this hour in our. soon we had to georgia to check what's behind tbilisi's first war with some glamour and how president saakashvili plans to win a public support i turning up the music. of the u.s. narrowly misses a potential default signing into law an emergency budget deal that leaves both sides of the months long political debate disappointed with a country that once advised russia during its worst economic crisis fail to prepare for its own a financial humiliation or does it get that he has been investigating why washington refuses to help itself. congress has now approved
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a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated. the u.s. just had to swallow this bitter pill but many students it will how the patients recovery but will instead prove to be a poisoned chalice our economy is not growing at all in fact unemployment remains very high foreclosures remain very high no recovery is taking place and are we on a suicide mission we may be gesturing you know to kind of deal with there at the same time make it impossible for the government to play any role or to save the economy an economy is going down rapidly at some point shortly after the collapse of the soviet union russia became an american laborde tree for nearly all economic theories but can americans take their own advice now to deal with their own economic crisis. live within your means the same advice they gave was without
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knowing our economic and social realities and who. it to be russian to how did russia central bank and the immediate post soviet period the year he took up the job in one thousand nine hundred ninety two so the worst four figure inflation in russia's history the us the sarra tkinter nance's the communist economy was in collapse but there was nothing to replace it with. supports the situation was disastrous for him did was over a hundred billion dollars in gold and for the currency reserves was in fifty million which effectively means nil or he would still reformists of the then government remember how in america's advice so-called shock therapy was applying it the markets might have got the therapy but the people got the shock and to shelves and must pull their teeth as one politician said from a mortgage to a communist economy is easy it's like trying to turn your query into fish soup
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which do the opposite is much harder it's like trying to revive the dead fish it took more than russia had decades to revive it's a quarry and return to economic growth transforming the country's fortunes after the disaster of the nine hundred ninety s. that would be us now the patient in dire need of it could all mix surgery will soon see the max and they thought it was good enough for both dog it will be paid for america it's a director of art the more frail. gerald celebs are from the trans research institute told r.t. that despite the last minute debt deal the us is due for another great depression. the american economy as well as much of the global economy is heading into the greatest depression anything everything that they're doing is not going to salvage it you know what's a reputation a reputation is by what you deliver denied states can't deliver the united states
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can't deliver on its wars that loses wars where the iraq afghanistan the war on drugs the new war with libya they're losers the government did everything that they touch and look at all the trillions of dollars the tens of trillions that have been pumped into the system since the panic of zero eight struck by the federal reserve right d.c. with the stimulus bailouts too big to fail everything they do they turn to failure of the business of america when i used to be a young man they used to be business now the business of america is war and you can see why the new ones that obama's started and the old ones that he keeps going the crackdown on protesters in syria is picking up pace with reports the government forces have regime to stop the opposition stronghold of hama around one hundred forty people are said to have been killed over the past few days and the country and the u.n. is locked in heated debate over what action to take on the crisis but in a fortnight now reports. the united nations security council wrapped up their
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second day of consultations surrounding the violence in syria with what many believe is at least a draft text that each member of the security council will now bring back to their respective capitals there is a divide among security council members on where the condemnation lives the u.s. and its western allies believe there should be a direct condemnation against the syrian government and the syrian president for the crackdown against anti-government protesters that have been taking place since mid march yet other countries like russia china india brazil and others believe that there should be a much more balanced approach that whatever words are used in any text that is put forth by the security council should not exacerbate the already sensitive circumstance in syria now russia has said in the past that it opposes balanced
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measures such as saying sions that could create an even bigger problem and the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin has said that resolution dealing with libya he believes was dealt with frivolously and the security council can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and cannot do when it comes to the situation in syria and we're concerned about the well of some of these collusion. he says as the security goes so. goes a good signal in favor of political accommodation in the world and the security council will convene again wednesday morning to continue taking on this issue of syria and all the violence that has been going on for more than four months that are. the u.n. mandate to protect civilians in libya has come under fire for the way it's being implemented while some countries feel the need to lead coalition is using it to try
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and topple colonel gadhafi a political analyst michel chossudovsky thinks the going down the same path in syria could involve the entire region in war people who are actually committing crimes against humanity is the nato us military alliance we see it hidden in libya there was absolutely no justification for the intervention in libya . you know this threshold which which took place in eastern recently and there's even less of a justification for the intervention in syria it's a very important country and if visibility intervention in syria then we are in for an extended war which goes from the mediterranean right to the chinese border because then you have egypt ration of the of the wall theaters in afghanistan and iraq of course palestine lebanon on and so we're in for a much larger war let's understand any kind of military intervention in syria at
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this stage using the pretext of a crude cesspool bernthal responsibility to protect we have devastating consequences and lead to a military escalation of a vast area. and still ahead in the program alarm bells go off in the balkans nature walks its process along the north the border between a possible and serbia to keep a close watch on rising tensions. over ground m.t.v. concert has rocked the republic of georgia and an event some locals are branded a waste of taxpayer money all with the economy struggling and unemployment running rampant georgians have questioned how their president coughed up the cash for such a spectacle as artists are further reports mail saakashvili is hoping his approach will strike a positive note with voters. to oversell moving target saying the m.t.v. generation the state funded pop concert in between me has certainly attracted some
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big names. i like so much and you make a good here's your interest but what if. it's our fate. as president saakashvili popularity continues to fall freshly among the older generation he's now trying to hail a much younger crowd so the first time the president's case heat up to stars what many see as appears to win popularity. with the socceroos were smart for expression was more the appearance of heroes from our political shop across the system inside the country but it's the same time the raiders bought the ground for restoring diplomats or with regard to a p.r. conscious president has often used music as a political weapon this song commissioned ahead of the teeth thousand and eight presidential election uses his nickname in the humble title me sure is cool.
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you know any other normal country we're called singers or leaders of critique of all the president all these high profile publicity stunts they come at a cost. i deny with it got the money to bring such stars to juju piece of equipment because government funds come from the money of taxpayers like me and according to you can take money from such bonds that are what they are but that was the concert adverts will certainly have gained the country attention in the west beyond beautiful but to me is still a country where human rights violations are not uncommon international groups such as human rights watch say that the government was responsible for widespread abuses last year police brutality bans on free assembly and abnormally high conviction rates in course cited as some of the serious concerns that police tactics were
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evident when a protest in the center to police the the recently. violently dispersed. the incidence international calls for an independent investigation. being forthcoming safe the government has time to plough money and energy into tasting this pop concerts and as the stars take to the stage police brutality and lack of government accountability issues it seems that can be brushed under the red carpet it's been clute the biggest party to it is this the critics of the events are being quite supporting sounds like things done much contact really in the very serious this is the only good friend in the country copeland you'll still be in the party's favor and the music. there be to believe. modern music isn't the only new initiative associated with ga to find out go to our website r.t.
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dot com for more details news updates and videos of georgia makes tourism a high priority as the country considers legalizing catalyst in a bid to boost the number of foreign holiday makers. and other news of mayor of the lithuanian capital gives his citizens a tough lesson of proper parking and driving a bomber the military vehicle over a factory car. and also on my view a little fans are jumping for joy after swedish explorers find an extraterrestrial object in the bottom of the baltic sea drawing comparisons with it in front of space ship from the legendary star wars film series.
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well nato has sent additional troops across of those north border with serbia after an escalation of violence as belgrade calls for a peaceful resolution with the reinforcement will bolster alliance forces already patrolling the area one officer was killed in clashes between kossovo special forces and ethnic serbs when the police took control of two disputed border crossings special forces were sent to the border by the costs of any government to enforce a trade ban on serbian imports it was in response to belgrade existing embargo on cost of and goods which was in place since kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence in a two thousand eight. hundred eighty and film director says that serbia is under pressure from the e.u. to recognize kosovo. situation in kosovo is very unstable this is due to the illegal acts of the so called the government of kosovo it is not helping out of talks of course in the negotiations there due to continuous
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september and the whole escalation of violence is simply not going towards a peaceful solution that everybody is hoping for but considering that the international community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are trying to sort of fix this issue as fast as possible and i strongly believe that if the force is necessary to do what they have planned they will use it and we must also remind ourselves that the e.u. . of belgrade as an unwritten prerequisite to recognize close was in the penance and this would mean the belgrade should accept kosovo's sovereignty and territorial territorial integrity which which is very complicated to explain to the people of serbia this escalation of violence of course it is not helping belgrade because. the people of serbia. see this as a provocation and it is making their sentiment against reaching a compromise. not not very favorable for the driver side serbia has already made
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many concessions to the so-called republican poll so they recognize their documents their i.d.'s their license plates so i think calling for the albanians to negotiations is another call for serbs to accept more things that are just leading to serbia recognizing kosovo well let's take a look at some other top news from around the world at least thirty four people have been killed and dozens injured in two days of clashes in the ongoing violence in a pakistan city of karachi reports say bodies were found scattered across different parts of the country's largest city some griddled with bullets and showing signs of torture police believe about two hundred people were killed in karachi in july of lone well the city has a long history of ethnic religious as secretary and violence among the city's main political parties. iraq's political leaders have given the government the
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go ahead to start talks with the u.s. that would keep their troops in the country on a training mission beyond this year's withdrawal of the issue is politically charged with the senior minister stressing that american forces might still go by the end of this year under eight two thousand and eight agreement the move comes a days after the u.s. special inspector for iraq reconstruction have warned that the region was less safe than a year ago and that security was deteriorating last month attacks left over two hundred fifty people dead. colombian authorities have captured two suspected leaders of a cocaine operation involving the transfer of twenty tons of drugs per year to the us via submarines police say the arrest was the conclusion of a six year investigation into the drugs ring the men were apprehended after the u.s. coast guard and moussa capture of a submarine even during close carrying seven and a half tons of cocaine the whole had an estimated street value of one hundred
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eighty million dollars. and back to our top story outside of president hosni mubarak is in a cairo court as you can see live pictures here of inside the court now he was brought in on a hospital stretcher and he is there now for his trial six months after the a protest that had toppled him outside the courtroom there there have been clashes of between supporters and opponents of the its top leader and so far it has left one other person dead and at least a fifteen and wounded he will also be tried along with his two sons and his senior aides again live pictures there coming from inside the courtroom great historic trial against former president hosni mubarak will be held he's accused of killing over eight hundred a crow tester's and wounding six thousand during the robbery not rising now if he is found guilty of premeditated killing he could possibly face the death sentence again live pictures here and we will be bringing you continuous coverage of the
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events unfolding in cairo right here on r.t. . well it's time now for all the latest in business with kareena. hello and welcome to our business update here in r t thanks for joining me the palace wing plans to open an office in moscow the source of according to the database a newspaper the world's largest online payment portal is planning to invest twenty five million dollars in russia pay pal is coming hasn't had whether it's own or online auction site e bay in order to operate in russia even a needs to sort out online transactions and delivery while it's in talks with d.h.l. about postal services the power will be transferring money analysts say pay pal's move looks reasonable cheaper and russia's online payment market. prices for jet fuel in russia are renewing their rally the country's key suppliers hike fuel
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charges by up to ten percent on tuesday while companies say that high global koop prices and domestic shortages are spurring being increased in addition the lack of fuel is being driven by high profit values from russian airlines jet fuel prices have risen twenty four percent this year with the previous hike in early june. and that's a look at the markets all is declining for a fourth day in its longest losing streak since may first is the path that signs of a slowing u.s. economy may falter fuels amount in the world's biggest consumer world are gold is edging higher this hour earlier in the yellow metal lost as much as point six percent in asian trading silver is adding half a percent stocks. in asia shares are heavily down across the board that makes me shudder over two percent shares of steel companies were specially hard hit and it worries about global demand to balance j.p. holdings was down three percent resource sector shares were under selling pressure
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and mining giant b.h.p. . b.h.p. bill. and lost over two percent after brokerage downgrade now we see european stock markets sliding heavily in early trading as well following those trends in the u.s. in asia among the big burly movers shares in the french bank societe generale that slug seven percent after ignoring the profit targets for next year may be hard. and here in moscow markets are diving into negative territory tracking losses in asia and isaacs is losing almost one point two percent the r.t.s. is shedding over eight percent now let's have a look at some individual movers on the my six energy majors among the main loses weight by a little crude price gazprom as losing one point four percent bt b. is down also one point four percent ross nafta is dropping wrong one percent. bucking the trend is wholly metal adding one point two percent higher gold price.
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now with global markets reeling from continued uncertainty over debt issues alexander competes co at renesas capital believes investors will continue to talk of gold there is no secret in this with all these risks lumia might create us slowdown but we can still regard. the peripheral real bad problems people are going to go for that's why the russian sprays are. storks we charged even with the growth these are poorly manthorp on assault ground there are parallels can all make sure we all bring attention from the start of from restless. so we have for you this hour but other back with more updates in about forty of us from our statements.
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