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a hand which saw more than one thousand seven hundred arrests david cameron admitted there were mistakes in the actions of the police while top cops so the government's response was irrelevant jeremy corbyn from the u.k. labor party says there's a whole list of measures currently on the table which will only make a bad situation worse. the reason increasing impoverishment of poor young people particularly in the big cities of this country and it's a very uncomfortable lest know a lot of politicians are that something's got to be done and fast to bring these people these young people back into the mainstream society there's a very unpleasant agenda surrounding this which david cameron in part is promoting one is the could tell much of social media such as twitter and facebook the other is eviction of whole families from homes because one member of the family has been charged and convicted of an offense to do with the events of the past week and then you suggest bringing in water cameron suggests putting the army on the street all
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kinds of measures we have to listen and try and understand not the principles of those people to stealing simply for themselves but the danger to all of us of the very large number of young people who don't feel any any problem with getting involved in it because they don't feel they have a mistaken society as a whole and that is a very dangerous thing we've got to learn lessons from repression won't solve it repression will make it worse censorship won't solve it will make it worse. and later in the program we hit the streets of new york to ask or people there think of the british uprising. people are disappointed with leadership in various parts of the world and they are rising up in trying to do something about it if you go back in history and look at the eight hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments in the. stream of course. so what can we do to change it if anything. not
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a damn thing. calls are mounting in israel for a fresh round of mass protests across the country ten can't the rallies have been in the streets for about a month now. now of protesters demanding cheaper housing and social justice but there's another camp in tel aviv with activists claiming the israelis don't up does the lack of social justice really is are his supporters here explains. the protest might be next door to a film on lives but it's going to make little difference to his life he's a refugee from a tree or one of thousands who's found his way to israel but the solace he was hoping for has instead been replaced by anger and frustration at a government he believes is doing too little to help him. israelis here demand cheaper housing is good for them at least they have houses we have nothing we
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haven't even got a roof over our heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper houses that these protesters want they're demanding a new government one that will charge less taxes provide free education and cancel privatization of state owned companies changes that the poorest neighborhoods of tel aviv need the most but i want to the people here are not him and straightening while thousands of israelis might be able to pitch up here in protest many immigrants can't even afford to buy a tent to live in it but i'm not sleeping here and necessarily every night but it's a slimeball it's a dance here hours for for that if you've got the for the economic situation. like you say next to us people are sleeping there not because they choose to put their tent outside it is just because they don't have any other place to go in the last few years tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers have revived in israel mostly from him
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a tree and sudan the government simply doesn't know what to do with him most spend their days struggling to make ends meet while trying not to be picked up by the deportation police many of the refugees don't want to appear on camera but those with spoken to say that they don't feel a part of this demonstration and accuse it of being a pro. taste of the privileged danny parrots is really he's a builder divorced and jobless he's here because he blames the government for the fact that he can't pay his bills but he also points a finger at the african migrants. and if i want to find something. it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place we're sitting at the brits where very often. stream right wing organizes the rallies against a few days saw when. refuges a seeing
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a white people are sitting. in day. they feel that they don't belong to that place which means that a protest for social justice has essentially become a protest for only a few. if you really want to come out for better rights you have to come out for the basic right for the right of the refugee here in israel. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protestors minds they just want a better life for themselves policy r t tel aviv. yet another russian billionaire be facing time behind with the full time why a bank painter enjoying a glamorous life in the case is wanted by russian investigators. last changing gender with government funds we have followed the controversial positrons actuals in india. in stands as
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a rating agency is facing an inquiry after it strips the u.s. of its top a rating last week the time s. and p. received a fear its response from the u.s. treasury which blamed the agency for making a two trillion dollar mistake the u.s. security at exchange commission is the best gauge of the company of allegations of insider trading before the country's raising change was officially announced as financial analysts a column denon just says this is just the start of a full scale probe into get to us he's a credit rating agency. the path itself probably doesn't begin or end with an s. and p. my guess is that the investigation is going to find if the if it's not just an arm waving show that there were some extra all parties but had nothing to do with s. and p. made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element to those if you know downgrades coming in you're short the
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market prior to that you could make a great deal of money that is a serious concern and we have weeks within the system like there's a good question in regards to why you have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some of their card counter parties to be functionally bankrupt for some time prior to when they went under and yet nobody at the federal reserve or the new york fed or anyone else bothered to say anything to anybody. the uranium boom of the line nine hundred forty s. made mines spread like mushrooms and paul. eventually the need for nuclear fuel declines that after decades the facilities were abandoned and left to contaminate the environment now disease from radiation threatens to be even digits people extinct in the area but it's not reports no one seems to care. this northeast part of arizona compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor territory rich in your rainy i'm ruined by the us is demand for
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it it's a different world we don't have money we don't have the funds that people from the dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandon your a new mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drank beginning in one thousand nine hundred forty nearly four million tonnes of uranium ore work structed from navajo lands under the auspices of private companies in the us government the radioactive resource was high in demand for development of atomic power after four decades corporations close shop but neglected to clean up abandoned mines homes and drinking water were left contaminated with elevated levels of radiation and residents were left behind to battle deteriorating health conditions my needs are eking walking is difficult i have been diagnosed with some form of cancer i feel pain below my chin i'm taking medication now u.s. officials say radionuclides in the air and drinking water have been linked to thousands of cases of lung cancer bone cancer and impaired kidney function this is
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for my eyes. this is the one i need to take. for stern. roxton. this is what i take for my thyroid forty year old cancer survivor rolanda says the people of the navajo nation have been exploited by corporations and abandoned by their government you have no generation. there's nothing after me. my daughter don't want to have kids because she said they've come out before and. my son the want to have kids but i have one that has kids but there's problems in two thousand and seven the environmental protection agency launched a five year plan to clean up the navajo nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico twice
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a month fresh drinking water is delivered to some fifty four thousand citizens contaminated homes have been rebuilt and people relocated but many still say federal officials have fallen short where really matters helping to rebuild a decent quality of life that people feel that through all these years even to this point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened they have seen no action so no roads being improved no housing being built. very very little has happened so they're questioning how long do we live like this i'll be here and i have no plans to groove i don't have a choice while most of america worries about the crippling economy part of this country's indigenous people are struggling to stay alive and as the white house focuses on paying bills and creating jobs this life and death issue may just slip further from everyone's attention or nine artsy new york. for full coverage of all
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top stories is also available on our website twenty seven of course here's what else is lined up for you on the line fabulous free of the us with this thing the peak of an amazing today media shalah you don't miss the chance to make a wish. flying flower russian skydivers jump straight into the record books and almost two hundred of them take to the skies of moscow go to alternate dot com to watch this sometimes take his info. fifty. russian business men that make it onto the case rich list have become a common thing just like russian investigators in turn taking an interest in their
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affairs currently in the spotlight as a former thermistor whose bag is the state more than one billion dollars following one of the biggest financial scandals in russian history and as an artist dara prescribe or of course the case has exposed drastic drawbacks and the country's banking regulations. he has everything a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the call dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert hall wedding in monaco among the top ten richest people in the u.k. according to last year's sunday times newspaper. leads a life many would envy he even made his wife a star of a t.v. advertising campaign in france for the grand french food store that here owns however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his bank's creditors only as a result of misconduct and violations by the management and founders of measure
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drawn by and its creditors suffered damages totaling more than one billion dollars . last year the international industrial bank known in russian as missed from bank was the first private bank to default on euro bonds in more than ten years it received a more than one billion dollar loan from the state as part of the anti-christ the support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off at the among the bank it was mr pocket bank that caters to his various businesses in the wake of its license being revoked it practically halted its operations and focused on transferring the assets through credits to show companies that move it on. and in the end the money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank which will come on the banks database was deliberately in raised and investigators say the bankruptcy was intentional it's the largest bankruptcy case of a financial institution in russia's modern history along with
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a bank the rest of the business empire seems to have to solved into other offshore assets a similar scandal broke out with the bank of moscow russia's fifth largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling nine billion dollars or nearly a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also hiding in london the bankruptcy of mesh from bank last year and the recent downfall of the bank of moscow revealed that the country is in desperate need of stronger banking supervision and while those responsible for the damage enjoy their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses . r.t. moscow. a court has allowed to us men to sue donald rumsfeld over the alleged illegal imprisonment and torture while they were at his private security contractors in iraq while in iran the two men made claims there was engaged in
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corruption shortly after they say they were then detained for nine months at a military facility and punished before being released without explanation or charge a lawsuit against the former u.s. defense secretary had previously been rejected by prosecutors to visit debra sweet says it's time for those who are silent so far to speak out. massive cases of stealing selling alcohol to iraqi forces bribery and all sorts of the things that we know and we knew were going on when billions of dollars are involved in the u.s. funds conducting this occupation these guys started to try. to get the truth out and then were grabbed by the u.s. military interrogated apparently according to them and i certainly believe them. under the same methods of so-called enhanced interrogation that was approved all
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the way to the top not only rumsfeld we know cheney was behind this and bush said all of this was happening with his approval so of course the truth has got to come out and i really congratulate. donald vance and nathan or tell for fighting through to try to get the story out and as they said it is really important for other whistleblowers to come forward. and controversy surrounds the current u.s. defense secretary as leon panetta is trying to swim against the currents of major cuts in government spending he came as any more reduction to those already imposed who threaten national security but also he's been if you contributions as the main threats the u.s. is facing called be solved by minute she means in laying. but what was really regrettable was panetta persistent state of denial that this is only the first stage of the pentagon budget cuts to be followed inevitably
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read the second round. and his comments i'm not even beginning to consider what would happen and claiming that such cuts would be disastrous and completely unacceptable those kind of statements could be construed and perceived the white house as a slightly veiled in subordination if not the outright sabotage of the bipartisan effort to make the pentagon lean and mean make no mistake the only reason he was appointed to realize that in the new twenty first century not the imagery but they're real challenges to the united states have nothing to do with the threats that could be or should be tackled by conventional military. top story now the aftermath of the british while the blame game is in full swing
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between those responsible for dealing with the rest people all around the while the wondering could this happen in that country here are some of the opinions that hoffa is not the wise man as the president cooled on the streets of the big apple. is your neighborhood next this week let's talk about that it's. inhumane and barbaric and i think that unfortunately around the country we have situations where people are disappointed with leadership and various parts of the world and they're rising up and trying to do something about it whether you're in the middle east in europe you know fortunately we haven't had that type of unrest here in the states but i could totally see it happening i think because in taiwan most people have very. light your fire in life so they don't want to have this kind of thing happen
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but if they were angry enough that what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. yes yes sometimes like in the election times people are going crazy but they're not to the far like the looting is so horrible and the tries but there are demonstrations in creation but they have a peaceful day with the burn the flag you know but they wouldn't break even though and steal from the store you know so why are these british people doing that right now. it's always you know some people started for political reason then that leaves around that break and still you know that's that's what happens and you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked a bit harder try to bit harder and you know sort of if they had hard luck they said i've got hard luck or is now everybody expects everything behind them on the plate you know so if you go back in history and look at the eight hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments and there is papers published in that era now with the stream of history running the same course. so what can we do to change it
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if anything. not a damn thing whether or not you think looting can happen in your city and the bottom line is the rise of social media and the growing disparity between social classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. more international headlines now in our world all day the u.n. security council announced it will hold a new meeting on the situation in syria next thursday it follows a call when the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton all countries to cart economic and political ties with the country the comments came after government troops once again crackdown on protests on friday the sixteen will reportedly killed in the violence . more than one thousand seven hundred people have died since the uprising began in march. or oil giant royal dutch shell has said it's working to stop
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a leak at one of its north sea platforms the spill was discovered off the shore near the scottish city of aberdeen the company you wouldn't say how much oil may have been leaks a fall with one of the wells at the platform having been closed for the moment. at least one person has been killed and over fifty injured after a passenger train derailed and several poland it was on route from warsaw to the southern city of the vid shake carrying almost three hundred people in the engine and three of the carriages left the tracks rescue teams on the scene say it's still not clear what caused the accident. now changing gender for a better life transsexuals in an indian state enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws well they've been provided with free sex change operations by the government but as are used to reports many find it still comes at a price. ever since she was a little boy suki knew that there was something different i started liking men i
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had sexual feelings for men i wanted to befriend them and spend time with them i was not attracted to girls adding to her confusion also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher us a derogatory word for transsexuals we had to live it my brothers beat me up and kicked me out of the house because they did not like the way i behaved dressed and was attracted towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided they would give me happiness to live with other had dros like me. sukey moved in with other transsexuals and decided to complete her transgender journey screened by doctors to ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of sex reassignment surgery or s.r.s. she had the operation and like all transsexuals in this part of india it was paid for entirely by the government all of them when we had to.
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run with homes. to remove. only the extent of the. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that kill you or if they go the other fate of tamil nadu had some of the most progressive laws in the world for transsexuals the state government decided three years ago to fully fund reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been discriminated against were told was that it was up to the government to help them out but that's tough without a job you firms will employ these trans women share a house and work as sex workers in china that we were beggars before now with the help of cosmetics will look more feminine and so we became sex workers prostitution is illegal in india and some who work with the community believe that the government inadvertently helping fuel and. legal business since transsexuals can earn more right after gender reassignment that has
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a lot of resorting to you know six well i mean you know even if you want to do numbers well for you know training on the nose the development or the income generation or something like that only able to rely on themselves and each other these women know and accept their fate in among them the retooled we have been cast out of our homes in society i like this life a lot i live for my happiness we found our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority and i have no regrets. but the more rights yet fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t chennai india. a recap of all our top stories coming your way in just a few moments take away. well
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let's let. us . sleep. more news today violence is once again flared up look. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around the day limitless.
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this is a table from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day the children owing to religion from desiccation by instruct cion could have you know and their strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet usaid continued to flow. the.
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line. which brightened. movements from phones to. meals for instance on t.v. .
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it's up. this is the u.k. government's tough measures in response to the street may have more than one thousand seven hundred arrests but i expect severe proposed steps could make the situation even worse. fresh around easy against the rising cost of living are expected around israel tent camps having already been in the streets for a month now but african refugees living in tents permanently claim the israelis don't understand what the lack of social justice really is. and of court has allowed two americans to sue former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over allegations of torture the men playing they were illegally imprisoned and beaten by u.s. troops while working as private security contractors in iraq. special report on rushers.

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