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so. let's. go. in india in the movie joyce below. the gateway to the grand imperial truly. closely. to go and. read the the colonel was hotel retreat. polls are growing louder for israelis nationwide to join the country's biggest social protest some say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privileged. tense rhetoric between police and politicians in the u.k. david cameron slammed his for the poor handling of street violence turning instead to the us. and contaminated legacy native americans in an area that witnessed a mining boom say the us government exploited and left them on the edge of extinction
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. seven o'clock on a saturday night here in the russian capital this is artsy with me section leaders of social protests in israel according to people to bolster demonstrations all across the country over the last month up to three hundred thousand people. demanding cheaper housing and social justice but it's not clear reports there are outsiders in the jewish state fighting a much tougher battle. the protest might be next door to a film our lives but it's going to make little difference to his life he's a refugee from a retreat or one of thousands who has found his way to israel but the solace he was hoping for as instead be replaced by anger and frustration at
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a government he believes is doing too little to hold him. israelis here demand cheaper housing is good for them at least they have houses but we have nothing we haven't even got a roof over our heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper that these protesters want they're demanding a new government wonderful 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 keep people here are not him and straight him while thousands of israelis might be able to picture up here in protest many immigrants can't even afford to buy a tent to live in if i'm not sleeping here and necessarily every night but it's a slimeball. for it if you've got the. economic that situation. like you say next to us people are sleeping there not because they choose to put
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their them out so it's 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 in the tree and sudan the government simply doesn't know what to do with them 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 that we've spoken to say that they don't feel a part of this demonstration and accused of being a protester of the privileged danny parents 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 mine. and if i want to find something i guess it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place which fitting is the
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place where very often. stream right wing organizes the rallies against do a few jews saul when you read through do it is a see white people are sitting. in they they they feel that they don't belong to that place which means that approaches 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 rights 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 poorly c r t tel aviv. israel is expecting more demonstrations this saturday night and we'll be covering those events for you right here on our so you can find our previous reports from the ten so he also on
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our website other items at r.t. dot com is our facebook page and can follow paula's leah's tweets from israel on our twitter feed. welcome back you with artsy street violence in the u.k. has police politicians divided over the way the unrest was handled ok also started last saturday in london then spread across other parts of the country over the following four days so far just over a third of the sixteen hundred people arrested have been charged prime minister david cameron it was critical over the initial tactics the police used to quell the
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rampant rioting but senior officers hit back saying politicians were no help against the disorder and that their return from summer holidays made absolutely no difference courts are meantime working overnights a deal with alleged offenders and hundreds of extra police are expected to remain on the streets until at least next week cameron has now turned to a former prominent us police chief advice on handling gang violence jeremy corbin 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. there is an increasing impoverishment of poor young people particularly of the big cities of this country and it's a very uncomfortable lest know a lot of politicians are going to learn that something is going to be fast to bring these people these young people back into the mainstream of society there's a very unpleasant agenda surrounding this which david cameron in part is promoting while is the concealment of social media such as twitter and facebook the other is
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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 to suggest that bringing the law to cameron suggests putting the army on the street all kinds of kone and measures we have to listen and try and understand not the principles of those people the stealing simply for them selves but the danger to all of us of the very large number of young people who go feel any any problem with getting involved because they don't feel they have any stake in society as a whole and that is a very dangerous thing that 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 while the blame game is in full swing between those responsible for dealing with the rest people all around the world wondering if the same could happen in their country here some of their opinions are with laurie huff and the resident speaking to
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people on the streets of. is your name right 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 in 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. fine life so they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were angry enough at what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. thanks yes yes sometimes like in the election times he was going crazy about that
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but not to their far like a looting is so horrible and the press but there were demonstrations in creation but they were peaceful day with the burn the flag or you know but they wouldn't the break of indolence feel from the story so why are these british people doing that right now i think is always you know in some people's tactical political reason then that they've surrounded break and still you know that's that's what happens you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked a bit harder try to be harder and you know sort of if it harder to set up a hard look whereas 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 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
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classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. just running ten minutes past the hour now here in moscow a little later on our program we find out how to become one of the richest men in the u.k. and the story of a russian a businessman enjoying the high life in europe despite the russian government one billion dollars. and unwanted side effect the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals says let's use someone desirable consequence as i watch our report and the bit later in the program. with aftershocks of the u.s. a credit rating downgrade still reverberating all around the world russia has decided to go after those behind a markdown rating agency standard and poor's along with its parent company are now in the crosshairs of the u.s. securities and exchange commission being investigated for over estimating u.s.
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debt by some two trillion dollars and then much more serious allegations of insider trading and use of the downgrade is reported to have leaked to certain market power players hours before it became official and as financial analysts called tenet going into explains it's likely to lead to a much wider craft from rating agencies. the path that still probably doesn't begin or end within if indeed my guess is the investigation is going to find the idea of be if it's not just an arm waving show there were some extra all parties that had nothing to do with us and he made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element to this if you know it downgrades coming in you short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money but that is a serious concern that we have within the system like there's a question in regards to why have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some other card of
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counterparty will 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. you know what you got so you it's good to have you with us today in the late forty's and early fifty's when the uranium boom was in full swing in the united states numerous mines that mushroomed in parts of our resign but when it demanded dried up the facilities were about leaving an environmental hazard in their way and it's obvious reports of radiation poisoning now threatens the area's few remaining indigenous people. this ne part of arizona a compass is part of america's navajo nation native american covered territory rich in your rainy up but ruined by the us is demand for 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 your brand and you're a new mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that we had drank at the
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beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tonnes of uranium ore were extracted from not a whole layer under the auspices of private companies and 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 a band in 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've 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 the lung cancer gone cancer and impaired kidney function this is for my eyes. this is a one. hundred first or lever thyroxin.
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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 out there me my daughter don't want to have kids because she said they've come up 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 been a whole nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico twice 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 it really matters helping to rebuild
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a decent quality of life for people feel that through all these years even produced point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened i have seen no action see 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. i have no plans for gu 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 reading jobs this life and death issue needs further. artsy new york. and a quarter past the hour now here in moscow but iran's quest to bring its nuclear program to completion has been a contentious issue for years now it's course unprecedented divisions between tehran and the west with mistrust and mutual suspicion well tonight on our team we
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have an exclusive opportunity to discuss the issue among others with president clinton enjoyed himself. there running president he'll be joining us a live about a five o'clock g.m.t. . controversy. that's on the rest. is going to veil all the rounds on the show. documenting the joy of the streets. and that exclusive interview and it is about two hours and forty five minutes away from now but meantime those two american private security contractors have been given the go ahead by a u.s. court to press charges against former defense secretary donald rumsfeld for his role in their alleged illegal imprisonment and torture while working in iraq the two men are publicly claim that their firm was involved in massive corruption soon after they were arrested by the army and detained at a military complex for nine months allegedly enduring beatings and torture with no
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reasons given their earlier efforts to bring rumsfeld's accord were rejected by judges highlighting the difficulty of prosecuting senior officials who are protected by a myriad of laws and loopholes speaking to our activist debra sweet says it's now time for those who have been silent to speak out. massive cases of stealing of selling alcohol to iraqi forces of 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 the way to the top not only rumsfeld we know cheney was behind this and bush said
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all of this was happening with his approval so of course the truth has got to come out and i really congratulate. donald fans and nathan or tell horror fighting through to try to get the story out and i and as they said it is really important for other whistleblowers to come forward. we've got more stories available for you twenty four seven of course on our web site. you can log on to get more analysis and videos and plenty of special features some of the items there now this one for example a teenage pranksters could end up behind bars after getting caught playing with playing trouble on a railway tracks. i forget shooting stars don't forget to make a wish the mesmerizing footage of the annual meteor shower you could have a galaxy right the milky way rather you see i like that. where it's best to watch
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tonight's grand finale. couldn't take three. three. arrangement three. three. three. three. videos for your media project a free media. seven to twenty pm here in moscow you without saying a former russian senator is one of the later centuries. rich list. is also under investigation here in moscow says the state more than one billion dollars. over reports his case is just one of many that has exposed a drastic drop box in the country's banking regulation. he has everything a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the called visitor to london
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married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert so a wedding in monaco among the top ten richest people in the u.k. according to last year's sunday times newspaper said people their child leads a life many would envy he even made his wife a star of a t.v. advertising campaign in france for the grant french food store that here however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his bank's creditors. as a result of misconduct and violations by the management and founders of measure drawn by its creditors suffered damages told in more than one billion dollars. last year the international industrial bank known in russian as nash 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 end i crisis support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the
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creditors been paid off. it was mr to get jobs pocket bank that caters varies various businesses in the wake of its license being revoked it practically halted its operations and focus on transferring the assets through credits to show companies that move it on and on and in the end of the money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank or which will come on the banks database was deliberately erased and investigators say the bankruptcy was intentional it's the largest bankruptcy case of a financial institution in russia's modern history along with a bank the rest of the business empire seems to have to solve into other of show assets a similar scandal broke over the bank of moscow russian state's largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling at nine billion. dollars or nearly a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also. the bankruptcy of michelin
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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 enjoyed their life outside russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. over r.t. moscow. time offers some other international headlines for you this hour in our world update the italian government has agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency austerity measures over the next two years the cabinet approved the cuts despite resistance from local governors who said the move will damage economic growth prime minister berlusconi has said the measures will meet the wishes of europe's central bank which has been demanding that italy balance its budget the new austerity plan includes an extra so-called solidarity tax for high earners. carbon vehicles and tanks events of the syrian coastal city of latakia forcing the local residents to flee all of this is according to
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activists a day earlier the u.s. or secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas or announcement came off the truth once again crackdown on a nationwide protest on friday with sixteen killed in the violence the united nations security council of plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall so no news in the capital started with a memorial service and a minute's silence to one of those who died trying to flee from communist controlled east germany to the west the wall spread for nearly one hundred and sixty kilometers dividing the city for over twenty eight years at least one hundred thirty six people are known to have been killed trying to cross the wall however the exact number is still dispute it. well changing gender for a better life transsexuals in one indian state enjoyed some of the world's most
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progressive laws after years of discrimination the government now provides free sex change operations to those who want the procedure but as artie's a preassure reports many transsexuals find their lifestyle comes at a price adverse and she was a little boy the suki knew that there was something different i started liking men i 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 for suki also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher and it's a derogatory word for transsexuals we'd call it my brothers beat me up and kicks me out of the house because they did not like the way or behaved to dress and was attracted towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided he would give me happiness to live with other heroes like me. this suki moved in with other transsexuals and decided to complete her transgender journey screened by doctors to
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ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of sex reassignment surgery or asked are asked she had the operation and like all transsexuals in this part of india it was paid for entirely by the government all of the women. there. with. them. to be more. only that it's. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized almost actual that cure years ago the other thing that tamil nadu has some of the most progressive laws in the world for transsexuals the state government decided three years ago to fully fund their reassignment surgery the argument was these people have been discriminated against we're 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 we were beggars before now with the help
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of cosmetics we'll look more feminine and so we became sex workers prostitution is illegal in india and some who work with the community believe the government's inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment that has a lot of resorting to six well maybe if you want to do numbers work for. income generation or something like that only able to rely on themselves and each other these women know and accept their fate. we have been cast out of our homes in society i like this line for long i live for my happiness we found our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority or and i have no regrets. but more rights get fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t china and india.
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