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in india close is available in the movie joyce the hotels the villains the gateway to the grand imperial trilogy the tallest was the close coromandel you can a letter to the socialist sedated to go and. read this in the kernel was her turn to retreat. one hundred image out slams the un and nato over the military reaction to the libyan crisis and says iran will never have nuclear weapons speaks exclusively to the iranian president. as people flow into the streets of israel considering the country's biggest social protest some and some of it say the demonstrations are only benefiting the privileged. and contaminated legacy native americans in an area that witnessed you raney a mining boom say the u.s. government exploited their land and left them on the edge of extinction the.
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international using comment live from r.t. in moscow was just turned midnight mediators not borden's iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad says the u.n. should have helped libya reach a peaceful solution instead of resorting to military action he also said iran will never attain nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century he spoke exclusively to our g.'s kevin on. president who as you have thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy shed you will to be on r.t. international tonight i'll start if i may with the story that made all the news headlines for the past six months that's unfolded in north africa in the middle east it's the arab spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken about it before but i just want to hear your latest thoughts do you think it's a popular uprising for the better to bring democracy or do you think it's something
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maybe there's been orchestrated from abroad over three years there. at the letter or is that the entire global community is dissatisfied with the current state of the world there are many class distinctions there are pressures there are conflicts armed conflicts a large number of nations in the world are being humiliated constantly today justice and dignity are on the requirements of all human beings north africa has the same aspirations and i think in our region we have the ability to run our own countries and to reach their goals and objectives it's important to take note of the interference by nato in the region nato has interfered in the affairs of libya the security council has made a mistake instead of sending bombs and planes to libya they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for free elections under the auspices of the un and whoever won the elections would be acceptable for the people but the security council peacefully issued a resolution and it has complicated the situation that has led to the killings and the massacre of people and destruction of the infrastructure in the country only recently iran announced that you've stepped up production of new centrifuges faster
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better centrifuges to make better higher quality you raney and i know you've said all the world on the line around there's not want nuclear weapons around it's a peaceful country but of course a lot of people in the west do feel that there's not enough transparency you think this country you should be doing more to make it more transparent i guess. we don't like that some countries have nuclear weapons if we're going to be against nuclear weapons we must rise in opposition to current nuclear arsenals. there are now a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries we just get this straight by you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. never never we don't want nuclear weapons we don't seek nuclear weapons this is an inhuman weapon nuclear weapons have no capability today if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money and resources and they create great
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danger for themselves international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and could they win in iraq and afghanistan nuclear weapons help the israelis gain victory in lebanon and gaza could nuclear weapons keep the former soviet union from collapse nuclear weapons are the weapons of the last century this is the century of knowledge and thinking the century of human beings a century of culture and logic nuclear weapons are not going to be a determining force in the world it's about the power of people not nuclear weapons our goal in the country and the goal of our people is peace for all nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none nuclear activities in iran are monitored by the i.a.e.a. they have no documents against iran in the agency it's just a claim by the us that we are after nuclear weapons. and you can watch that exclusive interview with. the president of iran in full on the web site r.t.
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dot com. thousands of gathered across israel in the fourth week of protests against government policies it is the movement to mobilize the people against rising costs of living not just in the country's biggest cities but in rural areas as well over the last month up to three hundred thousand of government modeling cheaper housing and social justice results his policy reports it's not just the citizens of the jewish state who are fighting others face on much tougher battle. to protest might be next door to a film on lives but it's going to make a 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 hasn't been replaced by anger and frustration at a government he believes is to be too little to hold him. israelis here demand cheaper houses good for them at least they have houses we have nothing we haven't even got a roof over our heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper howells's
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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 and not to mistreating 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 people are not sleeping here and this is there every night but this time it's that. time for afraid that if you've got to to pay rent for the economic situation. like you say next to us people are sleeping there because they choose to point their tent out so 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 lived in israel. mostly from in a tree and sudan the government simply doesn't know what to do with him most spend
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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 be on camera but those with spoken to say that they don't feel a quarter of this demonstration and accuses of being a protester 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 if we can migrants or. if i want to find something i guess it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place with fifteen years of brits where very often. extreme right wing organizes the rallies against the way food is saw when. a refugee is a simi what people are sitting. in day they feel that they don't belong to that
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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 right she have to come out for the basic right for the bright of the refugee here in israel right here. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protesters minds they just want a better life for themselves paula c. r t tel aviv. the recent street violence in britain has divided police and politicians over the way the unrest was handled the chaos started last saturday in london and spread across 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 was critical of the initial tactics police used to quell the rampant rioting and looting. as it hit back saying politicians offered no help against the disorder and that their return from summer holidays made little difference courts
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are working through the night to 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 us police chief for advice on handling gang violence with a blame game in full swing between those responsible for dealing with the unrest people around the world are left wondering if the same violence could come to the streets of their countries here are some of the opinions laurie oftenest otherwise known as the residents gathered on the streets of the big apple. is your neighborhood next to speak 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
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very. fine life they don't want to have this kind of thing happen if they were angry enough that what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit. yes yes sometimes like an election times people are going crazy but they're not to the far like a losing is so horrible and that's right but there were demonstrations in creation but they were peaceful day with the burn the flag you know that they wouldn't break even though and steal from the story so why are these british people doing that right now i think is always you know some people suffer for political reason and peace around the 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 they are going 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 hundred for example you'll see
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many of the same comments and there is papers published in that area over the stream of history where in the same course. so what can we do to change it if anything. out of them saying whether or not you think looting can happen in your city at the bottom minus the rise of social media and the growing disparity between social classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. and a little later in the program here in r.t. we find out how to become one of the richest men in the u.k. with the story of a russian businessman enjoying the good life in europe despite owning the russian government one billion dollars. and also still to come a lot of what is its side effect the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals is that to some undesirable consequences you can watch our report later in the front. but first with aftershocks of the u.s.
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credit rating downgrade still reverberating around the world washington has decided to go after those behind the markdown rating agency standard and poor's along with its parent company mcgraw hill are in the crosshairs of the u.s. securities and exchange commission they investigated for overestimating us that by some two trillion dollars and that much more serious allegations of insider trading these are the time greatest reported to have leaked to certain market power players hours before it became official and its financial analysts called the ninja explains it's likely to lead to a much of one to crack down on race and it's. the path of probably doesn't begin or end with an s. and p. m. i guess the investigation is going to find if be if it's not just an arm waving show 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 this if you know it downgrades coming in your short term market prior to that you could make a great deal of money but that is
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a serious concern if we get weeks within a system like there's a good question and regards to why you have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehman brothers for example was known by some other card counter parties to be functionally bankrupt for some time prior to when they went under and nobody a preferred a reserve or the new york fed or anyone else bothered to stay meeting anybody. in the late forty's and early fifty's when the uranium boom was in full swing in the us numerous mines mushroom good parts of arizona but when the hmong dreidel in facilities were abundant leaving an environmental hazard in the wake of his report no reports of radiation poisoning the well threatens the area's few remaining indigenous people of. this northeast part of arizona a compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor 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
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dominant society have we also have conditions we're trying to live through like living in the abandoned your anian areas here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drank at the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tonnes of uranium ore work structed from navajo under the auspices of private companies and the us government that 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'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 lung cancer bone cancer and impaired kidney function this is for my eyes. this is the one i need to play.
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for. their oxygen. this is what i think four of 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're going to come out on my son to want to have kids but i have one that has kids but his 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 a month first drinking water is delivered to some fifty four thousand citizens
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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 produced point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened we have seen no action see no roads being improved the 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 place to grow 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 every last attention fortnight artsy new york. just got more stories available for you twenty four seven on our website is our team don't call them line
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all the time you can log on to get more analysis videos and features and the stories for you for example teenage pranksters could end up behind bars after being caught playing with a flame thrower on railway tracks. and shooting star as they begin to make a wish as you watch we have mesmerizing footage of a spectacular meteor shower we're going to war to dot com to find out the best place to be to see tonight's finale. mission. critical three times for three. richard three. three. three. three volunteers to video for your media project a free media to r t v dot com. true american private security contractors have been given the go ahead by u.s. court to press charges against former defense secretary donald rumsfeld for his
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role in the alleged illegal imprisonment and torture while working in iraq the two men publicly claimed that their firm was involved in massive corruption soon after they were arrested by the army and detained at the military complex for nine months and everything injuring beatings and torture with no reasons given. efforts to bring rumsfeld to court rejected by judges highlighting the difficulty of prosecuting senior officials are protected by a myriad of norton loopholes speaking to r.t. activist deborah sweet since it's now time for those who were silent to speak out. and massive cases of stealing 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.
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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 all of this was happening with his approval so of course the truth has come out and i really congratulate. donald pants and nathan or tell whore 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. but still no russian senator is one of the latest entries into the u.k.'s rich list but should he put his also on under investigation and most scared was his bank owes the state more than one billion dollars and is also used to prescribe reports his case is just one of many that has exposed drastic rule backs in the country's banking regulation. he has everything
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a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the called dizzier to london married to a russo british socialite he was a guest at prince albert so well wedding in monaco among the top ten richest people in the u.k. according to last year's sunday times newspaper said people that show leads a life many would envy he even made his wife a star of it t.v. advertising campaign in france for the grand french food store it is yeah that heroes however all that is hardly a consolation at home in russia where he owes billions of rubles to his banks creditors. as a result of misconduct in violations by the management in failures of measure drawn by its creditors suffered damages totaling more than one billion dollars. last year the international industrial bank known in russian as news from bank was the first private bank to default on euro bonds in more than ten years it received
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a more than one billion dollar loan from the state as part of the anti-christ to support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off. it was mr pradelle childs pocket bank that caters varies 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 on and in the end of the money probably ended up in the structures affiliated with the owner of the bank. or the bank's 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 bunch of business empire seems to have to solved into other offshore assets a similar scandal broke over 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
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a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also hiding in london. the bankruptcy of mushroom 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 states and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. r.t. moscow top rather international headlines now in our world updated for two minutes past the russian capital vehicles and tanks have entered the syrian coastal city of latakia forcing local residents to flee according to activists a day earlier the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called the countries to stop buying stealing oil and gas. the government troops once again crack down on nationwide protests on friday with sixteen people reportedly killed in violence united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian.
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government has agreed to forty five and a half billion euros in emergency a sturdy measures over the next two years to see a cabinet approved the cuts despite resistance from local governors who said the move will damage economic growth prime minister berlusconi said the measures will meet the wishes of europe's central bank which have been demanding that italy balances its budget and you will include an extra so-called solidarity tax for high earners. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of a burn in ceremonies in the capital started with a memorial service in a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee from communist control is germany to the west and all spread foot nearly one hundred 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 line however the exact number is still dispute it. gender change for a better life transsexuals in one indian state enjoy some of the world's most
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progressive laws after years of discrimination the government now provides free sex change operations for those who want to make the change but that's all it is pretty straight up discovered many transsexuals find new lifestyle comes at a heavy price ever since she was a little boy suki knew 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 visu also realize that she felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher a it's a derogatory word for transsexuals beautiful it my brothers beat me up and kicked me out of the house because they did not like the way it behaves dressed and was attracted towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided they would give me happiness to live with other hijaz like me. the suki moved in with other transsexuals and decided to complete her transgender journey screen by doctors to
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ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of sex reassignment surgery or as are asked she had the operation and like all transsexuals in this part of india it was paid for entirely by the government. to. run with. them. to be more. only that it's. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals that cure here if they go the other faded tamilnadu you had some of the most progress the laws in the world for transsexuals the state government decided three years ago to fully fund that reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been against we're told was it was up to the government to help them out but that's tough without a job and few 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 will 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 because of a lot of resulting sex well i mean really if you want to do numbers work or you know training or. 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 within our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority and i have no regrets and. more rights yet fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either r t chennai india.
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