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oh she's available in the movie joyce beaver children's the home of villains the green river to the grand imperial chill and the george weston bush coromandel you can a little george bush to joe it's a duty to go and all corners of the sun the colonel was literally as used to retreat. mahmoud ahmadinejad criticizes nato intervention bibi as saying it led to the bloody massacre of people and brought in their own solutions under the state's iran will never seek to develop nuclear weapons while his views ahead at hot seat so he speaks exclusively to the ukrainian president. tens of thousands of israelis out in the streets to demand social justice and low prices but some intel of it say the demonstrations address song at a small part of the government's policy of. the uranium putin all been made forces to echoes through the us are just people living in greater absentminded
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areas say they've been abandoned by their government and. international news life for most of this is also he was making a dash of thanks will change mediates is no problems iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad voices opposition to the going to nato military operation in libya and describes the west's invasion as a big mistake he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they've been known for the past the president shared his views exclusively with kevin allen. president matthew thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule 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 that's the arab spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken
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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 you think it's something maybe there's been orchestrated from abroad over three years that. the letter or the entire global community is dissatisfied with the current state and the world there are many class distinctions there are pressures there a conflict armed conflicts and a large number of nations in the world are being humiliated constantly today justice and dignity around 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 minuto 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 to the people but the security council he still issued a resolution and it has complicated the situation that has led to the killings of
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the massacre of people and destruction of the infrastructure in the country do you think around needs to liberalize do you think you should introduce more political reforms to maybe head off something similar happening in this country as well at some point in the future does it worry you will when i think the entire world needs more freedom more than everybody else in the world europeans and americans need freedom in europe is there really freedom is there real freedom in the united states they are beating people in the streets only recently iran announced that you've stepped up production of new centrifuges faster better centrifuges to make better higher quality. i know you said all the long line rand does not want nuclear weapons ran is 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.
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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 or a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries let me just get this straight are you saying that in some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. and never never we don't want nuclear weapons we don't seek nuclear weapons this is an inhuman weapon nuclear weapons have no capability to if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money and resources and they create great 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 could 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
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a century of human beings the 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 a country and the goal of our people is peace for all nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for no nuclear activities in iran are monitored by the i.a.e.a. they have the no documents against iran in the agency it's just a claim by the us that we are after nuclear weapons. and you can see that exclusive interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad the president of iran in full on our web site. for the fourth weekend in a row tens of thousands of israelis have taken to the streets demonstrating for social justice calls eighteenth it is nationwide demanding cheaper housing more on stage creation and full social inequality to be addressed and according to the new york times ten of the biggest family owned business groups in the country controls a sort of percent of the economy in less than
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a month the government calling on the government to improve the situation has grown from a few tenants in tel aviv to a nationwide phenomenon prime minister netanyahu has appointed a special committee to address the people's demands and the attempts to quell the situation our protest leaders have so far rejected all the photos and call for a million strong march in fifty cities on the spread of september but as aussies paullus he reports there is some literature state left out of the movement of much tougher battle. the pugilist might be next door to a fellow man lives but it's going to make a little difference to his life he's a refugee from eritrea one of thousands who has 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 hold 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 hols is that these protesters want their demanding new government wonderful charges 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 please people here are not to mistreating the 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 but i'm not sleeping here and this is there every night but it's a slimeball it's a. time for afraid that if you don't need to pay rent for the economic situation. like you say next people are sleeping there not because they choose to plant their tent outside 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 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 appear on camera but those with spoken to say that they don't feel a quarter of this demonstration and accuse of being a protest of the privileged demi 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 my. wins all good. if i want to find something ok it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place with fifteen years of brits where very. big stream right wing organizes the rallies against the right food is so all went away food refuges the seamy white people are sitting.
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in they they feel bad they don't belong to the 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 bright of the refugee here in israel. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these coaches to smile is they just want a better life for themselves poorly c r t tel aviv and you can find out previous reports from the tent city on our website also on our his facebook page and follow policy as tweets from israel are now twenty eight.
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in. a recent wave of street on rest in the u.k. led to mutual recrimination between police and politicians as they each seek to lay blame for an adequate response to the violence on the other on the chaos or rapid loss saturday and it only took a few days for the disturbance to spread across the country the british pm david cameron expressed serious discontent with the police calling their response at the outset of violence timid and in other words international tactics and police numbers place authorities didn't hesitate as trial by blind politicians were not offering enough assistance laboring that would tell from some of a cations as elaine just showed how courts are overwhelmed with process a hundreds of alleged rioters and extra police units are expected to remain on the
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streets until at least next week the trauma leads people round the world wondering if the streets of their own home towers will always be safe and nor hope and it's also known as the resident try to find out if new york wins could this see that season shaken by violence in the future. it's your neighborhood next 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. fine fine life they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were
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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 looting is so horrible and not rise but there are demonstrations in creation but they have a peaceful day with the burn the flag or you know but 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 started for political reason then that these around the 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 get harder and you know sort of if they heard of the sort of card look whereas now everybody expects everything behind them on a plate you know so if you go back in history and look at the hundred for example you'll see many of the same comments and there is papers published and that is. the stream of history writing the same course. so what can we do to change it if
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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. the u.s. has lost its treasured aaa credit rating a thread on grade last week by the agency standard and poor's and it's a move that some not it's around the world on a roller coaster ride and now washington is going for those behind the try that mark the u.s. securities and exchange commission is now investigating the company of allegations of overestimating u.s. dead by some to trillion dollars and insider trading and it's believed that news of the downgrade was leaked to certain market powerplays even before it became official and financial analysts called dining out explains why this may need to soar scale investigation of all the rating agencies the path itself probably
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doesn't begin or end within it my guess is that the investigation is going to find . if it's not just arm waving to show that there were some extra party that had nothing to do with us and he made a great deal of money on friday there is clearly a political element with those if you know downgrades coming in you short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money that is a serious concern if we get weeks within the system like there's a good question and regards to why you have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehmann brothers for example was known by some of their card counterpart to be functionally bankrupt for some time prior to when they went under . nobody of the sort of reserve or the new york fed or anyone else bothered to say anything to anybody. and stay with us here and i'll see you for a few hints and tips that helped a man become one of the richest in the u.k. we'll take a look at a russian businessman leading
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a live of luxury of europe despite owing the russian government one billion dollars . that side of the indian government's attempts to support transsexuals has led to some unexpected consequences cialis the report later in the program. the usas your radio started in the mid forty's and lasted for less than a decade but people living in the former mining areas are still suffering from its deadly legacy oh she's marina reports now of those few native americans who stay with their tribal lines or pay a high price for it. this northeast part of arizona compass is part of america's navajo nation native american governor territory rich in your rainy arm 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 we're living in the abandon your
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a new mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drank in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly four million tons of uranium ore works drafted from navajo under the auspices of private companies in the u.s. 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 the teary health conditions my needs are eking walking is difficult i've been diagnosed with some form of cancer i feel pain below my chance 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 take.
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for a higher first her liver thyroxin. this is what i take for my thyroids 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's so big come up the phone my son the want to have kids. but i have one that has kids but these problems in two thousand and seven the environmental protection agency launched a five year plan to clean up been out a whole nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico twice a month fresh drinking water it 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 that people feel that through all these years even to this point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened they 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 proof or do i don't have a choice well 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 drops this life and death issue may just look further from everyone's attention. artsy new york. and you can always find more on our website as you go home and here are some of the stories lined up for you right now. as in moscow teenage pranksters could find themselves behind bars after
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getting caught playing with a plate and throw it on the counter was apparently trying. and shooting stars don't forget to make a wish while watching our mesmerizing footage of a spectacular meteor shower so local authorities are called to find out where best to watch tonight's game if not a. russian businessman and former senator bayh appropriate choice as one of the ten richest people in the u.k. but he's also among those under investigation because he's buying owes the state more than a billion dollars into his office his daddy bush told reporters this is just one of many cases that have exposed drastic problems for the country's banking regulations . he has everything a fortune in several banks a couple of private jets and numerous properties from the called visitor 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 so people of leeds
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a life many would envy he even made his wife a star of a t.v. advertising campaign in france for the brand french food store it is yeah 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 in violations by the management in failures of wishbone 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 a more than one billion dollar loan from the state as part of the anti-crisis support program but the state has not been returned the money nor have all the creditors been paid off. it was mr krueger childes pocket bank that caters for his various businesses in the wake of its license being revoked if they practically
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halted its operations and focus on transferring the assets to 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. 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 bunch of business empire seems to have to solve into other of show 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 mushroom bank last year and the recent downfall of the bank almost school revealed that the country is in desperate need of stronger banking supervision and while those responsible for the damage enjoyed their life outside
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russia it's the state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses . r.t. moscow. some other stories on the rest of the world armored vehicles in time for them to be here in coastal city of latakia is also a local garden stiffly according to activists a day earlier the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop buying syrian oil and gas and came after government troops once again to crack down on nationwide protests of friday that sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against the syrian government. germany has marked the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall ceremonies in the campus all started with a memorial service and a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee to the west from congress controlled east germany but all stretched for nearly one hundred sixty kilometers and divided the city for over twenty eight years at least one hundred thirty six
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people and been killed trying to cross the wall but the exact number is still disputed. the former cuban leader fidel castro turned eighty five this saturday celebrations have become long before the anniversary itself and concluded in a festive concert by two dozen musical artists from across latin america but construct himself couldn't make it to his own birthday bash which is hardly a surprise he has barely been seen in public since his step down in two thousand and six he made his last of the appearance in july alongside venezuela's president chavez since hundred overpowered is brother raul has tended to keep a low public profile. to beat you to his declining health. new clashes between pro and anti cadavid forces abruptly around the coastal town of civil high in libya the government this train is late denied that rebels have captured the city according to colonel gadhafi spokesman
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a group of fifty broadwell's have been repelled by government troops after they opened fire and tried to move into the town is that probably just fifty kilometers from tripoli is a key target for rebels who hope to cut off the capital from the outside the world and months of dead knocked around thirty thousand people have been killed in libya so the uprising began six months ago against is also a time when. changing sides for better lives transsexual than one indian state enjoys some of the world's most progressive laws that the government provides free gender line meant for those who want to make the change but as artie's pretty shrewd a discovers the law has become the center of controversy with some claiming it has boosted prostitution in the country. ever since she was a little boy suki knew that there was something different and 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 can also realize that she
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felt more like a woman than a man in south asia people like her are commonly called hitcher eyes a derogatory word for transsexuals readability my brothers beat me up and kicked me out of the house because they did not like the way i behaved dressed and was attractive towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided they would give me happiness to live with other heroes like me. sukey moved in with other transsexuals and decided to complete her transgender journey screen by doctors to ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of such 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 them women. with homes then. removed. only that it's. changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized homosexuals
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that kill years ago the southern fate of tamil nadu had some of the most progressive laws in the world for transactions the state government decided three years ago to fully fund that reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been discriminated against for the whole law 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 more than 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 the government's inadvertently helping fuel an illegal business since transsexuals can earn more after gender reassignment that has a lot of resorting to sex what we really want to do numbers were last for you know training. income generation or something like that only able to rely on
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themselves and each other these women know and accept their fate. we have been cast out of our homes in society i like this lifelong i live for my happiness we found our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority here and i have no regrets and what. more rights yet fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't happen any other way preassure either fourteen chennai india . to have today with everything top stories in just a couple of minutes to. if. you.
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