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angry for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. of the. top stories mahmoud ahmadinejad's plans the u.n. and nato over its military reaction to the civil war when levy is saying it has caused a bloody massacre but changes nothing and the system around will never seek to develop nuclear weapons nor his thoughts ahead as r.t. speaks exclusively to the range of. tens of thousands of people flood the streets of israel continued the country's biggest social project protest about some intel or be believed israel's problems are even deeper than demonstrators in the. contaminated lives native americans from the area used for your brain in mining say
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the u.s. government has exploited their land and left a legacy of illness or disease. international news live from moscow this is us he was me thanks for joining us he has no bones iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad wants his opposition to the u.n. and nato military operation in libya and describes the western ways as a big mistake he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they belong to the past the president shared his gaze exclusively with his governor . roosevelt would only do the job thank you so much for taking the time out of your business should you want 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 been dubbed the hour. spring what are your views on the arab spring and
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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 you think it's something maybe there's been all chris traded from abroad over the years that there was either a letter or 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 and 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 new so 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 said 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 peacefully issued
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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 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 at all but big 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 raney and i know you said all the world on the line around does not want nuclear weapons as a peaceful country but of course a lot of people in the west do feel that there's not enough transparency do you think this country you should be doing more to make it more transparent. yes.
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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 right now a lot of atomic arsenals in belgium in germany and in other european countries we just get this straight are you saying that at 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 and 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 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
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knowledge and thinking of the century of human beings a century of culture and logic you clear 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 peaceful nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none 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. the president of iran in fall of our web site it's r.t. dot com. the streets of cities have played host to thousands of reality each weekend since mid july it's a mass protest across the entire country and painting for social justice cheaper housing better access to education and measures to overcome social inequality are among the key demands which has an hour setting september deadline for the
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government to improve the situation is a strategy that seems to to have worked as israel's here benyamin netanyahu has appointed a special can easily to address it in miles demonstration leaders or main less than satisfied and threaten officials with a million strong march of fifty thousand early september but as our teams policy here discovers a stranger's call for social justice they have neighbors who face an even tougher battle and they simply no place to go. to protest might be next door to a full of more 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 be replaced by anger and frustration at a government he believes is doing too little to hold him. back is really. good for them at least they have houses we have nothing we haven't even got
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a groove over our heads let alone an expensive one but it's not only cheaper holes it's that these protesters want they're demanding new government wonderful charges taxes provide free education and cancel privatization of state owned companies changes that the poorest neighborhoods of television need the most but i want to keep people here and not demonstrating 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 it but i'm not sleeping here. and this is there every night but this time it's a bit tense here hours' time for for that if you've got the pay read for the economic that 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 been five in israel mostly from the tree and sudan the government simply doesn't know what to do with him most spend their days struggling
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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 protester of the privileged twenty 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 or. if i want to find something. it's a charge the africans are all too familiar with this place we fear thing is the brits were very open. string right wing organizers the rally is they're going to do a few jews so when a roofer do refuse to see what people are sitting. in they
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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 right she have to come out for the basic right for the brights of the refugee here in israel. but for now the rights of the refugees are the last thing on these protesters minds they just want a better life for themselves policy r.t. tel aviv. well you can find out previous reports from the tent city on our website also on facebook page or follow policy is tweets it's so on our twitter feed. the.
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recent wave of street unrest 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 out that they care so rapid last saturday and only took a few days for the disturbance to spread across the country the british pm david cameron expressed serious distant turned with the police calling their response or being outside of violence timid and inadequate pointing to initiate time to expand his police authorities didn't hesitate to strike back on blamed politicians for not offering enough assistance they bring their early returns from some of the patients as elaine gestural held calls are overwhelmed with processing hundreds of alleged rioters and extra police units are expected to remain on the streets until at least
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next week examinees people around the world wondering if the streets of their own home towns will always be safe and noise hartness also as the residents try to find out if new yorkers good or perceive their city shaken by violence in the future. is your neighborhood next week let's talk about that it's. inhumane barbaric. unfortunately around the country we have situations where. people are disappointed with leadership in various parts of the world and they are 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 life so they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they
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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 he was going crazy but not to their far like the looting is so horrible and the tries but they have been inspirational 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 they've surrounded 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 trying to be harder and you know sort of if they're hard up a sort of cold 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 many of the same comments and the response was published. over the stream of history reading 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 the lincoln happening yesterday and the bottom line is the rise of social media and the growing just parity between social classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. the us has lost its treasured aaa credit rating ultra downgraded last week by the agency standard and poor's it's a move that sent markets around the world a whole a coaster ride and now washington is gunning for a burst. the dreaded markdown the securities and exchange commission is now investigating the company of allegations over estimating us dead by some two trillion dollars and insider trading it is believed that news of the downgrade was leaked to certain market powerplays even before it became official and financial analysts code denninger explains why this may lead to a full scale investigation of all the rating agencies. the path itself probably
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doesn't begin or end with an f. and b. my guess is that the investigation is going to find if it's not just an arm waving show that there were some extra all parties that 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 downgrades coming in you short the market prior to that you could make a great deal of money that is a serious concern weeks within the system there's a good question in regards to why you have an insider trading been investigated in the general sense lehmann brothers for example was known by some other part of our party 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. this is stay with us here for a few hints and tips that helped a man become one of the richest in the u.k. so take a look at a russian businessman leading
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a life of that tree in here just by the russian government one billion dollars. going to the side effects the engine governance of tends to support transsexuals has led to something explosive consequences so see alice full report later. the usa is your reigning boom started in the mid forty's and lasted for less than a decade but people living in those foreign mining areas are still suffering from its deadly legacy and she's wearing a footnote reports on those few native americans who stay with that tramples loans but pay a high price for it. this northeast part of arizona economist's 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 the abandon your. mary is here and drinking the contaminated waters that
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we have drink in the beginning in one nine hundred forty four nearly one million tons of uranium ore were extract in from navajo under the auspices of private companies in the u.s. government the radioactive resource was lying to me and the 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 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 the 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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hard for sir luther ruxton. this is what i take for my thyroids forty year old cancer survivor rolanda said 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 they've come out before and 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 of the nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico price 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 people feel that through all these years even if you just point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened you 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 plans for do 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 drugs this life and death issue may just slip further from everyone's attention and i r.t. new york. and you can always find more no website it's on to go here and some of the stories lined up for you right. part has the most quote teenage pranksters
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could find themselves behind bars up to get you caught playing with the flames threw out on the campus was a railway tracks. also a group held in china actually takes an inside look at how chinese students are given a month's long taste of army life. and make a long list of bushes because they may just come true that if you want this new rising footage was picked up from a meteor or shot you're going to find out where the best to watch tonight's creeping into the. russian businessman. so you get to be chilled as one of the ten richest people in the u.k. is also among those under investigation hey mosco because he's behind closed the state in the billion dollars. it was called the report was this is just one of many cases that have exposed drastic problems with 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
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and i read 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 which of leeds 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 it is yeah that heroes 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 new spawn bank was the first private bank to default on euro bombs 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
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creditors been paid off. it was mr begats jobs pocket bank that caters very serious business is in the wake of its license being revoked exactly halted its operations and focus on the 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 a blank. the bank's database was deliberately arrays 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 state's largest bank the review revealed a gaping hole in the books with bad loans totaling nine billion. dollars only a third of its assets the former head of the bank is also hiding in london the
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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 state and its people that have to carry the burden of their losses. r.t. moscow. time for some other stories from around the world armored vehicles and times have ended here in coastal city of latakia valsin local residents to flee that's according to activists the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop the lakes here all in advance and i asked him to government troops once again crackdown on nationwide protests on friday with sixteen people reportedly killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss the sanctions against the syrian government. new clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces erupted around the key coastal town of zawiyah libya the government denied
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that rebels have captured the city according to his spokesman a group of fifty rebels have been repelled by government troops after they opened fire and tried to move into the town so we're is just fifty kilometers from tripoli is a key target for rebels who hope to cut all the capital from the outside world and months of deadlock around thirteen thousand people have been killed and leaders as the uprising began six months ago against his or her talent. a u.s. citizen has been kidnapped by gunmen from his house in the eastern pakistani city of lahore began slammed into the victim's home early in the morning and reportedly has the vocal office of an american consulting company assisting the u.s. government's main eight. foreigners are frequently taken for ransom in pakistan last month a swiss guard couple. was abducted in the country's southwest. cuban
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leader fidel castro turned eighty five this saturday and celebrations have begun long before the anniversary itself and concluded in the past of course and by to doesn't he's cool i have some across latin america that castro him so good they could to his birthday bash which is hardly a surprise has barely been seen in public since he stepped down in two thousand and six and made his last of their paris in july alongside venezuela's president hugo chavez since handing over power to his brother raul is tended to even though public profile are thought to be due to his declining health. changing sex for a better life transsexuals in india state enjoy some of the world's most progressive laws and that the government provides free journey to realignment for those who want to make that change but it's all to his prius srijit 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 bazooka you knew there was something different and i started liking
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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 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 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 attracted towards men so instead of committing suicide i decided he would give me happiness to live with other heroes like me. sukey moved in with other transsexuals and decided to completely transgender journey screened by doctors to ensure she was psychologically ready for the consequences of such 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 all of the women. we all want them. to be more. only that it's.
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changed despite the fact that the indian government only decriminalized almost actuals that q you're at the go the other thing that tamil nadu has some of the most progressive laws in the world for transactions the state government decided three years ago to fully fund tax reassignment surgery the argument was these people had been discriminated against or sold was it was up to the government to help them out but that's tough without a job few 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
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a lot of resorting to six well maybe if you want to do numbers were just for trading in those. traditional 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 life alone i live for my happiness we are not our homes because we were forced to get married my happiness is my priority or and i have no regrets. but the more rights get fewer opportunities but these transsexuals wouldn't have it any other way preassure either kartini chennai india. say the headlines are next.
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it can hear dr swipes policeman smile and minister's wife i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i thought that. kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill it says.
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