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week and this week marked the end of colonel gadhafi as grip on libya but the man the mystery surrounding his death in captivity has sparked international calls for an investigation where the official account that he was killed in a crossfire widely question levy is now looking to hold elections within eight months but as are many so now reports from tripoli there's much cynicism over whether things will change post cut off. not too long ago with handshakes and hot now it's his head. and his family and a lot of tales. of foreign involvements and fact that though he was always portrayed as a great guy who you also played a lot of footsie and banking with western powers. graphic gruesome footage of get down he went viral as news of his death spread after months of being number one nato hit list under the banner humanitarian mission oh we came we saw he died. he didn't have anything to do with your.
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libya and anything claims he was killed in crossfire but edited radio begs to differ that shows clearly wiping blood from his head then nearly dead took a look at him with the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and wounded and after that he was killed. all the pressure is growing for an investigation to find out if it down from died as clinton put it or was executed the u.n. human rights organization should all push not only for investigation. and certainly the lynching of many of the libyan members of the. support of the gadhafi but also the bombings that inflicted in libya the destroyed so many of libya's infrastructure and also so. when we libyan civilians who died in
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the us who were killed in the first three alliance officials claim the mission in libya is coming to remand the no fly zone will be reviewed at the u.n. security council but many believe this is only the end of gadhafi and the beginning of a new era of crisis libya is in for a period of horrendous chaos after the nato bombing that it's brought parts of libya back to the stone age some say the race for the country's oil has kicked off france is already demanding thirty five percent of libya's gross national gross oil production and i suspect that the people of libya will be furious and outraged that they are paying france for having bought the infrastructure having destroyed the schools the hospitals the the water supply and a country united in hatred for gadhafi might not stand together now that he's gone all these these different groups that we were held together but one thing and that
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was a group of coffee and now that's gone away they can really direct their anger at each other and i think you have two things chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. spirit and change and we're back where now and that is not that great celebrations continued throughout the week of crossing the country and it seems few people here are really thinking about the future what a libya without gadhafi it really means for them a country with no leader a lot of weapons and even more oil reporting from tripoli and is now a r.t. . and you can also follow correspondingly viennese and always twitter stream is bringing you the latest developments from the country to take a look. the u.s. greeted the death of gadhafi with jubilation president barack obama calling it a strong reminder of america's leadership in the world at
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a national consultant and author every ansible he says western powers should also be held accountable for the killing which was motivated by regime change. this is a message for the whole world i don't think this is just about a movie or we are seeing how i think hillary clinton secretary of state of the united states expresses very clearly this is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works well when we decide to take only rejean they do so with the utmost violence and it's a whole model based on orwellian newspeak so to speak first they target a role of a country by calling it a rogue state they do support local terrorist and call them freedom fighters then they would rain death and destruction upon civilians and the u.n. sanctions then they spread lies and call it the international community's opinion expressed by the western media then be invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetizing oil and call it foreign investments in
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reconstruction. it's a race against time for the e.u. leaders to resolve the euro zone debt crisis and he arrived for a new round of marathon talks in brussels leaders are still trying to work out a comprehensive plan to try and save the euro german chancellor angela merkel promised a breakthrough by wednesday they gather for a summit among them already agreed on measures is for banks to raise more than one hundred billion euro to withstand possible losses to data countries such as greece but some financial analysts believe the problem is being tackled from the wrong and altogether. it's a coming to union that is not an optimal commons here that doesn't work for most of its members that belong within the eurozone within the single currency area so the longer they keep going as it is the longer the economic problems will last be more words on the streets of athens will be more pain felt by the greek people
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and they wish to writing down the whole of the european union that's what happens when you take away people's democracy and you centralize power to. if the small clique of people that politicians are so wedded to the idea of trying to protect to the euro with that is a big mistake is becoming a ticking time bomb so if there was an economic reality an economic sense prevailing amongst the european political class they will take action and dismantle the euro that is the answer and should happen soon. greece remains the at the center of the eurozone debt crisis this week a new set of austerity measures was voted in by parliament all but securing the next installment of bailout cash from the e.u. however the resulting violent protests in athens and beyond show the public is at breaking point r.t. sarah ferguson is in the greek capital. processor become a regular occurrence theory behind the five senses thing it's growing public angry
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because of a star say what that means to the people here in the country has been cuts to their wages by around thirty percent in most cases on top of that. the pensions the public spending unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high and we see in the emergence of a new generation of homeless these measures really these seem to have affected everyone here in great. i think it's. almost that good. and us to our young and. old sort of five one of the nation of the people who will fight peacefully because we want our lives calm by. the young and the rose and people from all walks of quique life to institute a protest and largest police a scene since the crisis began one of the nice violent referred precisely for our
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needs it wasn't to be thank you once again boiling over with fights breaking out not just with the police that in the us the protesters themselves the greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore. and still just the phrase has is enough to take a change and if they cost them top government officials did it plays on a position then the saying he thinks that in asia business struggling with his clintons he's not the only one speaking to a police major after the protests that starts them and tell me is a pressure to the riot police involved in these events you know the school or the system of the it is very hard to describe the feelings. policeman because there are two way social and professional groups who are suffering by the economic measures to government has to take me sometimes it is really hard for them to take part and
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use protest as a working people but once more they had to take to the streets to push playtest is the days he wanted to make their point peacefully the rest of europe in the area that needs to be watching this very closely because this isn't just a problem that affects great it is a situation that affects the entire year and so you can see what the people in the country right now willing to go through to have their voices heard the people here are going to have to wait a while longer see if anyone can now be ready to listen. and still have for you this hour here in our transplant return. they love me but i'm not embarrassed to say that the government of the country are not doing enough for my son and for them the rest of those with. israeli soldier gilad shalit comes home after being exchanged for the sounds and palestinian prisoners leaving some
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families to feel they are lost children have been forgotten. and a wall street protesters warned that americans are under attack from gangs fattening up their profits while they are tightening their belts. nato led forces in cars or have failed to remove barricades put up by ethnic serbs at a disputed border crossing serbs set up the roadblocks back in july when cars were authorities began to install their own customs controls. has a story. as months of tension between serves nicole bennett of course was continue roads in northern course they remain closed for some serbs are fortifying their barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoon reads we defeated your grandad we defeated your fathers we'll win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the
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past they will then why do they think that they can come and take our land serbia's our home we don't want to live in albania look how they are meant that we have nothing but flag and faith in god some two hundred meters away they took a four soldiers keep watching i would prefer a peaceful solution by talk by an agreement judge it all is in the last week but if that is not to be reached i have to be on my own i have to do fall back on my own needs. some of them are. going to be no surprise the generals only means a military once the status quo in northern kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local serbs civilians is no closer to resolution but people from both sides of the barricades a glide to avoid any further violence but away from media glare hostility is common place this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot
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just three weeks ago visiting ben village in courses south western it was a minority living in time and place i was waiting for him in a car and i saw him coming out of the all being in a cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad fell down and i wanted to him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say good bye to him. w. bush shows us his wounds she was shocked when his father's killer is try to. the only witness i will never return to that place. i'm worrying about my family and myself in a separate incident just last week another unarmed serb who was killed in a confrontation with a local these two men together with their friend mir drug they follow the big family went to see what used to be served land now owned by ethnic albanians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were
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stopped by the new york hire we talked for five minutes then he said he needed to come back to his car to take in some form but came back instead with a kalashnikov do you want your number he shouted and started farming out on drug was killed at the scene the men who just lost their friends they there is only one reason he was killed but just because we are serbs periods eleven years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence of international peacekeepers violence seems to be still part of everyday life for some in this troubled breakaway province and there is little sign that's like to change refn optionality course. ok for troops resorted to tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd of serbs guarding the blockade in the north of car civil servant canadian documentary maker boris thinks that by meddling in an internal conflict nato is
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pursuing its own agenda. for is acting as a force to further nato's goals in the province of kosovo and this is something that is just a continuation of their policies for the last ten years the serbs who remain in kosovo they're living in horrible conditions basically living in a ghetto and they have been there and their presence there is a form of silent protest against what is happening there as they do not want to leave their homeland they want to stay where they were they are in stay in the country in which they were born in which they believe is there is the serbs there are saying no to the west and if this was happening in a country where nato in the west supports the regime of that country they will be hailing the serbs as freedom fighters in fighters for human rights of course because the west does support the government in pristina after all they install them there criminalizing away the serbs and demonizing them once again and presenting them as criminals and people who want to make a profit out of all this wild west who is in fact those who want to make
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a profit out of them posing you know customs over there. has been hailed as a historic middle east prisoner exchange where there were a thousand palestinians being swapped for just one israeli soldier gilad shalit was freed following five years in captivity and a massive campaign for his release in israel but he's homecomings a life many jewish families bitter as poles lior found out. every day. comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country or who come from difficult backgrounds but being here is often more of a comfort to him than the youngsters he hopes because it brings him and that little bit closer to his son mushy who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage. i have said this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for mars neither is the media you know as the option it gave to the soviet family there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now as my son measure disappeared while
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hitchhiking to his army base major want to ride was captured twenty five years ago off his a craft was shot down over lebanon these of the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy have a disappeared fourteen years ago he was last seen at his army base one kilometer from the syrian border. it's infuriating it's an acceptable that after fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring us any information so a live dead here in lebanon and syria just bring it others us with they've brought us nothing new so we know certain her son is still alive and while she's pleased to get out is coming home she's decision to a new government that made it possible for him but not for her son. so they've met her it's about media attention p.r. how do i it's nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as
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a family this wasn't a very we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f. soldier. in the uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. this is a country that depends on its army for its survival is an unwritten code that every soldier who goes to war must be brought back home that's where the heart of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years his brain his family and supporters camped out here in front of the prime minister's office every morning when the time they often left his home he was reminded about the soldier who could not return to his beloved but i'm not embarrassed to say that the government and the country are not doing enough for my son and the rest of those missing in action it is important for us to bring our soldiers home disappearance was sanderson's to war we need to knowledge that the country will do everything possible to get them back org it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be
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empowered to kidnap and nothern israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again. for more in-depth coverage and exclusive footage head to our web site r t v dot com. iraq's refusal to grant us soldiers an extended stay with diplomatic immunity means the troops are heading home you'll find the details online. and the heart of moscow eliminated in a grandiose laser show check out this spectacular video on r.t. dot com our website and our words you tube channel. earlier in the week around five hundred people marched through new york against tough police tactics in dispersing antic or protests on friday over thirty occupy wall street activists were arrested demonstrators complained police are taking to having an approach to their continuing peaceful rallies it's week five of the occupy wall street protest against the banks and washington's inability to do something about it and the
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growing gap between rich and poor is something which could cost the government dear that's got hitched to count now explains. the class war seemed impossible in a country were being wealthy east part of the national green good espouse and march on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of the few super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that it's only when the we're getting richer while the middle class is collapsing players walk is being waged in a burka today fortunately the old saw eye is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year made the economies very slow growth of non the less made record profits the things to various loopholes but these corporations pay little or nothing in the corporations say they need the tax
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breaks to be able to invest more in to hire more america's second largest energy producers chevron is now lobbying not to let the government tax them more and to. my question how many americans has chevron hired since the tax breaks were introduced in two thousand and four the c.e.o. of the company said speech there were up slightly a few thousand in our upstream business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our chevron payroll a few thousand jobs for the billions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave the economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains over nine percent when we live in a nation where corporations could profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents in a bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for these kids medical bills. what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill all
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three will be nobody you know great job but as one of the protesters try to put a word of objection we call it all done all done it's not your show monkey i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can. talk you through your personal success and money have always been part of the american dream the rich the aspiration to become rich is deeply ingrained in american society and widely promoted by pop culture but those who took to the streets have made it clear that the situation when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is not their idea of the american dream in fact it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington our take. a look at some of the stories from around the world polls have open in tunisia historical selected constitutional sampling nine months after the first arab spring revolution saw long time dictator ben ali stepped down two nations are faced with overwhelming
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choice more than one hundred parties and ten thousand candidates are competing for one hundred ninety nine seats in the a sample the first duties once the. bodys elected will be the redrafting of tunisia's constitution. at a function german satellite has made its rianne tree into earth's atmosphere after more than ten years of inactivity most of it burned up during re-entry but up to thirty fragments including a one point seven ton telescope are thought to have crashed on the surface scientists were unable to communicate with a satellite before you entry and are trying to determine its fate the german air space center says the likelihood of debris from the craft causing injury is extremely low. turkish soldiers have killed at least forty nine kurdish rebels in a massive air and ground offensive near the iraq border as a rebel operations were launched earlier this week as a response to the death of twenty four soldiers killed by fighters of the kurdistan
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workers party turkey has reportedly mobilized ten thousand troops in south east of the country and across the border in iraq. thailand's prime minister says the worst floods to hit the country in sixty years will likely take six weeks to recede at least three hundred fifty six people have lost their life so far the number which has been growing day by day over one hundred ten thousand have been displaced from their waterlogged homes the country is also faced with a heavy price tag of rebuilding the cost of damage to factories homes and farmland is estimated in the billions of dollars. on friday a russian so yes rocket lifted off from a space base in the tropics carrying the first parts of a european satellite navigation system it powered through have the rain after a one day delay or tuesday a bushel watched it go. launch of a russian space history the first ever liftoff of the school used book eaten in the
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west confirms this position is the leader in the field it's one thousand seven hundred successful takeoffs way ahead of any other rival so when the french led team began plans to send galileo satellites into orbit it was first choice when we needed. probably here we immediately thought of show you galileo is europe's america's g.p.s. navigation system promising much greater accuracy and reliability with so used to launch it the e.u. is confident so use is one of the best on these on the size so we put together the best competitive and together we can be the best and beat all the old the old open and the soyuz and it's just simply have had to be specially adapted to handle the challenges brought by the tropical climate for croix from its
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sister sites in russia's north of the steps of. the soil to need to work including . clearance of one hundred twenty hector's of jungle forest for the launch under a new agreement soyuz is to send many more satellites for europe into orbit from the soit with much of the equipments being built in russia and then shipped to french guyana a massive boost for the russian space industry as for the future well speaking only about french grand cru. there's a contract firm country for fifty or so years can you imagine that fifty or so years which means that for the minimum six seven years both summer and the moscow factories they will be fully engaged in their lots of work to do this success cements the reputation of soyuz as the world's top space launch program but it's also turns a new page in relations between the european union and russia senior figures with
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a two and expressed optimism for the new corporation the two galileo satellites into little bit without a glitch to the cheers of the launch team and guests in russian soyuz means a few years of both the e.u. and russia will be hoping the project will indeed mean a union of interests and close a partnership the new bushel altie french guiana. how is the occupy wall street movement going to change the face of america that's the question we're asking our interview in a few minutes but before that all data on the week's top stories stay with us.
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we're back here with here's a look at the week's top stories nato is preparing to leave libya saying it's achieved its goals after the killing of colonel gadhafi badar fears a country could now be plunged into chaos mob rule. the leaders are meeting in
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brussels to brainstorm ways to save the euro zone and slash greece's enormous debt it comes after the greek government approved another round of eye watering cuts to secure a bailout deal leading to a two day strike and clashes with police. and afaik serves revanth natal from dismantling their barricades at a disputed border crossing in northern kossovo on friday peacekeeping troops used tear gas to disperse hundreds of locals who sat on the road to stop them. the occupy wall street movement is now well into its six week and is not slowing down next r.t. talks to author and blogger james cussler about the phenomenon and how it could influence america's future. argues sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so things.

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