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held in libya within eight months followed by the formation of a new government and the drafting of a constitution of the future looks on certain ethnic and tribal divisions of merge among libyans united in revolution and then there's nato which is winding down its military intervention while its members rush to secure lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities. is in tripoli with. not so long ago it was handshakes and hugs now it's his head and feet and his family had a lot of tales to tell about just foreign involvements and the fact that though he was always portrayed as a great guy you also played a lot of footsie and banking with the western powers. graphic gruesome footage of gadhafi went viral as news of his death spread after months of being number one on nato is hit list under the banner humanitarian mission. we came we saw he died but that didn't have anything to do with your visit.
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libya's and t.c. claims he was killed in crossfire but edited video begs to differ shown here clearly wiping blood from his head then clearly dead look at the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and well indeed and after that he was killed. well the pressure is growing for an investigation to find out if gadhafi died as clinton put it or was executed the u.n. human rights organization should all push not only for investigation of the death of gadhafi and certainly the. many other libyan members of the. that supported. but also the bombings that nato inflicted in libya that destroyed so many of libya's infrastructure and also so many libyan civilians who
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died in the u.s. who were killed in the. alliance officials claim the mission in libya is coming to him and 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. i mean that'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 bombed 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 and that we were held together but one thing and
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that was a group of people and let's gone away there you can redirect their anger at each other and i think that chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. and we change and we're back now and that is not a great celebrations continue throughout the week of crossing the country and it seems few people here are really thinking about the future going to 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 he's now a r.t. . and niece is keeping us updated with the latest from tripoli online just had to alter his twitter stream to keep track of her account of events in post gadhafi libya. while political analysts agents obuchi thinks the results of the foreign intervention in libya restore warning to other regimes that have for the not a favor with the west. this is
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a message for the whole world i don't think this is just about libya this is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works when they decide to take ali 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 a country by calling it a robe state that it is supporting local terrorist and call them freedom fighters then they do grain death and destruction upon civilians and they call the un sanctions then they spread lies and call it the international community's opinion expressed by the western media and then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetising oil and call it foreign investments and reconstruction. over in syria the death of kind of gadhafi sparked a fresh wave of anti-government protests calling for president bashar assad to step down dozens more people were reportedly shot that is troops loyal to damascus
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crackdown on the demonstrators over three thousand are said to been killed in the country since march but as i say reports from syria both sides of the conflict of plenty of blood on their hands. this is the office of the trader reads one of the messages on the wall israel and the us were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work like . he had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail a very bad time he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for reconciliation under the current environment. because troops must meet with their backs clear voice is a regime that i know. is listening to people. he insists peaceful protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces but he acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the
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violence goes both ways. this killing civilians but some civilians killing. soldiers they are son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in on march twenty three. foreign media acknowledged that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people see that on groups didn't exist . the civilians and army members like my son for the members other members this is impossible the media that says it is plain lying. and variant lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on in the organization is taken by either. side and used to defend their position so if you're only argue. with them amid this atmosphere of confusion and misinformation because for reforms
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continues what's the enduring very forms this is another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation in syria. but we cannot absolutely put the blame on the government as i mean some circles of trying to propagate voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down and talk to the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust should be first laid down but with each direct order syria has school rising already why the political gap. does are still you are to damascus. coming your way this hour the class devouring the u.s. . as dozens of people arrested across america for peaceful demonstrations anger towards the so-called one percent
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keeps on growing. and exchanged for a thousand palestinian prisoners an israeli soldier comes home after five years in captivity but it's not. their children have been forgotten. their stories to come but first european leaders have been holding crucial talks in brussels aimed at resolving the region's debt crisis and keeping another recession pushing on banks to accept that the greek debt will never be paid in full and instead they should raise new capital to deal with the losses. the national debts of greece will reach one hundred eighty one percent of g.d.p. next year and of course that's completely unsustainable so they're not charities so they're obviously resisting these moves they say that if. a loan is just like that then the world lending market will simply draw up that's why you leaders knew there wouldn't be an agreement crisis meeting and already before this summit took place
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was saying that there will be an extra extraordinary summits by wednesday and according to a leak that we've received leaders have agreed to create a european economic government with regular eurozone summits to enforce it is to control countries like italy there's been a blazing row here between prime minister silvio berlusconi who reportedly refused any more national measures also the public realm between france and germany is worrying investors france wants a bigger bailout ports it's already a tongue hundreds of billions of euros but it wants more to rescue any potential any potential failures in the eurozone and. they could be more countries next whereas germany germany's angela angela merkel is well aware that the german taxpayers will have to pay for any such bailouts and the german officials here are saying this whole eurozone project is starting to look like a single one way flow of cash from berlin to southern europe ordinary greeks see
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differently of course they are having to put up with very difficult cuts in public services in greece enforced by inforced in brussels as our correspondent sara first reports from athens. behind these things. that people here in. this think that way it's a fire out and it may stay on top of that. cantons the public funding unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high within the emergence of a new generation of homeless these measures these things have affected everyone hearing great oh i can. hear. that good. and us to our young and. old sort of five one of the nice one
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of the people who will fight peacefully because we want our lives calm by. the young and the people from all walks of life joined the today protest and largest cleese's seen since the crisis began one of the most violent preferred place very far it's it wasn't to be the anger once again boiling eva with fights breaking out not just with the police but in the us the protesters themselves rick 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. this is just a phrase has is with an appetite for change and they did say is past and top government officials did applies when a position then the saying he thinks that the nation the business struggling with
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its clinton's he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protests at the start of the month tell me if the pressure today for the riot police involved in these events you know. it is very hard to describe the feelings of the policeman because there are two a social and a professional group who are suffering by the economic measures to the government has to take me sometimes it is really hard for them to take part in these protests as working people but once more they had to take to the streets to push back playtest is even the days he wanted to make their point p. . the rest of europe and the i need 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 right so you can see what the people in the country right now willing to get a friend to have their voices heard and the people here are going to have to wait a while longer see if anyone can now be ready to listen. to.
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at least one hundred and he will street protesters were arrested by police during the occupy chicago demonstration for refusing to leave a city park this comes two days off the dozens of protesters were arrested in new york. police responded to their peaceful rallies with unnecessary force spin of a month since the protests against fat cats and corporate greed erupted in the u.s. and the saudis got a check on explains the expanding gap between rich and poor could have consequences for the country. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy is part of the national green could 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 a few super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that at a time when the we're getting richer while the middle class is class a class war is being waged in america today fortunately the wrong saudi is
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winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year made the economies very slow growth have non the less made record profits but thanks to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in parts of the corporations say they need the tax 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
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over nine percent where we live in a nation where corporations can 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 three will be nobody helped create jobs but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection was all an old on hold on it's not your show monkey i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can. talk personal success and money have always being part of the american dream when you read 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
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beginning of a class war i'm going to shift our reporting from washington our team. still ahead in the program this here on our team. we report on why nato warnings into gas enough to get ethnic serbs to remove that barricades next to the disputed so because of a border. the first is being hailed a historic middle east prisoner exchange with over a thousand palestinians being swapped for just one israeli soldier following a massive campaign for his release he was freed off to being held for five years in captivity by hamas but his homecoming has left many jewish families feeling bitter pull a slip found out. every day he 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 mashpee who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was
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taken hostage we are modern oh my have served this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for mardi neither is the media the option it gave to the show your family there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now is me son majesty disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major want to ride was captured twenty five years ago after his aircraft was shot down over lebanon these are the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy have it 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 a live dead here in lebanon and syria just bring it to us but they've brought us nothing. so certain her son is still alive and while she's pleased gilad is
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coming home she's disillusioned in a government that made it possible for him but not for her son. living there. it's about media attention p.r. how do arts nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a gross we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f. soldier in 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 what the heart of the freed. actually campaigned for nearly two years his way in the family and so forth to come here in front of the prime minister's office every morning when netanyahu left his home he was reminded about the soldier who could not return to his. i'm not embarrassed to say that the government and the country are not doing enough for
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my son and the rest of those missing in action it is important for us to bring our soldiers home parents who send their sons to war we need to know that the country will do everything possible to get them back on org it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap and other israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again. more world news in brief for you now in our world update twenty one minutes past the hour now here in russian capital a seven point three magnitude earthquake has struck the city of van in eastern turkey close to the border with iran authorities claim at least eighty five have been killed and over one hundred fifty injured after some eighty buildings collapsed in the area including several hotels and a student dormitory ports a power loss disruption to telephone lines and even a prison break out in the quake hit region three military planes have taken off from the capital ankara for a van carrying aid and supplies with the red cross at the scene the aftershocks are
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also felt in iran armenia and georgia the turkish prime minister is on his way to the affected region. afghan president hamid karzai has said his country would back pakistan if it ever went to war with the u.s. a statement that contrasts with his harsh criticism of these nations is the neighbor during the u.s. secretary of state's recent visit to kabul both hillary clinton and carter have accused the pakistani government of providing safe haven to terrorist groups launching attacks in afghanistan. to colombia where at least ten soldiers have been killed in an ambush by rebels in the country's northeast it comes just before a nationwide election planned for next week last thursday another attack on colombia's border with ecuador left ten soldiers dead after their vehicles hit roadside bomb sites both incidents are blamed on active left wing rebels despite the group being the focus of recent events. nato led peacekeepers trying to remove
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roadblocks in northern kosovo have been prevented by serbian soon settle the roads guarding the disputed serbia course of a border crossing set up the barricades in july to stop kosovo from extending its control over the part of the country that's populated mostly by ethnic serbs and that is where financial reports now on the continuing standoff. as months of tension between serbs and ethnic albanian cos of words continue roads in northern course they remain closed for some serbs are fortifying the barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoon reads we defeated your grandad we defeated your father's will win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the 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 we have nothing but flag and
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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 course of a 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 commonplace. this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot just three weeks ago visiting an old ben village in courses south west serves
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a minority living in tiny and claves i was waiting for him in a car and i saw him coming out of the albini and cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad fall down i wanted to him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say goodbye to him. w. bush shows us his wounds he was shocked when his father's killer is try to eliminate the only witness i will never return to the 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 the father the big family went to see what used to be serb land now owned by ethnic albanians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were stopped by the new occupier 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
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a kalashnikov do you want your man back he shouted and started farming out on drug was killed at the scene the man who just lost their friends they there is only one reason he was killed. just because we are serbs period 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 or if nationality kosovo. kazakhstan authorities of heart the former british prime minister tony blair to reform their country and improve its standing in the west mr blair will reportedly be paid twelve point five million dollars for his services political analyst jim brown says that only cares about acquiring more wealth where has that reputation of being quiet you know extremely mercenary and he has his finger in so
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many pies as soon as he left office he went to work for j.p. morgan. some astronomical some like half a million or a million here he has his own company tony blair associates he's got his finger in birth other pies and as far as being middle east envoy i suspect that. he's run out of coal just a little and i think he's probably kept on as a middle east envoy because the embarrassment of sacking him would be greater than the barest mother keeping him on but he's so overtly pro israeli for example in many people's eyes he whenever he goes back to the iraq inquiry because it's going on in london he simply uses it as a platform to promote. dealing with iran the urgency of dealing with iran so i think he feels he can just go off and make lots and lots of money and he might be the right person to advise people how to make lots and lots of money. if you want your to not in moscow just a few minutes from no i'll be updating you on this week's top stories and the
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from the days of the manhattan project an eight hundred forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision and scientists and their relationship to the versity you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single on nuclear weapon in surveys arsenal was designed by university of california. we don't want to go. to university of california who was selected as the contract because the army needed scientists to leave their versity position it's. a group production of. testers interrupted a university of california board of regents meeting to demand the school's sever
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erupted in greece as people were hit with more study measures. up against the call to try and resolve the debt crisis. battle emma barricades nato forces failed to remove roadblocks of the disputed. border the ethnic serbs got the blockade to stop the peacekeepers it. was still ahead this hour we have the weekend sports news for you and in the meantime though the going all street movement which started over a month ago shows no signs of standing down and we talked to author and social critic james kunstler about the phenomenon and what kind of impact it may have on the future of the u.s. that is next week. i. i i. r t's sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's really.
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