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the meat market fridge the slain former libyan leader moammar gadhafi has been buried his body was taken to a secret location in the desert to prevent his grave becoming a shrine for sympathizers or being vandalized artes and he said now he is in tripoli keeping across developments. first of all some libyans that we've been speaking to understand but barry we get down to we are his secrets of his connections and dealings with the west which is very active in close relations really if you just look back a couple of years before many countries decided that he was the number one dictator and had to go with that said the whole world watching food in libya those brutal pictures that we saw over the weekend of how gadhafi was killed still argument over whether or not he was killed in crossfire as the m.t.c. says clearly the footage there makes it look like he was in fact executed it's a very strong statement but a lot of people when looking at that footage go as far as to say that an investigation is being promised by the end to see another world organizations but the people we've been speaking to
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a lot of them afraid to say it but horrified by the way gadhafi was killed even those who despise him and his forty decade rule when we first heard news of get down to these death almost immediately nato officials and other european and westercon whence western countries basically said the thirty first they would be out today a request from the national transition committee for later for nato to say it won't grow so it does look like they're going to be in post that daffy libya longer than the end of october an exact date has not been given there are a lot of weapons in this country many of them although again conflicting reports on how how these weapons were given out some say came from nato themselves there in the country there are huge warehouses we travel today are with some of the t.c. military if you call them a field commander who took us to checkpoints to see them checking for weapons and we're just talking about hand weapons here we're not talking about any kind of major arsenals in terms of hand weapons there are a lot of weapons on the streets of tripoli and another thing we're not hearing
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a lot of talk from the n t c about their plans to rebuild the country what they're going to do infrastructure completely destroyed people are celebrating very much so in tripoli. plus the country but very few people it seems are really thinking about what the death is death really means for stability and the future of the bia because of liberation are loud and clear. looks like a state of euphoria here and everybody is happy and you know. even though there is no formal you know law and order but are they ignoring the price paid for freedom in libya some thirty thousand civilians are said to have been killed with four thousand still missing this house was one of nato's misses a single family lost five people including children when. they pulled joy to all
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governments but no one toss it in who is going to rebuild my house who will compensate honest follows much of the country's infrastructure has been destroyed finding water is now a serious challenge in the capital and we don't have running supplies and try to collect what they can. and the family with six kids we knew what to do leave and to come here every day and get water is very difficult. barmby electric station in ben walid for ten days they haven't fixed the problem but at least we can come here for now. but maybe not much longer. before the war libya could boast one of the best living standards on the continent with high life expectancy and low tiled mortality rates but after months of heavy bombing and fierce fighting the country's social and economic achievements have been brutally reversed its people now betting on a heavily armed and inexperienced group to govern them through
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a fresh start in the wake of destruction ali asked us not to reveal his face fearing who might pay for saying this. that if you talk or see anything positive about gadhafi you will have serious problems with the rebels there is no government i'm speaking out on to the end of you he tells me if people were truly happy about the end of gadhafi and the way he was killed there would be millions not thousands on the streets to get their free movies i'm sure some sixty to seventy percent of the country does not approve of the way gadhafi was killed we expected them to be tried as a prisoner of war not killed like what we're told in new libya there would be justice when he was the head of this country and there was no justice in the way he was killed i have no hope for the future but it's just the beginning don't you think that it could get better with time but things will take time to change in the country. i think there will be a lot of fighting in the future right now and tomorrow and tomorrow there is
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fighting going on between tribes and anyone with a went on has power who can do what they want. so many celebrate this new era in libya's history people like me are quietly bracing for the worst. and he's now a artsy tipperary. an eyewitness to the nato bombing in libya ali says that the alliance his actions have brought big divisions to the country this is what he told me earlier. they used every possible thing to do to make this so-called revolution successful they used gunships they use a helicopters they use fighter is all sorts of weapons that the. disposal so they can. get there and make this successful so they've killed so many people to succeed in this operation moshtarak i don't think it's a success because if it was
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a success for the libyan with being so happy about it i doubt it very much there's a big divide in libya there is a huge gap now between libyans. i mean parts or partially because of nato interference partially because of let's be honest and say partially because of gadhafi. but but the way they killed gadhafi the way they treated him the way they bombed my city. which have a lot of civilians inside it who were killed as well i mean this just. generates anger and generates revenge. which in the future would be the fuel of another war in libya which i think it will be sooner or later. well you know one whole website calm to have your say in our
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current poll we're holding their own web site and wealthy at the moment as you can see on screen what's the worst thing in libya could have in store for the world and so far the vast majority believe that more bloodshed is to come because the civil war hasn't finished and one percent think they're going after his family could use the late dictator's gold to fund revenge on the west sixty percent believe weapons new to join the war may end up in terrorist hands now the same new islamist government may cancel gadhafi era oil contracts because hear from you as to your opinion of our team dot com. police in oakland california have arrested seventy five occupy wall street protesters and torn down that tent camp in front of the city hall police say no one was injured despite two gas and rubber rounds being fired into the crowd protest movement is gearing up for more global rallies this week intended to coincide with the upcoming g. twenty summit these latest protests around the pressuring world leaders to introduce a so-called robin hood tax from what they say is the unregulated global casino
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financial transactions. reports it won't be easy to achieve. six weeks into the occupy movement nearly one thousand unarmed activists have been arrested in new york city. thrown to the ground beaten netted like flies and pepper sprayed. the n.y.p.d. east tactics have been harshly criticized yet the most profound and public condemnation recently came from the u.s. marine sergeant shamar thomas while defending demonstrators in times square. the lone man that stood up to dozens of new york cops comes from a. amalie of honor my stepfather he was he went to ghana stand in two thousand and
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six see my mother were actually in iraq the same time sergeant thomas completed two tours in iraq before returning to his homeland where he now aligns himself with the activists he says are being targeted by aggressive authority in uniform i haven't seen it and while pv. take on a person one on one it's always a few of them you know three four five of them one person there you know these are you know protests as much as this is police will tell you hands down that twenty five year old war vet says it's come to a point where iraqi activists are treated with more respect and humility then their american counterparts he recalls an incident when hundreds of iraqis got violent with u.s. soldiers a few people started throwing rocks and everybody kind of started on rocks and we actually had a marine get hit in the face he was on the back of a truck but at that ad you know the people were free to go you know what i mean we've been a rest anybody we didn't go beat up on anybody so to see the police officers doing
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this to on our civilians in our own country was just it was you know stuff like i was amazed like i was in shock visiting the protesters he stood proudly to defend sergeant thomas received something of a hero's welcome in zuccotti park so yes you know what blessing really you know we've been gestures of appreciation towards the marine that completed combat in baghdad but just began his battle against police brutality here at home sergeant thomas's public lashing of the n.y.p.d. have formally inspired the birth of a new were called off the primaries it calls on us veterans of all military friends join me anti-war street protests and with roughly forty thousand soldiers coming back from iraq by the years and this international grassroots movement may grow even my dear. boy night party new york.
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budget cuts including raising the pension age to sixty seven. of the. told me. we want to solve the problem and i'm quite sure that we are on the right pass first of all we have to acknowledge we have to know that there is a lot of problems with greece crease is not really competitive at all and there is a lot of money going into crease but i think at the end of the day we will find a suitable solution which will safeguard first of all the situation of other european countries because we have to ringfence other countries in case of any default and the german share is two hundred eleven billion and there will be no single your sand more then the two hundred eleven billion it is create cannot pay back loans it stabs at all it is will be there will be a certain haircut where talk about maybe sixty percent or even more and i see the
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euro as such is a good currency of the only problem we have is some countries in the euro zone but i have the feeling each and everybody has understood that they have to change and they are on the way to change and they are doing who forms which is necessary in order to have a smaller national debt. and as the situation in europe worsens the once for middle unity of the european union is cracking amid a wave of euro skepticism sweeping the bloc. tell me why we should work to the age of seventy two or seventy three to pay for staff ross who lives in downtown athens jury trial fifty eight we shouldn't we're not going to it's the end and you can catch that full interview with me and john gaunt want to share your opinion on it all at r.t. dot com. the high court in london is to hear a case over the use of uranium in hans weapons by u.s. led forces during the infamous iraqi battle of fallujah in two thousand and four
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this following a number of reports alleging their use was much more widespread than originally thought well earlier i spoke to christopher busby who co-wrote two of those reports we found extraordinary high levels of cancer very high levels of birth defects and we also found a change in the sex ratio in the ratio of boys to girls which appeared to begin after the battle of fallujah in two thousand and four and what we found was a high level of uranium and that a high level of uranium was it from from depleted uranium. well though this was what was surprising it was not from depleted uranium it was actually slightly enrich uranium which was what it was it was fairly astonishing i mean one suggestion is that the people using this weapon have been covering their tracks because there's been a lot of talk about depleted uranium and its effects and so if you use slightly enrich uranium or natural uranium then you cover your tracks and then you cannot be sued afterwards we found patents for direct to charge weapons and
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a new type of explosive which contains uranium powder mixed in with explosives in order to cause a very powerful directed charge and this is this is an anti-personnel weapon which which answers the other question why they would have used such a thing in fallujah because there were no tanks in fallujah and many of the ngos in the world have been busily trying to have depleted uranium weapons banned and of course that's quite right they should be banned because they cause all these effects but of course then the military say well of course we didn't use depleted uranium and that inwardly laughing i guess because they've been using these new weapons which are not anti-tank weapons which are anti personnel weapons which are thermobaric weapons which cause huge pressure waves and collapsed lungs or char the victim and there's been a lot of very very peculiar injuries being discovered on modern battlefields that doctors have never seen before and quite can't quite figure out turns out politics and george is not for everybody when one of the country's richest men announced he was starting an opposition party and would run for government he and his wife
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suddenly found themselves without citizenship and an appeal was rejected in court artie's dumbarton examines the case. the man who could challenge sacrifice really billionaire bidzina ivanishvili he's entering georgia's political battleground according to his lawyer that's frightened to make else like us really the president of eight years. when he said he's going to create a political party has gone into politics and he's starting to get ready for elections the government panicked they panicked so much they took away a vanished release georgian citizenship officials did point out that he had french citizenship as well which is against georgian law and that he might be deported he says it's politically motivated and is appealing the decision. our government has a way of accusing people of treason the authorities violate their power and then use their position as an excuse for their actions the georgian government has also
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raided a bank in vanish really owns the middle of money laundering designed and removed some of his security guards and arrested people close to him ivanishvili is famous as one of georgia's richest businessmen he's funded the building of churches and theaters and now he's funding the return of the well known georgians to to recall t.v. show the show's director says he has confidence in a banish really but he's still new to politics. he's learning how to be a politician he used to be a very significant businessman but now the methods he used in his business have to be changed because he's a public politician but he adapts very quickly. and he'll have to because while a vanish very himself is confident he'll win the next election many around him aren't even sure if he'll be in it. it's hard to tell if a prisoner ivanishvili will be part of george's political future or not but it's easy to see his case as
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a metaphor for the overall state of politics here walking him to for political force will be clear evidence of the democratic spirit that so often talked about in georgia but it's not so often show tom watson r.t. tbilisi georgia. now we turn to some other stories making headlines around the world in our own fate the sound two people have been killed in the yemeni capital sanaa by troops opening fire at a demonstration calling for president ali abdullah saleh to quit the dead were shot by soldiers loyal to the president clashes with other troops back in the senior general who has defected to the opposition comes despite the early declaration of a cease fire between the president and his opponent tator sunday has been in power for three decades with western backing but as for months refused to step down during ongoing protests and international pressure. to dismantle a barricade on the border with serbia allowing peacekeepers to open the crossing to traffic this is the first of eighteen barricades in north north and kosovo to be
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removed was handed to nato led forces yesterday because of an serbs have been blocking roads for weeks just because of our forces with customs checkpoints. human rights activists claim patients in syria state run hospitals a brutal it shows an attempt to quell the opposition it follows reports that at least six people were killed in fresh clashes with government forces in the city of homs china is increasing pressure on syria by sending a special envoy to the country to urge president assad to fulfill some of the demands of the testers. well that brings up to date for the moment in the summer i mean you story about ten minutes and i mean tamati talks to syria's foreign minister about what his government is doing to stop the bloody protests that started in march that into his next one.
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today we're talking to syrian minister of foreign affairs mr vali done one of them thank you for joining us or not it was expressed reserve of the last meeting of foreign ministers of arab states in cairo on the situation in syria where is the opposition welcomed them do you think the arab league has been playing a constructive room. unfortunately due to the so-called arab spring countries that had been playing
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a significant role in the arab league's operation are now busy with their own domestic issues and this doesn't help consolidated solutions hopefully this issue ation will be resolved in the short term and these countries will become official again in consolidating the common arab cause this is first do you think it would be reasonable to discuss a country's problems without its participation. second a proposal was made at this consultative meeting to free syria's membership of the arab league this is very dangerous and most participating countries spoke against this proposal how can one imagine resolving common arabic problems without syria. and thirdly this proposal contradicts the leeks charter as the board of the arab states leaders' has the power to suspend or freeze membership at this power was breached when making a decision on libya and we're all well aware of what happened then to have the u.n. security council use the arab league's decision when adopting its resolution and then nato used this decision for its purposes when arabs to speak up with such
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proposals they understand the purpose of these actions which is to undermine what remains of the common arab cause. might it was the law the opposition states that the syrian leadership has little time left to implement the reforms announcement president bashar assad but they're saying that the syrian people are paying with their blood for delays in these reforms why is there such a delay in implementing them. nato nakba first of all there is no delay on the contrary a universal reform program underway in syria will be implemented in a record six months compared to other countries including russia where reforms lasted for several years i repeat that this is a record short period of time those who speak about reforms know that certain laws should be passed to see them through they include laws on political parties and parliamentary elections slated for next february there are also elections to local
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self-government bodies a law on the media should also be passed a commission has been set up to draft the country's new constitution. how fast should these things go these are crucial issues solutions to which will determine the face of the new syria a pluralistic a democratic country a model example to other nations in the region these hasty action reasonable these are serious problems that require serious approaches based on experience and international law judging from that i would say that the country's leadership is not slowing down reforms and the deadline set by the syrian president are very short in less than six months the country will see these reforms carried out that is why i'm asking if the opposition really cares for the future of this country why it wouldn't begin dialogue and lay out some serious approaches to creating a new syria. as for the bloodshed let me ask you whether there's a regime anywhere in the world whose purpose is to kill its own citizens or rather isn't its direct purpose to protect its own citizens from terrorists we are
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confronted with arms terrorist groups who have nothing to do with reform these groups are being armed and financed. from abroad every day syrian television reports new arrests of these groups members which are sowing terror what objectives do they have other than how to earn more money and therefore we should differentiate the national opposition which is in favor of political and economic reforms from these armed groups miles was the idea of god that it seems that turkey's close to recognizing the national council how will syria respond if this takes place. but i don't want to get ahead of events but turkey knows the scope of syrian turkish relations we signed fifty intergovernmental agreements followed by growth in trade and cultural exchange and the end goal is to establish strategic relations between the two countries we have been working towards this which in practice means that citizens of both countries can visit each other under a visa free regime hopefully we won't go as far as to destroy the results of all
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our efforts over the last ten years. but it was the. kid we moved to a different subject now did damascus suit any preconditions before agreeing to receive palestinian prisoners it's known that the west has been putting pressure on syria for hosting the hamas leadership or did syria any specific conditions before agreeing to receive palestinians released from israeli jails are of interest and we have to remember that syria has been part of the palestinian issue we handed over the golan heights in an attempt to resolve the issue it's impossible to break this strong link between syria and the palestinian problem which is manifested both in our support for the resistance movement and in attempts to resolve the problem at regional and international levels therefore it's natural that there could be no conditional requirements.
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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. from all of this is top stories. here in the russian capital gadhafi may be laid to rest but the controversy surrounding him. amid speculation he could have taken
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a troop of potentially damaging secrets to be. brought squads weighed into the wall street protesters in california and arrest dozens of protesters trying to hold rallies across the u.s. . the euro crisis deepens with government could collapse over a disagreement. being demanded by the e.u. before a crunch some it's. also a new british iraqi scientific study accuses u.s. led forces of using a new generation of weapons enrich with the rain even deadlier than depleted uranium in from the battle for iraq seven years ago professor who co-wrote the report says there's now a huge incidence of cancer. among the population in the city. when up next financial guru and co-host stacy discuss a rather unusual way of making gold.
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