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cheering the killing of one man while ignoring the deaths of thousands of civilians in libya analysts point out the problems of u.s. media's approach to doff is the mind's. plans on saving me give you a rest as a crucial meeting of european finance ministers is cancelled ahead of wednesday's east summit casting doubts over the prospects of a solution big account of the deepening debt crisis. and a new international study says the u.s. you secret uranium based weapons in iraq causing high levels of cancer and birth defects. author of the report. around the world and around the clock twenty four seven this is r.t. our top story now libya's new rulers are increasingly being accused of the kinds of
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abuses they were rebelling against when they overthrew colonel gadhafi insert the number of people who actually executed has risen to three hundred comes on top of criticism that cut off his body was put on public display inside a meat market fridge five days. in the hallway joins us live now from tripoli yes. the violence in libya appears to be over at least for now but how is the situation for ordinary people there trying to go about their daily lives. but one of the major concerns here are white rock bands of firearms that are massively in the hands of the population here and there are efforts from the entries to try to collect and get people to reeling we disarm and bring their weapons back but so far it doesn't look like that idea is working out we went to one collection center if you will yesterday it covers an area of tripoli and for the entire day only about ten. and there are twelve a k forty seven have had been returned just to give you
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an idea of what that number means walking down one or two blocks here in the capital you can see maybe two times or three times more about amount of automatic weapons being waved around but even more serious concern here in terms of security about weapons storage arsenals unguarded warehouses full of black bins what happens if those weapons get into the wrong hands already human rights watch has expressed grave concern about ground to air missiles that could essentially hit civilian aircraft if they get into the wrong hands of the security situation here a very very sensitive time just recently some three hundred people were found murdered in sirte with their hands tied behind their back that is sparking accusations of political executions which is exactly what these from the rebels were fighting against another thing that they just stinks if you will of the prophecy of course is the way they can daffyd was killed i mean we saw the brutal
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gruesome footage that went viral the whole world watched including of course libyans here and although i lot of the things you're seeing are in the mass media as people just full of elation that gadhafi has done that dead when you go out and speak to people and push them a little bit you do find that there are a lot of people here that are hesitant to expressed just just horrible feelings about the way he was killed not to mention the fact that he wasn't of course very good morning to muslim tradition he was put on display for days and only after thousands of people came to see him was he finally buried so so it's not exactly as it seems from afar what people feel about from southie we come here and actually start talking to them that however not the case in the last through how some people very outspoken unhappy about the way gadhafi was killed this bus really the mass media experts are telling us that's because gadhafi with him to the grave took many of his secrets of dealings with the west. archies then each camp of course from
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washington. it started with cheers and. the joy of killing the african leaders spread like wildfire in the us media it was just a trillion dollars to get saddam and a billion dollars to get gadhafi in libya says they're going to pay back the billion that we spent to so it's going to end up being sort of free for free for nothing so let's get in on the ground there's a lot of money to be made in the future in libya there's a lot of war to be produced no american soldier killed probably great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect you were fearful of the one that's meant to be a lesson to others but i think it's sense of an important message to other leaders in the region but i tell you that these arab dictators they are not very original just like saddam hussein caught a little hole will mark a dot he was a bad guy over many of us would argue how bad he was for never considering the duffield on the social welfare and women's rights but i think the eye of the western audience as presented by the media he was the ultimate evil it's
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a demonization every step of the way against gadhafi in the media today always one one man becomes a justification one leader of a country becomes a justification for destroying an entire country. for a few days the media savored the bloody music. and math that similarities between his capturing and bitch and that of saddam hussein all the cheering about qaddafi is killing in the eye of the public effectively always is a bad taste after the nato campaign no mention of even civilians killed in nato strikes not much talk about that the structure in the country caused by those strikes gadhafi is killing it's presented as a triumph a triumph which can create a perception that somehow it's perfectly ok to invade a country and help its leader. but if it's presented as such a success. does not become more tempting to try the same methods somewhere else i'm
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going to check our reporting from washington r.p. . o'connor heinen a columnist for u.s. based think tank of foreign policy in focus says the west should be outraged rather than pleased by the way gadhafi was killed i think that there were tremendous sighs of relief all over capitals in western europe i don't think it was. speaking when hillary clinton u.s. secretary of state said that he should be killed or captured in what forty eight hours or forty eight hours later he was killed this is a guy who knew quite literally right of where the bodies were buried this is somebody who cut all sorts of deals with the french but also a great issue and the italians and to a certain extent the americans as well i think they did not want him put on trial for any priests and i will not miss lightest bit surprised that he was captured
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alive and he very quickly ended up death for the role of the alliance and develop his death is also the topic of debate for peter bell and his guests in the latest edition of crosstalk is a preview of what's coming your way next now. i just don't think there's any sign that there's a war crime involved here i don't think it's murder and i think it's it's part of an ugly process that we call war the murder was in the ambulance so far as i can tell by the young libyan and you know maybe he should be he should be held responsible for that but i just don't think that the attack on the convoy even the selfish never the regarding this was a drop american drone plane that attacked his convoy alongside the french war warplanes and these two so really this was a joint french nato u.s. murder of could r.p.
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the fact that he was technically alive as he got out as he scrambled out of his convoy hardly negates the role of the united states in his murders. and solution to the european debt crisis promised even lead is has been left in serious jeopardy so after a key meeting of finance ministers before the leaders' summit on wednesday he was cancelled many now doubt that the heads of state will be able to come up with a rescue package on their own hoops it's a cool way out of the crisis of meeting some of the inspiration elsewhere as the surface the polls. as the talks continue to try to find a resolution to the financial crisis we've met the people who are cutting through the political rhetoric and telling it how it really is.
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meet soul sister and the greek hip hop great he's political rap lyrics have been striking a cool dude with people. if you were in. the protests and the squares the situation in greece is really tough everything is reversed from what we used to north you years ago that we use our own lyrics to show how we perceive things that are happening in our society. was the feeling in unison may come naturally to the group using leaders have increasingly been failing to sing from the same page you can all take twenty seven different countries with twenty one different languages all with their own different histories and different forms of government you cannot take them and force them into one unitary form of government and the european project actually is
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dying as we look at it as the person continues to come up with a rescue plan for the e.u. to be marred by bickering amongst a member states. we now have the greeks abusing the germans they now bernie you flags in our hands openly with swastikas drawn on them and we have the germans slagging off the greeks as being lazy and useless and the irony of this project is far from us all becoming friends together in this new european house actually we're beginning to argue and becca in the most extraordinary way. has great struggle to do with the state he measures including cuts to jobs wages and pensions criticism to steve claims he's in paris and brussels anakin is it's a plain and simple it gains body needs into people all the politician have to speak it's other nobody spits on them that's the big problem that's a big problem. everybody doing that everything he wanted from the left.
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and nobody here and there people the school system is wrong as major political decisions and tools continue to take place behind closed doors the system is determined to take the discussion back to the streets. and that's for sure and was if we get our message across to people and help them understand if you we've succeeded in something we don't know where the situation is going to why this started but we don't know where and. when is the year using crisis mumbles on his assertions that they can't find a solution and then standing sound like breaking records. and artie atkins. despite the u.k. parliament voting against a proposal to hold a referendum on the leaving the european union to remain strong antisense remains
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in the country conservative party and cause well told r.t. the e.u. structure simple doesn't fit the global financial environment any more. coming up in full in twenty minutes time. the european union a nine hundred fifty s. political structure it's an outdated architecture for a modern not consonant when we joined the european union or what became the european union in the early one nine hundred seventy s. western europe at that time accounted for thirty six percent of global g.d.p. today the european continent accounts for far less than that by twenty twenty it will account for a mere fifteen percent of global g.d.p. we joined what we thought was a prosperous trade lot it turns out we shackle will solve two of course i think we're better off out. china has repeatedly called on the e.u. which she's been sheens biggest trading partner to get its house in order and as
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the debt crisis shows in those signs of letting up it could be the asian powerhouse that comes to the rescue professor gruber chamber from the university of international business and economics in beijing believes that china will trust carefully for the mistakes made by the tackling their problems. china will join the bat bag and of all the saviors blood china will not be a white knight in this regard because the understanding is that it is those individual countries who are having the problem will be also their problem solvers in the first place and then what will be the neighboring countries and the community of the of the eurozone can come up with a specific solution in which china and drawing to help china is not very satisfied satisfied with the fact that those that the austerity plan didn't come on right time and there are still the war between different stakeholders within sight of
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within this form not. on the other hand they in the size of snus and the slow pacing of their members particularly those leading members in solving those issues so that really saves sever ties to a number of people in terms of their patients to come out to the rescue plan. but also ahead for you this hour the police versus the protesters anti corporate rallies spreading across the u.s. see dozens of pressure arrests and take the lives of riot squads tear gas you know who puts into city hall their tents. and business this hour russia's gas monopoly gas from a pay record to that or if it's your wife's the amount paid a year ago will have no freedom business or thing coming up short break. the u.s. used secret new weapons in iraq that caused increases in cancer and congenital
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illnesses in innocent civilians that's according to a new international study research has found that the use of you radium enrich the american forces in the infamous battle for doujinshi thousand and four was much wider than previously thought but it seems christopher busby one of the authors of the report may find some of the images in this interview disturbing. we found extraordinarily high levels of cancer very high levels of birth defects and we also find a rate of change in the sex ratio in the ratio of boys and girls which appeared to begin after the battle of fallujah in two thousand and four well in the later study what we did was we looked in the hair of trying to five mothers and twenty five fathers of children with congenital anomalies what we did find was a high level of uranium it was not from depleted uranium it was actually slightly enriched uranium and it led us to believe that one of the military systems used a whole new set of weapons which contain or produce it enrich uranium for various
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reasons which are not entirely sure about the secret weapon and we and it does cause these indiscriminate effects on populations which are really quite horrifying and poison the genetic integrity of the of the whole area where they are used and roseau be travel around the globe also there's been a tremendous cover up of the use of this stuff because the people who are using are perfectly aware but it's a kind of poison gas that has a delayed effect you're not allowed to use poison gases in modern warfare and all sorts of conventions and it is easy to argue in court that this is a kind of poison gas it has indiscriminate effects he's effects are not immediately apparent but they're much more terrifying for that because they echo down the whole generations of the people who have been exposed and these are not people who are competencies or people who are non-confidence who live in the area but also the troops themselves i mean we know that the americans the gulf war veterans have got a high level of congenital malformation is in their own children with the urine
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measurements that have been made on them so no depleted uranium so the idea that these congenital malformation have been caused by uranium has been discounted and this needs to be revisit it. well i can log on to our website for plenty more in our top stories also in store for you right now in the concreting the cold of russia on the rails and eight billion dollars to build the first of the city an artificial climate in the arctic plus. we'll bring you a first look at moscow's lab usually refer to the attempt two days before its grand reopening on the grounds that and other picture galleries and salty dogs. up to eighty five people have been arrested in the u.s. since you've cleaned up they refused to take down their tents as part of the occupy
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wall street protest police went to the city center site and fired tear gas and rounds of rubber bullets before removing dozens of demonstrators american campaign against corporate greed has been going on for more than six weeks now attracting increasing numbers of people with us and of course. from riches to rags an american fairy tale gone sour eric smith walks by a luxurious manhattan hotel the chef here for six years he would talk posh meals for the rich and famous and we did a banquet for five thousand. parties for the past week presidents there. the recession changed everything today eric is jobless and broke after you were laid off the unemployment which is. about three months has ingredients of change too we worked with a lot of high and. now it's lettuce and tomatoes for simple
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vegetable drop in a brooklyn soup kitchen where he volunteered as one of the cooks for occupy wall street. and a thirty eight year old detroit native dreams of starting his own business a taco truck but doesn't have the money you know it's fun to struggle. yeah has made me think about how other people are struggling even more than the realization that one in six americans are living in poverty i didn't look. up there now because lead eric to the occupy wall street protests calling for change just go from bad to worse to even worse and it's really happening all over the country the food he and other volunteers cooked at the soup kitchen shows everybody the revolution. gets delivered to the protesters who spend day and night camping out our eric also sleeps here at the end of the night when there's a lot of people here i'll go to the coppertone and promise up
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a sleeping bag right on the ground usually even though the chef is penniless in this revolution he says he's been waiting for it his entire life cooking for the rich back cats in manhattan and trying to get the food out as fast as possible and make sure it's all perfect for the floor and the experience all separated and that i always felt that i was wrong this was this is something that's really going to make a difference in literature and even though life is tougher than ever before eric says he would not choose to be anywhere else but here from relatively well off to black out broke is not an exceptional biography to have in the west these days eric story is one of millions but he is one of only hundreds that have found their way here so far especially hard to keep new york. from protest against economic inequality across the globe our. correspondents to be on to you tube.
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today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. well a quick look at some other international stories for you now. one of the so-called the deadly earthquake in turkey has been blamed for sparking a riot in a prison the eastern city of them inmates reportedly set fire to the jail because of launches refused and that without some of the prisoners were pulled it was skinny it came as the turkish government requested foreign aid to shelter thousands of homeless one of the three days of the deadly quake left over fifty people to
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have. a solution in the western swiss city of in this man has left one person dead and one hundred injured from last struck with the floor of an apartment block in the city center eight of them did were taken to hospital for treatment police say they're still trying to determine the cause of the explosion. in central america is bracing itself the heart can remain a growing stronger off the caribbean coast threatening to sweep through maine to eastern source in mexico and salvador forecasters say the storm system is likely to bring about winds of most two hundred kilometers an hour it comes after heavy rains caused severe flooding in the region even more than one hundred people dead and causing in some dollars of damage. well thought out all of this is easily created.
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our welcome to our business up at the south dozens of businessmen from finland are moscow looking for deals with local companies they say opportunities in the country at very year every year at least six new enterprises join the club but according to russian president eight. it's not a one way street. making a real friend from the projects in the courtroom just in the number of business haters were feeling system it took for granted just starting from the chip in the street is so cool came across from me from both the industry and also in the h.p. business in the a.b.s. also you will get those things professionals and you'll be in many more attention that are sure you know all kinds of things and were in the news and experienced and shows it to. be used to improve the business climate to more people do wonderful can include rushing to war. and natural gas monopoly gas from my pal record dividends this year energy giant could pay up to six billion dollars twice
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the amount paid a year ago it would be a record high for gas from a cash payout would move the company into the same league as russia's leader and dividend payments think a people last year the joint venture between thinking and british will nature be paid out six billion dollars dividends. let's have a look at the markets now oil is trading close to twelve current prices rose much point four percent ahead of the summit national leaders and attacker of said crisis also american petroleum institute reported that could start problems are climbing in the west that is the world's biggest consumer of the commodity. and asian markets every problem from early losses to prime snake is now trading in the black so i was the hang sang learns i.v. over the european debt crisis is still weighing on the markets there overnight losses for the us dollar signs in lower caps the again and that is hitting exporters chop corp on the approach losing two percent the russian markets open in
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the black with banking stocks in the lead however trading volumes remain low as investors are waiting for news from europe. until monday from a crazy investment bank names all the factors that may drive the markets apart from the events in life from the day. i had a sort of us big imposing us numbers of first day of the market will have an eye on g.p.s. positions for us in the for also. they're looking at a decent set of numbers a pick up from here from the second quarter you know if you need reasonable news flow from europe. that will be good news i would be very supportive of actors in the ripley markets will be able to end up scenes of the results of your profits make a full financial services provider barclays is to sell its retail operations in russia to a group of local investors but agrees lender will continue to operate in a country brokered deal subsidiary barclays capital bank says it has crossed the
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cross assets of about eight hundred million dollars in russia as the end of september i got a lender claims the sale would not have a big impact on its current financial performance but decision to sell was taken in february with barclays citing intense competition in the market jumped on the high stakes holdbacks. business update for this hour but remember you can always log what side r.t. dot com slash business more. the
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