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medio gonna r.t. dot com. from rebels to radicals libya's new chapter sees a surge of extreme islam operators widespread democracy washington seems unconcerned about what's next now the dolphins don't. race to stop from europe from drowning in a sea of debt as i.m.f. chief heads to moscow to see if russia can come to the rescue. to russian tycoon titan slug it out over six and a half billion dollars and their reputations party reports on the high cost drama playing out at london's high court. and.
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international news in comments twenty four hours a day you're watching r t libya's post gadhafi world is showing a towards radical islam with strict sharia law or an al-qaeda flags in evidence that it's barely a week since nato moved out of the campaign to swap with it for democracy at the alliance and the u.s. don't seem too concerned about the shape it's taking. care and explains why. sheer first question leader not so long ago the u.s. media presented leading rebels as freedom loving folks yearning for democracy after could alpheus killing the narrative changed you know you talk about this arab spring and many people who live here as a move towards democracy but really that is not exactly what's going on it seems the u.s. media just woke up to the young holding human rights disaster in the region libya's
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new rulers are at risk of being accused of the same kind of abuses before to recruit an al qaida flag planted on a lady and courthouse steered quite some panic and not just that you have the interim leader coming out saying he hoped it would become an islamic state that polygamy was going to be illegal again consistent with sharia law sharia law to include punishments such as cutting off the hands of thieves the heading convicted murderers and rapists stoning to death adulterers sure real long which is about to be introduced in libya is considered to be for the most part incompatible with democratic values especially when it comes to women's rights but many experts believe that whatever the new libyan government's domestic policies it will not stop the u.s. from making nice with saudi arabia for instance has the most extreme form of sharia law women are not allowed to drive cars are not allowed to vote the crime for adultery for women is the death penalty in saudi arabia and none of this seems to
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bother the powers that be in washington why because saudi arabia does the bidding of the united states in this oil rich region being a dictatorship but not a democratic state america is a big gallon exporter of saudi arabia just shows that really don't care for working with democracies or working with their feet or ships or working with secular governments or religious governments or we care about is our interest in the region very another u.s. ally in that region it hosts america's fifth fleet and also leads on the shari'a law and as a. questionable human rights record as will we be are those in power or are there only things from nato and particularly the united states the media here had generally been supportive of the campaign to topple gadhafi but now that he's gone why dissidents or in about human rights in libya maybe out of old habit so well demonstrated in the run up to the iraq war when the media cheered first and then when he was too late when the war was full on started asking questions analysts say
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human rights in libya was never a top priority for those in washington who called the shots and threw their support behind the currently be in government. reporting from washington r.t. . europe's a dismal finances were very much in focus as leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies got together to seek a way forward to the international monetary fund chief is bringing the crisis talks to russia and president monday. which over is keeping an eye on developments. the how don't be i'm atmosphere in moscow to the russia's help russia paid the last portion of the steps of the i.m.f. and two thousand and five and since that has been contributing to the organization by providing money to countries which experienced it could only have difficulties or even default as it is now the case with chris well the recent developments in greece of the euro crisis in general so many said the g twenty summit in cannes
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last week and the leaders did agree to bolster the role of the i.m.f. and other financial institutions to save the euro and eurozone and one of the codes all the euro is help from the much in economies from the brics including russia and told though the european crisis doesn't directly affect that big deep promise to come up with financial support for the euro they haven't agreed on the song but as far as washes concerned we're talking because of the time szell contribution which could exceed ten billion dollars however present the good it did make it clear that there is one condition helping the european countries not directly but through international institutions and above all the boys of the brakes needs to be heard within the i'm a and the financial bodies' the russian president also supported the decision by the european leaders to bolster the bailout fund from four hundred forty billion euros to one trillion euros that we should remember as well that russia itself keeps almost forty five percent of its international visitors in
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europe just like other breaks russia is lobbying for the reform of the i.m.f. and it's regulation board and moreover the brakes are pushing to worse the british tribute should all be a membership quotas by january twenty four team but the main criticism of this international organization is similar to that of the g twenty was managed to widen the spectrum of the countries that put in their voices trying to help with global economic solutions but as many critics say this hasn't popped. well the head of the army was now visiting moscow christine lagarde only assert that she supported the idea of reforming the i.m.f. and also agrees that quotas for the countries with rapidly growing economies should be christe currently i'm i have commitments amounts almost three hundred billion dollars in loans with greece portugal and ireland the major. greece's
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debt continues to drag everyone else down but it will soon have a new team to try and get out of its financial core of the leaders agreed to form a coalition but there's no room for beneath your prime minister george papandreou he's agreed to go and be replaced later on monday pm to go was key to securing the main opposition party's involvement in going to just a few months to force through cuts start life for protest against the rescue it's a pretty open step aside actually next for the coalition plan came after the pm shocked colleagues around the world by declaring the been drawing referendum and speculation that the finance minister could get his job but other names may also be thrown into the ring. you're the most possible person to have got to be the leader in this new government will be mr look ask about the most he's sixty four years old he is x. vice president in that european central bank is not abilities and he is
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a technocrat but according to the plan is to be the prime minister and out there for you to see answer but also make their comrades to be our own team and but the most is a personality of the respected in the whole of the eurozone in the whole european union and he's the person who knows very well how to react in this difficult situation panelists here in greece after the announcement says a say that more austerity measures are expected because nobody will give us money because the government is going to change this means that greece the greek us citizens are going to suffer more now seem to be desperate they want to go on the lake still because they think the top part from this coalition government on february we're going to have a valid claim for a new government but of course we have to pay for the debts maybe the european
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union should have reacted there here because in the past we have heard even mr barroso and other of the selfsame talk about the silly dari t. and cook ration in the european union and never come arrived at this deadline and greece suffers even easily suffers which is a bigger economy and probably will create not probably for sure it's go creates more poor problems the whole eurozone. e.u. president has repeatedly called on europe's leaders to get closer to each other to save their finances. doing so but on a forward british government minister tells r.t. data such toys should move before the single currency was boring. from the moment is the u.s. based on fiction because it doesn't have political realities the whole problem with this crisis it was created by the europeans themselves because you could not have
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a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away of the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to and made a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policy paper going to get rid of on him on. the greeks you're going to have to get the price down and as long as everything is priced in murals that would never be possible to happen therefore best thing if i was a dream i would be down i'm going to draft. to get out of this because what happens there still in the euro zone so that french banks a hacker but they're still stuck with the euro. and we'll have more from britain's law in just around that automates time here r.t. . our british court is seeing two of russia's richest battle it out in front of the bench and it's no small claim either six and
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a half billion dollars at stake excel tycoon mary spears or ski once the cash from chelsea football club a free man i'm over run usually keeps a no public profile was on the ballot reports now that means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the billionaire's lifestyle. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is an easter egg estimated well fifteen billion assets for your still see football club and a french chateau in the other corner used to be estimated fortune five hundred million they have to sell his yacht but he does still have his trusty stretch my dark which he never fails to show off a man album overages rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his time in the witness stand has lifted the need on a life in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employed primarily disabled staff and in lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection and he dived into the infamous element in
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wards of the ninety's where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly the clean cut image of one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was in the moment you know the only difference between a rattler once there is people and here is your has been very good presents a very banal imagery that he doesn't really come across aggressively the resale thing at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're all waiting of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth but produce better results he claims is he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr and promote it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sit next to gather in the ninety's just about as he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected to smash the record for the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is
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thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as for the legal fees mr every moment she is a route to be sixteen million dollars a barrel. have their work cut out there on a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close to be. he gave his protege the all important leg up into the world of the super rich and we now know he was paid for his troubles but mr a says that was just protection money denying they were at a business partners it's that claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia none of their deals were written down five weeks in and i've counted the cost of nine billionaires five russian one kazakh one is becky paul israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention huge oil strange deals records of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and place the whole
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thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr b.'s lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett artsy london . also ahead this hour where in india where disaster victims became drug company guinea pigs both paula chemical tragically killed thousands of survivors who thought they were getting medication with intense today stands. moscow is remembering seventy years since one of the major turning points in the second world war with a reenactment of the one nine hundred forty one parade it's also his march across red square on their way to buy tickets buy shoes that will for me at
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a few moments. kara stansell drugs production is being blamed on soviet forces from three decades ago according to an american report that's in spite of statistics showing the opening history has soared since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one. contributor believes that washington is attempting to shift the blame have you ever met scientific disinformation as hard all for drug propaganda campaign well here's the chance vandar brown from the brookings institution blamed the sort of army in afghanistan for deliberately eliminating bit agricultural infrastructure in afghanistan as their main reason and impetus all their freedom loving ever going to farmers to switch into rpm production in fact it was the cia campaign to promote and full stir we just didn't fighters as war and drug dealers that spurred an expanded drug war right at the
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beginning of the enticing reject hand in afghanistan and as such providing their funds for the united states covert operations united states so all are responsible for afghanistan converting since the beginning of the operation enduring freedom into their bottomless pit and bit and to center all very global narco threat to the security and stability of the whole world. there's a further fallout from one of the world's worst industrial disasters more than a quarter of a century on a chemical gas leak at a u.s. plant in bhopal india killed an estimated twenty thousand people survivors faced further agony used to test drugs they thought with a treatment reassure the hasn't. even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it. i clutched my children drug one wife and.
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everyone was screaming run run we crossed another village where people go and everybody in the village was screaming. experts say union carbide had faulty equipment poorly trained employees and in adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter managers were bailed out and flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and their injury. today thousands like srivastav still suffer. very healthy before the gas we have to replace with this incident we became very secret. improved after the leak many indians were wary of
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foreign companies but it turned them into prime candidates for clinical trials they thought they were getting treatment but doctors often used experimental drugs without them knowing the patients apparently consented by signing papers in english they didn't understand and many say they never signed anything at all for each participant in a clinical trial the doctor received around two thousand dollars this is both paul memorial hospital the place where the victims from the gas leak of nineteen eighty-four were treated it's also the place where clinical trials of medications took place about eighty percent of those are believed to have been done on gas victims r t up change documents that show at least six trial programs that took place in bhopal between two thousand and four and two thousand and eight. it's profoundly ironic that after the victims of the worst chemical disaster in what
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some of the largest largest multinational corporations the war against the victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations true vast of became suspicious when he was repeatedly asked to bring one of two bottles of medicine back a common practice in clinical trials. because they didn't tell us the name of the medicine but told us that we were given trial drugs and medicines had numberous repeated requests by our teachers speak to the government or popal memorial hospital were denied experts say that medical testing on people needing actual treatment is an ethical unsafe and unscientific and jochum and show that at least eleven people who are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs when you grow crowds on people whose injuries are not even been assessed let alone treated you are taking a great risk today srivastav still waits for justice who were. there because of the
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move i'm slowly losing which i cannot work from and i suffer from breathlessness left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india. and we have more stories lined up few online today hundreds of russian muslims are marking one of the most important religious festivals with prayers a pilgrimage to celebrations for eight years that brought in the common. hollywood has another spy story in its sights this time they're not investment one isn't a former k.g.b. officer it's on the younger. for some other world news for you now further civilian deaths in syria this time one thousand protesters killed by security forces because the sort of motion of the careful age of most elite class people that they area twenty seven the anti-government protesters got
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in the home this is a broken city for the opposition the arab league will make another attempt at tackling the crisis this week after really brokering a peace deal that's been widely mord. a former army general has won the presidential runoff in guatemala and he was in the hospital where it's a main spread of become the first xover to leave the country since the civil war ninety nine cents and sixty one year old has promised to fight while it's crawling with the influx of mexican drug gangs of the models of the transit of the drugs from south america to the u.s. . tripled last serve struck civilians of a large market in central baghdad as people gathered to drive for me tomorrow at least eight people died and dozens more were injured despite an increase in security iraqi capital has seen more consequence of luminosity and u.s. organized to pull out all three rounds of august.
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floods are continuing to spread in the brian cox commercial district over five hundred people have already been killed across thailand in the country's worst flooding in off a century and also levels in the capital have reached the high forty's saying the subway system is now also at risk government says four billion dollars spent to help the country recover. a key moment of history is being relived in red square today marking seventy years since soldiers marched on crunching not seen raiders head on up the front line auntie's piece all of is in red square for. this is the first time that the parade is being reintroduced as it took place in one nine hundred forty one this is to mark the seventieth anniversary bowl thoughts march across red square and then only to the front to defend moscow
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against the nazi home slaughter the dates of the seventh of november for this parade taking place was have historical importance in nineteen forty one it marks the anniversary all the bullshit revolution the october revolution well it is november it was called the october revolution because it took place in october of the julian calendar we now follow the jury in calendar with words like date was the seventh over go ben but that was also an important date not just food the soviet union it was also paid for by nazi germany was the day that hitler wanted to be more so he wanted to have more school taken by this point should march in red square himself in similar ways this he had done in paris and other cities in europe the soviet authorities determined to stop that happening and that's why when they could hold this parade on red square and then send people off as a final morale boost before going off to the front to fight against the fascists they were able to do just that you know today the parade to seeing soldiers wearing
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same style uniforms to war by those who fought in the second world war also some pieces of military hardware and recreate pieces of military hardware from the time also taking bought by the bottle of moscow itself was very bloody very brutal over a million people killed and injured in the fighting to defend the copper so many of those people who marched across red square just behind me in one hundred forty one dice as they fell at the front defending the capital. it's all over in red square but business desk and joint task. it's twenty four minutes past new here in moscow welcome to the business program r.t. it's taken almost two decades of talks but now russia has its foot in the door of the world trade organization countries in a final round as informal negotiations smoothing out the remaining issues and
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decision on russia's membership is expected by the end of this week peter west bank antón believes this session would make russian companies more competitive but i think the major point to be to be made when it comes to the sort of increased competition from players is that i have a feeling there's a lot of improvement cost cutting efficiency to be done in russian companies so she called with us so if you want to be really hard on this i mean i i do think that these inflows doesn't actually provide a threat they provide an opportunity for companies to make themselves more efficient more transparent and the more effective in the process there's a huge level of restructuring efforts that have begun in the russian companies that could offset some of these local threats from four years of the major thing here is for the consumer increase competition is lower prices and i would regard as the most important thing that of the ability of european debt remains one of the
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dominating issues for the markets this week as we've heard earlier greece's and battled prime minister george of one driver was stepping down after his of one of the plans for a referendum on the e.u. bailout investors are now waiting to see who is brazen else to step into up undershoot a decision is expected later on one of the interim government's main task will be to pass the european rescue package a move and several crucial to shoring up the euro. well let's now take a quick look at the markets oil is heading higher lites we just currently trading at ninety four dollars per barrel all brant is up one hundred thirteen dollars in asia equities or lure exporters among the main losers in japan the car maker nissan losing almost two percent and property shares are under pressure in hong kong as chinese premier wen jiabao affirmed the government's intention to drive down the real estate prices meanwhile energy majors see new because losing more than two
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percent after a deal to buy majority stake in argentina while producer from b p fell apart. the european markets have been in their bread the footsies losing half a percent while the dax is down three quarters of a percent. and here in russia the markets started the day beat but failed to withstand the pressure of both the r.t.s. and the my sex and losing around half a percent eat salad. and here's a quick look at some share moves on the my six strong wall is supporting energy producers rosneft is adding around one percent among financials is very bad it has slipped and to read is now losing around a half a percent and the sector is severstal is up almost one percent of the company has reported a nine percent decline in production in september compared to the previous month. one of the world's biggest gas fields will stay on ice russians promise tax breaks
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can the stalking him feel the barents sea could satisfy the entire world's gas needs for a year but then regional partners in the development say investors would not give cash until the government provides some incentives. i mean given the economic potential we really also need the federal support and there are true two elements about that is the main road which direction texas and it is the biggest exporter of the old the old gas those are the two other elements that we are presently we are in a dialogue with the government to discuss these things and these are also required on the nerd who makes the call no exit commercially interesting roads. and that's it for now see you back here in austin an hour. of. it.
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