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this is our team. talia's return to turmoil cairo's central square sees fierce clashes between riot police and protesters demanding the military hand over power to a civilian government and quote the latest for. us in syria fresh clashes erupt despite the imminent deadline set for the country's authorities to end the violence russia has been saying the bloodshed will only end if both sides put down their arms. and libyan authorities claim they captured moammar gadhafi son saif al islam but there are already question marks over the likelihood of a high profile figure facing a fair trial also.
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the reaction to yet more heavy handed u.s. policing against demonstrators as officers pepper spray seated students at a california university who are peacefully protesting against social inequality and she wished hikes. ten pm saturday night here in moscow you're watching r t my name is kevin oh it is could have you with us our top story the tear gas and stones are flying once again in tahrir square as riot police and protesters clashed in cairo state television says over one hundred fifty people have been injured the protesters have been taking to the streets protesting against the military rulers who've been in control since president mubarak was february they demanding the withdrawal of
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a proposal that declares the military the guardian of constitutional constitutional legitimacy well the protest was arranged by the islamist muslim brotherhood and supported by some secular activist i spoke to pepe escobar columnist and correspondent for the age of times he told me this from the head of crucial elections and made for another revolution if they repress this syrian style this is going to get out of hand specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we see let's see illegal large groups or what's going to really to reus where with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood close google generation everybody in this square i guess the military dictatorship tourist see which is something that could happen within the next few weeks let's put it this way then we're going to have to you square tuqiri seeing depends on these parliamentary elections to strike a few days to go on for a few months they're going to elect their constituents the assembly and then they
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go to promulgate a new gustafson of the country in every single writes from. p.s.t. bar their time series facing sanctions from the arab league to make them against the country's leadership expires within hours now this week the car of a super body suspended syria and promised tougher action if president bashar assad fails to end the violence let's talk to our mideast all of the caller hi there it looks now doesn't it like the noose is tightening around the syrian president's neck. well as you say the arab league did say today saturday as the deadline for the syrian authorities to respond to a peace plan proposal that is on the table now this proposal includes insisting that the syrian military withdrew from those areas where there has been and continues to be violence but also crippling sanctions against the syrian president bashar al assad if he does not bring this violence under control now the latest word we have from the syrian authorities was one official speaking anonymously he
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spoke on friday and he said that in principle the syrian regime agreed to the proposal particularly the proposal by the arab league to stay in hundreds of observers to syria to study the situation on the ground i met in him we've heard no other word from the syrian regime about this good man that will expire any time now at the same time it hasn't been any response from the arab league itself now it is important to note that they have been demonstrations both for and against the syrian regime thousands of people taking to the streets so the syrian society certainly is divided over this issue throughout the week there was a lot of of tensions mounting both within syria and internationally over this arab league proposal now the united kingdom has begun a formal talks with the syrian opposition critics here saying that the situation mirrors what we saw happening in libya at the same time throngs has said that it is too late for the syrian regime to perform at sotheby's today for it to implement
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any kind of reforms that russia has said that it is never too late and it is called on both sides to lay down arms and says there is an urgent need for the situation to be neutralized with particular point being made against the opposition many of whom defected from the syrian army many of them armed with russia saying that they team need to be held responsible and lay down arms so the russian point the situation is complicated it needs balance and of course the international community very much involved and keeping a close eye on what happens when this deadline it's on. paula still a middle east correspondent telling us there live from tel aviv thank you. i mean time in libya state t.v. has released a photo of moammar gadhafi son saif al islam who's been detained by the country's authorities the libyan ministry of justice he's now said to be tried in the country and could even face the death penalty the image we're seeing here shows a man who appears to be saif on a hospital bed with his right arm bandaged it's thought he was seized by the
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military while attempting to escape in a jail with two aides of weeks on the run angry crowds reportedly stormed the plane that flew into the libyan city of zintan where he's being held at an army base so tough it shomer a philosophy professor at philadelphia university in jordan told us he doubts if saddam is them. fair. it's unfortunate that syphilis now has been captured and i think that it's sad because he will not stand. trial in media after what we have seen what the new government in libya have done or a very big lucian enlists what the courts are called to. have done with his father and brother previously nonetheless i don't think that the people who are opposing the new regime in libya will put down their weapons and i think that the struggle will continue on for. months to come years to come as well also full islam gave us an interview with r.t.
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back in july this year then he claimed these are our own tolerance for world into libya this is a message to everybody that you have your strong and never trust them. and you have to be or was it was our mistake to be very tolerant. with our enemies so no i will have about everybody is blaming me that this because if you because you were taller and you were nice with everybody and now when you brought all the enemies from the broad to libya and this there is i would like to watch more of the other full interview with gadhafi son on our website r.t. dot com also on our you tube channel and if you like to access it. the latest people to feel the sharp end of the police crackdowns on the occupy protesters california university students who set up tents on campus police in riot gear used pepper spray at least one woman suffered severe chemical burns as a result the officers response was because the students refused to move out is
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going to if you can't talk sense through footage of the police action. so you can sing baby's california group peacefully protesting social inequality and tuition hikes when they were surrounded by police and pepper spray the footage coming from there is is astonishing you can see how a police officer use pepper spray on students who were peacefully sitting on the walkway and sprayed the flank of students one time and then went back to spray them once again. also paintball guns at students faces. or seeing how resolutely their fellow professors were treated other students like ole went where they were tear gassed where war veterans who were injured or new york were released from it was shown such brutality against he saw protesters that you know shot the whole world a number of journalists were arrested even after they showed bare credentials my colleague because imus was struck by police for a time while reporting these helicopters look for any firm bringing live coverage
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of the year occupiers and the treatment that they received from the police more than four thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested nation right in the last two months more than four hours on any other country great guy who internationally reprimanded for violating human rights but ironically it doesn't seem to be the case that it comes from the united states a country that creek is freedom of expression people are protesting socially justice and the overwhelming influence of large corporations over decision making in the country under different pretenses authorities have been making progress there is out and there are right but asians and this is happening all across the nation a lot of the protesters are young people old though never as american had so many college these young people feel very basic ways and have less opportunities and here to parents they call the pointed question i has more. this image of twenty three year old staff great speaks to the widespread debt epidemic among american
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college graduates desperate to find work right now i can't even get a job clue. oh it's for minimum wage i have it at a local motel there's nothing i've made versions of my resume is just begging for any sort of work walking around applying starbucks mcdonald's anything like i did when i was seventeen and it makes me think well why did i even go to college if this is what it's ending up with armed with a master's degree in geography and one hundred thirty five thousand dollars in student debt great collects two hundred dollars in monthly food stamps and sells textbooks on e bay for make extra cash the struggling graduate lost both her parents by the age of twelve ohm approximately two months behind on my rents i have no idea how to catch up i am i awake at night please be freaking out how close i frightened of being evicted but no matter how much she loses she's obligated to keep paying back her private loan to sallie mae america's largest private lender it took out forty
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thousand dollars in loans i'm already owing sixty five thousand and eight just graduated a couple of months ago twenty five thousand dollars in interest came out of nowhere unlike federal loans private loans can adjust interest rates as high as lenders want and don't offer consumer protection income based repayment is not an option with any private loans neither is deferment for the unemployed for example right now i'm desperately looking for work and selling may months payments they want me to pay about seven hundred dollars a month greg is one of millions of americans old and haunted by student debt but very few have any other option to russian costs have risen six hundred percent since one nine hundred eighty and most of the top ivy league colleges cost fifty thousand dollars per year steph curry is pioneering occupy student debt a movement calling for u.s. congress to reinstate consumer protections that would keep private lenders from pushing millions of americans into default it's going to be defaults after defaults
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after the fall and once he thought that's that's a black mark on your. because demands cannot be discharged in bankruptcy there is legislation to take this very rainy two thousand and five that salim a lot before spending millions and millions on lobbyist student debt in the us is nearing one trillion dollars already of a point at least any chance credit card debt and today a generation of americans find themselves in the sleeve to banks and armed with a diploma that no longer guarantees a job or an upward artsy me. coming up a little bit later this success or failure. i'm hopeful that they'll continue with their efforts and they will get work two months brought just as i'm doing it with. the bikers mind. we had all of the streets of new york to find out whether the occupied movement is likely to leave a heavy footprint on u.s. history. the u.n. general assembly has adopted a resolution condemning iran over the alleged conspiracy to kill the saudi
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ambassador to washington that's a claim tehran calls unsubstantiated it comes as the u.n. nuclear watchdog calls on iran to answer outstanding questions over its atomic program the u.s. has also promised to introduce new unilateral sanctions on the middle eastern states oil industry diplomatic pressure on iran's coming amid reports that israel is considering a military strike on to run facilities. around the from to university told me sanctions do not have any effect on iran but do expose u.s. weakness and leadership. they imposed sanctions. on the ronnie and oil ministry for years now and the iranians continue to develop oil and gas fields they continue to develop a chemical petrochemical industry and i don't think there's going to be any change whatsoever basically what it is doing it is that it is showing the american hand and how americans are really unable to do anything about the iran so in general the
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iranians feel that the americans their strength is weakening and we even see that he'll be in that or indeed statement issued by. a board he did not contain any of the major elements that the americans were seeking but it does seem that there is a relative decline in american fortunes and american power power both at the political level as well. economic its ability to apply economic pressure. most insulator political evolution of lebanon says some states are avoiding cooperating with the ground so there will be further isolated. americans and the western powers are trying to put iran in their corner and this has nothing to do with the plot against the saudi ambassador all or to be a nuclear program this has to do with a good political scene in the region because iran has been really rejecting all
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these policies in the region for local prying iraq or the position of the american of course encouraging some groups in syria iran actually has been showing that its nuclear program is a civil program while they are forgetting the israeli program they have two hundred nuclear warheads and of course the americans will try to cover up such a problem in the middle east if they want to really to succeed they have to search all the region for the nuclear reactions whether in iran or in an israel. over to the consulate and see what some online fear of moscow says a frequent national rest world for an american couple have been found guilty of the death of their adopted russian child and given what's been seen as an extremely lenient punishment we've got a story there online and this to a rocket that will kill you very long before you hear it washington is testing out a missile that six times faster than the speed of sound that therefore could
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potentially reach any target on the planet within an hour. this is our debt fears in the eurozone are turning to spain now as its borrowing costs approach alarming levels the fourth largest economy is preparing itself for tomorrow's parliamentary elections but as our teacher when i go to school reports none of the candidates are offering an answer to raging unemployment and financial stagnation. there are two main parties contending for the elections at the moment the socialist party. which has been a. party however over the past couple of days that we have been observing especially here in madrid. does not look like any party will actually with
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a majority vote. become disillusioned with any of these things on their political table as a matter of fact the socialists have been in power for the last several years and they have been. blamed for not noticing the economic downturn for not reacting to the crisis properly and plunging. foreign oil now just a reminder the country has one of. its more than twenty four percent and has the highest unemployment rate among young people according to one of the spanish research companies in september alone the four thousand people have been losing their jobs in spain every single day more than five million people in the country cannot provide for their homes and unfortunately for spain a lot of people believe the situation will get worse before it will get better. looking for a big get out of the nation's many problems but. the real solutions will come
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to the bankers. all one to guard their own interest the interest of good on bankers that is to say they come out smiling i'm sure they all agree that christians this need to do something but when it comes down to the concrete proposals of what is to be done of course is built in audience to fall in fact there's a sharp disagreement if we for example were to leave the common rug which is a possibility i think a real possibility what they don't see is the consequence to be quite dramatic i mean you can do that well without provoking that kind of domino reaction we should be followed of course by other countries mile island by by portugal by speed and things because we do it to even france for that which is no under threat the markets are picking on the floor and so therefore we may be witnessing the beginning of a process which could lead to the breakup of the of not just of the utica but of the european union itself which would have collateral consequences for every
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country in europe including germany which are also for the united states of the world economy which is what they basically telephone pretty sure nasrallah would speak to me there now is the nation as a bird a try and preserve their endangered banking sectors next kaiser and stacey here on this channel focus on how some banks are using their new found a minute in to buff up their cloud shades the full report here at twenty one hundred g.m.t. . they blame themselves fast was fantastic about having customers when i was working on wall street you lose the money and they blame themselves it's fantastic you just keep still no money and they keep crying about. help me relieve me of my money in the guilt they're just still money now and pretty soon they'll still money accompanied by a knock on the head and thrown into prison that's what happens when you look close the cracks around the system whether it's in greece ireland america the u.k. this is their methodology.
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well then back to one of our top stories the u.s. campaign against corporate greed has faced a nationwide police crackdown on my talk show host laura half a ministers in new york for us has been trying to find out what legacy the movement is likely to leave behind. has the occupy wall street movement achieved its goal of creating a shift in the system or is it slowly becoming a blip but history probably won't remember this week let's talk about that i think they've brought some attention to the issues that nobody really wants to talk about so. if it becomes part of the conversation yeah i think they've accomplished something but there's still a lot of work to do i'm hopeful that they'll continue with their efforts and they will get. people thinking well i won't make a big difference so i think we'll think about it for
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a while then go back to the ball. you can change the bankers minds put a tent up but i think that's one of their problems no one really knows what their mission is other than because people a lot of problems do you think if they had a leader that would help them define what their movement and i think if they had were that organize a private jobs it wouldn't be so laying around wall street i'll be honest with you i don't know what the message is so clearly they haven't communicated bad well not at all so how i think any put out in history he begged i don't think that we'd be much made of in history down the road i don't think it's going to be there it's not significant. feel like it's significant it always just everybody something they feel passionate about is significant but so while there's it's not every revolution starts with someone just getting to sort of to say i don't care what happens to me i'm going to make a change and then hopefully other people add on to that so what's the next step how do they add on. i don't know i guess you get the middle class that's kind of comfortable that doesn't see that is a real problem because they're comfortable you either get them involved or
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uncomfortable if you think they're going to go out when it starts now eh. i hope so because then i'll feel better about it because the worse conditions be indoor as we go along i think the moral feel supporting of it they need to go through a little bit more and then history will have a chance that remembering them two months doesn't do it but you've got to stick it out whether or not you think treatment has achieved its goals the bottom line is it will be interesting to see if the protesting continues when it's no. or whatever the outcome we will be following it now around the world in brief tonight for days national assembly is back calls for the country's president hamid karzai for a long term security pact with the u.s. however the deal comes with conditions including an end to night raids on afghan civilians homes drive foreign troops but
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a major cause of friction between washington and kabul in the strategic agreement the same to keep in foreign military forces in afghanistan after twenty fourteen the un said the number of afghan civilians killed in the first half of this year rose fifty percent soaring from over a thousand victims. to fifty two calls on a german motorways killed three and injured many more the crash left dozens of cars in a tangled mess the weather was foggy at the time but it wasn't immediately clear if that triggered the accident or not the instant have grown bored with an evidence. record rainfall of failed flood control projects being blamed on thailand's four month long floods in science and technology minister also attributed the deluge to climate change the monsoon season came weeks earlier than usual killed nearly six hundred people since september. kashmir has been bitterly fought over for decades by india and pakistan and it's taking its toll on thousands of hindus who've been forced from their homeland those who stayed behind face continued persecution but
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they say they're determined to stick it out and they're encouraging the departed to return artie's pretty street is not the story. on every corner in his neighborhood vickie ganju can see mosques women dressed and had jobs and men working at hall butcher shops it's part of the culture of srinagar kashmir ever since one nine hundred eighty nine when an alleged pocket son backed insurgency began in the area today ninety five percent of the people living in kashmir are most loans. to a hindu from a caste known as pundits as one of the exceptions we faced many problems biggest being the struction of. post away i have to shoulder all the responsibilities of my family is a very tender age ganju says his family's house was burned down during a period of particularly heated communal violence the indian government has said that around two hundred pundits were killed in the ten years since the insurgency began but other organisations say the number of killings could be as high as three
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thousand as a result ganju witnessed a mass exodus of his people in the past twenty years hundreds of thousands of hundreds have migrated from the past where causing the population to shrink from one hundred thousand to around three thousand while many have started to come back most they still face discrimination despite obtaining a master's degree since his father's death ganju says he has been unable to hold down a steady job and has been living in a tiny unheated room with his mother and brother because of their tiny numbers in kashmir many pundits like him believe they will always be largely ignored by those in political power there is no hope that if the government comes up with any privileges for us there is some possibility otherwise even the remaining few families would also move out of kashmir i think i will encourage other pundits however are more optimistic reach a sauce left the kashmir valley more than twenty years ago he's now back and is
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looking forward to a chance to reconnect to his past. to fight back because this is my right and nobody can deny that rather he's a from majority minority. and this to me while sas acknowledges the struggle his people have endured he has faith eventually more pundits will decide to return we expect not to do it visibly this is a. small thing to see in next ten years i'm telling you after one hundred years and it's going to still here i may not be here but the question will be brought up and will be here and i believe that taking pride in their religion and returning to their roots preassure either our t. srinagar india. is just a few minutes and i would take a look at the path taken by luck there after breaking away from the soviet union and its current position twenty years on the go but few of to recap of our top stories live from moscow next.
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