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grunty closer to home across the nation marco results on some of the so humid cold which would result much you'll never be closer to home which riviera beach on with the citrus hotel much. at least thirteen people are killed and more than a thousand injured as security forces launch a major assault on protesters in cairo's tahrir square and demonstrating since friday. after insurgents in spain celebrate a landslide victory national elections many people on the streets still fear the new government won't be able to save the country's debt ridden economy. billions of dollars are reportedly wasted and still enjoying the u.s. military intervention in iraq but those responsible are still walking free.
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is a.d.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me were in the joshua into the program well in egypt at least thirteen people have been killed and hundreds injured after two days of clashes between protesters and security forces troops used tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault on demonstrators who are demanding the military rulers transfer power to a civilian government well for more on the situation we'll be talking to our correspondent policy or who is in a car for us but they'll be later in the program. well the violence comes just under a week before the first free parliamentary election in egypt in decades and protesters camped out for a third night on monday in tough three or square centerpoint of the twenty eight day uprising that ousted president mubarak in february the military which took over promised to hand power to an elected civilian government but as yet to specify the
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date and as i said i will correspond policy is following the situation in the region and she will be joining us shortly for more on the situation there. author and political commentator marc bland says the arab spring did not produce the desired results and has turned into frustration on the streets of egypt. all that it really succeeded in doing was removing one dictator while the program and the land in the system remains the same and so for this reason apart from other possible involvement of the outside forces this is the reason why we see the type of unrest taking place in egypt it's occurring at the moment but i do not believe that the arab spring was soley a grass roots movement outside of. outside influence that there were not elements involved in that we know that the united states and great britain and israel had spies on the ground in all of these countries where these revolutions were taking
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place we know that there were various groups. responsible for training many of these young revolutionaries so in that regard i don't consider that the arab spring has done anything. now spain's conservative center right party has swept to a landslide victory in parliamentary elections inheriting sky high unemployment of more than twenty percent from the ruling socialist the vote comes amid growing concern that spain is next in line to succumb to the e.u. debt crisis contagion. reports manny spaniards have lost faith that any politicians will be able to turn things around this is what the spaniards want from the elections but it's very unlikely they'll get it the popular party may have won sunday's polls but it's highly unlikely period for an easy term the reality of the economic crisis in spain means five million people out of work one and a half million households without a wage earner and the youth unemployment rate which has soared up to nearly fifty
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percent this is a bit of a bear as the winner will have to deal with but will they really be able to make a difference. probably not believes gail allard an economics professor at madrid's i even a school we're going to have to cut benefits sharply we may have to differentiate among recipients of benefits we may have to live in a program through this could really be. we may be seeing the death of the welfare state but most pain years have had enough with budget cuts and empty promises protests by the fifteen m. movement the so-called indignant marches have been spreading throughout spain since march many people have chosen not to go to the polls on sunday believing politicians will not help the country i think people have been disappointed with the choices they have come in all through throughout this campaign really for the last couple of months at least because i think they feel that there isn't a great deal of difference between the two candidates in terms of what they would do and it seems there is no easy way out of the current economic downturn in fact
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some of the minorities in the parliament believe spain is a bassist circle and. this is all policies are being dictated in brussels the elections will help in creating more jobs it will be the opposite of public expense will go down purchasing power will go down but it will mean fewer investments and that translates into unemployment or about permissible and though there may be new faces in the spanish government they will have to deal with the old problems in much the same way meaning nothing is likely to change for spaniards already tired of the economic catastrophe in the country and in the gulf quality madrid. and lot of spy chief one of the last key figures from levy years old regime still on the run as been captured in the country south it comes just days after his son safe others land was also caught the national transitional council has since said
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it won't hand him over to the hague tribunal instead it's vowed to try him at home for crimes against the libyan people that could result in the death penalty market after his most influential son was seized in the south of the country on saturday along with his aides as they try to escape to neighboring as air following the toppling of his father of the end of an eight month civil war many questions about the regime remain safe is believed to be one of the few who could answer a valid political analyst and author adriana she says safe will be silenced by either the hague or the national transitional council. as is a choice between being shot. because if he is judged and tried in libya he might very much against saddam hussein like trial where he will be in on the or he will end up being here one way or the other and if he is extreme. it will not be one winner or the other will be will side with the son as has been the constant
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throughout history every time somebody survives who may be. rich and we've also seen and this is all these documents how warm are good buffy only in the last few years as the hands of tony blair were record you know a lot of things wouldn't go to a lot of very low income people their racial information could be given by so that's cute. well now we return to our one of our top stories here in r.t. as i said earlier our correspondent was near will abate us on what's happening in egypt were at least thirteen people have been killed and hundreds injured after two days of clashes between protesters and security forces so paula do tell us what's happening there i mean it is about to have its first free parliamentary election since the ousting of hosni mubarak and protesters say they want the interim government to give way to an elected one so why are people resorting to violence now when they can use their votes to have their say on sunday. while here in chafee
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square tensions are running high the mood is incredibly tense people are angry as you see behind me there are hundreds of demonstrators who are maintaining a vigil and many of them a warming themselves around burns with fire many of them a walking around with bandages they were badly injured in the past two days of violence and talking to a few of the in the early hours of this morning they said that they're going nowhere and till the military regime that has been leading this country since was mubarak was forced to step down earlier in the year is taken away from power now this past weekend as i mentioned it was one of the worst weekends in terms of violence in recent egyptian history at least thirteen people were killed more than a thousand people were wounded as the police and security forces used tear gas as they fired bullets and as they tense some observers saying that it bordered on a small town house now when you talk to people here about the fact that makes one day they will be the first parliamentary election sensible barret was forced to
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step down they say that it is pretty meaningless must be perfect awful that it will be free and fair and many people here are saying that until such time that the military gives a definitive date as to when it plans to hand over to civilian rule or they have no faith that infected plans to do so. far as we can see the situation in egypt is quite unstable so what has been like post-war gardere how has it changed. well that's what people here say life here has not changed they are arguing that most of the people who are currently running the country in the military are very much the same people who were very empowered in the time of was in the very obvious here back in february and there was a revolutionary chant of anti mubarak here today you hear that same chant there are much the same people out in the streets it's a lot of the same agone frustration but that chant is not anti to the military people saying that the military is holding onto power they say that it has not
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committed itself to sitting any kind of date in terms of when presidential elections will be held they said that it has failed to govern and they also criticize it because they say that essentially elections next week will be meaningless for as long as these same people remain in power with the military saying that they will hold these elections to people very doubtful that in fact they will remain true to be of word or of paul thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from cairo poll as we're reporting. and as the date for the u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq nears questions are raised over billions of dollars that reportedly been a ways to or stolen during the military intervention some arrests have been made for individual soldiers making cash on the side but the big players behind the losses remain a large our aspiring going to shake out as more. not everyone leaves the war zone empty handed a number of people indicted and convicted by the us for bribery fraud and there in
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iraq and afghanistan has never been so high among those a marine in iraq who sent home forty three thousand dollars in stolen cash by hiding it in a food locker among american flags a soldier thousands more conciliatory stuffed animal they can go after people to steal forty three thousand dollars all they want necessary ok they should go we have but what about on the larger scale in two thousand and six michael o'brien was tasked with helping build the iraqi military he says those who have pocketed mili is enjoy complete impunity they rebuilt an iraqi army base and i'm telling you the condition of the space and this is just one example. deplorable it was so pathetic and when i asked the american construction project manager for one of this cost how much money went into this i really thought he was going to say three million or five million one hundred sixteen million dollars my jaw dropped the commission on
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work time contracting estimated that between thirty one to sixty billion dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan the figures seem even more staggering considering the overall amount the u.s. is committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars a day ranbir and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. state department this wandering of resources occurred while levels and dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the commission on wartime contracting is out of business now after congress cut its funding. the details of their program see. of until two thousand and thirty one they don't want certain people in high places. to come under scrutiny but the us congress wants to put the debacle of our iraq
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invasion behind the scope of the waste and fraud is enormous the u.s. justice system goes after individuals who have stolen a few thousand dollars here and there but not after the big players the big contractors that have really made a killing on the wars i'm going to reporting from washington kate. american counterterrorism expert david gardner says u.s. policies in the fight against terror have been mis directed and you can watch his full interview later this hour by here's a preview. here was the war in iraq which diverted resources away from afghanistan the cost of an enormous amount of money to give us a standing in the world beyond that the counterterrorism apparatus that had been erected is a very inefficient. there are so many different secret programs so many different cooks in the kitchen it's difficult to have any one individual who can determine
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that there's not duplicated efforts. that has become a man's and mobile home is to me oh creation of the duma's food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. i'm sure not trading the actual cash physical grain or trading promises for graeme to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for is a commodity regulator silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded some degree of. place. yet or.
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possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. the. machine would be soon which brightened if you move down sums from funds to impressions. from stock totty dot com. you're watching r t live from moscow let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world first to new york where police have arrested an alleged al qaeda sympathizer who plotted to bomb returning military personnel from iraq and afghanistan officials identified the suspect as human tell a dominican born a u.s. citizen has been charged with several terrorism related counts of attempting to
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build pipe bombs using materials he had recently purchased young soldiers intended targets were also thought to be police and post offices the twenty seven year old spent most of his life in manhattan and have been under surveillance since two thousand and nine officials say it's the fourteenth attempt terrorist attack targeting new york since nine eleven. the arab league has rejected a demand by the syrian government to change its planned and violent crackdown on protesters syria was told to accept five hundred international observers in the country a move that was turned down by president bashar asad the country now faces new sanctions as the arab league's deadline for an end to the bloodshed expired on saturday the u.n. says over thirty five hundred syrians have died during months of anti-government protests. germany has vowed to compensate the families of victims of
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neo nazi group believed to be behind at least hand murders a national social socialist on the ground is allegedly responsible for attacks on immigrants throughout the country including a nail bombing in cologne in two thousand and four extremist ones on notice for nearly a decade until one member turned herself in to police and two others committed suicide. germany isn't the only country in the spotlight for. sixty five years after many fascist leaders were sentenced to execution or prison stony as acting as a shelter for several convicted war criminals and with assets marches regularly held throughout the state many fear of the country's increasingly embracing one of history's darkest chapters are just like here she actually has more. scoffer is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but you only person which is that he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in
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baton rouge in the 1940's but documents proving its were provided for the estonian authorities as well because then you know the story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god scores atrocities in a belorussian concentration camp is solid and undoubted but instead of seeing off his days from behind bars he now lives the life of a free man in this baltic state. was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizen children does not doesn't give him shelter and try to hide them under international pressure the authorities had to initiate an investigation. however the probe brought no results after months of investigation is still only in authorities close the case a well grounded doubt remains that the god squad mentioned in the material is not let me hail ganske or who is at present a citizen of the republic of a stone in the case will be closed as it has been impossible for the investigative team to find any additional evidence the decision raised eyebrows in israel at
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first but then simon wiesenthal center recalled which country they were dealing with they called washington spoke to the people who handled this press crucial united states and there was any doubt regarding his aides and they said no none whatsoever. now this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with these stories have totally failed in terms of prosecuting nazi war criminals and it's clear that there's absolutely no political will in power to bring these people to justice and the good school story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s. veterans marches to glorifying former nazi collaborators this has been tolerance policy for the past decade recently this man made just about every headline in a story are almost on the scale of a national holiday a country marked the ninetieth birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron
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cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years ago the new tribunals sentenced the nazi leadership to either executions or prison terms this trial of history was meant to get rid of nazism for good but the s.s. marches in baltic states and other cases of rehabilitation of fascism nowadays suggest that history lessons have not been fully learned alexy russia ascii art see reporting from tallinn in a store near. and all of our news and much more is just one click away at our t. dot com to our website here's a look and you're done for the occupy wall street saga even after multiple raids and of great shows so when shows no sign of slowing down you can find more on this in our website our team dot com. also online big news for our bloggers with a chance to get their hands on a way or a marshall dollar synagogue here ears which are the options for your.
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the afghan national a family has approved the idea of a deal with the u.s. that will see the presence of american troops after twenty fourteen when foreign combat forces are manned to leave a plan it was before in front of the country's political and community leaders by president hamid karzai the move has already sparked angry protests among afghans are his military contributor says the u.s. needs to stop next diplomacy with the military before the new american strategy formulated this fight talk and build will run aground as the previous ones it would be well advised for the u.s. commander in chief to have to do to
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a man it's very torquey the same time don't interfere with a new witch or if you do they're hard wired if you don't you will end up again somewhere in between you know where we have yet another two hundred plus years and trillions of dollars of no tangible results except accumulated momentums of waste it and spend blood and treasure. well coming your way this hour here on our team is the latest action from the world of sports including the return of the algebra rushing out a way to finding legendary emelianenko because he's apologetic monson brushing away rumors of his upcoming retirement. i was coming in later in the program before that i will take a little tap in business you know he is here with us. polo
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and of our well welcome to the business program capital outflow from russia in the past ten months of the year has surged to sixty four billion dollars and you figure is almost twice the earliest central bank estimate thirty six billion dollars would leave the country this year the expects its capital flight is equivalent to nearly five percent of russia's g.d.p. crisp with a from troika dialogue believes it's not domestic stories but global woes that road climbing the cash drain a significant factor in this year's capital flight has actually been a stronger or revenues the way the central bank or the way the government accounts for those revenues if the oil companies are right or slow to reply to that money or keep it offshore because you know big investor back home for some time that actually counts as capital flight so in other words money earned and not brought back as this thing from when you put in a suitcase and brought them to zurich i think it's partly to do with just the global situation rather than anything in russia per se people are nervous all over
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the world euro zone debt crisis could result in a global recession and to celebrate in one hundred thirty years of doing business in russia this wish company has been one of the biggest contributors to the country's growing telecom network president and c.e.o. who says russia is vital to the success of eriksson's business he also believes there are plenty more. in general we see the same trend around the world as we we would see in russia we think that we would want to see more coverage mobile coverage further out remote areas on top of the up and want to see broadband coming much further out main port and mobile broadband that's where do you look those lies and in the current right by law i need to look at all the all governmental officials all around the world beyond this the correlation between brewer and g.d.p.
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development but the first if you would services and that can be able to pull health care through education or different type of services for different industries so here that we see in russia as well the possibility to use i said to transform the country to be more efficient that course we do as well so it's nothing here but but i think that's what we see in russia and to watch the full interview with the head of ericsson log on to our website archie dot com slash business and we continue with a look at the markets or oil is trading near full lowest in seven days on speculation that deals months may falter and the signs of economic slowdown in asia and debt crisis in europe what's weird is not trading at ninety seven dollars per barrel and branches hovering at one hundred seven dollars. in asia the markets are losing ground market watchers say debt problems in europe remain firmly in focus for the region's investors that's in addition to for data from japan which reported the first client exports twenty months and singapore saying economic growth may slow
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down next year honda is dropping two and a half cent and choke you trading while bank of china is losing three and a half percent in hong kong. trying to stall was ahead of the opening bell here in moscow torsion markets ended last week on a negative note on friday both the r.t.s. and my six finished one percent in the right. the russian equities ended last week sliding into the red as we've just said as investors remain unconvinced use measures to curb its debt problem a little too risky and i have symmetrical believes the markets will be in for war of the same this week most likely we will see another calm week as we're not expecting anything really significant happening except of the usual news for from europe which is driving the mood of the markets for some weeks already we will also see the release of third quarter g.d.p.
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results for us on tuesday which will probably be a good short term driver for. markets worldwide otherwise we have to confess that internal russian news and some of the russian advance on that were important for the marketplace right now everybody is still keen on the european situation and the resolution of the problems there but the crisis. everybody's hoping still that we will see the traditional christmas rally before the end of the month and which can be probably longer them over the last year or so unfortunately for now we do not see any prerequisites for that and finally the german airline live hands that has become the fifth biggest international carrier and russia does despite strong local competition and the difficulty of foreign companies getting a foothold in the country last year the company carried one point three million people routes to and from russia it's partnering with local airline you to and hopes this will improve its passenger figures next year the airline is changing its
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base in russia by moving up on the flights to cover airport from jumbo jet about. and that wraps up the business program for more business stories you can log onto our website archie dot com slash business would join me for another business update in less than ten minutes. the books.
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