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do pressure. for instance on t.v. don't come. at least thirteen people are killed and more than a thousand injured as security forces launch a major assault on protesters in cairo stuff where your square who've been demonstrating since friday. violence has once again returned to the country with tear gas and rubber bullets on stream the protesters calling for an end to military rule. as news server tips and spain celebrate a landslide victory in 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 stolen during the u.s. military intervention in iraq but those responsible are still walking free. and
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russia has soon at a record high capital all float this year in business and twenty minutes. it is not i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me are in the joshua welcome to the program and it 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 that military rulers transfer power to a civilian government our correspondent also we are reports from cairo. can't interfere 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
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a vigil and many of them a woman themselves around burns with fire be given a walking around with bandages they were badly injured in the past two days of violence and talking to a few of them in the early hours of this morning they said that they're going nowhere until the military regime that has been looting 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 was one of the worst weekends in terms of violence in recent egyptian history at least thirteen people were killed more than one thousand people were wounded as the police and security forces used tear gas as they fired bullets and as they burned tens some observers saying that it bordered on a snorter house now when you talk to people here about the fact that next one day they will be the first parliamentary election since the bar it was forced to step down they say that it is official meaning as most people head down off that it will be free and fair and many people here are saying that until such time that the
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military gives a definitive date as to when it plans to hand over to civilian rule or they have no faith that in fact a plans to do so 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 there in power in the time of course in the bar eight i was 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 there's a lot of the same anger and frustration that that chant is not anti the military people saying that the military is holding onto power they say that it has not committed itself to sitting any kind of date in terms of when presidential elections will be held they say 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 won't hold these elections to people very doubtful that in fact they will remain true to the word policy are reporting their author and political
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commentator marg land 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 land in the system remains the same and so for this reason apart from other possible involvement of. forces this is the reason why we see the. place in egypt it's occurring and i do not believe that the arab spring was soley a grass roots movement outside of. outside influence that there were not elements involved and 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 place we know that there were various groups. that were responsible for training many of these young revolutionaries so in that regard i don't consider that the arab spring
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has done anything. coming out shortly here on our team protection from prison convicted nazi war criminals living life as a free man in a still we are leaving manning wondering why the country is so keen to give them shelter. spain's conservative center right party has swept to a landslide victory in parliamentary elections and harrowing 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 and. reports many spaniards have a 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 these polls but it's highly unlikely they are in for an easy term the reality of the economic crisis in spain means five million people out of
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work one and a half million households without a wage earner and the youth unemployment rate which has shot up to nearly fifty percent this is a state of affairs there will have to deal with will they really be able to make a difference. probably not release 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 eliminate programs from this could really be. we may be seeing the death of what 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 addict the 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 are being disappointed with the choices they have coming all through throughout this campaign really for the last couple of months at least because i think they feel that there isn't
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a great deal of difference between the two candidates in terms of what they want to and it seems there is no easy way out of the current economic downturn in fact some of the minorities in the parliament believe spain is a vicious circle. because it's all posed to sabine dictates in brussels the elections will help in creating more jobs it will be the opposite public expense will go down purchasing power will go down but it will need fewer investments and that translates into unemployment. 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 konami catastrophe in the country if. we trade. what are going after you have spy chief one of the last case figures from when he is old regime still on the ron has been captured and a country south comes just days after a get out his son saif al islam was also caught the national transitional council
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has since sad 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 aide as they try to escape to neighboring the sheriff following the toppling of his father at the end of an eight month civil war and many questions about the regime remain safe is believed to be one of the few who could answer them political analyst and author adly mansour a bookie says safe will be silenced by either the hague or the national transitional council. now. what. he has is a terrible choice between being shot or being hanged because if he is judged and tried in libya he might end up very much and he said the same like trial where he will end up being or he will end up being killed one way or the other and if he is
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extradited to the hague it will not be a fair trial when we don't have all of the other the will silence as has been the constant throughout history every time somebody survives who may be in good relations we've also seen and this is all these horrible documents how walmart gadhafi only in the last few years has shook their hands of tony blair. no doubt a lot of things were negotiated a lot of very uncomfortable declarations of information given by so. now we are interested in what fate you think is waiting for gadhafi is captured son saif so go to our website r.t.o. khan to participate in our latest poll so so far the overwhelming majority predicts he will receive the death penalty in media over water say he will not live to see his tribe ask too many libyans one revenge some of you do not believe that saif al islam was in fact captured and remain convinced he's of large while
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a few of the respondents still think you will get a trial of the hague whether they are or not so you can have your say on this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com. as a day for the u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq nearest questions are raised over billions of dollars that have reportedly been wasted or stolen during the military intervention while a record number of arrests have been made for individual soldiers making cash on the side of big players behind the losses remain at large i correspond to check out reports. not everyone needs the war so he can be the number of people indicted and convicted by the us for bribery fraud and there in 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 who shipped thousands more concealed in a toy stuffed animal they can go after people to steal for three thousand dollars
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all they want necessary ok they should go after it but what about on a 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 enjoying complete impunity they rebuilt an iraqi army base and i'm telling you the condition of the space and this is just one example so deplorable it was so pathetic and when i asked the american construction project manager what did 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 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.
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has committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars he did ranbir and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. state department the squandering of resources occurred at her small levels of thousand dollars a couple 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 sealed. until two thousand and thirty one they don't want certain people in high places. to come under scrutiny in the u.s. congress wants to put it to walk all over or iraq invasion behind it 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
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contractors that have really made a killing on the wars i'm going to check our reporting from washington our kate and i think our terrorism expert david dein ross says the u.s. policies in the fight against terror haven't missed a racket in watches for want of next hour but here's a preview. the error was the war in iraq which diverted resources away from afghanistan cost of an enormous amount of money as well as pretty good us a standing in the world beyond that the counterterrorism apparatus that had been erected is a very inefficient one there are so many different secret programs set so many different cooks in the kitchen it's difficult to have any one individual who can determine that there's not duplicated efforts.
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is just so. just so. wealthy british scientists. might.
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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the reports on r.g.p. . but something to 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 identifies the suspect as just a human tell a dominican born u.s. citizen has been charged with several terrorism related counts of attempting to build bombs using materials he had recently purchased beyond soldiers he's intended targets were also thought to be police and post offices the twenty seven year old spent most of his life in manhattan have been under surveillance since two thousand
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and nine officials say it's the fourteenth of tampa terrorist attack targeting new york since nine eleven. the arab league has rejected at a man 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 old worth thirty five hundred syrians have died during the months of anti-government protests. germany has vowed to compensate the families of victims of a neo announce a group believed to be behind at least ten murders the national socialist underground is allegedly responsible for attacks on immigrants throughout the country including a bombing in cologne in two thousand and four extremists went unnoticed for nearly
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a decade until one member turn itself into police and two others committed suicide . germany isn't the only country in the spotlight for a neo nazi activity sixty five years after a man the fascist leaders were sentenced to execution or prison and still money is acting as a shelter for several convicted war criminals and with assets marches regularly held throughout the state many fear the country is increasingly embracing one of the history's darkest chapters are asking has more. mchale gosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when you post this he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in baton rouge in the 1940's but documents proving years were provided for the australian authorities as well because then you know a story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's course atrocities in a belorussian concentration camp is solid and undoubted but instead of seeing off
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his days from behind bars he now lives the life of a free man in this baltic state that. was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizen children but says a lot doesn't it give him shelter and try to hide again under international pressure real forces 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 they've got a squad mentioned in the material is not let me hail core 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 first but then simon wiesenthal center recalled which country they were dealing with they called washington spoke to the people who handled this press crucially
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united states and asked them whether there was any doubt regarding and they said no none whatsoever. now this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with this story and these stories have totally failed in terms of prosecuting actually walker 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 had line in a stone almost on the scale of a national holiday a country marked in one thousand birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron 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.
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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 attitude on here is a taste and you've gone for the occupy wall street saga even after multiple rates and evictions the movement of shows no sign of slowing down read more at r.t. dot com. also online for you big news for our lovers have a chance to get their hands on that rare of marc chagall synagogues paintings which are for the auction in new york.
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and the afghan national assam lee has approved the idea of a deal with the u.s. that will see the presence of american troops after twenty fourteen one foreign combat forces are man's to leave the plan was put forward of front of the country's political and community leaders by president hamid karzai the move has already sparked angry protests among afghans artie's military contributor says the u.s. needs to stop makes diplomacy with the military before the new american naval its strength each form the way to fight talk and to build will run aground as the previous ones it would be well advised for the u.s. commander in chief of the diplomats there are talking at the same time don't interfere with me which are hard wired if you mix it up you will end up again somewhere in between you know where we view it in the other two hundred plus years
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and all the dollars we've no tangible results there except a cumulative moan thousands of wasted and spend blood and treasure. well coming your way next hour is the latest action from the world sports including the return of the. russian heavyweight fighting legends that are going on here gives american jeff monson a lesson in moscow putting a man to top early retirement. and soon find out all you need to know about a buddhist festival and a tiny russian republic. before that they will take a look what's happening in business william. thanks corina a very warm welcome to the program that's capital outflow from russia in the past ten months over here just sixty four billion dollars when you think it's almost twice the earlier central bank asked mitt the thirty six billion dollars would
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leave the country this year they expect its capital flight is equivalent to nearly five percent of russia's g.d.p. course we thought from troy could sign of believes it's not domestic stories but global balls that are driving the cash train a significant factor in this year's capital flight has actually been the stronger oil revenues the way the central bank or the way the government accounts for those revenues if oil companies are either slow to repatriate their money or keep it off shore because you know they can't invest the backbone 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 who are nervous all over the world that euro zone debt crisis could result in a global recession. and ericsson is celebrating one hundred thirty years of doing
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business in russia the swish company has been one of the biggest contributors to the country's growing telecom network president and c.e.o. hans west says russia is vital to the success of eriksson's business he also believes there are plenty more opportunities. in general we see the same trend around the world as we would see in russia we think that we're going to see more coverage mobile coverage further our remote areas. we want to see broadband coming much further out main port and mobile broadband but where do those lies and in the current right now and i only the law all governmental officials who are on the work we understand the correlation between brewer and g p development but if you would services that can be able to pull health care through education or different global services for different industries so here we see in russia as well the possibility to use i city to transform the country to be more efficient that calls
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for sweden as well so it's nothing here but but i think that's what we see in russia. and you can watch the full interview with the head of the arts and just logon to our website archie dot com slash business and have a check on the markets oil is trading near the lowest in seven days all speculation that the older man may falter i mean signs of economic slowdown in asia and debt crisis in europe what's weird is not trading at night a seven dollars per barrel while brand is that one hundred seven dollars per barrel as you can see from the crawford. moving on to asia the markets all losing ground market watchers say debt problems in europe remain firmly in focus for the region's investors that's in addition to poor data from japan which reported the first time in exports three months in three months and some good news saying economic growth may slow down metz she had poland is dropping two and a half percent in total trading why while the bank of china is losing three and
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a half percent in hong kong. twitter is just an hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow let me remind you that the russian markets ended last week on a negative note on friday of both the arch s and m i six finished one percent in the right. the russian leg which is ended last week sliding into rather just sad as investors remains unconvinced o.b.e. used measures to curb its debt problem and it's not a risk in at all of symmetrical believes markets will be in the same this coming week. most likely we will see a lot of con we we're not expecting neither can really significant happening except of the usual and useful from europe which is driving them into the markets for some weeks or even review we will also see the release of third quarter g.d.p. results for us on tuesday which will probably be in the church and driver for. markets worldwide otherwise we have to confess the internal russian news and so no
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russian advance on the three important for the marketplace right now everybody is still keen on the european situation and the resolution of the problems there the debt crisis and everybody's instilled as we will see will traditional christmas rally before the end of the month and which can be probably longer. over the last year or so unfortunately for now we do not see any prerequisites for the. german airline live hands that has become the fifth biggest international period in russia that's 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 the local airline you tear and hopes this will improve its passenger figures next year the airline is changing its base in russia by moving popular flights to view cover airport from dramatic about that for now your play date for more stories log on to our website r t v dot
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