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all. fresh clashes flare up in cairo between protesters and security forces with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as unrest continues into this third day. just eight months off its first revolution the country seems on the brink of another as protesters demand the end to military rule. as conservatives
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in spain celebrate a landslide victory in national elections many people on a street still fear of 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 in business russia has soon a record high capital outflows this year in twenty minutes. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie in egypt frash clashes have broken out once again between protesters and security forces with troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds massing around tahrir square
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over the weekend the violence claimed at least thirty lives the protesters are demanding the military rulers transfer of power to an elected civilian government correspond calls leaders on the ground and can bring us more oh paul i understand that under the circumstances the situation may change any time but what are you seeing there do bring us up to date with the situation on the ground. while the anger and the numbers continue to mount here in town his square i would say that they were easily several thousand protesters who are now clashing with security forces. both the police and the army have been firing tear gas they've been firing rubber bullets and just a short time ago they hit a residential building now the voting burst in flames there were at least a dozen ambulances that were brought in and we just hearing figures these are preliminary figures that as at least twenty people have now been killed in the last three days of clashes this is taffy
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a square it is the scene of the revolution back in february that ousted the egyptian president hosni mubarak and as you can see the crowd and the numbers are slowly growing certainly the numbers we're seeing now are increasingly more than we saw in the early hours of a small in the since you get here is that there is going to be continuous violence because the mood is incredibly tense there are still read it clashes there continue to happen and the fear among most protesters here is that all their hopes and all the dreams of what their first revolution back in fear be what if chief have all that been forgotten what people here have been telling me is if they going to remain intact is square until such time that the military that is currently in power steps down and for weeks now in fact for months youngsters have been trying to reclaim tap here but they haven't been able to do so the fact that they are now back into the square is very much a seems and a message to themselves and the egyptian authorities that they plan to stay. or
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fired from the questions that are taking place now as well you know we were looking behind you live pictures there of paula what has it been like in the country pollster barak when he was ousted in february has anything in the country change and what has changed if that happened at all. well talking to people here they say that this is the reason why they've taken to the streets for the very fact that they feel nothing has changed they criticize the current ruling military regime as being much the same as the mubarak era they say it's a regime that hasn't given a date in terms of when a plans to step down they say that the elections the parliamentary elections that are now being planned for next week monday will not be free and fair and this is a sentiment have heard from dozens of people that i've managed to speak to here in tahrir square so they say that they've lost faith in the military they believe that the military is not going to keep true to its word too to step down and allow a real representative government to come into place and this is why are they taking
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to the streets they don't want the international community all the egypt public to be fooled by any kind of promises that are coming from the military and certainly this is raising concerns in the international community many western countries happy hopes on the fact that they would be some kind of new regime here in egypt what we've seen happening is groups like the muslim brotherhood putting their voice and the strength behind these demonstrations raising concerns that they will be a strong islamised presence as this country moves forward. more of all those who are bringing us up to speed with what's happening in egyptian capital cairo at the moment polls we're reporting there are there and political commentator mark glenn the arab spring did not produce the desired results and has turned into a 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
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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 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 it 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 tied to the cia that were responsible for training many of these young revolutionaries so in that regard i don't consider that the arab spring has done anything. we're always interested in your opinion and today we're asking you when will the renewed violence in egypt and so you can go to our web site r.t. dot com and vote in the poll but let's take a look at the current picture there now so far thirty eight percent of our
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respondents say all guards cronies are and the drop over a quarter believe the violence will and when unemployment and inflation are curbed some say the country will return to peace when the military decide they are fed up with protests and a minority think the fighting will hand only when the muslim brotherhood is elected to power you know also let us know what you think on this issue by visiting our website and having your say. coming out shortly here in our team protection from prison convicted nazi war criminals living life as a free man in a story or leaving many wondering why the country is so keen to give him shelter. syria's foreign minister has accused the arab league of being used as a tool to force the syrian crisis before the u.n. security council this comes as the lead regev to damascus demands changes planned and a violent crackdown on protesters syria was told to accept five hundred international
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observers in the country and moved out was turned down by president bush at a loss of the country now faces new sanctions as the arab league's deadline for an answer to the bloodshed expired on saturday the u.n. says more than thirty five hundred syrians have died during months of anti-government protests rider on middle east affairs for the world socialist web site christopher marston believes that the arab league wants regime to go i was never interested in helping it. first of all you have. the arab league would be disarmed. this is not. resolution. to believe this is. a bleak place in the whole tomato before the assad regime in syria they couldn't possibly mate is that they would abandon all military action under conditions in which the free syrian army and all the insurgents were carrying out
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attacks on military targets and haven carried out a bombing token eight attack on the bulkhead but the sad part is in damascus well i think ultimately started calling foul of a mood a push by the united states to secure its domination of the middle east which is the same reason why they pushed for the war against libya and now they're making very bellicose noises together with israel against iran there the issue is that they want a regime which may or may not include sections of the army which is more amenable to u.s. foreign policy and takes its distance from iran. market obvious here to have spy chief one of the last key figures from leader years old regime still on the run has been captured in a country south that comes just days after gadhafi son saif al islam was also caught the national transitional council has since said it won't hand him over to the hague tribunal instead it's about to try him at home for crimes against the
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libyan people that could result in the death penalty market off its most influential son was seized and the south of the country on saturday along with his aides as they try to escape to neighboring share following the toppling of his father and the out of an eight month civil war many questions about the regime remain saif is believed to be one of the few who could answer it and political analyst and author adrianne so good she says saif al islam will be silenced by either the hague or the national transitional council. as 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 you know saddam hussein like trial where he will end up being or he will then the one will be out there and if he is extradite. it will not be a fair trial or the other view will silence as has been the constant throughout
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history every time somebody survives the. relations we've also seen and this is all of this. how warm are the only in the last few years has shook the hands of tony blair. you know a lot of things were negotiated a lot of very uncomfortable that the regime said information given by so. as the date for the u.s. troop withdraw from iraq nears 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 a large al correspond to account reports. not everyone leaves the war zone empty handed the number of people indicted and convicted by the us for bribery fraud and fair in iraq and afghanistan has never been so high among those
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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 conciliatory stuffed animals they can go after people to steal forty three thousand dollars all they want necessary ok they should go after him but what about on a larger scale in two thousand and six michael o'brien was tasked with helping build the iraqi military is says those who have pocketed nearly is enjoyed complete impunity they rebuilt an iraqi army base and i'm telling you the condition of this space and this is just one example was so poor 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. the commission on work time contracting estimated that between thirty one to sixty billion dollars has been lost to waste
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and fraud in iraq and afghanistan the figures seem even more staggering considering the overall amount the u.s. has committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars a different view and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. they department the squandering of resources. small levels of thousand dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took. the commission on more time contracting is out of business now after congress 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 with the us congress wants to put. all of our iraq invasion behind it the
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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 check on reporting from washington. and all our news stories and much more is just one click away at r.t. dot com here's a taste of. the new dawn for the occupy wall street saw that even after multiple raids and evictions the movement shows no sign of slowing down find more at are. also online for you big news for our lovers who have the chance to get their hands on where mark synagogues paintings which are to be auctioned in new york and. in our sports section former russia coach who's heading tells our team that he has no plans to retire from football and he's not ruling out the idea of taking the reins at expanding anji.
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spain's conservative center right party has swept to a landslide victory and parliamentary elections inheriting sky high unemployment of more than twenty percent from the ruling socialist of all comes amid growing concern that spain is next in line to succumb to the e.u. debt crisis contagion and reports many 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 we'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 but only a half million households without a wage earner and the youth unemployment rate which has shot up to nearly fifty
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percent this is the repairs 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 can really be. we need to see the death knell of the welfare state but most spaniards have had enough with budget cuts and empty promises protests by the fifteen m. movement as 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 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 were doing and it seems there is no easy way out of the current economic downturn in
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fact some of the minorities in the parliament believe spain is inhibitions circle. or that it's 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 but it was purchasing power will go down that will mean 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 economic catastrophe in the country and in the gulf quality madrid. three militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of coverage of the group of terrorist was cornered in a building in the capital city of while trying to flee from special forces both sides exchanged fire as authorities also try to negotiate with the extremists but had to eliminate them when there were
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a fuse to surrender no reports of casualties among security officers are being reported meanwhile a special operation is underway in the mountains in southern chechnya it's aimed at blocking and neutralizing members of illegal armed groups two militants were killed as a result over the weekend. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world well first to new york where police have arrested an alleged sympathizer who plotted to bomb returning military personnel from iraq and afghanistan officials identified the suspect as safe and tell a dominican born a u.s. citizen is been charged with several terrorism related counts of attempting to build bombs using materials he had recently purchased yonder soldiers intended targets were also god to be police and post offices the twenty seven year old spent most of his life living in manhattan and have been under surveillance since two thousand and nine officials say it's the fourteenth the tampa terrorist attack
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targeting new york since nine eleven. a long awaited trials began for three four mcnair rouge officials charged with crimes against humanity the phantom's include a former communist groups ideologist along with its foreign minister their rouge was allegedly responsible for genocide homes and torture are joining its reign in the nineteen seventies almost two million people died as a result of its policies a un backed tribunal is expected to last months and possibly even years. germany has vowed to compensate the families of victims of a neo nazi 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 the extremists went unnoticed for nearly a decade until one member turned herself in to police and two others committed
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suicide. germany isn't the only country in the spotlight for a neo nazi activity sixty five years after many fascist leaders were sentenced to execution or prison estonia's acting as a shelter for several convicted war criminals and with s.s. marches regularly held throughout the state many feared the country's increasingly embracing are of history's darkest chapters are his life he or she has more. i mean gosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when it was this he participated in the murder of three thousand jews invalid loose in the one nine hundred forty s. but documents proving it were provided for the u.s. attorney and also reveals others as well because they view them as tony is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's course atrocities in a bella russian concentration camp is solid and undoubted but instead of seeing off his case from behind bars he now lives the life of
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a free man in this baltic state that school. was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizenship but says a lot doesn't it get him shelter and try to hide again 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 closed the case i well grounded out remains that they got a score of mentioned in the material is not the me hail core who is at present a citizen of the republican mr o'neill 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 a cord washington spoke to the people who are here with this press. that when there was any doubt regarding and they said no none whatsoever. this
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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 criminals and it's clear that there's absolutely no political will to bring these people to justice and they go to 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 cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years ago the new tribunals sentence 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 now days
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suggests that history lessons have not been fully learned. artsy reporting from tallinn in the story here. this thirty live from moscow well let's now bring you up to speed with what's happening in egypt in capital cairo as this is our developing story and we're keeping a close eye on what's happening there well these are live pictures from a cairo more violence we're hearing has broken al between protesters and security forces with troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds massing around square over the weekend at least thirteen people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes. so once again you're looking at live pictures coming out of cairo and the demonstrators are demanding the military worse transfer power to civilian government the violence comes just under a week before the first three parliamentary election in egypt in decades protesters
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have been camping out into reeves square which is the center point of the twenty eight day uprising that ousted president hosni mubarak in february the military which took over has promised to hand power to an elected civilian government but has yet to specify a date well we have a correspondent on the ground will be bringing us data from the egyptian capital cairo right now though these are live pictures coming out of the egyptian capital so stay with us for more as this is a developing story here in our team. and in just a few minutes we'll give you the lowdown on a bogus festival in a tiny russian republic but before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business. hello and a very warm welcome to the program that's capital outflow from russia in the fast
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and months of the year has just sixty four billion dollars the new figure is almost twice the. amount the thirty six billion dollars in the country this year but capital flight is equivalent to nearly five percent of russians g.d.p. of course with the from cricket dialogue believes it's not domestic stories but global walls that are driving the cash drain. 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 they can't invest it back on 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 in anything in russia per se people are in nervous all over the world that the euro zone crisis could result in
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a global recession. ericsson is celebrating one hundred thirty years of doing business in russia the swedish 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 it's company stuti just support projects like scorecards one need to remember when we were told what they are from russia we have been there for one hundred thirty years we feel yourself as very important in the russian society be important of understanding what's happening for serving our customers important but this is an initiative of innovation on is based on innovate innovation we will spend some three billion euro year research and development of course to understand what you know the engine is happening in russia to use their networks is going to import it's called core is a very good area for that because there's a lot of innovation and a lot of research being done and we will be part of that so we think it's
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a natural step for us being a russian citizen a russian company. well the full interview with the had a very sounds just a click away a log on to our website archie dot com slash business week and i'll have a look at the markets well it's trading near its lowest in seven days on speculation that fuel demand they fall to meet size of economic slowdown in asia and debt crisis in europe what's weird is not trading at nine to six dollars per barrel while branches at one hundred six dollars. european stocks are getting off to a but start to weaken vest as are reaching to the sell button and it science to us lawmakers may fail to reach an agreement on budget cuts raising fears america may face another credit downgrade. and finally the russian markets are shocked to lower the global weakness in equities is being laid for us here by the bulls in the world price let's have a check on some of the individual shareholders in the minus six all of the blue
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chips along with declining my sense is led by metal down more than five percent are all cyclical is also among the top losers just under four percent of the reds and energy shares are retreating on wall crude prices of oil is shedding on just three percent. but perhaps not the business program during the less than fifteen minutes for another business update here on archie.
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