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the official results of egypt's historic elections have been delayed for a second time with some local people starting to joke that the outcome will never be. the arab league give serious deadline to accept foreign observers into the country the un human rights council resolution condemning damascus for violence which over three thousand civilians have died this year but russia oppose the motion saying it was one sided. and a legal loophole is being used as a shield for convicted immigrant saving them from deportation and turning britain into a safe haven for serious offenders from abroad our top stories this hour. international
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news in comments around the clock around the world this is the official results of egypt's historic elections have been delayed for a second time causing frustration among protesters on the square however a leaked report suggests that the muslim brotherhood political party has made the strongest gains. has all the details from. we have received results of individual candidates because these were elections in which people were voting for the individual candidates as well as political parties and in this respect only four out of fifty three members of parliament have been officially elected the remaining were unable to receive the more than fifty percent threshold that they needed and in this respect there will be a runoff come monday and tuesday next week but in terms of the political parties still no confirmation although we are hearing reports in these parts of the muslim
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brotherhood in a comfortable first tradition with more than sixty percent of the votes now the brotherhood has gone so far as to call on its wyvil to accept. the will of the people the surprise of these elections has been the strong showing of the salafist group it is expected that it could get as much as a of the seats in parliament this would put it in a very powerful position to influence the debate and the discussion at a point of entry level now this is the first time that a salafist has registered as a political party in the past it has been accused of inciting sic tarion strife against egypt's minority christian community now we are hearing reaction from his role it has called these developments to quote the israeli government very very disturbing he is really a defense minister and he says that he hopes that in egypt. international treaties that it has signed in the past particularly the taking nine hundred seventy nine
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peace treaty with israel the muslim brotherhood has always been to this peace treaty it has close ties with us and in this respect and mass has issued a statement on this website commending the egyptian people for what it says clearly showing support for his nemesis the rallying call until his square remains much the same as it has been for weeks now and that is that people there simply do not believe the commitment of the promise by the government and the military the minute . he is saying that it will stick down once a new parliament is in place next year and it has to this independent of any government and they come out on guns only now we were expecting that it would finish announcing his new government today this is what we've heard from him it has not yet happened but after they were leaks to the media in terms of who would be making up some of those positions in the new government we're now hearing that he's reconsidering some of those positions because many of them seem to be faces and
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names from the old regime and this just reinforces what people in tahrir square are saying and that is that the military is not genuine about wanting to hand over power in the long run now analysts have been warning not to read too much into these elections it's still not clear exactly how this new problem which will be struck how much how it will have and it's certainly not clear how much power in the long run is prepared to hand over. and paul is monitoring the situation and you can follow updates from on our twitter feed and go see them screen the moment the latest tweet is reporting that hundreds continue to continue with their city and on top here square claiming the vote is illegitimate and the turnout is significantly lower than the government posts. underscore to get the latest from current. arab league has given syria until sunday to accept observers to monitor unrest in the country or face more sanctions and is also banned syrian officials from travel
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to arab states and his prisoner assets this covers all he deserves is a clash with government troops and a new outbreak of violence with twenty five people reportedly killed on both sides meanwhile the un human rights council has passed a resolution condemning alleged violations by the syrian authorities and appointing a special investigator to probe into the matter but russia and china voted against the motion saying it ignores crimes committed by the opposition might be to foreign intervention under the pretext of protecting human rights. we think that it is that all of the international community to help resolve internal crisis through promoting dialogue what would don't understand is why if that can be done in yemen that cannot apply to syria in syria as a mile from the outset the message which has been set up from some quarters capitals is there is no way they can help those who go into dialogue they should
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stop it immediately that there is no future in the arab league initiative we believe that this is something very counterproductive and this is something which has exacerbated the situation in syria the international community is not there to to smell blood and to found confrontation but the international community is there to prevent further bloodshed and to encourage it encourage what this is what the united nations is about this is what the security council is about. well syria's main opposition group is found to cut ties with iran has been and how mass if the current government goes professor you and belton director of the trance and peace university told r.t. that an agenda goes very well with the regional interests of some other countries. the western intent this of course is to split completely from any rain and connection as they see it in yemen the west is with the leadership and against the opposition. there with the opposition and against the leadership cutting it much
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too sharply so it's a question of where the big boys the big boys which group are the big boys fighting the big. and so typical. libya being played again. that would probably cost much more and worse many more civilians than the lives that will protect and that will set the tone for the award will go on for a long time. voting in russia's elections to lower house of parliament is already underway ballots are being cast in polling stations across the eastern most regions of the country russians vote on sunday choosing from seven parties vying for seats in the parliament or state duma the main intrigue is whether the ruling united russia party manages to keep its majority of over two thirds needed to pass amendments to the constitution in the lower house parties need to overcome a threshold of seven percent of votes to make it into parliament elections are being observed by the international observers from seventeen european countries the
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u.s. and israel. and on sunday today in many parts of the world you can join us for extensive coverage of those elections and we'll be bringing you the results the reaction and in depth analysis. the campaign closes. the people prepare to speak. in duma election eleven. in-depth coverage of this one the hearts and minds of the russian people on our team. we're live in moscow still to come this hour unemployment falls in the u.s. a sign of recovery or think. these are real jobs this is a plantation economy. look at whether the recent drop in joblessness reflects the real state of things in the american economy. and raising their hands against a raising their native tongue we find out how the russian speaking minority in the
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former soviet republic of a stone is suffering from the so-called language from. those stories still to come first in britain and the article of the human rights act ensures the right to a family life for those who live there but what sounds fair on paper is being used in reality by criminals because they can overturn decisions to deport them for offenses by using the legal loophole that allows them to stay artie's nora smith explains the rights to a family life is not an absolute right and it must not be used to drive a coach and horses through our immigration system. article eight an innocuous sounding element in the human rights act but which means having children can stop illegal immigrants being kicked out of britain no matter what they've done poor houston knows what it's like to have your family destroyed his twelve year old daughter amy was killed in
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a hit and run by an iraqi who was banned from driving cross and. the driver of the car the runner or. current on the corridor on the apollo the car and . she became trapped under the wheels of the car and. he basically for a guy trapped under the wheels in the water car amy's killer asso mohammed abraham already had a string of minor convictions even before he moved her down and fled but because he subsequently fathered two children by a british woman he still lives in the u.k. it's article eight that keeps him here oddly enough it was one of these that catapulted the issue into the headlines the home secretary seizing on claims that an illegal bolivian was allowed to stay in this country because of the emotional trauma of separating him from his pet not quite true but it got people talking and
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noticing much more serious cases including a rapist who successfully argued asylum his social life and a killer who lived with his parents in may this year it was revealed that nearly four thousand foreign criminals were set free from detention centers because it was decided they couldn't be deported within a reasonable time among them dozens of rapists murderers and paedophiles separately last year nearly six hundred people used the human rights act to avoid deportation the vast majority citing the right to a private and family life in the case of amy's killer a series of bungles and delays by the authorities meant that by the time eva him came up for deportation he appeared to have created a family despite flimsy evidence about his parenting intentions he was allowed to stay yet she would rights campaigners argue britain's status as a haven for the persecuted is sacred these are very hard back hundreds of years
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they're embedded in international law you know the real torch is in the aftermath of the second world war so make sure that we always. going to go into society on those principles that we hope to hear through a grieving father. like a poll that's missing the point what we have a special we articulate human rights facts we have criminals terrorists murderers paris drug dealers oh using the human rights act as a shield to hide behind and so on to stonewall contra. problem where the genuine asylum seekers of all think anybody house but what we don't want to see is we don't see people abusing that and that's what's wrong and i think no one needs to be addressed amy was pulls only child he now lives alone spending his time campaigning against article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughter's
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immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . european leaders are planning what's being described as budgetary intervention in the running of e.u. member states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of eurozone countries but that would mean that the financial policies of e.u. nations would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries which break the rules the move would require changes to the e.u. treaty robert oulds director of the group warns that creating a fiscal union will put an end to democracy within the e.u. . if there is a fiscal union which will take years to build in the e.u. that will mean that there will be the end of democracy within europe it will mean that countries will be effectively governed by the european central bank and germany cannot make thinking and the interests of the very few. european elite based in brussels it's really dangerous i think to centralize power the euro has
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created a great deal of economic problems and then they're going to have you know cap more problems on to that by creating a fiscal union which will mean that government's tax and spend policy will in a sense we run blossoms and frankfurt that is a deeply undemocratic stored up further trouble in the future with the problems are with the euro and they really do need to recognise that the euro should be broken up into more manageable parts and countries have control over their own economic policies again and that way they can get growth back into europe at the moment the european economy is just stagnating because this stuck in the strait jacket of the european single currency. as the global economic crisis rages ots financial pundit max keiser continues his mission to expose the shadowy figures behind his revelations in full coming up this hour but his brief preview. german finance minister says big bazooka not ready would not stem crisis even if it
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was this suggests to me that in fact wolfgang schauble is meeting in private with goldman sachs bankers and telling them to short the heck out of europe right now because the plan is to pull the rug out from under them well we saw that in the greece an area remember john paulson the hedge fund manager was in greece in athens shortly before the crisis to call there and was meeting with the government and instructing them on how he was going to rip that country down using massive short sales so this financial terrorism using weapons of mass financial destruction to destroy economies and impose austerity measures is that now taken to a much wider level they want to take down the entire euro zone. because a report a little later here analogy unemployment in the u.s. has dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years according to the latest official figures and what it could bring to
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barack obama in the run up to elections republicans are unimpressed saying the jobless rate is still higher than when he took office trends forecaster juror to learn two things the democrats are simply spinning the numbers to their own advantage when you look at the real numbers in who got their jobs it's. food stamp employees oh there were jobs created in retail you know those wonderful jobs we take people's money and you say have a nice day and there were jobs in hospitality that's another word for cleaning up somebody who's room oh when there were jobs in health care you know working in nursing homes making sixty to fifty a week by that slime after taxes you know so these are real jobs this is a plantation economy and the big law that no one's talking about as they pump up this week number you need a hundred twenty five thousand jobs
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a month just to account for the new people moving in to the economy and population growth so that leaves all the people that have lost all these jobs since the great recession hit still out of work. when as many americans are struggling to find work and as a busy planning their christmas shopping but is there a place for keeping up to date with world events on their lists their health and it has been looking for in the streets of new york. are people aware of what's going on in the world this holiday season are they only interested in shopping this week let's talk about that what do you make of the first egyptian election since the revolution so no it is about well what do you think is the importance of it. what's on your mind that shopping do you agree with britain's choice to pull out of its embassy in tehran. we don't follow the
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news these days so i'm not so informed about what do you follow these days. all the trip around the city how do you think the european union should handle the greek situation but hear me out so that you really don't follow that closely now what are you guys been powering the news. knowledge of. he watches the news i watch the. what is that h.d.t.v. and the cooking channel did you think nato had a right to pakistan this is getting very political i'm on a five day holiday i'm not going to get into a political discussion i don't mean the sit down now worldly but i'm paying more attention to was having over here it was happening in another country that is somewhat not affecting us do you think that's what most people feel probably what about you probably whether or not you've crossed everything off your list this holiday the bottom line is you might want to consider taking
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a break from shopping to find out what's going on in the rest of the world. and here's a look at what else is making news around the world at this stage of the day in a world update to ring in diplomats of a home to a hero's welcome after being expelled from the u.k. and talk to me for country after protesters stormed british diplomatic compound interest in a fictional plane iran's leadership for allegedly endorsing the attacks crosses. students gathered it to rand paul to show their support for the diplomats and chant anti bush slogans. two people were killed more than fifty injured after a stampede at the close factory in the bangladeshi capital dhaka thousands of workers rushed out of the building off the roots of a fire a staff ran for the exits many were trampled underfoot officials said they couldn't find any trace of a labor rights group say safety standards are inadequate in many of the countries factories. clashes between rodgers and police in southern peru
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have seen one person killed and another twenty wounded furious demonstrators blocked the pan-american highway protesting against the expansion of a local prison discovers flared up when police arrived at the scene dispersed the crowd and clear the way for vehicles it's the country's second violent protest this week twenty were injured in peru's north in a demonstration against a mining project on tuesday and. police are prepared for riots in south africa as thousands of protesters begin gathering in durban to raise awareness about climate change billed as a global day of action the demonstrations come as a summit on the topic reaches its hauffe waymark in the city the negotiations are focused on how the next period of agreements will be shaped who will participate and under what rules the top u.n. official says she is confident industrial countries will win new goals to cut greenhouse gases after their current commitments expire next year. but it's
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not part of a soldier's life it can never be forgotten or undone when they pull the trigger with another person in their sights an in-depth look at the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat is coming your way a little later today here on r.t.e. . we train them how to. we develop the orders for them so. we never explain to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger i don't remember seeing him go down when i remembers that we shot him. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do and they're trying to kill us we're
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trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war just. nothing honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. and the only way to do there's a knock at the door rivaling kill another person that's why i'm applying for jobs. and that's coming your way little later here on t.v. for over two decades since the soviet union ended the russian speaking minority in estonia has been suffering because of their mother tongue native speakers face discrimination and could lose their jobs seemingly unprotected by the european
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union or its human rights provisions parties and ski has more. a russian speaking fisherman catches a magic fish it promises to fulfill all his wishes in his own aeon but he does not understand the language and he dumps it this social ad urges the russian minority in the stony to learn estonian in a rather amusing fashion the reality is no joke at all. old state officials are obliged to know the estonian language in the course of their work this is written in our language it also applies to people working in the majority of public services. just like other post soviet baltic states estonia has its own language inspection the body which oversees how the language law is being observed at times laying it down quite harshly the language inspection has the legal right to conduct spontaneous checks on anyone working in any sphere and should
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a person fail this tony language exam the body may then initiate the sacking of this employee human right activists say this has turned a language inspection into a punitive body. it is not that they have nothing to say it's just that they believe their voices are being silenced estonia's three hundred thousand strong russian minority has been protesting at what they describe as the language inquisition some of these people either lost their jobs or are on their threat of doing so because they are forbidden from speaking their native language cinema shot through with so often cursed soviet power never applied in the restrictions of languages the stoniest were free to educate in their language she nowadays the authorities have almost banned the russian language from schools besides some russian communities don't have qualified teachers who can teach physics or chemistry in a stone ian in the latest twist five workers at an orphanage were fired for not being able to speak a story into the children that's in
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a town where ninety six percent of the population are ethnic russians. and i don't want to. but as long as we have in this country we have to live by the law and i fired those people because they had been warned but did not. human rights activists acknowledge the rule of the law but stress that in the language case it is not applied properly because of the law doesn't put any difference between are almost everyone sees russian as their native language and other parts where most of the people speak a stone and with such disproportion we can talk of direct language discrimination and indirect ethnic discrimination activists in another baltic states have been gathering signatures and holding a referendum to make russian the second state language and many say they have a strong chance of pushing it through a stone despite being criticised by amnesty international for its language policy is adamant and it seems the russian minority would not catch the magic fish
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granting their wish anytime soon. r.t. reporting from thailand in a story. remember you can always find more stories on our website. let's see what's lined up there right now at the moment. but helping out find out how to groups of people with kids known as anonymous teen poison joining forces to steal from banks and give to the poor. but a brand new cars were to import said to be built in russia is discovered. to be spent on the cutting edge space shuttle. all that point in play people at all. times have to take the moment with a look at the main news stories for you just a few moments from now this is our life here in moscow.
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as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for a do list seats the party's ever present leader vladimir zhirinovsky by far russia's most boisterous and controversial bully politician current campaign slogan we are for russians priorities food housing transport and science biggest success cheering on ski poles third in russia's first presidential election
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