tv [untitled] January 21, 2012 7:00pm-7:30pm EST
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of course this is something people will not be happy with this is not something they want to they've been fighting for more open democratic society and not just one of these of course is expected to fact tourists which is a very important part of it gyptian economy because tourists don't want to go to the country where they are forced to cover their faces and hands of course since moved in brotherhood is supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february the minister that has been the backbone. egyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties means that the minute you will stay longer in power and this is of course something also again something people here in egypt are not happy with because they say they want to do the revolution in two thousand and eleven to get rid of the tater shape and they don't want another one which is a miniature dictatorship right now this is how they take the things in egypt right
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now so again we can expect protests and tensions between the military and people on the streets to escalate parties maria for notion of reporting for us there now you've been a reporter at the drusilla post who has written extensively on the muslim brotherhood the new egypt will be much more hostile to the west than the old regime was. people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result when people call for democracy they may not always this realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run and then in other places such as western europe we have islamist hardline parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the muslim brotherhood has been preparing for this moment for decades they have a very thought out detailed agenda for how they wish egypt to look like and it's a very different egypt from what we've known until now it's going to be
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a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west. and in neighboring libya around two hundred protesters stormed the building of the national transitional council's headquarters in the city of benghazi crowds have protested the slow pace the country is moving towards democracy protesters threw stones and the metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the n.p.c. chairman abdul jalil the hundreds of young men that many of whom were wounded in the revolution that toppled gadhafi vented anger at the level of compensation and they received from the interim government they helped install the demonstrations have now been raging for weeks in benghazi to the protesters also demanding more transparency about how the n.p.c. is spending the libyan assets radio host and author stephen london believes the crowds are unhappy with the new government serving as the puppets of the west. a couple of hundred former fighters former rebel fighters storm out of it in
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big hours each day used in grenades to glow up the gate protecting a problem in a balloon or out on the base told no minutes they complain you know he probably really am treated properly i do a lecture while i was withdrawn i hate the people were promised they would have a say in these people that if you have no say whatsoever everything is been secret in any in t.c. government let's face it so up it we're staying home and serving western interests have simply having no interest in ordinary libyans i expect protracted violence i expect a western major media yet to ignore it. you are with are still ahead for you the. man is not just stepping on the moon he could stay there. for the great.
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they did they wouldn't be. ready. to made up stories when. their president sat on the street. the arab league is set to decide whether to extend its mission to syria mixed results for the observers as both sides question their effectiveness officials from the league have indicated the mission is likely to continue as the presence of monitors has reduced the level of violence in some areas are. following the situation in syria. the arab league ministers are going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening ok in syria and to discuss what the next me will be down
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the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the iraqi. government now among other things that included the release of political prisoners there with the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this five league mission has been to place it will be actually followed the arab league mission in that final day here in the country now there are questions raised as to the neutrality and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated it clued into question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country although the size of the force of people with speaking to young women didn't really seem to be taking a i can't a very thing this being said they obviously couldn't have had from every single passenger he wanted to speak in another question that's raised a valid question is whether you love these monitors when needed then what is going
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to be interesting moving forward is whether or not this mission is now extended the case it can very divisive a very at the response to what the people want that the hospital not some people think this really is essential to this mission continues and in fact just possibly that i was speaking to one of the former advisors to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria we can listen to his opinion on the situation now . the situation. we. know we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to her. who. let me finish the conflict came in the country will started off as
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a peaceful protest that it become increasingly. very if you have been on the budget be in areas where now the government no longer have control again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore who have the voice of the people would be cut from a number of people we've been speaking to that really is in the area of major concern. the violence in the country has reportedly continued unabated after a rally of twelve thousand anti-government protesters in the city of zabadani to the west of damascus or to surface is there and sending updates on the latest developments are twitter stream in her most recent posting from the scene of heavy fighting sara says there is an uneasy ceasefire in place with the city under government and half controlled by the armed opposition and she also says that locals are very afraid the violence will go up again. police have clashed with protesters in croatia capital zagreb where hundreds are rallied
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against joining the european union ahead of the country's membership referendum clashes erupted when demonstrators attempted to take it down and you flagged recent surveys suggest around forty percent of the population are against a joining of the union patrick young from the investment consulting firm devi advisors says the anti e.u. sentiment is easy to understand. can see their neighbors in the block facing hard times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one m.p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing grind swell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly eyed of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple they've seen neighbors they've seen similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like
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slovakia slovenia as stony are all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find the worst poisoned chalice of margin of all because slovakia nurses and pensioners are getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone bailouts that's why the people in croatia are deeply concerned and that's why it's going to be a very interesting already referendum result tomorrow. romania is a witnessing its worst riots and violence in over a decade for a second week running of people are on the streets demanding the resignation of the government and the president artie's tom reports. things turn nasty in the streets as book or arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn file.
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fighting as broken out between police and protesters just behind me you can see deep testers bringing up fences and now that it's expected to clash with different leas line. they've started to throw portals and other things that the police line and they're going to try and push cspan cease into the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but it seems that it has broken out after all as a fence being thrown. at. you earlier in the day thousands that poured into the remaining capital to demand the resignation of the main president try and assess the opposition politicians address the crowd all that didn't just come from all over the country it means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want but we need.
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not going to some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut in others because they're being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites us all that we all want to say excuse to leave. but later on the mood became more militant was you know it bankrupts you know the fact she was older hospitals schoolchildren the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school that the u.s. . nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal start my gay people for a person so we'll go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork we want jump but we can see some if you look over the line now you know the missoni that is being drawn. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and clear the square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the first test to see that. as
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the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by take us. down. and the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change romania. but as this is anything to go by the route to reform will be long and hard for what tom bought. and you are with r t still ahead for you this hour. hungry why wait grab a pizza r t a looks ahead ways people in the u.s. get good food for free. russia has announced ambitious plans to send unmanned vehicles to the moon with the eventual aim of building a permanent colony cosmos hopes to work in partnership with the u.s. and e.u. with the permanent base offering benefits for space travel and exploration artie's
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peter oliver has the details. because most want to send first off to unmanned probes to the surface of our nearest celeste steele neighbor and take samples bring them back to earth so they can be studied and analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the move now this all sounds very science fiction but it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from could also be a very good place to build spacecraft of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is an earth would get see the effect that lessened gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more than we can ever simulate on earth hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years there say they're hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up
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a permanent home on the moon. so moon bases are still a thing of the future for now but some people are ready to believe anything laurie hardest hit the streets of new york to find out if the u.s. is really going to put a man on the moon to spy on iran. in the case of iran's nuclear capabilities people are quick to make judgments based on what they hear in the media but are they actually listening to what's being said this week let's talk about that do you agree with president obama's initiative to monitor iran's nuclear program from the moon. why i think it's important to know what's going on i do yeah why well just because of the threat to the world what is the threat specifically. our safety. we cannot. do you agree with his program. i think you're putting me on
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you don't believe that from the moon. maybe from a satellite but i think you're putting me on would you be surprised to know that a lot of people just say by me that they agree with the program from the moon oh that wouldn't surprise me at all that people not humans are lemmings well for things i like to jump off cliffs doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lemmings down a better path no lemmings should have their mind of their own and they should be educated i mean people are watching t.v. radio internet so it's if you know even if you're looking for some going of disease you know you find so many interpretations so which one is the right on this difficult yet people say i cite an internet so i believe it's absolutely true so it's very hard to find the right source most people just don't have the time don't have the inclination come people there to get into it if you ever tried to have
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a meaningful discussion with someone about politics i try every day it's pretty pretty bad to be honest you never going to know where they were even if they did put something up there you wouldn't know anyway. we don't know if. yeah but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh yes ok we don't know because that's deep space but our moon you'd think we would know. tonight they're going to look up there to see figures for that anything oh my god to show comrade so seems like some people are listening to what's being said and are thinking for themselves let's just hope they can catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded with by the media every day. in the us an increasing number of people are struggling to make it be there and meet supporting their own needs or for that matter an entire family is proving to
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be a growing challenge and authorities report now reports those who can't get food stamps are looking down every avenue for nourishment the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high more and more people are going hungry one in three americans live in or near poverty and suffering hungry in this land of plenty. in this land of plenty roughly two point seven million tons of food is reportedly raised and grown each year the same country that loves so much to consume calories . also loves to waste that. doesn't look like geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he romances through garbage bags on the streets of new york city here's another truth were tons of edible food is thrown out each night i've never found that's not the size of the pizza here this is
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a bigger reason reason bagel the twenty seven year old musician makes his way from the bakery to the telly there's hot food here which probably comes from a hot food bar relying on supermarket trash for his essential vitamins even without opening the bag i can see the orange. and some other green what we and those crowding around g.o.c. is that in a country where more than forty million people struggle daily to get enough food millions of meals are literally being wasted as this food as you can see is still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted and thrown away. otherwise it would end up. on top of the landfill somewhere and estimated. thirty to fifty percent of u.s. food produced for consumption ends up at landfills each year that comes at an annual cost of one billion dollars simultaneously food prices continue to rise
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leaving millions more on line at soup kitchens and ultimately searching through trash eating meat a big show in the documentary dive follows filmmaker jeremy seifert and his friends in the back alleys and rubbish piles of los angeles as thousands of dollars worth of edible food is salvaged it's a result of our excess we are a wealthy country and we have excess and so waste is really necessarily a byproduct of excess and it's a bad habit of sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were amid america's expanding climate of food waste critics say the country's overall carelessness causes ripple effects around the world it is a global market now and our overconsumption directly impacts the hungry and the poor in other countries us taking more than we need and wasting it affects
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the prices of food affects the availability of food so yeah i guess it was why did they make a film there was a sense of outrage at the injustice of food waste something of a paradox society defined both by wasteful consumption and an ongoing struggle to make ends meet the need to cut my expenses are first thing that goes food so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free marina r.t. new york. more stories are available for you on line twenty four seven is a bit of what is awaiting for you on our website r t v dot com. the ballet troop is it rounding off its u.s. tour to learn more about their triumphant performances check out our art and culture section was. it an international team of scientists have suspended
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its study of a deadly mutation of the h five n one bird flu virus find out why on our t. dot com. now a look at what else is making news around the world we begin in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks has climbed to more than one hundred fifty people the radical islamist sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for targeting different locations including police stations and the regional police headquarters the group which is behind a string of bombings in the region recently claimed the attacks are in response to authorities refusal to release their members from prison. nearly two dozen occupy protesters have been arrested in san francisco after demonstrations
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turned violent there several were arrested after refusing to break from their human chain of blocking the headquarters to wells fargo bank some demonstrators also three furniture off a hotel rooftop organizers said the protests coincided with the u.s. supreme court's decision two years ago to remove limits on how much money the corporations could donate to political campaigns. if the yemeni parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh who is due. to leave for the u.s. to seek medical treatment he has been accused of suppressing protests and killing yemeni people however those working under the president could still face legal action tell a will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years as ruler and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . the russian city of sochi is the host city of the next winter olympics and it's
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making safety the main priority heavy snow is usually good news for skiers and snowboarders but can also spell danger for the thrill seekers artie's dennis blotchy joint of those keeping the mountain peaks clear of avalanches. so cheesed avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their saw and. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day it's a local avalon chanters. the avalanche team surveys every new can cranny of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like writing off the beaten track neat is the team's lead expert he uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall but being
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a local who's been living in the caucasus mountains for over forty years the man says there is more to his job than that the snow is a living being it has its own life you just have to learn how to understand it and this in turn is only possible if you spend your life with it at times the snow can turn nasty if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover. well you know if the guy can have a lot of thirty by thirty centimeter call him a tall one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the colon falls apart at some point that means the snow is too soft and it will collapse the morning survey is over so now it's time for snow angels to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. ski patrol calling dispatch over. their known threats were given permission to lead the terrorists and start the
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cable cars. in february and march this resort will host international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to tame the white beast will be more important than ever done as well as keep our team sochi. and i'll be back with a quick recap of today's headlines in just a couple of minutes don't go away.
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when we can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards who is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. where it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you go experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but if you will that was when the problems began piling up. interviews are now. limits to our journalists they were often beason up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only needs
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please technology innovation all the least of elements around russia we've got the future. seven thirty on a saturday evening if you're watching in tampa florida in the united states it is four thirty in the morning here on a saturday in moscow glad you're one of the society is a long list of parties when an overwhelming majority in egypt's first post mubarak elections claiming more than seventy percent of seats in parliament. outside counsel for the arab league mission in syria with critics questioning the group's independence while supporters say that their presence has helped ease the violence. police clashed with protesters in correlation as capital zagreb where
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hundreds of took to the streets to rally against joining the new head of the country's membership the referendum. and more trouble in the e.u. as well mainly in for take to the streets to voice their anti austerity anger in the worst violence in the country has seen and over again the. next of the moscow out team heads to florence to look for traces of russian culture in italy. clerk.
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