tv [untitled] January 30, 2012 4:00pm-4:30pm EST
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rebel fighters have been locked in intensive battles with government forces in the suburbs surrounding damascus and an invitation from russia to host moscow based peace talks between syria's authorities and the opposition has been accepted by the assad government but given a cool reaction by their opponents sara firth has the latest from damascus. well we've seen the situation escalating dramatically a for the past couple of days now over the weekend the suburbs were embroiled in the heavy clashes between the seaside back in damascus people were waking up yesterday to the sounds of gunfire and shelling in those areas very very alarming indeed some of the reports that were coming from those areas and certainly the response from the government to the free syrian army taking control of some of those suburbs has been a strong well we've had reports of tanks going into those areas and the death toll on both sides extremely high as well and of course this comes on the back of the
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arab league monitoring mission saying that they had to hold said that mission for the time being is that the remaining observers that are here in the country they hadn't really seems to recover from that decision last week of the gulf states to withdraw its will it's hard to say really exactly what the future of the mission now is there's a little bit of the sense that it's dead in the war so now what we saw at the end of the month because if they presented their reports i what was interesting is the details of that has that made note of abuses on both sides that was what had been mentioned and on the back of that it was discussed possibly increasing the numbers on the ground and making the mission stronger as well is that the how doing what we saw was the decision for the goal safe to leave some of them well it is now today russia's foreign ministry has said that it has put forward the easing moscow as a place to hold reconciliation talks between the two sides pursuing some sort of
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resolution of the situation through dialogue again because what we've seen with the arab league is this instigates the u.s. the says are that there's a real case now the international and appearance the international involvement and possibly we could see the conflict get even more violent even more militarized i must know what i. well this is the fed the last day be. joining our bradley a specialist on arab countries and author of the book after the arab spring believes that syrian opposition groups are opposed to negotiation largely because of the foreign backing they're under huge pressure from outside powers who want these talks to fail even before they begin most obviously nato nato is determined to bring the acid regime to its knees as a prelude to invading iran and last but by no means least you have saudi arabia qatar saudi arabia is financially and politically back and backing the the
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very opposition and has been widely reported to be funding and arming the rebels who are leading this insurrection now obviously apart from doing nato's dirty work saudi arabia. hate the syrian regime for a simple reason it's secular this is the only secular country that's left in the middle east now saudi arabia of all the countries on earth complains of human rights abuses on the part of the us so very shimon say things withdrawing its monitors because he doesn't want to be a false witness to human rights abuses i mean saudi arabia has a reputation second perhaps only to north korea in the world repressing and oppressing and told cheering and imprisoning its own people. this is the saudi cutlery wahhabi revolution and it's culmination will be the overthrow of assad regime. iran has vowed to halt all exports to some e.u.
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countries for up to fifteen years despite its parliament is putting a debate on a complete ban on crude supplies to europe could be in retaliation to the e.u. imposed embargo on iranian oil due to come into full effect this summer russia's foreign minister says tehran threat shows how unilateral sanctions can often back fine. russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only ineffective but also counterproductive for the current situation yet again confirms the old law to every action there is an equal reaction iran's announcement was made in response to be european union's decision to ban the purchasing of iranian oil by even member states. we want to ron's nuclear program which is the target of e.u. sanctions is being scrutinized by u.n. inspectors to ron is off and i am officially the chance to extend the mission and said it was ready to answer any question to prove its atomic ambitions peaceful and some experts suggest the only report western states want to see is one that
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justifies a military buildup in the region. made up of the sectors that are not necessarily controlled politically but i think what the united states walls is some kind of a state but you know which then you balance on a balanced way to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up towards a military confrontation we have the mass of the flavors of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed in israel more troops going to separate. you know naval. naval forces. in coaching golf that's not what i would describe as by the actual war the issue.
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of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could well be. leaders have been debating plans for closer fiscal union to bring to brussels control of the budgets of member states to help deal with the euro crisis well they've also discussed boosting growth and creating a solution to greece's massive debts remain center stage but a correspondent joins us live from brussels seems like the leaders have been talking about the same old thing. here as well no big surprise today really they said coming into this summit that they will talk about jobs and growth to address the twenty three million unemployed in the european union and indeed that's what they talked about the degree to make it easier for example for young people to have access to training and to have flow of labor from for example young people from struggling economies like greece and portugal moving on to stronger economies like
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germany the real challenge here really is to see how quickly these words in principle and these concepts translate into the real economy to create real jobs and the other thing that they did agree upon is the fiscal compact which they laid out the summit there were some sticking points one of which was poland for example really wanted to insist that non the euro members would be able to sit down at euro zone meetings to discuss the future of the well after all that said and done that twenty five of the countries will sign on to this fiscal treaty which means a budgetary controls into stricter rules automatic punishments the two countries that will be signing on will be britain britain has already given its statement its position. saying it's not going to sign on to a treaty that does not protect its interests and its financial sector in particular and the czech republic because it says it has some parliamentary procedural problems and they also agreed upon the. keep repeating this are kind of it's the
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european stability mechanism the permanent bailout fund that will be put into place by july to replace the that's a temporary one but at the. end of the day there's a big elephant in the room but they really have been trying to avoid talking about this this is the issue of researchers right now still struggling to have a deal with its creditors that really needs this deal in order to get the second tranche of it's a bailout money one hundred thirty billion there are reports that if it's one hundred forty five billion euros and we have to pay fourteen point five billion euros of debt by march and if not it's a technical default there's no concrete answers given by the leaders even if journalists kept asking them questions about the future of greece so at the end of the day i think we might be seeing even more meetings they say they might meet in particular to address this problem thanks very much indeed for the update from brussels there. just mentioned the e.u. leaders need to push through the so-called fiscal union to toughen the budget rules
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and punish those who don't have a full member of the european parliament is told a little earlier that he thinks the direction in which the e.u. is moving is democratic. they're trying to put a lot of pressure on greece and this idea that the germans have that you can almost a budget commissioner nathanael who will oversee their budgets set taxes is quite frankly an affront to democracy the oldest democracy in the world and if i was in athens of the moment on the streets demonstrating this well the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy and trying to change things i think you're on a very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing it through that showing what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people what they're doing at the moment in the building behind me is they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement and this will go into a primary e.u. law through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in ireland where there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it will
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go straight into review you law and they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to marcus it only got to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions between the countries and particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution or a new parties are springing or and euro skeptic parties are getting better results than ever before. the election promises are coming ficken fast here in russia and that's and five weeks before the presidential poll prime minister and presidential hopeful that he made putin his program to reform the country's economy in his third pre-election article and going to spin off reports on this. this article has already been deemed by many analysts as a whole list of liberal reforms proposed by the prime minister on the economy first of all. says he wants to see the role of the state and of state monopolies reduced
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for example gas from which as quite an influence on russia's business life secondly the fight against corruption especially in the sphere of high level kickbacks during state orders and purchases more attention is needed to be there as well now another major problem for the economy according to the prime minister is a dependency on natural resources which has to be reduced as well and says that if these issues would be dealt with successfully it should improve the investment climate in the country and increase the economies competitiveness against other international players there's also another point worth mentioning from that article and that is the idea to propose the tax which should concern v.a.p. real estate and other a luxury purchases an issue which has been and is still being discussed in russia society for quite some time now. a look now at some of the major news stories
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making headlines across the globe and. very nearly fourteen minutes in the russian capital a six point three magnitude earthquake has rocked central peru and injured over one hundred officials say a number of homes were damaged in the quake just after midnight local time on sunday shows her to being treated for minor injuries in hospital five years ago a powerful earthquake shook the country self leaving about five hundred dead. to nigeria now and the terrorist organization is suspected of attacking a police station in the northern city of qana opened fire and threw explosives killing two civilians in the assault and the weekend there were distributed leaflets around the city warning residents of more attacks on security services ten days. carried out multiple blasts in canada which left almost two hundred dead. in the bangladeshi capital dhaka the head of the opposition and thousands of her supporters staged
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a demonstration calling for early elections the next poll is not due for two years and of anti-government rallies across the country turned violent three people killed in clashes between protesters and security forces activists also say over a thousand demonstrators were detained. surveying the damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick activists out of the city the latest rally ended with riot police firing tear gas and flash bombs meanwhile in washington a deadline issued by the national parks department to break down occupy camps this past occupies still lay claim to the land well a little later had to be joined live by activists from occupy d.c. action team to find out more about the developing situation where in the meantime police in london have also been accused of expressive force in their efforts to clear out occupy demonstrators protesters stood together last night as officers
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looked to take over their camps and also is laura smith has more now on the london based battle between occupy offices. what we've seen in the last twenty four hours is the first of. a building that they were calling the bank of ideas it was a building that is owned by u.b.s. the bike and it was evicted by a group of anyone who's been offered to pay less in this country would call them hired thugs basically and what you see on the video that we're showing now is the bailiff essentially driving into a group of protesters watched on by the police basically he allegedly before this incident took place punched a photographer in the face the police apparently did nothing apart from briefly confiscate the keys of the car keys of the bailiffs in question they then gave back his car keys according to the occupy movement and then cleared the way for him to leave the scene so far they've received absolutely no response from the police.
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laura smith reporting there and remember you can always find more help police worldwide in dealing with the occupy movement on also there for a major raid on a popular file sharing website on the make up off load of turning mega trash as prosecutors given to thursday in the days uploaded by fifty million users from the web. and the biggest drone in the world is crashed in exploded in israel during a test flight discover the cause of the accident. don't come. well
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as promised let's now return to the developments occurring in washington concerning the occupy wall street movement i'm joined now by activist robert wall from occupy d.c. action team so the police don't learn as poss now what's happening there at the moment . well right now last time i saw which was about half an hour ago when i left the park to come here people were just sort of hanging out waiting to see what the police were going to do we've put up a sort of large tent in the center of the park so people can sort of stick together throughout the night and try to keep an eye on each other so that the police can't pick us off one by one like we believe they're going to try to talk about what happened recently oakland california hundreds of protesters have been arrested in recent days that why so many in a demonstration which started peacefully with just two hundred fifty people. that just ask you why so many people resonate in california in oakland i'm talking
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about the recent developments that what was so many people arrested what it's meant to be a peaceful demonstration well i think you have to recognize the specifics of the oakland police department they're known as one of the most violent repressive in the country they've murdered people they've been using violent means on the protests from the beginning their oakland's become a flashpoint because i think it's exposed how militarists militarized american police have become in recent years so you know it's shocking it's horrifying to see what's coming out of oakland but it's hardly surprising knowing what we know and it's worth remembering that the oakland police may be under federal control soon because there have been so many civil rights abuses there haven't been many violent means used by the protesters themselves. well what's going on in oakland is what's called black bloc tactics this is when protesters cover their
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faces use shields state together and sort of infantry like formations it's something that's been adopted at large protests around the world to protect protesters from police violence it's so if you if you look at the videos you don't see protesters attacking people you see protesters taking together in ways that try to shield each other from the police and i think it's important to recognize the distinction that there i haven't seen anything that looked like violence on behalf of the protesters coming out of oakland i've just seen people being proactive and recognizing that they're going to be facing what's effectively an armed force well critics are saying that the occupy movement is knocking focus has too many messages meaning it's not making political progress what gains do you think you have made off to several months of this movement now i think it's extremely early to be evaluating the impact of the occupy movement i know in the days we live in we
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expect politics to happen on this campaign schedule and very quickly but social movements take a long time it takes a long time to organize real social change i think just now we're starting to figure out what pressure points we can use to try to extract concessions from you know financial interests from the political system which is set up to your critique at all and then i think we've successfully pushed the discourse in america in a more populist direction and i would be loath to discount that but we're now but do not call it a road when you get the politicians on board do you say just as quickly briefly you say you haven't made any real political developments there within the political system but that's the important thing is it not the need to get some political help . well i think we need to do is organize ourselves in such a way that politicians are scared enough that they will respond to our demands even if we're not electing anyone. to this robocall from occupy d.c.
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action team thanks very much indeed good to talk to you. well that's the way the news looks this from moscow next does iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh west imposed sanctions we talked to as interior minister to the current state of affairs is influencing matters inside the country often that special interview i'll be back with a summary of on the news stories about ninety minutes from now. the
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possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated there around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that they are now joined by iraq's interior minister. thank you for your time. my talking several days after the e.u. introduced oil sanctions against iran and i know the iranian leadership has responded by saying the sanctions will do more harm to europe than to know ron. still says iran gets seventy percent of its revenues from oil do you have any fears about negative social reactions including strikes as people may lose their jobs do you take this somehow into account in your work. these speculations on our country and our government or the power of the people all around ruling bodies or in power as
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a result of popular voting therefore our government and our. forat is completely popular and our people have participated in all areas and spheres of our life from the very start of the revolution therefore as i've said there's nothing new about these talks which are actually quite outdated and irrelevant we don't sell that much oil to us and our european accounts don't have that much money. to give us that. the us and the west as a how do not conceal that one of the main tasks of the sanctions is to get the oil prices for the iranian oil lower thus decreasing the revenues from the oil iran saudi the says is they want a two way you have to manipulate the political situation. the way we're going into jadwin that i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy market this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west should expect a drop in the euro rate and the euro market this new decision will result in
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further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already going in and so far they've been unable to find solutions with oil and energy markets will experience instability in it i don't feel that this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security but this is quite difficult for them obviously which going on previous experience is used to consuming certain kinds of oil and energy and this also brings up technical and economic issues at the same time we're not worried for it round at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward if i may i would like to ask you about the recent killing of a new clothes scientists have been other similar cases and as far as we understand the investigation into it has not made great progress so why have there been no substantial results until maybe behind the killing. of this is
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clear is day and they admitted mossad and the cia as as well. some european security services don't like to see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything in the greater raney a nation of follows the path of searching for new technologies and it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves. the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad minded university professor highlights the grave nature of their situation that the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal. people understand they've chosen the right to try the one of scientific progress the understory does not want to see this happen that it would cause them to have the physical annihilation of people in full daylight is a sign of the adversary's complete powerlessness and it is bad. that is the last
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you know that r.t. has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and syria we often heard complaints from the leadership that the intelligence services of other countries have stepped up their operations on the territories of the countries concerned in the past yeah the way many alleged imaginaries in syria and libya who could see with our own eyes that some people were apparently not libyans but fought on the side of the rebels can you see any increase in the operations of intelligence services from other countries or any attempts to penetrate your territory at least in recent years since the latest events in the arab countries began. you see foreign powers and other enemies are at work everywhere they might also be present in our country but we do not feel we should worry about this of course we should look out for superpowers and our enemies attempting to interfere in the home affairs of arabic countries especially in syria and in all countries where the people are in charge of running their
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nations they. must keep track of such a task. i don't know about always. been about c.i.s. since the arab spring began at first even the iranian leadership hailed the movement in egypt and libya as expressing democratic sentiment but now this one here is passed the attitude towards prevent iran to country has changed do you still believe that as a people by their own democratic ideals do you see hundred other countries in the advance of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people demands are just a bit imperialist a great team of world supremacies is obviously trying to lead people away from the right and neutralize the popular management or transform it at favor of their own interests but it will have to get a pure straightforward all right that people have been following along streets of the region whether it's stipulated by their willingness to defend their rights
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which is a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint that what buttons that batiste can one say that the instability in the region has considerably increased the narcotic drugs trafficking but we knew that on kong as yes afghanistan is certainly the focus of narcotic plantations now the americans and europeans are there and since they came narcotic drugs production has increased forty fold and it's a financial source for most terrorists who infringe the security of central asian states the states of the region and russia itself even if it's a fact that both iran and russia host their main struggle trafficking or that i was just a pairing for this interview several colleagues approached me at r.t. r asking if there was going to be a war between iran and the usa which is your own thing. let me say this again all those fabrications and not need to was the islamic republic of iran is a strong power capable of defending its regional security for me and the iranian people being a great and powerful nation that is not afraid of those futile threats that.
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peace talks with the opposition has given a mixed reaction. to help with the crisis. excessive use. for me today much. less than thirty minutes from now as the news continues in the meantime tempers flare and accusations fly what's next for. border a nuclear inspectors it's facilities his guests discuss the issue in crosstalk.
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