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not just the political groups but pretty much everybody from from from workers to students university students university professors as a matter of fact a lot of the people who are involved in this out of civil disobedience are mostly young people they're the driving force behind who were the driving force behind the . toppling of the barak last year they are not satisfied with what they've seen over the past year we can talk about the elections which took place not too long ago so that they did have a chance to make their voices heard they didn't have a chance to cast a vote but again a lot of people are saying that still not everything has been achieved that a lot of their evolutionary goals the jobs the economy education and also doing away with massive corruption which was left over from the mubarak era a lot of that still has not been done it's better in fact my colleague and i still looks at the finer points of what exactly people are trying to achieve by continuing to staged protests. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's
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people have played high price to live in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime to launch during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule to make a number of people try them under military tribunals where one to two thousand now you know within about ten months or eleven months we have twelve thousand which is of course a humongous number for a country ruled by the military the supreme council of the armed forces scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals. for. suspected. to be court system. the ordinary people that may be.
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medical records this is. and this is in the. hasty with no proper investigation usually with no lawyer and behind closed doors and with no right of appeal human rights activists complain military trials provide no justice and violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old center near centers because he had a box of molotov cocktails and people who are found guilty of killing somebody by brutally beating him up and torturing him until he died these are getting seven years in jail so i mean they're obviously there's something wrong with this picture a lot of these people i try for absolutely no reason i mean some more just just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough to get you in trouble that's exactly what matters is his case september the time the israeli embassy in cairo the place. beyond screenplay writer was present and clashes between the army and
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demonstrators and began helping the injured arrested he was brought to military barracks after summary trial which lasted just twenty minutes he was taken straight to prison to serve almost four months for terrorism he says the military dishes out a very rough justice. in the emerging a seventy two year old who's been in the army for at least thirty years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this lifestyle and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days what did know her son's whereabouts were when his sister came to me and said i have to talk to you i knew it was about him hoping for the best i prepared myself for the worst. a month after ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. they go is to intimidate. people the message is clear if you go to
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tory you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand the matter is no working on a book he wants to title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after being beaten and humiliated they'll never give up until their voice has a hand in. the citadel in cairo egypt a medieval symbol of power and strength it was fortified centuries ago to protect the region from his enemies at that time crusades and crusaders today egypt's rulers are doing the same striving to defend themselves and to keep power with thousands in jails and dozens killed the concern here is that they may have been working too hard. riffing off knotty cairo. over in syria violence escalating was more than one hundred reportedly killed on friday political leaders of the uprising say they expect official recognition from some
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arab league states later this weekend amid have a five for the flashpoint city of homs the country's second largest residential area aleppo suffers twenty car bombings that claimed at least twenty five lives responsibility was initially claimed by a senior member of the armed opposition but that was later denied by the free syrian army's chief was no un mandate to intervene in the crisis the united states is now said to be gathering a coalition of countries willing to prop up the opposition and more pressure on the masses but some activists say intervention will be a costly mistake. in syria i think it is a matter of there are some very legitimate interest in the country of people who would like to be able to participate more in their government and i think the government has made some effort to respond they think it needs to make more of an effort but i don't think that comes through foreign intervention it comes through indigenous processes of the people in the country if you look at any foreign intervention over the last several years you see that after the foreign
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intervention many more people died then could have possibly died through any type of indigenous process even one involving violence and i think that moscow and some of its allies on this matter are very wise seen the pitfalls of foreign intervention and there is a u.n. charter makes it very clear the use of force should only be the last possible means of trying to deal with the conflict now is curtis doebbler activist an international human rights lawyer talking to us from geneva. and coming your way in this program testing the slow rushes plagiaristic your resume sort of thing begins its first rehearsal for the winter olympic games by staging a competition for the world's leading winter afternoons. a week stream canine agility to meet the friendly pooch who excels in the art of the extreme sport our core and has become an online celebrity because of his death defying feat.
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the greek cabinet has unanimously approved a new set of desperate measures demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. meanwhile a two day strike in response to the harshest tyranny measures continues throughout the country passing the package was crucial to satisfy international creditors to get a second much needed one hundred thirty billion euro package to bolster the country's crippled economy the draft bill now has to go through the greek parliament and european finance ministers agreement came after a fierce and for a long cabinet debate which added with six ministers quitting their jobs meanwhile on friday anger over the plan spilled over into the streets of athens where police used tear gas on protesters were hurled rocks and fire bombs in reply financial journalist a metric of the action taken by greece's leadership has nothing to do with the people's welfare. the government side doing what's in the people's best interests it's just doing what's in its own interests and the people don't trust the
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government the government had an option they could have just said no we're not going to accept these measures and will go to default and by the way there's no reason that a default has to equal an exit from the euro zone i don't see that that connection other people have made that point and that's used to to intimidate the population of greece to scare them to say well if you don't accept these measures that we're going to default i'm going to be plunged into chaos among the drachma hyperinflation disaster and you know these are scare tactics because the people that are in power are bent benefit from a system where they can cooperate with the euro kratz in brussels i don't believe anyone within their right mind would think that they'd be able to to to pay those debts back clearly there's an interest for the banks that are on the hook the european central bank is obviously bought a lot of that debt so they stand to lose but at the same time if they just keep rolling it over they're going to lose anyway i think part of this is just a function of the of the system and people just trying to you hear that expression all the time kick the can count down the road but that's something that people do all the time in their daily lives and they certainly do it in politics they just
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they don't want to deal with the problem now and they just would rather progress made and push it along and i think in many in many cases that explains a lot of what you see here. later this hour our financial expert next guys are gives us his inimitable take on the latest business scandals. we've got him just where we want to go. well max this first headline is the theme of the show ok it's all you akbar. gold bar we're all terrorists now believe in a return to the gold standard you are now officially in extremis according to the f.b.i. yeah we've got of just where we want to you know they're trying to keep the gold price cheap because it makes a mockery of the u.s. dollar so the f.b.i. is saying if you buy gold you're a terrorist thus increasing the path. manic buying of gold around the world this is just like the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke trying to talk his way into
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some kind of economic nirvana which is failed miserably now the f.b.i. believe that they're hot the top the economists are going to talk gold down yeah right that's going to happen you idiots you know you would cause more panic buying . and in the us the obesity epidemic is growing with around twenty five percent of americans now considered overweight and as waistlines across the country swell out so do the pockets of the corporations who every year make millions from the fattening off america now the first lady michelle obama warns that obesity could be the next a national security threat with one of four adults i'm able to serve in the military because the overweight now she's leading by example keeping yourself physically fit and teaching children the importance of healthy eating obesity costs the u.s. department of defense one point one billion dollars a year and that looks unlikely to improve as big corporations continue to choose
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profit over quality reports. we're broke. we need to stop the out of control spending spree that's growing our washington d.c. as the debate over cutting government spending rages on billions of taxpayer dollars wasted each year on junk food between one nine hundred ninety five and two thousand and ten over two hundred fifty billion dollars was spent on subsidizing foods that are making americans fat seventy four percent of all the subsidies go to just ten percent of the agribusinesses these are not the small farms public funds go to agra giants like monsanto the company produces genetically modified seeds and claims more than ninety three percent of soybean and eighty percent of the corn market in the u.s. but this is not what americans are consuming the crops are turned into products like high fructose corn syrup which end up in most processed foods the effect on american health is devastating seventy five percent of americans are now overweight
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and advertisers today target can't see the most important part of the mcdonald's happy there is even a superman this is kryptonite for us this is the result of one in five kids in america are obese they like sweets and they like all the additives that are added to fast foods and sodas and snacks meanwhile corporations are profiting from the fattening of america they spend millions each year lobbying congress to uphold policies that keep the big businesses profitable david rosin calls the system the obesity and duster complex that this system is essentially it's you know it's a pay to play system and if you can pay. to support your local congressman or senator you have a stronger opportunity to both not only influence the laws that are passed but actually draft the was like congress recently declaring pizza a vegetable agribusiness is spend a lot of money on capitol hill and making sure that the funding is going towards
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things that are going to drive down the products of the most profitable products also cashing in on the. of america pharmaceutical companies the u.s. spends one hundred forty seven billion dollars each year treating obesity related illnesses countries from china to hungary require labeling of g.m.o. foods but the power of corporations and lobbyists to englewood's politics no such laws exist in the u.s. today and washington liz wall artsy. and remember you can access all of our news and much more about logging on to our website are two dot com here's what's in store for you there right now. staying on the safe side germany delays the signing of controversial new anti-piracy laws after protests erupted if you are also online . striking fire man in brussels give local police a cold shower and main entrance of the prime minister's office and find out why.
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so she welcomes some of the world's best winter athletes as they prepare for its first skiing competition which kicks off today it's to test the facility ahead of the winter olympics which the russian resort will host in two years' time. reports . so she's been known to have warm february's in the past but not this year blizzards and temperatures well below zero may be great for some winter sports but with downhill skiing you want good visibility and less snow that's already on the ground and not still falling preparing the first since such conditions was a challenge but the weather is of course a key factor heavy fog and blizzard can hold us up and cause delays but it hasn't affected overall preparations in the resort it is now ready to host the world ski
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cup. despite bad weather delays were minimal and as the mountain skies cleared domestic competitions began in earnest to put facilities to the test the venues here on the slopes and bridges across napoli are now are undergoing the sternest examination yet head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games for both the organizers and the athletes it's a perfect chance to fly in tune their routines ladies were the first to compete on the slopes for russia's downhill ski cup some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver and live peace here can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice in then cooler too which made it even more difficult but the overall conditions here are good. alexandra procopio came out on the top of the competition she says smaller events like this one offer an important rehearsal before the main event in sochi in two thousand and fourteen ishtar's it's a chance to train more and will have the advantage in comparison to other skiers
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who only come here for the olympics with thirty kilometers of new posts and world class accommodation the organizers hope to make the test competition something together both spectators and athletes a lawyer but above all this experience is priceless for the salty two thousand and fourteen organizing committee that will use this competition as a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. well if you're looking for the great outdoors but close to the city join our team later today as we delve into the winter activities on offer around the capital here's a preview of what's had. no
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other alternative way of traveling in the woods about special this is great for the dogs are just beautiful but so well and anyone can relate to the sense of try this out it cost one thousand rubles per person that's about thirty dollars for twenty minute ride. for militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia so they're in republic of dagestan the gunmen were surrounded by special forces in a residential hideout and open fire after refusing to surrender one police officer was killed and another injured in the shootout officials say all four were members of a terrorist group and want to buy authorities two of the bodies have now been identified
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. now as take a look at some other stories from around the world the u.n. chief ki-moon has called in argentina and the u.k. to avoid an escalation in tensions over the dispute of folk with islands in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to war argentina's foreign minister have to or to man has made an official complaint about the u.k.'s militarization and the south atlantic saying it's read all of south america. he's also accused of britain deploying nuclear weapons near the fall when islands which london describes as absurd. stories have rearrested an alleged leader of their radical islam the second balkan harami the east of the country he escaped from police custody last month after being accused of masterminding the violent christmas day bombings that killed at least forty four people the militants as amos to stablish shari'a law in a geria killed over a one hundred eighty people in a series of attacks in the city of qom last month. the world renowned annual
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carnival has kicked off in the streets of rio de janeiro despite local police striking over their salaries officers have been given an angry pay rise of thirty nine percent over the next two years but they want to double similar industrial action in the city of salvador saw the murderer a double with one hundred twenty people killed during nine days police strike now with a race for the white house wander away our very own new york resident laurie harshness asks people in the big apple their views about the process and. according to some polls ron paul is now that good in the u.s. republican presidential candidate is the race does he really have a chance this week let's talk about that do you think rand paul had a chance i personally don't looks weak just physically don't know just like an old man and said to say it maybe values are great and everything but. that's
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interesting so do you think that battle affect the way people vote that's affecting the way i've aluminite he's going to have whatever they want though do you think they're going to choose them for a given but not a chance right now that he's just too much on the fringe for the rest of america but he has such a strong contingent among the you. for now well i'll tell you that any change he'll bring forward will be on his good work that's what i'll tell you that he's laying down a foundation for the next president whoever he is exactly that's my belief you know and i and i mean the strain yeah i think he's got his i mean i think. those effects of the public the novelty of his candidacy world within about twelve months of his arrival and ron paul certainly would be a novelty in office he's been o.t. but that's what. politics is based on at the moment i think is interesting is a non-politician speaks very honestly but i don't agree with his policies so if i
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were living here i wouldn't vote for him no he gets more independents than both then all three candidates of the candidates so why does the media not pay attention to him well basically because he's against the establishment he's against everything is a stand for you against. military national complex to against the federal reserve you think he has a chance ciro he is there are ten zero why he doesn't have the finances of he doesn't have the team necessary to put together a serious campaign. so you're just talking about how he's running not actually his policies or whether or not he'd be good for the country well if he could doesn't have the team in the money to get his message out nobody's going to hear whether or not you think ron paul actually has a chance to become the next u.s. president the bottom line is if elected he certainly would shake things up and that seems to be something everyone is looking for.
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well the phrase for that seems to defy gravity and some of the rules of physics appeals to manitou like an adrenaline junkie and now a four legged want as well the dog in western ukraine has become an internet sensation over his passion for an active lifestyle are just like here chefs he has a story. the two thousand and one french movie of the year mark karr she launched a new world wide grace the park or thousands of when he was here asked worldwide took to the six treatment activity performing breathtaking stunts on walls and rooftops the skill of running and jumping from one surface to another is not so hard to master. after a few slip ups and bruises you will eventually get it right but imagine if you were doing that standing on four legs and not being as a gyle as a human being. but this ranji fellow proves nothing's impossible me to tread
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stuffer cierra terrier from western ukraine he may seem mean looking but in fact threat is extremely kind hearted and he is one of only two park or dogs known to the world yes. there is a dog like that in hawaii it might have appeared before to it but honestly i knew nothing about it when we started training besides that dog is much later in the tricks are not a spectacular. owner you've gainey had been doing park or until a knee injury ruined his career his unfulfilled dreams suddenly reincarnated in a six month old puppy for more than four years tried has been doing some amazing stuff both in urban landscapes and historic landmarks. when he was only six months old he jumped to a cheer and from there he jumped on top of a fridge that's when we thought he had talent this reed is very energetic and sometimes they're used in dogfights before the five years we've been doing par
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couper truth has never been aggressive to anyone he hasn't fought to even aborted anyone. it looks like a case of serious animal training just like in a circus but you forget he says he has only invented a few tricks for trad believe it or not the dog makes up almost all of the moves. he finds it interesting you can see in the video it looks like he's enjoying what he does i only coordinate him and very often he improvises some see that i field and park or myself and i will make the dog could do what i was unable to do you can see for yourself nobody makes you do the. credits breathtaking videos have garnered millions of you tube views and earned him global recognition in their hometown you've gainey and he spat have not become offline celebrities just yet at least until a movie starring the unique dog hits the big screen in the summer but everyone in the neighborhood can rest assured credit is not
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a threat. lexy rasho ski altie reporting from chile must see ukraine. has a report is coming up in just a few moments before that i'll bring you haven't stayed with us.
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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to man those that seek to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to do your mass and i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room.
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we have the most expensive health care system in the world. and it's probably valued the least least. the most. serious technology innovation all the eastham elements from around russia we've dumped a few jerks covered. them a. looming. just seems to. come in. and a safe.
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welcome back here with our look at the top stories the channel refused to step down as egypt's in capital braces itself for a day of massive public protests against military rule exactly a year after the former president was ousted thousands of people are calling on the armed forces to seek power immediately to a civilian government. divisions emerge in the armed wing of syria's opposition over claims of responsibility for the deadly bombing of a security service headquarters in the country's second largest city at least twenty five people were killed in one blast which the free syrian army first admitted but later tonight. a new threat to national security america's growing
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obesity problem is expanding waistlines and corporate bank accounts as big businesses harvest big profits from fattening the people one of five american children is now overweight as national fast food chains are accused of targeting them in their ad campaigns. but next maxes daisy offer a more of their unique financial inside in the latest edition of the kaiser report here on our team. tries or this is the kaiser report we got him just where we want oh. well max this first headline is the theme of the show ok it's all lou akbar. gold bar we're all terrorists now believe in a return to the gold standard you are now officially in extremis according to the.

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