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serv illusionary alliance which is comprised of more than fifty political groups six of them six of them are the most probably revolutionary groups in the country a lot of them are university students for whom it is the first day of the semester and they're staging sit ins and walk outs they're not going to lectures they're not going to classes they're boycotting exams they're saying that they want to see some real changes towards democracy in the country which they haven't seen yet they're also calling on workers for massive strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down but a lot of the parties that have made it into the parliament. during the recent elections are actually not supporting the strike primarily or we should know it's the muslim brotherhood who are saying that these that this these calls for a massive strike are actually destructive to the country because that will only charge egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the country are not supporting the strike as well but students the young people who work behind this site really show was the workers who wanted to see some real
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differences there are saying that things must be chase immediately more on why it's yours are going to strike here is my call it very thing else. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid high price to leave in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still lose large during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule the estimated number of people try them under move 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 or scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals. or.
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suspected killer was. thought. to be simply a court system. that ordinary people i mean. 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 to violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old son to your 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 it there obviously there's something wrong with this picture a lot of these people are trying for absolutely no reason i mean some just just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough to get you in trouble that's
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exactly what matters is his case september the time the israeli embassy in cairo the place. began screenplay writer was present at clashes between the army and demonstrators and began helping lean jered 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 he's been in the army for at least two years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this large start and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days what did know her son's whereabouts. 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
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ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. goal is to intimidate people the message is clear if you go to to really you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand that mad is no working on a book he wants to title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after been beaten and humiliated they'll never give up until their voices the herald of. 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
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working too hard. written off knotty cairo. and true and freelance journalist based in cairo told me earlier that human rights violations on the streets of the capital have led to concerns but barack has been replaced by another dictatorship. people are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer power in jean and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since they came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters were people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that
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nothing will change and that will just slip into a new a new dictatorship i think most people here would say or do you say but the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. a draft resolution on syria has been circulated at the un general assembly by saudi arabia it's similar to the text vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by all sides it lays blame primarily on the syrian authorities meanwhile state t.v. says government assassinated an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking military officer since protests began a move reports of ongoing fighting in the country the city of aleppo suffered twin blasts on friday that killed twenty eight the free syrian army initially claimed responsibility for the turks but later denied involvement and blamed the government
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meanwhile syria's opposition says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this week and with no u.n. mandate to intervene in the crisis the u.s. is now said to be gathering a coalition of states to support your position with calls from washington to on the road. bills because his doublet an international human rights lawyer has told me earlier that intervention would 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 i 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 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
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of its allies on this matter are very wise in 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. this is a t. i live here in moscow still ahead for you this hour. causing tension and pollution find out about the claims that american military bases around the world are costing lives through their environmental impact and wrecking the area around them. that still to come but first the technocrat prime minister of greece has cleared one major hurdle on the way towards more rescue cash as his cabinet approved the deep cuts needed to secure it whether he lost six ministers who resigned in protest of the deal now the plan is to be given the green knight by parliament some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against the deal more
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conservatives are calling for an early election the new deal includes firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minin wage it's being pushed by the leaders who put the next one hundred thirty billion euro bailout on hold trade unions are in the second day of their. forty eight hour strike with crowds outside the parliament on friday protesters clashed with police used tear gas response to stones and problems and i can honestly exclaimed his police could already be in a state of unofficial people. it looks highly likely that the parliament will get enough votes to pass this package it only maids a majority of the three hundred members of deputies it's a human cameral system here what we have at the moment is a structured default in fact almost seventy percent of the net present value of all outstanding votes which will reduce reduce our debt burden by a hundred billion now that isn't such
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a terrible deal i'm not sure that all of the investors will take it up it may not get one hundred percent take up but it may get seventy or eighty percent and even that helps the european leaders face some difficulties because while in greece there is a lot of austerity wariness over there there is a lot of buy out the head so they can't be seen as giving away money even though most of this is in the form of loans they have to impose some strict conditionality for two reasons to please their local electorates and also to make sure that this money can eventually be repaid by a more sustainable great state they have set some very rough conditions that great politicians find very hard to stomach and there are also other issues in the sense that. you can't really pass anything and everything willy nilly and they have at the beginning of this whole process so to make an example of greece so others don't go down the same road and if they don't disperse the money quickly which they
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haven't done it increases their leverage of the great politicians of the greek government to pass the kind of measures they want. more analysis on europe's debt woes on our website. and by the way while you're there here's what else you can find online. and find out how the sea. web site has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from the anonymous group after suffering a crash on the friday night. could help delay any military strike on iran breaking actors in their government against an offensive ahead of the queen of massive even. that and plenty of other stories for you available online at r.t. dot com. thousands of right across europe against the international anti piracy accord known as actor people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania have voiced their fear that the treaty would harm freedom of speech and lead to online censorship. has more from them. in line with
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hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me demonstrating against the anti counterfeit sic trade agreements on this new green one which should make its next step by step see. if they used tyrants to the police and activists in the streets with no monetary policy and they're not to be the primary least anonymous. and this is very often where they've got that is we don't shut down the internet this thing actor culture is made of copies and start internet censorship and one of the main objections to the truth movement is that it's the negotiate it makes it entirely secret this is a must see the making me. resign didn't. see it done with the secretive and undemocratic since we negotiated in secret people who
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are not let civil society and they have a delight to see the way to say this will affect our civil liberties this will reduce freedom of speech this will stop us in being able to comment to hold people to crank the results of the treaty is incredibly dangerous one of the main complaints about this document is it. unclear wording that it would be easy to make an intentional copyright syringe is mentally liable and also criminalizes what used to be a civil offense and that means we see a lot more cases potentially like the one of a minister using woman who shared twenty four songs on the internet and found herself liable for one in a half a million dollars worth of damage is essentially sixty two thousand five hundred dollars but each song that she had to share the threat was to board seats the straight to sign it's the threat to internet service providers your experience a few chub of facebook a flicker could become very different but it's also that even innocently conic tell
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you to copyrighted material could actually increase with criminal sanctions this is not just about the internet would also try to close electronics and also to medicine which would make it more difficult for pool countries to buy generic own trademarked cheap drugs making it more expensive for the poor apaches to keep their people healthy basically what these people are saying is that it's been made behind closed doors fundamentally affects the economies the privacy and the civil liberties open ordinary everyday people and the fact that it's been done in secret means that they can only assume that this isn't in their best interest. the recent reporting there from london america's mighty military presence around the world is leaving many locals with a bad taste in their mouths quite literally the pentagon is accused of causing massive and sometimes deadly pollution not just in other countries but at home too . the united states department of defense the planet's biggest
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polluter with hundreds of military bases around the world the department is responsible for more ways than any other company or country this is a consistent pattern of a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of an imperial mindset the problem has persisted throughout history from nuclear testing in the pacific in the fifty's fire. to nato attacks dropping depleted uranium in libya it gets into the water table and it does damage to the kidneys and the liver is very very highly dangerous some countries say they've had enough like japan which is pushing for the ouster of u.s. troops stationed in okinawa what looks like ninety thousand people in okinawa and thousands others across japan seems to represent people saying as they have been for quite some time that they have just had enough others suffer in silence it tends to be connected at least conceptually to environmental racism countries are
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being occupied and just leveled or destroyed afghanistan and iraq now libya and if you look at the history in the late twentieth century i mentioned vietnam earlier. is another place where you're going to see this happening this was going on a vehicle with naval bombing in puerto rico and it happens in our own backyard i can please you north carolina where for three decades people bathed and drank contaminated water. only. through. veteran gerry adams mayor believes he lost his nine year old daughter to cancer causing radioactive toxins he and his family were exposed to while base there they were told they have these contaminants and they're getting more or have years before they ever even bother to test their well and he's not alone one in ten americans live near military. or something some superfund
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site because military bases that extreme and putting in not only radioactive pollution also you know. how is this able to happen the entire politics is controlled by fossil fuel interests wall street interests and military interests and though the contamination is costing lives the cost to clean up the mast may be too big for the pentagon an estimated three hundred twenty billion dollars that's almost half the pentagon's budget instead the money is being spent here on wars in afghanistan and iraq and military operations elsewhere. and in today's climate in congress the environment is not at the top of the agenda this is the most. in history so far this congress the house of representatives has voted again and again to block action to address climate change to hold. water pollution well president obama recently announced his
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plan to boost military presence in australia a military buildup also happening and the province in south korea with the pentagon splurging on expanding their military reach there seems to be a little funding left to clean up existing basses around the globe and washington was wall. twenty minutes policy in the russian capital to update you on some other world news in brief iran's president has to make a major announcement on the country's controversial nuclear program in the next few days some of them are just gave no details but said it would never hurt to program to enrich uranium which he says is for peaceful purposes he was speaking on the third anniversary of the country's islamic revolution tens of thousands of pro-government demonstrators gathered across iran to mark the occasion. newly independent south sudan. the agreement to relieve tensions over disputed territory
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on the border and the sharing of oil revenues south sudan split from the north last year ending decades of civil war in which some one in the hall million people died in argentina as accused britain of sending nuclear missiles near the disputed falkland islands the country's foreign minister claimed a submarine with nuclear weapons was recently she was recently sent there as part of britain's deployment london described the claims as absurd yes collation and tensions over the falklands comes in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to war. and as russia city of sochi gears up for the winter olympics some of the biggest stars of winter sports have gathered at the resort to try out the slopes and with just two years now until the big event there sampling runs for the downhill world cup but just before the race kicked off russian president dmitri medvedev took to the snow to showcase his scheme skills and has done these reports tests for the twenty fourteen sochi games are in full swing.
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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 for downhill skiing you want good visibility and less snow that's already on the ground and not still falling preparing the posts in such conditions was a challenge but the weather is of course a key factor in blizzards 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 cup. despite bad werther 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 napoleon are undergoing the sternest examination yet the head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games for both the organizers and the athletes it's a. if
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a chance to fly in tune their routines ladies were the first to compete on the slopes for russia's downhill ski caught some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver and i knew it was some silly basically live piece here it can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice in vancouver 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 for the main event in sochi two thousand and fourteen. and it's a chance to train more and will have the advantage in comparison to other skiers who will 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 gettable for spectators sent 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
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a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. let's stay with a sporting theme now but a very different car and the adventure activity known as park or appeals to many today get adrenaline junkies and it seems to some four legged ones as well with a dog in western ukraine becoming an internet sensation here's artie's alexy ski. the two thousand and one french movie that came across she launched a new world wide great the park or thousands of print using worldwide took to the sixty's performing breathtaking stunts on the walls adding. this 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 we need to tread
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a stuffer cheer a terrier from western ukraine you may see mean looking but in fact that is extremely kind hearted and he's one of only two 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 guinea had been doing park or until a knee injury ruined his career he's unfulfilled dreams suddenly reincarnated in a six month old puppy for more than four years trad 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 the fridge that's where he thought he had talent this greed is very energetic and sometimes they're used in dog fighters
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before the five years we've been doing part crew are true it has never been aggressive to anyone he hasn't fought you even aborted it you. it looks like a case of serious animal training just like in a circus but you get he says he has only invented a few tricks for trad believe it or not the dog makes almost all of the moves. he finds it interesting you can see individuals it looks like he is 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 do what i was unable to you can see for yourself nobody makes you do. trouts 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
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the neighborhood can rest assured credit is not a threat. let's see we're. reporting from chad enough one ukraine. that brings us not exactly twenty seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital a cause report is just ahead but up first i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a moment stay with us live here in moscow. from
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los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are 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 be a mass and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for a bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care and emergency room.
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we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the.
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the. technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia. the future. this is. egypt street. again exactly a year off to president mubarak was forced from power protestors according to step down immediately accusing them hindering reform. more pressure is put on the syrian regime and the new resolution blaming it at the un general assembly state t.v. says. in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking military officer since protests began. reporting this out of. brussels with more cuts in exchange for paying out cash while people fight their
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frustrations on the streets of a. since six ministers have resigned in protest the plan is to be given the green light by parliament. but to print updates for the moment i'll be back with more on the stories and other developments in hoff an hour from now in the meantime stacey well for more of their unique financial insights in the latest edition of the cars report here nothing. i'm max keiser this is the kaiser report we got him just where we want to go. well max this first headline is the theme of the show ok it's alu akbar. gold bar we're all terrorists now believe in a return to the gold standard you are now officially an extremist according.

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