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shall we voice is a serious call for an all out bloody war against the regime as an international envoy seeks to negotiate peace talks between the government and opposition. the us like the old system is under scrutiny as aspirants claim serious flaws in voter registration put the integrity of the upcoming presidential vote in question. as did britain agrees status within grasping distance of its your zone rescue cash a story suicide rate suggests the public is already very the brunt of cuts.
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on the russian capital you're watching r.t. the joint u.n. arab league envoy to syria called the i will see talks between syria's opposition and the government when he travels to damascus on saturday and battle leader bashar loss of a signal to his willingness to talk but some rivals have angrily dismissed the idea out of hand but as more of an option reports from syria it's not always clear where the calls to find on are coming from. one spirit. friday has become one of the fines for the arab spring countries in syria this new tradition has gone even further with activists online giving every friday its own series special name because the deflect the opinion of the street or the syrian people and to also send a message to the external world of all of the syrian situation the more the opinions of syrian people but the days of the. names like dignity and honor last
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march have come to an end with calls to arm the rebels until the president becoming the main message from those protesting against the regime so a lot of. people saw a lot of killing people and saw their families are being killed in front of their eyes so i think this is just natural to ask for killing is accusing the president coming many however argue that these hostile messages are we to to provoke more followers in the steering the country towards civil war i always try to. affect. people might think you would think. this is the way to provoke syrians across syrians to connect the act of terror and violence in a noble thing so maybe we're dignity or symbolically from the history of syria and of course it's a purpose and all the government protests in syria have
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a very. rough few things they usually know before the day friday the place last the time also the prayer and even the cause they're gathering for and they're chanting i usually make. and this thing changes although with. so exactly behind these messages. it is now a common subject among people in general not just on t.v. but i don't know specific source i heard from the people around me my friends but actually television. some yes. well i mean i don't know there are some people who name every friday but it doesn't interest me i think you should ask them. i think i heard something on t.v. . the trail led us to a website called syrian revolution. it is here that the name of the coming friday
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is usually published supposedly after people voted for it it said its citizens all of the groups strangely enough the syrian national college admission committee the opposition within the country say they have nothing to do with the site oh another place with voting is carried out cannot be accessed from syria of course the walking is electronic voting. but i'm sure it is real or not it's honest or not while it's not clear who really stands behind the idea some names like china is killing us or. suggest an agenda that's not looking to compromise and seek a peaceful solution to the conflict a little was once very old syrian national council represents me to try to change people's mentality for the for prayers and gargle when people feel themselves it's become a day for violence now it eventually people on the street weak and why even with
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the rhetoric growing stronger every friday many here are starting to question who is really pulling the strings trying to escalate the violence if an option altie damascus. to be now where the interim prime minister has thanked the u.s. for what he called for men to support in overthrowing water khadafi but the new libyan authorities are facing an uprising of their own from a group of powerful tribal leaders who have declared partial taught him in the east of the country political analyst pepe escobar told r.t. that washington is likely to take little interest in political developments and polls cut off in libya. we have a natal couple. thought up the needle as we call not will stuff a cool job he's saying that he's going to intervene and so he's going to be what you know going to come after two point zero is going to intervene against the people of syria nika all over again because they are splintering to try obscene eastern libya has been antagonizing the central government tripoli for decades if
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not centuries and this is actually what's happening because we sprinter nato doesn't care of course the u.s. the brits and the french don't care as long as they have contracts which truthfully alliance between especially against between a washington loan them in paris and the g.c.c. they want to take over and then distribute the spoils and who cares about the future of libya as a democracy is going to be war warning shoots tribal feuds this is going to google for average samar sec a they were based researcher for syracuse university says that what's happening in media now is what product foreign military intervention in the first place. the country is in chaos right now it's heartbreaking and outrageous as president obama said about the situation in syria no this iteration in libya is the way we hear about militias torturing people who
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are suspected of supporting qaddafi in the past and there was a hideous story today about someone's fingers getting cut off because he was horsewhipped on the hand repeatedly over and over again until his fingers were severed these are crimes against humanity that are happening in libya and there's no outcry by the international community the same international community that called for a no fly zone in libya to save civilians to save people's lives so really it's a very dangerous situation we don't know who has what capacity right now to attack other people and other tribes and so it's very difficult political solution is required for this certainly not a military one you're watching archaeological moscow still ahead of the program no war to high british authorities peek into the online activity of the nation find out just how much the taxpayer is coughing up to be spied on. was pray for health medical tourists are given the red carpet treatment in india as a sick and death city to look at helpless and left to fend for themselves.
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the u.s. is rarely slow to criticize the election process in other countries including russia's presidential vote last week but if you months america will have to elect a new leader using a voting system which has a few flaws i would so are not explains. one of these men could be president just eleven months from now as president even if i'm president as president of state so you've got is somebody who can actually get it done in washington as americans head to the polls in two thousand and twelve determine to take part in democracy millions of votes may end up rejected or thrown away com election night two point two million votes were lost in two thousand and eight due to voter registration problems david becker is the director of elections initiatives at the pew center on the states he says america's nineteenth century paper based a voter registration system has left the nation's registration rolls plagued by
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errors we found roughly twenty four million records that are no longer up to date mostly because people have moved in some cases because people have died and we found fifty one million eligible voters who aren't on the rolls but one in four of the old or citizens united states a new report on america's quote inaccurate costly and inefficient voting system also found nearly two million dead individuals listed as eligible u.s. voters and nearly three million citizens registered in more than one state we're seeing voting problems during the two thousand and ten midterm elections resulted in the reported sixty thousand votes being tossed out not county officials say the misuse of new electronic optical scan machines was to blame yet again the biggest prize would likely be the integrity of america's free and fair elections we should assume that every citizen that is eligible to vote can vote and if there's some
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problem on election day there should be some way that they can correct so if they're not told i don't see you in a book even though you are a citizen even though you are eighteen your vote isn't going to count concerning russia back in december u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said the same thing following russia's parliamentary election the russian people like people and. everywhere deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted and come this november it all starts with you american citizens will be counting on us leaders to stand by their words for you no party new york the upcoming u.s. presidential election is also the main focus of debate and cross talk coming up later friday peter lavelle grills his guests about the prospects of republican party nominees rivaling barack obama and how important the state of the u.s. economy will be to the final outcome. republicans have more money than god if they can produce anyone that is even mildly attractive i mean obama looks like
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a rock star next to these guys i think a lot of the really strong viable republican candidates are waiting for the next election cycle i think twenty sixteen you're going to be see some really good candidates but right now the economy is such a mess that no matter who is elected in two thousand and twelve is going to have a very hard fight on their hands and could be committing political suicide group but he wants to. use it a couple of times focus on the economy focus on the economy the economy is a mess it's sort of again it's worth noting that the economy is picking up there is an uptick. you know if you see it through i'm going to disagree with you there i mean when we have sixteen trillion dollars in debt that is the economy is not recovering sixteen trillion dollars in debt is not acceptable. and you carry the chances are you're being watched has more c.c.t.v.
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cameras per person down almost any other nation on earth and now the government is planning to cast its intrusive eye over online activity phone calls and text messages all under the guise of an anti terror lot as archie thought about reports of a taxpayer well paid war waged on. soon you could be watched everywhere you go in the u.k. even where the cameras can't see you all your emails texts and phone calls will be monitored under a new anti terrorist spy plan the government will know which websites you visit it will even snoop on your private facebook messages no matter who you are all your personal data will be stored for a year in a massive surveillance operation privacy campaign is condemn this is the first step towards the government taking control of these are the only place in the world has got that kind of regulation is china i'm sorry but britain is not a child of britain's already one of the most watched societies in the world the
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number of c.c.t.v. cameras is estimated at nearly two million now the government wants to monitor all electronic communication as well including social media taking surveillance to a level never seen before just what she's seen calls and messages won't be kept but the government will know exactly who you speak to when you do it and where you are it will be stored by broadband and mobile companies but security services will have real time access at the click of a button secretly living your life with the new digital rights groups say it will leave people living in fear of big brother the problem here is really that diddy's intrusive and the sort of places where you can see that might be useful could be either it could be anything could be tax it could be to force it could be copyright infringement. and terrorism and serious crime or a tiny subset of the possibilities that you could use this information for it's the
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ones being watched who are paying for it to cybersecurity experts predict it'll cost taxpayers over a billion dollars to be spied on even then there's no guarantee they'll be safe from other prying eyes any personal guarantee. you absolutely curity is an idiot and if you're dealing with information which might be required at short notice by law enforcement then that means that quite a lot of people need to be involved although i suspect most of the time is going to be quote unquote secure. they're all thorough it's highly likely that there will be large scale failures as well if you're typing into eatings private for now the legislation still has to go through parliament previous governments wish for a surveillance where it was fought off in two thousand and eight over fears of data safety a greater fear this time we're told is the threat to national security with events like the olympics the government's justification so it may not be long before what
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you thought was personal reaches a much wider audience either bennett's artsy london. remember you can always log onto our kiddo com to check out more news stories and comments online for you right now occupy wall street protests occupy computer screens thanks to a new video game developed by programmers in california discover how you can play at r.t. dot com also. probably a group of grannies look set to represent russia have the next year a vision song contest find out more about the band on our website.
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right things were troubling. welcome back here with our team now israel has asked the united states for weapons that could be crucial in a strike on iran's underground nuclear facilities shopping list including bunker
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buster bombs and refusing planes was handed over by benjamin netanyahu during his visit to washington earlier this week and israeli prime minister said no decision on military action has been made as i signaled he was running obligations for other forces of war of iraq obama stressed the need for the pharmacy and the chance of try little nuclear talks with iran that certainly however admitted washington is still considering military action saying america has a better chance of striking iran successfully former reagan administration official dr craig roberts has made all this ramped up war without a recall tensions have forgotten there's no actual proof iran is seeking to build a bomb. it's not clear yet a red is used. the combined intelligence estimate of united states government that is the genetics of kenya in the wall sixteen intelligence agencies is that iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program on tape they said in two thousand and
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three that would be nineteen years ago when the united states has demanded is that in red give up its rights as a signature or to the nonproliferation treaty if you send a nonproliferation treaty in agree to inspectors you or you have the right to. nuclear energy and the united states is insisting that iran has to be excluded from having your community with carl's united states says it's some time iran might decide to make a bomb so the whole thing is just made up this contrived we've got through for nuclear war i'm kind of curious they didn't sound the treaty they didn't pull it for eight and they're all in good standing with their understates they receive all kinds of aid even you actually has a real facts there and india. meanwhile some reports suggest the u.s.
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has already offered israel advanced weaponry but only to persuade not to attack until after america's next presidential election had started a call for details and aspart opinion on that issue. will. greece has reportedly finally agreed a deal with private investors which could allow it to stave off a default on its debts a final announcement is due later on friday agreement as part of a broader package needed to release bailout money from the e.u. but even if the worst case scenario has been avoided greeks still have to live with the financial sacrifice that's been forced on the artist on bart reports. curriculum brucey threatens to through her so from her office window in downtown athens she and her husband have had their salaries cut of debts and
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a mortgage they can't pay and now they've just learned their jobs are under threat she was eventually told down after many hours on the ledge. this is where all unforseen worked but this organization tried to provide housing support for people on low incomes over did until two weeks ago when the government announced this place was closing all over seven hundred staff here could lose their jobs because of frantic meetings in corridors and offices distressed workers trying to find out what will happen to them or today based organization has been going strong for sixty years and it's not fair to send their money to other departments they want to take our money to cover other hole sports they want to take money for other necessities put all our families will be unemployed if we could save greece ok but there's no way that money will fill the gap you know with the old so stacked against them some desperate greeks even contemplate ending it all. and this is the
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only phone line in the country that's dedicated to stopping them line ten eighteen is greece's single volunteer run charity suicide prevention line in two thousand and eleven calls here doubled calls like one the telenor picked up from another standing on the fifth floor of a building threatening to jump said family men third southwest said it was handicapped and received the benefit and this benefit when it was about to be cuts and he was about to lose it so and said there's nothing so what can i do to help what can i do to help myself so that it had to suffer among the charity to is short of money it's volunteers unsure of their future although many greeks grudgingly accept the need for austerity they're adamant that m.p.'s should combine compassion with the cuts the main problem now is the funding strategy because this was the one thing it's like for you people it's a suicidal for the problem of the market in the house for everyone agrees that
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greece's road to recovery will be long and painful but greater and greater numbers of greeks worry that the debt the country is in. could cost their families much more than just money from books. else take a look at some other stories from around the world a british and italian hostages have been killed during a failed joint rescue attempt in one gerry u.k. nigerian special forces say the q. have been executed before they reached down the man i've been working on a construction project in the country's north were abducted last may their kidnappers claimed to have links with al qaida. the city authorities have charged of some of bin laden's widows with illegally entering and living in the country a lot of the women is reported to be from yemen another from saudi arabia while the nationality of the third remains are now they want to face up to five years in prison if convicted as on the glaad was killed last may when u.s. forces raided his residence in the pakistani city of abbottabad. here now footage
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of a pod of dolphins stranded on a brazilian beach has become an internet hit about there you go caught in strong currents were washed up on the shore locals and tourists came to the aid of the mammals turning them around and sending them back out to sea incidents like this are described as extremely rare. the queues outside india's hospitals are just one side of a huge gap between rich and poor and many accuse the government of being more worried about attracting medical tourists than helping patients at home are just takes a look. it's lunchtime at this government hospital in delhi and hundreds of indians are camped outside the medical facility waiting hoping and praying that they might get let inside. thing hasn't been working for three months and claims that he was supposed to have an operation for his hernia today but now doctors are telling him that his operation will cost almost three times more than he initially thought about
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a little bit about robert on with i think coming to mind hospital supposed three months early in the morning with an empty stomach for different kinds of tests are used to come in the morning or to get an appointment time you had four or five in the evening. it's impossible to. carry over of your own things story is that you need every year millions of indians wait outside of government hospitals hoping to get the treatment they need according to the supreme court indians below the poverty line are supposed to get access to free health care and government hospitals but that leaves many indians who are technically above the poverty line but still extremely poor with no affordable health care. there is a severe shortage of doctors in india with some study indicating that there could be as few as point six doctors for every thousand people in india compared to two point six million ited states that means doctors the private hospitals can charge a premium for their services. on the other side of delhi the sidewalks outside his
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private hospital are clear of wine when they. arise recovering from his operation and pay thirty dollars a day for a bed in this private hospital he says the extra cost is worth it it's easier to get treated here and also i get the medicine on time many say the indian government is actually widening the gap between rich and poor in there at philippi to access health care by offering tax incentives and subsidized plan to private hospitals in the hope of attracting medical tourists from abroad many indians believe however the government should focus on getting health care to its own people first particular state or government has succeeded in putting in they had a good number of doctors there is no won't go that far more resources are required to significantly leg incapacities in translating those resources and direction. as a nation are rising well on his way to a full recovery go paul saying is losing hope experts say it's down to the
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government to take care of the poor in india society but as long as the country's public health spending remains among the lowest in the world it is due to lag behind preassure either new delhi india and from our top stories is only a couple of minutes away status.
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