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u.n. special envoy to syria could fianna is the security council to speak with one voice to support his east mission as russia calls on western powers to press the syrian opposition to negotiate. a new march in riga commemorating goes from fault on the hitlist side draws condemnation from both inside the country under broad gets a backing from a vacuum leadership. and the u.s. identifies the soldier suspected of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan an afghan investigation claims he wasn't working alone.
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watching r t we're live from moscow welcome to the program you were in a special envoy kofi annan has urged the blocks most powerful body to act cautiously on the syrian crisis and supports his peace mission to his briefing with the security council russia said it was using its contacts in the syrian regime to get them to cooperate and it's also called on western powers to do the same with the opposition parties portnoy as the latest from new york. special envoy kofi annan said that he will be sending his team to damascus as early as this weekend to begin to discuss in plans his plans to deploy international monitors there he said the first objective is to of course stop all the violence and bloodshed taking place in syria and to establish an impended humanitarian assistance for all
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those in need in syria he said if the syrian conflict is not handled properly and handled quickly the end results could be disastrous for the entire region kofi annan the u.n. arab league special envoy to syria also pleaded with u.n. security council members to finally break their deadlock and come to a consensus and speak with one voice he said that a will not only. give credibility to the international community but it will also help establish peace in syria and help his process just last weekend he did travel to syria he led with syrian president bashar al assad he also did meet with members of the opposition group he said that while there are clearly are differing opinions and ceasefire has not been established yet he is making all the efforts that could possibly be made russia has
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called on all security council members to support kofi annan efforts in syria and to not undermine it because of this those of a feeling that every time we manage to achieve some positive change in the students of damascus there's an immediate counterweight reaction in any steps forward or just missed i hope this will be the case of how countries in the middle east and some western states treat the mission of call vietnam. see that their efforts are being made continually on on the international level at this point if mr anon gets the the support he is asking for from the security council maybe eventually will see some some peace process coming to syria but at this point there is going to be a mission heading to damascus this weekend to continue mr announce a plan. well rob lyons deputy editor of an online magazine spiked believes the position of some international players may create serious hurdles for diplomatic efforts. very difficult to see how prokofiev because america
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britain and france have been very clear that they want the regime trying not to settle for anything less. as a result obviously the syrian government doesn't want to be replaced so there is a. situation in russia and china seems to be hoping for some kind of between so the solution is not on the ground and so on and so forth and that may be a step forward but mentally the. attitude of major western governments. in terms of replacing the assad regime i just said is true for compromise i'm not. there i would like to know whether you think kofi annan mission to syria will bear fruit you got your vote on our web site r.t. and the current in the majority of you are saying the mission will fail because the u.s. and its allies to see out of many compromised almost
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a third say it's too late for a diplomatic solution forty percent think it will manage to negotiate a cease fire conflict and just five percent of you so far today say the mission will be difficult the syrian opposition is meant to party dot com is ready to do your force. happens every year and provokes the wrath of those who remember nazi atrocities over a thousand latvians have held their annual march commemorating and fought for hitler's often s.s. divisions the gathering is condemned by many that fear and the broad as a misguided inspiration for young you know it's the streak of principles. there's been decades of change since the world where nazi germany dominated despite their bloody legacy is some quarters of europe their views still have an audience come
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your british jews are crying about the holocaust which remained here forty nine hundred forty one the war for the bolsheviks and killed me i think they received would be. reported here again this is as one thousand five hundred people gathered to officially commemorate those who force alongside hitler's armies and joined the waffen s.s. the meeting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia we can not be silent when the people all knowing the memory of the nads east of the earth and this are marching in the streets of a member of the european union those in the crowd to spend their start saying the so-called legionnaires were fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny faced latvia from all directions it was a military force full in nine hundred forty three from volunteers and members of the disbanded latvian siri police responsible for the mass killing of jews this
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image of latvia's youths lining the streets to welcome in veterans commemorating legionnaires day is one that has become commonplace as also something that is increasingly warring observers if it may represent a wry face at the thought writes. those same commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. i love being president i'm just as it is argued that it's foolish to assume that what s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's respect people who are in charge in the in positions of authority should not be setting examples where young people start to believe that a vote for an s s is something that you should wish to follow echoing such sentiments empty fascist groups governing by in a protest march the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to latvia with
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a continent which by financial crisis ultra nationalists and has been growing throughout europe you've got a fascist right people who are proud of being sort of ethics veterans or whatever and you've got the flashlight the people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of million coming from that kind of position is the growth most apparent in marches that celebrate those who others struggle with them accompanied by personal messages such as this well made as a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past. that could have an increasing impact on its future degrees r.t. reader and matthew well coming up this hour through wind rain and snow it's always the season for protest. in the broccoli here was that feeling that something was incredibly wrong with society and the system in general and everything that we you
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know are you know should be naturally against human beings and maybe only symbolic tents left in washington occupy wall street protesters say it's just the end of one chapter and beginning of the next. and the moralized police in kurdistan to make way for a new security system many fear that private firms will defend the private interests of the authorities rather than the public. the u.s. has identified the soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan as staff sergeant robert bales many of the suspect was flown from kuwait to an american military prison no charges have been brought against him so far i have read afghan croad claims he was not acting alone and up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre and international affairs commentator repros off believes the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is just history repeating itself and we have reason to believe it or are you know
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received no answer i want all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq when they said we would be there twenty four iraqis are going to kill of our nine u.s. service men none of them work for us you know the leader of the group with you were encouraged with dereliction of duty when you broke and ran. which is hardly amounts of you know. there's a difference between so-called collateral damage and argued that it was somebody. thousands of knowledge were there were people around that often you know of the sixteen afghan government state servant you know more than me but nine children three women and so we're just first of all that one person got really a very good minutes on this is a very good work for. them and for us to try to be very there's anything out of the us but artie's military contributor currently of kerry who shelf believes the u.s.
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military is trying to shift the blame in the wake of the shooting rampage focusing on the mental state of staff sergeant robert bales instead of its own foreign policy. the raging debates about punctuation massacre has been taken apart into two extremes first the shrinks both civilians and military alike claimed that it has nothing to do revive the war or the policy in afghanistan and try to shift the blame onto the psychological and mental state of her particular individual on the other side white house and the pants again trying to present the b.c. it's another mccarver incident as just an exception for head does not represent the value of the united states armed forces well the truth is somewhere in between each step until in a great symbol to portrayed all the victims of p.t.s.d.
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as a potential mass killer psychos who are looking for any opportunity to kill innocent civilians likewise it would be totally misleading to present the latest case of this mass murder as an exception. well r.t. dot com we've plenty more on that story just log on to check out all the latest and they're also online today so you could percent say benedict the sixteenth or does his own individual come alone for them in the fragrant footsteps of the dominance of discover the secrets of your read on our website. plus a titanic efforts or film director james cameron is attempting to break a world record for submarine diving that's. where the challenge is taking place at r.t. dot com. it's
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been six months since the occupy movement set up camp in the united states from new york and washington all the way to oakland in california the protesters showed light on issues from wealth inequality to police brutality ati's christian for zero looks at the movement through the eyes of a man who's been on the front lines since the very beginning. never doubts a free will is but still made it's a global the say ship before old samba nation is soulfire me to get saturation we first met joe more than in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement ah but not here since the october second i'm angry a little bit at just the whole of government corruption the fault lies mostly the really incestuous relationship the big dog on a. bike it's thought it was possible multiple atrocities lol why a former children's mental health counselor position was cut and he was left
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without a job and instead found a place and a person here still. this is the rule settlement that we just directed to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something and there's always some fights there's always some kind of drama happening with a lot of theft a lot of ice where the police have been telling my jockeys and all drugs they want to give us about the hang out going to the first. big pearson's where one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from timeliness to crime. still joel and many others here remained undeterred or today is january the third two thousand and twelve. year the revolution as i'd like to call it. it is close to . maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the
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cold but these are vision notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off a firestorm of both anger and support and the construction of this tent of dreams. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that maybe stopped would be here was the wade. that was i mean that was i mean they had infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like all formal vision on the tents to make sure the people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not meant the end of occupy wall street and this is an experience where today nearly six months after the occupy wall street movement began a few tense remain but it's largely symbolic though and the others say the occupation aspect of this movement is simply one chapter in a longer story many more still yet to be written. work for them the desire for radical change and a newfound belief that it can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be
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subdued when the brought it here was that feeling that something was incredibly wrong with society in the system in general everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against the human beings and. i think i found that there was actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now our team. well still to come here are to be the next stop in our close up series on you catherine get. the highlights a russian village a small population limited resources but one very unique name. with two bloody uprisings in just seven years both of which resulted in leaders being toppled from power it's no surprise then that security has become a major concern in central asia republic of kyrgyzstan but i can say sions of police brutality and violence the task of maintaining peace has been taken over by
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groups flooding the country and cities over some of the reports that are of this not just serving people's interests. perfecting their blows and kicks in this case downtown this young man a constant reminder of violence that apparently if you're just on street college it's for the past decade and. the searing in the police the punch line stretched to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last third is around lucian the police opened fire at protesters. almost seventy burkill forcing the president to step down and since then the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police with a cohort of vigilante groups will move here move i told you the movement of drugs iniki or people's guards towns tens of thousands. of these men patrol the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells their mobile and is
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a limb energical and increasingly they're being chained by the very same security forces best supposed to be feeling for or. terry or ministry in the ministry of defense whole train or volunteers and in time of need police in the army are to moralize we are ready to defend our country the new security arrangement was in full display during the recent presidential elections in addition to observer and regular police each polling station had a group of heavily built man who called themselves people's guards all candidates in the corridors elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure that these are graphic values work in their favor many of them are actual rather than political. the country's former interior minister sas reviling the regular police allows the courage as an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent boils over once again. under the pretext that
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the police would be moralized the new authorities are creating their own security the primary goal is not to protect. but rather to protect private interests of the bosses. this expression of the revolutions has also led to rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character garth's training weekly to hit targets. during the last revolution protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons are still at large. it's true that all business grows in times of instability but we're really tired of all these revolutions but we need a stable economic developments on evolution. on the sort of a beast revolutionary fatigue plays well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power by the popular uprising with thousands of well trained guards under their command but i sure hope not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy you could just that. i say look now to
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some other news from around the world this hour hundreds of egyptian protesters have relevant cairo against the country's military rulers they were outraged at recent court cleared military doctor of charges that are so-called genetic tests on female detainees sire abraham a young activist who filed a lawsuit against the doctor was one of seven women subjected to the procedure. the supreme council forces justify the tests as i said the technology from break ins. clearly has been arrested at a protest outside the news embassy in washington the actor he was released on said his goal was to raise awareness of the emergency situation of the plant and so sit up straight as if he's a sudanese president or provoking a humanitarian crisis venting food and aid from reaching those in need.
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when it's time discover more of the world's biggest country in a rush to close up serious. as we finalize our journey to the city of katherine burke situated in the euro mountains the area is famous for its precious stones and metal industry today though we head to a remote village where tom barton finds out about the harsh realities of life that . you could turn is one of russia's biggest cities but a few hours away it's a different world where we were going even tarmac would be a luxury that's it the end of the road from here to the village it's just forest town for me to do this and go even further off the beaten track.
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eventual we saw it welcome to the village of newspaper population ten people two horses two cows no running water no electricity and one rather strange name it was founded in one nine hundred twenty four by a group of collective farm workers who wanted to branch out on the road but they had a problem with this police to establish in your village they had to have permission so they've applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to use paper in things. straight learner is one of only two people to have lived here all their life the other is cleaner after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter has snowed in so what if they need help. if you don't get help if something happens you are on the road and if you can't get through the phone no one will come. said lorna with her two horses is essentially
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the taxi service the twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is content working on a vacant lot in sight. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here but i'm not sure i shall stay here long it might be fun for he wrote he's still young but i think you might give more than. the cows can roam freely. dogs don't need to be locked in fact apart from tending the livestock the only law and order necessary here is to stop the dogs fighting but newspaper is incredibly small too small and i wondered to survive i was surprised to find it was a leaner who disagreed with me but for him the village has a future in it so hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why city residents come here we even need new clothes
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states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs. because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw him all the way about and she was from the german oh you we're leaving my supper caught. up in the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake is made from and one doesn't. egg whites. and delicious breakfasts for the family cakes and toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.
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