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two deadly terrorist bomb blast rocked security compounds in the syrian capital of a just a day after the u.n. special envoy to the country kofi unknown reported back on his efforts to broker peace between the warring sides. and then you will march in regard commemorating those who fought on hitler side drawls condemnation from both inside the country and abroad but gets backing from the lobby and leadership. and the u.s. identifies the soldier suspected of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan but an afghan investigation claims he wasn't working alone.
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and thank you for joining our t.v. where we have news for you twenty four hours a day two explosions have hit security complexes in the syrian capital damascus killing a number of civilians and police state television says the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers our middle east correspondent polis leader has the latest. eliminate reports are just that vehicles patter with explosives were decimated targeting the security complex and hitting the police and intelligence buildings now the government is calling this the group of terrorists and state television is showing pictures of charred bodies vehicles and blood stains to the streets these blasts come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month on the tree of twenty eight
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people were killed in twin blasts at the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december there have been three suicide bombings in damascus these blasts also come just two days after the one an anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad there is on blowing and spiraling violence in syria and we're also receiving reports that al qaida is now operating there calling for the opposition groups to unify there if that and they fight against the syrian regime now so far all if it's at a cease fire have failed the former u.n. chief kofi annan has been trying to mediate some kind of peace plan between the regime and the opposition and in the coming days they will be a deliberation from the united nations in syria assessing the situation on the ground and trying to move talks forward u.n. special envoy kofi annan has urged the world's bodies of the most powerful group to support his peace measure but rather wires from the on line news magazine spiked it
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believes some countries may create serious hurdles for a diplomatic efforts. it's pretty difficult to see how far kofi can get because america britain and france are being very clear that they want to be regime change in syria they're not really prepared to settle for anything less than part of it as a result obviously the syrian government doesn't want to be the place so there's a. lot in that situation we rushed through and tried to seem to be hoping for some kind of in between so the solution was not so that we. sort of thought i'm not you but that may be a step forward but fundamentally the. major western governments. has to go much much further in terms of replacing. it was it was through the compromise of law. and we would like to know whether you think
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kofi annan mission to syria will bear fruit cast your vote on our web site archie dot com currently the vast majority of you are saying the mission will fail because the u.s. and its allies want to see assad out and are not ready for compromise less than a quarter believe it's too late for a diplomatic solution and six percent think will manage to negotiate a cease fire in the conflict just four percent say the mission of will be difficult as the syrian opposition is too fragmented archly dot com is where you can go to have you with voice. one of the two belorussian and found guilty of last year's metro bombing in minsk has apparently been executed one of the man's relatives say they've received a letter from the country's supreme court although there's been no official confirmation a number of international human rights groups have questioned the deaths than the death sentence and called on president we've got to get it right we refuse people were killed in the bombing which took place last year and in november the supreme
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court found two men guilty of the attack and sentence them to death. it happens every year and provokes the wrath of those who remember nazi atrocities over a thousand lothians have held their annual march commemorating those who fought for hitler's waffen s.s. divisions the gathering is condemned by many both a lot and abroad as a misguided inspiration for young male nazis artie's jacob graves reports there's been decades of change since the world when nazi germany donated despite the bloody legacy to some courses of europe that view still have an audience. are you ready for the jews are crying about the holocaust which region forty nine hundred forty one we were hit with bolshevik and killed many more i think they received was very deserving. people you're here this is one thousand five hundred
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people gathered just fishy commemorate those who feels alongside it was armies and joins the waffen s.s. stoking fears for the neo nazi resurgence of math me yet. we can not be silent when the people. in the memory of the nads east of the earth and their thirst are marching in the streets of a member of the european union those in the crowd to spend their start samus so-called legionnaires worth fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny based latvia all directions was a military force formed in nine hundred forty three volunteers and members of the disbanded lapindo series police responsible for the mass killing of jews concerns have been raised about these public displays particularly on the messages being heard by three days to get this image of that is you lining the streets to welcome in veterans commemorating legionnaires day is one that has become commonplace it's
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also something that's increasingly warring observers if it made her present a rise of the far right both sane commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. 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 is a start that has many opponents worried by the direction the country is headed people who are in charge in certain positions will thirty should not be setting examples where young people start to believe that of earth an s s is something that you should wish to follow you know the fact that they're also near nazis groups who use these marches as opportunities to promote their xenophobe or so. and he semitism and so forth is also not correct echoing such sentiment anti fascist
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groups gathered nearby in a protest to be annulled march the recognition of the latvian s.s. unit has been slammed by the european commission against racism and intolerance and no action ever been taken to stop operate if any government wants to endorse these kind of actions and i think there's cause for concern. there's a right to if you want for freedom of speech but one doesn't have to welcome it so if the government's involvement supportive of any way of anything here then i think it's appropriate for europe to make some intervention but the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to latvia but the continent in which by financial crisis ultra nationalists and has been growing throughout europe you've got what i would call two groups you've got a fascist right people of are proud of being sort of etc or whatever and you've got the fascist like the people who like probably marion le pen in france are all right
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only coming from that kind of coming from that kind of position. on their policies because it puts off some of the voters but in many senses are just as dangerous as the growth most apparent in marches it's celebrate those who others strong be them . company personal messages such as this made it a lot for your t.v. station they stand as a striking image of your lingering. like have an increasing impact on its future degrees c. three get in that field. and coming up this hour through window rain and snow it's always the season for protests there may be only symbolic turns left in washington but i'll keep our wall street protesters say it's just the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next also. demoralize police in kurdistan make way for a new security system but many fear that private firms will defend only the private
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interests of the new authorities rather than the public. the u.s. has identified the soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan as staff sergeant robert bales earlier the suspect was flown from kuwait to an american military prison no charges have been brought against him so far however an afghan probe claims he was not acting alone and up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre international affairs commentator rick ross off believes the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is just history repeating itself. and we have a reasonably a go at you know received notes right all we have to recall seven years ago in iraq in the city part d. for twenty four hours iraqi civilians were killed by not anywhere servicemen none of whom were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group was super in charge with a dereliction of duty and broken and ran. richardson is hardly commensurate no
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punishment but there's a difference between so-called collateral damage and harder to kill another pair of the style of somebody who has several houses in the village where the fact there were people around it often if you know innocent state the government state some humor. of nine children three women and so forth this suggests first of all that one person could hardly have perpetrated the crime of its own this is a very deliberate you know action and for us to try to portray it as anything else is disingenuous. actually as military contributor currently of getting herself believes the u.s. 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. they're raging good baits about punctuation masacre has been taken apart into two extremes first the shrinks both civilians and military alike claims
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that it has nothing to do with the war or the policy in afghanistan and try to shift the blame onto the psychological and mental state all for a particular individual on the other side through quiet house and the pants again trying to present the see it another macabre incident as just an exception for head does not represent the value of the united states armed forces well the truth is sound where in between it's totally in the great civil to portray all the victims of p.t.s.d. 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. dot com we've plenty more on that story just log on to check out all the latest also online for you. say great sense
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of pope benedict the sixteenth orders his own individual cologne following in the fragrant footsteps of blood and sting discover the secrets of the aroma on the website. plus a titanic effort film director james cameron is attempting to break the world record for south korean diving find out where the challenge is taking place at our t.v. dot com. if you're just joining us thirteen minutes past the hour and it's 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 protest has shed light on issues from wealth inequality to police brutality archies christine for
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a look so the movement through the eyes of a man who's been on the front lines since the very beginning. everything else of free will has been told me that the global the space ship will pull its obligation a soulfire media saturation we heard tonight joel more than in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement often out here since i think october second i'm angry a little bit just the whole. call the corruption the get off the bicycle it's a really incestuous relationship but they got a lot of. my good stuff it was possible for multiple atrocities all by a former children's mental health counsellor joins position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a purpose here still. this is the rule supplement that we just reacted to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something and there's
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always some fights there's always to some kind of drama happening. i swear the police have been telling the judge in his brother they want to go to a spot to hang out go to three. big fears and square one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from one lena's to crime. still joel and many others here remain undeterred or today is january the third two thousand and twelve. year the revolution is what i'd call it. it is close to. maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the cold but these are the actual notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off a firestorm of both anger and support and the construction of this tense of dream that. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that made me stop libya was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they had infrared
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helicopters flying around at night you know out in like little formal vision on the tents to make sure that people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not meant the end of occupy wall street and this is my fears since 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 aspects of this movement is simply one chapter in a longer story with many more still yet to be written so let me do the dirty work for them the desire for radical change and a new found belief that you can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be subdued in the brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly wall with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against human beings and. i think i found that there is actually something that we can do about it in washington christine for is now r.t.
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. and still to come here on r t a the next stop in our close up series on your. we travel off the beaten path to highlight a russian village with a small population limited resources about one very unique name. with two bloody risings and just seven years of both of which resulted in the leaders being toppled from power it's no surprise that security has become a major concern in the central asian republic of kyrgyzstan but amid accusations of police brutality and violence the task of maintaining peace has been taken over by vigilante groups flooding the country's cities however as a boy reports there are fears they're not just serving the interests of the people . perfecting their blows and peaks in this case downtown this young man of a constant reminder of violence that apparently shifted just on street politics for the past decade and this is who should be suing. the punchlines traffic to the
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heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last revolution the police opened fire if the testers. almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and since them the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police get a call fourth of july into groups move here move i told you the movement of drugs iniki or people's guards counts tens of thousands here one is really this man patrol the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells their mobile and easily manageable and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces this supposed to be feeling for. your ministry in the ministry of defense train or volunteers and in time of need police in the army or the more allies we are ready to defend our country the new security arrangement was in full display during the
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recent presidential elections in addition to observe her and regular police each polling station had a group of heavily built man who called themselves people's guards all candidates is election day extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure the base for graphic values work in their favor many of them chose a natural rather than political. the country or interior minister sas rewiring the regular police allows any authorities an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent pulls over once again. under the pretext that the police are demoralized the new authorities are creating their own security the primary goal is not to protect the law for all the. rather to protect private interests of the banks and. the succession of the revolutions has also led to rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character
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guards trained weekly so he targets. during the last the revolution protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons are still at large. it's treated all business grows in times of instability but we're really tired of all these revolutions that's what we need to the economic development the evolution of people in the revolutionary food peak place well into the new york the riches have been may have been brought to power a great a popular uprising with thousands of well trained guards on their back a man who should hope not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy you could just. take a look at other news from around the world this hour. hundreds of egyptian protesters have rallied in cairo against the country's military rulers they were outraged at a recent court ruling not clear to the military doctor of charges that he forced so-called bridging of the tests on female detainees something that you brought him
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a young female activist who filed a lawsuit against the doctor was one of the seven women subjected to the procedure members of the ruling supreme council of the armed forces justify the task as a way to protect the army from rape allegations. hollywood star george clooney has been arrested at a protest outside the sudanese embassy in washington the actor who was released on bail set his main goal was to raise awareness of the emergency situation on the border region between sudan and south sudan the demonstrators accuse the sudanese president of provoking the humanitarian crisis by preventing food and aid from reaching those a neat. time now to discover more of the world's biggest country and our russia close up series.
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we wrap up our journey to a city of a cutting board situated in the year all mountainous areas famous for its precious stones and metal industry today though we had to a remote village where our tom garden finds out about the harsh realities of life. you can turn because one of russia's biggest cities are just few hours away it's a different world where we were going even tarmac would be a luxury that's the end of the road from here to the village it's just forest time for me to ditch this and go even further off the beaten track. eventually 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
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a group of collective farm workers who wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. with it and to stand mission your village they had to have two mission so they apply a trip through the local paper and when the permission was granted they named newspapering things. said lerner is one of only two people who have lived here all their life the other is clean up after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter there snowed in so what if they need help. 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. svetlana with her two horses is essentially the taxi service her twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is content working on a local logging site and. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here
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but i'm not sure if he'll stay here that long it might be fun for he wrote he's still young but i think you might get bored of it. the cows can roam freely. doors 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 panting but newspaper is incredibly small too small and i wondered just survive i was surprised to find it was cool enough and disagreed with me but for him the village has a future that it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why i said to residents come here the we even need new paltz for some houses so it looks like far from dying out cleaners granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road there tom bottom party. at about five minutes time will be travelling to another the city of perth with the intrepid james brown.
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and a wrap up of our main stories is coming your way in just
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a few minutes stay with us. nearly a billion people in the world are going to. the united. states even our trash
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cans are food the food you just have to go get all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked in even get all over the other ones just room all the way up and cheese from the german alps you clearly like. a profile. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill take just made one dozen times to egg whites. delicious breakfast for the family make some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people
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thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero love something might be going off by mistake special it sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of the difference to use it as a threat all as an echo of it but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to a nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war this second sound is the equivalence of fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today.
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