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over two dozen killed and many more injured in a double bombing against security compounds in the heart of the syrian capital despite growing to full manic outbursts. amount found guilty of last year's terror attack in minsk is executed despite calls to reconsider the case being heard from europe and work human rights groups condemns the sentence. as its marches inside the nazi soldiers heralded as heroes and lobby up in a valley enjoying top level support but triggering public outrage.
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a new chapter for occupy wall street six months all the movement seeks to throw off its ted welling image as activists look to change time in their battle against freedom and equality. thanks for joining us this saturday six o'clock here in moscow on care interrogatory syria's capital has been struck by two deadly bombings which targeted security buildings killing twenty seven people and injuring around one hundred more the state broadcaster so just the attacks were carried out by terrorists who detonated car bombs are middle east correspondent paula slayer has the details. eliminate reports of vehicles that with explosives were decimated targeting the security complex and hitting the police and intelligence buildings now the
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government is calling this the work of terrorists and state television is showing pictures of charred bodies calls and blood stains to the streets these blasts come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month on theory the tenth of twenty eight people were killed in twin blasts that hit the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december they have been three suicide bombings in damascus these blasts also come just two days after the one year anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad there is on growing and spiraling violence in syria and we are also receiving reports that al qaida is now operating there calling for the opposition groups to unify their effort and they fight against the syrian regime the latest effort at a diplomatic compromise comes from the former head of the united nations kofi annan last week and he was in syria where he met with both the syrian president bashar assad and opposition groups and he is urging all members of the united nations
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security council to give a nod to the proposals he's put forward on the table now the russian from minister sergei lavrov has urged members of the u.n. security council to come forward and give this support russia is also calling for a political dialogue that will see an agreement between the syrian regime and the opposition. has handed over a set of balls off to the syrian leadership i can assure you these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue in a consensus decision by the government and all of position groups come to as a result of dialogue russia is not supporting the syrian regime we support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days there will be a delegation from the united nations visiting syria to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest if it to reach some kind of political agreement between the sunni thirty's and the opposition. arab league chief has said
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that the syrian opposition sees no alternative to solve the country's crisis other than libya style intervention rob lines from the online news magazine spiked says at this point attempts to shift the conflict from the battlefield to the negotiating table are doomed. there is a. situation we were. trying to seem to be hoping for some kind of between sort solution as most of the ground rules are for i'm not but that maybe it's got ford but mentally. the. major western governments. to go much much further in terms of replacing the assad regime even though i was to go to this truth a compromise i'm not. planning more ahead including the swift repatriation of the american soldier accused of gunning down innocent afghans. as football reels from the massacre all eyes are on the glass to see whether justice will be served.
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and a post-revolutionary take on a justice thousands of vigilantes sir plan for police across campus than giving rise to fears that the law is now available to rant to the highest bidder. convicted nazi war criminal john didn't see me in the uk has died in a care home in germany aged ninety one in twenty eleven he was convicted of assisting in the murder of around twenty eight thousand jews while serving guard duty and a death camp and pull that he was sentenced to just five years in the prison because the court ruled no particular crime could be directly attributed to him he was allowed to stay in a home for the elderly while his appeal was being reviewed. elsewhere in europe says veterans have been getting heroes on our us annual march held in libya's capital has been massively condemned as glorification of naziism despite that it's
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got support at the highest political levels as jacob grieves found out there's been decades of change since the world where nazi germany donates it despite the bloody legacy in some quarters of europe you still have an audience. how did use or crying about the holocaust. in forty nine hundred forty one the war . and killed me i think they received the would be deserved. this is as one thousand five hundred people gathered to officially commemorate those who fought alongside hitler's armies and joined the waffen s.s. the meeting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia we can be silent when the people of. 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 defend their start saying the so-called
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legionnaires were fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny faced latvia from all directions it was a military force formed in nine hundred forty three from volunteers or members of the disbanded latvian auxiliary police responsible for the mass killing of jews concerns have been raised about these public displays particularly on the message is being heard by today's youth this image of latvia's youths lining the streets to welcome in veterans commemorating legionnaires day is one that has become commonplace it's also something that's increasingly warring observers if it may represent a rise of the far right. those same commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. love being president g.'s birds inch has argued it is foolish to assume that waffen s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's are suspect is
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a stars that has many opponents worried by the direction the country is headed people who are in charge in the third and positions of all thirty 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 you know the fact that they're also near nazis groups who use these marches opportunities to promote their xenophobe are so xenophobia that adji semitism and so forth is also not correct echoing such sentiment and the fascist groups govern it by in a protest to the annual march of recognition of the latvian s.s. units has been slammed by the european commission against racism and intolerance but no action has ever been taken to stop the parade if any government wants to endorse these kind of actions and i think it's cause for concern obviously there's a right to vote for freedom of speech or doesn't have to welcome it so if the
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government is involved in supporting any way of anything here and i think it's appropriate for europe to make some intervention the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to latvia was a continent gripped 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 who are proud of being sort of a better veterans or whatever and you've got the fascist light the people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of coming from that kind of position of toning down their policies because it puts off some of the voters but in many senses are just as dangerous as the growth most apparent in march is a celebrate those who others strongly condemn. accompanied by personal messages such as this well made into latvian t.v. station they stand as
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a striking image of europe's lingering past. but could have an increasing impact on its future do you greece see read it enough you will have for you on the program remote access. points running water or electricity in russia pulls up takes you to a slave girl and starts the twenty first century. one of the two belorussian man sentenced to death for last year's metro bombing and has reportedly been executed a relative of the victim said they received a letter from the country's two cream court although there's been no official confirmation and that's our goal still reports it's a case that's attractive condemnations far and wide. the two men are accused of carrying out the blasts in the admin's grettir in two thousand and eleven in april of two thousand and eleven they were arrested just a couple of days after the blasts new place and were put on trial and they all were
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accused of carrying out not just a terror attack in april of last year but also of another one which also happened in minsk in two thousand and eight one of the men dimitri kind of all of has actually pleaded guilty to both cases where is the other man the one we're talking about in this particular instance what is left has pleaded not guilty he has also written a letter with a petition for pardon to the belorussian president that petition was refused officially now we are hearing that the deserters has actually been implemented we do not know anything about the fate of another man really kind of as of yet now this case was very closely followed by human rights organizations especially those in europe as a matter of fact the chairman of the european parliament has also written of additional regarding the plea for pardon of the two men to the bill russian authorities but it is probably safe to assume that that plea has also been refused of course bellers has been on the radar of it the european human rights organizations for a very long time
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they're just joining us twelve minutes past the hour and it's been six months since the birth of occupy wall street a movement that's what the world at a dazzling speed attracting millions who are fed up with an equality and greed from tear gas and rubber bullets to baton wielding cops and forced evictions the occupiers have weathered everything thrown at them but now many of their towns are shrinking and the fever dying down as christine for example reports. ever doubts a free will is good till date it's a global say shippable examination of soulfire media saturation we first met joel more than in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement i've been out here since the october second degree a little bit just the whole. call that corruption felt like most of the really incestuous relationship the big battle. like it's thought it was possible
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or trust wall why a former children's mental health counselor jewels position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a purpose here still. this is the settlement that we just wrecked it to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night there's something there's always some fights there's always some kind of drama happening there's a lot of theft a lot of ice where the police have been telling my jockeys and our brothers what a good spot to hang out go to experience. with fierce and square one of the longest lasting occupations and it up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from timeliness to crime still joel and many others here remain under turds are today is january the third two thousand and twelve. year of the revolution as i'd like to call it. it is close
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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 tent of dreams. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that maybe stopped would be there was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they had infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like little 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 joel and the others say the occupation aspect of this movement is simply one chapter of a longer story with many more still yet to be written. work for them the
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desire for radical change and a newfound belief that it can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be subdued in the brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly was with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against this human beings and. i think i found that there is actually something that we can do about it in washington christine freeze out r.t. well regardless of where the occupy movement as aiming to go recent claims from a former goldman sachs executive over the company's more rounds of k. certainly resonated with the group coming up at nineteen thirty g.m.t. on r t france and stacey also weighing in on the crisis of the controversial banking firm. when phillip goldman sachs makes a ten million dollars bonus or a thirty million dollars bonus he has lost for various clients including greece or other countries or other corporations three hundred or four hundred billion in
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losses he's paid a percentage of bell losses this is why the global g.d.p. is in retreat this is why the united states has increased our debt load to fifteen sixteen seventeen trillion to paper over the losses but goldman is in the business of delivering to customers many of which are too frickin stupid to understand that it's not necessarily great idea if lloyd blankfein set you up with a forty second street that's not worth throwing your company under the bus for but a lot of c.e.o.'s are so frickin stupid is the cost of money is so cheap but they're willing to give away their company their family their life for just such an arrangement. the u.s. soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan has been named a staff sergeant robert bales he's already back in the states in a military prison but has not yet been charged army officials say he's being held
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in solitary confinement an afghan investigation claims bales was not acting alone and that up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre of international affairs commentator rick we're also believes the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is history repeating itself. we have reason to believe you know received notice right all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq in the city. there twenty four iraqi civilians were killed by nine u.s. servicemen none of whom were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group of super women charged with dereliction of duty and broken and ran. you know which is certainly a monster of you know punishment but there's a difference between so-called collateral damage and targeted kill another group that's part of some deal with several of the houses in the rebel region or the fact of where people were rounded off and killed all of you know since the afghan government so seventeen or more people got into the month of nine children three
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women and so forth this suggests first of all of the one person government of a perpetrator of a crime in its own this is a very deliver you know action and then for the u.s. to drive over very others and if analysis doesn't your own rules kill valid revolutions in just seven years that's the price the people of central asia republic of kyrgyzstan have paid so far for a free and democratic future to a public animosity toward the police is at an all time high and blamed for the rise and the culture of the gillett's here is our party's accent avoider reports on those who stalk the streets in the name of justice. reflecting their blows and kicks in this case downtown this young man of a constant reminder of the violence that permeated kyrgyzstan street cole attacks for the past decade and this should be sharing in the police the punchlines track to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last chord
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is revolution the police opened fire if protesters. almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and since then the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police because of vigilante groups move here move i told you the movement of druze iniki or people's guards counts tens of thousands who one is ready this man patrolled the streets at night and just to form call away during the day organized in small cells then move while and easily manageable and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces they're supposed to be filling for. ministry in the ministry of defense help train or volunteers and in time of need when police in the army or demoralized we are ready to defend her 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
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a group of heavily built man who called themselves people's guards candidates in the corridors elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure that these progressive values work in their favor many of them chose to rely on natural rather than political muscle the country's former interior minister says reviling the regular police allows any authority as an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent pulls over once again. under the pretext that the police and the moralized the new authorities are creating their own security units primary goal is not to protect the law for all. but rather to protect private interests of the boss in the future this expression of the revolutions has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character guards trained to hit targets. during the last third lucian protesters raided several depots and many of the weapons are still at large and
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some senior it's true that all business grows in times of instability but we're really trying to do all these revolutions what we need to economic development and evolution. and this revolutionary if it keyed plays well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power a bit of popular uprising if with thousands of well trained guards under their command they sure hope not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy could. now for more stories making headlines around the world this hour clashes have erupted on a rally in the libyan city of benghazi calling for some autonomy territory to be created in the east of the country one person has reportedly been killed and six others injured with witnesses saying protesters were attacked by armed men carrying rifles and knives in crowds a lot of their own regional parliament denouncing what they call attempts by
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western libya to control the east. belgians are continuing to mourn the victims of a school bus crash in the swiss alps in which twenty two children and six adults were killed people have been visiting makeshift memorials up the schools the children attended after a nationwide day of mourning on friday the coach was taking them home from a ski trip when it crashed into the wall of the tunnel. time now to head off the track to some of russia's hidden corners and close up. today we take you to a remote settlement in rural mountains with both headline grabbing men the village of paper where it seems time has stood still for almost a century and it's as remote as it gets artie's town barton let's find out for ourselves you could turn berg is one of russia's biggest cities but
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a 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 go even further off the beaten track. of 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 a group of collective farm workers who wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. with. mission your village they had to have commission so they applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to newspapering thinks. straight learner is one of only two people who have lived here
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all their life the other is cleaner 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 only room if you can't get through the phone no one will come. so planner with her two horses is essentially the village taxi service a twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is content working on a local logging site. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here where they're not sure if he'll stay here that long it might be fun for humor and he's still young but i think you might get bored of it when 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 dog's family to put
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newspaper is incredibly small too small and i wondered to survive i was surprised to find it was galina who disagreed with me the behavior the village has a future it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why is it a resident come here we have a need you cannot for some houses so it looks like far from dying out colleen is granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though some bottom party. like many cities moscow turned green for a day as crowds gathered in the capital center to celebrate the traditional irish holiday st patrick's day r.t. is to bad lots of join the rebellious in russia. there's not much out there when you think of us in paddy's day you think of islands and the irish people themselves but also the most iconic of all all saints them paddy himself so they have the all
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our god was celebrating just that that just like the rest of the world from new york to back and called to beijing as well as here in moscow now moscow has actually been celebrating some patty's day says ninety ninety two and it's cultural events like this that actually tied to russia and the highlands get back in terms of business and trade and you know why do they have a few similarities in terms of a culture they enjoy having fun and making people smile and having a few drinks so none of them patrick's day celebration is complete and still you have i believe that about and that for beginners and today we might even have a special green obeah for you as they say. in ireland suns everybody nudged. the bum ok i'd see moscow all right i'll be back with a reminder of our top stories shortly stay with our team. see
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