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in. over two dozen killed and many more injured and i mean again security compounds in the heart of the syrian capital despite growing diplomatic efforts. man found guilty of last year's terror attack in minsk is executed despite calls to reconsider the case being heard from europe where human rights groups condemned the sentence. as us marches inside the e.u. and nazi soldiers heralded as heroes and labia in a rally in joint top level support but triggering public outrage. and
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a new chapter for occupy wall street six months on the movement seeks to throw off its tenth welling image as activists look to change tack in their battle against greed and equality. very warm welcome to you on parents karachi and here with r t 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 suggest the attacks were carried out by terrorists who detonated car bombs our middle east correspondent paula slayer has the details. preliminary reports suggest that vehicles packed with explosives were decimated targeting the security complex and hitting the police and intelligence buildings now the government is calling this the work of terrorists and state television is showing pictures of charred bodies
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vehicles and blood stains to the streets these blasts come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month on paper twenty eight people were killed in two thousand blasts that hit 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 year anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad said there is ongoing 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 if it 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 a syrian president bashar assad and opposition groups and he is all members of the united nations security council to give the nod to the proposals he's put forward
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on the table now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has 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. i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar al assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue any consensus decision that the government and all of the groups come to as a result of dialogue that russia is not supporting the syrian regime to support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days they will be a delegation from the united nations visiting serious. to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest if it to reach some kind of political agreement between these two you know for it he's and the opposition. the arab league chief her surface syrian opposition sees no alternative to solve the
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country's crisis other than libya style intervention rob lyons from the online news magazine spark says at this point attempts to ship the conflict from the battlefield to the negotiating table are hopeless. there is a. situation we were through trying to seem to be hoping for some kind of between sort of solution as most of the ground rules are for and that may be a step forward but fundamentally the. attitude of the major western governments is for this to go much much further in terms of replacing the assad regime i just said is true for compromise and. play more ahead for you including the swift repatriation of the american soldier accused of gunning down innocent nothing counts. as kobol reels from the massacre all eyes are on the u.s. to see whether justice will be so. kind of post-revolutionary take on justice
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thousands of vigilante surplus police across kyrgyzstan giving rise to fears that the law is now available to rent to the. convicted nazi war criminal john demjanjuk has died in a care home in germany aged ninety one and two thousand and eleven he was convicted of assisting in the murder of around twenty eight thousand jews while serving guard duty and death in poland he was sentenced to just five years in prison because the corporal 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 as veterans have been getting heroes on ars and on march held in large is capital has been massively condemned as glorification of naziism despite that it's got support at the highest political levels agreed to reports.
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changed it's a world where nazi germany dominates yours despite the bloody legacy in some quarters of europe you still have an audience. jews are crying about the holocaust nine hundred forty one hundred forty one the award for the wall she wrote and killed i think they received that would be deserved. this is 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 not be silent when the people of the ring the memory of the nads east of the earth and this is our marching in the streets of a member of the european union those in the crowd defend their start saying the so-called legionnaires were fighting for liberty at
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a time when tyranny face latvia from all directions it was a military force formed in one thousand nine hundred forty three for volunteers and members of the disbanded latvian auxiliary police a sponsible 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 these youths lining the streets to welcome in best friends commemorating even as they is one that has become commonplace it's also something that is 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. latvian president as inch has argued it is foolish to assume that often s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's respect is a stars that has many opponents worried by the direction the country is headed
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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 buffet s s is something that you should wish to follow you know the fact that they're also near nazis groups who use these knowledge is opportunities to promote their xenophobe or sit there and she semitism and so forth is also not correct echoing such sentiment and the fascist groups govern it by in a protest city annual march the 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. there's a right for freedom of speech but one doesn't have to welcome it. if the
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government's involved in supporting any way of anything here and i think it's appropriate for europe to make some intervention but the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to latvia as a continent rich 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 are proud of being sort of a threat or another or whatever and you've got the fascist like the people who like probably marion le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of coming from the opposition kind 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 marches that celebrate those who others strongly condemn. accompanied by personal messages such as this well made it to life in t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past one that could have an increasing
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impact on its future greaves see reagan in that field so ahead for you in the program remote access. who needs running water or electricity rush sixty two a sleepy village about a twenty first century has left behind. one of the two belorussian men sentenced to death for last year's natural bombing in minsk has reportedly been executed a relative of the victim said they received a letter from the country's supreme court although there's been no official confirmation as artie's are in a girls' school reports it's a case that's attracted condemnation far and wide. the two men are accused of carrying out the blasts in the admins metro in two thousand levon in april of two thousand and eleven they were arrested just a couple of days after the blast stick place and were put on trial and they over were accused of carrying out not just a terror attack in april of last year but also of another one which also happened
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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 of what is 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 death sentence has actually been implemented we do not know anything about the fate of another man 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 right never additional regarding the plea for pardon of the two men to the bill russian authorities but it is probably safe to assume that that he has also been refused of course valerie's has been on the radar all the european human rights are going to say she is for a very long time a lot of people in europe question the tactics and the policies of the bill are
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sure thirty's when it comes to matters concerning human rights and the freedom of speech and freedom of expression and valorous and as it stands right now is the only country in europe still to employ capital punishment system you can get the latest news videos or stories that you may have missed. here's some of what's there for you now. called wanted whistleblower julian assange gets ready to run for the senate in his native australia left his house arrest in britain no way. under your appliances are acting as cia agents the dark secret of the white goods which are keeping terms on your family points. playing how they're doing it out artsy dot com.
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it's been six months since the birth of birth of occupy wall street a movement that's left the world out of the track to millions who are fed up with inequality and greed from teradata tear gas and rubber bullets to baton wielding cops and force to pick since occupiers have weathered everything thrown at them but now many of their towns are shrinking and the fever is dying down as christine for example reports. ever doubts of free will but they'll be good for people but will say shit but make sure their souls like media saturation we first met joel northam in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement but out here since that october second little bit that's the whole. problem but. i suppose they really incessantly if they got a lot of. good stuff it's the spots for trusty old why a former children's mental health counselor jules position was cut and he was left
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without a job and instead found a place and a purpose here. this is the settlement that we just did 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 there's a lot of a lot of ice where the police have been telling by junkies and got drugs they want to get a spot to hang out go to mixers. be fierce in square one of the longest lasting occupations and it up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from family nets to crime. still joel and many others here remain undeterred or today is january third two thousand and twelve. year the revolution is about to call it. it is close to. maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the cold but these
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a 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 something that maybe stopped would be it was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like little thermal 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 make your sense 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 of a longer story with 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 in the brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly wrong with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be actually against this human beings and. i think i found that there was actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now r.t. regardless of where the occupy movement is aiming to go recent claims from a former goldman sachs executive all over the company is. certainly resonated with the group coming up nineteen thirty g.m.t. on our team madsen stays also weigh in on the crisis at the controversial banking firm. well the seller of 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 losses he's paid a percentage of dull losses this is why the global g.d.p.
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is in retreat this is why the united states us through greece our debt load to fifteen sixteen seventeen trillion to paper over the losses that goldman is in the business of delivering to customers many of which are too frickin stupid to understand that it's not necessarily a great idea if lloyd blankfein set you up with on 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 because 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. because trying out seventeen minutes past the hour and the u.s. soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan has been named to staff sergeant robert bales is already back in the states in a military prison but has not yet been charged army officials say he's being held in solitary confinement an afghan investigation claims bales was not acting alone
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and that up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre of international affairs commentator rick ross all believes the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is history repeating itself. we have reasonable you know and you know receipt notice right of all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq in the city how do you think there are twenty four hour iraqi civilians were killed by the u.s. servicemen none of whom were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group are simply charged with error which duty and you've broken right. here which is it is hardly amounts of you know punishment but there is a difference between so-called collateral damage and targeted killing another group this past sunday several thousands in the interview and she were the fact of were people around that often kill innocent speech the afghan government said seventeen or more people killed in this it only had nine children three women and so forth
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this suggests first of all other than one person currently of a perpetrator of a crime in its own this is a very deliberate you know action and then for the u.s. to droitwich very others anything else is just and journalists to violate revolutions in just seven years that's the price that people of the central asian republic of kyrgyzstan have paid so far for a free and democratic future today public animosity towards the police is at an all time high and blame for the rise in a culture of vigilantism artists on a boycott reports on those who stop the streets and the name of justice. refracting there blows and keeps in bishkek downtown this young man of a constant reminder of violence that current leader of kurdistan street politics for the past decade and this is who should be serving in the police. conscious line stretched to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last curtis revolution the police opened fire at protesters almost seventy were
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killed 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 move here move i told you the movement of jersey meet people's guards counts turns of thousands who one is ready his men patrolled the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells their mobile and is eliminative bill and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces they're supposed to be filling for. the interior ministry in the ministry of defense help train or volunteers and in time of need police and your mirror moralized 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
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in the previous elections 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 to rely on natural rather than political muscle the country's former interior minister sas reviling get regular police allows the knee authorities an excuse to maintain their own private armies in case the public discontent pulls over once again. under the pretext that the police would be more moist due with origins of creating their own security units whose primary goal is not to protect the law for all. rather to protect private interests of the boss or that the succession of the revolutions has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character cars train weekly to hit targets. during the last revolution protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons as to look large and
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something about it it's true that our business grows in times of instability but we are really tired of all these revolutions and what we need a stable economic development evolution. and this revolutionary keyed place well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power by the popular uprising but 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 r.t. this could mr. in a few minutes we bring you the party for st patrick in the heart of moscow. if you know god in ireland and you're not hi res how do you become a. cab either. with a dance and a train in the center of the capital revels in all things irish we report first parent from the festivities. now into more stories making headlines around the world this hour the former head of libya's intelligence services has been arrested
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in airport after arriving in honea in western africa also a new city is accused of being a close gadhafi confidant a major figure behind efforts to stamp out last year's uprising he also want to use also wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity but he has national transitional council and now wants an extradited. rescuers have found the wreckage of a norwegian military plane that crashed in northern sweden people were onboard and all are still missing parts of the hercules cargo transporter were found scattered over a glacier on one of the country's highest mountains it had disappeared from radar screens while flying over a mountain range during a military exercise time to head off the beaten track to some of russia's hidden corners in close up.
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today we take you to a remote settlement in the euro mountains which boasts a headline grabbing name the village of newspaper where it seems time has stood still for almost a century is as remote as it gets artie's tom burton went to find out for himself. you could karen berger 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 the end of the road from here to the village it's just forest time for me to do 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
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rather strange name it was founded in one nine hundred twenty four by a group of collective farm workers and wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. with going to establish a new village they had to have permission so they applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to use paper in things. said larner is one of only two people to have lived here all their life the other is galina after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter they 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 larner with her two horses he's essentially the village taxi service for twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is content working on
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a local logging site. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here but i'm not sure if he'll stay here long it might be fun for he while he's still young but i think you might get more living with 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 ferreting put 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 the very near the village has a future it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why i said to residents come here we don't need new people for some houses so it looks like far from dying out galina his granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though tom
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barton party. like many cities small scale turned green for a day as crowds gathered in the capital center to celebrate the traditional irish holiday so patrick's day artist a punk also joined the revelers in russia. there's no doubt that when you think of us in paddy's day you think all the island and the irish people themselves but also the most iconic of all all save them paddy himself today at the all our blood was celebrating just like that just like the rest of the world from new york to bank called to beijing has not as yet in moscow not moscow have actually been celebrating sometimes days of nine hundred ninety two and its cultural events like this that actually tired russia hiding to get back into the business of entrained and you know why did they have the fuse the analogies in terms of a call just a joy having fun and making people smile and having a few drinks so knows them catch each day celebration is complete and still you have an island beza droughts and that's the beginning and today we might even have
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a special green obeah for you so as they say. in ireland slug everybody not to. tell them what they see moscow coming up our interview show spotlight gives a new perspective on the standoff between the west and iran over its a legit atomic program first though i'll recap our main stories for you that's after a short break. oh
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