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we. don't come. in the. the latest news on the week's top stories here at r.t. the previously divided u.n. security council sends a strong united message to both sides of the syrian war torn arms and rebel hands are still considered other main roadblocks to peace. to lose gunman murdered seven people including three children he's killed in a standoff with police sergeant services are criticizing him to stop him by tracking the years. and the strike. question paul writes erupting ports need a raging fire and vent their frustrations with suspension of their club.
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mrs arty's weekly news review plus the very latest developments the crisis in syria is to be debated in moscow data on sunday u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan along side the russian leadership russia backing the special envoys mediation efforts and low president medvedev visit expected to warn that peace is unachievable supplies are still flowing to opposition fighters since the massacres hosted a team of experts was part of. we discussed the possibility of implementing a six point peace plan. dialogue was unanimously backed by the u.n. security council joint statement russian had always denounced serious mental condition groups and that's due to overwhelming support for the rebels integration
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. center for middle east studies. the rebels believe that with the external world on their side people in the west with. sanctions on syria and with the gulf arabs willing to spend money. and them that they will eventually overwhelm the regime and be able to win once they get their side organized and better equipped both sides believe that time is either side of it they can win that regime is doing classic clear and hold operations against the rebels it's possible that the elections will bring in a certain sector of syrian society but i don't think it's going to heal the great divide that has opened up between the revolutionaries and the assad regime well meanwhile reverberations from the syrian conflict are being felt across the board and then as all of these reports divisions there are really some it and conflict next. it's an air of c.g.
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on the mediterranean with a penchant for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence is hanta sizeable alawite and sunni communities and with the syrian border just half an hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road separating the alawite and sunni communities here in tripoli exactly mean this serious street and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor we have another pillar that came just a few weeks ago when one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes claimed the lives of two people and pushed the rest deeper into their ideological trenches residents of these alawite raised money to put out this impromptu memorial to their leader and the countries they consider their protectors
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. thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america's freedom is a euphemism for american interests we don't care a bit more human rights or freedom. a. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chiefs meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event in his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria's from maybe half an hour ok and we see everything you know we're. going. to syria we're going from government to syria. or from jordan from there from. across the street in a hospice. run by
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a sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like mohammad don't hide their affiliation of a different syrian army he staked on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people if they don't change this will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory you still have time to make the right choice on the hospital's administrator shows us some of the about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. allegedly committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity but when i ask him whether the above allusion is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian but we have many destruction and we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand as we hear you.
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i think the old bird evolution has to pay some. something. with. changing. of life to keep the two warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to the cd for all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid bill libyan scenario that's not going to see tripoli lebanon. and the main international focus still on syria and the rest elsewhere in the arab world is going largely unnoticed peaceful anti regime demonstrations across the grain. bullets and tear gas prices cutey forces lead to civilian casualties details next.
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french police this week shot dead the gunman in toulouse who killed seven people including four at a jewish school and three soldiers. was killed after siege of his apartment he refused to surrender and tried to escape through with their french intelligence has been criticised for not acting as a man who had been under surveillance for some time. was a frenchman one percent he said he had ties with al qaida and went training in afghanistan his brother is proud of his actions he's been charged accomplice. in this and says french policies and actions towards migrants result from the sentence violence. and the french arabs in france. are really a little is a later because. they don't feel like french people think that they are french and when they go back to for example they are despised by the local population because
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they don't speak arabic and because they don't know their culture so in a way they are really gated on both sides and turn to aggression and maybe of religion as a substitute for culture in france because of sarkozy's police sees it only posies the gross doesn't exist so you have a lot of people same thing in the prisons of the immigrants and immigrants feel that they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions. we are parity protesting the propaganda hundreds of israelis are rallying the country's economic capital against what policing the guy. and going to war in iraq. for prices in britain hit new countries the government prepares for another rise in the tax on fuel healing give loans to small business. one teenager
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dead and sixteen others injured after the author of a novel writing egypt's two miniature football fans and raged over the suspension of the club for two years who happened in the city. and who crowds. no ties. warning shots not gas suspension itself was ruled out much less about seventy four you know. these officers are standing disaster. they made them for complicity with rampaging mobs instance i'm also pleased mr west coast university says the country's truly on the brink t.j. has no no standing law and order actually. that is state things are such that the government is not in control bihari is. not going to come out of its barracks.
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confronted. very very large way and so the populace is essentially on its own and that means that unpopular decisions are made you're going to get this sort of spontaneous kind of outburst of anger and there is no capacity to control it nowhere is there any capacity to actually prevent the reasons for going there is no central control in egypt now. well the chip has unveiled the lie lot of a long awaited government panel tasked with creating a more than democratic and inclusive constitution but still subject to confirmation this is dominated by islamists something that rule groups warn against every year since the revolution there are fears that not all that much has changed khalid telling could be a poster boy for egypt's revolution young educated a t.v.
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talk show host and politically active he was among those whose protests on the two square toppled the regime of president mubarak last year but like many others who were on the streets with him he doesn't feel things in egypt have changed for the best girl merely more than we were in against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and just a little scared so they were programmed lucian their actions should apply the same trick me used by him or. the ruling military council or staff replaced hosni mubarak who rejections accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at scarce policies until the situation eerily similar if not worse now you get partners that are suspended with live ammunition instead of rubber bullets as was the case and of course you get the worst strikers who get referred to military buglers of the courts in the past two years you have more than thirteen
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thousand egyptian citizens who got processed all military units that's where you more than what will of the during this thirty years of all the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their evolution are now considered and see even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can find the police in street and even in the are there they don't really help anyone. you know it's like a kind of they are punishing the people because they have done the revolution so they're not doing their or their work the they don't care about what happens and the deliberately neglecting. every single crime that is happening and there just a choice to turn their back and some really revolutionary parties to say turned their backs on the military council is questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and so
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a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started making deals in florida lucian's which given more ground and ignore the main demands of the revolution most of the political elite and rouge are looking at fixing things not changing now. a real possibility now is the revolution entering a second stage this time prompted not just by the young and the educated but by the poor and the unemployed whose numbers have been steadily rising since the military council came to power and that economic situation is really getting worse and i believe that these people who are really suffering nowadays because they can't even . afford to work to feed their families and these people are really they are going to lead to this guy and this. new wave of evolution if you can what you want to call it like a second wave of evolution but it's going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that are three squares filled with vendors to bring your stellars i believe you and if you would sense but from time to time
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things get heated up again those who have spent their days and nights here just a little over a year ago when they were barrack regime say their job is far from over and the revolution continues in those courts here cairo well after they had fuel a program a security breach dozens killed in a string of bomb attacks across iraq exposes the real life of the war and the. two professors coarseness only by defending yourself so called off the russians. hundreds of people have crowded around to protest what they see as a frenzied drive for war against iran by their own government campaigners fear something question caress collating to well conflict effects of which would be disastrous our correspondent there has been watching the protest on fault. this is being first demonstration of its kind and it comes after months of increasing war
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rhetoric by the israeli leadership what protesters here are saying is that the israeli prime minister has his own election campaign at heart and that is what is motivating him to give the board on this week we're going to give you the one is that he sincerely believing that he is. going to. destroy the iranian nuclear program this raises have totally crazy in this direction and recent poll suggested that some fifty eight percent of israelis are against a military strike now going to mention all of this demonstration began about a week ago when an israeli couple launched a campaign on line in which they posted messages of support and love for a range of ordinary iranians responded but they only suggest so if you look at facebook and other social network sites you see messages like israel loves iran and we are not at war with the country any rein in saying we love israel we are not at war with anyone demonstrators are talking to say that this core by the israeli
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leadership is irresponsible it will lead to large numbers of people being injured and hurt and it's not clear how or when any kind of military strike with iran will end but whether or not the israeli government will listen to the voice on the street remains to be seen policy r.t. tel aviv the campaign against iran has intensified this week human rights not iran's nuclear activities being used to justify the mix ancient's this israel's spy agency wasat agreed to the cia that iran is not the burping nuclear weapons international consultant and author agency which it says that there's a certain procedure when it comes to scrutinizing iran's plans. since iraq we just cannot take seriously practically any american there to ration regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction as saddam hussein was supposed to have or iran's nuclear program i put myself in the shoes of uranium leadership and if your country
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is threatened all the time if the only country with weapons of mass destruction nuclear bombs in the region is israel and israel threatens iran every other day that is going to attack it unilaterally well i wouldn't be surprised if around did think about militarizing their nuclear program why is it that the united states britain france can be trusted with nuclear weapons israel can be trusted with nuclear weapons who else israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been deplorable over the past decades however iran has to be practically erased off the map because they want to have a nuclear program. petrol prices in britain have hit another record high incomes are the country's government on this latest budget it was widely criticized. which . recent reports that. it is a key driver of the economy. creates tens of thousands of jobs at
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no cost what government could say no to you case coalition government apparently as it sticks to another rise in the tax on fuel to take effect in august small business owners are feeling the pinch fuel over the last few years is really really crippled and crunched on our bottom line but according to the fair fuel campaign cutting the tax on fuel by just four cents would get the economy motoring and could put one hundred seventy five thousand people back in work the creation of the jobs would take off to go off important benefits. these jobs are we creating more tax going out spending more money etc but they seem to be ignoring this and concentrating on things like fifty paid top rate of income tax to the rich people meanwhile small businesses found sound untoward chapman run a company which sells an install spence's to keep your pet in your garden it employs seven people full time and runs for vans in which engineers deliver fit and
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train pets to use the fences the guys can work in hampshire one day and then the next day depends on when the customer wants us all we have the increase in the eighty which obviously is going on top of fuel as well and then the actual fuel duty is well you can't keep being a screen at all angles forever around seventy percent of the economy is small business the government says it's depending on firms like to rebuild it but growth and development is out of the question according to sam he says the price of fuel is. the price at the pump has already hit one pound fifty five a liter in some places that's two dollars forty six and although some of it is due to the geopolitical situation including the arabian oil embargo a staggering sixty percent is tax it's an easy but damaging way to raise money fields which is actually a very convenient target because there's. very difficult to avoid. how
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easy it is for people to travel to russia might be travelling distance from home so it actually can increase unemployment quite markedly if you and you choose to it's a problem that bill says down into the entire economy ninety percent so everything we have in our homes offices and shops to live. with you do you see so high whole it's companies are forced to pass those costs on to consumers resulting in higher prices for everything food clothes consumer goods yet small press recession hit british consumers. r.t. . more reports correspondents in britain dot com including blacklist established in the passing on information about construction workers has prevented them from getting jobs. and. the
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emails. coming off a great deal. of. russia's recent presidential election was the country's first webcams installed polling stations was designed to help transparency in the voting process. for many. overlooked. five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was poured out for electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations don't want to tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the payment provided. most advance software to the most remote regions of russia if not for the elections it could take another five to ten
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years from now we can do video conferences call is going to be lectured by diverse professors from russia and of ruled. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras the interior ministry's investigating a police station in cars and trim and from serious injuries sustained in custody a string of such incidents gives way to the argument that there can never be too much money train the all seeing by all the webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and watch us police stations are somewhere critics of argued for awhile need to come under greater scrutiny and where you're proposing a webcam should be installed in preliminary custody cells they should be directed armed policemen on duty in the rooms were suspects are questioned you it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faces would be hard to read but it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse. meanwhile parents want to
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protect their children from another type of abuse corruption in schools with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june they are lobbying for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for us that all children during all types of exams on equal terms there had been numerous complaints in the past about unfair competition but there had been no proof so now there will be. your would soon be ideas on the. table authorities have launched an official competition for the best brought you to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say it people's big rather looks set to state if you've got children r t scale. but on tuesday iraq was a rock by a wave of coordinated car bombings and roadside killing three people injuring about two hundred fifty are qaeda has claimed responsibility for thought it's pretty weak
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roxette communities in the last weeks. of the attacks also. cost. us the asian dad international lawyer and he said just because the troops hoped to gain. a lot of iraqis still see their country is occupied by foreign forces there are correct is from many different. parts of society that are trying to remove those foreign forces. and this is a ongoing situation that is part of something that started to ten years ago with the invasion and occupation of iraq but since that time because the government has not been able to exercise control over many parts of the country it's very fertile territory for different types of terrorist organizations to then settle in and to be able to carry out krylon to type don't create the mistake and there are still
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thousands of outside foreign forces particularly american soldiers on iraqi soil that are contributing they would say to security i would suggest to the situation of the insecurity. the right to lifers come under the spotlight in the u.k. after two professors advocated the use of so-called after birth abortions radical journal which published the article says it's an academic discussion and have defended the debate but for some people behind the it's a bit too close to home as artie's reports. actually through course was eight months pregnant when she found out her son would be born with down syndrome even as late as that the only advice she got was to have an abortion doctors try to persuade sam's condition would be a struggle not worth living but six years on the only struggle mother and child have had was ignoring that advice i was treated as if i was different. and
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it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice. they have a duty to everyone a taken and i like and they don't i loved them i hate filled our children nowhere because we're saving them that we're having and that really isn't the case that stereotypes just being taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue it's ok to kill babies even after the born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a leading british medical journal they dismiss newborns as potential not actual persons they say killing them so no different to a normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide ask the question is a newborn child any less of equal member of the human family than a member of
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a certain race or of one gender or the other the authors of stoked an ethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases even if the baby is not disabled the authors have now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion our job is to publish arguments for. issues so that people can run mines in the long run some of these missions are very complex. for example i looked agree with. the. i would like to defend people's right to express the. other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prompted outrage not only amongst pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities and declined the option of abortion definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that. in these children shouldn't be here
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it's not something terrible is not awful just because it's not what you imagine it doesn't mean it's not something fantastic having sam and i like it's amazing absolutely amazing sam's a member of his local swimming club and plays football to seeing him here it's hard to believe how doctors could say his life would be a burden i've been it's see them. a recap of the week's top stories in a few moments stay with us here in alt. atomic
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