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when the. israeli tear gas and stun grenades meet protestors across palestinian territories with clashes and checkpoints in major cities at least one protester was killed as palestinians marked land day remembering the six protesters who were killed more than fifty years ago during land confiscation policy a joint need a few moments for an update. also this hour french presidential hopefuls ramp up anti immigrant talk while raids against islamist radicals see some twenty people detained in the wake of the to lose killings. and despite officially baccy u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria nato countries are seeing funding the rebels with
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britain sending in aid worth hundreds of thousands of pounds not analysis on those developments shortly here on r.t. . national news and coming live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day at least one person is killed as israeli police used tear gas and water cannons against palestinian protesters marking a land day there remembering the death of six arabs killed by police in demonstrations against a land grab by israel in one thousand nine hundred six there's also been arrested various checkpoints in the west bank. is that one of them. the israeli police have pushed service into the palestinian city of ramallah they've managed to push back protesters and they formed a cordon to stop protesters coming any closer proper day we were witnessing ambulances ferrying injured people forward and backward we are hearing hearing
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reports of injured we also know that one high profile the palestinian legislator has been hurt in the clashes here at kalandia now the army and the police have been using water cannons and they've also been using a vehicle that when it sprays of water and all false mailing illiquid and that was in an effort to try and disperse the crowds at the same time there is a. bit of machinery that they've been using that emits very high frequency to sounds and that she was she trying get the demonstrators to leave from here elsewhere we know that the clashes are continuing in jerusalem the police there are on high alert their highest alert has been policemen on horseback as well in the west bank at various checkpoints as well as in several cities there we're hearing reports of injured we know of one a true old boy who allegedly was run over by and his radio call for peace one person has been killed along the israel gaza border areas and this annual event has
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been supported not only by palestinians but by international activists around the world we are witnessing some eighty two countries many of whom have seen caravans of support and we know that some of those caravans come from as far afield as india pakistan tajikistan and on the israeli jordanian border there are some twenty thousand people who have gathered one of the groups who is there is a jewish group that's calling itself jews united against zionism and they've been holding up flags palestinian flags and showing their support for the palestinian struggle along the israeli lebanon border there at least three thousand people have gathered the lebanese army is on high alert there are no reports of violence there in fact there people have turned up with the families and at the moment the mood there is quite cheerful but as i say all of this is an attempt to highlight the plight of the palestinian people and to the slogan of a global march to jerusalem. and by the way we've got live pictures streaming from a checkpoint in ramallah there they are right now for you here on r.t.
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and we'll continue to show those for you on our web site dot com so you can see what's happening live pictures there from. the french police have let around twenty suspected islamists in a series of raids in several cities around the country they arrest come just a week after an algerian french one hundred killed several people into lose and he said been hunting near his accomplices but no direct links with him of being confirmed prison nicolas sarkozy valid a crackdown on radical islam isn't after the to lose massacre as minister said he was inspired by a book because he is running for the second term for france's top job next month and reports minutes cases become a key tool to score political points. mohammed merah was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with
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ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse isn't there as a background. from anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison any personal going abroad for the purposes of adoption nation in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that. this policy of stripping a foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border controls saying there are too many foreigners in france and promising to bar radical muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in the islamic conference next month and clearly advocating the political extremist view is not a crime we have freedom of speech in. cross in a don't see. the it's. was
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a french citizen an east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this guy end of terrorism now from inside france or society it's not just something that is imported from middle east. then you can. take away french nationality from a french nationals this is not allowed under the french constitution and then there's money in the pen the far right national front party candidate having one pushed a more radical anti immigration line call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes on a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants how did murder is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wage war on this from the mentalists political religious groups who are killing our children
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a threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with our of the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic that are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is pretty difficult to recruit because what is the goal of all the people and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or cilia r.t. paris. will still have you this are tightening their belts.
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staying implements the budget costings to be the toughest in almost four decades i comes just a day after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest. of the camera that takes a picture of you is able to compare it to your driver's license for and say. all right perino was on the corner of forty circuit eight at three o'clock last saturday i'm not surprised that life anymore is even your home appliances consume start spying on you and your feel u.s. surveillance plans shortly here altie. but first nato states may be supporting the u.n. peace plan for a cease fire from all sides in syria but the u.s. and its allies firmly backing the rebels to britain's promise to funnel additional aid to the opposition with hundreds of thousands of pounds and with reports they're already getting weapons from abroad or smith reports now from london. this money that the u.k.
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has pledged amounts to eight hundred thousand dollars and represents a doubling of the funding that's being given to the opposition we're expecting other countries to follow suit including the u.s. at a seventy one nation meeting on sunday it's a group that calls itself the friends of syria this is the second meeting that they and in fact it seems from their agenda that they are not in fact friends of syria they're in fact friends of the syrian opposition and the goals of the meeting that they're holding on sunday includes you know i say well really focus on you know i saying this this famously disparate opposition that we see in syria and of whilst at the same time thinking up new measures to increase pressure on the regime so it's a very one sided strategy that they've got going on and has also said recently that he's looking at borrowing u.n. peacekeeping troops from various regions to try to enforce a peace that doesn't actually exist yet we've seen in the last couple of days an
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upsurge in the amount of violence from the opposition are reported to have kidnapped a high ranking military pilots and also assassinated two colonels from the army on thursday that looks like the opposition is stepping up its attacks in fact the opposition says that it won't contemplate even negotiating on anything which would allow for assad to stay in power meanwhile it is very angry about this support that's being provided to the opposition from the international community he says that countries have to stop providing money and weapons to the opposition immediately if this plan is to succeed he's calling the opposition terrorists of course himself has come out and said that the deadline for a cease fire is now and that the regime in syria should and a gesture of good faith to be the first to step down course in a bilateral cease fire it's very difficult to time these things it's very unlikely that assad will fall. to be the first step out there really not any any further
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forward but if the situation develops any further. there in london while the un is publicly pushing with its peace plan for syria washington and saudi arabia are pursuing that only means to solve the conflict u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in riyadh to work out a unified strategy her friends of syria meeting this weekend with more on this i can now talk to political analyst chris bambery joining me live from london why we see in washington and saudi arabia working on the issue together in this way. well this is a bernie important strategic alliance dating back to the end of the second world war when which americans are the british begin the world to the house of saud winston churchill off the more gold plated rolls royce americans higher than dollars lots of dollars and a host of so when will america ever since it's been a very important ally in the world's superpower military superpower and the biggest oil supplier but there are certain differences which i think we want to know before
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this meeting in istanbul on sunday the saudis of very keen to overthrow the assad regime as soon as possible and want to increase the arms which are going to the syrian rebels the free syrian army etc the americans a slightly weary not because the skins overthrew the assad regime from their own experience they know all that providing weapons probably also means involve providing weapons and structures and so on and can lead to involvement in a conflict which the sea easy solution to is the americans for their all reason in part because the rule over straits in afghanistan and elsewhere are hesitant of zero escalating on supplies to the rebels not through any concern of the as i say about maintaining the acid regime and what not to go and probably the americans would like a kind of. bathroom. and probably be happy with some sort of compromise which camp
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elements of the bathroom but i think riyadh once something much more much more fundamental than that so there are difficulties here and we nor that qatar and the saudis have been pushing this agenda we are always going on so they have to are know that there are other issues which are causing some tensions as well as the question of oil supplies obama's promise to draw on oil reserves which the saudis are keen on and the question of iran which again the saudis are very keen for action against against iran and they're tied into this frequent and has to try and work out with king and do another. position on syria prior to this meeting in istanbul and so on there what about the morality of saudi arabia stance is it really an appropriate partner on this the u.n. is accusing it of human rights abuses torture and there's also an almost three fold increase in executions last year should the u.s. and its allies really be seen to be partnering with that sort of regime. well that was a very good question because here in britain we just had our radical m.p.
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a way to george galloway who was criticized for being supposedly a friend of dictators you know there are no if we got rid of friends of dictators or british house of commons and eventually you know one way we had david cameron going to saudi arabia the royal family is very close links to the british establishment the so it is despite that record you talked about and of course despite saudi arabia's involvement in bahrain in suppressing the document democracy movements and protests which will be taking place in the east you know the west has almost overworked the sody humanitarian agenda the question of civil rights inside saudi arabia what it's doing to its own people and what is done to the people of yemen bahrain and other countries around it because business is good with saudi arabia the lavish weapons on in return for revenues from oil trade they go to realize that elsewhere for hospitality and they come very very coarse connections and the british establishment in the american establishment
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never let human rights get in the way of that they are two faced in the way they used that when you don't like a regime they will use the human race card when you like a regime to stay silent over the question of human rights as they have done without the saudi arabian so given regime and indeed the backer in which people are dying as we speak we don't hear any condemnation from hillary clinton or david cameron because just briefly you talk about the agendas behind the intentions of many countries wanted to see a regime change there just briefly though do you see kofi annan and peace initiative working it should have come into effect already and it hasn't what do you make of it. i think it's very interesting that up to this deal but there hasn't been a reciprocation from those that i can see and i think the problem is that the opposition is too fragmented i think even if the free syrian army. council
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opposition syrian council went for this deal i'm not sure they could pull it off inside the country so unfortunately i think this is the best way out it seems at the moment but unfortunately i don't see this working and son will not want is the author well as i say they are banking was extreme movements in the arab world to try and offset the arab spring there's a laugh in egypt and elsewhere they have their own agenda here which doesn't quite shine with america's and let's see if we can sort it out in advance of this meeting and sunday but unfortunately i don't see the call. coming off always interesting here your thoughts chris bambery thank you very much for joining us live there from london political analyst there chris parry thank you. spain has passed his deepest budget cuts yet amid loud public discontent hundreds of thousands spilled out of the streets across the country and thursday where demonstrators clashed with police and broke windows and possibly owner greaves is in madrid. twenty seven billion euro has been slashed that's the equivalent of thirty six billion dollars us aimed
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at reducing the deficit to five point three percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and twelve some fees already raised about this figure three soon billion euros rudy's credit rating agencies they say that she vowed for siebold billion euro need to be cut from the budget what they are doing is stashing same team percent from all budgets from all the ministries so that throughout the whole of the ministries it is spain well include some of those people think should be bring famous allies of education and health care as well they want to bring in some of the protesters and unions in order for development in the future that hasn't occurred in this case and what may allay some fear is it seems that pensions have been caps as have. salaries in some areas civil servants salaries have been capped as well now this isn't just a problem to do with spain when it comes to their deficits and speech stressed a lot recently we've seen
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a sense of the today in denmark pass where all the european finance ministers met and they've agreed a far will an eight hundred billion euro by will go to safeguard against any future bailouts and spain has really been in everyone's mind when they're talking about that he was doing is too big to fail but has he teetering on the brink from being here to real pressure get from the people who are in the unions or cells if you don't mind austerity understand that there has to be austerity in these tough times but they think certain there should be ring fenced it should take change because should be made it absolutely everywhere and we are talking about health care education also reach your a lot of people down the street yes there's a labor of course is trying to make it easier to sack equal and easier to reduce their wages in an environment where unemployment is starting in spain is twenty three percent of the population the highest in any developed nation and even higher among. those below the age of twenty five was that was about to say it in terms of
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unemployment mass what we saw a lot of young people out in the streets yes they felt the police figures estimates is about eighty thousand equal it betrayed a low v.d.'s which is as high as eight hundred thousand the worst sort of protest demonstrations take place but let's also in barcelona there we saw clashes with police parts of the city set ablaze and windows being smashed. jake agrees that in madrid there's always more stories news and analysis at r.t. dot com that's our website here's just some of what's lined up for you this hour prayers not poor egypt banned sex sites for destroying religious feelings and moral values liberal activists say it's a step towards sharia law. and going to extremes or red terror the russian orthodox church plans to check the world code bolshevik leaders for signs of extremism on a more r.t. dot com all right all the time. a group of prison guards has been shot in the capital of russia's republic of dagestan in the incident and one officer was killed
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and another engine passers by were also caught in the crossfire leaving a woman dead and a man in hospital so far it's unknown who's behind the attack. now let's check out some other world news in the making headlines in our world of state rebels in mali has captured a strategic northern town just a week after the military seize power saying the president had failed to fight the insurgents and moved in on condell with heavy weapons and these are the same rebel forces he fought in libya for colonel gadhafi before returning to their homeland better armed and battle hardened they can leave as a call the situation critical and pleaded for side help. japan has vowed to shoot down a north korean rocket shuttle for morse next month if it threatens its territory the order was issued for the country's defense forces to prepare measures satellite images indicate that work at the launch pad is on the way down and insists it's only sending a satellite up the scientific purposes and other nations suspect it's
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a cover for a long range weapons practice. also on a world update this hour an afghan policeman was killed nine of his colleagues as they slept inside their post in the eastern province he then escaped seizing the arms and a truck among those killed was his commander and two sons the motive for the attack was not known but police in the area blamed the taliban. in the not too distant future even your dishwasher could be spying on you because while technology changes to make life easier it can also give big brother people into the lives of almost anyone or he's made a point not tracks the trend from. ten years ago bio metrics robotic spies and state surveillance the makings of a thought i flick starring tom cruise sort of from the time warner of today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report arguably be calm and the reality with life ominously in the changing art your walking down the street at the
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camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license photo or some other photo be a mug shot maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty second and eighth at three o'clock last saturday in addition to fish recognition new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody . in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street activists placed under arrest by christina gonzales they really don't tell you why they just say it's another form of identification and it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machine to your prey's that you have no idea not only the health of facts of it but what there are clearly use it with their larger
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purpose of using it is for iris scans are like a high tech being different but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who's unique scan is on the database the technology is becoming increasingly useful as a tracking tool in the u.s. in the virtual world of tweets. the. book posts and search engines every internet user is defined by a data footprint if you think anonymous comments and blogs are protected think again through the use of what's called forensic linguistics u.s. investigators can now uncover fingers are behind every single keystroke the phone i have a good in a large enough sample of your writing and your postal card can take you and compare it i can put it into a database and so in the database. using that information finding
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every other post you ever did the digital data trail of every american will soon be connected to a nasa of building in utah a two billion dollar data center is reportedly being constructed for the u.s. national security agency the complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and store all forms of personal communication including online purchases cell calls google searches and yes private messages but they're actually looking at di encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g. mail your all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you this service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. is center is designed around building systems that will d. encrypt that data and remove any protection that you can put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian freefall when describing the emergence of the
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internet of things the freezer for an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all home electronics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty up to one hundred billion ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to. the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that bottomless. could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says the very idea of secrecy will change forever. arche new york. the nation's market update just one here on a friday night daniel you can read one vote crofter all hi bill yes we'll explain in a minute. that u.s. consumer spending rose for february is pushing the higher for the first. but the
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crisis of black berry maker research in motion deepens its shares of seventy five percent over the year from android phone competition its no one else to two hundred sixty seven million dollars for the fourth quarter europe is up across the board. percent after the country. rushes followed europe to close like this point losses earlier this week emerging markets best first quarter for twenty years in corporate news its corporate results. joint. just revealed strong figures for last year as has gas produced net profit jumped seventy six percent. and graph says this year's profit will be twenty eleventh's record ten billion dollars foreign investment into roses shot up last year at sixty five billion dollars it's almost fifty percent more than twenty ten the preferred sectors will be finance insurance. and or lives
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up to its biggest decline in a week or proposed ventry social top bureau's high against the u.s. dollar off the news of an increase to biggest bailout funds and the ruble finished mixed against the main currencies it gained against the greenback to big euro and finally its hopeful come from boston standard is reportedly buying several it's highly in one or is the four hundred million euro deal with reports of russian standards to be one of the world's biggest alcohol producers and europe today bill most always on the website altidore thanks very much indeed daniel and in a few minutes i'll be bringing you the news headlines from the body fun filled edition of moscow with martin andrew stay with us for them.
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