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three. three. three. three. three broken videos for your media project a free media gun tard t.v. dot com. still may first syria with u.n. sponsored peace but on iraq some hours ahead of a ceasefire deadline. the syrian rebels the fears the busines demands from guarantees they lay down weapons before damascus still calls its own suits more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have submitted applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. and moscow vows to secure the return of victor boot after a u.s. judge sentences the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans.
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midnight in moscow live match resurvey new today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. the un back peace plan for syria could be an deadlock hours ahead of a cease fire deadline rebels have refused to give damascus any guarantees they'll lay down arms before the government troops pull back our middle east correspondent paula sneer has the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just hours after the syrian forward of a crazed sports such explanations what the syrian regime is asking for is confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before they withdraw they tense and the troops from population centers well this does threaten to derail the peace
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process just two days before the peace plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into effect what we know is that the rebels are saying that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the syrian president bashar assad's regime and as such they will not be giving any kind of guarantees what they want stood is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and for all security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last few days there has been an alarming increase environments in numerous syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say a continuing to carry out of wind and there are many an international community can fill that what powers are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other we saw a recent friends of syria meeting which has effectively now become known as the
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friends of the syrian opposition and the small countries like the united states and its allies as well as several gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey pledging increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that saw from actually hoping to resolve the conflict these kinds of search those of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is waiting to take what it's doing service states against the masters if it does not fit with for its troops by next week's two. state but certainly increasingly the sense is that many in the international community i mean do they support city opposition fighters i actually do this hope to help herself the syrian conflict. reporting from artie's policy or doctor needle kabal on a former syrian ambassador explains why it's vital for damascus to get the guarantees that rose from the rebels syria has lent a very hard lesson from the arab league observers the armed gangs.
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really used the existence of legal observers on the ground. multiple festered in syrian cities and towns and it has cost the syrian army and security forces and innocent civilians hundreds of extra lives so syria does not want does the same thing to happen again during the existence of any international observers on the ground that's why as he has demanded. is from main handlers and supporters of the. free syrian army i agree with that we need to do for them to frame is right to remain true for. civilized man though not under the brown it's. hard because there have been butchering men women and children in syrian cities and towns and deadlines passed for egypt's presidential hopefuls to
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officially register for next month's rate's about twenty candidates hoping to fill the shoes of housing mubarak who was ousted from power last year the electoral commission is expected to announce in the next couple of weeks the list of approved candidates or he's a really lucia reports from cairo. you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are those who have the support of mostly the young educated people and then you have the second group who are essentially hailing from the camp of hosni mubarak the ousted president we have his former prime minister running for president as well as. former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league is also vying for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence services he did almost the only man and finally you have the third group who probably have allowed the most rowdy supporters in egypt and they are the islamist parties the muslim brotherhood who
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from the get go from the first days of the revolution said that they're not going to put forth a candidate for the presidential race a year later not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also saying they have also submitted applications then there's the style of the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam the person running board and you finally have a third radical islamist party. which have also put forth their candidate who is actually banned from traveling in france because according to the french authorities he is a preacher coincides religious intolerance and hatred the muslim brotherhood have just recently been in washington d.c. insisting that radical islamist groups have been misrepresented that they actually seek nothing more than to install a sharia law in place of the constitutional law some of the things which they have proposed to be put forth in egypt as the law is for example betting alcohol for everyone including tourist for arresting tourists for wearing to these sort of
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suits for sake of eating schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been on the streets of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution whether this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that remains for the egyptian people to decide. russian tin should be teaming up with undemocratic arab political groups according to analysts at the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming of and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda a when you're talking about trying to divide the islamic world in the arab world
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it's a very hard thing to do that you won't see ready allies for the west especially in some of the. i'm going to use them relax of a better word regimes that have taken over in the in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring they're not friendly to the western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that would come you see a lot of these the factions leaning towards the installation of shari'a law is something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting sharia law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our u.s. constitution. corneas twirling in the air on that. coming up on r t greece in a rage that after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity marder anger boiled over in riots this week after a retired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament is noted and said he has
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no more means to stay alive plus twelve survivors from the two man plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to get treatment in the hospital as the failure to deal with the plane is called primary cause of tragedy. but first russia's pledge to bring home victor mood after the businessman was said in the u.s. to twenty five years in prison basco says it seems the case is political who was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting operation that set up his arrest or he's a saucy target or reports. here is spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched out from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed one should the u.s. and placed in solitary confinement for months before trial found him guilty on all
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four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the stark the forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood running around for every twelve people around. the record. i don't want any other over who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group team terrorist in the u.s.
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but not by many other countries and they do when met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly played dirty arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the trouble to extradite in washington kidnap and boots family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept the possibility that the two brutes might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive those people into their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called booth's extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the
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u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do was sell to all cargo planes is a matter of crimes when in fact the jurisdiction and manufactured evidence here goes george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says as one of many victims of us judicial power play if you will that richter and its people charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be russian citizen record who are trying to be sentence life or a regular crime it didn't commit it to good is the second. russian citizen in the new year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation bookcases said major precedence and represents how worried he was trained to simply override the legal systems of other countries is the citric an artsy. a south korean news agency is reporting that it secretive neighbor in the
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north is planning its third nuclear test this is pyongyang is pushing ahead with the launch of a communications satellite using a long range rocket for more on this hundred by martin drole communications director for the korean friendship association of the u.s. thanks for joining us so the information about the planned test has been picked up by many international news outlets but it all come to some from a south korean news agency whose source is an unnamed intelligence official so is there still some concern over the credibility of this report. i would say so certainly the claim of the nuclear test i think that's ridiculous there's absolutely no evidence of that there's a lot of noise a lot of pieces like this korean news agencies where they have mysterious under name sources with no no explanation as the origins of the reports they're always rumors in this case it has no bearing on reality the north this very sure of its nuclear capabilities and doesn't need to conduct any sort of the tests and more
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importantly their agreements being made with the united states to secure more food aid and the united states is playing some caltex with the situation and they're making it so that the north can develop its own nuclear i'm sorry but it's missile technology it's and its ability to do. this is creating an understated struction for the north and we can't launch satellites in every country in the works that is capable of launching satellites there's a lot lots that way without restrictions completely what is cited in us decision in order to isolate and we're a little unfair. now in february north korea agreed to suspend nuclear tests in return for this food aid which has been put on hold why do you think that it's can you hear me. all right why would you think that it could be planning a missile or a nuclear test now. i don't believe there's no i don't believe that makes any sense
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considering the current political climate of the world under their green exertion under their notice that you know. what it is that i just said what it says and that's all it will be repeated even change the trajectory in this also the. brilliant. one. even misanthrope it's so to claim that there is some inferior content in an instance and biased to it than what it is a crazy dictatorship which isn't the western you know all right we have to end it there martin drop communications director for the korean friendship association of the us thanks for your time and if you. are tired pharmacists became one of the most public victims of greece's austerity measures this week after the seventy seven year old shot himself dead in front of parliament and left a suicide note blaming the cuts for destroying his livelihood some two thousand people came to pay final respects to demetrius christoulas saturday some comparing
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his death with murder his suicide sparked riots with anti-us ferrety protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs office of responded with tear gas three says been a wrapping up spending twenty ten to secure a vital u n i m f l o. patrick young says that after his wants to survive it needs to default on debts and leave the eurozone. the greek government is and bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must default ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many financier's and investors but at the same time i have to say any bank that bought greek debt in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is response to a halt on it it probably needs to leave the euro immediately if not deeply into its
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currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the matter is that when you do get to this sort of extreme only this sort of extreme measure is going to be possible to resolve your situation and ultimately it really beggars belief that we have a greek politician the most highly paid politicians in the whole of the european union turning round and going oh well that's very sad one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen dollars a new eurostar month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which is enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month in new austerity greece last month's deadly shooting spree by a frenchman of algerian descent into looms reignited the debate about immigration any islam in the new presidential hopefuls and friends jumped on the story with a front runner and incumbent nicolas sarkozy pledging to cut of world immigrants by
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half but that's making the country's muslims feel increasingly isolated as artists are so your reports from paris. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs but this. is reality. the shooting of seven people had to lose by a frenchman of algerian descent was away this incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and it to gratian in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i must say this is an isolated case unfortunately and i see young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior i think this is a result of his personal journey he felt that it was out of place in france probably humiliation discrimination and therefore personal kind of feeling of hatred hatred of. in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant many like
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yourself don't feel french. in the suburbs there is this feeling of rejection by france and the government socially when we say i'm from the suburbs they're not taken seriously the proof when young people apply for jobs and the summer is a raise and have a suburban address it closes many problems some employers tend to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and therein lies a problem the federal public's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this parisian suburb of mont there where we chanced upon a lone man in protest to be good you need i claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirty hundred year olds you live in as best as you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaks in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like. people die here in total
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indifference i see no no i denounce that fact in france we'll have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the country today loosely translated as a france or moving a two speeds for the young people who find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost by the stay. may find a sense of belonging elsewhere by the time that happens any efforts to bring the battle a likely to be futile and where some may find solace is anyone's guess this man not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood today it's the likes of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who create is there's a new generation that is hundred pushes an aggressive experience a conflict the internet creates an easy access to information freely and easily and the worst is ignorance that is reinforced pretty thin and this is a huge danger to you with in response politicians bombard the public with proposals
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for even more policies like policing internet behavior reducing the number of new immigrants or stripping some of their citizenship which critics say are hollow president circles he has been trying to espouse the line right. party here as well. you know ways of tackling immigrants talking about how we making issues. of muslim groups these to be the major issues in france rather than the question of drugs and perhaps the question of how to bring back the very basics of a society that calls itself a gala tarion tesser cilia r t paris. if you are survivors from a plane crash in russia's two man arrangement on monday remain in the hospital or condition is said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one people failure to d.i.'s the wing that has been named as the primary cause of the tragedy archy's jacobs reports
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. i heard an explosion and then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes you realize something was wrong as a magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first fighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one with few survivors of the first thing we saw was a clean degree on fire and we started putting the flames out there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then which you can do a hospital. building shaking he says use very cool kid on our screens turn the heater on even though it already was on thirty one people lost their lives in a tragedy this shocked the country. vive is remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but for a brief moment those involved stopped their work as family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones and the charts that pay their respects it's
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a well heard out still to rule the call the plates. the. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause if it's true it's a tragedy that could be diverted. you hear. the plane you know whenever you're flying any time in hostile conditions. very bad weather is a hostile condition and it's incumbent upon they become some of the. before taking off. necessarily include. the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight
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data and i launched the intact cockpit may. we provide says the last team scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to codes of play that loss to greece see. coming out of some other stories making headlines across the globe a huge car bomb exploded near a church in central nigeria easter sunday thirty eight people were killed many more injured no groups claim responsibility for the attacks yet hundreds of nigerians have died in a religious and ethnic violence in recent years with most of the attacks blamed on the radical islamists. mali's president has officially resigned as part of a deal to end the political crisis there the military staged a coup last month toppling him from power under the agreement mediated by a bloc of west african countries the interim president and transitional government will rule i'm told actions are held who leaders earlier agreed to step down once
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the president quit new authorities rocked the uprising in the north where torrid tribes have declared independence on friday. afghanistan and the u.s. have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by american forces it means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly raids of fuel tension between the afghan government and the u.s. with president karzai condemning aerial bombing this ahead of nato planned withdrawal of the country by the end of two thousand and fourteen. well in afghanistan the u.s. is decreasing its influence the exact reverse is playing out in the asia pacific region as the new battery newly deployed marines arrives in australia more than two hundred will be based in the north while the number could eventually reach twenty five hundred is sad for the u.s. military footprint in the region an area barack obama has called a priority u.s. is also enhancing alliances with your pad south korea the philippines and singapore all countries in china's backyard some experts predict
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a conflict could flare up soon turtles james corbett explains why he's at the civic nations are choosing to side with the u.s. and not try to. it's a case of real politic and i think that there are certain governments that believe that they can they can benefit from this and they're they're likely to side with whoever is going to be the be and who are going to every day perceive to be is going to eventually reach this type of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has a clear superiority when it comes to conventional we will put assets for example let alone cyber weapons and all of the other tools of warfare that are being deployed to undermine the real vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously the dominant player here and in that a lot of. governments world will she can flip the devil as it were even if they don't agree with all of us policies they'll certainly be all on with me for it in order to get certain kick back some kind of diplomatic so it's. coming up our interview looking at the unhealthy makes the euro crisis bellows and austerity that's after the headlines stay with us.
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