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three. three. three stooges free. and free blog video for your media project free video god r t v dot com. the british prime minister powers ahead with his arms sales pitch in asia opening up the u.k.'s war arsenal to the nation surrounding china. there's still a chance of a truce says a special envoy to syria while u.s. congress hawks cozy up to the syrian rebels and step up calls to supply them with arms also. in the wall is busy with themselves know what the nobody is skewed for the. arab revolutions push the palestinian crisis on the back burner leaving people to battle for basic essentials and offering cover for israel to do what it wants. plus critics say spanish plans for
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a vegas style gambling empire to make money and jobs could actually end of boosting the sex industry more than the economy. what you are seeing on the line from moscow nine am in the russian capital hi marina joshie a joint anglo japanese weapons research pact and a permanent british naval presence in asia those are the first firth's of british prime minister david cameron's latest and strongest push to hawk his country's weapons to the orient a company by revenue of arms dealers representing the u.k.'s oldest and biggest weapons makers cameron is currently on a five day tour across the continent the british leader also called for indonesia to be allowed to buy weapons in bulk that just a decade after the country was embargoed by london itself for using british jets to
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bomb civilians before the u.k.'s reports side from standing to make an explosive profit there's also the benefit of irritating china. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron's in japan unashamedly tout the u.k.'s military hardware only he calls it flying the flag for britain it's seeking to become only the second country other than america to trade arms with japan not only big business but the chance for a crucial foothold in what's clearly a place to be business perfectly predictable result of the shifting focus of american attention and any attention of much of the world's major pacific region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and and even india and in other countries in the region for him to actually become more economically dominant i think with that comes the attended attention from the militaries of the u.s.
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and the u.k. and other countries america's recently announced plans to station two thousand and remains in australia hoping to exert influence in a region china says isn't theirs to meddle in and britain could soon join them part of its defense deal with japan could see a british hunter submarine deployed in china's backyard complete with missiles and all the physical presence the british government claims is needed these geopolitics are relevant but i think that's even more reason for the going out there to engage with what is one of the few key allies in the region david cameron's in japan with over thirty executives from the u.k.'s highly profitable arms industry this isn't the first time he's been criticized for turning an overseas trip into a travelling sales pitch cameron was left red faced last year when on the same trip he went from praising democratic uprisings in cairo to flogging weapons in q eight prime minister david cameron has been forced to defend his party weapons
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manufacturers saying it's perfectly responsible and respectable but this is a region that's highly sensitive to any kind. military maneuver the tensions at the moment are particularly high north korea's planned rocket launch later this week is stoking the traditional regional panic japan and south korea are threatening to shoot it down fearing it's a disguise long range missile test similar suspicions are being cast on china too and japan and south korea seek allies further afield he certainly do not want to confront i know more than once and they do not have the resources to. restrict its military strings to counterbalance hanger so that at best appears at the moment of course is to count on. more strategically and more foreign powers into the region so as to have a poke at chalons of exerting the pressure of the international community on
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china until now britain and america have had to make do with exerting their influence on the region from a far but with the talk of a physical presence there the theories could upset the balance i have been it r t. the speed of china's unprecedented economic rises card many by surprise and today the question is not if but when beijing will overtake the u.s. as the world's largest economy and that's one of the themes up for discussion in today's crust are coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. . i still think the china has a long way to go no no denying that china is growing what it is but it has a long way to go before it can get close to even think you are passing us ok. yeah i was there six years isn't there a line you're out if you actually know who i bet there to the from our control of the united states the guy who is in charge of auditing the books of the us
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government david walker has been saying earlier this year that the us is now where greece was two years ago in terms of instead crisis or just in the present numbers is six years is not really their plan the future. the u.n. security council is called in damascus to stick to a six point peace plan and fundamentally change of course the plans after kofi annan has signaled the syrian government hasn't fully comply with its commitments here tuesday deadline to withdraw our troops from towns however he believes it's too early to bury the truce effort until thursday when a full ceasefire should come into force same time the opposition stirred up by u.s. war hawks as war it's not ready to lay down arms yet on a surprise trip to the turkish syrian border senators john mccain and joe lieberman met with rebel leaders and repeated their call for fires to be armed and iraq has
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called on foreign powers to use diplomatic influence to stop distilleries the u.s. is accused moscow of being a roadblock in its drive to topple the syrian regime political analyst professor jamal with him says washington is determined to ruin his halfords. the united states is trying to back down on its agreement with the russians over a compromise that he got a big syria and this is how we can understand. from groups or groups stepping up the. fight against the syrian government and in a. the initiative. is being pushed by the united states in order to hurt us the syrians especially by supporting providing safe haven for the groups. that it would be to launch attacks on the syrian government the syrian troops in this city and troops have. the same way they with armed groups coming
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from lebanon so in this case this is the justified there is a number of need to justify an intervention by nato without thousand through the you know. now the arab revolutions harding the attention of the world have left palestinian problems in the shadows farmers are the occupied territories are fighting on their own for basic needs as are his policy reports some suggest israel is deliberately using the opportunity to go about its business of undermining palestinians while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on a different kind of spring the kind they're farmers rely on for their livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid to stand here even though this is my farm the soldiers and settlers often come here to harassers you being here protects me israelis are controlling us bring us the
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source of our water this is not the style of relig a place where little mini tribe has lived for some four hundred years of nearly three decades ago and israeli settlements sprung up next door and slowly started encroaching on villages land today a third of what used to be to me ground is controlled by settlers. it's very frustrating to see the settlements on learned that is ours and which we can no longer access it's part of a plan and i'm afraid the day will come when they will knock on my door and say this house it's not yours it's ours. the one spring in the area is the main source of water for these palestinian farmers but they can now only access it ten hours a week while the cities use it all the time and far from it being in a city for them they are making money and using it as a tourism site the settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try and get the israeli public to come here internet sites and advertisement talk about a great restaurants wineries and of course the magnificent springs. the lovely
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silent spring as one of fifty six of the united nations detailed in a recent report. but eighty four percent of the springs on the list of probable so you can just imagine. a lab where water is raise a red commodity for if you have it for thirty years a generation is lost because you said it was a common. palestinians feel the water spin issue is only the tip of the iceberg because while the world is zoomed in on the arab spring the israelis are using the chance to go about their business i think it's about first time for the israelis to step up to their actions against the palestinians i think the wall is busy with themselves nobody nobody is. the palestinian the last year. has been a record and the increases in the number of new housing units
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israel have been meant to go. in the occupied territories as expansion of settlements and so for as long as the world remains focused on the big battles happening across the arab world the daily fight these farmers push up for every drop of water will continue i noticed policy are key and obviously a village palestinian administration coming up a bit later in the program here in r t developing here comic energy sector in india turns into a pitched battle between competing interests some american stakeholders argues of stirring up and saying we're protests in the hunt for profit. so we got x. pretty near on a latest with a glowing case in the us and that tranda of labeling and spies those who expose government misconduct. before that spain is going had with a cost cutting reform of health care and education introduced on monday despite loud protests from the country's opposition madrid is also pushing through an
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ambitious project to build a vegas style casino complex in order to fill its coffers but as greaves reports that could turn our long shot bet with poor odds. blinded by economic woes a spanish government may be about to take a big gamble and it's causing an american tycoon over his plans in developing gambling mecca last vegas it's somewhat ironic because this is a country where gambling was forbidden for so many years for more research that doesn't seem to to matter much now the problem i see is that we are always complaining about our economic model the fact that we're a lighter much on the tourism industry on the construction business and here we are again with another magic project the billionaire wants to bring a colossal casino or shoot to spanish most likely place it in madrid outskirts.
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vegas it could bring the cash strapped government twenty two billion dollars for around three hundred thousand jobs and much needed relief for an unemployment ridden economy in madrid it's a prospect that's been met with protest as people fear a sin city on their soil could bring more voice to the capsule something it's already familiar with or shushan has existed for some time here with this i mean legal status even in broad daylight on the main tourist streets because see its existence is a problem in the wake of the financial crisis that has increased so his presence now if there are lots of women who want prostitution if they want to find a way out of a crisis but the moment is decreased and the prices of jobs now this many hardly helpful why sex workers and spanish streets are by no means a new site traditionally is the something that attracts immigrants unable to find
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work elsewhere but male more spaniards are being reeled in elaborately with a limited kind of surprising because before the majority were foreigners brazilians remain in the latin americans but now because of the crisis and we don't hear him or spanish who are offering their services. and with the nation's unemployment. and. because of the prices of major increase of prostitutes among university students to pay for the creation. more being forced to take threatening chris specs of a country. with projects in the point which could leave an even greater many fear where their governments may leave. troops. well find out more about the stories we're covering online or to calm and now let's take a look at what else is definitely worth your attention on our web site the voices
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of occupy wall street have not only grown louder but also melodious that's due to the growing popularity of the arc of our bands that use guitars and seeing as their frustration plus. the doctor is literally lost his patients are just grew so angry of being forced to wait for this and show room to lay waste to the entire place in less than three minutes i don't know what broke into the. i was growing tran in the u.s. of punishing those exposing government misconduct under a law designed to imprison spies the espionage act was used on bradley manning who handed data to wiki leaks now
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a former cia officer may face prison time for revealing the use of torture both cases go against the very basics of the us constitution says stephen cohen attorney and author of the whistleblowers handbook. it's government misconduct that the government wants to suppress the public ever learning about so the heart of the first amendment it's essential for was to prove to permit people to expose government abuses but what we see in these censorship cases is that the government is using its power to intimidate to prosecute to wrack and preventing the american people learning about the abuses of their government their censorship document of the predicate their censorship on said that the director of the f.b.i. can censor federal employees if they disagree with the policy being advocated by those employees and as unconstitutional all of the cases say the right
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to censor is limited to classified and secret yet the f.b.i. is saying they can censor based on policy these are the types of rules that they sneak in that have to be challenged. take a look at some other stories from around the world at least one hundred thirty three people have been killed in two days of violent clashes between yemeni soldiers and al qaida it comes after militants linked to al qaida raided an army barracks in the southern town of lo there a government official says the group have now surrounded the area preparing to take over the town. for even million eligible southbury and voters will have the opportunity to vote for the country's new parliament on wednesday it's predicted to be a race between two major parties the presidents and the main opposition group tensions with north korea are a major factor in the race with manny koreans unhappy at the government's handling of relations with its northern neighbor the presidential elections also slated for
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december this year. in the us rick santorum has suspended his campaign for the republican presidential nomination after he was unable to win key primaries facing a loss of his home state of pennsylvania his decision clears the way for frontrunner mitt romney newt gingrich and ron paul are still campaigning but are lying well behind romney in the lead up to november's presidential election. but there's more on the buildup to the u.s. election next hour of hazard he's going to count speaks to jim clifton c.e.o. of a company conducting opinion polls in the states where he says their figures show obama may have a fight on his hands to stay in the white house. well we ask right now if you were to vote tonight to vote for me and according to the gallup poll if we vote tonight romney will beat him because you know you may very well vote for romney but not for
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him you're just voting against the president is there sort of a what are the main reasons not to vote for the president it's just strictly unemployment as far as foreign policy i think foreign policy plays no role at all right now i mean if something really big happens so israel bombs iran and we've got to back them up. i mean make a little bit of a difference but americans are a place right now they don't want to hear about foreign policy they should but they don't. nuclear power plants have mushroomed across india opening up huge opportunities for big business but also angering environmentalists but in the end politicians insist protests often have motives beyond the ecological because it's prey shrewder now reports where there is a big money there's big money rather there are dirty tactics. protests have erupted across india outside of nuclear power stations like this from
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the cool down call in plant a joint indian russian venture in the south that will be the largest such electricity generating facility in the country construction of nuclear power plants in india has been stalled because of growing opposition and now the indian government has said it's the united states that's behind the protests motivated by american business interests there could be. interest and there could be you know corporate or the politics of the nuclear industry for me or. geopolitical concerns that india's prime minister manmohan singh has taken away the licenses of three ngo's and put seventy seven more on a global watch list for the key believes american n.g.o.s are helping fund anti-nuclear protesters while such aid is not illegal the action reflects government anger at what delhi sees as interference in india's internal affairs and
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energy policy in a recent interview to the american journal science prime minister singh said the atomic energy program has got us into difficulties because these n.g.o.s mostly i think peace to the us still appreciate the need for country to increase energy and . the protesters deny that they're receiving funds from america the small amount of money that we need comes from our own people the fisherman. but according to information from the indian home ministry released to parliament last year one third of indian n.g.o.s funding actually came from the united states india have maintained that developing a peaceful nuclear energy program will only help the country meet its growing energy needs and it creates its dependence on foreign sources of energy but other countries the india's growing energy needs. potential business opportunity while the u.s. says it's got no objection to india's civilian nuclear program u.s.
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and western firms will be keen that they win the business rather than russian firms in the last few years india has access to the international market as this great market. billions of dollars. while protesters may be simply opposed to nuclear power some of the money behind may be motivated by very different reasons the power of american business interests to keep others out of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets preassure either r. t. india. or crossings regular business death now as dmitri medvedev fresh business update and as business day another business base unfolding here in moscow what do we expect to see in forty minutes time when the russian markets open well it seems we're looking for a movement downs actually downwards because the the us markets and the asian
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markets have seen a massive drop over the past couple of sessions even though russia for the past four weeks has seen four consecutive weeks of losses it has been trying to resist the pressure but it seems it's a bit too harsh just to be in the previous president just take a look at what's going on in asia right now the nikkei and the hang seng declining more than one percent the nikkei one percent exactly sony and sharp have issued earnings downgrades and therefore they're dropping more than three percent and this is of course based on all worries about the state of the economy notably in europe as the spanish and italian bond yields were going up and previous session and see what happens today of course over in the united states there was a big drop the biggest drop actually to date this year at least for the dow jones the nasdaq supplied in more than one. half a cent in one single session after the end of that session alcoa the mini and giant
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started off the earnings season basically with a report of a ninety four million dollars profit in the first quarter which was surprisingly positive as many expected to see a loss but that has not really helped the asian markets as you can see. to move over now to commodities apparently light sweet and brant right now correcting upwards of you can say about more than twenty six cents for both blends and this is actually on the back of a sharp drop in the previous session we are seeing a seven month lows actually for the blend because of rising u.s. crude injuries. over in the currencies of barely any movement when it comes to the euro dollar pair but the russian currency was losing against the baskets of both cars in the previous session and of thirty five minutes time we'll see of course
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the kickoff of wednesday's session to see what happens then will report next hour basically on that and the russian market and the shoes day session on a negative note but much better than its peers in europe and the united states as you can see the less than one percent decline also we might see some more action from state companies when it comes to selling state stakes basically because of the major made of it it's. to go ahead with the privatization plan the full scale and also there's an idea coming up potentially from russia's third largest mobile phone operator megaphone as it may consider listing in the foreseeable future according to venomously the daily writes this is likely to happen if you billionaire early shadows one of succeeds in almost doubling his stake in the company for fifty six point. two percent mega-fun is the only one of the big three operates in russia
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which has not yet done a listing and it's worth around twenty billion dollars. that's potentially an investment opportunity for you to read all right thanks very much on a dimitri and of course looking forward to the next update next hour and by the way if you can wait as long you can check out the website or to accomplish business planning more to come your way here in our team building special reports which is still ahead before that i'll bring the top stories.
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