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don't cheat don't come. world leaders arrive in chicago for the nato summit the city welcomed him them with thousand strong protests and reports of heavy handed police reaction. and to the g eight nations or throw their weight behind restraint in the euro zone but speculation mounts that this is simply damage control and that a very different fate has been mapped out for athens. plus of the u.s. resumes on sales g. bahrain amid concerns they'll be used to further the crackdown on grain demonstrations fueled by the green family's plans for unity with saudi arabia. it's twelve o'clock here in moscow are you watching the weekly say let's take
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a look at the stories streets are flooded with protest that's how chicago is reaching world leaders congregating there for the nato summit thousands are running against the blogs costly and deadly was demonstrations that have already received a harsh response from police artie's a nice to see a child cannot has the details throughout the last couple of days we have seen groups of protesters taking the streets of chicago different actions taking place we've seen about a thousand protesters walk the streets of the city they were chanting there were in fact clashes with police police took out with tons we are hearing that one activist was run over by a police van we saw a woman protester with her face bleeding definitely clashes it was quite an intense several hours of marching and protesting and at least a thousand people walking through the city hundreds of police officers everywhere people coming out on the streets of all walks of life to protest the nato summit taking place. i disagree with the policies being implemented by the u.s.
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government and nato when it comes to afghanistan and the wars that the united states is fighting the protesters believe that money could be better could be put to much better use especially in a difficult economic situation in the united states for more details on what went on on the streets of chicago earlier today take a look at our report. as a protest going down and then you can this is a prime time capital murder everybody against the prime minister many of them in the united states the one real changes. protesters now breaking through police barricades literally the entire crowd hundreds of people running through the area that's being up barricaded off by the police. right now the protesters are in the very heart of chicago they look like they have no intention of stopping and this really looks like
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a preview of things to come because the sunday march is actually expected to be the biggest one the biggest anti nato action that will be playing because you're on the ground. of course we'll keep you posted on events in chicago throughout the day plus later today we look closely at the anger rocking the u.s. as we examine the timeline of the occupy wall movements in our special report. we have to begin to identify those. that. pushed. me. just. as a group are people who seem a bit it is a bunch of losers but i have a very good. people have jobs here that's all nonsense already jobs are losers.
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that striking greece as should stay in the euro zone that's the united message from the leaders of the world's most powerful economies after a day of crisis talks in the u.s. athens dominated the g eight gathering amid fears aid maybe headed for a chaotic and unprecedented exit from the single currency bloc however some believe that talks behind closed doors suggested a different agenda for the troubled nation artes and he said now has more on this camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all ga talk touching the eurozone. there were new
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faces but all focus was on a not so new an ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of could greece be cursed lose and leave the eurozone practically every financial analyst things that greece will leave it has to be an orderly withdrawal from the euro anything else would be disaster the official mantra from a don't want to flirt with must do everything so the greeks are able to stay in the euro zone with. ease greece to many years and that was once again the united stance is this camp david summit wrapped up but plan b. is already in place officials in brussels have a back up just in case and germany has been hinting a referendum on a euro exit could be greece's best bet to believe the smiles and handshakes are just damage control i think this is just trying to put it put a pretty face on it this hope to ms or so. when the markets open monday they can
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have some good news to report but some media are more concerned with who was not at camp david then what was president putin says he's busy with his cabinet this weekend others think he's steamed over the street protests lots of speculation as to why putin skipped this g. eight but very little based on margin president putin couldn't really contribute anything. to a solution he could say right you have to solve your debt problem germany perhaps shouldn't extend more danger to other members of the european union and so on but basically he'd be a bystander not the case for obama who in an election year can't afford to but euro zone fallout worsened the u.s. economy russia sees this summit as a stop on the way to june g. twenty where putin and obama will sit down for talking with the g. twenty it focuses on a wider range of issues much more pressing to countries like russia and china who seek to have greater expectations from the broader format especially when it comes
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to financial turmoil and making sure all global issues make the cut reporting from the g. eight at camp david and he said no way r.t. . orderly or disorderly the many analysts who believe greece will default on now trying to predict how events will unfold later. i mean economics writer for the guardian newspaper what he sees next for athens his interview coming your way later this hour here's a quick look. of being modeling what a greek exit from euro zone would look like for the best part yeah politically and economically politically even those who are in favor of greece so. they would accept that it would. be. it would mean banks. can not be working it would mean that people. from the country especially with this
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bureaus in their back pocket because the country they need to stop before we come and to maintain a very high level move so it would be picked like a country. the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the euro zone can say to the rest of the markets look greece is leaving but we want greece is a special case you know behind our hands will say it's a bit of a basket case and actually its problems and not the rest of the euro zone that's what they really mean by naughty exit if they can convince everyone that he greece is leaving because of greece not because of the euro i don't think people markets would buy that. at least nine people have been killed and another one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in eastern syria the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security hubs damascus claims it's
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being attacked by a terrorist alliance compromise of al qaeda and elements backed by regional powers and sarah first reports from syria there's a growing sense that a third force is creeping into the civil conflict with its own terrifying agenda. it was a little known terror group the al nusra front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive bombing in syria the blast carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which the so long had sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country that's in recent months found itself the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation that is schools. at the scene angry crowd to decry them as terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is plain that many analysts. saying these countries actions are undermining the peace
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process if you. stop but the supporting of united states of america and saudi arabia supporting guns to the. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region trading amongst the rubble as people. in what is one of damascus is poor its neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control was there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that has splintered into a confusing mix of various groups political a nonpolitical. and the continued instability here has left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a plug problem it's a dilemma for the syrians that their policy
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a very easy provided the chance for everyone to end the world to interfere and this. either by providing. providing for sounds providing fighters and soldiers. and troops as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full the syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once again turned the on going peace mission which is looking more wolf by the day a wall is now in place around the blast site stark reminder that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here. surface r.t. syria. still ahead in the program london says a protest policing itself has thousands of officers joining. serious over massive job losses and salary cuts also. we need
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a holocaust survivor kept her story secret for seventeen yes i think the backdrop of the israeli palestinian violence. and there's concern of further violence under arrest in another country sucked into the arab spring bahrain and this week the u.s. announces partially resuming arms sales to the country despite international criticism over the ongoing crackdown and to regime protesters they and as artie's geier ned she take hand explains the move demonstrates washington's selective approach to popular uprisings in different parts of the region. to meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists are in washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince. of the united. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the u.s.
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had suspended weapon sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these stories there but now the state department has issued a statement. saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain and again . we've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel and major force in the gulf region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of the fifth fleet. in the gulf.
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and so yeah i mean i think we compromised in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the countries opposition to show restraint. we concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we are in this context bahrain's political opposition to call for an end to the violence against police that's a stark difference from the u.s. approach towards other countries in the region engulfed in anti-government protests where the u.s. has tacitly or openly encouraged violence against government forces and libya the united states was over larry king in supporting it was open you know openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an art and the situation right now was they were in proper board and and then syria similarly there has been no and there were all or or restrain from violence
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by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical my situation it's not a case of minimum wage. there's enormous violence were up by the protesters against the police forces it's clearly already stated. the general perception is that the u.s. doesn't want to rock the boat in bahrain because of its fifth fleet there so it's a case of eyes wide shot that human rights violations it might seem like a normal trade off in the world of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab world where political unrest wages company check our reporting from austin marty the resumption of arms sales to bahrain was followed by another controversial announcement that triggered mass protests in the country bahrain's ruling family in saudi arabia want to form a union the planet is by being put on hold for now was denounced by protesters as
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an attempt at an ex sation the proposed deal also sparked outrage across iran which is some experts say has good cause for alarm bahrain's government is enthusiastic for the very reason that the bahraini people are an enthusiastic because it's going to legitimize and systematize the saudi involvement in crushing the bahraini revolution drowning the bahraini revolution. in blood seventy percent of the population are sheer and increasingly are actually systematically excluded from any positions of influence power effectively disenfranchised always have been in this regime and you know we have to ask why what's in it for saudi arabia and i answered that is crucial to remember saudi arabia doesn't have an independent foreign policy never has done its foreign policy like those of the other gulf states is formulated in washington and london so we really have to ask why the colonial powers britain france and of course now the us why are very pursuing this course and i think we
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have to understand this in terms of the preparations which are been underway for several years now for an aerial strike against iran which is still on the on the table the crushing of the bahraini. resistance is crucial to the war plans against iran because was the biggest deterrent to an attack on iran is of course the fear amongst the west at least in israel that actually the shia population in other countries will rise up. and start to resist their attack on iran so actually what's the crushing of the bahraini revolution is all to do with trying to preemptively destroy any potential resistance to the coming attack on iran while many fear unity with saudi arabia would mean an end to bahrain's democratic aspirations some initiatives of the saudis that hope have already proved those critics right as you'll find on our website no image of a saudi arabia bans the language calling it unnecessary practice to discover the
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details that are dot com. implies that twenty thousand larger through the streets of frankfurt in the latest wave of occupy rate a sweeping europe got the latest footage and pictures from the heart of the protests online. this week we saw a game of cat and mouse play out in moscow between opposition activists and police as several protest camps continued to spring up in the city of the in the center of the capital on insulated be dictated by officers a city called on tuesday ruled or to support a lawsuit from local residents who wanted activists to be addicted from a central square because of noise and the train police moved in after protesters refused to leave several people were detained but others moved to other locations setting up new cancer which were also breaking up after locals complained the camps
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were doctored by the opposition movement in moscow following that image of putin's in operation as president on may the seventh almost one hundred. permanent activists who pledged to continue their sit out campaigns indefinitely. with. over thirty thousand u.k. police officers took to the streets to protest against salary cuts and job losses that made the grip of the u.k.'s a stair to squeeze tease ivor bennett looks at the plight of the british bobby. a protest policing itself is a rare sight especially one this big that's because these protesters are the police thirty five thousand officers from across england and wales demonstrating against government cuts they call criminal never before so many bodies on one beat the problem is never again these black caps represent the number of police officers who lose their jobs in the carts sixteen fouls and over the next four years cuts they
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say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on public safety not just that perception of the police service people will see if you will this is on the street and at the end of the day people see places a place emphasis on the street they feel safe bitingly a presence and that's just not going to happen egypt it was known as the baxter police force in the will and with these consistently it will continue like that the police will be hit hard by government desperate to get more for less over five thousand officers have already been booted off front line policing in the past year alone police pay and pensions will also be slashed in a sweeping twenty percent cuts the thin blue lines about to get much thinner we will be able to provide a service that's nice medication to. us or is all i would. like almost if it was considered to be able to provide a service for them to behave as
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a direct resource will be said to most of it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper to the government wants to replace. them with machines expected to look like this removing yet another barrier protecting the public they're supposed to stop criminals re offending with nothing but a series of yes no questions they'll be trialed first in parts of london but without a lie detector these machines aren't exactly the spanish inquisition nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's a real likelihood and the public protection in britain because if these machines are rolled up nationally. even if you get to behave you'll be missed and those people will go on commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines to cut costs stating this is a misrepresentation the london probation trust is investigating a range of
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a normative approaches to law professionals to cut bureaucracy and spend their time more effectively with the offenders they supervised public protection will always be our priority not according to those charged with their role it's been four years since police officers last marched on mass three london the next time sure to be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze on the bennett london. let's have a look at some other news making headlines around the world at least three people have been killed and two others injured. after a possible five point one ethics truck not there in italy in the trauma initially rebels a six point three in the same magnitude as a deadly quake that hit three years ago killing almost three hundred. said to be as are casting their ballots on sunday in a presidential runoff are the pits the previous leader was a target against nationalists that thomas love nicolette both candidates support
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the e.u. membership bed but nicoletta says it shouldn't be achieved at any cost who has served two terms in office or slightly ahead of us why bill in the first round of voting two weeks ago. supporters of nicolas accuses his opponent of rigging of the ballot a charge that was rejected by the authorities but is fueling fears of post-election violence. thousands of cambodians have gathered in the capital to commemorate the victims of the cameras regime some two million people died during the party's brutal four year rule most notorious was the use of the so-called killing fields where thousands were tortured and executed. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual not bar or catastrophe day march in the west bank the rally members hundreds of thousands displays after the creation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eight policy here has a story of one woman who survived another war and kept
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a secret during the decade of these really palestinian conflict. for seven decades hid her secret only now has this muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past. i didn't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we're here all the time in a war between jew and arab so why tell them about another war that another war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to all should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are pushing ritchie again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp hid me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread soaked in hot water with salt when they are murders and make
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you. still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door i think they are coming to kill me i remember the bones the by. legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is calm. after she was freed from the camp immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working. in she brought me something to drink we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but had matter to his family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned a young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel later converted to islam she says so that her children would not have to serve in the israeli army and
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to now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not really any converted for my children i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you receive right from this country why hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to collect her pension money and the clark made the connection and that's why we were shocked or didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mouths and nothing came out to god she survived. his jewish name is leah shufti but she hasn't really essence all those years ago when she arrived in israel as a refugee just months before the state of israel was declared him
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a nine hundred forty eight a date israeli celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors. the ocean i'm not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and i feel both a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same pain and it's their pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. almost for israel. i'll be back with a recap of this week's main stories in just a few minutes stay with us. all.
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