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syrian rebels reject the u.n. peace plan to renew international calls to impose a no fly zone to force out president. thousands of canadian students return to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education here in their country is complicating the u.s. system a splendid young americans deep in debt. and trouble in tripoli armed militia man takeover of libya the libyan capital international airport and grounded all flights demanding the release of one of their leaders.
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from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us ten pm here in the russian capital our top story the opposition's free syrian army says it's no longer committed to the un backed peace plan instead it wants foreign states to impose a no fly zone to help oust president also but those voices grow in some arab and western nations for armed action after the civilian slaughter in houla but has reaffirmed notion of reports recent incursions set dangerous precedence. ten days after the terrible massacre in the syrian city of who're the world is still watching to see how this tipping point will shape the crisis while there is still at least some hope of a peaceful solution many analysts believe those hopes are fading fast the american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely
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enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans obviously taking the lead the specter of a military solution has returned after the syrian regime was condemned internationally for the death of one hundred eight people half of whom were children before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive like i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to far to see where hasty judgments saw a rush to take up arms but the cost of war and. exactly what happened when i would have a massacre which was the village of russia you have a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground yet the claims
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that it was a row as a group innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with . them and ran. back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon separatists from the kosovo liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved my. most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know a lot about we have been reports of syrian rebels who are they are liaising with the. think of being in course of the liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basically training on they were saying they were
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training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that we could have ever even anybody is how to figure massacring or stage a war exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances or the strikes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again when these disturbing images from the syrian village of whole are made world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called donated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are supposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life griffin optionality moscow . now the rebels decision to quit the u.n. backed truce was largely motivated by the behavior of the u.s.
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and its allies that's the view of antiwar activist don de bar was extensively covered civil conflicts in arab countries. the united states is trying to kill it but it's absolutely essential that some sort of peace oriented mission take place or there will be bloodshed horrible bloodshed in syria little make libya look like a picnic the united states has been very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad go on they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran but i mean let's be realistic here they're u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began the report earlier mentions the fact that these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe a pistol because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there either emigres from syria or just foreign nationals gente
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generally that's being supplied from the outside from turkey the nato country from jordan and from lebanon and so the intervention is already a fact whether or not it becomes an overt intervention outside of the u.n. which by the way is illegal or you know take some other form the intervention has been underway since this you know since the arms struggle quote unquote began. tommy you officials were expected to press russian president vladimir putin to change his stance on syria during their summit in st petersburg alongside china the kremlin is opposed to any kind of military intervention and wants dialogue instead but it was other issues that took the spotlight including some of russia's own affairs actually going to go to sky has been following top level talks. at the final press conference attended by the chairman of the european commission chose emmanuel but it was a and of course the chairman off the european council herman van rompuy and of
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course with an acquisition was posed by one of the foreign journalists and he said that there were leaflets distributed at the hotel where he is staying said no to russian pinochet and hundreds of opposition members are in prison and just a quick aside we're apparently staying in the same hotel we did not see any such flyers but the question was posed and the russian president was quick to come up with a response to it and you. called political prisoners whenever i go i'm off about mr holder and his future as we know the european court of human rights ruled with their own new political motives criminal case his sentence so if someone suggests i go to prison then i'll have good company of course we're talking about me of course key here the former oil tycoon who is in prison at the moment on charges of investment and tax evasion now there of what were of course other issues covered at length and the first and foremost of those was the economy of course the euro for
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it is finding itself in a rather tight grips of the a comic crisis we have a greece which is threatening to leave the eurozone and of course the decision on that is just weeks away from from now but it did look like the european leaders actually saw the picture and rather rosy colors they said that they're adamant in keeping a greece it in the euro zone bonds on the terms and conditions that they themselves put down for the country and this of course comes on monday when the markets have crashed yet again. greece is gearing up for a part of the mentor election in less than two weeks time which could mean athens scrapping its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. greece's future in the euro zone is also under intense scrutiny and in the interview coming up later this hour american economist and nobel laureate eric mascon says and then to the ears financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go. into well
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a long term depression and unemployment could grow to astronomical high so it's already very high but it could it could certainly get higher oh. things are by no means currently as bad as they as i could get i seem to be the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unit a. cyber threats hacker attacks on laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy but in fact infringing people's rights to online privacy it's an increasingly topical subject and the world's most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it in the latest edition of his interview program here on our t.v. julia song gets together with activists from cypherpunk movement here's
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a taste of what's to come on tuesday. technology enables those civilians of communication then there is do do the other side of that coin is what we do with it we could admit that there are some indeed some legitimate uses of investigators investigating the bug. but guys and so on but the question is where to draw these judicial supervision where to do the control that the citizens can have over the use of those technologies and this is a policy issue and when we get to those police issues and we were looking at the earlier we of. to just sign something and don't understand the underlying technology which is why we see so much hope about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about wars are talking about technology as if they're saying that they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to root technology into that and so when we have no control over technology we have these people that wish to use it for for their ends for war
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specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff. and we hear about one of the fly for punk activists interviewed by julian assange jeremy zimmerman who was hell for questioning upon his return to france apparently the purpose was to fish out information about the wiki leaks founder and it's not the first time the program has provoked arrest with a top human rights activist from bahrain detained after talking to us sanchez a month ago. and other news canadian students are back on the streets thousands have marched to montreal two days after talks with the quebec government on tuition fees collapsed student groups are demanding a freeze on planned increases in higher education costs but authorities have ruled out that possibility protesters are now vowing to renew daily rallies which last month led to fierce clashes with police and more than two and a half thousand arrests and of courage to can report what started in february as
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a student strike is now well into a popular protest against mirroring the welfare system of canada's southern neighbor. the canadian province of quebec a region that prides itself on free healthcare and affordable education for its residents students here pay a fixed amount for tuition fees around twenty five hundred dollars a year for all of the colleges and universities that's the lowest rate in north america and the taxpayers pick up the rest but that model might change as their government looks south they are looking across the borders and seeing what united states are doing and trying to become closer and closer to what the united states are working on which is more and more proof is ations and so they're having your social programs that cover for everybody. tens of thousands spilled onto the streets when the government said they'd be pushing up to asian fees every year and
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in five years the students of care back will face education costs almost double what they're paying now. i mean even you know if is a student at a montreal university she works part time at a local ice cream shop she says if the people of keg don't stand their ground now in the future higher education just won't be an option for many if it's too expensive the porch adenoma not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible they were not even think about being a doctor or if it wasn't for you know it would be you know it's a symbol and what i was saying is that in usa it's so expensive so the people the poor people they want to study they have no choice but going to army for that the prospect of having to join the military to provide for their education is not the only thing about the u.s. example that scares the kid require to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans
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carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders that we need to preserve this and become what we've seen growing in the united states right now having a lot of students they are still paying for their. university program and when they are seventy years old so we need to make sure that every students will be able to contribute to the. region and make sure that they have you can afford actually to start maybe here. in new and new businesses the rest of north america should be looking to go back as an example of how to mobilize how student association should function through direct democracy and how they should actually organize and challenge these measures and challenge this shackle system. to protest clearly signaled the path that is willing rather not willing to take when we look towards the united states we see a country in which the idea of access is wrapped up in the ability to pay and this
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is what we're seeing the resistance against that access to things like higher education or like health care are in fact access to public goods and that there should be a way of controlling the costs and ensuring that people no matter what their monetary capabilities are able to take advantage of these kinds of programs. what the world knows about the protests here is that they have to do with students and their tuition fees but for people of the problem it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they're striving to keep. reporting from montreal canada r t. don't forget all the stories we cover are also available anytime online here's what's up loaded and ready for us are. a life sentence for a russian man as libya convicts over twenty people for allegedly helping next leader moammar gadhafi but they insist they were working as an engineer. in russian billionaire. planning a big party
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a political one that is after securing six million votes in russia's presidential election this cover all the details at our t.v. dot com. around the clock protests are continuing in cairo's tahrir square as demonstrators demand the death penalty for ousted president hosni mubarak he and his interior minister were sentenced to life in prison for their role in deaths of protesters in last year's uprising although other mubarak associates were cleared of charges tom barton reports now from the egyptian capital. protesters are occupying thai risk where in central cairo they're calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness that former
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president hosni mubarak was given a life sentence turned to anger as other senior security officials were acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters last year mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections second round in the country towards the camp he said that the revolution should continue and that if he was chosen as president he would try and get mubarak back on trial and how him execute it and the chief prosecutor of egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the acquittals of some of those senior security officials met shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race seen by many as not really being sufficient not up to what they hoped for for this revolution and they see the courts verdict at this very crucial time in egypt as a sign that not much has changed and that the military regime is still in power and
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mr shafique said that he would not reinstate that old regime and that a choice for the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages as he put it although he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to make people believe that he's not part of that old regime in the meantime as this election divides the egyptian people more protests are being held here in the capital and elsewhere over the country and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital. clashes are reportedly taking place between rival libyan militia groups in tripoli as main international airport early reports said an armed group seized the capital's airport storming it with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles there's anger their anger as i should say is directed at the country's leadership for detaining one of their commanders on sunday after omar shore from the institute of arab and islamic studies says the
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situation in libya is still tense as it struggles to maintain post revolution security the conservation process is not complete the demobilization disarmament the integration of ex combat is not complete. now we have a situation of the independent armed brigades that existed in the bia who did not join the military did not join the security forces but. oppose the government but are still armed and still have a clear command and control structure what brought us into this crisis was the kidnapping of. the one of the affordable called the that would be an army front of and that is a stronghold of defeat after that immovable of political defeat we find some of the probably the supporters of of students and he disappeared. he was kidnapped
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according to his followers they said he was kidnapped. to pressure the national transitional council to initiate investigations you see investigation they went on and took over. well look now at some world news in brief a car bomb has gone off near two government offices in the iraqi capital killing at least eighteen people and wounding dozens more the blast baghdad deadliest single attack i should say in months it follows a series of assaults last week that claimed seventeen lives. the word seekers in nigeria say they fear the country's worst plane crash in nearly two decades has claimed many lives on the ground as well all one hundred fifty three onboard died when an m.d. eighty three jet plowed into a two story building in a neighborhood near lagos airport the exact cause is still unknown but the plane's
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pilots reported engine trouble minutes before the tragedy the jury has declared three days of national mourning for the victims. denmark has convicted four men of plotting a terrorist attack on the newspaper that published cartoons mocking the prophet muhammad seven years ago the men were arrested in two thousand and ten after their plan for a shooting rampage was uncovered all those convicted are of north african or middle east and they could get up to sixteen years jailed and sentenced later on monday. the u.s. defense secretary is in vietnam as part of a charm offensive in asia that slowly encircling china and its own backyard washington is beefing up its military presence in the asia pacific area seen as an attempt to contain beijing's growing regional influence the panetta wants a greater american access to vietnam ports dr parkman wang from hong kong city university believes china's neighbors may be using washington to get leverage
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against china. i would not say that this office asian countries this more powers would like to give up china but they would like to invite the united states to join in the arena so that they could have more bargaining chips against china if we were kind of. our signal to china and china can north assert is so frantic claims over this of china sea and vietnam can also be packed up our by the americans military power to china's military dominance in the region the south china sea has been a very important task raji take location for number one connecting oil shipping routes from the middle east to east asia number two a small saw a very important commercial shipping rules for all of the east and southeast asian nations to solve china sea has been a very important irritant for china in southeast asian nations international
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relations for the past decades. let's check in now with danielle at the business task and traders don't want b.p. to sell its russian unit the stake in to keep the peace in the british world beats the returns of some forty billion dollars but b.p. will suffer without b.p.'s expertise most analysts and else say of the two chinese firms move closer to buying b.p. out. is in beijing with the latest. chinese companies they sign the back and also the china national offshore all corporation which are the second and third largest oil companies in china respectively are looking to buy into the dmca b.p. now that the british shareholders are selling their stake now certainly for china this would mean diversification of their resources of of buying oil from russia right now when the stand that russia and china are already under an agreement russia sells thirteen million tons of oil to china every year until twenty thirty
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it's already more than half of china's overall purchases but still this number could be bigger certainly for china this is a very important issue it is one of the most energy hungry countries in the world in fact different experts and organizations china in the first place in the energy consuming countries in the world and i say that more than twenty percent of the global energy consumption comes from china so we understand that for the moment the russian shareholders have the priority of buying the british part of the shares but definitely nobody could rule out the possibility of the chinese buying it in the price of oil has turned around in the last to sustain losses brant is now edging towards on two dollars a barrel but wall street still suffering off all those two u.s. factories still on the expectedly for a full news out today it's sending the dollar tumbling to the euro ruble currencies
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greenback now almost one twenty five because the euro to. back to friday's ten percent collapse in the shares really invested. in the merger we've heard about because. it will split the champions league football next year and discount supermarket dixie's offer to buy back stock from shareholders i don't know one percent premium off the reporting good results today. generally with the worry of lloyd's. shares closed up invest. feel it's full enough this year is a bad day for the eurozone in particular jews eurozone investor confidence index has slipped further today meanwhile lending between e.u. banks is dropping at its fastest in four years the footsies closed for the holiday today so that's friday's closing figures that ended on the six thousand points and crisis ridden spanish bank is pinning its hopes on children bank here is giving spiderman towels and tickets for the film's premiere to kids who say with it after
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running out of cash last month as well as trips to new york where the kids can visit j.p. morgan for a more lessons on how not to run a bank it's just been fined for stock manipulation. so would you boy would you save for the bank if we offered you nice toys. all right there were some things for about the business desk and a few minutes here in our tea we discussed the fate of the struggling global economy the u.s. economy as a nobel laureate eric mask him for that i'll be back with a recap of the headlines after this.
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