tv [untitled] June 9, 2012 4:00pm-4:30pm EDT
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moscow says there's no alternative to the un envoy peace plan in syria with both sides to blame for the violence as russia proposes an international conference to resolve the conflict. this spring confirms it will ask for up to one hundred a pretty new roads to help the country's beleaguered banks off to emergency talks with the eurozone ministers. russian tennis star maria sharapova wins the french open crown marking her victory in all four grand slams. around the clock around the world international news and comment live from moscow russia says it will not let the u.n. security council sanction military action in syria the foreign minister sergei
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lavrov has said external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite kofi annan peace plan for the country now on the brink of a full scale civil war has the details. russia wants to see a peaceful solution chaves through negotiations to decide to a shift in syria sergey lavrov said that russia wouldn't accept any measures put through the united nations that could lead or be interpreted to allow any kind of outside military intervention sergey lavrov saying that kofi annan six point peace plan was still the only viable option that the government must in syria mustn't be blamed totally for what's happening in the country and said that the rebels have some responsibility to shoulder as well. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and other atrocities almost daily many international media outlets want to
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put the blame entirely on assad the government of any country is of course responsible for what is happening in that country is not the regime is not solely to blame we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all of this is a result of confrontations but are receiving more and more outside support firstly moral support for the so-called armed opposition then funding weapons and bringing militants from neighboring countries into syria in terms of what the next step could be for syria where russia features in that circle of rob saying that he wants to see a international conference held to discuss what the international community can do to try and sort things out in the arab state this conference would see the united states the european union as well as the permanent members of the the u.n. security council and also syria's neighbors being brought to the table also it will
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include countries like iran no so saying that when it comes to iran they have to be part of this discussion they were hugely influential with with the syrian government and the countries like the united states how. in the past being willing to to discuss discuss issues with the run when it serves their purpose also saying that countries have been quick to blame the government for massacre that had taken place before the results of the investigations that actually. have been made public also saying that the syrian people should be the ones that decide their future not any international power. if we are told that russia simply needs to order president assad around and everything will be sorted and then nothing can be done with such an attitude from our international colleagues that's why i say we need responsibility one word can ignite a fire that we won't be able to extinguish we cannot be sending daily signals that
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make the opposition believe it will receive help just as libya received its so-called help russia is committed to not allowing the situation in syria to end up like the one we saw in libya. here in observers in syria continue their investigation into an alleged massacre in the home of province the monitors have visited the site of the killings but aren't able to determine how many died or who was behind the slaughter patrick a is a reporter from the online magazine spiked believes outside military action in syria would only aggravate an already volatile situation. i think it is very important to rule out military intervention to say actually this is the worst possible scenario in terms of allowing the syrian people to decide their own fate yes the situation in syria is horrid at the moment anyone with an ounce of humanity in them would over the last week really have be troubled by the massacres that are
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taking place by the fighting that is taking place but you have to really resist that need jerk in polls to want to try me into other countries suffer in conflicts and to say we can just step in and make things better in many situations and this would be the case in syria western intervention would intensify the conflicts and would take to make it far worse than it is now it's always important to bear that in mind when thinking about you know how best to intervene in these conflicts often the best intervention is not to intervene at all. spain has finally admitted it needs cash to help its troubled banks after emergency talks with the eurozone ministers the country's economy minister said madrid is going to ask for a loan greater than the forty billion euros recommended by the international monetary fund crisis strategist gonzalo lira i spoke to a lowly here in r.t. he believes spain will end up losing its banking sector. spain needs more money spain the country the nation the sovereign nation as well as spain's financial
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sector spain is mangroves there's no other way to look at it and this is just postponing the inevitable so far that they have promised a hundred billion euros hundred billion euros in order to gain some perspective that was as roughly ten percent of spain's heat i think the notion is to scare the markets into thinking that iraqi ends can salvage spain and spain is not a problem i think that the markets are going to realize very quickly that this is a smokescreen i personally don't think that i that this will happen that this hundred billion euros will be just for it over to spain's banks and even if it is it will have some of these things that for all intents and purposes it won't be really any kind of a handout it will be a some sort of and european nationalization of the spanish banking sector i think all of this is really a reaction to what is one of the greeks on june seventeenth rhesus want to have parliamentary elections and it's looking very likely that the greek people will vote against any kind of austerity for their austerity measures after so i think
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that the european powers are trying to come up with a way to save face and protect spain from what they perceive is going to be the disaster of next monday. still to come this hour here not tainted reputation as the london olympics are set to start next month we investigate why a link to allegations of human rights abuses has been chosen to provide security. that's still to come because russians violating protest regulations will now have to pay seven thousand euros or do up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stress the new rally lore is in line with european standards your position is planning a so-called million man march next week but it looks like the movement is unlikely to live up to its former glory as auntie jacob grieves now reports. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here they've never
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quite reached those numbers more people needed to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings there were the support and a continual game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll this style protest in moscow was only started up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling but those with to come out and visibly show their support numbering fewer and fewer we're talking about tens rather than hundreds more often than not and what's left is a hardcore few struggling to keep this movement alive like occupy elsewhere this has been organized online and epitomized by their encampment but that's about where the similarities end rather than demonstrating against perceived social inequality this is principally about one man in charge president vladimir putin is
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a stance that has won them support spurred by the backlash from disputed parliamentary elections but it's a faction that has little else to agree on the silicon born the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists have already called bolsheviks a lot of people who just don't want to look some people just want to have a party or so in this case when you have this fusion of very different political forces it's next to impossible for them to. have any demands symbolized by white ribbons the movement survived nearly half a year with mass peaceful demonstrations initially grabbing the public's attention hard to ignore some electoral reform has followed. but more recently the efforts of the marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage sit ins took root after tweet from an activist alexina valmy arrests have followed but many don't see the
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police as the real threat to the movement's longevity of a civic district than also a leader is always required as without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation where there are lots and there is presently no leader here. i have not seen any leader that i can vote for myself but i hope that this move will result in the birth of a new smart balanced and you candid leader their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently still ranks in its infancy finding its feet its convince a nation let alone supporters more than tents and twitter will be needed to grease . party within twenty four hours a day from the russian capital coming up in the next few minutes package to bring down the government websites are just peaceful demonstrators we speak to an indian
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activist as the country's web users hold rallies against internet censorship also trigger happy house wives. more and more women in new york are gunning for a new hobby to find out what's driving the female forum friendly few minutes right here. u.k. politicians are said to be questioning why a security firm linked to allegations of human rights abuses could have been hard to provide safety during the london olympics g four s. also operates in the jewish settlements in the west bank. east jerusalem which are illegal under international law investigative journalist tony goes ling who i spoke to earlier he says companies with delta reputations are using the olympics to gain respectability. i'd like to see a bit of spine from our parliament to say that these are not appropriate people to be doing that while a lot of people involved in the olympics as you probably know who aren't really
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appropriate such as the dow chemical company who when they bought union carbide really took on the responsibility for the deaths of four thousand people in a gas cloud in india and the maiming of countless more who were poisoned by the by the dow chemical company i think there's been a real complete kind of mismatch in this olympics with trying to bring in really explain essentially prostitute the olympics and give a lot of these poisonous very profitable and actually very dark nasty companies greenwash for them that is to say to sanitize their images so show it in them with the olympic event and that is not what the olympics are for this time to look rather more like the ninety thirty six olympics than the good old london nineteen forty eight olympics which were done in a much nicer fashion without all this horrible corporate sponsorship. indian internet users have taken their grievances onto the streets with ronnie's across the country against online censorship anonymous operation india
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a branch of the global hacking group or a agree about the laws the file sharing websites new delhi based activists did as bush believes anonymous are simply peaceful demonstrators. we are trying to reach out to the government of india and to tell them actively that this ban this censorship that they have put up on the whole country is unacceptable because millions and millions of people are getting affected by it side has been banned that is used daily by designers and filmmakers to upload their video and get in touch with their clients and everything it has become almost impossible for them to conduct their daily business they're losing massive amounts of money and they're losing massive amounts of opportunities so it is a very destructive thing to the internet like that this thing that is widely referred to as hacking is not done by the anonymous group what anonymous does is something known as distributed denial of service which is known as a d.d. o. s.
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according to the two thousand and eight amendment of this bill this has been viewed as an offense but it is just a normal protest when people are protesting they're going and they're sitting in front of the offices of the organization you know they're blocking access to new various functions of the of the government that is why what is happening it's just it's just a peaceful protest. internet freedom campaign is a taking to the streets of european cities as well protesters in germany austria and france have rallied against the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement which aims to curb protect copyright law critics of the proposal say it with freedom of expression and privacy. needs to be ratified by the european parliament on the verge is set to take place later this month. online battles continue as reports. anonymous set their sights on neo nazis the area in front four of them is being targeted by the group and should have
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video. and. the palm of your. forget cocktails or treadmills an increasing number of women in new york are taking to the shooting range to let their hair down after a hard day's work and they're also taking their hobby home with sales of rifles and pistols to american women doubling in the past few years what is more in a partner has a story. it's the show that define new york city's ambitious successful female soldiers who are known for their know of law nicks and cosmopolitans. in real life . the latest trend attracting career women at the big apple shops more punch in the sweet cocktails call it shooting in the city we're still letter and rifles meet and
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different not common but i've been feeling and i rather do it it's pretty cool actually it's very empowering if something like yeah you know you get ahold of a gun who does it it's not really a thirty minutes west side pistol range has become something of a networking hotspot a place where women from finance law education and many other industries gather to schmooze which would be a magazine were out of ammunition and learn how to fire fifty rounds of bullets from a twenty two caliber semi-automatic rifle to. this growing unconventional trends were first triggered by a new york city social networking group called urban girls club which organizes for weekly new york city events open to ten thousand members the last time we did this event it was sold out immediately like within hours organizer rachel bressler says rifle shooting is one of their most popular events are seeing that women are into
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like taking care of themselves and being that strong complex woman in new york and increasing number of females are not going to be firearms they're also buying them according to this six the number of women are no winners in the u.s. has nearly doubled in the house seven years with an estimated twenty three percent leave the country for packing for the past year the majority of new members that men heightens shooting range have been women why can you do it why can't i right show me how i'll do it better that's what we want women to hear a move. trigger happy making firearms something of a new york fashion i said all right i have done better i'm coming back i'm going to that's not on. me or. shortly on r.t. we also residents of new york where they feel safe is storing their cash.
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about mortgages they're investing in. no. derivatives market. no. more opinions from the very heart of the big apple are coming your way in just a few minutes from now. the u.s. is going to reopen two of its former military bases in the philippines this comes just a week after the details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy were laid out with the bulk of america's warships to be deployed to the region by twenty twenty we're not a secretary-general of the by a political coalition thinks the move is aimed at china. in line with the u.s. strategy of rebalancing their forces the u.s. is seeking more access to these former d. sis though they may not be going after formal basing agreements they would have unlimited access to be specific use in many other facilities all over the country so that their ships can stop over if you will and be stationed for periods
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specially during military exercises and this all of this would transform the philippines into a military outpost that would allow the united states to project its power throughout southeast asia the increased presence of u.s. troops would complicate matters between the philippines and china or stabilize the situation it might be seen as a provocative action it might spark some kind of arms series china sea with the growing number of u.s. warships entering the country and the u.s. may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the u.s. wants to contain china wants to or encircle china and keep it subservient to u.s. dictates. some more news in brief this coming to twenty one minutes past the hour for french soldiers were killed off a taliban suicide bomb in the skies as a woman blew himself up in eastern afghanistan five others were wounded in the blast it was the second deadly assault on saturday against nato forces from plans
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to withdraw all of its combat troops by the end of twenty twelve two years ahead of the planned pullout agreed by the allowance. four members of the international criminal court have been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi son saif al islam and reports claimed one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled over. at least eight civilians are being killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia and seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the violence it's not clear who is behind the killings the u.n. has had a peace observer mission in the country since two thousand and four to help and its civil war. and also the world update the police have fired tear gas and stun grenades in bahrain's capital as tens of thousands stage the biggest anti-government demonstration in weeks since forever last year the country seen
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nearly daily protests in which dozens of died the shiite leader position is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the country's sunni rulers. while european banks are struggling to survive we asked people on the streets of new york whether it's safer now to simply hide money in a sock instead of keeping it in a bank. opinion for its. do you trust your bank with your money this week let's talk about that the banks that we have all money on is like they all are doing in swiss francs most of it so this is like save us currency at the moment in europe so we're feeling pretty good we're on the good side you and you're here in new york laughing at us with their silly dollars not really well. does it compare to the your it's getting stronger and stronger i mean i do though what do you trust about them the punk
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mortgages they're investing in. well no. derivatives market well no i don't trust me but i got to troll volume on his just a personal note you know. it might be the best business is a personal say so what's the alternative what can we do about it because i think a lot of people feel that way. put it in your had it on the globe or you get anywhere affected by europe very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so the. exchange rate is not good and the rand is plummeting so we wait for better times does that make you mad at europe as a continent. that's a sign of the times a bunch of german banks just got downgraded i don't know germany supposed to be like the icon of europe like this supposed to be one of the stronger economies another supposedly solid there is of course. the storm and so we're not too far off and maybe you're right to not have your money in banks i mean it's secured but.
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when it all breaks down so what's the dollar going to be they way it's paid for i know for a fact the banks are colluding with many different institutions in our country and across the world. how do you feel about that i mad as hell. burns this the core of my being and so what can we do because i think a lot. people feel that way but they don't know what to do well obviously it needs to come down to a private or local levels what do you think is going to happen i mean it's going crazy all over the world and in europe things are going mad. only god knows this. you think god has his money in a bank. god is murdered and. no matter how you feel about the economy in general these days the bottom line is it seems like there's a lot you can bank. has
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won the prestigious french open in paris the twenty five year old russian has become only the tenth woman in history to have conquered all four majors sports was a poor scot now reflects on her achievement. amongst the greatest players of all time to have ever walked the planet to ever play the game of tennis shopper who won the wimbledon on grass at the age of seventeen that was back in two thousand and four since then she went on to win the u.s. open in two thousand and six the australian open in two thousand and eight this year wait to complete the career grand slam and pick up the french title which she's done today and she's had a massive shoulder injury really affected the way she was playing she had surgery on it she had to adapt to the way she played and there were genuine question serious question as to whether she would come back the way that she was whether she was going to fulfill that potential she showed in the seventeen year old and i think she won her last grand slam when she was twenty one so it's been a long way despite that though she came through she was dominant always and she was dominant again today in the final six three six three you look at the women's game
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at the moment you look at serena williams venus williams they're coming to the end of their career since you're up over was last world number one back in two thousand and eight the top spot the top ranking has changed fifteen times and eight different women have been the world number one there's been no one in the sport has dominated it maybe now she's back injuries for them to one side she's now got the french open under about maybe there's no reason why not it can't be sure apple who dominates in years to come. and we'll have more details for you on the traffic his spectacular victory in pool sports but it's an interest of a fifteen minutes from now.
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i'm sure all of our got a story are out about that crazy lady with a convertible that honk for the bridge that every time she. was on death row for nineteen years right there is we're going to leave that up he said i don't know why no let me say that because we might just make the list silly. society has
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condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical mta seaton's of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis and the said if part is stated texas gets their way and they execute him. i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead and he's my only son at any time i leave the house and my horn and he keeps telling me they can't hear me in there because it involves thunder blocked from concrete but i've still honk every time i go. i won't be there i will not witness the killing much.
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