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united nations observers witness a sharp rise of rebel attacks across syria as nato zone cheap into the possible armed incursion with or without un backing. russian opposition activists gear up for another mass rally in moscow after a similar deborah last month led to clashes with protests trend now on the way. israel begins implementing its plan to expel more than fifty thousand african refugees as what's seen as a racist policy deepens in the self-styled ways of democracy. and convenience costs year confidentiality today's june the sun show one r.t. is worrying evidence of burns prying into your privacy online.
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from moscow you're watching r t the syrian rebels increasingly coordinated attacks on the government forces and i study led governments every response is being closely watched by the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon personally voiced his concern as u.n. observers reported intensified rebel activity. has the latest now from within syria . the opposition activists have been accusing the syrian army of shell in the residential areas in the town and something the government denies since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march they've been insisting on shelling on targeting only the places where terrorists and militant groups are based and we've also been receiving video from homestead shows explosions and
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shellings you can see and hear them but again it's very hard to very far targeting who we have been able to speak to the spokes person of the u.n. supervision mission here in damascus they've confirmed to have been fighting in homes they confirm the use of heavy artillery machine guns and they've also been reporting about shellings from helicopter we're also hearing that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside the fighting and also the u.n. mission spokes person has told us that they have the information about a number of syrian army offices being captured they also expressed their concern about this is collation about this file and the country and indeed there is a growing peace plan peaceful solution for the syrian crisis is now seriously threatened. well nato meanwhile is now openly hinting at a possible military intervention in syria but aren't says gee france compare the
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situation there to that of yugoslavia in one nine hundred ninety s. before it was bombed by nato and dissolution international relations professor mark arment says the u.s. is sticking to its idea of regime change the united states and britain and france have made strategic decision by the long haul are there as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole. order of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses deniable or for other arab special courses lunch. supplies weapons all over that ultimately i think they will not rush to accept a defeat assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical setback for the whole of our relations between our states and its allies in syria and iran are overwhelmingly ultimately in favor of the western states but of course to go in on the ground i could be written in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them you know the could be casualties on our side it's not clear
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western public opinion is also committed to regime change other crisis of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international call. but of course would want to become a multi-sided conflict that were extremely dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion in this region. for the mainstream media has been hot on the syrian regime from the outset largely ignoring reports of rebel atrocities by persistently hounding asset backed by often contradictory soundbites but artie's tess arcelor explains for some it's part of a first strike affected by decades of practice. images like these. and words like these innocent civilians were beaten imprisoned and the violence protect civilians are often what have preceded military operations in the name of stopping brutal killings by hardened dictators and while authoritarian regimes are not devoid of responsibility for atrocities the story often ends there especially when
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leaders of intervening countries have to justify their wars to their people it's depressingly easy to sell a war it's almost becoming a habit actually even in spite of all. the lies told over iraq the same stereotypes crop up again and again and again regardless of who or what kind of regime is being attacked whether it's a secular regime or a religious one to the viewer it's about the good guy bad guy it's about saturating us over and over and over again with the same images now here's what they're good at satisfied the viewing audience without exposing your true agenda in one thousand nine hundred ninety agr. told the story of what iraqi soldiers did to babies in a kuwaiti hospital to think it is and let the children to die of a cold. her testimony was widely publicized and cited by politicians in justifying their support for kuwait in the first gulf war turned out she was the daughter of
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the kuwaiti ambassador to the us but her testimony was part of a public relations campaign run by an american p.r. agency for the kuwaiti government sparking controversy and public anger. p.r. firms or individuals spin doctors consulting for governments and politicians is certainly not new or uncommon but while there may be a need for effective communication there's also a very thin line between that and saddam hussein to build and keep weapons of mass destruction out right manipulation as many would point to the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction he used as a pretext for western powers to attack iraq in two thousand and three. communication is a weapon each slogan is a dum-dum it's advertising terms have become war terms we talk about targets we talk about strategy we talk about its impact this is terrible but it is also a weapon in the war because all wars are broadcast live and these images can
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influence world opinion with it's already been done several times in the past to change the face of war to bring the bodies to make up you can always simulate a massacre that has not occurred because misinformation is easier to kill during a period of war. even when history is full of examples to learn from some say people's collective memories are simply too short reality is hardly ever block it white truth has many sides to it but when the wheels you know warming things start serving up all of that happened the facts take a backseat first a lot of they are often what sticks and even if corrections apologies come later the damage that's already been done the plots are off the river for the. dozen or so you are to me part. well still to come this hour ignorance. is bliss guantanamo bay prisoners of justice as the u.s. turns a blind guy over there is being held for years without being charged with any crime
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. and you optimism over spain's one hundred billion euro bailout crumbles as markets realise that not even that's enough to bring them back bring. russia's opposition is getting back into protest mode with a planned march through central moscow that on tuesday a similar rally in may descended into violent clashes with dozens of police officers injured and criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble. greaves is across the story in central moscow. fairly on both sides of the fence will not want to see a repeat of what occurred on may the sixth just ahead of the inauguration of bellamy putin as president where do you see those violent clash between protesters and police and that is largely as interpreters be hijacked on the day by the hardcore extreme elements of the opposition movement that again though was dubbed a march of millions and on the day according to many conservative estimates only
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about eight thousand people turned out now for today's proceedings has been officially sanctioned for about fifty thousand people we don't know just yet if we're going to be able to drum up that support because it's support space that has been dwindling recently really peaks on the back of the parliamentary elections with allegations electoral fraud but just off the presidential elections then ever since then it petered out some but now just yesterday we saw police race taking place a number of homes of key opposition leaders among them are they saying about a anti corruption blogger that's for their alleged involvement in organizing the may the state's proceedings which ended in that violence today will be quite significant going to be the first mass demonstration since new legislation has been introduced a significant raising the fines in place for anyone breaking public order regulation also if during a sanction demonstration you cover your face in any way then again you could face quite a severe fine analysts in general has said that there isn't one significant viewpoint
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one significant leader to take a stand for this movement and they lack warm with the ideology as well they just oppose disputed elections and the rule of law to me putin himself as president. israel has arrested dozens of sudanese refugees in the first stage of it's found to deport more than fifty thousand african nationals the country stars itself as a middle east only away so democracy has attracted many africans fleeing from violence in their homelands but their one way journey rarely has a happy ending this policy. reports. of the sudanese are a cancer in our body who will do everything to return them to their lands strong words from a politician in the country but by those who survived the holocaust. sudanese dissidents sudanese to sit down and even stronger words inciting racial hatred against african migrants. the. point minister benjamin netanyahu has
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boasted loud that israel is the only democracy in the middle east and yet it's his own politicians who calling for verse that vehicle we need to expel the infiltrators from the land of israel and we shouldn't be afraid to use that word many of the so-called infiltrators have already been expelled once fleeing poverty violence of authoritarian will some sixty thousand of them have crossed illegally into israel through the relatively poorest desert border with egypt israel is warn of an impending demographic and economic crisis in the future these are people who experienced severe trauma in their native land in therefore they saw their villages burned down or trees who were slaves of a dictatorial regime somewhere in torture camps in sinai and then a new struggle stars for them. is really say most come seeking work rather than refuge and when it comes to growing crime figures the newcomers make convenient
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scapegoats but the government cannot deport the migrants as they have a group protection those from sudan and eritrea no matter what the circumstances cannot be sent back because they face possible persecution and so they stay there without work permits and denied the most basic rights like shelter and food i feel very scary that most for that we have this this is a really really scary we feel like very secure. now and then there will be the. acts of violence towards the refugees and their already have been apartments of african workers set alight and almost daily beatings. far from dealing with the situation prime minister netanyahu has announced his intention to go ahead with building a detention center to house ten thousand africans and to enforce a controversial law that will allow is radial forty's to imprison illegal immigrants for up to three years without a trial then assuming
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a leg they should look into the eyes of these africans who fled while ns and despair and think about what they're doing to see how they're demonized how they're called names is terrible i am ashamed i am ashamed as an israeli as a jew in recent months street violence against the africans has surged all the more insidious because it seems to be getting the nod from above policy r.t. television. well we've got the world covered at r.t. dot com including details on the us state to an obscure onor says it can be encouraged to pull it gun on a police officer. class watch what you do on the web the russian tech security firm warnings were in the midst of an international cyber war the same people behind two of the most damaging campaigns to date.
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their high tech gadgets and software are supposed to make our lives much simpler but to do it they have to gather your private data but this fair about what the tech firms are doing with your personal info where you can really keep anything secret anymore but our teacher in the sand makes the cypherpunk movement to say they're fighting your corner. one might believe a million people have a security clearance and they're allowed to access that private data or four point three million how can you call the data private right that's the problem is that it is not actually truly one hundred percent secret from every person on the poem it is only secret from the people who are from the power of the powerful your exoneration when we talk about internet censorship it is about centralizing the power to do it online what people remember be able to access or not and whether it's government censorship or also private on censorship there are tinging the
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architecture of the internet from one universal network to a bulk and ization of smaller networks but what we are discussing since the beginning are all global issues whether we're talking of the the financial system going henri whether we're talking of corruption whether we're talking of geopolitics or energy or environment or i don't know all of these are global problems that mankind is facing today and we have one still one global tool between our hands that enables better communication better sharing of knowledge better participation in political and democratic process what i feel what i suspect is that global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to solid rebel those global issues and this is why this is a central fight that we have to fight and that we all have
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a responsibility here too to fight. yesterday the sun will be here at our eleven thirty g.m.t. and if you've missed any of the series so far you can catch all editions at r.t. the cup. hundred billion euros is not enough to allay the e.u. spain's that's the message being signaled by investors well just days after the eurozone agreed to an enormous bailout for spanish banks initial market optimism quickly that created a spanish journalist or rather says that on top of all that broken jobless spaniards have been left to fend for themselves the spanish government has been pushing a very very strict agenda austerity cuts for months already we've seen that before in all their very loud countries when you're one hundred billion euro seem to any economy. for a few days and then investors realize that we're still in an economic crisis in an
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economic downturn in a case of a spain even in a recession certainly the banks have to bail out we need our banking system intact of course but people he's angry because the banks are actually at the root cause of this crisis the case of a spain because of the property bubble and all that so people would be saying why bailout the banks bailout us we also need it and now it's i think why they're angry . well next our naughty american economist nouriel roubini tells us why europe's debt ridden states can't only toyed with the same brush. some people tend to say the eurozone problem is because of lack of fiscal discipline or fiscal reckless there's that applies to be the really only the greece yes there is a lie then there is a fifteen percent of g.d.p. . deficit blow up and then that led to the fiscal crisis and actually in the spain in the island was the product cycle that eventually led to the problems of having to bail out the banks large deficit the greater the fiscal problem without
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a fiscal problem the first place. so you know you cannot generalize there are different types of cries within the eurozone. the u.s. supreme court is refusing to hear an appeal found by seven guantanamo bay prisoners are being locked up for lengthy periods without even being charged despite president obama's natural promise to close a tourist facility for good and the worthington author of the going ton of files believe such an approach makes a mockery of the entire us justice system. for the last two years and particular the d.c. circuit court said the appeals court has been rewriting the rules of detention has been overriding that its citizens that were made by the district court judges has been saying effectively anything that the government says we should be treating as though it's true. and has been stopping any of the prisoners being released through
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these legal means in the last two years not a single prisoner has when they need this court was a decision it's very very politically motivated by the d.c. circuit court these are very right wing judges they don't want prisoners released under any circumstances what was happening in the early days was that judges were very impartially looking at the evidence and saying look you're calling upon the evidence of some of the prisoners fellow detainees we also see here that you have actually said that you don't trust the statements that were made by a lot of these prisoners we don't trust your statements that were made by people in the field they were very carefully looking at all the different sides as they're supposed to do but there's been these persistent refusal to release people regardless of how they're judged and i think that makes a mockery of the entire process if we keep having review processes under bush and
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now under obama saying we do not want to keep holding these people and yet we don't release them what does that say for our notions of justice it makes a mockery of it. coming up at zero nine thirty g.m.t. the u.s. also comes under fire as one of the few countries that still uses capital punishment our special report looks at the people campaigning for it to end an inmate who spent years on death row. i'm sure you've got a story around about this crazy lady with a convertible that. has these people. it is necessary to punish everything we do to punish crime. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical.
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of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis and. their way and they execute him. he. keeps telling me they can't hear me and they are. american negotiators have left pakistan after weeks of efforts failed to reach a deal reopening nato supply routes into afghanistan about it convoys last year after american drone strike killed twenty four local soldiers their rounds intensified since then with similar tragedies involving servicemen and civilians
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jason ditz from antiwar dot com the u.s. no longer cares about winning pakistan's favor. i think right now the the administration is determined to partridge itself as being tough on pakistan and a hawkish hawkish on pakistan heading into the november elections and they don't want to show any signs of weakness we go even further and say the other key pakistani demand is an apology for the november attacks on pakistani military bases which no one seems to think were intentional attacks in the first place but which the u.s. is adamant about not wanting to apologize for it's inconceivable that the us can keep up this occupation of afghanistan in the long run without. at least nominal support from the pakistani government simply too it expensive to use essential asian supply routes but it doesn't seem to be any simple solution right now beyond
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the us finally coming to its senses and apologizing for the november attacks and stopping the drone strikes and i don't think the administration is prepared to to make any concessions at all so i think this tense relationship is just going to keep getting more tense all the time. well looking around the world out some more of this hour's international stories roadside bomb explosions struck an ambulance in northern afghanistan killing at least four people a pregnant woman who was on route to hospital to give birth has reportedly survived the blast authorities say the area is occasionally hit by insurgent activity a few days ago a jailbreak engineered by the taliban freed more than a dozen militants. but as one in person who has ratted thousands of his supporters to his bid for reelection he was first elected back in one thousand nine hundred eight seeking another six year term at the vote in october he spent the past year undergoing treatment for cancer including two surgeries. and successful.
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there are reports that egypt's former president hosni mubarak is in a coma he told his visit here eighty of the past few days with doctors having to revive the eighty four year old after his heart stopped twice but barack is now in a cairo prison hospital assertion of life and its role in the killing of hundreds of protesters last year's uprising. right interview show spotlight is coming up very soon every couple of the headlines stay with us.
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