tv [untitled] June 12, 2012 11:00am-11:30am EDT
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from the streets of canada. giant corporations are. crowds of opposition activists and rally to central moscow today with agendas ranging from the far left to nationalistic stream this. violence intensifies across syria with you and observers pointing out a spike in coordinated rebel attacks which government troops out for a pell clashes leading to foreign powers increasingly hinting at intervention. a no room for refugees after promising to provide sanctuary israel begins arresting african migrants who fled violence in their homeland and plans to deport over four thousand people.
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hello it's seven pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin now in this hour a mass opposition rallies taking place here in moscow tens of thousands of people gathered for a demonstration in the center of the city paper all of has been following the protests and bringing us up to date talked about who took part. what we have seen is groups from the far left the far right it everywhere in between coming out to voice their their unhappiness with the current government in russia one of the largest groups that would here were a group of nationalists. was on the march coming from pushed into a square here to the streets in central moscow i did see several people wearing what can only be described these variants of nazi uniforms including one woman wearing a take on the s.s. uniform fully equipped with a compound on wearing a russian nationalists symbol of the protests the demonstration on the march have both been very peaceful from what i've seen others say that there was worries about
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the the number of nationalists in the message that they were putting across but it doesn't seem like that's flared up any problems of course in the last demonstration we saw in moscow in may that was really hijacked by some radical groups we saw violent clashes and sometimes extreme violent clashes seeing both the police and demonstrators enjoy it now that resulted in an investigation and raids on the the houses of opposition leaders as police tried to find out if they were involved in organizing any of of those violent clashes now it also resulted in changes in the law here in russia concerning people in the n.b.a. because in violations of the law demonstrations these include things like wearing masks to cover your face with nazi fast defines in fact up to around seven thousand euro for forward to organizing unsanctioned rally now this brings us russian
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government concerned russia in line with other european countries that have in some cases much stiffer penalties for breaking the law at demonstrations. heavy rain in the russian capital dampen the mood indeed out by the opposition rally about an hour ago where the sun is out again and it's helping the celebrations a russian day in the heart of moscow thousands. and join the firm. from pop stars there to rush's only eurovision entry the bush girls are all here at red square now up to thirty thousand people are expected here to come in enjoy the concert that's being put up here for all of them for russia day celebrations now join me to them with a little bit later when i bring you a little bit more on the live music i have a bit more on the fireworks out see there. syria's been seeing spikes in violence on a daily basis you and observers now report not just offenses by government forces but also an increase in coordinated rebel attacks two conflicting reports about the
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number of victims and forces behind the violence have triggered conflicting reactions from world powers artie's roof an ocean is in syria for us spring says home. un morning to us have reported a heavy surge in recent week of rebels called a nation and attacks in response they say the syrian government has given the army too much freedom and too much free rein and that all lads. dramatic increase in civilian dads one of the most stark and the recent example of this fresh wave of violence here in syria is they have e r to reboard and of the rebel stronghold backed by helicopter strikes in the central province of holmes and again we've been receiving conflicting reports on exactly what happened there with opposition claim in the syrian army has been targeting and shall in the residential areas of the town while the government has been accusing the rebels of using civilians as human shoot during these attacks death toll yesterday alone sixty three people according to opposition sources with
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more than a third of them army soldiers the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has said that he's deeply concerned over the increasing violence here in syria and has called on all countries with influence on both the rebels and syrian government to call in all colleges to stop while to stop atrocities to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink at the same time we're hearing claims of completely different nature from another international organization with a surge of violence has been seized on by nature's chief hinting at a possible intervention mr rasmussen has compared the events in syria today with those in the balkans durin the nineteen nineties that led to his bombardment of former yugoslavia we've also been hearing a lot about military intervention recently from both you and nato member britain foreign secretary william hague has sad that this scenario cannot be ruled out it is also stressed that this up to assad to decide whether he wants to seize the
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violence and all atrocities in his country and fulfill the rebels' demands at the same time we know hague. has stressed that britain is aware of all kind of terrorist operating in syria saying that the international terrorist organization could fuel the violence and could fuel this conflict so that and the west message is somewhat muddled that assad is not responsible for all violence here in his country but he is being held responsible regardless. but every president assad's forces for all the violence has been branded a deliberate p.r. campaign against the syrian regime but many experts sorties test looks back at how similar tactics have used before to justify military intervention in sovereign countries. images like these. and words like these innocent civilians were beaten imprisoned and the violence protect civilians are often would have preceded military operations in the name of stopping brutal
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killings by hardened dictators and while authoritarian regimes are not devoid of responsibility for atrocities the story often ends there especially when 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 that we now know about 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 but 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 abuse and let these children today have
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a cloak. 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 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 dumb. advertising terms have become war terms we talk about targets we talk about
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strikes again we talk about its impact if this is terrible it is also a weapon in the war because all wars are broadcast live and these images contemptuous world opinion with it's already been done several times in the past change the face of war to bring the bodies to make up you can always simulate a massacre that is not the current it was misinformation it is easier to fall during a period of war we first need to get it even when history is full of examples to learn from some say people's collective memories are simply too short to reality is hardly ever block it white truth has many sides to it but when the wheels the feel warmer things start serving up polish that happens through the facts take a back seat at the first a lot of statements are often what sticks and even if corrections apologies come later the damage that's already been done the plots are often the reverse of a. dozen or so you are to me part. still ahead in the program one hundred. billion
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euro burden investors say the sum set aside to bail out spanish banks won't be enough to cope with a crisis at all or people continue to bear the brunt of austerity and we're also reporting about the promises unfulfilled find out why inmates a grand time of day of being denied the chance to continue their legal fight for freedom after being detained at that notorious facility without ever being charged . next wiki leaks founder julian assange has asked britain supreme court to reopen the case regarding his extradition to sweden almost two weeks after he lost his appeal there is lawyers challenge the legality of the previous ruling in what is said to be an unusual move the famous whistle blowers wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations but his supporters fears extradition will just be a step towards handing them over to the u.s. recently as contacts and acquaintances experience evidence of the pursuit of. being held for questioning particularly after taking part in this program most broadcast right here on r t indeed you can watch the latest edition of
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a sound you show throughout the day today as the us activist this time around from the cypherpunks movement about the invisible war over our future that's being fought right now online. but the fundamental things that cypherpunks really recognize is that the architecture actually defines the political situation so if you have a centralized architecture even if the best people in the world are in control of it no matter where we look we can see especially with financial systems that effectively even if the people have the best of intentions it doesn't matter i mean the arc there sure is the truth it's true for the internet with regard to communications the so-called lawful intercept systems which are which is just a nice way of saying spying on people so you can use them. yeah absolutely lawful murder you've heard of a lot of the rights on american citizens by the u.s. president obama you know when he killed on lorillard he's sixteen year old son in yemen that's not lawful murder or targeted killing as they put it right so so-called lawful intercept is the same thing you just put lawful in front of
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everything and then all of a sudden because the state does it it's legitimate but it's in fact the architecture of the state that allows them to do that at all and is the architecture of the laws and the architecture of the technology just is the same as is the architecture of financial systems and what the cypherpunks wanted to do was to create systems where we could compensate each other in a truly free way where it was not possible to interfere. and i can let you know you can watch the second part of julia's songes talk with the cypherpunks activists later this hour on our t.v. if you missed the first part of it we showed last week it's of course available along with the rest of the series if you want to catch up with it again and come streaming whenever you want to see it. the rescue package for spanish banks will come with strings attached that's the message from the e.u. as the european competition commission has said the loan will be supervised and that contradicts comments from the country's prime minister that indicated that the hundred billion euros of financial aid was different from the conditional bailouts of other e.u. states let's talk about this with john holzman these
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a political risk consultant on the line from germany hi there joe on the spanish finance minister says this rescue his banks is going to be big enough to eliminate all residue of debt now is the fact or fiction. as far as you all can see as my sister might put it meanwhile back on the planet earth i think the reality here is that they've lost control of the story and they're beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis has followed a pattern they've been frantic bailouts for greece portugal ireland and spain and what's happened is that after every bailout the amount of time it takes the markets to read the fine print realize that indeed this is nonsense it isn't all set gets smaller and smaller and smaller so we've gone from two months to two weeks to two days and in the case of spain it took literally two hours for things to turn around this is by far the and from from the story explains why they get to avoid calling this a rescue loan a bailout it seems to want to play whether any conditions are attached to it as we are saying but i'm glad. that the hell will be tied to reforms of the spanish
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banking sector one of the misunderstanding and it begs the question you think trades ready for these reforms. no it isn't again they're in denial the point is that of course the germans are going to part with their money without conditions mrs merkel has a very tough political scene or sell and if she were said to skin the spanish one hundred million euro the people in germany would think she'd lost her mind so they're going to be conditions of course the troika is going to look over spanish banks of course there's going to be conditionality at the e.u. level and the spanish and what's happening is you see the politics of this getting harder and harder mrs merkel needs that conditionality the spanish government can't hope to survive if there is that conditionality and people talking their way around the truth but the bond markets and the rest of us don't buy it for a second. the a german chancellor also said that creating growth and europe campian cheap are piling up yet more debt but how does that all sit with the spanish love doesn't it mean yet more debt for the country about how you look at it you know absolutely it's
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a shell game to pretend not what this will do is add nine to ten points of g.d.p. to spanish debt and mediately and the problem with debt is if you don't have a way to repay it however virtuous you are after accruing that debt you're going to go bankrupt and that's indeed what's happening there isn't growth fairy we can all talk about growth but the way to get to growth is about labor market regulation being loosened about making things freer a process across borders about building up productivity over time and there is no magic way out of this there is no growth area without growth as we've seen in greece two hundred billion euro in money and guess what the debt to g.d.p. ratio in greece is exactly the same as when they started the reason for this kafka novel is simple the greek certain growing so they can cut themselves too high have an indoor unfold agony but without growth there's no way out will the reaction brain to this bailout like for want of a better what a calling in countries like greece and portugal who both signed up to those. just exchange for their cash injections do you think now well the problem is if you buy the spanish prime minister mr oweis narrative of course everyone's going to say
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well why in the heck do we have twelve terms of the spanish are these in terms and it leads to even more acrimony. you and mrs merkel says the logical thing while the spanish have talked terms to mr avoid looks like either a fool or a liar and so the problem with this system is one of the two of them is wrong if not both of them but if indeed mr rove were right it would mean that every other country with a bailout would want these new terms meaning the whole thing would rebel very quickly and look at the greek elections in this last week for the far left the rise of party to say you see we can get better terms that we just hang in there negotiating just absolutely untrue john as one finds her thoughts on the program and my pleasure. israel's attending dozens of african migrants in the first stage of the leadership's plan to the pulled of a four thousand people from the country itself the government initially welcomed the refugees who were trying to escape violence in their homeland but as nazis pulled asli if they face further strife upon their return home. i thought that. the
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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 built by those who survived the holocaust. sudanese dissidents sudanese to sit down and even stronger words inciting racial hatred against african migrants. point minister benjamin netanyahu has 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 rule some sixty thousand of them have crossed illegally into israel through the relatively poorest dysart border with egypt israel is warn of an impending demographic and economic crisis in the future these are people who
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experienced severe trauma in their native land in therefore they saw their villages burned down they were trees who were slaves of a dictatorial regime somewhere in torture camps in sinai and then a new struggle stars for their own. israeli say most come seeking work rather than refuge and when it comes to growing crime figures the newcomers make convenient 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 but 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. arts of violence towards the refugees and their already have been apartments of african workers set alight and almost daily beatings. far from
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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 israel forty's to imprison illegal immigrants for up to three years without a trial then assuming a leg they should look into the eyes of these africans who fled while and despair and think about what they're doing to see how they're demonized how they are called names is terrible i am ashamed i'm 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. tel aviv. the u.s. supreme court refused to hear appeals far by seven guantanamo bay and they had challenging the legality of the detention ever being charged it continues to
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president barack obama's failed election promise to permanently shut down the prison or for the guantanamo files and the worthington believes the judges mentality is exposing the deep flaws in the country's justice system of the last two years and in particular the d.c. circuit court so 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 affectively 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 these legal means in the last two years not a single prisoner has when they made this call was a decision it's very very politically motivated by the d.c. circuit courts these are very right wing judges they don't want prisoners released under any circumstances but there's been these persistent refusal to release people regardless of their judges and i think that makes
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a mockery of the entire process if we keep having review processes under bush and 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. a lot more live on our website r.t. dog com some stories right now you might be interested to see a perilous place for babies you're certainly going to want to read over this one if you're not too squeamish father where there's annual ritual in spanish town aimed at banishing evil spirits from newborns most frightened to death is that r t the comb also we're revealing cyber war entering a new era with the two latest supposed dangerous virus attacks but all the news lately orchestrated maybe by the same group at least that's according to a leading russian internet security lab spur ski want to check out what they've got to say about it it's on line from a.
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busy day on central moscow today let's go back to the heart of it should we were mass celebrations over russia today are in full swing. is there for us either i gather that those are eurovision button off skipper bush because they got their prostate cakes in the oven will they take them out there performing later on they what else is going on there. you know we will all stay your. money should be at home sitting and resting after the big moment that they give every year a visit but they are loud here they say no we want to celebrate with the youth we're out here at red square we want to enjoy have fun and you know celebrate with their music in that famous dome of the air the car the everybody is certainly going to be done thing to night now as you can see the flags are already flying they've been flying all afternoon and it looks like it the rain has been dampened to a nice you are one hundred six are around thirty thousand people have just been
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arriving right now as it was standing yeah coming back up to the top of the food put out there that way out with the music stars out from around to russia parts including the because of course so it's a really heavy into a daemon center for families. they young to all come out and enjoy themselves now the reason why this is actually taking place is because today we're home moderating a russian national day now back in one thousand nine hundred when the so you the soviet union actually fell down and russian federation became a state be a nation they actually declared at this day ninety ninety four you know four years later that this is going to be a national holiday they're going to celebrate and if they didn't we hear today we're doing exactly that now late so called we going to have a while more than live music we'll be bringing some spectacular thing to this wonderful concept with bio words which i'm looking forward to especially now that the clout that so we'll bring you more for you in the next couple of the next
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couple of hours in terms of what's happening with the concert but rather people are coming in and there's excitement in the everybody feeling this time of vibe as well as that you know taken this day to come out to add the russian or i could stuff super job the culture of the game later on things raised by it was going to say in central moscow to across all the latest news online it out say though we got news features great pictures there on our website just to business now the after twenty four minutes past seven o'clock in the evening to be true because the dimitri it seems the u.s. and european markets are rather saying today what's going on and well the u.s. are hopeful for more stimulus measures from the central bank from the federal reserve basically while in europe the fears are about spanish bond yields going up to the euro area high well look at that in a second first of all let's take a look at what's going on in the u.s. markets ended the day the dow jones is coming up to almost one percent growth free quarters same thing for the nasdaq as investors are hopeful that basically there
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will be more stimulus measures for the economy not only in the u.s. but also in the view where right now of course the mood is much chillier frankfurt is even falling sick of the of figures on the european markets frankfurt. it has descended into the rare there with the dogs going down point three percent as anglo merkel has once again dismissed the idea of joining in the euro area debt bonds basically saying that this is not a good idea and she's been saying that the crisis in spain is a result of a ten year property bubble which the authorities in europe failed to to address correctly and that the spanish bailout that's been simply suggested over the weekend has not also been taking into consideration all the aspects of the problem. also cyprus may be the next country poised for an international bailout now on monday its finance minister hinted that the cash strapped country may apply
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for financial aid before the end of this month that's in case the economy finds it difficult to support banks which are highly exposed to greece. in asia the situation was quite different on tuesday with the nikkei dropping almost well actually more than one percent as the international monetary fund said that monetary easing was necessary as the yen that was overvalued over here in russia was no trading neither today nor on monday but there will be on wednesday this these are the closing figures for saturday was a six day week last week and it was one of the best because of probably the sixth day and one of the best a trading week in russia so far this year with a big weekly gain but we have to remember that we've seen many consecutive more than five weeks of losses there will be trading tomorrow of course for russia bulgaria will get an eleven percent discount on natural gas that is buying from
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russia starting from april around one hundred twenty million dollars the offer is conditional on signing the south stream pipeline deal to bring natural gas to southern and central europe gazprom a finance of russian and bulgarian part of the pipeline. then cover its losses from transit payments over in the commodities markets we're seeing a mixed picture with light sweet adding a bit brant is going down by around half a dollar per barrel as the saudi arabian oil ministers as that group efforts maybe taken to increase production and on the currencies markets we're seeing a bit of a yo yo with the euro but it's flirting around the one point two five level it's now a bit a tad down against the greenback the russian ruble will start trading tomorrow on the my six that's the way it looks all right more from you later thanks for that dmitri now just a few minutes tonight the latest sun show on air for you today about whether or not
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it's possible to keep anything secret in the world of modern day communications that they're coming up after i've updated the headlines in two minutes from now. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we.
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