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egypt's ruling military to clamp down on the center of an iron fist tens of thousands in cairo protest against the generals with a delayed presidential poll results expected later on sunday. which will expand the . nervous wait for the ecuadorian government decision on whether to grant him political asylum after he sought refuge in london embassy. last syria and turkey trying to defuse tensions after a turkish jet was shot down on friday both countries searching for the missing pilot.
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this is our teaser weekly news if you and all the very latest developments live from moscow welcome while there's egyptians away at the delayed results of last weekend's presidential elections a huge crowds of protesters are again filling cairo's tahrir square the epicenter of last year's revolution let's get the very latest from our. in the egyptian capital paula why the continued protests some would ask after the first contested presidential election in the country's history. well if we look at the protests that happened in egypt for example eighteen months ago those protests were very much directed at al sting the former egyptian president hosni mubarak what we witnessing today is the same kind of anger on the streets of egypt but this time it is being directed against the ruling military who many egyptians feel is trying to keep its grab on power and this follows a recent announcement by the military that it had drawn for good and interim constitution also that it was responsible for pointing those people who would like the final constitution egypt's courts also have recently dissolved parliament now
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you need to remember that those courts are headed by judges who were pointed during the time of course the mubarak mubarak was a military man and the ruling generals are very much seen as part of his regime since the break was also that there have been multiple protests across the country dozens of people have been killed and so what we're witnessing today is disappointment that the revolution did not actually reach the goals it had city itself which was ultimately changing the ruling power was here in egypt at the same time there is concern that the protests now are being hijacked by the muslim brotherhood certainly the majority of people in tahrir square all brotherhood supporters now talking to many of them and various opinions that are coming forward maybe not well so angry at the fact that the election results which were due to have been announced on thursday that those election results for who's going to be egypt's next president have been delayed and some of the people have been telling
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me that they believe it's because the army behind the scenes is trying to organize that its candidate which i think can win the election i've also had some people tell me that they believe the brotherhood might be trying to make some kind of backroom deals with the ruling military and then perhaps the this quote i have received from someone who told me that the outcome is being negotiated while they're being counted. a baller with the winner of the presidential race to be in there and shortly what's. in store for egypt under either man really as leader. well as i say the majority of people who are out there in tahrir square are supporters of the muslim brotherhood and their candidate mohamed morsi you need to remember that he won the first round of the presidential vote by several percentage points he has vowed that egypt will be turned into a should we are and hated state and this has people concerned in this country those who are not muslim brotherhood supporters they want to keep religion out of politics they are also worried about losing their personal freedoms and then of
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course the people who received privileges under the previous regime and are worried that they'll lose those privileged privileges should the muslim brotherhood take up the presidency by comparison you have a comment shafiq who is a former air force commander his supporters have been keeping a low profile but they have been holding parallel demonstrations particularly north of cairo the appeal of mature fig is that he promises security and safety but the concern around mature fick is that he represents the old regime and that nothing really will change in tangible terms on the ground you do also have a third possibility that's being put forward today remember we're looking at an announcement that is supposed to come at around three o'clock sunday afternoon either morsi will be elected or shafiq will be announced all more people are telling me that the results might be an old election commission might decide that the violations were to extreme too and now the vote and call for
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a new presidential election all of those scenarios hold the threat of violence because protesters on both sides are likely to go to the streets particularly muslim brotherhood supporters if they can if it does not when and indeed if the election results are delayed you're going to see a lot of frustration here in egypt. very volatile situation there as you say all that hard to support a lot from karl thank you. well middle east expert says the new president will have a hard time bargaining with the military rulers. if the constitutional declaration that was upheld legalized intervention in politics meaning that they can veto articles in the constitution if the current constitutional assembly was dismantled they will form a constitutional assembly from appointed politicians and they will choose specific op of politicians that will not negotiate or bargain hard with them and want to protect the vast economic interests in the country they want politics in anything
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that has to do with national security issues issues or sensitive foreign policy issues and they want legal and constitutional immunity from any charges that has to do with corruption or depression and all these issues obviously undermine the mandate of the upcoming president and more or. less he has very solid support on the ground. capacity to mobilize its supporters in that region elsewhere and then use this capacity to mobilize to bargain and negotiate with the military leadership then he will be a very weak president. on the way in the program the cutting edge of cyber warfare american official spill the beans on last month's computer virus attack on iran the details in a few minutes. could or the president is considering a whistleblower julian assange and his claim for political asylum but it's not said when a decision will be made that we can expand it has been the country's embassy in london
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since tuesday attempting to avoid extradition to sweden and sex crimes that could cause ambassador to the u.k. has been called to the capital peter to brief the government. protected inside the embassy who produce police say they arrest him breaching bail conditions once he steps outside his most famous will sort of asylum from ecuador and because they're sympathetic to his struggles but also wants to avoid anything up the u.s. here's the death penalty. held under house arrest and oppressed by the government in an effort to silence a pro-democracy message to the public but we're not talking about famous political dissident song suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about the western explain and freedom of speech the charges of of imported games julian assange yet he still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the
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u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven see the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange has once again caught the eye of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy those julian assange takes recchi that away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man who has been abandoned by his own country persecuted by the u.s. and failed by the u.k.'s legal system but he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for the government to stand up for the son just fight has been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the resulted in the rejection of his supreme court appeal against extradition to sweden what this was about was once julian assange gets extradited to sweden he's in prison in sweden the next thing that happens is the u.s. assuming there's an indictment large is an extradition warrant in sweden eventually
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the u.s. gets his hands on him they stick him in a prison in the united states fears of what might await him across the atlantic may well have prompted his latest there i think you'll end up actually going through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death toll and it will be a stacked against those who are sitting with the bradley manning case united states now has the records rather than we'll of course these on time founded concerns as a long list of you. biggest he openly calls not only for songes incarceration even though his death this guy is a traitor treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot and here's why because of his work. this guy has made some powerful enemies you know the collateral murder video shows american helicopter
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gunships. the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this cable guy has embarrassed american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game new rules you play is an unexpected me even legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter and say the man he revolutionized with and three wiki leaks released groundbreaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now i think that the next big rally will be julian assange himself served. london. while under house arrest in the u.k. jonah sanchez produced a series of interview shows with political figures for around the world airing right here no. he said the fund raising program will now decide on the sergeant's solemn occasion website party dot com.
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turkey's foreign minister says one of its jets shot down by syrian forces was not spying but mistakenly entered the arab countries airspace says the action was defensive and not an aggressive move as both sides seek to defuse tensions after the incident. or warned it would retaliate but didn't specify how well turkish and syrian search teams are looking for the two missing pilots. back. coalition says the instant the turkish plane is increasing tensions. you'll see. i think what we see is syria a small country a government that has been independent sense independence meaning while it sometimes collaborates with the west it has not been considered to be a proxy or a client has been targeted by the western powers and by the turkish government which of course is part of nato and by their regional proxies saudi arabia qatar for overthrow and the overthrow is designed not to bring
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a more humanitarian or more democratic government to syria but to create a client regime in that important strategically important arab country so this incident is heightening the tension but so is every other incident and we could see from the comments of ambassador ford the u.s. ambassador the united states is now encouraging the disaffection and defection from the syrian military part of a strategy to promote civil war in syria that's a crime and turkey as a nato power has been ramping up its support for the armed insurgency in syria that turkey itself in the turkey syria border has become a transit for the flow of weapons that are coming from saudi arabia from qatar being paid for really in coordinated with almost great certainty by the by the united states and the nato powers. well russia has been in the spotlight this week for alleged arms shipments to syria claims denied by moscow ortiz laura smith has more in the media war in the false reports being used to drive the headlines.
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syria may be on the brink of civil war but it's already the subject of a full blown media war ships on new ships that's been the question for the past week as reports well are since it was on its way according to the reports the battleships were laden with arms and troops and headed for syria it later turned out they were nowhere near syria they're in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of war any reports however it accurate has some kind of influence. as long as you have so many forces. excited about the your option and that is that things are always just there and they were. there to get there through this information as usual so like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventy's also there was
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a delay of some information there was one ship it was turned back off the coast of scotland after it was found to be carrying helicopter parts bound to syria q a sessions that russia was supplying combat helicopters to president assad we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically it's an allegation that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says is part of a propaganda campaign pushing for which is being discussed but these days that indeed was scary for the defense systems and it was carrying the three helicopters which have been repaired in russia under the control of science into cells of a there was a soviet helicopter seven hundred fifty of them syria from seoul did this and the two thousand feet there was
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a concert very few of the bastille to be assembled when they are delivered they have to be assembled the entire process will fit with less than three months so to speak about something which we just sold to syria and which is being used. in your actions is not true that it wasn't only ships apparently war games were planned to it rainy a news agency fawaz reported that iran russia china and syria are planning to conduct joint military exercises in syria next month analysts think the story was planted by syria or iran as a show of strength but the u.s. outlets took it up because it. suited them for the u.s. and you love the story because. you know the. regime and its supporters in iran or russia or china or. they are the ones who are. the conflict instead of seeking. peaceful solution so
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a lot of the story you know the. news agency is then there's the war of words british prime minister david cameron came out of a meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying putin no longer wanted president back in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was putin's position but was it a case of lost in translation wishful thinking on the prime minister's parts or another attempt to exert pressure on russia in the last fifteen months is being a media attack on syria that the crisis just syrian crisis is seventy percent of media so two percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some observations by just some of those using you tube. there is no confirmed reports anymore it's said the
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first casualty of war is the truth and all this international rumor mongering and jockeying for position comes at the expense of the syrian people the situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words laura smith. and moscow washington seem to come closer in their positions on syria this week at the twenty summit in mexico both sides pointed out syrian should choose their next government in a statement by president obama on tuesday it was the first face to face meeting since the russian leader returned to the kremlin in may talks however. exposed to more rough edges than resolve this she's the u.s. and russia still feel washington's plans for a missile defense shield in europe moscow has once again it's a call for shared control of the system as a solution to the impasse based on corp a former member of the reagan administration paul craig roberts please obama
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doesn't have as much room to maneuver on the issue as he might like. i'm convinced that putin does not want conflicts with washington he wants to resolve the issue of the missile bases that are surrounding russia he doesn't want conflict and obama. he doesn't want any conflict either but he is just one member of a government that wants regime change in syria and obama is not exactly in a position to be able to stop that he will do what he can to get along with kryten but he still has to represent the agenda. world agent or me and regime change and so the situation out there is unresolved. what the g. twenty itself heads of states have voiced fresh anxiety of the continuing euro zone
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crisis describing it as the single biggest threat to the world economy many leaders have said progress in dealing with the situation has been far too slow. greece's new coalition government is seeking a deadline extension two years to cut its budget deficit that would breach of the terms of the e.u. i.m.f. bailout deal but i think that one is to avoid having to further cut salaries and pensions a proposal that was agreed within the coalition this week or two that actions and right when economics. says it's too early to celebrate. every says oh yes all the situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums we're going to get as high as sugar sugar rush of call for the next couple of is on the right notes furiously and you know come thursday friday reason i started thinking well you know you think it will stay on the same hole it really for because you're trying to do two things also you see on the one hand bro
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and on the other hand there are there are civil list on the on there are governments in order to comply with the call for austerity measures now you can't do it you can't do the same thing you can do lots of things at same time it's either one of you i mean if you squeeze the people of the people are going to scream and when the screen governments fall and that's what we're really seeing in the near term future of this government ease austerity measures which have been ineffective over the last two years and so there's no reason to think that they're going to be used for the next six months. or more international news stories and before you know paraguayan is facing a political isolation with many of its latin american neighbors with joy in their ambassadors from the country it comes after president fernando there was ousted from power in the impeachment trial on saturday and thirty nine to four vote in the senate saw him removed over his handling of violence between farmers and police. last week at least seventy people died when newly sworn in president franco as
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promised to prevent the country from becoming a regional outcast. in bolivia the army is patrolling the streets as police across the country continue their strike against low pay the rest began on thursday when around thirty police and their wives a season in the new headquarters close to the presidential palace between the government and struck the offices stalled saturday no agreement in sight two thousand and three vote wages led to a gunfight with soldiers which killed nineteen people. trying is shown to nine spacecraft with three astronauts has successfully docked with the poetry module in orbit in what beijing says is a major advance in the country's space program events including the country's first female astronauts was shown live on national television the mission being trumpeted as a step towards a chinese space station in a decade members are conducting medical tests and experiments while in orbit for
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just under night and another manned space flight is planned for later this year. now unnamed u.s. officials have admitted american responsibility for last month's computer virus attack on iran the state of the art cyber weapon named flame the set of been created by america and israel to spy on and sabotage islamic states nuclear interests what is going to chicken and has the latest. guides that american officials may sound defensive when they talk about cyber attacks as being a major threat to the country's security a weapon of mass disruption you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of global awesome ryan fashions we typically associate with more fry the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power systems or in our grid acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from
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a few keystrokes on the computer but it turns out the u.s. government itself carries out cyber attacks against other nations the washington post cites officials speaking on condition of anonymity who say entrap aeration full cyber sabotage against iran the u.s. and israel developed the flame virus flame is the most complex computer spying program ever discovered it has the capacity to steal or alger elec twenty documents by now nobody doubts the program was development by a government entity that something like this appears to be what they would call state sponsored it sounds like the n.s.a. it is a means by me that it necessary to say has and does this kind of thing we know they've done this kind of think you're getting intelligence without having to put someone actually there it's cyber espionage while the flame war was collecting intelligence the stuxnet virus borrowed into iran's nuclear program and created havoc in its uranium enrichment centrifuges the obama administration did not deny the leaks in
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the new york times that it had teamed up with israel to create stuxnet some fear that the move almost invites retaliation when you attack for instance iraq's nuclear program you provide the iranians with their weapons your word which they can that reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works turn it around send your way elite. moscow based security firm which i covered the flame virus says part of its code is nearly identical to the code finding stuxnet and suggested that the viruses were developed by two teams working in collaboration leaks in the press support that assessment one official also on condition of anonymity said is just the beginning and the u.s. is preparing the battlefield for another type of covered action we're setting precedent for other nations and that's where the real problem lies because we've been criticizing china for allegedly attacking united states companies and u.s.
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governments while the same time engaging in this in the same conduct with other countries feel bomb administration has openly confirmed hacking websites but only if alleged al qaeda sympathizers in yemen the u.s. secretary of state described this cyber effort as part of a larger attack on terrorism but many fear the u.s. cyber efforts go well beyond that as u.s. defense authorities go offensive in cyber warfare the pentagon's cyber command has fast tracked the development of the weapons that ministration just announced a one hundred ten million dollar program to solicit proposals from the universities and video game manufacturers so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they understand that they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to rope technology into that and so when we have no control of our technology we have these people that wish to use it for further and for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff cyber space as
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a whole is now seen by the u.s. military as that vast area of opportunity you can't really tell the government don't do to others what you don't want them to you but in light of the recent revelations about the u.s. being gauge that cyber attack one might ask what are the message that the same people who are like the government being with the dems cyber hacked hackers and all but it felt like one hell of a hopper i'm going to check out reporting from washington martin. i'll be back with the headlines in just a couple of minutes stay with us. all. they've
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