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egypt's ruling military evolves to come down to simple the iron fist as tens of thousands in cairo protest against the generals within a presidential poll results perspective based on sunday. turkey maintains one of its military jets struck down by syrian forces on friday it was not spying on a training flight before it was done without warning and is to report the incident to make sure. we can leave founder julian assange on a nervous wait for the ecuadorian government's decision on whether to grant him political asylum after he sought refuge at its london embassy.
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here watching our teaser the weekly with me tom would say first as egyptians away the delayed results of last weekend's presidential election a huge crowds of protesters again filling cairo's tahrir square they have percent of last year's revolution policia has a very latest. if we look at the protests that happened in egypt for example eighteen months ago those protests were very much directed at ousting 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 did an interim constitution also that it was responsible for pointing those people who would write the final constitution egypt's courts also have recently dissolved the parliament and now you
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need to remember that those courts are headed by judges who were pointed to the time of course mubarak mubarak was a military man and the ruling generals are very much seen as part of his regime since before it was announced 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 powers here in egypt 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 interested 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're also worried about the museum a personal freedoms and then of course the people who receive privileges under the previous regime and i worry that they'll lose those privileged privileges should
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the muslim brotherhood take up the presidency by comparison you have a mature fake 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 which a feeling is that he promises security and safety but the concern. and around which fic 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 i have a more civil be elected or shafiq will be announced all or more people are telling me that the results might be an old election commission might decide that the violations were to extreme i think it's true and now the vote and call for a new presidential election all of those scenarios hold the threat of violence
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because protesters on both sides are likely to go to the streets particularly muslim brotherhood supporters if their candidate does not win and indeed if the election results are delayed you're going to see a lot of frustration here in egypt. as policy is there she's keeping track of the latest developments in cairo for us and you can watch a continuous live stream from tightening the square on our web site at r.t. dot com. kyra babies journalists and activists. egyptians will continue to strive for freedom and democracy against all odds. with this election and how it was in junior to from the first place how it was constructed who was in charge who supporting all the awards is basically the supreme council for their own forces so in the end that evolution is not over yet i mean no revolution ends in a year and a half and certainly not with skaf in power i believe that with the next you know coming months new there will be a lot of mobilization there's
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a lot of huge expectation on this coming president whether it would be sheffield or whether it be more see the have a lot to answer to and with limiting powers that they have that basically announce and this could be it shows that their job is going to be very very tough yes when people are won't have the demands met like minimum wage and public health and health care you know an education and we still have a pile of cash lying around people are not going to be happy and that's not what we sacrifice so many of our martyrs. and spend a year and a half of instability for basically people who want an answer and until now we have no answers we have only power play cafe spoiling with you know playing with with the muslim brotherhood but the people are the ones who are out of losing because the they all are in india and they need their security they need their bread and they need to live a dignified life on the way in the program the cutting edge of cyber warfare
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american officials and spilled the beans on last month's computer virus attack on iran all the details in a few minutes. turkey's foreign minister says one of its military jets shot down by syrian forces was not spying but is one a training flight the incident on friday seriously raise tensions between the two with ankara saying it's too involved nato in the affair syria maintains the action was defensive and not aggressive earlier want it would retaliate without specifying how turkish and syrian search teams have report. he found the tickets plane in the mediterranean sea meanwhile turkey's foreign minister says that the incident is to be referred to made to next week stressing the flight to jet had been shut down without warning brian back. and she says the issue shows the delicate state of affairs in the region. i think what we see is syria a small country
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a government that has been independent sense independence mean 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 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 that turkey as a nato power has been ramping up its support for the armed insurgency in syria turkey itself in the turkey syria border has become
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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 in the nato powers. onset today president assad formed a new government to bring in twenty new ministers including two opposition think as the country remains torn with under arrest but as artie's and i we have reports and the government forces are being accused of using intimidation to base their ranks. every evening because a man has a spends time with his grandchildren but the stories grandpa tells. the kid's about bad and good people aren't fairy tales i think they're real. who is this mohammad where is he he's dead. what they kill him because he didn't want to bring down president bashar assad cause him he's the leader of a five thousand strong tribe his son and youngest granddaughter was shot dead by
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terrorists after he refused to join the movement against the syrian regime. when our son here they came to me masked men carrying the al-qaeda flag with kalashnikovs and many other weapons they wanted me to demonstrate and bring my tribesmen with me then they came in the night and started shooting in my house is covered in bullet holes from floor to ceiling. flater cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two. we stormed gaza mohair this house we were shooting and set fire the next day where arranged to meet another victim and where we called him back for final details a stranger picked up when i had matters more hardeen. you want. yes. i will give you the whole sorry. i was bustling is
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minimal dean will bring you a head start dogs where is my danish bring me bashar like saddam will tell you where. the hell is this your freedom kidnapping and killing people. sure. you will be kidnapped two we found a man who didn't hours later in hospital fortunately alive he told us he'd been attacked gunman stopped his car took his money and mobile and shot him in the leg. ask them to join them straight months ago this resident me on and they took my family and loves is it hard as i was told they were following me but what should i do it has a came i don't even know why me was a little while my head dean is wondering why him mahmoud the last of the two matt knows exactly why people with guns visited his home and threatened. in his restaurants he used to feed syrian army officers and was also delivering center
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which is to the checkpoints. with a camel to feed the army and i now have to see them for free free syrian army also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many other is a mash mood has fled his native the city known as one of the syrian opposition strongholds which has seen several deadly terror attacks and now hiding in neighboring aleppo change in location every ten days and just like others he says he's already lost a lot but his ready to sacrifice the rest if it helps turn this dark page in this country's history while the west continues to pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of deposing president assad it remains unclear what kind of people would take his place with open support for the syrian rebels and a rise in the use of terror tactics the question many are asking is that what kind
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of direction would these force take the country. or if the notion of our team from syria. and to moscow and washington seem to come closer in their position on syria this week at the g twenty. summit in mexico both sides pointed out syrians i should choose their own next government and a statement by president putin and obama on tuesday it was their first face to face meetings as the russian leader returned to the kremlin in may they talked however expose more rough as a stern result to issues the u.s. and russia still difficile p. on washington's plans for missile defense shield in europe moscow has once again reiterated its call for said control of the system as a solution to the impossible based on corporation if all my member of the reagan administration paul craig roberts believes obama doesn't have a much room to maneuver on the issues as he might like. them to events that putin does not war conflicts with washington he wants to resolve the issue of the missile
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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 really care to get along with curtain but he still has to represent the agenda of. the world agent to me and regime change and so the situation i think is unresolved. well at the g twenty itself the heads of states have voiced freshened over the continuing euro zone crisis describing it as a single biggest threat to the world economy many leaders have said progress in
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dealing with the situation has been far too slow meanwhile greece's new coalition government is seeking a deadline extension by least two years to cut its budget deficit that would reach one of the terms of the e.u. i.m.f. bailout deal but athens wants to avoid having to further cut salaries and pensions the proposal was agreed within the coalition formed to earlier this week after two elections in greece produced no i'll try to wind up but he connally's blood. says it's too early to celebrate. it really says oh yes solve the situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums and we're going to go just hi this sugar i'm sure a rush of kong for the next couple of it is all right you know. and you know that on thursday friday the reason i started thinking well you know i did mousavi thing and wished on the same hole only for him because you're trying to do two things are you see on the one hand bro and on the other hand back on there are there are civil
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list and on there are government in order to comply with the detroit does call for us dirty tricks are you going to you can do the same thing you can do lots of things at the same time it's either one of you i mean if you squeeze the people all 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 if this government pursues these austerity measures which are a bit ineffective over the last two years and so there's no reason to think that they're going to be effective over the next six months. we've got the world covered for you at our team dot com here's a taste of what's online for the bahrain crackdown on opposition leaders injured as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters. and to focus enough to mock the twenty thousand people in tokyo last. engine a demonstration against the government's decision to restart nuclear reactors.
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quitter's president is considering whistleblower julian assange just claim for political asylum but has not said when a decision will be made the weekly standard has been at the country's embassy in london since she's day attempting to avoid extradition to sweden over a less sex crimes and better to the u.k. has been recalled to the capital quito to brief the government julian assange is protected inside the embassy although british police say arrest him for breaching bail conditions once he steps out fight the morals of those famous whistleblowers sought asylum or from the ecuadorians because they're sympathetic to his struggles but also wants to avoid ending up in the us where he fears the death penalty are geezers there for it has more. 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
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dissident suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about a western experience and freedom of speech charges of ever being voted against julian assange that he still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven he seeks the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange she is once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy those chilean astonished takes refuge but away from the hype 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. hailed by the u.k.'s legal system he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for a stroll in government to stand up for and son just fights has been
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a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the case a result in the rejection of his seaplane course 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 lodges an extradition warrant in sweden eventually 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 me i think you'll end up actually the united states facing very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a stacked kangaroo court against as a are seeing with the bradley manning case united states now has the records rather than we of course these on time found it concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest he openly cool's not only for songes incarceration even if the his death this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and
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i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a and here's why because of his work with wiki leaks this guy has made some powerful enemies you know the collateral murder video shows american helicopter gunships shooting reporters the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this the cable guy has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game with new rules new play is an unexpected me even first on his 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 ground breaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now a ping that the next big release will be julian assange himself surf city
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london. we could be effective as a clock still key says a political asylum in ecuador is the best chance for us to continue his work of making revelations about the us. we're not so worried about him going to sweden actually that's that's just small business what we're most worried about is him getting extradited to the united states and it's being orchestrated by the department of justice and most of the mainstream media doesn't seem to know about it because no one is allowed in and this is been going on simultaneously as bradley manning's trial i would say it's a fifty fifty chance either it does or doesn't i pulling for it sounds like this is a very good option so that julian can continue to do the great work he has been doing for journalism ecuador would be a very good choice i think the likelihood of an extradition from ecuador is
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a lot less than it would be from sweden or the u.k. . while under house arrest in the u.k. julian assange has produced a series of interviews shares with political figures from around the world airing right here on our team you can catch all the episodes including the one with present career who will now decide on a sundress us sign an application it's all on our website r t v dot com. more international stories in brief for you now paraguayan is facing political isolation with many of its latin american neighbors withdrawing their ambassadors from the country the move comes after president fernando lugo was are said from power in an impeachment trial and saturday a thirty nine to four vote in the senate saw him removed over his handling of violence between found this and police last week in which at least seventeen people died nearly is sworn in president of rhetoric or franco has promised to prevent the country from becoming a regional outcast. in bolivia means patrolling the streets as police
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across the country continue the strike against low pay the end rested began on thursday when around thirty police and their wives as is an elite unit headquarters close to the presidential palace talks between the government and striking officers stalled early on saturday with no agreement in sight in two thousand and three a revolt over wages led to a gunfight with soldiers killed in one thousand people. in sudan growing and your surge of protests have turned violent as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the country's capital police used tear gas and baton to disperse the writers who threw stones at offices and burned tires in the streets activists report a large number of arrests at the country's economy has been struggling since south sudan ceded a year ago taking with it is three quarters of sudan's oil production. china's nine spacecraft with three astronauts has manually docked for the first time with
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the origin module in orbit. beijing sees this as a major advance in the country's space program the event including the countries for its female astronaut was shown live on national television with the mission been trumpeted as a step towards the chinese space station by twenty twenty crewmembers are conducting medical tests and experiments while in on it with just under a fortnight another men to space a flight is planned for later this year. unnamed u.s. officials have admitted american responsibility for last month's computer virus attack on iran the state of the cyber weapon in nicknamed flame is said to have been created by america and israel to spy on and several targets they slam it stays nuclear interest. she can 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
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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 of the loss of the right fashion things we typically associate with war 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 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 else or elec trani documents by now nobody doubts the program was development by a government entity or something like this appears to be what they would call state
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sponsored it sounds like the n.s.a. it is even but i mean they're necessary to say he has and does this kind of thing we know they've done this kind of thing 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 the new york times that had teamed up with israel to create stocks net some fear that the move almost invites retaliation where you attack for instance iran is nuclear program you provide the iranians with their weapon your world which they can read reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works turn it around send to your way elite. eating moscow based security firm which i covered the flame virus as part of its code is nearly identical to the code finding stocks net and suggested that the viruses were developed by two teams working in
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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. 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 track to the development of the weapons that ministration just announced a one hundred ten million dollar program to solicit proposals from the universities
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and video game manufacturers to 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're there so that they're always talking about war because that's their business to do and so they're trying to root technology into that and so when we have no control of our technology we have these people that wish to use it for for their ends for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff cyberspace as 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 hear but in light of the recent revelations about the u.s. being a state library one might ask what are the message that the same people who are like the government team with the dems cyber attack hackers and all but it felt like one hell of a problem. i'm going to check out reporting from washington and hard to. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments. mission
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