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day this is. president elect mohamed morsi is set to begin forming a new government after being announced on sunday as the country's next leader he would celebrations agree to the did age results which. last prime minister week around four percent i see as opposed to being a unity and resigned from the muslim brotherhood to become a non partisan leader of the authority of the office he assumes is determined by the military. generals dissolve parliament they promise to handle executive control to see like you know why it's not clear how much leverage will be given the u.s.
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has been quick to congratulate the winner to the point now reports the muslim brotherhood's ties to extremists means america is undermining its own policies. egypt's revolution began with tens of thousands into here square and it became a success shortly after washington sided with the anti-government opposition by stepping down responding to people's hunger for change america's indorsement of change has paved the way for the muslim brotherhood to become egypt's strongest political force the international organization is considered to be one of the world's largest islamised movements and mohamed morsi has reportedly called for a constitution that is based on the koran and sharia law in the case of egypt we're taking a piece of the board that was one of our pieces this is why it was one of the strongest american assets in the middle east and for many years we've removed that piece and brought in some people who i do not think will be friendly to us. in this video
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film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate. that. said. the muslim brotherhood has many different factions many different elements they are a political organization but they also have ties to terrorism they're also directly intertwined with what's going on in syria according to the new york times cia officers secretly stationed in turkey are currently working with syria's muslim brotherhood to smuggle automatic rifles grenades and ammunition into the country i didn't work out enough to understand what. you know it would be.
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like you know some of. the syrian opposition seen here waving al-qaeda flanks has received public support from the terrorist network and created what some call a defacto alliance between america and its number one enemy. critics saying america's campaign for regime change comes with the consequence of empowering more radical extreme leaders in the arab world let's not forget that assad and his government is a secular government just as gadhafi is government was a secular government if you get rid of that and you create the power vacuum or another force that is as organized and as strong will take its place continued political instability in cairo has raised questions about the so-called success attributed to the arab spring governments in egypt and libya were toppled with a u.s. stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe
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america could eventually find itself in a circumstance that hardly ever wanted her an important i.r.t. new york. but it was also egypt's presidential election have made well the headlines there are interested to know what you think so to a website called. take part in our ongoing poll what do you think the future holds for our nation was so far just a good thing will become part of the west slightly more than a quarter reckon he'll be a nominal figure in the tree still reigning supreme from four percent to convince that his victory will widen the religious divide egypt and a minority view that was fought for the new president who succeeded create a stable democratic country but if you have not sold you head to our website and have yourself. there nato leaders are to hammer out a response to syria's treating down of a turkish military plane washington has described the act as a brazen and unacceptable while britain says that assad regime will be held
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accountable banker insists the jets was downed in international airspace without warning but damascus maintains it was flying over syrian territory turkey has denied claims the plane was on a spying mission saying it was on a training flight syria responded that its actions were defensive and not aggressive record has already been the case in the rain and see for the search for two missing pilots. john reese from the start walker edition says the incident was most likely an error could yet turn into an international conflict. witnessing the drawing in of the major powers into the conflict in syria but we've seen here in clinton speech warning the russians about the provision of attack helicopters we've seen the british send a ship back supposedly carrying a child it got those from from around the coast of britain back to back to russia and now we see this incursion into syrian airspace by by the turkish air force it
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is of course theoretically possible that what the turks were doing was probing syrian air space to see whether or not they would react in this way i think actually this is probably an error but when international relations become this tense when the diplomatic atmosphere has been has been heightened to this degree such errors become part of a process upon a wider process which is more than accidental which is deliberate and that's the danger in a situation. but inside syria rebels have reported they captured a military base and i mean this in the northern province of aleppo the sixteen soldiers dead after the attack conflict is estimated by united nations to have killed more than ten thousand people since it began last year among them have been a thousand children as artie's were financial reports now from damascus this was a place for these kids boys and girls is at the playground that someone dressed
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them in a minute she uniform hung them with real guns told them what to say and put in front of camera this little girl. maybe five years old and she's almost crying as people behind the camera pushed her and other kids to chant and slogans out of nineteen q it's hard for me sam and. this footage is just one in a series of clips posted online showing the ugly face of war unfolding in the country recent u.n. report says both sides in the syrian conflict the rebels from the free syrian army and the government are using children in their fight but it is the children among the price on demonstrators. four year old or young raising his mother now and this is a microphone the kids carrying not a kalashnikov. ariana's father
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couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache arctic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and he threatened us many times once the road on the house was walled at the time has come then they sent me a symbolic loop then they put the picture of on facebook is promising five hundred thousand syrian pounds to those who bring him to them we couldn't imagine they'll come to our home and not the living and i mean in my as i wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room which and this is where they. smash first there were shootings and they cried a lot darker than i hid under the bed. and then they moved to the school told me a week before his death but she feels you're not finished his exams and even if you don't you'll get a certificate. i am unsure me is eldest son was shot dead on the way to hospital as he was trying to get help to his injured brother little rayyan escaped death only
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because that night he stayed with his grandparents and i was crying because they killed us them i miss him a lot he so wanted to get a good certificate again i would be. the funerals of the two teenagers had been on the guard this is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr a laboratory took us this is where freedom if you're not and then you'll be killed maybe less as they wanted to kill a song like hula and then see this is the government usually valinor not one study group not lose anything that's enough we lost a lot not ready to lose anymore has it been said mctee of about yemen has three more brothers left he has something to lose and this cemetery we found at least eight fresh graves small ones but in the rubble kids are becoming victims of grown up games in this conflict they've been used as human shields they've been forced to take up arms and they've been killed for
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a purpose they barely understand and no one can say for sure how many more will die until a ways found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. we have plenty more stories in store for you at our website dot com including a cruel to be current iraqi police are said to be under orders to shut down numerous foreign and there were media outlets on the pretext of protecting journalists in a country. seat softball to try to stop american jonathan on sunday from making genetically modified maize the kind of new breed of. to get more on the line. there hasn't been a thing yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism on the real world.
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we want to present. something else. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. the anxious wait continues for wiki leaks founder julian the son of ecuador's decision on whether to grant him political asylum having lost his u.k.
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supreme court appeal he's facing extradition to sweden on sex crimes allegations but fears eventually transferred to the u.s. where he could face the death penalty for the king thousands of secrets and meanwhile the final edition of his political show is on tuesday right here on r.t. correspondent sara firth has more. julian a scientist just spent his six nights in the ecuadorian embassy here in london waiting for that all important decision his bid for silence in the country julian assange and his supporters have always maintained that the case against him is politically motivated in that campaign to silence not just a staunch unself but also wiki leaks the spike having spent more than five hundred days detained without charge that hasn't stopped julian assange engine in the time he's posted an insidious show that's been running on our t.v. now and what will be his eleventh and final interview airing tomorrow on nazi julian assange to meet with the man that he despised as giants of the intellectual
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left renowned linguist and rebel thing can be and terry believe the street fighting novelist and military historian interestingly at one point they discussed south america with recall even saying that the most dramatic and important developments of the past decade have happened in south america itself well i think that over the last decade the most significant changes we've seen have comments from south america i mean i visited venezuela bolivia brazil and the mood is just different and many people say it's the first time ever we feel really independent i think this is going to be a huge problem for the united states i mean they're obsessed with the arab oil doing china and now we won't but in south america for. a bit more. the united states is not one of the big questions when he took this
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dramatic step seeking asylum in ecuador was why ecuador why has he chosen a country that itself comes under a large amount of criticism for its human rights record put a lot of people have been quick to point out is that the united kingdom there's always. pitched itself as a strong defender of human rights and certainly in julian assange just case it's supporters would say they haven't lived up to that they are still very much a sense that they let down julian assange in this instant as we await the decision we've seen the ambassador and are all been traveling with the where he met with president of course giving the full briefing over julian assange just case before they make that all important decision well still to come this hour a matter of opinion to report on how somebody would have been roughly more than a few feathers in russia sparking fuz protest.
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arrests have been made in israel those hundreds of protesters gathered outside the prime minister's residence in jerusalem demanding social reform it comes after demonstrations in television saturday but at least eighty five activists were taken into custody after clashes with police journalist and writer yanni says the government is ignoring the people's demands. i think that the protests are needed but i think that what they learned from last year's protests is that the government doesn't really care what the people think the government isn't really going to respond or do anything to change the situation you know our electricity prices went out this winter. i mean to shockingly high are shocked with my bill. so i think that i mean there's a need for a new strategy and i think what we might have seen last night was a manifestation of a new strategy i stumbled upon a meeting at the at the end of last year's protests but not even at the protests at the very very end when the city was going to come and dismantle you know the last
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times there on the show and i stumbled upon a meeting where someone who was sitting on the margin of the grew. at it and it was kind of ignored by the people leading the meeting but he said we need violence you know violence will be the only way to change things i'm not sure that that's the correct answer i don't think things will change if they didn't change after last summer when you know hundreds of thousands went out if you could get maybe a million or two million marching that could change things but i don't think that's going to happen. well some of these and before you know this out to these you know thirty's of extradited the former libyan prime minister rudi making him the first high ranking gadhafi era political figure to be turned to his home country to face trial a sixty seven year old is now in custody facing charges of crimes against the libyan people he's been seen setting a precedent for other countries holding former members of the topple gadhafi regime . madiba via the strike he's
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continuing on the ground can follow forces rejected the deal from a go government unions dispute came to a head on thursday when thousands of officers took over her exposed to the presidential palace burning documents furniture evolved in london. police units have also been. bolton rioting in other major cities forty seven point troops to patrol the streets with fears of a coup. is coming under intense pressure over the sacking of the country's president last week but under lugar was ousted by the senate for his handling of a following this protest seventeen died replaced by deputy. is now facing a political isolation from latin american states banned from coming regional summit several countries have recalled ambassadors while venezuela has cut off oil exports of the affair. now
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modern art is meant to fuel creativity stimulates inspiration and provoke thought and discussion far from winning admiration and number of exhibitions have ignited a wave of furious protests instead of correspondent don't prescribe or explains why there's been such outrage. a small but intensely passionate protest in russia's southern city of cross and are. the crowd blocks the entrance to stop the opening of a modern art exhibition it's called icons and on display our works by contemporary artist made of plastic the last supper is depicted as a tense business meeting while a metal exhibit called trinity has also brought a hostile reaction it's a clash between old and new. items the display is an attempt to make sense of how traditional i can play doing has transformed in the modern world that invokes natural resentment among people who think conservatively. the exhibit in curator
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who was welcomed at the opening by be suspect in the face claims the problem is people's ignorance is exhibited we're not contemporary artists language is often obscure but what differentiates an unsophisticated person from a peasant if the former doesn't understand what he wants to try and learn while an ignoramus simply deny everything however it isn't so much the show itself as the personality of its curator that ignites protests across russia at most exit business he's involved in matter of gilman's name has been synonymous with scandal for you is it the chilliwack this is the man who tries to sell as graffiti in public toilets as art. gilman's previous exhibit that included kissing policeman a crucified jesus christ with the head replaced by the order of lenin and a photo of an orthodox and i can being smashed with an axe have caused widespread
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outrage in russia that i have a degree in art and what he calls art is nothing of the sort it's an abomination and evil game plan to bring a cultural revolution to the central russian city of perm by carrying out a total make over shocked most locals more used to. additional forms of ott little headless red men dotted around the city and other innovations didn't go down well nor did the annual price tag of ninety million rubles or around three million dollars of public money the one now wants to spread what he sees as contemporary art into other promises but faces furious resistance or first notice that we are not against the center for contemporary art in our region but we don't need government here for that if you put a prostitute as a headmaster of a boarding school for young girls be sure within two years they would all become horse races. no matter the amount of protests and controversy in the end all of my
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arguments exhibit do open and attract curious people what's interesting though is that gilman is not alone in promoting contemporary art in russia but no other exhibit heather provoked such an emotive public response in all the six years nina worked at the moscow museum of modern art there wasn't a single scandal within its walls despite many product of the exhibits but the artist breaking boundaries can certainly provoke an biggest reactions it can be to the benefit of modern art but also to its detriment. of a change is in the even the most conservative members of the church have learned by know what before means of is father alex he was the one who spent at mattered at the opening of the show in cross and i'll always look the wrong i came forward as a contemporary artist maybe amateurish but still an artist could go with the experts in the field so my act of spitting fully falls under the definition of performance art. arty. lesser corso with the business.
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news that merging market currencies taking a bit of a hit. absolutely in fact in the last around fourteen percent of their value and all the details in about two minutes but first let's start off with the equity markets and first to asia work trade started about twenty minutes ago and as you can see. europe is in the bread with the foot sea shedding around a quarter percent and germany's dax now losing more than half a percent within the first twenty minutes of trade and here in russia the situation is also not very optimistic as you can see the r.t.s. is now sharing around three quarters of a percent of the my six losses are a bit more modest to but that's following pretty have to last. on friday when the r.t.s. . was down around two percent becoming the worst performing emerging markets and
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now a quick look at some of the biggest movers on the my sex they include the financials mainly v t v as under pressure as you can see also the energy sector including gazprom and bucking the trend is flagship air carrier air flight it's gaining more than one percent on the news that state will keep a golden share during the company's privatization and now on to the asian markets where the nikkei is in the red and the hang sang has followed its sleeve they're both trading in the negative territory this hour and new poll tokyo was seeing seesaw trade it was swinging back and forth but mainly the energy stocks are pushing the nikkei down now wall street was seeing
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a rebound on friday was a pretty good day you're saying friday's closing figures the market there will reopen and a couple of hours the banking sector did quite well mainly thanks to the european central bank saying that it would ease the collateral requirements for the banks to . secure financing from the european central bank and now moving on to the currency markets at the moment the euro is gaining against the dollar as you can see there and the russian ruble is actually gaining to both the euro and the dollar and staying with the exchange rates the currencies of the four emerging economies also known as the brics are posting their biggest declines in about fourteen years that's as investors are fleeing from what they perceive as risky assets and concerns over the eurozone crisis on and on fears of deeper. global recession in less than two months the russian ruble lost about eleven percent of its value while
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the brazilian ryall plunged about twelve percent analysts say the bric turned seas could lose another fifteen percent by the end of the year and now moving on to crude an important indicator of the health of russian equity market and as you can see crude is actually gaining value this monday afternoon and it's trading above eighty dollars a barrel that's speaking of the would have bouts of course still well below the one hundred twenty level russia needs to balance its budget but nonetheless crude is higher but of course the important factor when it comes to crude prices is the pricing formula the russian government uses to calculate the state budget and that's exactly what the cabinet is considering at the moment it's considering changing that formula so that russia would be less dependent on the oil revenues
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that so that it can accumulate a windfall the flawed and try and support the sectors that are not revenue dependent jim o'neill from goldman sachs thinks that's a very good an idea underscoring russia's current robust growth rates. this year it's going to grow between four and five percent which is much higher than any developed country and if it carries on growing it will contribute more to the world this decade than the whole of europe put together i think it would be good for for sure if prices went down because russian news is certainly needs to not be so dependent on the drug of rising oil prices you know russia's got lots of challenges . you know so does everybody else. that was jim o'neill of goldman sachs speaking of russia's dependence on oil revenues and that's all the
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latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see that it's actually thank you and stay with us for an interview with the former egyptian the presidential candidate. for that is back with headlines. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their
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rituals are strict. their communities are isolated. the clearly distinguish between their own and the alien. and guard their family and thing as a treasure. wealthy british style. that's what i'd like. markets why not this scandal why not what's really happening to the global economy with max kaiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our.

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