tv [untitled] June 25, 2012 2:00pm-2:30pm EDT
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moscow calls on israel and the palestinians to resume talks in a bid diverting lasting peace. president clinton continues his middle east to end of the solving conflicts in the region. of iran and so yeah also on the agenda over the telephone in test a few moments in. egypt's newly elected islam is leader mohamed morsi set to form a government but despite celebrations concerns mount over a possible radicalization in. more pain in the eurozone cyprus set to ask for a rescue citing exposure to struggling greece well spain in turn is expecting one hundred billion euros worth of bailout cash. and is the world's top whistleblower
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julian a songe awaits ecuador's decision on whether it will grant him asylum the final edition of his groundbreaking interview show set to air here on r.t. . ten pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story russian president vladimir putin has called on both sides in the israeli palestinian conflict to resume talks to break the stalemate russia also increasing efforts to resolve the conflict in syria and he's tension over iran's nuclear program as putin starts his visit to the middle east the first leg of his tour in israel is where he begins with artie's paul asli are along for the ride. both leaders said that the talks had been frankenfood full and the most significant point made was the point made by the russian president calling on both israelis and palestinians to resume peace
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negotiations the israeli prime minister responded with this close that it was complicated but simple and that word president putin please paulson that message tomorrow tuesday when he meets with the russian when he meets with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas mahmoud abbas in the palestinian city of ramallah now police have also said that the two leaders had discussed syria and the random this comes amid ongoing way critique from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu russia recently hosted the latest international conference that dealt with the question of whether or not iran was building nuclear weapons and indeed that those talks had no breakthrough russia is of the opinion that they can be no attack on iran and certainly that any kind of sanctions do not work. the usefulness of letting me uprooted thank the israelis for the unveiling this morning monday of a morial to the raid all me that was unveiled in the israeli city of the time he
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also said that there's more than one million citizens of the former soviet union who currently reside in israel and he said it was important for russia that they have peace and security now the israeli prime minister spoke about egypt he said that israel respects the democratic process that has been undergone in egypt and in that context was willing to deal with the new egyptian president mohamed morsi in the context of the nine hundred seventy nine israeli egyptian peace treaty certainly must go it has a huge role to play in dealing with the issues in this region it is regarded by all the players as a positive contributor perhaps as we see this growing closer relationship between israel and russia those two might help russia and the united states this relationship which has been waning in. recent months egypt's new president mohamed morsi will start forming a government after promising to strengthen the country's unity morsi managed to beat his rival in the presidential runoff the former prime minister of ousted
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leader well barak u.s. president welcomed the winner and promised further support for egypt's transition to democracy but as artie's marina porton i reports islam is in power will likely raise concern across the atlantic. 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 the egyptian 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 what it was one of the strongest american assets in the middle east and for many years we've removed that
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piece and brought in some people who i do not think will be friendly to us. in this video film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate so that there can no. can do it that he's got a lot of. so that's really. 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 you know down the side of. me you know it would be. only it's not
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a huge world. like you know sort of. the syrian opposition scene here waving alqaeda 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 and 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.
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stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe america could eventually find itself in a circumstance it hardly ever wanted her an important i r t new york. mixing religion and politics isn't the best choice for egypt as the nation needs a secular constitution and parliament so says former presidential candidate. in his interview to r t take a listen. to go to the bottom and believed to be. the fundamental that it was. and that was the big stage that it would usually be just one but the point is that this is. not politics but it's something against the government has to be a civilian. we live in the twenty first century we have loads in our country in the region will have to be doing with all the ways and means that we see. that believe in something else. we need
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a civil state we need more than those that do she need to cool it. with the positives and stop the link between two people to question human rights and put them in the freedoms rights of women all bills this was should be shot in chile in addition to the none is going to see the. you watch the full interview with former presidential front runner in about twenty minutes here on our team. stay with us here on r t still to come a risky business who rolls across the eurozone cyprus becoming the region's state to ask for a bailout while the current seanie needs to find one hundred billion euros of rescue cash for spain by next month. but first turkey says syria has opened fire on another of its planes the country's deputy prime minister says syrian forces attacked a rescue plane that was searching for the wreckage of the jet shot down by syria
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last week on occurrences the fighter was down in international airspace syria claims it was flying over its territory at a low altitude nato leaders will hammer out a response tuesday europe and the u.s. have condemned the action of syria as a brazen and disproportionate meanwhile more than thirty members of the syrian military have reportedly defected to. archy e.u. foreign ministers have also agreed to new sanctions on damascus so anti-war activists say the current tension could spark an international conflict. we are witnessing the drawing in of the major powers into the conflict in in syria we've seen here a 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 was 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 is of
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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 the wider process which is more than accidental which is deliberate and that's the danger in a situation. inside syria human rights activists say around one hundred people are killed each day in fighting between the rebels and pro assad forces most of the victims civilians and u.n. figures about than ten thousand people have died since the conflict started early last year and as the rebels are desperate to try to bring down the regime some say they are using any means available no matter how small parties worry if it ocean reports this was a place for these kids boys and girls is at the playground and someone dressed them
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in a militia uniform hung them with real guns tells them what to say and put in front of camera now 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 to join in their fight. look and see children a month through a son demonstrators. four year old a young is praising his motherland and this is in microphone the kids karine not a kalashnikov. or younes father
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couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache artic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and if he threatened us many times once the rule in my house was well that the time has come then this simply a symbolic loop then they put the picture of on facebook as 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 libyan i mean in my eyes then wanted to prepare for. exams and went to sleep in the living you know what you know and this is where they smash first out they were shootings and they cried a lot darker than i hid under the bed. and then they moved to the school. isn't too many women before his death that he feels you'll not finish his exams and even if he does you'll not get a certificate that's got into sublimated everything he told me once they going to kill me. i'm unsure me is eldest son was shot dead on the way to hospital
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as he was trying to get help to his injured brother little rayyan escaped death only because that night he stayed with his grandparents and i was crying because they killed years and i miss him a lot so wanted to get a good certificate again i would see. the funerals of the two teenagers had been on a guard this is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr. my body tried to kill us this is their freedom and if you're not with them 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 monasteries not lose anything that's enough we lost a lot not ready to lose any more how yet 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
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growing 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 a purpose they barely understand and no one can say for sure how many more will die until always found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. a new victim of the euro zone's financial crisis cyprus set to ask for a ballot citing heavy exposure to greece which was hardest hit in the region it's the fifth state so far within the currency union to ask for a rescue cyprus says it needs the cash to shore up its banks earlier the country's credit rating was named chunk by ratings agency fitch effectively cutting cypresses ability to raise funds on its own fitch said the country would need some four billion euros to get its banking system back on track this monday isn't a calm day for the eurozone greece's newly appointed finance minister rejected the job due to health problems while madrid is formally asked the block for
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a one hundred billion euros to shore up its crisis hit banks who scores are said to be cut further by ratings agency moody's financial adviser mark ropey tripoli believes spain's financial sector is in more trouble than it's letting on. recently did a study about how much the banks would need and came up with a figure about sixty two billion whether that was calculated on a realistic scenario one remains to be see whether more money will be needed it's probable because the situation is deteriorating in spending so that the amount debts will continue to rise at least in the in the near term so yes it's probably a starting point model and an end point not only are the banks reliant on bailouts but that they're also reliant on the e.c.b. for funding i mean many ways into bank funding has dried up some time ago
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in europe and the e.c.b. has become the only source of liquidity for a lot of these a lot of these banks while ecuador mole's the decision of giving julian a songe diplomatic asylum the whistleblower remains in scotstoun the country's london embassy he took refuge there almost a week ago after the u.k. supreme court decided on his extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault charges or accusations sara for his following juliana songes ongoing battle. he's a man he's described as being let down by his own country australia and having exhausted most of his legal options in the u.k. and going battle against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning a first sexual assault allegations and of course the fifth has always been that if extradited to sweden it would be very easy to extradite him across to the u.s. a country that still carries the death penalty for some of the crimes that they've
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accused him of killing innocent and his supporters have always maintained that the case against him is politically motivated and i can paint the silence not just asuncion self but also wiki leaks the revolutionary whistle blowing web site that has hugely embarrassed many western governments in the past now the spike having spent more than five hundred days detained without charge that hasn't stopped julian assange in that time he's hosted an insidious show that's been running on are you know in a previous show we've seen him interviewing the president of ecuador and they seemed to hit it off the president of ecuador telling julian a sound welcome to the club of the persecuted now in what will be his eleventh and final interview airing tomorrow not julian assange to meet with the man that he describes as giants of the intellectual left renowned linguist and rebel thinker
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noam chomsky and believe the street fighting novelist and military historian now during that interview they discussed the new ways of revolutionary movements we've seen taking place around the world in the past couple of years i didn't see it coming i don't think most people saw it coming to your commission of very. inspired activities all of the you moved to the. spring has been very you factions. still going moment different ways don't try. sooner or later there would have to be a popular reaction to the. bitter cliffs were the. crew the generation of it talking about the united states but the phenomena are basically world some are you going to see his eleventh and final interview for his show. i tell you no less controversial and intriguing that we've come to expect
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from the man he founded wiki leaks he many say have revolution allies whistleblower and he once again has the entire eyes of the wells upon him in his own going struggle against extradition. and sarah mentioned you can catch a lot latest and final episode of giuliana songes show on tuesday we've also been following the case against assad since the start you can trace it back on our website r t v dot com as other stories a click away for you right there including this u.k. government reportedly wants to sweep under the carpet of claims of abuse committed by british soldiers at a secret network of illegal prisons in iraq and. russia parades its latest battle hardware at the international forum of engineering technologies two thousand and twelve take a look at our web site. for us minesweepers have arrived in the persian gulf the vital shipping route for the global economy this after an iranian military chief
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said the islamic state might try to block the strait of hormuz to defend its interests alue risk who's an expert on middle east affairs thinks there's a plan behind the move of the u.s. ships to the troubled region. i'm not sure that iraq will go ahead with this idea if things remain as they are right now however if we see some sanctions increased or four or five or harsher sanctions of them. might resort to other tricks by the puppets leave including taking some measures in the strait of hormuz but i think that you can also look at this from another angle president obama has been accused a lot by both the israelis and by the republicans of being too soft on iran and recently along europe senators even sent a letter to obama urging him to make the military option appear more credible it might also be related to some internal factors inside the u.s. and also related to american genuine american fears that israel might go ahead and
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launch unit like full strike so by i think by taking this step as well the american administration might be trying to satisfy israel and keep israel or reassured that it's taking up this situation it's in control and it was here are allowing iran to go to go too far and then in addition to the fact that it is also presenting a credible military option in case things go don't go too well. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe torrential rains triggered a landslide in eastern uganda that struck three villages in a mountainous region scores possibly hundreds are feared dead after their houses were buried the swamp villages are near a major tourist attraction close to the border with kenya landslides are unusual for more than twenty died in a similar incident last august. dozens of anti-government protesters were detained in the pol after clashes with riot police near katmandu airport demonstrators demanded the prime minister resign and tried to block his motorcade as he came home
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from a conference in brazil police tried to quell the crowd by beating them with bamboo buttons and shields at least one protester was badly injured. in india a key suspect allegedly involved in the planning of the deadly mumbai attacks of two thousand aides been arrested. being called the handler of the ten gunmen who carried out the assault which one hundred sixty six were killed the carnage was targeted at luxury hotels the main railway station and a jewish cultural center authorities say they learned of the suspect while interrogating the lone pakistani gunman who survived. time to check in with our business desk. or marina so i was the trading session go the wall street is the only one trading right now and it's basically tracking the losses that we saw in europe as well as russia before it gets that let's take a look at oil prices which considering i had south in fact they're trading month lows and light sweet is now trading under eighty dollars
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a barrel as you can see there seventy nine dollars and twelve cents when it comes to the brundtland it's at ninety dollars and seventy cents. wise's have lost fifteen percent a quarter i should say in the last three months and i don't know speaking for him months of taking from come on it's his information but a price and you explained want is happening with good prices right now and how they could in fact the most an economy. that mombo into. view europe does some of the very healthy as we all know i'm from a supply point of view the market is previews ing enough to account for the ear a neon sign shown effect so the market is really getting affected by the two prongs of that man the week on supply too much those two situations would continue at the point that stores the a.t.m. maybe even the seven people dollar level by most measurements russia may be the largest producer in the world on its budget is set at roughly one hundred fifteen
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dollars per barrel on we are nowhere near that so for russia i think is going to have to make some very painful decisions in the next six few months on those the say shows will have to do with rewriting budgets and seeing what kind of projects he really wants to get involved there. i don't see how the oil price the fact that the russian markets in a second but first let's look at what's happening on wall street as i said that's a sea of red there as well just as it is across the board the dow and the nasdaq are losing over one percent nasdaq has now left the suit boy a percent in negative territory for this hour it's just on the just the launch there and all of this is this point the fact that we've got every board saying that new home sellers are now at its new year high and for the month of may for a movement on soon europe markets are closed in the red as well investors are all mainly focusing on the e.u. summit which will take place later this week and a new leaders are expected to discuss for more fiscal integrity as well as creating
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a banking union and also of course the news about spain didn't help and tomorrow we'll see how they'll be reacting to news about cyprus asking for a bailout for now let's take a look at what happened here in russia as i said c.e.o. right across the board there was no different near the arts yes last about one in the half were said and then my sex lost that one percent and of water there and also of course as i said food prices had a major effect on the russian mark this let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my six banking stocks as well and then we had gas from energy producer near last almost two percent owen wilson up on the company's that its subsidiary gas from that is apparently considering by means twenty five billion dollars stake in seeing to b.p. it's a venture here in the country and when it comes to air it was back in the trend all day long and then there's just a notch higher and that's as we got news that the company will the government will
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retain its golden share three the companies are midsize ation from moving on to currencies and what we know there is that the euro is the losing against the dollar and that's as the dollar strengthens as investors are going away from riskier assets and also we have the ruble at last again against the euro and last sued the dollar in fact the rule. about two and a half percent last week so we see the strength in his return and says the blitz and it's always been played side at least when the cubs against the all right that's it for now that's how business likes the sound alright thank you marina coming up shortly in our interview we get some insight into egypt's hopes and aspirations for its new leader after the headlines stay with us. in the world.
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