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as you point out st. wiki leaks promises groundbreaking revelations as it starts releasing two million e-mails sent by syrian politicians and western companies. the british prime minister is slammed by athens after he proposes blocking greeks and people from weaker euro zone nations from entering the u.k. . didn't suggest britain should be looking through its own banking scandal before posting judgment on all those moves remain in london in just a moment. and europeans are handling their parliaments just as going to reject the controversial anti piracy act which spread widely condemned for violating internet freedom.
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is three pm in moscow twelve noon in london you're watching r.t. this is our top story and wiki leaks has started publishing two million e-mails sent by syrian politicians and companies working within them from august two thousand and six till march this year and the whistleblower promises groundbreaking stories compromising both the syrian regime and western firm for going to go live to london to speak to r.t. sarah firth in a few minutes to stay with us as the story continues to develop meanwhile athens has lashed out against the british prime minister over his remarks the u.k. could restrict greeks from entering the country the move could also target citizens of other struggling eurozone nations now often said london should be looking closer to home to solve its own financial trouble laura smith reports. there's been speculation about waves of immigration from not just greece but from other
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economies that are struggling at the moment david cameron in response to that said that britain could potentially close its doors to immigration from these struggling eurozone countries including greece he was under pressure really to say there was a lot of speculation about these kind of migrant issues and he said if the borders came under unusual stress then the legal position was that britain could take action and close down those borders greece has responded. it was the it was the path or part of one of the parties in the leading coalition at the moment that said that david cameron should look to his own house he should keep his own house in order before commenting on these issues the greeks are referring there to this scandal that's recently broken about barclays bank rigging these interbank lending rates making them seem much more favorable than they were the greeks say that he shouldn't rattle the markets in the euro zone with talk of restricting immigration
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he should in fact look to barclays and the banking sector here in this country and get that in order for before he does the greeks of course are already feeling humiliated by the fact that they have to rely on the european bailouts to keep their economy afloat and so of course they react very strongly to any comment like this david cameron has to be very careful here because the u.k. is not part of the year is in so any comment he makes of this nature looks like somebody who's just on the outside looking in david cameron again is under increasing pressure internally to set up a referendum on whether britain whether the u.k. should remain a part of the about a month ago he really stepped in there attracting a lot of negative commentary from euro zone leaders who said that he is blaming the eurozone for britain's own economic troubles of course although britain isn't part of the euro zone it is deeply depends. it only here is a for its own economic stability to greece have said that he's talking about
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policing measures that violate all the principles in the freedom within it and the rule of the century of the e.u. and also that comments like this damage the trust that is really essential for keeping the year anything together underneath that can stand says but lawyer george cut the gallows says david cameron's proposal is offensive and evil i think a everybody would be insulted because these words are. what really stupid demagogic statement and i'm referring to what we use make the demo good shit because the prime minister knows that if you scan through the european know what he has said the every movement of people is one of the fundamental reforms with the european union it is another the disclosure laws in the states to grow keep it the movement of citizens of other european states to his third story according to me i mean there's a bizarre slate want to they're going to produce a key fields because of the good and the problems that you're getting now confronts
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this or that see the danger is you not only going to see but i think also the commission should speak legal action because i suspect i would just mention this is one of the fundamentals of the european union if we do not cover the movement of people this is of course going to go to the european union we are feeling a deep sentiment of national humiliation exactly because we are doing the last leg citizens or second or of them this is not something we cannot stand anymore. well it's not all doom and gloom for europeans at least it's internet users as we report shortly as mass protests against the controversial anti-piracy treaty or act to persuade e.u. lawmakers to scrap it. and corporate greed comes under fire on independence day in the u.s. as the occupy movement sweeps through philadelphia. back to our top story now and
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we cue leaks beginning to release syrian cables to telling the dealings of politicians and companies working with them let's not get the latest on this developing story from our tease sorry earth she joins us live from london sorry what kind of revelations are we talking about here what's expected. well i imagine there's going to be some very anxious people in the syrian government right now more than two million emails are in wiki leaks possession and they're going to be released in chunks over the coming weeks now the message from julian a song was this isn't about criticizing one group or another wiki leaks saying that this isn't only embarrassing for the syrian government but also for the west western companies how they say one thing and do another but yet the message from julian assange really was that this isn't about criticizing one particular clique it's about looking now and a workings about what's going on behind the scenes in this conflict and it's only
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by understanding this that he says that we can hope to resolve the conflict so that was a sort of message there from the wiki leaks founder of course this is the latest that we've had as he's fighting against the extradition to sweden which owing no by. the founder of the front line and also you actually had julian assange staying in your home state thank you very much for joining us i want to give it about the media's role in this story because obviously you've seen a lot of criticism and backlash against julian assange and yet the same people and the same media that were criticizing him and now going to be covering this story for the next couple of weeks is going to be the headline you say i mean sort of double standards going on i think. i think there are double standards i think julian has somehow tried. a territory adjourn the sixth. and journalism is resentful of that to an extent that's partly what's happening in my view and so you see these shrill comments against you but you know when i run
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a major club in this something very club like about journalism. these people feel that they have the right to patrol the information and they actually do very little to promote journalism's ethics outside the profession so there's a sort of professional competition going home oh. and i think that it's it's rather unfortunate i think history will be very critical of this because ultimately journalism fails in its task its task is not just to protect itself you can even either look at julian assange as a bomb villain with a white cat or a robin hood and the press if they want to be balanced need to be doing both of these but too often and there's only a token disbursements to fairness and balance and frankly it takes no courage to reinforce public sentiment against a man julian assange who's running. what he believes to be his life you very much
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for that both certainly it is another big skate for wiki leaks and i think it really puts the focus back on why this fight why do you assign just fight and why the fight for wiki leaks indeed is so important we've spoken a lot of times to christian have been sent he's described now as a second public face and i think really the emphasis is always been on the fact that you know wiki leaks does operate without julian assange and it's not just about these big stories in the big story surrounding the man himself but you know the most important thing is the information that wiki leaks provides and we've seen once again with the syria files that just bought an important service that provides that artists are a furthur according live from london. let's now turn to events inside syria the you want to observe our mission chief says violence on the ground has reached unprecedented levels major general robert mood has warned that bloodshed must be stopped before the monitors can resume their operations which were suspended more than two weeks ago due to safety concerns now the opposition claims
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the city of homs has come under heavy shelling by the program forces a lot of splosion some heavy gunfire have been reported and while diplomats and politicians are struggling to find ways to contain the escalating violence in the country were generally people there are simply trying to survive and such as bombs and. bullets that threaten their livelihoods but also soaring prices and the lack of basic goods caffein of reports the conflict in syria that is now being called a civil war there was more bloodshed and killing in syria today the newest massacre in syria well bullets and body bags may lead to news headlines on syria but death is not the only toll of this war ordinary citizens who haven't picked sides in this conflict now live in daily fear for their lives and now they're also paying dearly with their livelihoods prices for food everything are very highly under growing crisis. if you do
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a hard now serious currency has lost more than half of its value since the fighting began it used to cost about forty seven syrian pounds to buy one u.s. dollar before the war one hundred pounds for a dollar one year later this inflation unfortunately is only set to get worse with the government now printing more cash just to stay afloat now was once a pillar of syria's economy but an embargo has cut revenues for the government by nearly one third now those sanctions may have been aimed at the government but of course it is ordinary syrians who are now paying at the pump four thousand that's about sixty dollars used to be enough for a month but now you need twice as much as possible to find i spend hours waiting for and it's not just fuel for cars that's difficult to come by a single tank of cooking gas can now eat up about house of the average syrians monthly paycheck and that's huge and with shortages spreading across the country even those supplies are guaranteed. a few weeks in for a week and still have
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a few we want to live we want to eat but we have no this is how we have to live there's no other choice now according to the united nations more than one point four million syrians are already at risk for hunger and those who still have access to food are finding that prices are soaring out of. their reach let me show you what i mean when it comes to the average syrian a carton of eggs used to cost about one hundred and ten syrian pounds before the war after the uprising that amount of money is enough for just two eggs that take sugar for example the price of a bath like this has tripled in cost them out of money one used to spend on it now by about this amount and even stable food like rice i mean this is a really common food in syria probably enough to feed a small family for about a week like this has doubled the cost now when it comes to the arab spring the cost of food and fuel has played a critical role as prices rose so did anger in arab nations the same holds true in
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syria were simply surviving and making ends meet as now a daily battle in the end the price of bread may prove to be a bigger obstacle to peace than a loaded gun for our team and lucy catherine of and moscow well the road to peace in syria is blocked by the burden of sanctions that are fueling the conflict from grass roots so says the country's minister of domestic trade an opposition member and qadri jamil feels it's nothing more than have pock recy from the west. over. syria if you like difficult situation in social and economic terms it has been isolated which primarily hurts the people of syria rather than the assad government therefore the attitude of the west in isolating syria is pure hypocrisy . and their claim that the embargo is damaging the assad regime is on substantiated we believe that once we manage to bring about national reconciliation and restore unity we will be able to end the blockade the way it has happened time and again
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throughout history both in syria and in other parts of the world. for. them as the full interview in just over an hour here on r.t. . but europe's internet users welcomed the e.u. parliament decision to reject a controversial anti piracy treaty act which is an international trade agreement is aimed at preventing large scale intellectual property theft critics claim the treaty with threatened people's web freedom outside the e.u. actor has been signed by the us canada japan and several other countries i call it kevin owen talk to those k. from the pirate party u.k. he says the reaction by the e.u. parliament is historic victory for citizens over lobbyist. despite the wild claims that the copyright lobby is there was no actual proper evidence to show that act
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was going to help anyone either in terms of jobs or in terms of growth for the economy ok the question for europe at the moment as it stands do you think we'll ever be a pan global set of rules coming into place i think what's really clear is that it was a fundamental mistake to try and mix so many different things together but also equally it's a fundamental mistake to try and negotiate such a treaty behind closed doors but it also without countries like russia india and china. typical of our western countries to we can just push some things through. there is a school of thought that today that x. is being turned in europe where piracy is going to be encouraged is one step forward is it a free for all no in your eyes no not at all i think it's worth remembering what the many objections to act were was essentially setting up
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a surveillance system of turning turning your internet service provider into a copyright but it was not just about intellectual property also. like a medicine some form to get a warning that to get the facts the ability of developing nations to access a portable generic drug so this is a tremendous victory against actually. damaging agreements. well there are no online restrictions whatsoever on our website here are some of the stories worth checking out there right now the strong arm of the law in the west bank human rights groups head out israeli soldiers call it pushing a nine year old palestinian boy to the ground before kicking him read all about it online. and all three arrested members of an anti kremlin punk group have gone on hunger strike and it was push them towards such
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a move and watch the videos some of their most outlandish performances that's at r t dot com. occupiers from across the u.s. have returned in full force to philadelphia where they held a mass demo on independence day the protests against corporate greed inequality and debt began over the weekend dozens were arrested after it was met with heavy police presence. reports. the occupy movement together here in philadelphia on the fourth of july was certainly a symbolic move the area is widely known as the cradle of liberty where the necklace and if independence was first read aloud the u.s. constitution was adopted and as occupiers here in philadelphia went about exercising their rights at least two people were arrested one of them because police wouldn't let him cross a certain line with the sign over all that was heavy police presence but the gathering was very peaceful so far u.s. authorities have a big thank you occupiers from all of their camping locations all across the
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country and those were largely very peaceful protests more than seven thousand people have been arrested since the beginning of the movement last fall many of those demonstrators were charged and still face trial one of them malcolm harris who was arrested in new york the judge demanded twitter to hand over his wit's end user information on the fires took it as a message whatever you say may well be used against you may be a scary tactics too many now might be aware of speaking their mind freely online and there's many goals and demands of the occupy movement and in covering it's clear that what they want is a society that is economically just and where there's a quality where people under the law are held to the same standards that banks would not get away with debt and get bailed out and people would be told that they have to pay debt they would not get bailed out economic injustice the cozy
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relationship between big businesses and the government those are some of the things that they're focusing on one thing is clear that is too many people in the u.s. are unhappy with business as usual washington but most of them don't take to the streets there in silent protest they support neither of the candidates and say they feel money has more power in washington than their voices i'm going to check on in philadelphia. coming up in a few minutes the per. this is high but the methods question. if you're a terrorist and if you're smart you wipe your laptop before you cross and you have a dummy account so that no one will ever access your mail. israel's time border control puts many harmless stories straight back on a plane home but can fail to spot a terrorist who report shortly. let's have a look at some world news in brief for you this hour a final report into the handling of the nuclear crisis at the fukushima plant last
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year has been released by japan's part of the map the findings claim both the government and the plant operator failed to take measures to avoid the disaster the company says there was nothing it could have done against the huge tsunami wave massive criticism and angry protests broke out following the accident which led to all nuclear plants being shut down in the country although recently one reactor has been switched back on. independent tunisian body tasked with reforming the country's media has resigned because the inside of government censorship in distant from a sham for holding its activities it was created following the ousting of president ben ali and has spent the past year drafting a new press code to guarantee freedom of speech and independence of media with the country over regional revolutions in the name of democracy were born. another huge protest in peru has seen one person killed and one of its leaders
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beaten and detained it comes just a day after three people died in clashes between police and demonstrators are a multi-billion dollar mining project financed by u.s. based company opponents claim it will harm the area's ecosystem for water supplies and fail to bring local economic benefits. the tourist may be flocking to the holy lands from all over the word. but the spiritual journey of some of them comes to an abrupt end at passport control that's right israeli airport security is being accused of overstepping its authority by demanding access to people's private data in an attempt to prevent terrorists from sneaking into the country or choose paul slayer reports. they come in the millions to touch the hoody now and many of the frustrated seeing little more than the airport instead of touching the holy land they are brushed by a port security and sent home with them goes a large slice of the country's tourism sandra tamale from illinois in the united
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states was one of the disappointed i headed my passport over and the woman looked at me and what is your father's name what is your grandfather's name and when i told her she asked to have a spy in the waiting room sandra tomar we kept that seat warm for all was in that time she was interrogated seven times and then the question became focused on my e-mail and what i thought of you and i to mail account and when i refused to block my g. mail account that's the i c h o b hiding something it's i was asked very plainly are you a terrorist and i didn't know whether it's serious for a lot of israeli airport security was as serious as it could be they didn't believe her story of coming to visit family and taking part in an interfaith conference they also knew she'd been involved in campaigns calling for boycotts and disinvestment from israel. a day later she was on
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a plane back to the united states. sandra's experience is not unique there are many more who have suffered in the same way it appears this experience could be merely the tip of the iceberg this is way beyond anything it's like asking you to go back home and open your safe. see what's there they can find your contact list they can find out where where are your plans where are you heading to everything but the think is that if you're a terrorist and if you're smart you wipe of a laptop before you cross and you have a dummy account so that no one will ever access your mail but saying let's focus on the beauty of it all but also remember aware of the problem two operators are telling potential tourists what to say during a board we encourage all of our groups to sure.
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don't. go in only we're through the worst work but deleting facebook profiles from setting up fake email addresses doesn't touch on legal questions there certainly is no basis in law whatsoever for them to be asking people for their passwords and usernames and entering their g. mail accounts i find it incredibly difficult to believe that they had obtained a warrant for any of these searches. and so i think it would be very difficult to find a basis in israeli law for this kind of search israel strictness follows a series of run ins with international activists in recent years hundreds of propellers sitting in demonstrators was stopped from flying into the country recently as israel tightens its grip on who can and cannot step foot in the holy land police here r.t. tel aviv. time of check in with daniel at the business das just minutes ago to the european central banks due to cut rates to historic lows for only so we expect
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a quarter point cut point seven percent to twenty minutes from now it comes on even the growth driver germany has hit a. couple told off the e.c.b. should have acted earlier. it's not going to make that much difference it's a psychological boost if anything but the markets are pretty well priced in a twenty five basis point rate cut now. i would have thought they should have cut already last month and then followed up with another cut this month but the euro's low against the dollar after fairly heavy losses as well yesterday the ruble is losing some of yesterday's gains here in moscow the footsie is rising though off to the bank of england agreed to pump another fifty billion pounds to kick start the economy a few minutes ago asia ended flat on a slow trading session as investors waited on those rate decisions today and a criminal investigation has been opened in the failed spanish linda bank here and what role to who is chairman till it went bust in may the judge is looking into
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claims he most of known as bank years miss when he notes an i.p.o. last year traders of lost three quarters of their money off to the lender revised twenty level endings from a three hundred million euro profit to a four billion euro last drop to the news in interviews on the website daniel thanks for that. and staying with the financial had lines the rest of the hour the kaiser report is coming up for you after a short break and how times. wealthy
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