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top story this hour at least ninety three people have been killed in a wave of blast in iraq in the bloodiest day in the country has seen this year the violence mostly targeted security forces and follows a warning from the new al qaeda leader in the country that the terrorist group is returning to its former strongholds there he also threatened the u.s. with attacks or mideast correspondent paula slayer has the latest. this is the most deadly attack in at least to go in iraq it follows a day yesterday that saw some seventeen people killed now we're hearing from a security personnel spokesperson that the target of these attacks is predominantly security and iraqi police it comes just days off to a warning by the veto that you may run. gaiety that he would be retaking strongholds that had been those day he would be pushing out the united states and its allies in an audio recording that was posted online he said and i'm quoting and

he was referring here to the united states you will see here dean at the heart of your country since war has only just begun now these latest developments in iraq are parallel to what we seeing unfolding in syria but it is interesting that the mainstream media is largely choosing not to report on iraq to the extent that is it is reporting on developments in syria so the questions being are still firstly why is iraq not in the headlines to the extent that there really is and secondly when you look at talk currently on the table about whether or not there should be any kind of interference any kind of whiston outside interference in syria it simply raises abalos particularly if we look at what has happened in iraq where there was an occupation for at least a decade today in iraq we see chaos we see constance triumph we see a death toll that is constantly on the increase and concern is being raised whether or not the same kind of somalia might eventually play out in syria. mark almond professor of international relations at bill kant university in turkey has warned

of a grim freight for the region if the iraq invasion of iraq i should say is repeated in syria. if international intervention came to syria it would have the same critics had been iraq to for a smoke free it's going to follow a divided society a very complex society into chaos and it opens the pandora's box to these radical groups who don't have too much focus support for the car bombs that are intimidation to try to carve out what they see as a truly a mentalist islamic state medical center and against other muslims and also the christian will know that americans sadly in iraq the christians for instance are virtually disappeared as of course because of the violence. we american invasion into very seriously in the country along with lebanon in the middle east that have a substantial christian population but there is a risk that they would be told it could so we would have religious perhaps ethnic

cleansing as well as a religious civil war between muslims and i think that is the most dangerous for the region because there's no will because boundary to where that really just civil war between shiites and sunnis were going. well in syria government forces claim to have regained control of damascus suburbs crushing the rebels' most daring offensive on the country's capital since unrest began it's now the city of aleppo that's very in the brunt of the conflict with fierce clashes between the army and opposition are running for days now i just act on a boy who is in syria explains the shifting dynamics of the fighting. arts he was one of the few if not the only four in the crew that was able to travel to the last in three months ago and from what we've seen there i can tell you that he's a very peculiar case for this whole syrian struggle no where you can see the kind of virgins of the genuine democratic movement and pure criminal activity so that

the as in on one hand a leper is home to a major university so a lot of people you meet there are liberally minded intellectuals they oftentimes disagree with the policies of bashar al assad many of them call on him to step down but at the same time they strongly object the use of kalashnikovs who are any political gains they don't want that democracy to be delivered through these very bloody conflicts through these very bloody struggle on the other hand aleppo is home to many militia groups this is probably because it's far more closer to the north and to the turkish border that is used to supply all those arms and in aleppo you hear a lot of stories a lot of cases of industrial terrorism where shops and factories for sat on fire simply because their owners refused to pay the so-called revolutionary tax that the free syrian army attempted to impose on local businesses there are also

a lot of cases of kidnappings and those kidnappings are carried out not so much for political aims or goals but rather simply for ransom so it is indeed a very important strategic location for both the army and the opposition and the battle for aleppo will be very important in determining the balance of power of the distribution of forces in these seventeen month long syrian conflict. now the rebels themselves describe their offensive on aleppo as an operation to liberate the city but editor of the independent media channel syria tribune says that claim is a fanciful one to liberate the city from its own people that's what they need and i actually saw fire for the past fifteen months and it will have nothing but great support to the syrian government but the president. this was manifested by huge rallies several times. the issue the idea of the opposition shield

repeatedly to demonstrate in the city to sure they are their size in peaceful demonstrations or. battles and they diverted to recruiting others from other areas and have them circulate the area in the countryside but not inside the city so far . well our correspondents are on the ground in syria and keeping you up to date on what's really happening in the conflict torn country via their twitter feeds hard to lock down the boy we heard from just a bit earlier describing life in damascus and how it's starting to get back to normal but also pointing out of this still an impression that there are more than in the syrian capital you can follow her firsthand accounts underscore.

social networks like facebook and twitter see many users posting their entire lives online sharing stories and pictures of course with friends but it seems even the strictest online privacy settings are no match for the spying eyes of governments around the world from new york here's our tease porton i'm in the land of social media users tweet tag. friends upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests

for user data filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the u.s. government the micro message company says it complied with seventy five percent of user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitoring this is the way in which they're consolidating control in the past year u.s. judges have forced twitter to turn over private or deleted data on users as part of investigations related to wiki leaks or occupy wall street. the ruling according to reports allows prosecutors access to tweets and additional information stored by twitter including the e-mail and i p address of a user it's more of more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online at

a recent conference called how cars on planet earth former national security agent william binney detailed the demise of u.s. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by washington for more than a decade it was the right thing to do for the weekend. to decide to begin with. you are one of the many spent thirty seven years working for the n.s.a. before resigning to blow the whistle on what he calls the creation of an orwellian state. or for the areas. that we see that we think is. true. at the high. of his career binney served as technical director for n.s.a. as m group a branch that was reportedly responsible for eavesdropping on the world today he estimates that the n.s.a. has secretly compiled and stored more than twenty trillion files of e-mails phone

calls and other data belonging to u.s. citizens when it comes to social media he says even users with the strictest security settings are not protected the reality of that is that that's not private at all if the companies don't have the government doesn't have it so either of them have it where they share with the unobstructed sharing of information is what's made half of billion people flock to social media sites like twitter but missing from the terms of agreement is the monitoring that can be taking place as citizens are bursting their short messages into the virtual world we're in important i.r.t. new york. plenty more to come through this hour including a look at the devastating impact of the rich or provide desperation takes over the other is really set on fire critics suicide in protest at the height of the living and his government's policy. for get more desperate the

rich get richer the world's super wealthy may be hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars in offshore accounts that's according to the latest study all the details in the business bulletin in just a few minutes. now scenes of violence have become common for debt ridden europe where m.t.l. sturdy anger is spilling onto the streets but now it's milk that's being spilled the tactic by farmers who say that food industry giants are creaming off the profits from their produce it's been done just outside the european parliament as our tests are sillier reports. i know farmers have sprayed their fields with millions of readers of milk in protest stormed any peace in strasbourg. that year after year they feel sometimes their voices are not heard when those policies i do notice abandon them for they feel they have no choice but to take their voices all the way to ruffle. quite literally as hundreds of farmers from across europe

tractors and cow statues in tow protested against dropping milk prices and were lobbying lawmakers to take their interests into account in reforming policy yeah that's probably a supermarket that they. are saying. how low the price will be it's the big supermarket chains one day banking and energy giants the next day well critics say those who end up getting their way the end are almost always the big guys with deep pockets commission as a whole consults much more with big corporate interests than with all other kinds of interests in society they lead to very unbalanced decisions that are not serving the public interest in a recent report found that in the e.u. commission straight enterprise department expert groups that give crucial policy shaping advice are made up mainly of corporate representatives while farmers for

example have a tiny zero point one percent share of the voice i and they hope this adds a bit of volume to their cause in the moccasin it's always a good idea. whatever a proposal you have to come to brussels and to organize a protest if you if you do it of course in a peaceful way but instead the sign of the democratic health but one of the biggest corporate lobbies in the e.u. finds no fault in business as usual a decision or a. legislation which is sort of biased black or white into either totally environmental or totally corporate interests not exist yet these people would certainly disagree they say in the end it's hardly ever the people who persistently take to the streets that run the real show. does or so you r.t. brussels. don't forget all the stories we cover are always available for you what

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free. free. free. free. free. free. free. video for your media. free media r.t. dot com. a look now at some of the world headlines this hour here on r t in the u.s. anaheim police have reportedly shot an unarmed man the second case of its kind in the city over the last few days it follows demonstrations against the fatal

shooting of another on our man last saturday the incident led to a violent clashes between police and the public with officers using rubber bullets an investigation is under way while two policemen have been placed on paid leave the. protests have been held against the arrival of twelve osprey hybrid aircraft a u.s. marine base in japan it's again provoked tensions over the u.s. military presence in the country they all spray has suffered a number of crashes raising concerns over its safety record the surveys have so that seventy one percent of the people in okinawa prefer chair are opposed to the hosting of the u.s. base. i had a gap army veteran and social justice protester has set himself alight in israel it's the second such incident of the fifth attempt in a week with the previous one coinciding with mass rallies against government policies yale how bosie who is a public housing activists and

a regular at demonstrations says the leadership is ignoring its citizens' cries for help. i think what people are feeling is despair and this is what people are trying to say to our government. people are dying here every week people are committing suicide they do it in their homes they're doing it far away from our but this happens here all the time people are not dying here of hunger but they are dying of despair binyamin. throughout his political career has always had a new liberal economic view which is pro privatization which is the whole idea is that poor people have to handle themselves. and this is what we have seen and throughout his career so i am not surprised that binyamin netanyahu is not answering us very quickly i am surprised that our minister of housing does not

understand that either he gives real solutions to people or he should resign from this government. our focus has shifted from social turmoil to political problems in israel with the conflict that's lasted for decades debated in peter the veldts course. i am palestinian my parents were born there my grandparents are buried there my great grandparents are buried there i would like you to tell me why you a new york born white jewish man with no apparent. personal family ties beginning with your parents and going for why do you feel you have more rights than i do to live in that land or my parents who can't even step foot there. just answer that question. more.

crossfire coming up but first let's get the latest from the business desk question though enjoying the premier meeting his russian counterpart in moscow to talk business i understand exactly and considering russia's special relationship with this predecessor silvio berlusconi it will be really interesting to see if the business climate between the two countries stays as warm monty's in russia with this first official visit he's meeting president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitry medvedev to discuss business projects with the focus of the energy sector let's cross live to business parties might of course remember the details why that's a busy day some deals have already been signed phillis sent. all the talk shows is that mario monti has actually already reaffirmed his commitment to maintain the warm relationship that. the established previously years and of course you mentioned deals that have been lost song i'd already would know about it so these banks would lead to

a hundred and seventy million euros that's to russia and that's to run the bait moskos or superstructure we also know that when it comes to north pole and it's at least taking the will also work on developing a soulful plan to run the day to that and that's in russia's foreign north when it comes to its release and the embroils enough to have are all the financial details to about the deal and oil reserves and that's in the black and barren sea and now with bond they have confirmation about an investment deal worth a one billion euros in two russians will talk assist resorts and that's why it's holly and developer the air force it's really is a very important partner for russia last year by a lot of increase by a quarter to forty six billion dollars loss almost to pre-crisis levels and we're still expecting mario monti and a lot of your pizza would have to say about the euro zone which is of course affecting everyone. right now and then all the european markets are plummeting today so it's a better day than any to discuss what was your conscience to do to maintain and

secure they all of these but i'll leave that so you in that soft sell us what's happening with the markets absolutely thanks a lot to business artie's one of the course of reporting from the center of moscow the world's a super rich hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars in offshore havens according to a report by a former mckenzie economist that's the size of the us and china's economies combined it also implies the unpaid tax revenues of up to two hundred eighty billion dollars and let's now move on to see what's going on on the equity markets first to europe and the picture there certainly not pretty an avalanche of bad news is bringing equities the sharply down pressure on spain's government ones is sending me to the highest level since the founding of the euro zone banking including the world bank of scotland and has b.c. weighing on the footsie and of course all of that is really putting pressure on the

european currency and what you see there is that you're always sliding against the u.s. dollar at the moment and the russian ruble is also shedding value to the currency basket and in fact to the of the the euro is trading at eleven year low against the japanese yen on the russian equity market at the moment what we're seeing there is also a sea of red and the r.t.s. at the moment is losing three and three quarters of a percent and of course now moving on the what we're also see is. as i mentioned sharp losses on the equity markets and some of the biggest movers on the my six at the moment include the t.d. bank and drop more on that next hour what we're also seeing is capital outflow for a third month in a row. russian related funds are losing more than eighty one million dollars grant and the w t i also shedding value major losses almost three percent each

for both of the benchmarks this hour and in fact they are recovering slightly the losses were even deeper earlier on. and. who are futures are actually trading at a record highs in fact they ended a lot. of record highs as the drought in the united states really devastated the crops the organization for economic development says high food prices are here to stay regardless of the weather in fact you can expect to pay twenty percent more for your average meal over the next decade economists say boosting productivity is the only solution. tom morton has been figuring out how to achieve this. we're talking about the future of food so what precisely have i decided to come to a chicken farm well if you want an insight into the future of food in the coming

decades you could do a lot worse than come to a place like this the o.e.c.d. and the food and agriculture organization have published an outlook of the future of the world food market in the next ten years the main themes of that report supply and demand sounds boring but both of those on the go major changes first of all demand the world's population is still increasing combine that with the vast increases in wealth in the developing world people across asia and elsewhere want more food and more meat in their diets because they can afford it that's where chicken comes in it's easy to produce in vost quantities and a lot of efficiency has gone into it that means that it's going to make up a lot more of people's diets up to perhaps thirty percent along with other food sources that people want more of going on to supply there simply isn't enough land in the world anymore that means. people are going to have to increase productivity on the land that already exists the overall conclusions of the reports are that the

demand for higher quality food more meta things in people's diets means that it's simply going to have to get more expensive. and it is going to have to get more expensive just one we thought it was expensive an awful lot of doom and gloom here at the business desk this hour but we'll be back with an update in fifty mass hopefully something changes for the better back to you all right thanks for that natasha we'll see about. coming up here in archie it's the headlines stay with.

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