tv [untitled] July 29, 2012 8:00am-8:30am EDT
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the madrid. making many. of the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me rule. in syria the unfolding battle for the commercial capital aleppo has now turned into the focal point of the sixteen month long conflict government forces are pushing to reclaim the country's largest city from the rebels who control nearly half of its neighborhoods three million people live in aleppo many are now fleeing all amid international fears of a massacre by russians accused of fueling the bloodshed in the rebels to fight.
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the political leaders of the insurgency are calling for intervention and shipments of heavy weapons from abroad and revelations in the media this week. a secret base in turkey and the head of the syrian media one of them certainly. the country is reaching the crux of the regional power struggle. the u.s. seems to have finally understood that it will not have a clean clean clear success in syria and if it decides to intervene it will ruin the whole country on the way and that's why it's leaving the dirty work to do its local proxies so dearie turkey seemed to like the idea of middle east controlled by the muslim brotherhood which they can control easily thinking that this is their battle it seems gives them the privileged. that's what they think nothing allows them to do so this is against international
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law this is against every concept of neighboring countries so they think it's ok for them and they think they will get away with it and that's why they act this way and the question is are they going to get away with it. now most members of the largest diaspora in syria iraqis the war at home nine years ago and settled in the country with new hopes but many are being forced to flee from violence once again in order to return to their homeland r.t. talks on a boy their grievances they fled their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in the place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees but almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently even before their while and broke out in syria the residents of the napa neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war for the past decade based area has become what thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest
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community here iraqis who sought to escape the us waged war in that country and now have to flee yet again at this bus station iraqi destinations have never been in such high demand as now just several dozen residents of this area were shot or be had in the past two weeks. many are scrambling to leave when mohammed who arrived here with his family in two thousand and three is also packing i've never come across such security is in syria and such a government is in syria it's a good state a good nation but the rebels come here with weapons to destroy our homes and we have no idea why the residents accuse the rebels of terrorizing their community extorting money or kidnapping for ransom while there are regions of the gangs on known many here believe it's a fighting alongside the free syrian army. the usa
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is not an independent nation because its government does not hear what its people are saying because whichever country it invades it destroys america invaded iraq libya egypt and yemen and has not brought peace to any of them now after nine years iraq still can't produce enough electricity for a whole day only for an hour or two. they say it is enough is one of the most important share shrines as it is believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter just a year ago it was inundated with bill grams but after several worshippers lost their lives in a suicide bombing it is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in syria may also be driven by sick terror and division most iraqis a shia mosque travel's a sunni a year's base shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources and see. thousands of shia muslims are in danger of massacred by the free syrian army
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and groups affiliated with them she writes watch has learned from many shia muslims living in the area that the free syrian army has threatened to massacre all the shia in the area unless they flee yet not everybody is scary the way. a sunni syrian and an m a share iraqi have been neighbors and friends for seventy. years ever since the killing of animals has been forced here to leave iraq they say we want freedom what freedom do you want in syria mosques they have girls with their heads covered and girls with their heads uncovered you have christians sunni's in shiites they say they want freedom but is this the way to treat your country when you want freedom but iraqis know better than anyone else how relentless and how damaging the foreign quest for freedom could be next on the boycott r t reporting from damascus in syria and we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow where still to come in the program catching
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a glimpse of the killing in syria. get back to occupies the media now it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff tourists flock to the israeli occupied golan heights to get a peek of the deadly action across the border those details coming your way just a just a few minutes on. plus a police in central russia still have no clue as to why hundreds of human embryos were found dumped in a forest ravine earlier this week. on friday saudi arabia unleashed its police on protesters who had been demanding reforms and an end to discrimination activists say around fourteen demonstrators were injured after officers used tear gas and live ammunition a number of people or so detained earlier this month the saudi government had to the point troops to the country's all rich eastern province which is mostly populated by shia muslims they've been finding their anger at the sunni royal family that massive arrests of political activists silencing the opposition has
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also been taking place in the united arab emirates and bahrain where rallies were banned after more than a year of clashes activist hussain abdullah says the events in bahrain and saudi arabia showed the west uses the term democracy only when it refers to nations that are not its allies. the uprising in. as shown. clear the standard in the u.s. foreign policy toward the country is going through the arab spring or the democracy movement while they support some countries that. lead syria. and the best libya because we don't you know this is not like. the best way to change this it was a genius to use the democracy however people in bahrain and people so maybe and people in yemen calling basically for the same rights self-determination of free
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and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those these especially. so the arabian because those countries or those governments are considered an ally so somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people and bluejeans that incident allied to the united states who are supporting the government that is oppressing the. past they are here in moscow are the mother of wiki leaks founder julian assange she's in ecuador to urge the country's leaders to grant her son political asylum there was a blower has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six weeks now seeking to avoid extradition to sweden where he's a accused of sex crimes fears after being sent to stockholm he could eventually end up being sent to america and charged with espionage however this week ecuador offered swedish authorities the chance to question the wiki leaks chief and its embassy its legal adviser says the possibility provides some hope for that was from
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. hours ago because. julian assange made a choice not to go to sweden because he knew in sweden he would be put in prison. not given bail and that it was more likely than not in fact my view is american lawyer for julian assange on that it was almost one hundred percent that he was going to be indicted and extradited to the united states never getting out of prison so the fact that he might be able to do what he has been demanding for almost two years which is to be question in london about these allegations would be a major step it's our hope that when julian gets an opportunity under the circumstances that sweden questions him that he would be exonerated of these allegations and that would be the end of it he should feel wrong first of all that the united states is going after him that you know i'm a man who should be protected by our constitution and the first amendment why if the united states gets its hands on would be put into an underground prison and
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treated cruelly like bradley manning was treated the man who allegedly got access to the documents so he's obviously very worried about that situation and very angry that the united states is wanting to suppress what probably one of the major truth tellers in the world today. it's good to have you with us on this sunday here on r t anger has been growing in london with a number of empty seats at olympic events supposedly that have been sold out and investigation is underway how corporate sponsors are exactly not turning up where the tickets were supposed to have them it's putting a damper on the high spirits following the breathtaking opening ceremony of the queen was at the heart of the action when she teamed up with double zero seven to make a stunning appearance at the stratford stadium and officially announced the start of the games sixty thousand spectators were enjoying a spectacle a peaceful mass bike ride nearby was cut short by police officers reportedly used
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pepper spray as they're arrested over one hundred cycling activists when scuffles broke out and as artie's laura smith reports they are not the only locals who suffered from restrictions and other olympic side effects. it's been seven years in the making and the greatest show on earth is finally in london but no everyone's please this circus has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange for travelex londoners fleeing their city in true people are saying specifically that they want to avoid the olympics you know they look at the streets and they look at the congestion and they look at the charges that there might be particular on the london area so they have taken the decision to go earlier a third of people traveling this summer will head off during the games but for those who stay behind it will be a television only affair millions ended up disappointed in the public lottery to get tickets and it's recently been revealed that hundreds of thousands of tickets
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returned by foreign olympic committees are being privately sold to corporate sponsors it's provoked outrage but not surprised a lot of tickets have gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate. backers in general is an inevitable result of the way they're going. is it done primarily for the interests of the rich in the olympics i'm afraid just the epitome of some of the worst things in the world the removal of resources from poor people and giving it to rich people parents trap a station that can be no doubt what's going on the whole place is branded london twenty twelve i'm also surrounded by massive billboards on every building there's an advertisement for one of the main corporate sponsors b.m.w. lloyds t.s.b. but over here is the stratford that always was struck. it's full of independent traders who have come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich corporates
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local stallholders aren't allowed to capitalize on this world class event in their home town edict from the brand police mean they can't even use words like a limp pick summer or gold in their advertising any games related merchandise must be official and according to stall holder daryl that's not easy it's too much of a risk we review small businesses we call open an account with huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know it's very small business i would love so but. it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games side with the corporate monster is such that it's giving negativity to the games itself which is just so what's a low people a bit upset and not particularly positive to the games is really to see structure
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with being covered and coated with corporate sponsorship so from that point of view i don't like it despite the much vaunted olympic spirit it turns out the greatest show on earth isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back and watch the olympics cash race in london as the. three things up because of special olympic traffic lanes and their commuter trains grinds to a halt as they route the day the games picked their city the first thing i did. was send an e-mail to one of my good friends in paris and congratulations. artie. now spain is suffering from an unprecedented double dip recession with no signs the euro zone's fourth biggest economy is managing to weather the financial storm unemployment figures have reached a new record highs with almost every one in four out of work the international monetary fund has warned that spain needs even more reform despite the fact
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previous austerity measures have hit the public very hard and mass protest movement has taken root in the country similar to what was seen in greece the demonstrations reflecting public anger at the cuts being imposed on them in order to win and rescue this comes as athens has reportedly met almost all of the austerity demanded on it in order to secure its financial lifeline pensions and wages are now being targeted to find the final one and a half billion euros of savings financial adviser marco pretty poorly believes that helping banks instead of the people is ruining the prospects for recovery. the situation is deteriorating they have this massive property bubble which is bust. massive amount of austerity measures the whole economy has imploded and you've got very very high levels of unemployment and people will take them out on the street easy yes because the more that many civil unrest the more that detracts from
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external investment more but it. means that companies hold back making investment decisions and decisions about the future. is it unfair. for the banks to mean assisted when the business is not yes it is. even many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing. our only economies and implementing austerity is that seems to me i'm equal balance in the economy when banks have been helped massively but the rest the economy. isn't to some extent things than the market has already priced in. spain is on the. banks will need and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. this is r.t. as always we have plenty for you in store and dot com including a match made in space after
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a failed first attempt and days of breathless expectation online to find spectacular footage of the most anticipated docking of russia's progress more jewel at the international space to. russia siberia still stricken by wildfires timeline of the disaster plus the latest updates also available for you at r.t. dot com. on the bridge too far have a look here at chinese truck driver gets slapped with a fine that equals thirty thousand years worth of his salary find out online just how he intends to pay for breaking that bridge. police are probing whether illegal and medical research is behind the shocking discovery of hundreds of human embryos in
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a forest in central russia they were found dumped in barrels on monday and could have been taken from a local medical university by a former employee but as sean thomas reports some health experts extreme terrorists . a picturesque meadow in russia's urals at first seemingly serene but an unfortunate encounter for one outdoorsman reveals a scene far more disturbing i discovered the girls while i was out there fishing and i went to get some wood for the camp fire which i found the barrels and i thought i would take them home but when i looked inside i saw many little babies medical waste in total two hundred forty eight fetuses each around half the size of an adult human hand some tagged with surnames and identification numbers discarded in a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of you katherina berg in some cases the remains spilled on to the ground. inspecting the scene we found a total of four barrels fifty to seventy leeches each filled with human fetuses
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police will investigate this incident the materials found will be examined at the lab the mystery of the discovery in the woods and how it got there has sent a shockwave around the world but one main focus for investigators is where the fetuses came from in the first place in russia abortion isn't legal only up until the twelve week mark and early evidence in this case shows that these fetuses were terminated between twenty two and twenty six weeks russian law states that women can only have an abortion during this time period for medical emergency reasons now investigators must find out why there were so many late term abortions in such a relatively small area was there something deeply sinister going on such as an illegal abortion operation and why were they discarded so carelessly. human tissue is classified as hazardous waste and as such it should be incinerated when disposed of properly the group responsible for this in this area says they don't use the
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types of containers that were found and now new theories are starting to emerge that almost play out like a science fiction thriller. it may sound a bit fantastical but these fetuses could have been the productive cloning despite its universal ban and that's why they were thrown out like that since these were not future human beings but half human half artificial creatures it's a very daring theory if you just as could have been thrown out and purpose to create scandal and tract attention maybe attract attention to the ban and cloning humans or to abortions people with the sight of these fetuses but skeptics say this scenario is unlikely considering the fetuses were found in formaldehyde rendering them useless for this type of research now the health ministry has requested information from all clinics within one hundred kilometer radius hoping to find answers to a story that has left a community perplexed sean thomas r t r us go straight to the ivory coast now to crank up the aussie while the paid for your west african leaders are dropping to
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the un security council of requests for military intervention in mali that's according to ivory coast's president is currently in a state of turbulence after a military coup in march an interim president has been sworn in however the government faces intense pressure from al-qaeda linked militant groups that have managed to seize control of the country's north. a referendum in romania is currently underway on whether to impeach incumbent president try and. was accused of exceeding as authorities meddling in government affairs he has already been suspended by the country's lawmakers but now the move has to be baked by more than one half of the country's population also just a process who enjoys the support of only a third of romanians but experts say the referendum a stove likely to fail due to low turnout and a political crisis has put brussels on high alert with e.u. leaders voicing deep concern on the matter as. police in tajikistan have reportedly
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uncovered a potential terrorist plot to blow up a dam in the country's border region with afghanistan it comes to light during a major operation to hunt down a former warlord accused of killing a senior security official the crackdown of so far claimed the lives of at least seventeen soldiers and thirty militants all of your stance border crossings with afghanistan have been sealed to prevent militants from crossing into the country. where israel's on increased alert over a possible spillover of the violence from syria and the israeli occupied golan heights just across the border from the fighting but amid the fears there are also those cashing in with tour guides bringing visitors flocking to get a memorable shot from a safe distance his artie's paulus leah. up close and personal you don't get basic ringside seats in this this is the israeli syrian border and it's now also
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the latest israeli tryst attraction feels good to be able to get close to it a little bit and besides seeing only the items on television i was actually thrilled to come here today into syria to realize that with only a few kilometers and that country unfortunately there are hundreds of people being killed every day it's the perfect spot it seems for war boy is keen on getting a glimpse of syrians killing each other from a safe vantage point the only hard way they carry binoculars and cameras rely on our armed forces that they are. of the situation and take all the precautions in them so i feel i feel very safe you see both his family to see where he fought against the syrians nearly fifty years ago the border areas which could erupt again as the free syrian army takes on assad forces near israel but for now it's good business and tour guides are making a killing it's really something that you want to see some oh i know it's war in
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order might not be pleasant but there is an attraction to see the thing that actually occupies the media now it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff the fog was sparked when israeli defense minister who came to see for himself what was going on. here in the border with real fighting in syria and you can hear the moans and sprawling here we are one kilometer from the border. cotton couldn't wait to get her jewish parents fled syria in the early fifty's for this visit is a dream come true it's like the promotion because my parents keep there and they told me that they leave bury. all the people and that's why we went to some two groups are now thinking of including the syrian on race. they may be day
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. if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be. casualties of war ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has. been a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what does their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. many.
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