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the. u.n. convoy comes under fire and what appears to be a rebel held area in syria while washington considers injecting pots of money into the opposition. press reports say millions of dollars aimed at training locals to maintain security in iraq and restoring infrastructure not gonna stand on going to waste as critics attack plans to send us police across unstable regions of the world. fears of a far right rise in europe's economic gloom as an employed a torrent a neo nazi ism and violence against migrant workers and what we once called havens of multiculturalism.
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this is r t where on screen all mine twenty four hours a day seven days a week i'm karen tara well a new and observer mission convoy in syria has come under attack by tanks according to the world body chief ban ki-moon the incident apparently happened in an opposition held area outside the flashpoint city of holmes meanwhile a u.s. state department spokesperson said washington is planning to increase aid on top of a fifteen million dollars package already allocated for the opposition anti assad forces have also called on their foreign supporters to supply them with sophisticated weapons to use against government tanks and aircraft that's amid continuing clashes in the country's northern city of aleppo where both the army and rebel forces claim progress the focus of the battles have shifted to the syrian
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commercial hub after of troops flushed out rebels from damascus over a week ago on a boy reports the dust is now slowly settling in the capital. it doesn't take much to set syrians off these days on average and on the very tight budget residents of damascus are now trying to reclaim the basics they used to take for granted. rising may have started with political protests but now they're starting to morph into riots economically life is getting harder for ordinary syrians but the rebels targeting supply trucks the price of a gallon of gas has risen four fold in the last few months so when the pro-government and your attempted to distribute fuel at prewar prices it found itself overwhelmed by the demand because all of these. special circumstances that happened lately people maybe get more nervous of course people
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had similar difficulties to get their supplies no no everything is just getting better life is slowly returning to the capital as are the thousands of people who fled the term all there in the past three weeks but what defined in the neighborhoods is unlikely to instill much confidence in either of the warring parties the damage inflicted by the clashes to the syrian infrastructure is already asked to made it at their lab billion dollars and still counting that's almost seventy percent of the country's annual budget you can argue about who is to blame for all this destruction but it's certainly a very high price to pay for any sort of struggle whether it is for democracy or stability and no matter who emerges the winner syrians have already lost the government has promised to help the rebuilding but the scale of destruction and the already flagging economy that's the question of just how fast and how efficient
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that's record struction will be meanwhile some already starting to lose patience mohamed a flower trader has returned home to find all three of his cars burned out he used to calm himself among supporters of the gover. but now his loyalties are uncertain because i don't support the opposition i want to live here like my father and grandfather but if the government can provide us with peace and security either i have to move to another country or the government needs to go. he's not somebody who would trade he's implements for a rifle but in his neighborhood youngsters are already being radicalized this police car was set on fire by the rebels the charred remains of an officer still inside only says all government sympathizers deserve such a death star wars for a fifteen year old who hasn't finished high school yet. all i want is to finish bashar i served enough of him in addition to political differences the conflict in syria is also generational the young want to fire while the old struggle to find
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cover. their only goal is to drag syria into chaos everything was fine now it's only getting worse. both the army and the rebels claim they're fighting for a better life but the majority of civilians trapped in between shudder at the thought of how much worse it's going to get before it gets any better because of the boycott artsy reporting from damascus in syria russia's foreign ministry has accused some media outlets of helping the syrian rebels to achieve their goals political analyst dr yumi says it's a well planned manipulation tactic. it's part of the psychological warfare that the newspapers in washington and new york times washington post is filled with reports and common urging the rebels to to be ready to govern and the warden. for example to use chemical. war.
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facility is. respected minorities as if by shuttle as it is going tomorrow but frankly i have some newspapers which dates as bad as june two thousand and eleven which predicted the imminence of our bashar the fall. vs are part of the psychological warfare. foreign intervention is something moscow is trying to prevent when it comes to the situation in syria r.t. caught up with russia's human rights envoy constantine who says a healthy political process is possible only when changes come from within here's a preview of what's to come later this hour. it is definitely different. when. certain groups are made of certain political changes being pushed for.
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them it's a different picture and. we keep reiterating that it's not only russia if you have that you could not bring your bow democracy from the old. democracy used to become the result. of sort of internal processes. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is already making plans for months here for when syria's president assad is ousted from power he says it's crucial for stability after regime change to keep the country's military intact and not repeat the mistakes america made after invading iraq there the army was disbanded of by the u.s. led forces setting loose tens of thousands of militants and now a fresh report says that over two hundred million dollars spent by washington to
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train iraqi police have gone to waste the u.s. is preparing to send hundreds of its own police across the world to help locals handle security john glaser from antiwar dot com believes the plan is more about control and enrichment and regional stability. but normally is this being wasted on a population that doesn't want to intervening but it's also going to what has happened already is that we've propped up this security apparatus in iraq which is has no respect for human rights at all the obama administration had been pressing the maliki government to try and maintain some contingency force there that could have been anywhere from ten thousand to thirty thousand and when the iraqis said no . the washington wasn't happy about it they're going to try and keep it as big as possible and as simple as possible because otherwise iraq gets outside of our sphere of influence and that is the last thing that washington wants we spend currently. about as much as the rest of the world combined on our military
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six times more than china the next so so much of what we do is wasteful but it puts money in the pockets of really rich military industrial complex or organizations and corporations afghanistan is another drain for american taxpayers' money there and for a structure restoration is falling far behind schedule and costing much more than originally estimated the u.s. is training local forces but massive to surface from the ranks are hurting efforts to maintain stability analyst adjacent it attributes this to corrupt authorities and poorly planned spending. in afghanistan we've got the same problems we have the interact but we also have the problems of government corruption being much worse throwing money at it with very little idea where it's
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going to go or if those programs are going to be successful is it is just a recipe for that money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs that just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war isn't going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider if that program is even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted plenty more stories are still ahead for you later this hour quoting investigating a horrific discovery wait till deeper into the mystery of hundreds of fetuses recently found.
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headlines to come as a report on our. air with r t it's thirteen minutes past the hour and as europe's economic downturn deepens and spreads so too do fears of a full scale social on roust fueled by a far out idea it's already in some countries business people who've moved from abroad have suffered violence from angry jobless who blame migrants for their problems artist peter oliver reports from germany. this sleepy town in saxony seems idyllic however even here right wing extremists have made life hell for people who came to this country to set up businesses mohammed came to this town in the east of germany from pakistan to open a pizzeria and those working for him sort of abuse and tax the people hands of local view on him about police over every time we call the police and the police
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came every time we called them but until now they haven't found anyone and they threaten to kill us and now we have a real fear that we cannot continue like this anymore the pizzeria is now closed after the last attack in early may mohammed explained to me how a group aged between eighteen and twenty five gathered outside the shop near closing time they broke windows and taunted the terrified staff telling them to go home a small explosive device was detonated which fortunately didn't cause any injuries but means the pizzeria is having to undergo an expensive refit. right wing violence on the streets of germany the country saw you go. rising extremist violence after reunification in one thousand eight hundred nine followed by an economic slump in the east which caused people to look to the far right anti fascist campaign as a warning that jus to europe's current financial predicament we could see
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a similar rise again these are problematic today we have facing developments in the out parts of the germany a lack of jobs leads to helplessness and despair which are the main ingredients the trend is young handsome fly right ideology. there is a belief among activists down the issue of right wing extremism is being ignored by large numbers of the german people. education is in that part of this problem with the need citing as a how to pay more attention to it that there needs to be more options for cultural integration especially for young people germany's far right national democratic party or in p d that faced calls for them to be banned from politics the n.p.t. say that they are vehemently opposed to any organization carrying out violent attacks and are working with young people to try and educate them i mean don't loiter our message to young people who come to our seminars and that is that it's not the kabab center who is your enemy but rather the politicians who are at the
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wheel of the country however those words won't reopen mohammed's pizzeria is isn't the only business in this town to face this type of attack but. i came here seven years ago from vietnam and i've been targeted twice he used throwing rocks through my windows but by his even germany's robust economy starts to really feel the pinch of the eurozone crisis there are concerns that he would say the riots and social problems in the country areas. be too all over our city jenny. cover and the us it seems more people are losing their homes struggling in a difficult economy coming up. in thirty g.m.t. max kaiser looks at the country's mortgage crisis and wall street's role in it. so after seizing the mortgage condemning it and seizing it the city then they claim
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will pay a fair market value to the owner of the mortgage which in the most cases is the securitization trust which were already these are all filled with fraud already so they're going to seize these. trusts the suv the cherokee as going to these tribes are still waiting for the learn that the u.s. government promised one hundred fifty years ago we're going to do you we'll go call the other they probably give it to him now it's completely destroyed you know they're not going to make good on the stuff they're just getting the last bit of the cowardly possibly the pockets out of the couches the sitting behind the cushions of these people's houses you've got wall street smart as you know the vacuum cleaner trying to suck out that last nickel i was asked to go. human fetuses discovered and barrels and a russian forest last week were dumped there by a state institution according to police leading a criminal investigation into the scandal employees of the rolls state medical
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academy say such disposal was regular but a truckload of bio material thrown away in the woods in may thomas who's been following this shocking discovery explains police have tracked down the car that they say was responsible for dumping these fetuses in the woods of fetuses were supposed to be incinerated because they are classified as class b. bio medical waste as all human tissue is and as such they should be incinerated but in this case because they were wet and soaked in formaldehyde the company decided well it would just be too difficult in this case and so they decided to dump it in the woods these fetuses were all between twenty two and twenty six weeks which is late term fetus and. it's illegal to have an abortion past this stage only in the case of a medical emergency so it doesn't answer the question as why all of these fetuses two hundred forty eight of them were passed this point early on in the investigation they were saying this could have been used for legal research or
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possibly for rejuvenation type experiments illegal stem cell research as well and then we even heard the possibility of illegal human cloning experiments that had gone bad which is why they were dumped in the forest so that there was no trace of where they came from also again still the possibility of an illegal abortion operation happening in the area and trying to cover that up as well so still some more investigation needs to happen but we can put some of those more free theories to rest at this time you can follow the developments on this dramatic story right on our web site where we have even more in lined up for. a joke for people with a good sense of humor that's what the female punk band accused tannic down. in moscow stop orthodox church and called their actions their trial and the city and not everyone agrees with them we keep an eye on the story. plus a work literally of biblical proportions find out how
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a host of poets writers and musicians have rewritten their own version of the bible . download the. publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to any time. protesters in california are demanding an investigation into police over a spate of shootings by officers in which two people died over a week ago demonstrators took to the streets for the night consecutive day and want the state's top attorney to examine the incident involving me and police department at least nine protesters were arrested on monday. a community organizer believes that the town security apparatus is rotten to the core. just this year alone
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there's been eight killings by the end and police department most of those of people who are unarmed will just have been this last week so the people are tired this is not something this is not one one case this is really a systematic problem that's been happening for generations in anaheim in a city where more than half of the population there is latino fifty three percent of the population is like the you know they don't have any political representation and they feel that the police department really use you know racial profiling every challenge against them so that's why we saw the community i mean mothers you know with strollers all kinds of people from the community coming out these aren't even activists they're just people who are completely fed up with the treatment they receive from the police and in response we now see the famous video where the police you know sick dogs on people they shot them with rubber bullets these are women and children who were not activists they weren't anarchists they want people trying to cause problems they were simply just denouncing the brutality that the police use against their people in their community. now to some international news
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in brief ecuador has asked the swedish government to question wiki leaks founder julian assange in the south american countries embassy in london amid worries over for his health he's been holed up there for six weeks trying to avoid extradition to stockholm where he's wanted over sex allegations of course which he denies his mother christine is in ecuador to urge the country's leaders to grant her son political asylum saying he's under extreme psychological stress a songe fear suite and will extradite him to the u.s. where he could be charged with espionage over a massive leak of classified american files on the internet. the ministry was the. electricity power crisis has sparked a violent protest in various cities across pakistan including the capital islamabad crowds attacked government buildings and started fires and demonstration against one company which supplies three million customers pakistan's government has come
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under serious criticism over claims it didn't do enough to prevent the shortage on monday three hundred million people in india were also left without power for several hours following a blackout. police in sydney have seized over five hundred million us dollars worth of drugs smuggled into the country and a shipment of terra cotta pots the hoard included heroin and the largest haul of crystal meth ever discovered in australia seven people have been arrested and face life in prison if convicted u.s. drug enforcement officers alerted authorities to the plot almost a year ago. and facebook's failed i.p.o. brings another casualty don't know what story switzerland's biggest bank is suing the nasdaq for quote gross mishandling of facebook's infamous share listing u.s.b. says nasdaq malfunctions in the opening hours of trade left it with more facebook
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stock and a three hundred fifty seven million dollar loss facebook shares have nosedive thirty nine percent since they listed on reports they misled potential investors over future earnings that makes it the worst performing big i.p.o. in a decade u.b.s. shares sliding five percent on that news b.p. profit plunged ninety six percent of the writing down five billion dollars in assets including u.s. shale deposits asia has just closed off of the japan's jobless rate in june to four point three percent. in five days for the minus six as the price of was it's russia's main export the euro has raised the games to the green but this group will also retreating and russia's hit an unexpected snag ahead of joining the w t o in the next month the country's desperately short of civil servants to fight the country's corner as well t.t.s. also reports. now russia's journey towards accession to the world trade organization has been a long and arduous to say the least eighteen years in the making that also means
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years to prepare for when the time finally comes but now that it had almost gotten there it's still finds itself not well equipped for the changes that this will bring for starters they still need about three hundred civil servants and from several hundred to several thousand specialists especially lawyers and economists who are trained in trade policy and laws mainly to be able to defend russia's interests on the world stage now to fill the shortage find itself having to hire a foreign a specialist and if it wants to train its own it will take another two years and some nine million euros that's twenty to thirty thousand euros for each specialist that it wants to train abroad and having the specialists is especially crucial for russia is there already voices from geneva say that there are possible disputes especially regarding industries that have long enjoyed protectionist measures from the russian state should russia lose any of these disputes the country that had filed the complaint has every right to impose penalties on russia and this could be
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in the form of export duties will certainly be costly for russia now some russian officials say the problem goes all the way back to the education system and others also say that it will be very hard to convince very educated russian lawyers and economists to become a civil servant that's a problem they will have to address within the country but in the after eighteen years again of preparation their only choice is to cram in order to fill that shortage that they have right now. is central. to. inflation six percent. of. the country. by the end of the year. more phoenix though all right thanks for that update danielle. and a few minutes we take
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