tv [untitled] July 31, 2012 7:00am-7:30am EDT
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a u.n. convoy comes under fire and what appears to be a rebel held area in syria this while washington considers injecting money into the opposition. reports say millions of dollars aimed at training locals to maintain security in iraq and restoring afghanistan going to waste as critics attack plans to send us police across unstable regions of the world. and fears of a far right rise in europe's economic gloom as unemployed. violence this against a migrant workers in what were once called the havens of multiculturalism. it
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is a pleasure to have you with us today. life in moscow a u.n. observer mission convoy in syria has come under attack by tanks that's according to the world bodies chief ban ki-moon the incident apparently happened in an opposition held area just outside the flashpoint city of homs meanwhile a u.s. state department spokesperson has said that washington is planning to increase aid on top of a fifteen million dollars package already allocated for the opposition. forces of also called on the foreign supporters to supply them with sophisticated weapons to use against government tanks and. that's all amid continuing clashes in the country's northern city of aleppo where both the rebel forces claim progress but the focus of the battles have now shifted to the syrian commercial hub of the regime troops flushed out rebels from damascus over
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a weekend and as. reports the dust is now slowly starting to settle in the capital . doesn't take much to set syrians off these days on adj and on a 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 fourfold in the last few months so one of pro-government and your attempting to distribute fuel at prewar prices it found itself overwhelmed by the demand because of all of these. special circumstances that happened there lately people maybe get more nervous of course people had similar difficulties to
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get their supplies no no no it's everything is just getting better life is slowly returning to the capital as are the thousands of people who fled the turmoil there in the past but what they find in their 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 the lab and billion dollars and still counting that's almost seventy percent of the country's annual budget you can argue about who's 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 it 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 that record structure will be meanwhile some are already starting to lose patience
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muhammad a flower trader has returned home to find only three of his cars burned out used to calm himself among supporters of the cover. but now his loyalties are uncertain but there is really i don't support the opposition i want to live here look 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 you know 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 the hasn't finished high school and one only wants us to finish bashar ourselves enough of him in addition to political differences the conflict in syria is also generational the young want to hide while the old struggle to find cover and their only goal was to drink syria into chaos everything was fine but now
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it's only getting worse. 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 than the boy who are reporting from damascus in syria and in the meantime i russia's foreign ministry has accused some media outlets of helping the syrian rebels to achieve their goals political analyst dr ashraf says it's a well planned tactic of manipulation. it's part of the psychological warfare that the newspapers in washington and new york times washington post is filled with reports and comments urging the devil's tools to be a ready to govern and the warden. for example to use chemical. war
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. facility is. urging them to respect the minorities as if but shout it as that is going to model but frankly i have some newspapers which dates as back as june two thousand and eleven which predicted the imminence of our bashar the fall. these are part of the psychological warfare. foreign intervention is something that moscow is trying to prevent when it comes to the situation ongoing in syria and we caught up with russia's a human rights envoy constantine dollar golf who says today a healthy political process is possible only when changes come from within has a preview of what's to come for you next hour. it is definitely different where. certain transformations certain political changes being pushed from the
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outside then it's a different picture and. we keep reiterating that it's not only russia's view there. you cannot bring about democracy from. democracy to become the result. of certain internal processes. now u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is already making plans for when syria's president assad is ousted from power he said it's crucial for stability after regime change to keep. the country's military intact and not repeat the mistakes that america made after invading iraq that the army was disbanded by 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 train iraqi police has all gone to waste the u.s. is now preparing to send hundreds of its own police all across the world to help
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locals handle security dr blaser from antiwar dot com believes the plan is more about control and enrichment rather than any issues of 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 . 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 waste for but it puts money in the pockets of really rich military industrial complex. organizations and corporations. and afghanistan is another drain for american taxpayers' money and their infrastructure restoration is falling far behind chad juline costing much more than originally estimated the u.s. is training local forces but must decisions from the ranks hunting efforts to maintain stability and list jason ditz attributes this to corrupt authorities and poorly planned spending in afghanistan we've got the same problems we have an iraq but we also have the problems of government corruption being much worse throwing money at it with very little idea where it's going to go or if those programs are going to be successful is is just a recipe for that money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing
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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 is 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. in the program including that of investigating a discovery. of mystery hundreds of recently found russian woods. illegal human experiments. are just routine. in a row of protests in california for an investigation into police after a spate of shootings by. two people.
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thank you for joining us here on our to today as i europe's economic downturn deepens and spreads so to two fears a full scale social unrest fueled by far right ideas already in some countries business people who have moved from abroad have suffered violence from angry jobless who blame migrants for their problems reporting from germany aussies praeter all of. 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 pete and those were cute boy in such a use and the tax would be hands of local youths on a moment by police every time we called the police and the police came every time we called them but until now they haven't found anyone they threaten to kill us and
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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 a rise in 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 and the fascist campaign as a warning that jus to europe's current financial predicament we could see a similar rise again our d.
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is a problem i think today we have facing developments in the i would parts of the germany a lack of jobs leads to helplessness and despair which are the main ingredients the trend is young handsome flour right ideology but 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 only part of this problem of 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 n p d 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 only don't loiter our message to young people who come to our seminars is that it's not the kabab center who is your enemy but rather the politicians who are at the wheel of the country however those words won't reopen mohammed's pizzeria his isn't the only
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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 use throwing rocks through my windows. as even germany's robust economy starts to really feel the pinch of the eurozone crisis there are concerns that we could see a third the rise in social problems in the country areas. peter all over r.t. jenny. and over in the united states it seems more people are losing their homes or struggling also in a difficult economy are coming up this hour in about sixteen minutes time max kaiser he takes a look at the country's mortgage crisis and the very important role that wall street's been playing at. so after seizing the mortgage condemning it and seizing it the city then they claim will pay a fair market value to the owner of the mortgage which in the most cases is the
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securitization trust which were already these are all filled with fraud already so they're going to seize these. ask the sioux asked the cherokee as do you these tribes are still waiting for the land that the us government promised one hundred fifty years ago we got through you we'll go call mother they probably give it to him now it's completely destroyed you know they're not going to make good on this stuff they're just getting the last bit of counseling possibly can of the pockets out of the couches sitting behind the course of these people's houses of god wall street small doesn't know the backing plate or trying to suck up that last nickel i don't have to go. oh it was reported a few minutes away here not say if another human fetus is discovered in barrels in a russian forest last week dumped bear by a state institution squatting to police leading an investigation into the scandal
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employees of the your rolls state medical academy say such disposal was regular the truckload of bio material thrown away in the woods in may. thomas who's been following the shocking discovery has an explanation. police have tracked down the car that they say was responsible for dumping these fetuses in the woods a fetus is 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 from outside 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 a late term fetus and in russia 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
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investigation they were saying this could have been used for legal research or 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 theories to rest at this time. thomas reporting right there you can follow the developments in this dramatic story on our web site is where we have even more for you including only. people with a good sense of humor that's what a female called a performance. but not everybody agrees with three of them under way on charges of motivated by religious hatred we've got the latest on that line.
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plus a work literally of biblical proportions find out how a host of poets writers and musicians have written their own version of the by. twenty past here in moscow we'll get to the world update shortly for now though protesters in california 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 ninth consecutive day they want the state's top attorney to examine the incidents involving the anaheim police department at least nine protesters were arrested on monday run as a community organizer believes the town security apparatus is simply rotten to the
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core. just this year alone there's been eight killings but and i'm pleased to apartment most of those of people who are unarmed like what just happened 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 you know they don't have any political representation and they feel that the police department really use you know racial profiling and retaliate against them so that's why we saw the community. i mean mothers well you know what strollers all kinds of people from the community coming out is only one activist or 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 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
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in their community who are just a moment on daniel with the business for now the world update as promised will start with julian assange ecuador has asked the swedish government to question the wiki leaks founder in the south american countries embassy in london all of this over fears about his health he's been holed up there for six weeks trying to avoid extradition to stockholm that's where he's wanted over sex allegations which he denies assad his mother christine is currently in ecuador to urge the country's leaders to grant her son political asylum saying he's under extreme psychological stress and silence fears sweden extradite him to the u.s. where he could be charged with espionage over a massive leak of classified american documents. a massive blackout has hit in the first second day running leaving around half of the population without power they had been why did spread fail in the north and east affecting about six hundred million people on monday the electricity supply grid collapsed for several hours
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before being restored only to fail again it's caused travel chaos bringing delhi's metro to a standstill while there are reports that hundreds of workers have been trapped in a mine following the power company. 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 they face life in prison if convicted us drug and. foresman officers alerted authorities to the plot almost well now it's almost one year ago. as promised off to a new bushel and daniel apple's been dubbed a dictatorship first i phone prices do tell us more russia's top mobile carrier m.t.s. says the firm's forcing thousand dollar price tag on it and other strict conditions being arrogant with your partners in big markets doesn't pay off. vice president
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chinese made small phone calls just one hundred eighty eight dollars to make at experts. firing some things cheaper a new galaxy recently over to the world's most popular phone faces big problems when it finally joins the w t o aug twenty third it's short of civil servants to defend the country's rights in the trade body ortiz tests are still explains. russia's journey towards accession to the world trade organization are. a long and arduous to say the least eighteen years in the making that. time finally comes but now that it had almost gotten there it still finds itself well equipped for the changes that this will bring for starters they still need about three hundred civil servants and several hundred to several thousand. lawyers and economists who are trained in. laws mainly to be able to defend. on the world stage now to fill the shortage find itself having to hire foreign specialists and
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if it wants to train its own it will take another two years and some nine million euros about twenty to thirty thousand euros for each specialist that it wants to train abroad how do you foresee the. voices from say that there are possible especially regarding industries that have long enjoyed protectionist measures from the russian state. that. has every right to impose penalties on russia. duties will certainly be costly for russia now some russian officials say the problem goes all the way back to the. others also say that it will be very hard to convince very educated russia. to become a civil servants of. the country after eighteen years again of preparation their only choice is to cram in order to feel that they have right now
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. to discuss. results out today the euro has been off and on all the currencies all day traders all twitchy ahead of a key e.c.b. meeting this week now u.s. u.b.s. shares have slipped four percent more p.p. profit is dell ninety six percent after writing down five billion dollars in assets unemployment misleads hit a record ten point eight percent bringing the total out of work to almost two point eight million euro zone average is now also a record eleven point two percent protestors have blamed brussels for forcing job cuts in the euro crisis one in five greeks and one in four spaniards are unemployed
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get italy's premier monti said today he sees the light at the end of the tunnel for the euro. top bank is suing them for gross mishandling of facebook's i.p.o. u.b.s. says nasdaq malfunctions left it with more facebook stock and hundreds of millions of dollars in losses facebook shares of nosedive thirty nine percent on reports they misled potential investors over future earnings that makes it the worst performing big i.p.o. in a decade and drop today we'll have more for you next week all right. just a moment on the headlines and that will be backed up by the kaiser report hope to see you in just.
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