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if you. are from steve. stanton please don't come. with fierce battles raging in the syrian civil conflict the u.s. is making suggestions as to how the country's future should be built without president assad. another example of u.s. post-war planning a new report says washington has wasted millions of dollars training iraqi police in a program which turned out to be a complete failure. plus after two years of trying to talk with julian assange sweden rejects without explanation an offer from ecuador to interview the wiki leaks editor inside its london embassy. as europe has been going ahead with its banking reform russia stock markets for the first five sessions with the r.t.s.
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m i six declining one and a half percent more on this important. worldwide news around the clock this is r.t. live with me rory sushi the u.n. says it's observer mission in syria has come under attack in an opposition held area just outside the flashpoint city of homs officials have confirmed their convoy was hit by small arms fire now although the civil standoff is continuing in syria foreign powers may be getting ahead of themselves about the outcome of the u.s. and increasing its support for the rebels washington is now making suggestions as to what a post assad syria should look like pentagon chief leon panetta says that when the regime falls the country's military should remain intact but as
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a boy who reports from damascus many syrians feel they are being left unprotected in the ongoing war. it 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. prizing 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 when the pro-government and your attempted to distribute fuel at pre-war prices it found itself overwhelmed by the demand because of all of these. special circumstances that happened lately people maybe get more nervous of course people had similar difficulties to get their supplies no no everything is just getting
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better life is slowly returning to the capital as are the thousands of people who fled the term all there in the past weeks 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 has already asked or made it at the eleven 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 begs the question of just how fast and how efficient that's reckoned struction will be meanwhile some already starting to lose patience mohamed
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a flower trader has returned home to find all three of his cars burned out he used to calm himself among supporters of the government but now his loyalties are uncertain 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 don't 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 sympathy. deserve such a death stern words for a fifteen year old who hasn't finished high school yet. although we want to finish . enough of him in addition to political differences the conflict in syria is also generational the young want to fire while they all struggle to find cover. their only goal is to drag syria into chaos everything was fine now it's only getting
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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 than the boy who are reporting from damascus in syria. constantly updating her twitter feed with the latest developments inside syria you will also find reactions of analysis of the events in and around the conflict torn country and one of the posts comments on leon panetta is the most recent advice to president assad quote if you care about your family get the hell out of the country he says it sounds pretty much like the rebels motto give up or die. now mark almond a professor of international relations of bill kent university in turkey believes the u.s. push for regime change in syria may produce even more disorder and violence in the
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country. watercourse and that's what he's trying to avoid is. because he's also said that the army and the police kerman in time. even more in syria than in iraq are about to approach is the army or police it's also a courier and what we're seeing is not just about who can come across people who are in the works but also a battle between some groups of society and even a crowd of them are sad and his family left the country there are two million other wives two million christians in counties. many of them around. more radical muslim groups who are increasingly in a room. and there are jihadists with strong english acts and some of the coalition forces fighting against president assad in syria so it's there's a recently released dutch photographer who had been taken hostage by opposition forces details on that at all website r.t.
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dot com. becoming your life from moscow and sweden has rejected without any explanation a request by ecuador to interview julian assange in the south american countries embassy in london and that's according to wiki leaks twitter feed the whistleblower has been holed up in the embassy for the past six weeks seeking asylum in ecuador and songe wants to avoid being extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations and fears he'll then be sent to america with more from london as artie's laura smith. according to this twisted feeds they have rejected the invitation without any kind of meaningful explanation and i mean this is doesn't really come as a particular surprise ever since this case began almost two years ago now. has been has been offering for this week to come to london and question him here and they've never done that so this is an ongoing thing i guess maybe what his legal team and indeed the ecuadorian diplomats felt could be different this time is that the
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invitation isn't coming from just us on himself it's coming from a novice state so he's got another state operating on his behalf so it's almost like it's on equal terms it really begs the question does the swedish prosecutor really want to get to the bottom of this case it certainly looks as if she doesn't and if not then of course why not meanwhile diplomats have been working on behalf and seeking assurances from the u.k. sweden and the us that he will be extradited to america if he does go to sweden they've received no response or they've also been trying to get the u.s. to either confirm or deny that legal proceedings are a grand jury having been been subpoenaed in the us again no response from america. has been holed up now in the in the ecuadorian embassy here in london for two weeks he fled citing human rights violations to avoid extradition to sweden on these
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allegations but no charges of sexual offenses and he's been under quite trying circumstances it's very cramped in there it's only a small embassy is no outside space at all and of course if he does step outside the embassy he's liable to be arrested by the british police his mother has been put all this week to plead her case and she says she's extremely worried about the state of his health she says he's under extreme stress in the ecuadorian embassy and he's been under long term extreme stress for the last two years while these this case has been going on and he's really living in conditions similar to detention. that is laura smith reporting right still ahead for you in the program here on r.t. a shocking discovery in a russian woman and new evidence unveiled in the gut wrenching story of barrels with human fetuses found in central russia. plus more arrests in anaheim as riot police watch over a mob of protesters still fuming after police shopping killed two suspects earlier
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this month. a twin car bomb blast has killed at least twenty people in iraq and injured around fifty seven others follows a series of attacks in the country that have made this summer the bloodiest period of since u.s. troops left iraq and the violence comes as an american multi-million dollar effort to train local police has been admitted to be a complete failure john glaser from antiwar dot com believes the u.s. will do everything in its power to maintain its influence in this and other regions . 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 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.
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washington was unhappy 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 six times more than china the next up 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. well the stories that we're covering on are always available on our website dot com there's also a plenty of other video news there as well including a russian anticorruption campaign. is being charged with investment in a case that it's called. plus an absent minded musician is.
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left on board a swiss train is ultimately returned to its own. wealthy british.
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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. from steve. dot com.
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it's good to have you with us here and it's here today europe's financial crisis is showing that even the strongest economies are not immune to struggles as desperation spreads into germany fears are growing that there could be a wave of attacks by far right groups on immigrants who they are blaming for their unemployment this explanation to the audience peter on about. this sleepy town in saxony seems 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 get a pizzeria he. suffered abuse and tax the pounds if you look at you.
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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 now we have a real fear 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
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a warning that juju europe's current financial predicament we could see a similar rise again i would these are problem i think today we have facing developments in the old part 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. 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 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 a 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 and we don't loiter our message to young people who come to our seminars is that it's not the
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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 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 use throwing rocks through my windows. nine days even germany's reboost economy starts to really feel the pinch of the eurozone crisis there are concerns that we could see the goings and social problems in the country. be true all of it. jenny. meanwhile over in the united states a weak economy has thousands struggling to keep their homes later this hour on our max kaiser looks at wall street's role in the country's ongoing mortgage crisis. 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 hard to let. the sue pass the cherokee and ask any of these tribes are still waiting for the land that the us government promised the one hundred fifty years ago we got through to you we'll go call mother they probably gave 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 couch they possibly can of the pockets out of the couches sitting behind the course of these people's houses you've got wall street small doesn't know the vacuum cleaner trying to suck out that last nickel i was asked to go. and you can watch the cars are bought in about twelve minutes time for now though a new chilling twist in a scandal surrounding a horrific discovery in
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a russian forest where hundreds of human fetuses were found last week police say they've been dumped there by a medical academy which is openly admitted to having made regular disposals still though it's unclear from where the state institution got the fetus isn't exactly what it was using them for. sean thomas tries to explain the story. 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 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
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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 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. r.t. correspondent sean thomas reporting right there orator straight into the r.t. world out there we go will start with india where the second power outage in as many days there has left more than six hundred million people that's over half the country's population without electricity blackout has left over one hundred fifty coal miners trapped underground after rescue operations earlier pulled out forty
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six of them india frequently suffers power shortages resulting from its inability to meet the nation's rapidly growing demand for energy. u.s. the secretary of state hillary clinton kicks off a african tour with the first stop in senegal talks will be held on security and the value of democracy as well as china's growing influence on the continent u.s. officials say clinton will warn african leaders about the perils of chinese investment. now several protesters in anaheim california were arrested outside a city council meeting monday as they rallied for a ninth straight day they're demanding the state's top attorney investigate the city's police force officers have fired eight people so far this year including today shopping killed earlier this month alone but many of the target to be end of the day turned out to be. unity organizers run got just believes the actions of the police are a result of racial profiling. the people are tired this is not something this is
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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 latino 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 you saw the community i mean mothers well you know what strollers all kinds of people from the community coming out these are even activists 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 in their community just outside of the doors it is in that you know the people do not think it's the happiest place on earth there's a lot of violence against poor people in anaheim and there needs to be caught out so i think that's where some of the organizations decided to do go to disneyland
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this expose everyone to the realities of. art off to the business section we go there to retrieve standing by for the hourly update good to see you again but russia's world trade organization accession just around the corner but apparently there's a new hurdle on the horizon that's right well full access in is coming next month but apparently there is indeed out of the blue a problem. which is quite quite unexpected indeed and that is the lack of civil servants to represent russia's interests and defend its rights within the trade body. russia's journey towards accession to the world trade organization are. a long and arduous to say the least eighteen years in the making. to prepare for when the 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
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several hundred to several thousand. lawyers and economists who are trained. mainly to be able to defend. the world stage now to fill the shortage find itself having to hire foreign specialists and if it wants to train its own it will take another two years and nine million euros that's twenty to thirty thousand euros for each specialist that it wants to train abroad having. specially regarding industries that have long enjoyed protectionist measures from the russian state. that. has every right to impose penalties on russia. for 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 and economists to become
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a civil servant. a problem to address within the country after eighteen years again of preparation their only choice is to cram in order to fill that shortage that they have right now. record food prices are just bad news for shoppers central banks are expected to lift interest rates to inflation drought the major food exposes like the states to slash harvests russia's two thousand and twelve inflation target of six percent is now called mission impossible by h.s.b.c. bank the country's tipped to hike rates by the end of the year. move over to the markets and in currencies the euro is gaining around half a percent to the greenback while the russian ruble ended the session slightly down well actually slightly up against the dollar and losing around half a percent against the euro. and much in line with the global trend on the russian markets the day ended on
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a negative note of what actually is the first negative session in five so we could say that this is basically profit taking and a correction we are just my six declining one percent over in the united states we had a batch of data saying that basically consumer spending has declined in the previous months but at the same time wages have significantly improved so this is giving a kind of a balanced picture right now for investors and we're seeing the dow jones and the nasdaq flat and facebook is down three percent on the nasdaq i'll tell you why in just a second over in europe also income of economic reports profit reports we've had specially u.b.s. saying that its prefers to profit declined two fold and b.p. saying that the profits of clients ninety six percent as they had to write down some of its assets including in the u.s. share your deposits. now it's only unemployment has hit
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a record ten point eight percent bringing a total number of people out of work to almost two point eight million the euro zone average is now also at a record high eleven point two percent processes of brussels are forcing john. cuts in the euro debt crisis one in five greeks and one in four spend years without a job. and switzerland the top bank is suing in the nasdaq for gross mishandling of facebook's i.p.o. u.b.s. says nasdaq malfunctions left it with a more facebook stock and hundreds of millions of dollars in losses facebook shares have now a nosedive forty one percent on reports they missed that potential investors over a future earnings that makes it the worst performing big i.p.o. in a decade. and just an hour ago i told you fell thirty nine percent and now it's forty one as i said because it's continuing to decline really no stopping that it seems massive or to me too many many thanks will see you next hour. by the headlines in
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