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on r t clashes in istanbul with protesters angry at hillary clinton's visit to promising another five and a half million dollars to the syrian rebels as she discusses plans for a future without president the sad. wild card reportedly tries to bribe syria's ambassador to mauritania to side with the rebels with promises of a million dollars and political asylum. plus the u.s. says it around shows there's no nuclear weapon in the works yet but a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could be imminent. hello and welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow it's eleven pm here now it's kevin zero in with
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a with our top story tonight washington and turkey away bring in a no fly zone over syria as well as getting ready for worst case scenarios including any use of chemical weapons by the assad regime u.s. foreign policy chief hillary clinton's pledged a further five and a half million dollars meantime in aid to syrian rebels during a visit to turkey it brings total funding to the opposition to eighty two million since the conflict began last year in istanbul clinton received a far from warm welcome riot police clashed with turkish antiwar activists from a leftist party who tried to reach the building where she was meeting prime minister there were officers responded with batons in tear gas at least five people were injured ankara recently stepped up threats to use force in syria if it feels threatened from across the border this while western states are stepping up plans for a post a sad syria journalist on the part told me that by supporting the rebels they're only adding to the violence. there's been some discussion of the possibility of a. the so-called black ops chemical attack where some of the u.s.
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agent forces that are on the ground in syria fighting the government would launch a chemical attack and attempt to lay the blame for that on the syrian government i think that's a real possibility and very dangerous game to play you on the one hand creating an enemy that has no state ties really isn't almost silent anywhere and that just is highly weaponized very angry and extremely religious the conduct of the war against the government on the soil where the syrian people live obviously cannot bring peace to the syrian people it's intended to provoke a response from the government the government has the choice of either not responding and allowing armed terrorists to blow things up to blow up their troops and to blow up and execute civilians all of which has been happening or to fight back which of course means that there are parts of the cities that get bombed and there are people that are displaced these two choices are what are being presented
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by american policy in syria the u.n. she's backed the presence of international monitors in syria which would provide impartial means of accessing and assessing the situation on the ground the observers extended man they take spies in less than ten days now with a veteran algerian diplomat touted to become the new u.n. arab league envoy to kofi annan quit but outside of it is. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think considering the situation in syria but it's that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the u.n. as the envoy to afghanistan as the united states invaded the country following nine
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eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit better he means personal life in his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him but he's daughter of former b.b.c. and c.n.n. correspondent is married to wear one of the sons of the king of jordan. a strong family ties there jordan of course a country that has been linked to the smuggling of weapons and other arms into syria into the hands of the syrian rebels and jordan of course a haven a place of choice for those defecting from the assad government to go so perhaps we could see brahimi focusing attention focusing his attention on speaking to the rebels as opposed to the way that kofi annan tried to do it with speaking to both
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the rebels and the assad government but it looks like he will take over from kofi annan so it looks like the next envoy going to be locked up or he me the former algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. over there were cutters reportedly trying to bribe the syrian ambassador mauritania alleged. promising one million dollars and political asylum in exchange for defection the syrian diplomats thought though to have turned down the offer calling it flagrant interference in serious internal affairs middle east history and politics professor jeremy salt says gulf nations are using the huge financial clout to try to topple the government of president assad. what tell us about the gulf states is they have in the supplies money. to buy people out and this is the first question that should be asked of all these defectors how much they tell you how much do you get and there must be some kind of sliding scale i mean what is the best of their worth what is the foreign minister worth what is a kind of a low level representative mauritania worth i mean he was reportedly been given or
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offered one million dollars plus twenty thousand dollars a month for the next twenty years which you know is pretty good but one would imagine that people would be offered even more than we know what the beginning of this whole purchase move in the qatar is a bribe. the foreign minister tried to buy him out you refused to just rejected their offer so it's very kind of important part i mean anyone who's now high up in the syrian government if they want to kind of effect begin to get a lot of money to shore and they can go live in doha which might not be too advanced tastes but they will certainly get a lot of money if they turn their backs on their own governments. still to come on r.t. this far of news the fallout from the revolution egypt's few remaining jews feel escalating threats from the country's new leadership as cairo's relations with israel sour further. and keeping the internet safe and free but is it really possible to achieve this we investigate in a few minutes. washington says it has visibility inside
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iran's nuclear program confident it will know if a round moves towards building a bomb those remarks look to be directed it israel then which want to earlier that the international community might not realize in time to prevent iran from acquiring a weapon israeli media suggest the country could launch an imminent strike on iran before the presidential elections in the united states the plans could lead to a rift between the allies and the u.s. insists that tight the economic sanctions isn't enough a new law indeed signed on friday prohibits american entrepreneurs from doing business with the iranian oil sector and also shipping and insurance companies honest to see it in a report. according to a major daily israeli newspaper the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his defense minister would like to strike iran as early as before the u.s. presidential elections taking place in november this year now amid escalating media reports and expert predictions that such an attack could in fact be around the
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corner the peepers front page article on friday offered by its senior commentators and reportedly based off of conversations with israel's defense minister says that if it were up to benjamin netanyahu and his minister of defense israel would cause a military attack on iran sometime within the next several months importantly israel's security cabinet ministers have been resisting such an option for now what's important here is while israel is weighing this option we know of course that iran continues to insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes exclusively and we have seen the obama administration be careful in urging israel to stick with diplomacy and now of course the big question is whether israel may in fact go ahead with such an attack and whether or not it will wait for a green light from washington importantly experts in this article are quoted to say that if such an attack were to take place before the u.s.
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presidential elections there this would cause a major embarrassment to barack obama as well as really cast a blow to his success in these elections because as we know his main rival republican mitt romney has never excluded such an option. stories the monks the very men the rough justice fund where the. nordic cool definitely detaining american citizens with interesting read on line for must pay the price for playing up to the camera and the fatality rate in russia from the craze for posting pictures of dangerous stunts online.
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knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. here which brightened if you are about song from finest impression. from star totty dot com. pages pretty military reinforcements into the sinai peninsula where terror attacks were escalated on friday gypped captured six suspected militants there after an attack last sunday killed sixteen border guards the campaign to hunt down the
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gunman was the biggest in the region since the one nine hundred seventy three war with israel this time though the operation was welcomed by the jewish state however the tentative truce is not helping egypt's jewish citizens who say they're living in constant fear these days the arab spring has made them wary of both the new rulers and their day because this policy of. alone frightened. and struggling one of the last of her people in a land that no longer wants them selene has merely the photos of who did family for comfort she is one of cairo's few remaining jews once there were eighty thousand now there are fewer than twenty certainly i'm afraid certainly i believe as the bad light i just be able to forget. she has reason to be wary the new rulers of egypt the muslim brotherhood call for jihad and want the liberation of palestine they've launched a war of words against jews that goes as far as to threatened if it took us a long time to find somebody and when we did even longer to convince her to be
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interviewed by us she was worried that her neighbors would see that talking to a television crew eventually she agreed to talk to us here on the street but when i walked her back to her building a neighbor spotted us and started screaming obscenities at her that is for that person in my view. the roots of jewish people run deep in the streets of cairo as far back as the twelfth century pious jews trod these cobbled streets on their way to study with a non-physician rabbi moses been my morn our government has collected memories of the many jews who once lived here he proudly shows me articles of those he once knew about. this place used to be fooled jews they were all my friends but they all left in the early fifties sometimes they come back to visit make up and we always see it and talk about the good old times better what a miserable look. it was a jewish man who told us that his trade the love of his life was also a jewish woman but his is
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a rare voice today in these streets it can be dangerous to ask where's the nearest synagogue certainly i ever heard of the world's going to look at not that they said that if you don't program is to do like there was a bit of god. that little country. which few day to mention israel they may be divisions among egyptians but they are united in their hatred of the neighbor. israel is a racist states which doesn't respect agreements and israeli jew is not welcome in egypt being in the no treaty to continue between us i hate dealing with israel and its presence in the region is dangerous but. israel is a cancer our main enemy after the revolution of january it's now possible to cancel the peace agreement with them and so simeon spends her remaining days alone holed up in her apartment and suffering from alzheimer's disease too afraid to venture
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out and when she does it's only for the shortest time just in the memory of a fast disappearing world policy r.t. cairo. still to come this hour can we afford to be healthy. even to me tell yeah yeah it's good. that the world we live their dreams they call non-organic that's the question our resident reporters got the answers from the streets of new york coming up a little bit later. we'll do some brief now the more than eighty people have reportedly been killed and hundreds injured after two strong earthquakes in northwest around panicked residents fled the area as aftershocks continued while communications and atrocities being cut the quake satins near the city of two bridges which has got a nuclear research facility however most of the victims are thought to be from nearby smaller towns or villages. libyan army general and senior defense ministry official mohammed hardly as been shot dead a big garci he was leaving
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a mosque after friday prayers when he was attacked by a group of gunmen recent months have seen a string of deadly attacks in benghazi on security officials who served in the gadhafi regime as the dead man had the shooting happened the day after the abuse new government assumed. policeman of the checkpoint in afghanistan has opened fire on fellow offices killing at least ten of them the attackers believed to have links with militants was later killed in a gun battle it comes a day after six nato troops were shot dead in separate attacks by afghans one of them a police chief killings by supposed colleagues of coalition troops are on the rise as u.s. led forces plan to pull out of the country by the end of twenty fourteen. u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has announced his running mate house budget committee chairman paul ryan is best known for trying to slash america's public spending by over five trillion dollars in cuts opposed by the democrat minority in congress romney's choice for his number two could prove crucial to his chances of winning the white house in november from barack obama who's currently
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ahead in the polls. here russia's air force has been celebrating its same teener in spectacular style in the skies over the moscow region a three day display will see national and foreign aviation aces perform death defying stunts pictures more than one hundred planes and helicopters are taking part of the event including russia's latest state of the art fighter the t fifty the show also includes restored planes from the first and second world wars the famed russian knights and swifts will be storing the skies as well over the weekend at the kremlin recently made the military a top priority with a vote to spend over one hundred twenty billion dollars upgrading the air force over the next few years. i. greece is struggling to meet its budget targets as it tries to balance a stereotype to satisfy its e.u. lenders earlier ratings giant standard and poor's lowered its outlook on athens saying it might need another loan to survive and later here economist roger bootle tells r.t. if you way forward for greece is to abandon the single currency. i think there's no
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doubt that greece in my view needs to get out of the euro i cannot see any way in which this current policy of austerity. and really. this is going to be very far from a magic wrong. track record of. trying to. greece is going to go up possibly wrong so initially living standards are going to be squeezed far from bringing relief do you order a great person it's actually going to make matters worse initially however going forward things are then completely transformed because in a flash greece is more competitive not the grinding deflation they were ten or fifteen years but instant pain is li greece's forty or fifty or sixty percent more competitive and the demand for greek output is going to take off that doesn't happen overnight but in a matter of months that will happen greek exports will start to rise imports will
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fall and that will generate employment and more income in greece so there's a trade off. for a difficult period to go through first of all in order to secure later greater prosperity. you can watch the full interview the economist george bootle who outlined his view on the least painful way for the country to leave the euro in just over an hour's time again here in r.t. . the debate over how to control the internet's pre-marked with growing political and social opposition lately despite the efforts of governments to limit the dangers from cyberspace critics say every proposal or risk destroying web freedom in some form or other loosely caffein off reports. it is hard to argue against protecting young ones from dangers like child pornography that's what russia's new internet law aims to do by making it easier to remove harmful content from the web it gives the government new powers to blacklist pages even entire domains bypassing the courts but critics say it could be used for altogether
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different purposes russia's wikipedia was one of several websites to go dark and protest about. using this law to protect children is blocking access to information for everyone including adults that's not protection and that's censorship. he could be great britain united states france germany lawmakers say the bill is on par even weaker than what's on the books elsewhere but for online activists countries like the u.s. or britain are case studies in how not to regulate the web you can see the different countries you different tactics whether it's copyright laws or cyber security laws or just using national security as an excuse to go after further screech crease speech may be enshrined in america's constitution but in a world where acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer the keystrokes of u.s. citizens are increasingly under suspicion if you see something say something
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according to these f.b.i. flyers anyone with a passing interest in personal data security could be a potential terrorist report suspicious activity of the authorities. and while pre-crime detection may be the stuff of fiction the homeland security department is considering a virtual border patrol which would scan billions of bytes and bits to stop cyber crime before it happens that's like sticking a microphone in everyone's living room so you can listen to all the conversations and what is really bad guys internet freedom advocates help defeat to controversial copyright bills but the u.s. house vote. to force private companies like facebook to share personal data with the government and military when it comes to protecting our civil rights and civil liberties we don't usually give a government check and that's really what these bills have done in a lot of ways across the atlantic britain is on the verge of a web why big brother internet and phone providers are reading black boxes to let
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the government to monitor every email phone call even as this is the first step to go taken control of its. already blocks web pages it deems illegal but under the digital economy act it will soon add copyright violators to the blacklist anyone suspected of illegal downloads could have their internet cut off. the war over how and who should control the internet may have been inevitable you're saying to yourself well no i understand this internet concept a lot of the internet is. a little better. it's one of the biggest challenges facing governments of today and matter how well intentioned regulations will always be subject to criticism and tracking the line between security and censorship while it may be harder than it seems lucy catherine of r.t. . the us congress is struggling to process hundred billion dollar bill which also was to reduce food stamp fraud over the next five years the industry's big hits
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such as those making g.m. foods is dominating the discussion of nutrition and health groups but food historian says there's a natural products is likely to grow. the people who control the hands to most of the most high tech that g.m.o. especially. those you know it's intellectual property out there and they don't know the people testing it in something wrong with it there's always a constant tension in not just american families that are around the world is that you have food scientists inventing new things for a new flavors and very consistent things like that that go into our food and have other people who say i just don't want this and i'd rather eat old foods and things that are grown organically or or at least you know belief if you think that this search object to get how our attitude towards change then we move toward natural who is very big when i was his sixty's and seventy's it's come back now again and people are starting to do things themselves again the room you know the actual bowls and your meats and the cheese and things like that so this is definitely
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action it's industrial food right now but i think it's going to be the next trend in a major way for the next several years cow or g.m.o. corn it's not directly consumed by humans but it's indirect and down the line of things we don't really know what that does ten years after consuming people find it's something seeds but the government so far has decided that these are virtually equal you know the horn is g.m.o. and the corn that isn't. really you don't have to test that g.m.o. or because same organs which i think might disagree. and stay with nutrition what do you prefer eating cheap and easy food or taken some trouble to keep yourself healthy with organic alternatives reported on the streets of new york the deceit who's came to be lean and green. are you sheep an easy or all organic when it comes to what you eat this week let's
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talk about that i don't care you don't care so you don't care what you put into your body you. do. for the expense of organic food i mean it doesn't to me it doesn't really make a difference i actually started juicing this year and i found out about it when i was getting a facial and there's a place called free foods right down that way and they have the best juices i've ever had in my life kale spinach babies all i mean it's like and it's like changing it sounds that listen it's delicious and expensive actually it is expensive but if you think about it a glass of wine is like nine dollars and it costs the same amount why do you think organic costs so much more regulation at least in finland it's really strict on what you can do and how you do it so and the crop is smaller so that's the problem doing doesn't that defy logic shouldn't it be cheaper to eat a tomato yeah yeah it should be true that the world we live or on a medical doctor is there the day the food is. let's say polluted or or it's not
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healthy like contains a lot of for a transfer sun so on and so on then it can lead to cancer but genetically modified food cannot lead to consummate this nonsense so there's a lot of people that assert it dies why do you think they get away with that but why does the demo have such a bad rap i think it's mainly some kind of propaganda a lot more people are interested to get healthier and other parts of the world so where do you think america falls in that spectrum very well hopi city is the number one for kids here is it just a lack of knowledge or do people don't have the money time. we want to sit down for breakfast this morning and healthy just got here cannot find everybody's running and grabbing about all the time so you're eating better and more ghana acts. and i did manage to keep him on the streets and there are guards of the phrases mc i know mine they my if it is not there you won't need it and that's the first word of
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daughter whether or not you eat organically the bottom line is you might want to take a minute to consider the all that or at them you are what you eat it's. more food for thought as well most cuz as he gets the bit between his teeth over this week's financial full of the headlines in a few minutes coming up just under three minutes from their.
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