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been battles you were in opposition makes a fresh believe before in action i was actually his claim people support for the insurgency is dwindling and make new allegations of rebel atrocities. egypt's president orders the country's top two military officials to retire as a major us does have a good team is in the country's volatile sinai region. while the northeast a direction border he'd stop and al-qaeda linked groups over trade syria israel
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feels trapped in the middle and to be of some it security forces just in case. international news and comments live from moscow this is us he was me thanks for joining us the political leaders of the sea were in opposition have made fresh calls for no fly zone in the country the syrian national council even wants foreign troops to start patrolling areas near the borders with jordan and turkey but the u.s. and its allies remain reluctance to get directly involved and are insisting bolstering instead bolstering material support for and to government fighters alleged rebel trustees out forcing more syrian activists to disavow the opposition is honest have footage apparently shows insurgents throwing the bodies of loyalists from a rooftop in aleppo a key flashpoint in the worsening conflict they had
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a one independent media outlet in syria told r.t. that has crumbled why the rebels are pleading for a national when they claim to have the people support. when anybody talks about an all fly zone they are talking about a regional war they know quite well that the syrian army will not allow any foreign power or foreign armies to interfere within the syrian land and that any attempt to create a safe zone or north fly zone will be. the tool by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any need for nation will turn into a large regional war in syria is a part of a huge alliance and for instance the iranians just last week made it clear that if any foreign power tries to interfere in syria they would not just watch their strongest ally fall it's even workers are being attacked have seen rebels kill people in the street slaughter them with knives and then mr clinton comes and gives them money they lost in the massacres they are losing in any poll as we speak and as usual whenever the they find themselves in
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a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention and if they claim that they have popular support as they have been saying for seventeen months why do they need foreign intervention some of those willing to help the opposition are often unaware of exactly what's going on in the anti asaad camp then and she can shed some light on the darker side of a rebel. parasite about adopting someone why not a syrian rebel as this headline says for just one dollar a day you too can help a syrian rebel oust president assad these days you have a good number of organizations which present themselves basically as charities where you can make a donation to the rebels in syria this is the website of one of the rebel groups there saying among other things they are seeking military equipment then there is another organization which collects donations based here in washington and supported by the u.s. government they're called syrian support group we try to reach out to them and ask how they plan to distribute that money we never heard from them another web site
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one called adopt a revolution they also present themselves as a charity but it's organizer admitted that it's hard to see where the money goes as far as who the donors are he said they range from corporations who retired couples and students possibly those mentioned retired couples who've seen videos like this one with the rebels singing a backstreet boys song oh. oh oh oh. oh oh but what the pitch for donors does not say is that not all rebel fighters are some romantic backstreet boys fans probably not these ones and this footage shows an apparent mass execution of all sorts supporters by the rebels in cold blood. reports on the ground show that very six treatments groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are
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all qaeda either it's a full blown civil war where the degree of hatred is so high that people commit atrocities on all fronts i spoke with one of america's leading experts on counterterrorism and he told me the bloodshed will be even harder to stop as more outside forces get involved it isn't any more simply a question of sunni versus a whole. it's a question of saudi arabia versus iran and it's a question of turkey's increasing role in the middle east all these things make this more and more complicated and make it less and less likely there we're going to have a peaceful resolution instead we're going to have a winner take all solution one could say the danger is in simplifying things putting them black and white supporting people who kill can be called anything but charity in washington i'm going to check out and later in the program we hear from dr abdul aziz al qaida who spent fourteen years in prison for his political
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activism syria and his heart that a peaceful struggle is the only way towards his country's democratic future. everybody must cooperate. to convience the military groups first of all the regime second round groups although i was assured that it's time it's high time indeed to come to a cease fire and to start negotiations about what to do and how to arrange some peace for a future for the country of course this includes the president and his family must step aside at least for a while. and the power must be passed on to his son acceptable personnel from the regime acceptable to the regime and accepted to the opposition as well. to start a transitional period in which. a new constitution and some new legality
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will be established in the country. egypt's president has ordered the country's top two military officials to stand down the defense minister and chief of staff have been told to go during the major offensive that's underway in the country's arrested sinai region along the israeli border they gyptian leader is in a power struggle with the military council to restore security in sinai but the region's only seen more lawlessness since president mubarak was ousted with al-qaeda groups targeting security forces and their mass traveling of arms from smuggling of arms from libya and dr shaw from the middle east studies institute at exeter university says that what looks like a stamp of authority has actually been done with the military's corporation. you see a major shake up but it's not a civilian shake up it's not an appointed civilian defense minister most of the
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of these changes where the negotiated at least by the member with the members of the scaf that promoted appointed. and it's not. a surprise that the head of the military intelligence knows where the factions within the army the capacity of the other generals to. create some sort of trouble some sort of resistance to the president this head of the military intelligence was appointed defense minister because you have enough information on the army factions and on who could do what in the army so i don't think there would be action on the on behalf of the army. meanwhile israel staying alert amid growing regional instability with prime minister netanyahu saying his country is investing billions in defense with militants penetrating through egypt
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and al-qaeda linked rebels fighting for power with the syrian regime the state's feeling increasingly surrounded by a growing regional radicalism explains. as a result of the arab revolutions israel now finds itself surrounded by rivals starting with egypt you have a situation in the northern sinai peninsula that last week saw the egyptian air force being employed for the first time these radios are concerned that you have linked jihad it's operating there they're also concerned that they're not going to see the same kind of willingness for cooperation from the new egyptian president mohamed morsi who comes from the muslim brotherhood that you saw in the past between his predecessor foreseeable barak and tell us of as far as the situation in syria goes the ongoing violence has israelis concerned that should if bashar assad is toppled he could be replaced by al qaida the vibrance hasn't extended the unit to the golan heights but certainly israelis are concerned about the toppling of
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a same troll control from within damascus they're also concerned that you could have chemical weapons falling into the hands of extremist elements in addition to those who have a massive control in the gaza strip you have his villa operating from lebannon all of this coming on top of an already volatile but dormant situation these are the israelis and the palestinians so certainly tel aviv is viewing with growing concern the volatile situation on its borders afraid that in a moment it could flare up of course here tel aviv party coming up later in the program rounds andrew in the bangladeshi commodes industry workers suffering appalling conditions so that we've got plenty to wear. on wide tires that turning their back on the dead stricken eview and hurting home despite the country's long running push for membership. kenya.
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this is aussie welcome back and some other world news in brief for you this nigeria . it says it's killed at least twenty suspected members of the islamist militant group boko haram the military raid reportedly targeted one of the group's hideouts in the northeast vocal koran denies any losses accusing the military of killing civilians instead scores of people have died in the groups that taksin the area in recent months. hospitals in iran's northwest are struggling to cope with the influx of injured people in the wake of saturday's earthquake which killed over three hundred people entire villages were leveled in the quakes and thousands of people are sleeping outside fearing further aftershocks rescue workers have battled through the night to recover it said by was from the rubble but their efforts are now in helping the estimated sixteen thousand left homeless. man is interim president has told the prime minister he has three days to form
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a transitional unity government almost sixty thousand people gathered in support of the move for solid leadership in march so islamist militants swithin to control parts of the north it was concerned about previous government inaction on toppling insurgency which led the military to seize control. turkey's been trying for an e.u. membership card for over twenty five years that after the euro crisis struck some began to doubt what it was such a good idea for national gloom has caused many to folks who've been living in the youth for generations to head back home in search of better jobs and opportunities he says i see reports now on the migration reversal. with about five and a half million turks living in the european union their presence is certainly felt in societies in europe but as the e.u. continues to be deep in the red the lure of their original country's economic
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promise is getting harder to resist and the residents living on this street known as little and a toy or say that more and more of their compatriots are thinking of cutting their losses and heading back home like the owner of this neck bar belgian born outside love has been finalizing his plans and is set on relocating his family back to turkey. europe is finished the crisis is getting worse every year it's going to continue for greece then spain italy right now belgium. there is a lot of stress lots of taxes bills to pay while in turkey improves every year turkey is very powerful life is good you can live well by what you want in belgium it's no longer like this and the numbers say it all the e.u. managed a one point six percent growth in two thousand and eleven while turkey was at about seven point five percent gaining recognition as last year's fastest growing economy in europe while it is expecting a slowdown this year the grass still looks greener on their side and dependence on
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europe is not quite as it used to be the trade volume used to be very high with the e.u. countries percentage wise it used to be about fifty percent now it has gone down to just over forty percent that means we're diversifying our trade more and more trade with african countries asian countries all around the world and this of course has spurred a lot of growth so we need people to be able to manage this we need qualified people personnel so we see that a lot of people are now coming you know second third generation immigrants are coming back home for this purpose but there's another reason why a growing number of turks want out of the e.u. obviously like you know with the crisis what's the result we're rejecting foreigners obviously now that there are fewer jobs less money what happens is priority is first given to the belgians and after the foreigners the turks the moroccans the russians my decision to go back to turkey is economic but also because when there's a crisis there is discrimination you know for these communities and yet as this
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migration trend rises turkey is still officially knocking on the e.u. store its candidacy for membership hanging in the balance for the last twenty five years thanks to a long list of requirements to fulfill and political opposition from some e.u. countries people are afraid that the e.u. will come up with more and more excuses even if we do overcome them people say that they'll be other excuses in front of us not that it matters any longer for some turks. turkey doesn't need europe it's europe we need to turkey in a few years you see that i'm against turkey becoming part of the e.u. and right now turkey doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry either does or sylvia r.t. brussels and get more from us online at home let's now check some of the stories we've got there for you right now u.s. airport security justifies away from discrimination in their fight against terrorism. plus stunned by paris they course not said coming ahead to r.t.
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dot com for details of their colorful chris a. download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our. t.v. is not required to watch our two all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. a lot of the clothes we wear are created in bangladesh it's one of the world's top manufacturers but also has a disturbing record and deaths and injuries among its workers factories cutting back on safety to save every dollar and leave those on the shop floor paying with their health for minimum wage jobs pressure to have the story. i get it i want to smoke
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that's the last thing i saw before i fainted i don't know what happened afterwards lovely day was only eleven when she almost died in a fire in the garment factory where she was working making only fifty cents a day to help her family survive while lovely escaped many in bangladesh have it five hundred workers have died in garment factory fires in the past five years i suffer a lot now i still have to buy medicine it still hurts a lot of my hands hurt my legs hurt to it's very difficult for me to walk around because of its extremely low wages bangladesh is one of the largest garment producers in the world attracting american brands from tommy hilfiger to j.c. penney to gap but the conditions at the factories are shocking low safety standards crumbling buildings and core electrical wiring make working extremely dangerous many of the clothing companies look the other way when things go wrong claiming
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that they don't know what their far away factory owners are up to labor activists say that the companies should take an interest in people rather than just profits it's very clear these factories don't care about anything except money wants dozens of workers may have. months. corruption between the factory owners and politicians extreme poverty and a slow justice system make it nearly impossible for western brands to be held accountable garments account for eighty percent of bangladesh's x. for nearly ten billion dollars more of the products are shipped from here mainly to the united states in europe every year despite the international demand workers still put in long hours and work for extremely low wages and those who are brave enough to speak out against the system are often times silent. only one percent of bangladesh's garment workers belong to unions most like lovely or terrified of
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speaking l. she never received a penny in compensation from any higher ups in her factory or the companies they exported their garments to and has now been abandoned by her family because of the high costs of the medication she needs to survive. i hope that something like this never happens to anyone but no one has to go through such a trauma while lovely hopes that no one else suffers to be scars are an every day reminder that because of her time in the garment factories her life will never be the same preassure either r t. and you know this for later they sound so you don't london a reedy went all out on the games grand finale didn't it yeah it did last night the opening ceremony was more spectacular a little bit more boom box like this was more of a charm offensive really just a big party for the teens all the sport was told they could come art and let their hair down as it were i tell you what team russia want to be in there after winning their three gold on the last day sunday this finished fourth overall in the table
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we're going to be concentrating. in sports today in just a run twenty minutes that's coming up. great stuff for school to business who is not but still discussing the olympics so the winners are rubbing hands in anticipation of the prize money natasha but how big this was really up to the country's while some paid millions of us just say thank you and hope you were offered to have represented your country more on that in just a couple of minutes but first let's check out the equity markets where the action is right now here in russia equities started trading about twenty minutes ago and so far looking good both m i six and the r.t.s. are showing strength on the opening asian shares are failing to rebound however and just below the line mainly on disappointing g.d.p. figures from japan its economy grew zero point three percent in the second quarter
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that's slower than expected with exports have consumer spending showing weakness it's a traditional festival week in japan so volumes are pretty low in tokyo and hong kong the hang sang is also down losing around the quarter percent trader. still digesting friday's gloomy chinese trade and new bank loan figures wall street ended friday higher and pretty then trades stretching its gains for a fifth straight week over the past thirty days the dow and the nasdaq have an around four percent each expect domestic news to really drive the u.s. markets this week namely some orderly results monday is cisco and groupon and the july retail sales numbers are coming out as well the u.s. dollar the sour is gaining to the euro let's see that i'm first here they are it's showing some strength for the previous four sessions as europe's debt crisis has investors fleeing for safety and that usually means that the dollar. trend the
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dollar's up seven percent over the past year the euro is down nine percent for the same period and the russian ruble so far is gaining against the currency basket as you can see and there's hope for the russian equities this monday's sends crude is showing some strange u.s. benchmark crude a futurist recovered from their losses on friday and as you can see brad is trading around one hundred thirteen and a half dollars a barrel financial troubles across the globe don't seem to be dampening the olympic games certainly not this year the governments of participating countries will pay millions of dollars to those who are faster stronger and higher and broaden the medals artie's katie has all the details. the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent reminder of their victories a big shiny metal but welcome the champions expect in financial terms with
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a return to their homelands well that depends on the individual and national olympic committees who reward their own sports stars the u.s. was a country with the most gold winners and the victorious that these can all expect a bonus of twenty five thousand dollars when they get back to the states in total that is one point eight million dollars that the u.s. government will be dishing out china hasn't revealed its official bonuses but it's gold winners will reportedly get a fifty one thousand dollar prize for u.k. athletes there's no extra cash to be won but there is a privilege of getting your head on a stamp so it depends what you consider to be more valuable russia has promised out these one hundred thirty five thousand dollars for gold but some athletes can expect even more the russian judo gold champion is i have can look forward to a one million dollar paycheck when he gets home and even countries that are near
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the bottom of the league table still offer a lowering amounts singapore was hoping a one million dollar bonus would bring a gold medal but it'll have to wait four years for another chance although it hasn't won a medal since nineteen fifty six and the economic crisis isn't downplaying the incentives with debt stricken italy giving one hundred eighty two thousand dollars to each of their winners so while it may be the taking part that counts winning certainly leaves you counting more cash. well we could only hope that the olympians invest their money wisely considering the current economic turmoil and i'm told the latest from the business thank you so much natasha back with you in an hour and out of the hard lines of for what is here and politician who suffered for speaking out outlines a war his country is suffering. is
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