tv [untitled] August 13, 2012 2:00pm-2:30pm EDT
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this is r t tonight fresh trouble calls for a no fly zone over syria with the u.s. weighing in with its support but reports of the opposition's alleged atrocities are making many activists turn their backs. egypt says of this president lose to assert his power over the military as he cites both the defense minister and the chief of staff of growing military presence in sinai. and the wiki leaks website comes under cyber attack u.s. hackers claim they want to stop to the sounds from finding refuge in ecuador because the latest drama to.
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welcome this is r.t. live from moscow at ten pm this monday evening my name is kevin first is the syrian opposition's rich rated it's calls for a no fly zone in the country although still reluctant to get directly involved the u.s. has previously voice support for the move to even if it means bypassing the un washington is allies have also pledged more backing for anti assad fighters now syrian rebels say they've also shot down a government war plane and captured the pilot activists released a video showing a fighter jet catching fire as it was apparently hit by ground shelling but on the other side of it state officials insist it crashed because of technical failure meantime alleged rebel atrocities are forcing more syrian activists to renounce the opposition it's claimed this amateur footage shows insurgents throwing the bodies of public sector workers from a rooftop in aleppo now a key flashpoint in the conflict the head of one independent media outlet in syria
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told me he's surprised the rebels are pleading for foreign action right now if they have as much popular support as they say they do. 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 any attempt to create a safe zone or nor fly zone will be on the tour by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any need to a 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 for seven workers are being attacked if seen rebels kill people in the streets lot of them with knives and then miss clinton comes and gives them money they lost in the massacres they are losing in any poll and as usual when ever the they find themselves in a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention and if they claim that they
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have popular support as they have been saying for seventeen months why do they need foreign intervention. or some of those backing the opposition are often unaware of exactly what's going on in the end he said camp is going to she can shed some light then on the darker side of the rebellion. ever thought 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 to 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 it was only. a minor 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 assault supporters by the rebels in cold blood. reports on the ground show that various extremist groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are all either
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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 vs our. 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 on. what we've more on the crisis in today's interview too when we hear from dr abdul aziz spent fourteen years as a political prisoner in syria he says that
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a peaceful struggle is the only way to build a democratic future. day after day that he number one and the only group in the opposition. are becoming more and more hostages and the and so good allies. we are losing the. independent decision and they can apply what they think or believe and everybody must call for it. to conference the military groups first of all the regime second round groups although 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 peaceful future.
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is a really interesting listen if not call it already the full interview with the former syrian opposition leader on air again twenty five minutes time tonight here on r.t. also coming up before that the dream turned sour as the e.u. continued to struggle through recession many turks are no against the country joining the e.u. need despite previously a long running push for membership will tell you why and also we look at how people in one small asian country suffer injury even death to provide the rest of the world with top high street brand. egypt's president has taken his most decisive step yet to assert power over the influential military sacking two top generals they were the defense minister who served as the country's interim leader after hosni mubarak was ousted as well as the chief of staff now after the announcement president morsy supporters took to revolutionary taria square in cairo to celebrate many see it as a sign of reform progress morsi started to move more boldly against the army after an attack by militants in sinai that killed sixteen border guards the security presence there's no been increased but the president vowing to restore order
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supposed asia times correspondent pepe escobar told me he believes a new crew could be on the cards. we should expect some say to happen not immediately in terms of what kelter cool by scaf because to join this. there even if they are prerogatives in terms of that constitutional amendment which transfer of powers from the presidents to them now more civil why did that completely de may have some cards to play in those for a get very good relationship with the pentagon i'm sure a lot of people in washington are horrified about the morsi move and they really are these are areas are really freaking out with the morsi move because now they say that he has become an islamic dictatorship so there could be some counter coupes from foreign actors as well basically from the muslim brotherhood point of view de don't want any more frictions between scaf and the press that so we can say
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that for the moment this koreas muslim brotherhood one skaf zero the problem is the military even if it is reliant now or rearrange become true almost forty percent of the egyptian economy egypt has no money i'm betting in the long run that date will last egypt cool apps in terms of being practically defaulting and then maybe later to rearrange another egyptian military coup and go back to power. he chips neva meantime israel is postponed rather is concerned about keeping its borders secure amid regional instability with billions going into defense now with the militant presence growing in sinai than at al-qaeda working its way into the ranks of syrian rebels israel's feeling isolated made its hostile neighbors sees. it. as a result of the arab revolutions israel now finds itself surrounded by rivals starting with egypt you have
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a situation in the northern sinai peninsula that last week saw the egyptian air force being employed for the first time the israelis are concerned that you have kind of jihad is 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 of course the mubarak and tel aviv 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 vitamins hasn't extended to get to the golan heights but certainly israelis are concerned about the toppling of a central control some within damascus they're also concerned that you could have chemical weapons falling into the hands of extremist elements in addition to this you have a massive control in the gaza strip you have hizbollah operating from levanon all
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of this coming on top of an already volatile but dormant situation of 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. they took home the top whistleblowing so wiki leaks has moved online now its web page has been the victim of a major denial of service attack for over a week which is left sluggish to an excess of all the group calling itself until leagues is clear this p.r. the assault he says is concerned about julian assange his attempts to gain political soliman ecuador now support the leader of the pirate party lost you told me he believes there's a hidden behind the a turk. but we can certainly see that there is a concerted attempt to interfere with the whistle blowing site at the moment that is appears to be the most concerned attack and denial of service attack on wiki
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leaks for some time now as we said in the records this group. has claimed responsibility and put at some quiet in. the wiki leaks. in some kind of united states involved though certainly. the amount of traffic seems to amount to. a machine now difficult to assess in any of the claims it would actually seem unlikely to a group like antiques a new group we able to mount such a sustained attack but nevertheless it's not impossible also it is in fact possible to do this with fewer than one thousand machines but that will take some or some organization behind. for top world news stories in brief to bring you up to date with first police in norway could have done more to reduce the number of people
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killed by anders breivik last year and that's according to the official report has been released which blames officers for taking too long to reach a toy or island reddick admitted killing seventy seven people mostly teenagers in twin attacks a verdict stupid be delivered next week the decision will determine whether be sent to prison or to a psychiatric facility. occupy hong kong protesters have been ordered to leave their camp now it was set up with the headquarters of the h.s.b.c. bank the high court ruling which gives them two weeks to get out says the anti capitalism protesters of misusing public space is covered with criticism that the tent town attracted vagrants and homeless inspired by the popular occupy wall street movement hong kong protesters took to the streets last october not their height hundreds of activists living in that bank. almost a thousand people were evacuated by ferry from the canary islands overnight where firefighters are battling huge forest fires there are no threatening some of spain's most popular national parks destroying nearly
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a thousand hectares of land so far officials say it could take three decades for the affected areas to recover spain's been hard hit by forest fires this year after his dries winter in seventy years but a more cheerful note did you see it i did it was super london's olympic summer spectacles come to an end with a star studded closing ceremony by gosh it was a good many of the britain's most popular artists before the event with hit songs from across the generations cheered on by a packed stadium of international poured into the center of the really reform u.k. flag that was handed over to rio then the next summer olympic host with the next winter games of course to be staged here in russia in the russian city of sochi lot of work going to watch our sports politics later this hour if you can for more the medals won and recordset securing both of them picks. and our business has got more too on the financial trappings of sporting glory in the event has taken this. to be the most generous country in terms of its prize money awarding its sportsman with
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seven million dollars china only accept the gold paying nothing for the silver and bronze and the u.k. traditionally does not provide any financial stimulus for more on this joining me in just a few miles. certainly will thanks to me tree for over two decades turkey's been seeking e.u. membership a goal that's recently lost much of its appeal thanks to the ongoing euro crisis financial gloom was caused some turks low turby residents to head home again in search of better jobs and opportunities are to test for a still has got this story tonight. what 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 promise is getting harder to resist and the residents living on this street known as little anatolia say that more and more of their compatriots are thinking of
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cutting their losses and heading back home like the owner of this snack bar belgian born 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 first greece then spain italy right now belgium there is a lot of stress lots of taxes bills to pay while in turkey every year turkey is very powerful life is good you can live well why would 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 europe is not quite as it used to be the trade volume used to be very high with the e.u.
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countries percentage wise that used to be around 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. you know with the crisis what's the result we reject. foreigners obviously know 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 is a crisis there is discrimination if you know of this community and yet as this migration trend rises turkey is still officially knocking on the e.u.
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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 needs turkey in a few years you see that i mean 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 quick mention online take work twenty four seven to bring you a great selection of stories and features of r.t. dot com each and every day there are now a couple we picked out the american networks c.n.n. branching out it no longer brings news dominating the airwaves to find out instead of other channels plans to start a new reality show. plus standing ovations in london condemnation though at home
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all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. one of the poorest nations on earth bangladesh is also one of the world's top clothes produces but in meeting foreign commercial demands factory workers suffer extreme poverty in a touristy harsh working conditions at his press trader investigates why no one's being held to account over it. i get it i want to smoke 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 having 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 too it's more difficult for me to walk around
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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 poor electrical wiring make working extremely dangerous many of the clothing companies look the other way when things go wrong claiming 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 to it's very clear that these factories don't care about anything except money wants doesn't occur to them what workers may have. to 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.
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for nearly ten billion dollars one of the products are shipped from here mainly to the united states in europe and 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 easily one percent of bangladesh's garment workers belong to unions. most like lovely are terrified of speaking out 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 her fate her scars are an every day reminder that because every time in the garment factories her life never be the same preassure either r t dhaka bangladesh is. so sad story.
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with the business it's twenty three minutes past ten at night moscow time i'd made three to but a gloom again as always for me lately as for quite a long time or signs of global economy slowing this shoot the messenger i'm just here to deliver the. plan indeed as reported g.d.p. figures come in short of expectations indeed point three percent growth in the second quarter that means your lies to one point four percent and that's a slowdown that investors were not really expecting and therefore there's a lot of selling pressure on the market today although it's quite moderate within one percent let's take a look at what's happening in the u.s. the dow jones there is declining within half a percent this was worse before that nasdaq declining point of three percent and this is all on the worries of course on the state of the state of the global economy with the japan now just you know being another one bites the dust and just
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a big piece huge puzzle let's take a look at how europe ended and london closed down zero point three percent dax was a bit better than that resources firms were leading the losses because commodities were on a decline and oil prices were also not showing much support right now however things that changed a light sweet this is down just fourteen cents brant it was up eighty three cents but during the previous hours of the session we did see it will go up by as much as around two dollars per barrel and that has been providing support for the russian market which ended the day on a positive note despite the ongoing selling pressure around the world so the. r.t.s. and m i six as you can see there also within one percent of an increase now moving them i say. is up on news that it could be expanding into armenia now and over second ross telecom were some of the biggest gainers among among blue
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chips and will never take not really a blue chip more of a second tier stock but nevertheless we've seen some have the gains despite the fact that in the second quarter both companies posted losses of thirty and fifty percent in net profits but it came in better than expected apparently now in currencies the euro is still up against the dollar we've seen the opposite picture in the previous couple of sessions so that's kind of normal and the russian ruble once again against a basket of currencies but a loss all these gains as soon as the oil at the end of the session started slipping into negative territory. now despite the ongoing financial turmoil medalists just coming back from london their mood will probably not be hampered because the millions of dollars have been spent by governments in order to support those who can go faster high and stronger for their country building reports. the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent reminder of their victories
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a big shiny medal but what can the champions expect in financial terms with 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 the 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 is 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 at 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 davening 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. or a very strong incentive you asked me to try harder for you. see you later thanks for the. lines a former politician who suffered for speaking out while his country is struggling so badly right now it's coming right up.
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my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me. for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but
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