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thanks. pressure clashes erupt in bahrain with police using tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters as a prominent human rights activist a way to support that it's. also this hour the world's largest international islamic body prepares to show syria the door some member countries funneled more equipment and allegedly weapons to the rebels. and smile for the cia the u.s. reportedly expires on its own connecting all surveillance cameras nationwide experts fear the systems being an.
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international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me thanks for joining us there have been more clashes in bahrain as a crucial court ruling looms for prominent human rights activists now bill rajab whose prosecution is hardening the country's opposition most clashes took place in the country's biggest city only where tear gas and rubber bullets were used to despise the crowds several people were wounded and around four arrested a verdict expected on thursday on the belgrade job his setting three months for making anti-government comments on twitter and taking part in an illegal gathering bahrain's uprising began a ground and a public call for greater freedoms for their monarchy a leading figure in the gulf states largest opposition party told r.t. that the government suppresses every attempt to quote. what is happening in bahrain as a monarchy that the whole of it is our control. there is not a presentation
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a real representation for the people and the cabinet and they just know that there is the in the judicial look. he thinks that the people on. form this political system to have representation to have represented the government now the security people they don't want even people to demonstrate peacefully they burn all their activity among senior figures like might be of their job but others being held in custody because they were taking to the capital is an homage to. the is facing allegations and he said this and criticizing. it will end up in jail trying to find out any accusation against him until ten in jail. the world's biggest global body outside the u.n. is suspending syria from the group they think to seven member station of islamic cooperation will hold an emergency summit on tuesday to agree
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a resolution on syria iran is the only member of the block to openly speak out against sidelining damascus while several member countries are conditionally backing the rebels inside syria there are conflicting claims over the fate of a government war plane that problem monday officials blame technical failure with a pilot said to have attracted but. the rebels claim they shot down a captured and captured the pilot who they allegedly shot and come here and this comes as the opposition steps up calls for libya stout intervention which has little appetite for as one foreign policy expert told r.t. . there's not a great popular support in the united states for such an event and we're in the middle of campaign season losing leading into the presidential election also we have a stronger opposition in the scenario we have china russia and iran all openly opposed to this so it would be a much more difficult step because one is not popular popular support for the
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intervention and because there are much stronger opponent abroad the reality is that the free syrian army are in a volatile position they don't have the capabilities that the syrian national army has so they're seeking greater external support currently the united states and other nations are supporting the free syrian army or the opposition with huge amounts of aid this is a problematic though because. this is we're going to still make we've been in the stomach for months with what we've just seen what more casualties but we're not seeing any advancement to any sort of alcan. you're washing our hands coming up later this hour welcome to baluchistan the oil rich hot bed of terrorism that he'll probably never heard of he gives you a guided tour of domestic problems the world's gotten. it's been revealed that the u.s. government has secret may spying on its citizens using an advanced surveillance program software cold trap juana allegedly has access to all security cameras
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across the country documents revealed as we can explain the software uses the collected data in order to people via facial recognition trap wise courageous it was designed to provide a simple but powerful way of connecting and recording suspicious activity reports censorship and technology campaigner arrant small sense people's every move online and on the streets is now being. the n.s.a. is able to use cameras all over the country to zoom in on someone and track them wherever they go there's actually you know they they say explicitly the cameras can pan tilt and zoom in on particular faces so that wherever you are in the country at any of these high risk locations where there are military bases or corporations or government sites they can zoom in on you track what you're doing and colet all the pictures across the entire country or the entire globe it all goes into a big face recognition database so that you know if they see the same person at
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multiple places they can track them wherever they go and in fact there are reports that they've been talking to companies like facebook and so on so not only can they track you in the real world but they can track your face wherever you post online and that can capture you know thousands of innocent americans millions of innocent americans the notion that all of this is happening totally unaccountable by a private corporation that's building these big databases of where anyone is at any time and being able to zoom in on them is really quite frightening there's no evidence that this is helping keep us more secure the government has repeatedly failed to show examples of where collecting all of this vast for data has actually prevented terrorist attacks instead what we do have are clear examples where it's been abused used against the constitution and the fourth amendment protections we have in the united states and used to go after political enemies as opposed to actual terrorists. ecuador's president says he'll decide on a sounders phase later this week we can expand has been at the country's london embassy since june after escaping house arrest imposed by british. signage warns
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asylum in ecuador to avoid extradition to sweden on sex crimes charges that whistleblowing mastermind fee is the u.s. is behind it to prosecute him for releasing secret diplomatic cables their weekly acts websites then and in turn has had cats heart for other week that is now back up and running a group calling itself until leaks claims it carried out the online also not saying it's got scores to settle with a sandwich the head of the u.k.'s pirate party suspects a powerful force behind the hackers. but we can follow me see that there is a concerted attempt to interfere with a whistle blowing flight at the moment that is the appears to be the most concerning hacker and denial of service attack all with the leaks for some time now this group and she leaks is claiming responsibility in good outcome quite in you amateurish. out of a wiki leaks so. i'm kind of united don't involve both
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certainly. the amount of traffic. to possibly machines now difficult. truth in any of the planes it would actually seem unlikely to a group like and too big for a new group. from out going to tag but nevertheless not impossible although it is in fact possible to do that with fewer than one thousand machines but that would take some or all of them organization. still ahead for you this hour on r.c.b. global dry and learning to love thy neighbor. creasing ways but some previous powerhouses are feeling mycelium left out and want to get in the way as reports. i guess you know the games fever is going to leave brits taking some tough
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recession that send the full story in a couple of minutes for you. pakistan's largest province baluchistan may not mean much to many people but among the experts it's known as terror and terrorism hold bad and some u.s. lawmakers are even calling for his independence. and explains the region and its importance. baluchistan. you may have never heard of it or maybe caught a glimpse of it in a hollywood blockbuster but the place is a hot destination for intelligence services from around the globe hotbed a few insurgency home to various terrorist organizations kidnappings assassinations terror that's part of everyday life in baluchistan looking at its location as part of pakistan bordering afghanistan and iran you may think well no surprise they enjoy his place but apart from being a dangerous place the lucious done is a big geo political importance where major world powers have interest and china one
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of them a lucius that is sitting at the crossroads of oil and gas pipelines coming from central asia in iran and elsewhere the iran pakistan pipeline that took menace then of ghana's then pakistan india pipeline not to mention that baluchistan itself has its energy resources besides its water port and it's right here is the access point of chinese chinese commercial shipping to the indian ocean and on to africa. but all the violence and instability there doesn't make it an easy place for business investigative journalist eric draitser tells me some world powers might be interested in keeping it that way first of all we have various indigenous terrorist organizations that operate inside of below tristan the liberation army. republican army lashkar e tayyiba just to name
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a few giunta law is an organization that for decades has been focused on destabilization of iran now the confluence of these various terrorist organizations of course is not coincidental this has a direct relation to the interests of the united states in the western powers. blocking the chinese destabilize. as in pakistan and part of waging their covert war against iran in hopes of not just in circling that country but to collapse it from outside the us government denies having any connection with jordan doll and baluch terrorist organizations although cia memos leaked recently say these really mossad recruited john dollar members quote under the nose of u.s. intelligence officers end of quote as far as other terrorist groups like the be loosely gratian front there are a few people in u.s. congress who expressed readiness to support the separation of baluchistan from
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pakistan like dana rohrbacher from the house of representatives comedian foreign affairs any bad anything that's coming up right now that the pakistanis don't like about our attitude is being caused by actions taken by their government as far as who could benefit from instability in baluchistan most experts say it's extremists of all kinds mainly al-qaeda and its affiliates and as well as the taliban they certainly have an interest in many instability but some also see baluchistan is a key square on the geopolitical chessboard the united states knows they cannot compete with china economically or industrially so they have to stunt china's development through these various subversive tactics they're willing to engage with various terrorist networks that they've had for many many years if not decades in order to try to make the chinese stall in their economic development so according to you hype wars are real and creating instability is one of the instruments to
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gain advantage but wouldn't it backfire the terror violence instability could it backfire in terms of terrorist reciprocation against the united states this is entirely possible but that didn't prevent the united states in the late one nine hundred seventy s. from financing and supporting the mujahideen against the soviets allegations that some global powers may be stoking violence in a place like baluchistan for their geopolitical interests are quite disturbing and raises the question why the pipeline wars are a reality in washington i'm going to check out. he's got more stories from around the world for you america's new military appliance address is preparing for a possible culprits in the age of a segment i think those are at altitude all for you. and also that a bottle of bad taste and it's highly and one repays a shopping mall measure the country's processed pasta had online for the details.
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it's easy to. download the application so. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch or to hear all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any toy and. london twenty twelve proved
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to be a glorious spectacle but now there's the sobering reality of talking recession with deep cuts ahead but increasing numbers of brits owned convinced does at the top are the ones to save the country reports now from london. it was a full night of sports and celebration but now that the party's over the house inevitably kicks in it's come in the form of a big economic headache and the governor of the bank of england hasn't provided any relief as he says the live picture leads to any kind of last sting boost to the british economy thing that ultimately the games console to the underlying economic situation the country faces and the reality of that situation is becoming increasingly clear the u.k. is officially in a double dip recession the u.k. economy's been shrinking for the last week quarters and the latest report from the bank of england basically puts the group's full cost but this year at zero revised
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down from an estimate of north point eight percent in may one of the things contributing to a lack of growth is recession in the euro zone damaging exports but something else the u.k. central bank cites as holding back growth is the government's fiscal consolidation program that comes as britain's million as say they've lost confidence in the chancellor's economic policies for the first time in the same survey six months ago sixty percent of the country's millionaires said they had faith in george osborne but now fifty two percent admit they have no confidence in his plan to fix the economy and don't believe in the coalition government economic strategy and the rich on the only ones who have lost faith in the government in a serious crisis of public confidence five out of six voters now believe the coalition won't survive until the next general election in two thousand and fifteen
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the liberal democrats and conservatives have vowed to stick together to solve the economic woes but if they fail to do that it could easily be a very long and painful hangover. and later this hour in our business while russians are heading to the shops in spite of the economic uncertainty so whirling around right now katie russell they are indeed with credit cards and going shopping meanwhile elsewhere in the world people all like to. be explaining why the business better than i gave you a breakdown of all the global action in about five minutes time. and more world news for you right now from the norwegian politicians say they've received death threats from the un to muslim organization of mass murder and his bravery claims to belong to a verdict expected next week to decide whether the killer is sent to prison or psychiatric facility habits killing seventy seven people mostly teenagers and twin
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attacks on you toil island and also low but denies terrorism. reaganite a protest and surely over taksin education reforms saw thirty two students arrested during a gathering in the capital president pinera is refusing to give them to their demands proposing instead to create a billion dollars worth of scholarships and lower student loan interest the country suffers from poor quality schools was publishing students unable to afford expensive universities. and helen gurley brown a journalistic piny a writer and a role model for single girls around the world has died in new york aged ninety four editing the bestselling cosmopolitan magazine for thirty two years brown was a fashion and social outing can and a longtime advocate for women's rights and sexual liberation all of them turned its
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campaign as well initially suspicious of the browns focus on sex and she was later credited with breaking down barriers for where and then. answered oh boy. the links between ages two fosters grow. economies china and india range from sharing billions of dollars in trade to having a similar outlook on the walls big issues as priya sridhar reports now the growing powerhouse friendship is one which some western countries would like to see called down i have everything from. blogs neighborhood was. what aboard those in this warehouse and sar there are bizarre delhi's largest wholesale market for household items maher has a stash of hundreds of chinese products. he's been traveling to china every two months for the past ten years it's very easy you're doing business enjoying.
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everything. and. you have a good image of the chinese to many kumar's enthusiasm over china might seem unusual the two asian powerhouses have historically had tense ties over everything from their borders to their choice of friends but you wouldn't sense any kind of animosity it's are there are bizarre worse sixty percent of the products sold here are imported from china. there should be more real friendship. and movies of the partnership between india and china extends beyond just making money the two countries also have a track record of voting similarly on foreign policy issues ranging from libya to iran to syria many experts believe that's because both countries are adamantly opposed to western military intervention which might be why some believe it's the west that is buddying up to india to counterbalance washington's growing fear of
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china and in turn encouraging a rivalry between the two neighbors. it's very insecure. about china will grow. everything they did in their benefit that these conflicts keep coming up between india and china so none of us can get out. and it's easy to see why with forty percent of the world's population and two of the fastest growing economies in the world an alliance between the two countries could actually spell double trouble for the united states i don't think the us is playing any positive role between india and china and the friendship and all our friendship with china is much more important than what we're doing this is with us now us is a declining. power i think this is a. us that if india and china come together they can be a big power who can. challenge their supporters. at some other
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bizarre pub in kumar is proud of how big he's grown his family's business which he believes wouldn't have been possible without importing from his chinese friends so our business is in my blood so i started a business so today i am in board everything when they. were there in june here i started buying these are done and selling these are going to. entrepreneurs like pavane are finding that joining forces with china is proving to be an unstoppable formula for success preassure either r.t. new delhi india. the white house is exploring whether to issue an executive order to protect the nation's critical computer infrastructure following congress' failure to lead this month and now it's time we talked to apple co-founder steve wozniak who says freedom on the web might soon be a saying of the past. free speech is not absolute in my mind it's
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a very important right it has to go through considerations of did you violate it in ways that might be somebody else i think the internet should have been considered from day one a country of its own that isn't bound by any individual country's laws maybe we could have an internet government but it didn't happen just like world government doesn't happen you know space doesn't belong to anyone the moon doesn't belong to anyone these are really beautiful principles and wife and then as soon as a country figures out a way to get control of them it disappears. and time for business now katie is that the markets here in moscow are now real began shaking katie they are indeed and they've opened up in positive territory this tuesday and that's following on from the gains that were made on monday and it seems to be energy firms including ross nast and gas producer nova that are really driving the market so far this week so that's check out the numbers and they often
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speak for themselves so let's see what the r.c.s. there are eight tenths of a percent out of the my six it's around half a percent in positive territory so we're following the situation and see if we're going to have the changes that are out that i see the russian currency because that too is a rumbling and it is actually different from yesterday it's now managing to get a i guess the u.s. dollar and the common currency as for the european currency that it's one twenty three sixty five there's also a gain a lot of the sentiments coming out of europe today that we're going to be following we have the french economy posting zero growth in the second quarter the g.d.p. figures. as well coming out of the whole of the eurozone as more details on that later up let's get to each of them because they're still running and we've got them on the rise now says the bank of japan minutes showed that policymakers are considering steps to boost the economy and that's a response to japan's economy growing slower than expected in the second quarter with x. walls i can see my spending showing weakness and today those energy is still gaining
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but financials are feeling the pinch. it is back on the multi month highs in the wake of the data from japan that i mentioned but there is one of them fairly minor and that says investors remain confident the major central banks are going to intervene to support the softening economies as all the data coming out today is going to be all about the retail sales and it's expected to show that they improved on the all price is that if we may say they are indeed expected to drop to the lowest level in a full month that's all to do with a tropical storm in the gulf of mexico reducing imports and refinery useful ization rate a five year high. and russians are getting deeper and deeper into debt as the crisis bank loans to people are growing the returns quicker than corporate does people here remember the bad lessons of previous crisis i'm talking about inflation
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and ruble devaluation as well that could be easing up people's savings such an i pod reports. one of fear itself and all fold in crisis are scooping russia a slump in the oil price or ruble collapse like in the mind is what the russians doing about it well they go shopping but they are born with more money than ever to do so present card debt is expected to rise almost eighty five percent this year it is already thirty three percent and that is adding writable market minimum twenty four percent interest when the crisis threatens to appeals historically tighten their belts postponing big purchases such as cars and houses by law of the russians this july for example moved in two hundred fifty thousand new cars were sold here in russia more than pre-crisis speaks in two thousand and eight mortgages already up eleven per sounds and this figure is expected to truthful by the year and despite the fact that the russian transfield must pay
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a minimum twelve per cent annual interest three times higher than in the u.s. for example. as for average shopping while sales in europe are the creasing here in russia volumes for the pros top of the roof by seven per cent it could be we are seeing a distinct russian consumer confidence but what is sure while economizing europeans cost suspicious russians assure lower prices even more lower shelves and continue to tame high perhaps at the cost of common sense but some of the global business are to moscow. and about five minutes i'm going to be talking about the figures for the european market thank you very much indeed we'll be looking to ok on the way on the way the man who co-created the world's biggest computer company apple outlines his fears for online freedom.
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