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opposed to this so it would be a much more difficult step because one is not popular popular support for any 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 if you're a syrian army or the opposition with huge amounts of aid this is a problematic though because. this is we're going to still mean we've been in the stomach for months with what we've just seen more casualties but we're not seeing any advisement to any sort of alcan you know washing our hands coming up later welcome to bellow tristan's me or the rate of terrorism that you've probably never heard of r.t. gives you a guided tour of the revive the rest of province and while it's gone on. it's been revealed that the u.s. government is secretly spying on its citizens using an advanced
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a surveillance program software called trap wire allegedly has access to all security cameras across the country documents revealed through we can explain that software uses the collected data to monitor people via facial recognition crop wise creators say it was designed to provide a simple but powerful way of collecting and recording suspicious like seriously records so censorship and technology company in our shorts says people's every move on line and on the street is now being watched. 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 whether they're military bases or corporations or government sites they can zoom in on you track what you're doing and coley all the pictures across the entire country or the entire globe it all goes into
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a big face recognition database so that you know if they see the same person at 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 and the government has repeatedly failed to show examples of where collecting all of this vast warrantless data has actually prevented terrorist attacks instead what we do have are clear examples where it's been abused used against the constitution the fourth amendment protections we have in the united states and used to go after political enemies as opposed to actual terrorists. ecuador's frezza dunn says he'll decide and julian assange has face later this week there wiki leaks sound has been at the country's
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in london and this is since june after escaping house arrest and. asylum in ecuador to avoid extradition to sweden to face sex crime allegations the whistle blowing us tonight he is the u.s. is behind it to prosecute him for releasing secret diplomatic cables that we can expect science that under intense have had time for over a week but it's now back up and running a group calling itself anted leaks claims it carried out the online onslaught saying it's got scores to settle with a sandwich so the head of the u.k.'s clarett party suspects a powerful saying what's behind the hype is. what we can see that there is a concerted attempt to interfere with the work of whistle blowing inside the moment that is the appears to be the most concerning denial of service attack all wiggly for some time now to this group and he leaks is claimed responsibility and put out again quite in you amateurish by. the wiki leaks and. in
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some kind of united states involvement voted firmly. the amount of traffic seemed to amount to moderate media and the machines now difficult who are selling us shooting any of the claims they would actually seem unlikely to groups like and too big for a new group we're able to mount such as this going the task but nevertheless it's not impossible although it is in fact possible to do this with fewer than one thousand machines will take them. all from organized. and still ahead here on r.c. big global giants learning to love thy neighbor india about in creasing ways but some previous powerhouses are feeling wisely left out and want to get in the way as a reporter. and why getting our games fever is going to leave britain taking
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some tough recession mattson the full story in a couple of minutes. pakistan's largest province baluchistan may not mean much to many people but among the expos it's known as a sectarian terrorism a hotbed and some u.s. lawmakers are even calling for its independence or he's going a trick and explains now the region on its port. baluchistan. you may have never heard of it or maybe caught a glimpse of it in a hollywood blockbuster but the place is a hawk this nation for intelligence services from around the globe hotbed of the 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 the rand you may think well no surprise they enjoy his place but apart from being a dangerous place the lucious done is
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a big geo political importance where major world powers have interest and china one of them down is sitting at the crossroads of oil and gas pipelines coming from central asia in iran and elsewhere the iran pakistan pipeline that took many spend of ghana's then pakistan india pipeline not to mention that baluchistan itself has its energy resources besides its water port and its 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 very 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.
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republican army lashkar e tayyiba just to name a few 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 and the western powers these the blocking the chinese the stable. 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 june dollah 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 baluch liberation front there are a few people in u.s.
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congress who expressed readiness to support the separation of baluchistan from 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 because 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 maintaining 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 stun 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
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hype wars are real and creating instability is one of the instruments to gain advantage but wouldn't it backfire that 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. on the only line he has gone north stories from around the world for you like america's new military plans are just a preparing for a possible conflict in the asia pacific the details. and landed on the ground hide details of the italian police discovery of
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chief planner says it will take the armed forces two years to recover from its heavy involvement at the london olympics a thousand personnel were deployed at sports venues the government had to draw thousand troops at the last minute after the product someone charged with the job failed to get enough security staff ready and on top of that they also has demanded that the wrong place to add defense systems be deployed in and around london during the games to repel terror attacks now that this cause fever is over britain's got a lot of its horns as the us may for all its. it was a full night of sport and celebration but now that the party is 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 but he says the lympics won't lead to any kind of last sting boost to the british economy. that ultimately the games console to the underlying economic
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situation in 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 the last week quarters and the latest report from the bank of england basically puts the group's forecast but this year they rose revised down from an estimate of north point eight percent in may one of the things contributing to a lack of growth this recession in the euro zone damaging exports but something else the u.k. central bank cites is holding but growth is the government's fiscal consolidation program 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 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
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a very long and painful hangover. and a little bit later this hour in business see well hear from casey wian russians are heading to the shops in spite of the economic uncertainty swirling around right now that. you have a. shopaholic out in force and they're reaching for their credit cards meanwhile elsewhere in the world we've got people to buy tuning the bells salva explaining the details in about five minutes time and i'll run through the markets as well. that's later but now more world news of formality for you now we're joined politicians say they received death threats from b. and to muslim organizations much smarter and just great big claims to belong to but it's expected next week to decide what the limit them to prison for psychiatric facility had and its killing seventy seven people mostly teenagers in two thousand active months on toilet island and also low but denies it.
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and i did protest and truly over time senate u.k. shore soon 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 learning trades to other countries separate from core politics schools most promising students are they able to afford expensive investments. and helen gurley brown the veteran magazine editor and role model for single girls worldwide has died in new york aged ninety three how the bestselling cosmopolitan magazine for such a two years and in doing so pushed the boundaries for women's rights and that sexual liberation and sex on that single girl said the feminist movement alight with its doctrine of getting the most out of life from the minute she was.
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the links between ages two fosters growing economies china and india range from sharing billions of dollars in trade to having a similar logo on the world's biggest shoes and as priya sridhar now reports that growing powerhouse friendship is one which some western countries would like to see called down. i have everything from china. v board blogs neighborhood as downs. in this warehouse and sar there are bizarre delhi's largest wholesale market for household items puffin kumar 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 to doing business and. everything that comes from gumbo at home. i have very good knowledge of the chinese really to many kumar's enthusiasm over china might seem unusual the two asian
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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 at sar there are bizarre worse sixty percent of the products sold here are imported from china there should go there should be more of a 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 china and in turn encouraging a rivalry between the two neighbors. is very insecure. about
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china will grow. bored if you can get in they have been proof that these conflicts keep coming up between india and china so none of us can google. 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 that the u.s. is winning any positive role between india and china and the friendship and our friendship with china is much more important than it would be nice is with us now who this is a declining. power i think this is a. us that if you can be. together they can be a big power who can. challenge their supporters. at some other 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.
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business is in my blood so i started a business. in board when they. were very chilly here i started buying these i don't i'm selling these are the. entrepreneurs like puff and 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 fall and congress' failure to lead this month and in a few minutes we'll talk to apple co-founder steve wozniak who says freedom on the web might soon be saying all the polls. free speech is not absolute in my mind it's 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
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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 that is this this time now with katie so optimism and europe katie i know you there is no us and that we're used to the moment is it really but right now we are looking as far as european actually markets are concerned i was causing it all is the best expected german and french gross domestic data now frons actually posted zero dollars they were expecting a north point one percent decline so is better than expected whereas germany is economic growth slowed less in the second course than economists had forecast as
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well because we had at school and household spending really helped to fend off the impact of the software in a debt crisis on europe's largest economy jam records so as you can see the. good stuff we've also got currencies well so look out the common currency one twenty three seventy seven just ounces responding with optimism at the moment also with the ruble you can see that it is indeed stronger once again against both the u.s. dollar and the european current state also the russian market opens up higher and that is indeed where they were in the falling on from the gains made on monday is really energy firms that are doing that so we're going to have a snapshot at some of the movers and shakers just to give you a rundown as to what is moving. the markets today if we can think the movers and shakers will be able to. see what's there to the to particularly well as you can see really fine on chills up that. one percent opposed to terry energy majors that
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was doing well with gas from seven tenths of the financial holdings is well above two percent mark so really mirroring what was happening and the moments thing into this a huge house now closed it was a busy day because we have the bank of japan minutes and the policymakers on are considering steps to boost the economy and this was all in response to japan's economy growing slower than expected in the second quarter they have their exports and consumer spending showing weakness is energy the still firms they were gaining financials are struggling but also want to mention that later on in wall street we've got some. figures coming out and they're expected to be on the outside looking towards that now that's what we're focusing our attention if we look for prices that will be able to say that they are indeed gaining there was an official report due out this week expected to show that u.s. stockpiles decreased by the lowest level for mom all right moving on to say
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russians are getting deeper and deeper into debt because the going shopping and that is in spite of the crisis is looming now we've got bank loans to people growing the way times quicker than corporates as people here are remembering the bad times and learning the lessons from previous crisis i'm talking inflation ruble devaluation. what a feeling of self and all folding prizes are scooping russia a slumping old prize a 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 a crisis threatens europeans historically tighten their belts postponing big purchases such as cars and houses by most of the russians this july for example moved in two
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hundred fifty thousand new cars were sold here in russia more than pre-crisis peaks in two thousand and eight mortgages already up eleven per sounds and this figure is expected to truthful by the gear and despite the fact that the russian conceal must pay 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 decreasing here in russia forgive the pros top of this year by seven per cent it could be we are seeing a distinct rush in consumer confidence but what is sure while economizing europeans low cost suspicious russians assure lower prices even more lower shelves and continue to aim high perhaps of the cost of common sense but some of the global business are to moscow. a bit of retail therapy that never does anyone any holiday
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