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tonight violence flares in bahrain rubber bullets and tear gas rained down on antigovernment protests meanwhile a court delays its verdict on problem and human rights activists till next month. the world's largest islamic body is suspending syria with a random the only member speaking out now in support of damascus. and ecuador's president is set to decide the fate of julian assange choose waiting for an asylum ruling that says u.s. hackers try to crash the wiki leaks website.
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welcomes his r.t. live from moscow at eight pm my name's kevin zero in with your top stories here this hour and first a court in bahrain has delayed the verdict in the retrial of twenty human rights activists until next month it appears prominent campaigner now bill roggio is not among them and his verdict is said to be delivered on thursday his prosecution galvanized the shiite rebels in their eighteen month long fight for equal rights from the saudi monarchy but all comes as fresh clashes flared up in one of bahrain's largest cities of. protesters there were met with tear gas and rubber bullets with reported injuries in the rest now bill rogers currently serving his latest three month sentence for making anti-government comments on twitter and taking part in an illegal gathering geopolitical analyst patrick henningsen police despite calls from u.s. lawmakers to release rajab washington is calling on bahrain to suppress the rebels . in bahrain i believe they're getting their marching orders directly from the pentagon the bahraini royal family which is to quell and press
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send and the reason is because the pentagon simply cannot afford to have a genuine uprising or any form of political instability going to country that is out. it's that naval fleet is very important because right now after the election or right around the u.s. election there is a war drums against iran they're going to start beating those again and the hyping up the conflict with iran the fifth fleet is a really important piece on the chess board for the united states so obviously bahrain is going to do whatever washington says but this isn't direct contradiction to hillary clinton who's parading around with the friends of syria and the arab league and talking about them about democracy while the u.s. is funding al qaeda and suicide bombers in syria so it doesn't make it there's no there's a lot of hypocrisy is coming out of washington when you look at the situation in bahrain which is very ugly. the world's biggest global body outside the u.n. suspending syria's membership the organization of islamic cooperation is to hold
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emergency summit to agree a resolution on the country iran's the only member of the block to vocally spoken out against sidelight in damascus but several member countries like qatar and saudi arabia are pushing to mobilize support for syrian rebels longstanding regional rivals dominated. the rand they've taken opposite stances on syria this is syria's opposition steps up calls for a libya style intervention fighters to topple gadhafi are among rebel ranks middle east of a culture of says the conflict is long ceased being a domestic war. what we have is. that effectively has collapsed and lost its control over the country but the alternative hasn't been born yet and there's lots of interference and meddling by outside forces trying to shape what this alternative is going to be and things like the libyan fighters the fighters from the last years conflict in libya are moving into syria are one expression of external factors now taking part in this syrian
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conflict but ultimately the story remains the same if you want something good for syria it has to be determined by the syrian people themselves not by external agents trying to orchestrate what the outcome is going to be that would be a really catastrophic decision to try to set up their no fly zone bit with affectively it will lead to an escalation that quickly will become a kind of military confrontation a full scale military confrontation and many critics within the state says that. so there frowning for the cameras amid growing big brother criticism in the us the government said they been secretly spying on the american people connecting nation wide c.c.t.v. in a bid to detect suspected terrorists and we look at just who might benefit from keeping part of asia unstable and filled with terror as we explore the largest province of pakistan. ecuador's president says he hopes to decide on julian assange just political asylum plea later this week rafael career told state t.v.
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that there was still legal issues to examine before making what he called a responsible decision julian assange has been holed up in ecuador's london embassy since june the wiki leaks editor is wanted on sex crimes charges in sweden but believes extradition to stockholm will see him shipped straight off to the u.s. to be tried for exposing secret diplomatic cables the fight to stop her son's getting asylum search moved online now with a group of u.s. hackers launching an attack on the wiki leaks website the internet page has been affected for over a week i spoke to the head of the u.k.'s pirate party last cave believes there's a bigger force behind the hackers. what we can show me see that there is a concerted attempt to interfere with whistle blowing inside at the moment this is the appears to be the most concerned hacker and denial of service attack all regularly for some time now and indeed as he said in the report this group and she leaks has claimed responsibility and put out some quiet in yemen she statements.
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also in some kind of united states role though certainly. the amount of traffic seemed to amount to mete out and the machines now difficult to sell us shoes in any of the training they would actually seen online actually to groups like antiques a new group we able to. mouths such as the stained tag but nevertheless it's not impossible or not also it is in fact possible to do this with fewer than one thousand machines without will change them. or some organize a ship behind it. we talked to apple co-founder steve wozniak who says the wiki leaks founder julian assange has become a serious thought on the side of the u.s. government. on the surface it sounds to me like something that's that's good the
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whistleblower blew the truth the people found out what they the people had paid for you know and the government has no no the people should not know what they paid for what the internet when it first came it was a breath of fresh air it was so free nobody owned the internet space countries didn't own it they didn't control it it was worldwide it was people the people it was like we little people the world all of a sudden had this incredible resource and we didn't have to go through other people selling it to us and delivering it to us that has changed a lot i think that a lot of social interaction will be curbed i want to take that back i fear it i fear it will be that the gate keepers those who can turn on and off switches allow certain things disallow other things allow who gets to send me data about a new movie rather than everyone have an equal say so of reaching me yeah i fear that very strongly that especially net neutrality issues like that internet freedom is being interfered with in major ways and it shouldn't i think the internet should have been considered from day one a country of its own that isn't found by any individual country's laws maybe we
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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. more from them in twenty minutes time americans have been delivered a surveillance slap in the face after it was revealed that the us government's been spying on its own citizens software called trap wire claims to be able to detect behavior associated with would be terrorists by using c.c.t.v. cameras censorship and technology campaigner our source explains but more. 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
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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 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 the government has repeatedly failed to show examples of where collecting all of this vast war with 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
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opposed to actual terrorists. it's the largest province in pakistan and plays host to the crossroads of serious international economic interests throwing energy resources intelligence agencies on homegrown terrorism and the region soon finds itself a focus of growing global importance and concern is going to count explained. don. 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 a big geo political importance where major world powers have interests and china
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one of them a lucius that is sitting at the crossroads of oil and gas pipelines coming from central asia iran's and elsewhere the iran pakistan pipeline that took minutes then of ghana stand 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. republican army lashkar e tayyiba just to name a few. is an organization that for decades has been focused on the stabilization of
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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 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. congress who expressed readiness to support the separation of baluchistan from pakistan like dana rohrbacher from the house of representatives comedian on foreign
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affairs any bad anything that's coming up right now that the pakistanis don't like about our attitude is because by the 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 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 gain
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advantage but wouldn't it backfire and 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. coming up soon on r t britain's economic comedown despite the hype and io it looks like the olympics have failed to give a shot of the u.k.'s finances and if the country had a recession for example not a bit later quick update now on some stories around the world of before that a series of deadly attacks have hit afghanistan multiple suicide bombers have hit the town of the ranch in the south west of the country with the death toll now being put at thirty six over one hundred were injured there meantime
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a separate bomb blast in the northern province of couldn't those has killed at least ten people including children biol and says continued the french city come your way of more than one hundred youths from a deprived neighborhood clash with authorities buildings in cars were set on fire while police were shot at sixteen officers were injured president hansal arms vowed to get the situation under control by sending reinforcements riots in france have become a common occurrence in recent years in the sense of unease persisting in many poor ethnic neighborhoods. more than a hundred kurds who clashed with police in the south east of turkey protesters threw stones and petrol bombs at security forces there responded with smoke grenades and water cannon the violence comes twenty eight years to the day since the kurdistan workers party began its insurgency against demanding an autonomous state. but you do our leave from the democratic republic of congo along with three of the country's coaches is vanished in the u.k. following me into the limpid games the men disappeared from the olympic village
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with their luggage reportedly not answering their phones authorities in london are also looking for a seven athletes from cameroon earlier were missing their reported to be trying to stay in the country to continue with the boxing and play in the last to give up the sport if they return home. well they will athletes though are the u.k.'s only concern now that the lympics to come to a close the game's chief military planner says involvement in security for london two thousand and twelve means it will take the operations of the armed forces two years to recover this is it was revealed that the olympics also failed to boost britain's dire economic climate not is laura smith reports. 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 moving that ultimately the games console to the underlying economic
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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 or two is and the latest report from the bank of england basically puts the grades for cost but this year at zero revised down from an estimate of north point eight percent in may one of the things contributing to a lack of growth these recession in the euro is there and damaging exports but something else the u.k. central bank cites as holding back 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 thole the economic worries but if they fail to do that it could easily be
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a very long and painful high note. laura smith but he's got more stories here online around the world the scales of israeli justice are out of balance as reporting from either wrongs must be made right that's the call from activists after an israeli soldier who killed a palestinian mother and daughter was given for one month in jail and the spectacular pictures here all for the wrong reasons what was meant to have been a spectacular show inspiring to look at tasker affair after a rogue firework ignited thousands of others in a church bell oh up it goes you can see the video parties you tube channel.
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download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite from our now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time and. china and india are being cozying up together of late motivated in part by the growing economic clout in the world and that's western powers riled who fear losing their traditional hold over asia as artie's press reader explains. i have everything from going on. board the board blogs. what of all those in this warehouse
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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 in china. everything that comes. from home goes with the two asian powerhouses have historically had tens 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 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
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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 they have a border between you didn't they have been proof that these conflicts keep coming up between india and china so none of us can get all. 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 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. just after twenty one minutes past eight o'clock at night moscow time to check in with dimitri the business now the market is still cautiously moving ahead but internet coupon giant the brains of those daily deals of course groupon going down what it got for us it's down twenty five percent in just one
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session kevin seriously it was one of those big i.p.o.'s in the tech business the last year in november it's down more than seventy percent from the i.p.o. price of twenty dollars per share so not really a good deal there but overall we are seeing the u.s. markets growing around a quarter of a percent that's on the back of better than expected retail sales in the u.s. now over in europe the positive sentiment is also fueled by reports g.d.p. reports from two crucial e.u. economies that's germany and france that g.d.p. data came out better than expected and therefore this is the closing picture that we're seeing the dax therefore having around one percent on the currencies market the euro as the standard into the red against the dollar and that's losing just five points but the previous session saw some gains and today we also saw some
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e.c.v. intervention supporting the euro so barely changed in the end we while the russian ruble remains pretty firm against both currencies now commodities are also expecting some good news on wednesday good news for them is tightening inventories in the united states to the to the lowest level in. four months and therefore we're seeing some hype in light suites of brant is taking a day off and had a gain of around the dollar in the previous session so you'd find on the russian the market the r.t.s. m i six were supported by these high oil prices again around point seven percent moving to my six tad nafta was. almost always a two percent i think yes that's right one ninety seven on the back of its second quarter profits although actually you call them a loss but better than expected apple is down one point four percent despite the fact it was named one of the top ten most profitable air carriers in the world and gazprom is up more than one percent up to saying its second quarter profit all
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compared to last year. and russians are spending more they're burning cash and that's on expectations that inflation and ruble depreciation could basically eat into their savings so therefore they're trying to get rid of them that's on a bit over four. what a fear of cell phone folding prices are scooping russia a slumping old price 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 a credible market minimum twenty four percent interest when a crisis threatens europeans historically tighten their belts postponing big purchases such as cars and houses by the law of the russians this july for example more than two hundred fifty thousand new cars were sold here in russia more than
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pre-crisis peaks in two thousand and eight mortgages already up to levon per cent and this figure is expected the truth here and despite the fact that the russian transfield must pay a minimum twelve per cent annual interest three times higher than in the u.s. for example. as for everyday shopping while sales in europe are the creasing here for you for the pros here grew by seven per cent it could be we are seeing a distinct russian consumer confidence but what while economizing europeans look for low cost suspicious russians sure lower prices even more lower shelf and continue high perhaps at the cost of common sense that some of the global business are to moscow. so indeed while everyone's really patching up some some cash in the law in order for bad times to come they'll be able to be prepared for that russians
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are spending so they use anything that they have already. cheered me up to me to thank you. for and i surely we talked to apple co-founder steve wozniak to ask whether internet freedoms become a thing of the past the big names. and we appreciate that we appreciate you watching us too.
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