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supporters wait to see his fate after the whistleblower makes his first public speech saying the u.s. must stop prosecuting those who were feel the true. diplomatic break the union of twelve latin american countries by ecuador following britain's perceived threats to embassy and the rest today and more coming up in just a minute. the un's new peace envoy for syria says stopping the civil war is now his main top body's observer mission comes to a close. by. libya rests thirty two. links to a bomb blast all of this year after the rebels took control of the country.
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in negative territory this month as a trading partner china struggles against. all the domestic. level of thinking about time to time this is. a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today i'm live in moscow south america's foreign ministers have condemned britain's threat to storm ecuador's and london embassy to arrest julian assange on sunday the wiki leaks editor finally made an appearance in public calling for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers he was granted asylum last week but remains ensconced in the embassy to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations laura smith has this report. the atmosphere here
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outside the ecuadorian embassy on monday is much calmer than it was on sunday although there are still few hardcore hangers on police and media and to cool supporters who have set up camp pen and look like they're going to be headed for the long haul not many but still some keeping witness to what. the ecuadorian embassy sunday of course saw his first statement since he went into the ecuadorian embassy two months ago there was really a rally kind of a con of the like atmosphere with a variety of speakers leading up to junior sounds coming out on to the balcony behind me and addressing his supporters and his followers he sang a lot of people he also told a story about how on wednesday night he heard rooms of police coming up the fire escape inside the ecuadorian embassy here stopping short just outside his bedroom and for some reason backing off that he thanked these supporters who were here that
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bearing witness to that and making sure that nothing happened he also thanked for doing what he called holding the constitution and of of universal sisson ship you say thank the staff at this very cramped embassy he must be getting under their feet quite a lot but one of the most important things he said was that he called on the u.s. to stop the persecution of whistleblowers the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks. united states must be doing its f.b.i. investigation. the united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. oil supporters. the united states must pledge before the world that it will knock his you journalist for shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. this situation of course
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has now developed into a full blown diplomatic route britain says that it still seeking an amicable solution to all of this and british officials in ecuador are seeking to resume official told but that might not be easy to rescind a pit to ecuador at least to suggest that it might revoke the diplomatic status at the embassy behind me and this storm it with police and be able to arrest. the twelve member union of south american nations has backed in what develops into really a standoff with neither country appearing to what it's about doubted in the stars is spanish noir about the starkest still and says that he's going to merge in north sea with the un international court today and ourselves is not allowed to leave ecuador. also as i spoke to a whistleblower and human rights activist craig he says smear campaigns against
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those revealing embarrassing state secrets have now become common practice. i think unfortunately there's a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes on the latest of a whistle blowing because obviously it's quite difficult for states to convict people of telling the truth about state's misdemeanors so what you do is you. have the charges very often sexual charges because that destroys the personal reputation colophon offices. units attempts to back down because it's found to sell so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say about both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. the very moment it was saying about fifty policemen moved into the building but not into the actual plant containing the ecuadorian embassy but moved into the fire escapes there's no doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to d.h. should be on the convention on behalf of the british foreign office and the cause has backfired spectacularly big. the whole world is an age but this is what william
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hague really is major pulled himself he. first time he wants media interview in which he said that as a student he used to drink fourteen pints of beer a day i think he must attend twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do in embassy. this is r.t. still to come for you in this hour julian assange may be busy with his own problems but the work of wiki leaks continues. at this rate given that. i. was. at this point at this point any word with the approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery that there is no location that you can go to on the public street according to recent reports published by the whistle blowing web site that u.s. government is using a highly advanced spy ware to watch its own citizens and ultimately leaving them with nowhere left to hide. now the newly confirmed peace envoy for syria says
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his main task is to stop the civil war in the country there says the u.n. observer mission there was come to an end amid escalating violence and heavy clashes now being reported in the capital damascus and to the south and of course are claiming more lives in the conflict moscow has voiced its regret that the observers mandate couldn't be prolonged with only a small liers on office left behind to support future peace efforts more evidence as are most of syrian rebels are receiving increased their liveries of weapons from libya brought in. the opposition claims british intelligence is aiding the rebel attacks on government forces but amid all the violence there are some syrians trying to do what the warring factions have failed to do and that's bring peace. talks on a boy who reports. it's a reach all in syria have become painfully accustomed to neighbors and relatives coming to pay homage to yet another of the fallen there few tears at least in
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public the dead are considered martyrs now and haven't but the sense of loss is suffocating. as sound was an army captain who was taken down by a sniper in damascus and learned well i want to say to his killers is that violence is the worst solution it only leads to more violence this is the sixth victim and the village of dying in southern syria all of them were serving in the army and all were killed far from home the village itself hasn't seen any violent clashes and for the locals it's no coincidence. so they call it a civil council it was established when the uprising in syria started to turn violent but the specific goal of keeping armed groups of bay locals figured out the best way to do that is through embracing greater freedoms. our main demand is
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greater freedom of speech we all have enough courage to express ourselves and with the world to have come up with their own six point plan aims to reduce corruption and create more opportunities for the young that dissatisfaction is seen here as the main driver of clashes in the north something that these elders are trying to avoid not so much to preserve their sad regime but rather to preserve their community should we look at the law no matter how we differ we all need to protect . and so far this strategy has paid off there are still those who oppose the government but even stronger they oppose death and destruction of human lives is the most of what. we should stop firing and we can talk we can discuss anything. and. it should be like
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a meeting together and it's the better for us and for our country this grassroot experiment in reconciliation is all the more striking given that this village has a long history of armed resistance outcry was the birthplace of the syrian revolution against the french two years long it claimed thousands of lives and left more than one hundred thousand homeless maybe that's why the locals are so eager to avoid new revolutions. that revolutions our country again sovereignty and independence from the colonizers and the violence of the past year is aimed at stripping us from it. and in addition revenue to their. listen to credentials local state pride in having good business acumen not surprising that their kook relations of costs and benefits is not on the side of milans this analogy is like syria and miniature muslims jews christians our weights some of them support the government
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others that pose but most of them agree that there is nothing more precious than peace it's not going to arthur c. the village of outcry in syria. thanks for joining us here in our to today still ahead for you in this hour love or hate that's the case what a hardline islamic movement is really preaching in belgium and the possible misconceptions surrounding it. every single second of every single day the u.s. government is secretly spying on its people and that's according to e-mails released by wiki leaks the system called trap wire collects data from all surveillance cameras nationwide and then funnels all of it to a server an undisclosed location to use that marina portnoy has been uncovering more about this mysterious software. on any given day some twenty million people are making their way through new york city what most if not all are oblivious to is how closed circuit cameras filming from nearly every corner are being utilized
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according to wiki leaks documents c.c.t.v. cameras throughout america are monitoring encrypting and storing nearly every move americans are making in public opinion ballots program is called top wire and right now i'm joined by peter steve to find out more about it steve what is trap wire or is that trip wire is owned by the abraxas corporation or actually abraxas software no. it was developed by three former cia agents. it is a socialist system that takes data everything from facial recognition to suspicious activity records a license plate reader camera records all types of telekinesis and all the data and it feeds it into a software system that it tempts to predict if there's going to be a terrorist attack on a location the theory behind trouble is that there's going to be
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a certain kind of look for a target a cell so this system looks for people acting in a way consistent with terrorists doing reconnaissance on a target and then at such a person is suspected it takes that person's face which has been filmed and tries to match it to databases of known or suspected terrorists if strathyre. first of all anything you do on the public street is legal i can take a camera and follow you everywhere you walk on the public street i can record every building you go into i can write down your license plate i can take photos of everybody you meet with and in fact as an investigator it's something that i and my team in fact do. a regular basis you have no expectation of privacy out on the street walking driving meeting with people talking to people at this point right here giving me anything. that is. not. countless
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i think at this point at this point anywhere in manhattan from approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are could there is no location that you can go to on the public street and in most buildings where you're not being videoed this this part of america that's equivalent to the eye of god i can follow your camera to camera to camera if you started walking south and you walk all the way to the battery i would have you on camera constantly your entire. here and if you can't i think yes well they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to a central storage location but there are certain things about it and what bothers me most about this program is it gives a false sense of security and gives a false sense of security to the public now that it's out in the public eye and it
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gives a false sense of security to the law enforcement agencies prints interest stations two blocks down that way if i'm a terrorist i can put a backpack on my shoulder walk into the middle of grand central station during five o'clock friday rush hour right now and set off an explosive and there is nothing the trap art can do to protect me or stop me so then what is the point that. you know well the point of trip wire is to make a ton of money for the people that started it but but to not be to not be flip about it the theory behind trip wire is good the implementation. in my opinion not particularly effective marina for niamh artsy new york. i like to forget her and you can always have is at our website a lot more on the story. as we're covering and you'll find many other stories as well including. pakistan as a young girl with mental health problems is beaten and charged with blasphemy but all of this reportedly burning some pages of the koran she could now face the death
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penalty and more details on that on our website. and while online i head over to our channel you can see the pussy riot copycats that are popping up all over the world like this the latest show of support causing destruction of one of germany's major cathedrals watch it in full on artie's you tube channel. now thirty two people have been arrested in libya in connection with the recent bomb attacks in the capital all those detained a said to belong to a network of loyalists of the country's former leader more market daffy and have reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad political analyst and middle east consultant peter says it will get much worse in the country before it gets any better. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a for sure we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again
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a force regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway groups because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways brought back from the doldrums into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull that the stream and of course that's failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion if it occurs like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt. or either let's go into the r.t. world update now we'll start with the egyptian president mohamed morsi he will be visiting iran for a summit at the end of the month it is the first trip there by an egyptian leader since relations with tehran broke down decades ago the invitation was delivered earlier this month by iran's vice president the first high ranking official to visit egypt in years cairo and tehran have not had full diplomatic relations since one nine hundred eighty following iran's islamic revolution and his recognition of
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israel. the u.s. military top general martin dempsey has arrived in afghanistan for a meeting with senior afghan officials over a recent wave of so-called friendly fire attacks against international forces in the latest on sunday to afghan policeman turned their weapons on u.s. troops on the border with pakistan killing one ten u.s. soldiers have died in such incidents in just the past two weeks. the wife of a former chinese communist politician has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a british businessman gu kailai never denied to poison neil heywood in november last year for supposedly threatening her son after a failed business deal a suspended. sentence usually results in life imprisonment in china her husband was a contender for the top position of the communist party but it's now well he's not shown his face in public since his wife's trial. thousands of people have been told
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to leave their homes as intensifying wildfires in northern california threaten rural communities the fire has already destroyed four homes and some nine hundred square miles of forest so it's reading rapidly right now actually more than three thousand homes are threatened by the escalating blaze a series of lightning strikes in the area are believed to have sparked the fires. now they are perceived to be radical and violent and the growing presence of islamists in the heart of europe is alarming many of the leaders of the salafi community in belgium say the worrying misconception stems from the actions of only a few. reports over here into walks of district in the belgium the local media here have reported that there's an organization called it might cause a party that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi sorgen ization that preaches radical islam and the website has been blocked and there's no easy way to get in touch with them so we decided to come
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here and find out what we could. but we couldn't get much of a few residents have also made it clear that me word welcome local media reports say that this organization was founded by two brothers who studied in saudi arabia and preaches a form of hardline islamic that is quote unquote tough on both muslims and non muslims alike citing an anonymous source. i'm scared for my children because when i play music please people come and harass me it's not normal my kids are around them they bother me to see their aggressive to you because they have a camera it's not normal i know they saw me speaking to you so i'm going to get into trouble i know it it's difficult because all the feasts who are radicals of course but all of them are no terrorists. to make a clear distinction between the original movement conservative one.
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are very conservative but not violent radical islam has received much media attention as of late in june in the leader of another radical group shari'a for exult could previously given us an interview was arrested for posting an internet video urging quote his brothers and sisters to fight against nonbelievers after a woman was detained for wearing a face veil clashes later erupted between muslim youths. and police in retaliation for the woman's detention and days later a french muslim stabbed two policemen in brussels saying he had come to attack policemen and take revenge on the belgian government for banning the burka the german intelligence service said of its most recent annual report that salafism was the fastest growing islamic movement in the world and that it calls for replacing national legal frameworks with sharia law authored by means of a violent struggle against the state but abdelkader a theologian at the main islamic center and mosque in brussels and himself
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a salafi explains that the actions of a minority add to the confusion in the way muslims are perceived it acidifies what is salafi if we take the definition of salafi it means looking at our predecessors and going back to the very first ways of islam what it can be the beard the clothing even smiling can be part of the prophetic tradition of salafi is not a call for war it's not a call for jihad it's not to ask people to be full of hate on the contrary salafi is a religion is for extremists you find them in every religion for us we are moderate we're in the center but what of those who are not moderate. groups like these that offer speech which are completely opposite of belgian society they don't know where they are they choose the wrong place it's not in a country like belgium that you can offer that kind of speech because it doesn't work but in the end there's a small groups they're not the majority within their community. authorities and
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experts agree that the challenge lies in identifying radical groups with the potential for violence and intercepting the radicalization process of young people before it's too late just recently r t brussels. the recent wave of social protests in israel has exposed the pressing housing problem the country's poor facing but the new homes that the government's been building on occupied palestinian territories are only causing even greater problems i was quoting to an israeli lawyer who documented the illegality of the west bank settlements here's a quick preview. israel has no surrender in the west bank the continuation of the completion in the west bank in danger of the state of israel with a home in the jewish people and a democratic state we're talking about problems economic problems in israel severe economic problems it's real but when the government is talking about the west bank the broken economy programs benefit because if they want to remove people
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in the open now. which is somewhere around somewhere else because the supreme court of justice or for israel ordered it then the government has a lot of money to bring them there or to build new houses. or the off to. study by the r.t. business describe how the markets look at the moment i do understand that ladies like yourself are changing the world absolutely i certainly think so it is all to do with a new report or rate with women's incomes jumping more than china and india's economy combined that's just putting it into perspective for you so over to another lady who means business artie's tough south africa have a she's got a nice house. because of business in the moscow business center but just a couple of decades ago you wouldn't have seen so many women. these ladies have
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probably just finished they stray thing on this talk markets but invest the story they may be overlooking is the ladies themselves ensign young says women represents the biggest developing market globally and save the ailing world economy this emerging market is not part of brics month it will come from the at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries a cop told from the economy they count almost a bill them and once they get in the fold the impact of these new workers will be greater than that demographic explosion in the past century and some younger expect that in the next five years women income will grow by five trillion dollars to eighteen trillion dollars globally which will double the g.d.p. growth of india and china together investor adviser say if this is currently the most exciting growth story but to capitalize on it the financial world ruled by a man should start investing in women in training help them build businesses and
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promote a stronger female presence in executive positions so the message from as the youngest for a man to invest more in women before we start cashing in on ourselves but you have business r.t. moscow. u.s. stocks all still falling with bush says about will head to an all time high wall thanks book is something to a new ally in the time for an early tech sector retreat and the best is also on european leaders meeting at it this way moving on to the european markets and still struggling for direction as investors remain all know funds until this stuff is are in place to pull the price is one of the topics and spreads to dominate is greece's request for an extension to expand out of the common core as it continues to give modest gains from its a day as mother should just about getting as you can see pretty soon we're ready for lots of us off the european central bank said that the reports of plan to tap the government going guilds is the euro zone was misleading so there's no way to have the prices so that they will the russian ruble benefited from the u.s.
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dollar finished up makes against the main cards is that those who do the fed was the meeting minutes to about this week the russian markets as you can see in just firmly entrenched in negative territory this monday as russia's top trading part of china struggles to regain strength enough to spice up the did domestic days of personal boxes. rose almost seven percent plus the country's g.d.p. increased by four point four percent with us six months to get brant crude is above one hundred dollars ahead of the closure of a key u.k. filled in the north on the next but tensions of boredom on hold the northern hemisphere is going to take said stay with the commodity well story has the balls to scramble. joint america's exxon mobile and know why south pole vault over its an. agreement says india would pay a premium for oil it finds that while russia. is for expensive driving under the promise cross. over take you must. produce up almost needs to find new deposits
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