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find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our. the u.s. new peace envoy for syria says stopping the civil war is now his main task. tens of thousands of syrians free the country for neighboring refugee camps but jordan with its own lack of resources and struggles to deal with the influx more from the jordanian syrian border in just a few moments. joining us on just future is still up in the year after the weekend next editor makes his first public appearance in months calling on the u.s. just job hunting down with snowblowers. diplomatic brows spread at the union of twelve latin american countries times by following britain's perceived threats to storm its embassy and the rest today in a sign of more coming up in just a minute. and a u.s. drones kill at least ten suspected terrorists in pakistan but the home was also hit
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in the attack sparking questions a american tactics. twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our first the newly confirmed peace envoy for syria says his main task is to stop the civil war in the country this is a u.n. observer mission there has come to an end amid escalating violence tens of thousands are fleeing the conflict in neighboring states including jordan artie's policia has the latest from the border. well i'm standing here at the border crossing between jordan and syria it's one of the main border crossings between the two countries but security here is tight and border controls are very very effective and this is a way for a man to deal with the growing influx of syrian refugees into this country now
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according to jordanian estimates at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees are currently in jordan they've been housed in refugee camps along this border richard a new government has build forts in the process of building another one but the situation in those camps is alarming and has caused humanitarian groups to talk about a humanitarian crisis we know that the camps are overcrowded people there have little to no access to water and electricity at the same time to the closest was broken out of the jordanian health ministry is talking about health risks they were clashes last week between some of those refugees trying to break out of those camps because they actually can't leave them without permission now the violence behind me in syria is starting to spill over into to jordan today there were four shells that landed here one of them badly hurt a young jordanian gold in a number of people who rushed to hospital so that as the syrian violence creeps closer and closer into neighboring jordan the united nations observation has expired with no real peace prospects on the table in fact the situation in syria
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has actually gotten worse with violence there spiraling out of control just today monday there were heavy blasts and violence in the capital city of damascus we know that a number of people in the international community have expressed regret that the observer mission is wrapping up we hearing from the now newly confirmed new peace envoy that it is his intention to stop the civil war in syria and at the same time he has welcomed the ran into peace talks he says that there needs to be a concerted effort by the international community to deal with the syrian violence as far as russia goes moscow has said it it regrets the fact that this observer mission is wrapping up and that all that is being left in damascus raid. it's a small office to deal with a very big problem the russian foreign ministry has said that the idea that is being put forward to create security zones unilaterally is an idea that will not work there cannot be any kind of unilateral actions and that what is needed is a collective action by the international community action that is based on the
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document that was adopted at the geneva conference earlier this year in addition to this moscow has said that it is concerned by reports some more evidence that is coming forward that syrian rebels are receiving the weapons that have been smuggled in from libya in addition to this we also know now that the opposition is using british intelligence that is hoping that with its rebel attacks on government forces so a lot of new evidence coming to the fore and certainly as the situation in syria does not seem likely to hold anytime soon. so long as syria amid ongoing violence there is some who tried to do what the wearing factions have failed and bring peace marches on a boy call reports. to 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 public the dead are considered martyrs now and have been but
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the sense of loss is suffocating. her so was an army captain who was taken down by a sniper in damascus and learn who we want to see to his killers is that violence is the worst solution it only leads to more violence this is the sixth victim in the village of 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 an outcry a civil council it was established when the uprising in syria started to turn violent but the specific goal of keeping armed groups at bay the 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. they have come up with their own six point plan that aims to reduce corruption and create me up tonight she's put 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 the assad regime but rather to preserve their community should we but no matter how we differ we all need to protect our home. and so far this strategy has paid off there are still those who oppose the government but even stronger they oppose death and destruction human lives is the most of what. we should stop firing and we can talk we can discuss anything. and. it should be like a meeting together and it's the better for us and for our country these grassroot
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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. in that revolution our country again sovereignty and independence from the colonizers and the violence of the past year is aimed at stripping us from it. in addition to their. there are a credential local state pride in having good business acumen not surprising that their cuckoo ations of costs and benefits is not on the side of violence this very much is like syria and miniature muslims truth christians our with some of them support the government others that pose but most of them agree that there is nothing more precious than peace from going to our three village of outcry or in
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syria coming up on our t. peaceful pose gadhafi libya the new authorities about thirty two miles of the former use of bomb blasts they came a year after rebels took control of the country. that's also america's foreign ministers have condemned britain stretches storm ecuador's london embassy tourist julian assange on sunday the editor finally made an appearance in public calling for the us to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers he was granted asylum last week but remains ensconced in the procedure to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crimes a league ations his archies lost me. the atmosphere here 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
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here and look like they're going to be head for the whole not many but still some keeping witness to what goes on here at the ecuadorian embassy sunday of course 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 coming out on to the balcony behind me and addressing his supporters and his followers he thanked a lot of people he also told a story about how on wednesday night he heard swarms 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 bearing witness to that and making sure that nothing happened he owes to thanks for doing what he called holding the constitution and of of universal system ship you
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say thank the stuff at this very crime 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 investigation. united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. oil supporters. united states must be. good it will look as you journalists are shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. this situation of course is now developing into a full blown diplomatic route britain says that it still seeking an amicable
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solution to all of this and british officials in ecuador seeking to resume official told but that might not be easy to press in a pit to ecuador at least to suggest that it might revoke the diplomatic status of 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. developed into really a standoff with neither country apparent to what it's about down to dinner stone says spanish knew about his own says that he's going to no suit with the un international court if julian assange is not allowed to leave. or smith also spoke to whistleblowing human rights activist craig maher and he says smear campaigns against those revealing embarrassing state secrets have become common practice. i think unfortunately there's a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later
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today was a glowing 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 tame them with the cover charge is very often sexual charges because that destroys the personal reputation colophon offices law and even its attempts to back down because it's time to sell so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say that both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. at the very moment it was saying about fifty policemen moved into the building but not into the actual plant containing the ecuadorian embassy that moved into the fire escapes there's no doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and the courses backfired spectacularly because the whole world is at the age by this what william hague really is made of pulled themselves it's not the first time he wants me to interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer
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a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do in an embassy. so to come for you julian assange maybe busy with his own problems but the work of wiki leaks continues. at this point right now given the only thing that is. why. i count was zero point zero at this point any werman how the 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 according to recent reports published by the whistle blowing web site of the us government is using highly advanced spyware to watch its own citizens leaving them with no way to hide. american drones have fired multiple missiles into the region. stance border killing at least ten suspected militants in the first strike two vehicles carrying insurgents were hit while in a separate attacks a home was destroyed
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a senior retired officer of the pakistani air force sultan m. hali says the tactics the u.s. sees this in its fight with terrorism may well backfire afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied person. who can be considered a militant will be considered a militant irrespective of the fact whether the person is a terrorist or not but it is a mockery of all kinds of human rights and especially coming from a country which calls itself the champion of human rights and the only reason why the united states is banking upon the use of drones is because it considers it means by which its own troops its own people are not put at risk and sitting from ten thousand kilometers away but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are
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approached by the terrorists and they are told that since your abilities have been targeted and killed it is high time that you can take revenge and in fact the number of terrorists who are being groomed and recruited in this way is rising so it is not just a double edged sword it is counterproductive and it is increasing terrorism rather than reducing it. now our team is working day and night to provide you with the best stories and pictures from around the world find them on our website at our t.v. dot com and here's a quick look at what's waiting for you facebook users of face being labeled mad one welcome statements the online community is a guest says u.s. police reportedly retain a marine corps veteran in a mental hospital over his facebook posts it's called the arrest of government officials. and while online head over to our youtube channel today you can see the full scene right copycats that are popping up all over the world this latest show
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of support causing disruption in one of germany's and major cathedrals watch it in full on all of the. thirty three people have been arrested in libya in connection with recent bomb attacks in the capital all those detained us said to belong to a network of loyalists of the country's former leader moammar gadhafi and have reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad political analysts and middle east consultant peter yes as they don't get much worse in the country before there's any chance of getting it he 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 afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again 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 he brought that country from the doldrums into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to
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pull the strings there and of course such failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion perfect like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt. to other news in brief now egypt's president mohamed morsi will run for summit at the end of the month it is the first sheriff there by an egyptian leaders since relations with to run broke down decades ago the invitation was delivered earlier this month by iran's vice president to the first high ranking official to visit egypt in yes cairo and iran have not had full diplomatic relations since one nine hundred eighty following iran's islamic revolution and egypt recognition of israel. the u.s. military top general martin dempsey has arrived in afghanistan for meeting with senior afghan officials over a recent a wave of so-called friendly fire attacks against international forces the latest
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on sunday two afghan police men turn their weapons on u.s. troops on the border with pakistan killing one ten u.s. soldiers have died in such incidents in the last two minutes of the. the wife of a former chinese communist politician has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a british businessman who never denied she poisoned real hey wouldn't of him but last year for our supposedly threatening her son after failed a business deal was suspended death sentence usually results in life imprisonment in china her husband was a contender for the top position of the communist party but has not yet been seen in public since his wife's trial. thousands of people have been told to leave their homes as intensifying wildfires in northern california threaten rural communities a fire has also destroyed four homes and some one thousand square miles of forest and is spreading rapidly more than three thousand homes are threatened by the
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escalating blaze a series of lightning strikes in the area believed to have sparked the violence. now every single second of every single day the u.s. government has signaled the spying on its people according to e-mails released by wiki leaks the system called trap wire collects data from a surveillance camera nationwide and sends it to a main server and it undisclosed location artie's marina park there has been covering more about the 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 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. yelling programs it's probably why are right alan joyce my pet sitter seem to find out more about steve what he's trapped by or he's
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a couple or his own 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 reports 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 a certain kind of. for a target a cell so this system looks for people acting in a way consistent with terrorists doing reconnaissance on a target. that such a person is suspected it takes that person's face which has been filmed and tries
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to match it to databases of known or suspected terrorists if strathyre. possible anything 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 in fact as an investigator it's something that i and my team in fact do i. a regular basis you have no expectation of privacy out on the street walking driving meeting with people talking to people to sleep right getting anything. out of. countless i'm any 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
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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 to make you can't. just snap while they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to a subtle storage location like father you are serious about it but what bothers me most about this program is it gives a false sense of security it gives a false sense of security to the public now that it's out in the public eye and it gives a false sense of security to the law enforcement agencies prince 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
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the trap art can do to protect 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 port niamh artsy new york. but we're going to take you now live to old bed to wait as space walk. is underway by two russian cosmonauts or the international space station those pictures there of going to. go carrying out some maintenance work on the i assess expected to install and panels on the surface of the station. they will also bring back a container with bacteria and find a bad place outside. the organisms that will later be sent to earth for research in the cosmonauts will spend almost six hours outside the safety of the i assess they
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are currently six people on the international space station three russians two americans and a japanese astronaut wonderful pictures see from orbit. and right now let's join katie on the business desk where we're not taking over the world of them katie what's that about absolutely not just they are all to have a not just menu but also on the ground game with things because incomes are going up for women ready to put it into perspective for you they're going to be jumping more than china's an india's economy combines believe already so right now another woman who means business herself is tough to predict i have a she's going to give us the details of. close 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 probably just they stray zing on this talk markets but investor story they may be
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overlooking is the ladies themselves ensign young says women represents the biggest developing market globally and could save the ailing world economy this emerging market is not part of brics love it will come from there at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries are caught 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 the demographic explosion in the past century and send young to 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 advisors say if this is currently the most exciting growth story about to capitalize on its the financial world ruled by a man should start investing in women in training help them build businesses and promote a stronger female presence in executive positions so the message from s.
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then young is for man to invest more in women before we start cashing in on ourselves that you have business r.t. moscow. sounds good to me let's go live to wall street and see what's going on apple is still the biggest gainer in the session so far really is the tech stocks that are leading the gains but facebook is one of the losers in the sector not doing quite so well the biggest loser today where leigh the general sentiment called turn investors away from their concerns really to do with the overriding european sovereign debt crisis they want decisions to be made this week when the leaders meet and that brings us on to the european markets and they are indeed close for this monday but it was a negative finish as cool once again rules the day as investors reign in on the crucial euro zone leading meetings as i say now top of the gens of those expected to be greece's request for an extension to its bailout plan the common currency
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stays afloat although still giving back most of the gains we had a mixed finish for the ruble at the end of the session today the european central bank said that the reports of plans to cap governments. in the euro zone was mis leading to that was helping to reduce the gains of the euro today meanwhile the russian ruble as well had a very choppy day of travel going to the x two markets in russia then i will be able to the see that they finished firmly entrenched in negative territory this monday as russia's top trading partner china struggles to reg i took its toll not sure it despite some positive domestic dogs of both of all russia's tells rose seven percent of the country's g.d.p. raised by four point four percent in the first six months of the year now one of the advantages of living in russia is that compared with other western nations for example utility bills of relatively cheap but that could soon change if the country
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from feels its problems to more than double the severance tatts on its main supply from now according to news agency fin market them. nobody has admitted that plan tax regime will make it all profitable to provide cheap gas to local consumers on the phone also won't be able to dampen prices as this will violate w t o rules in yellow join losses of goals arctic scrambled that is in talks to join america's exxon mobile it is an a and noway start solve the vols or was a hit on the eyes big raymond says india would pay a premium for all the fines that while russia's rough stance gets cash for expensive driving under the pump a frost saudi arabia's overtaken russia is the world's top over jigsaw most guy needs to find beautiful as it falls to regain the top spot and tap the other back in about fifty five minutes with a rundown of the day's market action well thanks for that update katie good to see you as always dr short do we discover more about israel's settlement building in
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the west bank and why it's illegal under international law of being a recap of today's top news in just a few minutes stay with us you're watching r.t. . removing the root of. the.

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