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this is why you should watch only on. the un's new peace envoy for syria's a stop in the civil war is now his main task. tens of thousands of syrians flee the country for neighboring refugee camps but jordan with its own lack of resources struggles to deal with the influx more from the jordanian syrian border in just a few moments. joining us on his future is still up in the day after the we could he said it makes his first public appearance in months calling on the u.s. to stop hunting down with the lowest. diplomatic route breads the union of twelve latin american countries towns by the door following britain's perceived threats to door with its embassy under arrest today in a sign of more coming up in just a minute. and the 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 over american tactics. you're watching r.t.d. live from moscow the newly confirmed peace envoy for syria says his main task is to stop the civil war in the country this as the u.n. observer mission there has come to an end amid escalating violence tens of thousands of the conflict neighboring states including jordan 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're being housed in refugee camps along this border into jordan in 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 in the jordanian health ministry is talking about health risks there 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 killed in a number of people were 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 the violence there spiraling out of control just today monday there were heavy losses 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 right. 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 of 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. meanwhile there's no peace in the country were nato bombing campaign help regime change. coming up libya's new authority super good to develop the loyalists accused of bomb blasts there came a year after rebels took control of the country. south america's foreign ministers have condemned britain's thread to storm london embassy duress julian
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assange on sunday the weekly said sir 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 his r.v. is laura smith. 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 pen 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 saw his first statement since he went into the ecuadorian embassy two months ago there was really a rally kind of a con of like atmosphere with a variety of speakers leading up to sounds coming out on to the balcony behind me
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and to addressing his supporters and his followers he thanked a lot of people he also told a story about how on wednesday night he heard small news 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 always say thanks for doing what he called holding the constitution and of of universal sisson ship he'll say thank the stuff at this very crime embassy he must be getting under their feet quite so low it's 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 do the same it's f.b.i.
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investigation. the united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. oil supporters. the united states must whinge. that it will not because you journalists are shining shining a light. in the secret crimes of the powerful. this situation of course is 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 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
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a standoff with neither country apparent to what it's about down to dinner stone just spanish know about his own says that he's going to know suit with the un international court if julian assange is not allowed to leave the door. laura smith also spoke to whistleblower when human rights activists quake mari he says campaigns against those revealing embarrassing state secrets have become common practice. i think of fortunately there's a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today was 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 tame them with the charges very often sexual charges because that destroys their 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
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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 but 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 gave a media interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could or an embassy. still to come for you this julian assange may be busy with his own problems but the work of we can continue. at this point right now it's given me. this. line right now i
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count was oh any point at this point any word with her for approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are there is no location that you can go to on the public street and in most buildings where you're not being videoed according to recent reports by the whistle blowing web site the u.s. government is using highly advanced by went to washington. leaving them with no way to find. american drones have fired. multiple missiles into the region on pakistan's border killing at least ten suspected militants in the first strike t.v. calls carrying insurgents were hit while in a separate attack the home was destroyed a scene a retired officer of the pakistani force sultan am holly says the tactics the u.s. uses it it's fine to what the terrorists may well backfire. afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since
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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 say ten thousand kilometers away but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are 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
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reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad to discuss more now i'm joined by a milton. the publisher and editor in chief of the blackstar news thank you so much for joining us here on our team. now the government blames the attacks on gadhafi loyalists but security forces have also struggled to assert control over armed groups who took part in last year's uprising and now refuse to lay down their weapons how do you see the the situation. well i see it as highly chaotic so even though that's what the some blends of authorities are saying blaming it on pro khadafi loyalists that itself is not even certain as we know there are many competing and contesting militia groups in libya today we have benghazi we are probably we have the western mountains we have southern libya so to be honest it's not definitely know who could be behind these kind of actions
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and i think what might be disturbing is that normally when these kind of activities start they don't just and so sadly there could be such more actions similar explosions in the days and months to come. i mean violence in tribal classes are still cannot really point said yes catherine go ahead. yes what i was going to say what it really points is that the question needs to be posed is libya really and libyans are they better off today than they were a year ago before the nature invasion and intervention and the bombing that's a serious question that still has not been answered and judging by the situation on the ground it's not clear that things are any better in libya today than before the nature intervention i think there's a rush to try to create a semblance of normalcy and in this rush many serious issues are not being
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addressed while it's ok to have elections as the recent elections which are held in libya you really cannot have stability without addressing the issues of the weapons that are widely available at the end of the day the people that really exercise power in libya today are the armed militias regardless of how many elections you have if these issues are not addressed we will see similar violence in the months ahead. right now earlier this month libya's interim national transitional council handed polity newly elected assembly how much change will this very move bring to the people well that's also remains in doubt because as you know a whole segment of the population was not included in those elections and i referring to the issue of the people of taiwan ground who are ethnically cleanse from their city and are now living in refugee camps within their own country i
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don't see what kind of world we live in were a whole segment of a country's population can be excluded from national elections and there is no national outcry this would not be tolerated in any other part of the world so these are the kind of issues that need to be addressed we can pretend all we want that there is now is some glance of normalcy in libya but underneath it to disguise real issues that still need to be addressed. right now to another issue libya is dealing with the authorities now say that toppled leaders son saif gadhafi will stand trial next month on charges of ordering the killings of dissent is the international war crimes court is concerned the one get a fair trial they are you given that today you know there's so much going on there's not even there a clear rule of law right now. that is a diversion to be honest with you that is the least of libya's problems or concerns
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today those are just issues that are being pushed beyond what needs to be addressed to divert attention from the real issues in libya we need to also look back at the nato campaign on libya the destruction of property the destruction of lives i remember at one time there was some talk on the international criminal court that nato would have to be brought to account for what amounted to war crimes who is going to address those issues these are rather than focusing on the proposed trial of the son of gadhafi that's really addressed the more serious issues the destruction on libya that was caused by the nato that needs to be addressed who is going to compensate libyans for the lives that were lost and the property that were destroyed that to me seems to be a much more serious issue than the proposed trial of one of qaddafi surviving sons so the revolution was not a success and you know it's well if you read the newspapers including the new
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york times they're no longer referring to the people in charge as revolutionaries i think that stopped a few months ago when it became when questions started arising as to what was the authentic nature of this our pricing in libya and to what extent was it domestically influence and to what extent was it from outside and that question also needs to be addressed right we'll leave it right there thank you so much mr milton ali maji who is the publisher and editor in chief of the blackstone thanks for being on r.t. . right other news in brief now egypt's president mohamed morsi will visit iran for summit at the end of the month it is a first trip there by an egyptian leaders his relations with to run 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 years current to run they have not had full diplomatic relations since one thousand nine hundred eighty following
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iran's islamic revolution and egypt recognition of 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 the so-called friendly fire tacks against international forces the latest on sunday two afghan police mentoring their weapons and with troops on the border with pakistan killing one ten u.s. soldiers have died in such incidents in the last two weeks of. the wife of former chinese communist politician has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a british businessman who never denied she poisoned neil heywood in november last year for supposedly threatening her son after a failed business deal with a suspended death sentence usually result in life it was meant in china her husband was a contender for the top position of the communist party but has not been seen in public
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since his wife's trial now every single second of every single day the u.s. government has secretly spying on its people and this is according to e-mails released by wiki leaks the system called trip wire collects data from all surveillance cameras nationwide and sends it to a main server at an undisclosed location in a part there has been uncovering 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 then family program is called problem wire and right now i'm joined by peter sleep to find out more about it steve what you strap wire
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for the set up or is owned by the abraxas corporation or actually a bracks a 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 at 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 and then if 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 new 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 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. countless i have 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 part of america that's equivalent to the eye of god i can follow your camera to
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camera to camera if you started walking south and you walked all the way to the battery top i would have you on camera constantly your entire. here to make it. i think yes. they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to a subtle storage location like there are things 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 the trap art can do to protect me or stop me so then what is the point that. you
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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 implementation. in my opinion not particularly a fact marina for niamh artsy new york. times the business now with katie full of rundown on. the day's market action and it's been a day for women and has indeed to have a out of women in the money and that's what is income to late is expects job more than china's and india is economy combines and it's now if it's a woman who knows her business touchdown. details are us. 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 feel they stray zing on this talk markets but investor story they may
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be overlooking is the ladies themselves henson young says women represent the biggest developing market globally and could see the ailing world economy this emerging market is not part of brics but it will come from the other moments more than a quarter of women in developing countries are cottle from the economy they count almost a billion and once they get unfold the impact of these new workers will be greater than the demographic explosion in the past century parents and younger expect that in the next five years women's 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 but to capitalize on it 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 as the youngest
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for a man to invest more in women before we start cashing in on ourselves but telephonic over business r.t. moscow. sounds good to mail is going to wall street and see what's happening apple leading the rally in the tech sector the financials the managing to recover from the losses that we had in the session but we still stay in the red territory meanwhile the european markets ended lower this monday for sure once again the rule the day that says investors right in the euro zone leaders meetings taking place this week now top of the agenda is expected to be greece's request for an extension to the bailout plan of a common currency continues to stay afloat although still giving back most of the early gains us all to the european central bank said that they were forced upon to cap the government bond yields in the euro zone was misleading not dampened the meds and slightly while the russian ruble benefited from a weaker u.s. dollar that has investors speculate that the federal reserve man else moves to miss
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measures at this rate that i had a mixed close on the x. the markets finished trench in negative territory this monday that is russia's top trading partners china struggles to regain strength among spies and positive domestic days ahead russia we have first tells rose almost seventy percent of its retail so false a country's g.d.p. increased by four point four percent in the first six months of the us domestically strong his international pressure to take the metal one of the advantages of living in russia is that compared with other western nations utility bills are relatively cheap but that could soon change of the country from those its plans to more than double the severance tax from its main supply gas for all. news agency fin market the monopoly has admitted that plan tax regime will make it unprofitable to provide cheap gas to local consumers but the also won't be able to dampen prices of this
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