tv [untitled] August 21, 2012 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT
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tonight the u.s. president outlines a possible military plan against syria but russia warns against democracy by bombs while syrian officials talk police in moscow. suspected anders breivik sympathizers charged with plotting a copycat massacre in the czech republic just days before the norwegian mass killers jus to hear his verdict. last washington slam for al qaeda style tactics the striking those arriving to help victims hit in the wake of the american drone raid. welcome this is r.t. it's a choose the evening my name is kevin zero in our top story this moscow believe syria
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has chances of reaching peace despite those keeping the conflict burning inside and outside the country ways of ending the bloodshed of an under scrutiny for top syrian officials here in moscow and across the atlantic president obama said washington could use military action of physics signed the syrian government might try to deploy its chemical or biological weapons from off reports. because quite against moscow's position moscow has continued to insist that a political process towards peace is originated and settled within syria by syrians by the factions involved in the syrian civil war that's been escalating for nearly eighteen months now and president barack obama's comments really caused quite a global stir when he effectively said that the country would be willing to reconsider its opposition to military intervention if the government of president bashar al assad if he uses chemical or biological weapons the top a syrian a negotiator who's in moscow for these talks had called the discussion of chemical
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weapons by the west as a pretext for intervention and potential an invasion it certainly doesn't sound like that based on president obama's comments but we do have to keep in mind that syria does maintain a rather large stockpile of both the chemical and biological weapons and the syrian government has threatened to use those if the country comes under for an attack so the best we could demise from all this is a lot of saber rattling but of course saber rattling that could have devastating implications for a peaceful negotiation to the crisis which is what moscow has been pushing for that has been echoed by foreign minister sergei lavrov he said the best the west to do the best that external forces would have interest in syria could do is create a condition for internal talks to take place by the different factions cautious optimism from the russian foreign minister where he said there is hope some hope for potential national reconciliation on the ground within syria but he did also warned that there's the if there's a lot of factions both within and outside of the country who do not want to see
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a political solution to this crisis we did hear from both the the syrians who are visiting in moscow and the russian foreign minister that there is an effort being made to bring a various sides to the negotiating table we did hear the syrian delegation say that they are welcoming any any members of the opposition who wish to negotiate will be welcome to their concerns will be heard out we also have to keep in mind. the situation isn't just about what's going on within syria there are external forces who are exerting influence in that country we've heard a lot of reports about arms being smuggled across the border for the opposition and effectively a radicalization of the escalating conflict so while all sides do seem to hope for some sort of a political solution it it's very difficult to see at this point whether that will actually play out on the ground. only the u.n. security council can authorize the use of force against syria warning against unilateral action syria tribune tribune editor dr ali mohamed says any reckless
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western interference will lead to more violence when i hear obama talking about chemical weapons out of the blue i can tell you with no doubt that they are preparing a chemical weapons scam the syrian government learned from iraq from libya from other places the government army is winning why would the government give the u.s. a pretext to attack it mr obama talked about being the chemical weapons will reach the bad guys and the question is why is he and his administration supporting the bad guys and sending them to syria if he doesn't want bad guys to control the chemical weapons why is he supporting them if obama attacks syria or directly or. proxy with or without the chemical weapons pretext this will definitely lead to a diverse state and regional war that will create a whole new middle east. the draw fightings instigated a mass exodus of syrians into neighboring countries the u.n. says at least one hundred seventy thousand people have already fled his policy reports from the jordanian border. security here is tight and border controls are
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very very effective and this is a way for a man to deal with the growing influx of syrian refugees into this country now 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 and the jordanian 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 close this has broken out in 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 is starting to spill over into jordan just monday there were four shells that landed here one of them badly hurt a young or jordanian called in a number of people were rushed to hospital so that as the syrian violence creeps
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closer and closer into neighboring jordan for intervention there's not always bring peace and stability to a country ravaged by a bloody internal conflict as we discovered shortly on the program from my warnings that libya should brace itself for a surge in violence after a recent wave of bombings. but no explosive the czech republic are investigating suspected of planning a massacre similar to the killings curried by a norwegian and his brother last year weapons and police uniforms were discovered in this apartment just days before breivik studio here the verdict for killing seventy seven people into a turks. reports. and off weaponry and explosives to kill dozens of people that was the discovery of the czech police when they raided at twenty nine year old man's apartment in the city of a strong the man was reported by his neighbors to have some mental problems that's why the police decided to take action and later they arrested this man he was
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carrying a remote detonator for an explosive device on him when he was detained it's also been revealed by the czech police that an explosive device made of an aircraft bomb was found in his apartment and they did it could have killed dozens of people it was believed to be a very powerful explosive device of several kilograms of explosives in it the police are now does not reveal and does not know what this man's intentions were but already has all the reasons to believe that the man was a sympathizer of the killer from norway on this break who is due to have his verdict delivered this week sources within the interior ministry of the czech republic report that this man used a brave as he is on the internet in different forums and different social networks for now the police is trying to determine whether there have been any connection between the detained man and himself now we'll know little about this man for now
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a few pictures had been released by the czech media this man detained cuffs on him being put in a police car but for now the police are trying to keep all the information secret regarding this man so that he won't have any more followers and they're trying to determine whether he actually had any more followers or he was planning to act alone. and there are a lot of stories now still to come out of t.v. tonight anonymous schools the fake government websites of the disruption of the hands of the because in retaliation for britain's treatment of wiki leaks founder julian assange. busts abandoned sometimes the blues to protect russian orphans and to the brule this stories are here. a few minutes to. washington is being internationally condemned for turning to al qaeda style tactics by using follow up strikes and its pakistan drone raids the attacks target those who arrive at the initial scene to help victims multiple american missiles have killed over a dozen people in pakistan in the last few days alone in areas the u.s.
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claims are full of militants who can't report. the u.s. prides itself on the rule of law but on a number of issues the line between what's legal and what's not kind of blurred in the last decade or so is wiretapping legal no but in the name of national security yes there are attempts right now in congress to legalize big brother on the web by making it legal for providers to funnel all private correspondence to national security agencies the law in the u.s. protects free speech but never before has there been such a hunt for whistleblowers that's in america but as far as u.s. actions abroad the issue of what's legal and what's not even murkier washington has expanded its target assassinations program in different countries essentially putting itself above the law now i'm joined by john feffer author and co-director at the institute for policy studies he has an interesting theory of u.s. foreign policy he compares it to dexter the t.v.
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show dexter is a fictional character who is a good citizen by day and a serial killer by night but he only kills bad guys for what's so wrong about being dexter i mean everyone loves dexter was a very popular t.v. show here in the united states and all across the world but difficult moral questions because of course dexter is judge jury and executioner and sometimes he makes mistakes and the united states too is in a similar position united states often says it only kills the bad guys. in other figures that have been attacked by drones over the last few years but the united states also makes mistakes that have been and the number of civilian casualties associated with these drone strikes so in some sense they're in a similar moral quandary dexter and the u.s. government as you said you know there's administration has expanded its drone program dramatically and the strikes in pakistan yemen and other places they end up
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killing many civilians we're talking about extra judicial killings and. here's the question that pops out. you know when when someone does something outside the law they're usually afraid of getting caught but in the case of the us who is the police to catch them and there is no police is there well there isn't any police of course there are international laws and there have been a number of reports on the implications of international law on the drone attacks and the un for instance report tour has condemned drone attacks as being illegal but i think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the
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drone program the one study air force officer told us that the tactics of america's using it 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. who becomes sort of that militant will be considered a militant in the spectrum of a fact. but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and. for their lives have been targeted and killed it is high time that you can take a 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. sweden says it won't text julian assange to
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a third country if there was a risky to face the death penalty the justice ministry official made the comments to germany's paper love the most to hand the sons to sweden to face sex crime accusations but the wiki leaks had its own feels he'll end up on trial in the u.s. over the release of american diplomatic cables has been hiding for two months in the london embassy of ecuador which has granted him asylum britain says it will not let him safely leave its soil and even threaten to break into the embassy to arrest the move ecuador's president will not be diplomatic suicide internet hack a group known as anonymous money to temporarily take down several government websites over the treatment and julian assange. anonymous is doing what has been going on there so it's very beginning. because he has this organization has become one of the most driving forces in something very very
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positive but necessary. arrangements at least you know mindset between citizenry and their government. that's why this is always been a major issue that i missed and why would it seem to be actually when we see the behavior of the story from britain for instance of the us a few weeks saying such things as alligators not acknowledge he believes in other nations that's up to the office of the west has forged but in terms of diplomatic policy to the fact that william hague would say something about it shows us what who we're dealing with the terms of how crazy they get when they have to so you know we're always a very very happy that people have many many options by which to get involved in this situation in which one side is very obviously. on the other side is engaging in those. well news love you want it out c dot com our web site there now years of covertly spying on muslim neighborhoods by
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t.v. is not required to watch our tube all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any of the. agents demanding the libyan authorities to show the security of its diplomatic mission there it's after an egyptian diplomats car was blown up in the city of benghazi and a day after twin left two people dead in the libyan capital their thirty's blame loyalists of the deposed leader moammar gadhafi thirty two have been arrested libya remains unstable since the night about popular uprising resulted in daphne's ousting and death last year the editor of new york investigative newspaper blackstar news believes the latest violence could indicate other forces interest in the country. it's not definitely known who could be behind these kind of actions i think what might be disturbing is that normally when these kind of
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activities start they don't just and so sadly there could be such more actions similar explosions in the days and months to come and judging by the situation on the ground it's not clear that things are any better in libya today than before the nato intervention i think there's a rush to try to create a semblance of normalcy 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 there was some talk and the international criminal court later would have to be brought to account for what amounted to a war crimes who is going to address those issues so rather than focusing on the proposed trial of the son of qaddafi that's really addressed the more serious issues the destruction on libya that was caused by the nato who is going to compensate libyans for the lives that were lost and the property that were
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destroyed that to me seems to be a much more serious issue than the proposed trial of one of qaddafi surviving sons . to some of the top stories around the world right now car bomb near a police station in southeast killed at least nine people including four children and it's wounded scores of others to the kurdistan workers party is suspected of the attack which comes amid intensified clashes between turkish troops and kurdish rebels who are fighting from autonomy's region the group's issued a denial which to officials have dismissed as not credible. a gun battle in lebanon's more than city of tripoli is left at least two dead and several others wounded the country's and do it a number of clashes between supporters and opposes of the regime in neighboring syria the military moved into qualifying on both sides but it later restarted. an insurgent attack on a u.s. air base in afghanistan's damaged the plane of america's top military officer general martin dempsey wasn't near the aircraft at the time but two maintenance
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crew was slightly injured dempsey was in kabul to discuss the recent wave of so-called friendly fire attacks by afghan soldiers against international forces hits on the general's planes embarrassing for american forces after the taliban claim to have shot down one of their helicopters last week while remaining as presidents narrowly escaped impeachment but only because turnout at the referendum on its future was below fifty percent travis esque has been at loggerheads with the center left government which accuses him of interfering in the law and parliamentary business but he's also behind deeply divisive and measures which have been getting european backing. every year thousands of russian orphans are adopted by american families with the hope of giving them a fresh start in life but it doesn't always work out sadly with tragic stories of abandonment and beatings was however as igor piskun off reports for r.t. the resteal one place those vulnerable children can call.
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he's ten years old but has already been through more than most people would face in a way of time. this boy suffered deep psychological trauma and he often becomes secluded locks himself from the rest of the world and when it comes to america he still never talks about it in his relatively short life already been abandoned twice first by his biological russian mother and then by his american forster mother she changed her mind just six months after the adoption dumping him all alone on a flight back to moscow with nothing more than a note and a change of underwear for the last six months on its own has been living in a children's s. always village just outside moscow an international project that brings a new format to the traditional concept of children's homes and foster families here a children move in groups in separate houses each group then has its own foster mother heading up what are john himself now called
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a real family. the main goal for now is to help cover to get over his psychological problems and catch up education wise there's a large gap between what he knows and what he's supposed to know at this age. dozens of other children live in this village and although our john declined to speak on camera he's once again playing and talking with the others about to weiss it's hard to imagine what sort of stress i have to go through fortunately in a long time but he is recovering surrounded by other children unfortunately thomas white has not been an isolated case. around sixty thousand russian children have been adopted by american families over the past two decades but twenty children have died through neglect and cases of mistreatment have become all too common in europe at all so now you are free to deal with you one family adopted six girls from russia and use them to film porn they've now been convicted another us family
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specifically adopted children with disabilities just to mock them they tied them up threw them into a swimming pool put hoses in their mouths and turned on the water and these are just the cases we know of moscow is calling for the creation of a separate body within the u.s. government that will monitor the lives of children adopted from russia to prevent such stories of neglect ever happening again as for our terms former foster mother she was fined sixty thousand dollars by a us court and ordered to be a quarter of her salary every single month until he's eighteen to a boy she rejected despite once having legally agreed to love and protect you got this kind of moscow. business ok the problems there hi katie first person served with me with you know the way that people are losing faith in paper money looking for other places to park their cash and money instead philippines absolutely miss
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kevin is because of they own certainty that's going on in the globe at the moment and it means that commodities are becoming even more attractive more hopeful other people to put their money and i'm talking about food for material prices they are now hitting a record highs now for more or less all tazer tasso son that has more. it's five years ago the saugus that the world will come up to the chalk we now hold the global financial crisis successful investing during these years proved challenging it turns out commodities namely corn gold and brant crude offered the biggest return strong double digits here compared to modest gains for the footsie and the s. and p. and losses for japan's nikkei and it may not be too late to join in the commodities boom take a look at the core it's prices hit a record high on friday as the u.s. government slashed its forecast for the drought damaged crop do worst drought in
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more than a half a century i should add overnighted became the hottest commodity on the list but it still has a lot of. its dramatic rise is also the result of even all increasingly becoming part of the ghastly mix the second harvest is gold in july it saw the largest quarterly price drop since two thousand and eight or the bad news about the state of the global economy suggests central banks will increase stimuli read crank up the printing press and turn away on the u.s. dollar that will boost the gold as an alternative investment it's now priced well below its inflation adjusted high over around two thousand four hundred dollars an ounce of reached in one nine hundred eighty last but not least is crude arguably it's the most popular commodity and that's understandable since it's part of nearly every faucet over every day lives from fuel to fertilizers and cosmetics with branch trading around one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel it still has
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a lot of upside before it tops its record high of one hundred forty seven and a quarter dollars it reached in two thousand eight. hundred but the crisis follows the food chains are banking on more people eating out so they just kick in specialist now and the end to the russian market opening up twenty. he stores in two years the chain known for its controversial ads and flavored chicken has been one of the world's top thirty brands ok let's check out the markets then they're not looking right now because the dow jones has recently dipped into negative territory just one basis point just this is a change of fortune now really losing the gains from us investors are reassessing the likelihood that your editors will make progress in resulting in the region's debt crisis is this we've got the leaders may saying also the european markets though they ended up on a high hopes to remain as you can see the footsie above half
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a percent the ten's was that a positive territory as one of us up they had a well received a spanish bond auction as well the so boring calls actually the choir which is good news is getting to the exchange rate. is managing to gain in the session as of the russian currency did finish myrick as both the us solo and the european car as you can see just experiencing the biggest prize in a fortnight and that's because the price of brant oil is going over one hundred forty dollars a barrel there the market is then they held on to that strong gave a raising a weak start to the we have a look at the r.t.s. in the mice and if we've already a lot of that is because that benefiting from oil guy. we've also got hopes are running high that europe will hopefully soon house and get the strategies in place this week to put mines arrests and sugar povo sweet all the latest offerings from
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a grand slam champion maria share a new line of treats including sticky tennis balls and pasta the profits will go to charity but the tennis ball certainly won't go hungry she's the world's highest paid female athlete of the late great year and maybe that's. secret kevin all that energy helps have form on the forms of rubber lips on the picture that make all the walls this we knew that tasted at your fifty folks like katie more money on the way surely as we discuss whether any of the euro zone countries benefit from the single currency there's a good question specially in this day and age we've got the answers coming up this is r.t. . well
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