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and ten american rage gains momentum with several deaths across the arab world in protest over a u.s. made film mocking the prophet muhammad embassies schools and restaurants are under attack. in cairo protesters are still gathering outside the u.s. embassy and they have a police presence this is a live picture you're looking at. now after a summer breeze brushes opposition set for nationwide marches as public sector workers prepare to join their rallies for the first time.
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and the u.k. orders a probe into why fuel costs are kept high even want to well prices drop with traders and city speculators accused of breaking the market. the out of their capital you're watching the daschle welcome to the program furious crowds attacking american embassies across the islamic world are infusing to scale down the protests which continue to claim wife's angry over us made film mocking as long as the demonstrators are now targeting any american or western establishment or mission and inject one person has been killed in clashes with police who are trying to hold off the protesters are reports from cairo. the winds are spreading across the region and becoming increasingly intensified in various countries in june as protesters sic fire to beat american embassy we've also been hearing
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reports that they set fire to an american school according to eyewitnesses at the embassy the exchanges of gunfire we also know the protestors were holding up the al qaida flag not some type of scenes we're playing out in sudan where we know the shots for thousands of protesters where also stormed the american embassy now they climbed over onto the border at the same time there was some of the scenes being played out in front of the british and german embassies but we are hearing that all the diplomatic staff was evacuated to safety the only parents of the beast one person who has been introduced to the people who have been injured and let them out and this is where a k.f.c. restaurant in the northern city of tripoli was saved a blaze in a two we're hearing reports of clashes between protesters and police in yemen here we are hearing that the police fired tear gas and live rounds on the crowd that was trying to storm the american embassy a day earlier the protesters reached the limits what security barrier they managed
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to push through that barrier and the united states is saying we need to try to beef up its a truce with poisons there in egypt the situation is as he threw it as ever i've spent hours trying to make my way through the college in the streets on one hand you have very angry frustrated mostly young protesters hurling concrete slabs of pavement and at the same time throwing bricks and stones and pieces of glass at the security police behind me the security police have cordoned off all the streets surrounding the american embassy here in cairo and it took me literally civil hour was to make my way through just three or four streets it's very dangerous because you have these flying pieces of mace oil coming at you from all directions the police until you have been firing tear gas the tear. yes it's particularly strong seen a number of people headed away perhaps in front of me off here hailing the tear gas will also hearing reports coming from the more than
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a sign that and all linked militant group has attacked a multinational peacekeeping force there now we understand that at least peacekeepers will urge according to military sources they were about sixty to seventy gunmen north an attack on these militants and it was so the sinai peninsula which for some time is really you know unstable is the timing creasy so. the reporting of cairo now that was r.t. is a correspondent he can stay up to date with all the latest developments there by following her twitter feed. azar and journalist believes this unrest was a long time coming and isn't going to and any time soon. terrible here about the deaths of people that are sensibly over this ridiculous film but as to where diplomatic relations live the leaders of those countries will be telling washington if they indeed have relations with washington. who seems like the
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chicken is coming home to roost it's difficult to see how it could have been alerted the people who made the film he designed this to happen and you know we don't have fire in a gravity as in the crowded theater is in effect the arab world the global south countries that have been devastated by centuries of colonialism of those decades of us imperialism and will be taking their mommas policies in the past five years have been so. debilitating to so many millions of people it's not a case of activism as such it was a broad array of people who detest us imperialism and there we can expect more and more to follow and more catalysts on whether it be as crazy film or another one of the president obama or who knows president romney's crazy foreign policy ideas because. he will not be the only diplomat. presumably it will be targeted and it's not a good time now for u.s. diplomats around the world. now there's more opinion on what's happening in the
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arab world online for you at r.t. dot com we're posting the latest updates their lives and say come in there's a timeline as well for how the situation is developing. now look out of the suspected director of the and i'm muslim felt it was now under investigation for possible breach of probation by using an alias to publish the movie the sistine five year old man from away has already served a prison term for financial crimes. washington has the floyd it's marines across the arab world to protect u.s. missions while the white house struggles to contain the fallout america's leadership has condemned the film and stressed it had nothing to do with it but as artists garnishee com reports the video is not the only grievance the protestors
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have against the u.s. . as angry mobs in muslim countries stormed u.s. embassies and burned american flags the u.s. president delivers yet another speech about how good americans intentions really are and have been in the muslim world america's approach that we care not just about our own country not just about our own interests but about theirs that even as voices of suspicion mistrust seek to divide countries and cultures from one another the united states of america will never retreat from the world. we will never stop working for the dignity and freedom that every person deserves it could be that the obama administration thinks by supporting revolutions by fostering regime change washington is winning the hearts and minds of the people in that part of the world but we sent events showed that's not quite so if you look at poll numbers that gauge public attitude towards the u.s. in different muslim countries u.s.
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approval rating is the same as it was under president george w. bush in some countries like pakistan it's much worse and these numbers have nothing to do with the infamous film but they do have something to do with us policies you know we can rap any kind of purple finger revolution we want people to have democracy and have freedom but at the end of the day when we look at the results of what's been accomplished over two decades of being in this region destabilizing the region we have hundreds of millions of people who are that in a lot of cases had their world turned upside down and in many cases they've had relatives that have been killed in this process and we're building enemies towards this country and you know i think that there's a need for a major wake up call in the west especially the united states the way the administration is trying to somehow contain the blowback over this same type islamic film is by bashing the film and saying that they to find it disgusting but now it's clear to pretty much everyone that it's not just about the film this rage against the united states has been brewing for
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a while and it seems it needed just the spark to blow up and the film tragically provided that spark the administration's soothing words about democracy don't seem to help much in putting out the flame of rage now sweeping across the arab world in washington i'm going to check on. now with words from washington having little effect on the arab protest anti-war activists john breeze says there are actions the u.s. can take to show good will and calm the situation down. i would say that there are a number of things that should be done immediately first of all the troops should be withdrawn from afghanistan immediately that would be a huge signal in the in the in muslim world that america didn't intend to continue the new conservative foreign policy of the last ten years or so they could immediately withdraw the covert assistance which they are they are giving in the syrian in the syrian conflict they could immediately withdraw the sanctions on iran
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these would be very very serious it was the rather than president obama a ringing up president morsi and lecturing him for twenty minutes both all accounts about how his government needs to be more pro-american it would be better if he dealt with the people in his own country is producing this this kind of thing after all america has fought a war in two predominantly muslim countries in the last ten years three if you include it's important in the attack on libya now surely the should be a moment where a responsible leader of a country that has done that take some action when a film is produced of this kind which in those circumstances is bound to result in anger across the middle east.
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russia's opposition is gearing up for its first big rallies after a summer a long marches will take place all across the country the largest being in moscow and for the first time opposition groups will be joined by teachers and other public sector workers well let's get now more on this from our correspondent. there now tell us what is this protest against. well you of course first and foremost they have the same demands that they've had for the last several months or rather for for the for the last several for the previous rallies and that is they basically want the government and the president to step down to hold extraordinary elections stuff. because they believe the elections in the state didn't win the
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presidential elections in their in. laws however and this time around they decided to spice things up a little bit by adding several a social issues to their agenda they do not want to see the privatization of schools and hospitals in museum and some such and met perhaps that is the reason why there are will there will be joined by the social workers because this time they actually will be hearing some of the slogans which will be resonating with them there are also several laws which the opposition find to questionable or that they strongly dislike for example the law in foreign agents which we'll see in you're going to zation or group participating in the political life of the country abroad which is sponsored from abroad to come under strict and thorough investigation rather financially this occasion of course of course there's also the issue of the pussy riot trial which has just recently completed in moscow a lot of the opposition see pussy riot as the sort of there. are sort of as there
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patron saints if you pardon the pun odd they also disagree with the. with the jail sentence that the three members of the punk group collective have received so basically these are the issues which they will be protesting against they're promising to take out they're probably going to bring out. about twenty five thousand people this time around the last time that such a rally was held this was a june twelfth. only gather around twenty three thousand at all even though they have said that they're gathering around hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of moscow so we'll see how many people will come out for this particular march while absolutely right as you just said you gave us the numbers and as before were so huge numbers of people but the numbers that they stated that will come out in numbers of people that really turned out were not yet the same so are we likely to see as many people as before. well this is precisely the probably the trying or the the interesting point about this particular march after
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a serb rather relaxed somewhere with no marches or rallies that will be interesting to see what will be happening and of course. there is this is going to be a test for several reasons first of all we will have to see how peaceful this demonstration will be the one in june when down just spine there were no provocations there were no conflicts no arrests a lot of people said that that was actually the. example of how marches in russia should be conducted but the one that we hadn't made that one went wrong in a lot of ways there were probably caterers there were people who were throwing rocks and pieces of the concrete into the crowd hitting police going into open confrontation with them so there were four hundred people who were arrested there were several policemen who were who were hurt and hospitalized as a result this is going to be interesting to see whether or not we can expect something like this to happen of course there will be a security measures in moscow we're expecting. seven thousand up policemen as the
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minister of interior has said will be out on the streets and making sure that the march does go down peacefully and of course the second reason why this is a test and probably the main reason to see whether or not they will actually be able to bring out as many people as they promised to bring out they do always say that they're there they're collecting. they're gathering hundreds of thousands of people but at the end they do gather about fifty sixty thousand so we'll see how many people actually respond and come to this particular rally all right andy thanks very much for this update there english the reporting there from central moscow. and later this hour here in our team to twitter or not to tweet we ask the question. we put that out there for the general public so just to if you look at it's going to be used against one court you know be sure to set it you know it's going to incriminate him so. after a new york board of workers in the release of private tweets the resident wonders whether a free speech is at stake on the web. britain has ordered financial watchdogs to
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investigate a possible oil prices scale traders and city speculators are accused of rigging markets to make sure prize drops aren't passed on to consumers as ideas laura smith reports the costs are pushing up how much britain's pay for all their goods. the city is under fire again this time it's traders and speculators in for a grilling as the energy minister announces an investigation into breaking the petrol price it's meant fulls in the oil price on posts on to consumers making petrol and diesel more expensive in real terms than they've ever been pump prices are quick to fill when the oil price rises very slow to full when it goes down petrol price campaign is coaling on they found guilty of breaking the price to go to prison the scandal follows a huge rise in the price at the pump it's gone up ten p. since early july to around one pound forty elites and that high price builds of
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doubt into the entire economy ninety percent of everything we have in our homes is delivered by laurie and with fuel prices so high haulage companies are full of to post that expense to consumers making literally everything food clothes domestic appliances more expensive it also impacts on labor mobility so how far people could travel to get to work and whether they can get new jobs that require some distance to the fuel price can even impact on the unemployment rate which is hovering around eight percent at the moment wants no claim is what the alternative is speculating only one is the price of one of the consequences of free market capitalism which often results in corporations getting which sometimes at the expense of ordinary people so imprison the perpetrators they might use but it's unlikely to change much
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what it will do is divert attention from the government's role sixty percent of the price consumers pay at the pump is tax the highest in europe. demand for arena while is on the rise despite any embargo an american sanctions to. national energy agency says iran sold more unscrewed in august and july when the restrictions came into force the measures are forcing iran to stop its nuclear program which to iran maintains it's for purely peaceful purposes despite this country's resources are still in demand with turkey china and india currently the top importers the u.s. treasury meanwhile says the sanctions are effective and have slashed school exports in half compared to last year but the policy director adds the international radio american council says iran's nuclear program won't suffer anyway. i don't know that you could actually look at the lost revenues from oil exports and say iran has
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taken away money from its nuclear program or reduced money for military spending because frankly with the threat of war i think you're on is probably continuing down the path that it's already already has been on with stations you know there's no perfect sanctions regime there's always going to be holes there's always going to be loopholes there's always going to be this game of whack a mole where you draw a response within the u.s. tries to ratchet up and you're never going to get a perfect embargo. so i think that the question is the question is ok now you have these sanctions what do we do with these are we going to leverage these or is this a repeat of what we had with iraq where we did a great job of restricting oil sales and then doing well for food but the end of the day that didn't actually yield anything but massive humanitarian suffer suffering and then eventually this movement for disasters invasion. look at some other stories from around the world afghanistan militants have attacked a nato base where britain's prince harry is currently stationed killing two marines
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and injuring several others comes after the taliban threatened to kidnap and kill the prince while he's on duty in the country the militants were armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles prince harry was not harmed in the attack. the duke and duchess of cambridge are. suing a french magazine after it published topless pictures of kate middleton the pictures were taken while the couple were holiday at a private chateau in france proceedings have been launched in a country over alleged breach of privacy william and kate are currently on a tour of southeast asia and the south pacific to mark the queen's diamond jubilee . twitter has agreed to hand over the deleted tweets of an occupy wall street protester whose among those charged for blocking the brooklyn bridge last year the social network was threatened with sanctions didn't revolve around three months worth of the activist records those tweets allegedly undermine the protesters
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claims that the police intentionally pushed the crowds on the bridge only to arrest them for obstructing traffic. critics say twitter is decision sets a president were authorities can now pertain information which was assumed to be private residence or hardness went to the streets of new york to find out if people feel less protected. a manhattan judge has ordered twitter to release the tweets of an occupy wall street protester and those tweets are expected to be used against him in a criminal trial is that an invasion of his privacy and right free speech this week let's talk about that so let's say it was a terrorist saying ok let's go attack somebody what it was it was it was an american expressing his views. you know just trying to get his message out there ok some would call him a terrorist and a person that you might think is
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a terrorist might feel like they're just expressing them their need them what they're frustrated. i don't know if we always seem to be you know. giving you information that you haven't been revealed yet or a broadcast yet so i appreciate that we're going to play never stops as he put it out there for the general public so pissed off local that's going to be used against in court you know he should've said it you know he's going to incriminate himself that's his own fault so what you say under free speech just so it should still be subject to law yeah if i go on television and tell everybody how to avoid cops to commit a crime and get away with it and do it on television. smile faults i think the most interesting thing about twitter is if the internet is not journalism but writing is going to start to save more of a hold than it probably needs to be treated similar soon newspaper ads or other things that might be written in print media and so i'm not sure if twitter should
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give it up. if they want to start to grow i think they might have to do what about that person's right to their own tweets and their privacy depends how serious the matter is i think yeah i think. that line do you trust the government to draw that line i don't know if you don't want to in the public you don't put it out on. you want people to use oh yeah it's kind of a canvas screaming out a window if you're posting it on the internet. so things like most people agree because social media is taking on a more important role in social justice change and counterculture the laws around social media are going to have to evolve as well. now when the world's biggest conglomerates bring their business to the most secluded and often sacred corners of the earth they usually hurt much more than people's beliefs of
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a dancer group promised an ancient indian tribe or asperity the technological leap into the future. to reports turn out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. it's one of the most serene and sacred places in india me i'm gary hills home to the. tribe for years thousands of tribal people here have been relocated by a london based conglomerate the vedanta group it wanted to mine into mountains considered sacred to extract the aluminum or box a for use and its refineries specially built nearby but the social and environmental costs have been high the income source of people from three hundred fifty villages have been destroyed so what will these people do they depend on the land and forest for their livelihood believe that their land is their mother father god we have a deep respect for their land but for now the indian government has kicked out
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saying the group has violated forest conservation and environmental protection laws that. while some say india could stimulate its economy by accessing its natural resources the people in this community believe that their land is sacred and they're not going to let any foreign corporations come in and destroy it praful maha says that vedanta took two acres of his land promised him compensation but that he never received anything and it's not just his communities environment that has been destroyed he says that the actions of the company have damaged the wellbeing of local people so there's been an increase in. many health issues. and. vedanta did not respond to our requests for comment but has said in the past that it believes it can make significant contributions to the people of the area and bring development to the region critics however say that hasn't happened. most of
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the local people that we've spoken to feel that they've had promises made by the company that have just been broken and that they not only have they not received development from the company but fundamentally they do not want the balance in the company all they want is to be allowed to live their lives in peace the confrontation has received attention from high profile figures like movie director james cameron who compared the dispute to a real life avatar vedanta are trying to appeal the decision by the indian government in a bid to allow them to continue their work but for now local people are celebrating their victory in preserving their ancestral lands. who will work towards our development and who will not we want to live the way we did. and it seems like they might have the chance to do just that the john grier can say they'll fight for what's there is no matter who they're up against preassure either r.t.
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