tv [untitled] September 15, 2012 2:00pm-2:30pm EDT
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the offer of muslim protest is in response to an american film mocking. more countries as demonstrations rage for a fifth day. washington races to save face and contain the scandal which ignores the power to take advantage of american sentiment that according to opinion polls has been brewing for years. and after summer break russia's opposition comes together once again in smaller numbers and with public sector workers joining the rallies for the first time.
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international news in come and live from the new center here in moscow this is our to be with you twenty four hours a day fierce anti-american protests by muslims have continued to spring up on their fifth straight day demonstrations spread to new countries and continents in response to a u.s. made film. was across the latest developments and joins me now paula the the wave of fury seemingly picked on friday how are things looking the day after the storm. well both we've now seen five consecutive days of violence across north africa and the middle east that have seen at least seven people killed in demonstrations that targeted the american embassy as well as american businesses the situation remains. and. calm the united states has beefed up its security and this is a mission that has reinforcements to the capital yemenite. at the same time
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the quest to send the snow we see the capital city. one subject by authorities there they say that they can deal with the security situation by themselves from libya we are hearing and of course this is where the american ambassador and three . that high ranking u.s. stock in the state will someday be clearing that for a grace has been made we have no information at this stage as to the identities of those are wasted but we are hearing that an announcement regarding reserve race will be made soon both the united states and libyan authorities are pointing at al qaida they say that the attack has the fingerprints of al qaida and al-qaeda has released a statement and although it doesn't take responsibility directly for this attack in benghazi it has said that the attack was in response to the killing of all kind is the number two by u.s. drones at the same time we're also hearing that the f.b.i. has to spend a visit to libya to deal with the investigation because of security concerns in
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that country now also on saturday there were demonstrations in the capital from city of paris where the demonstrations were taking place near the american consulate there have also been demonstrations in belgian and some american protesters there clashed with police and as i mentioned earlier demonstrations also taking place in yemen there the local al qaida has courted for more protests and also more killings of american stock members on saturday did well warning shots fired in yemen during clashes to prevent the crowds of protesters from reaching the american embassy there have also been demonstrations in sydney australia where the police used tear gas keep quiet at crowds we know that the muslim population in australia is next increase the same but anger there is bubbling of i mean there were demonstrations in eleven on somalia iraq pakistan and turkey so as you see
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this and that has spread across the whole region in the united states good believe the creator of this film is not cool at best then he has been taken in by american mccarty's for questioning now he has said that he does not look great making this film although he does with great loss of life but we are hearing that he is considering releasing the full version of the film. and what about the protests where you are in car and they first showed up and choose they have been the last and the momentum since. certainly the demonstrations here in cairo have lost momentum right now and saturday it is essentially a mop up operation but as i'm speaking to you the street team is are still cleaning up the degree the glass the the rocks and the stones that are left over from the last few days of fighting i tell you we have to date as one protester killed in cairo ninety nine police officers were injured and some one hundred and fifty people have been
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a wasted now the egyptian prime minister has said that the united states must do all it can to make sure that islam is in no way spoken badly about no way in and in any way harmed but at the same time he has said that the needs to be safety measures increased at diplomatic missions everything from cairo that it is going to be through not local security at the american embassy they're all questions that are being australian kyra the first is how will protesters able to scale the american embassy out to want to put up a play put up a flag inside the compound before reinforcements were also in questions also being asked about the initial reaction of the egyptian president mohammed morsi who initially and spoke out against the film but later on to speaking to the american president barack obama at that stage he spoke out against the violence the united states and egypt are traditionally close pocket as it does seem as if this relationship is very rocky at the moment the last word we heard from president
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barack obama is that he does not consider a egypt and ally while at the same time he does not consider them an end in the parties paula slimline from current thanks very much indeed for that update. well dr shriram charlie he's dean of the school of international affairs believes that people should surge deeper for the root cause of the protests. but through district nobody in australia or in foreign countries which are obvious from the epicenter of the arab spring region i think those are more spontaneous but libya egypt yemen these are like post-revolutionary societies and this is where you have seen the brunt of the violence and the skill of the group of seven rather high and i do these are politically orchestrated by local actors who are being backed by some of these rich donors from these don't want to be smaller also behind the edge of dollar to assad in syria so i see this as a you know many ways an extension of the proxy war that's going on in syria we're
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so efficient extreme fundamentalist have been unleashed in the name of toppling the assad regime the same some of these are not money just intelligent violent and reactionary manner to outrank you feel that you've been ignored it is a connection of not of these you cannot be separate dream we need to look at it in all of it together right our we're also closely following the violence that continues to unfold throughout the arab world don't come with the protests timeline and in-depth analysis is one of the full profile of the man behind this scandalous anti muslim film you can log on to find out more on that. washington is struggling to contain the scandal condemning the controversial film while calling for calm but it's not he's got a gun reports the anti american fury has deeper roots than a simple reaction to you chub clip. as angry mobs in muslim countries
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stormed u.s. embassies and burned american flags the u.s. president delivers yet another speech about how good america's intentions were really are and have been in the muslim world america's a friend that we care not just about our own country about just about our own interests but about their. 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. approval rating is the same as it was under president george w.
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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 had it 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 it 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 too 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 a while and it seems it needed just us bark to blow up and the film tragically
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provided that spark need ministrations 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. and to want to miss joan reese has washington isn't doing enough to calm the anger in the muslim world. 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 in the muslim world that america didn't intend to continue the neo 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 these would
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be very very serious it was the rather than president obama ringing up president morsi and lecturing him for twenty minutes by all accounts about how his government needs to be more pro-american it would be better if we dealt with the people whose own country is producing this this kind of thing after all america has fought a war in to predominate the muslim countries in the last ten years three if you include its involvement in the attack on libya now surely should be a moment where a responsible leader of a country that has done that takes some action when a film is produced of this kind which in those circumstances is bound to result in anger across the middle east. the u.s. made film and also offended the muslim community here rochelle which makes up around fifteen percent of the population however no protest rallies are being held in the country some of russia's muslim officials have condemned the anti american rights abroad and of russia's republic of chechnya says that violence will not be
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tolerated and i'm thinkin of did however condemn the film stressing that those behind it are the ones responsible for the killing of innocents by angry protests. russia's opposition has gathered its first major demonstration following the summer break however in much smaller numbers than seen previously in for the first time the anti-government movement is joined by public sector workers has r.t.g. got a position of in central moscow. police say this rally was attended by up to twelve thousands of protestors opposition leaders say it's tens of thousands but i can
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tell you if it was authorized to be held until ten pm moscow time move the majority of the protesters a left before that despite the calls from one of the more radical leaders of the opposition said gale's eyes off for them for the people not to leave at least before ten pm we've heard be different demands today ranging from social related issues like to freeze the tariffs for utility bills and to raise the salaries of social sector workers to political demands like early presidential and parliamentary elections there's also been a lot of criticism of several new laws we should been passed a recently like the one on foreign agents which basically obliges n.g.o.s with foreign sponsors to be under a special government control and also the one aimed at protecting children from potentially harmful content in the media which many here people say that that new form of censorship if we talk about who attended this rally then they do represent
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completely different movements and ideas from kids to ultra nationalists communists socialists democrats gay rights activists and environmentalists and it's highly unlikely that they would be able to meet anywhere else so rallies like this are a great platform for all of them to be able to voice their personal views freely. and political analyst xander says that opposition leaders do not provide their supporters with the clarity and motivation needed to unite them. speaking about the number of the demonstrators we have already seen that they were waiting in the big keep waiting for us and. long for once again is that these bars all the rules and regulations we have to really have the very spirit. bring people in the very motivational bring people into the streets and those people who really need the most of a signal all the agenda that they are all having those nationally. and
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so on the liberals the ones that age talking to people asking for different things only is only confusing for the jurors of the population because they cannot stolz and leave it for the opposition movement. across roots levels they still face a lot of problems and challenges and they don't get much the bolts from the official of the grassroots and that is the. still ahead for this iron r.t. the right to tweet freely. put that out there for the general public so just top log of it's going to be used against one court you know be sure to set it you know it's going to incriminate himself. as twitter is forced to surrender private records to a new york court we asked the people in the city if they concerned about their own internet freedoms. and there's been an increase in the aleutian which has led to
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many health issues it wouldn't be seen on problems to be. breathing problems in london based enterprise targets a corner of india with promises of prosperity and progress however the true costs proved to be much higher the full story just ahead here on r.t. . but first tens of thousands of spaniards are marching through the streets of madrid in protest against a new wave of a sturdy measures the government is due to announce a fresh set of spending cuts by the end of the month. and spoke to a little earlier an artesian economics professor at the business school in madrid says that huge numbers of skilled workers are now taking their chances abroad. they like to stay close to home this is one of the european countries where you know the problem with. that it's very difficult you know young the spanish workers . we don't have statistics of course but i would say probably close to half of them are looking out for work you see and it is janet jones but you'll see people going
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to who went to the u.k. were there a couple years brushed the money we're actually going to latin american looking for work engineers are going to france which is you really are switzerland somewhere into the united states so there is an exodus. it's a crisis is it is this are serious just pushing through here and i don't expect that they really see the light until maybe two thousand and fourteen. britain is investigating a scandal involving oil traders and city speculators who allegedly rigged markets to hike pump prices this summer was a blow say that drops in oil prices are being passed on to the consumers the soaring cost of the petrol and diesel in the u.k. so uproar among people already struggling with the country's double dip recession the founder of a british campaign fair fuel u.k. says the country's economic hardship is directly related to the all costs. there is
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actually very. many families who are having to queue i mean food and it will be there in the car or they're small about it really that bad prices they're now all back. will be are all of which we sent to the u.k. government is the high. price of one of the major call but the problem we have slipped back into recession the back here if families are having to spend nearly eight hundred ninety pounds. how are they simply cannot spend on all the other things that make the economy moving. in america the empty corporate occupy movements aimed to surge back into the headlines on its first anniversary activists are running support for demonstration in new york before they planned to descend on wall street once again on monday the movement spread across the u.s. last year with mass rallies against economic inequality taking place in dozens of
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cities and he's cracked down on several demonstrations a leash and tear gas and make thousands of arrests and evicting tent camps from public parks activists kind of more pin believes the anti corporate movement may take new forms but it's here to stay. i would say without a doubt if one looks at the world right now one looks at what's happening in the middle east in spain greece everywhere there's a confrontation going on against the one percent so the idea that somehow the u.s. is exceptional and it's just a small passing phase i mean the u.s. is part of the world capitalist economy the economy is in a state of collapse so absolutely we're going to see more of it may take on a different character in organized labor chicago in the chicago teachers strike maybe cause more problems than it was in the early days of occupy wall street but there's going to be more confrontations as the system. the battle between twitter and the authorities for access to the records of an occupy wall street activist
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attracted why detention with many saying the prosecutors of violating privacy laws well our resident gloryhole finest hit the streets of new york to find out how people really feel about their virtual freedoms. 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 a terrorist might feel like they're just expressing them their needs and what they're frustrated by. i don't know if we always seem to be you know.
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giving you information that you haven't been revealed yet or broadcast yet so i appreciate we're going to hope that never stops because he's put not out there is true that general public so to still feel ok that's going to be used against him in court you know he shouldn't set it you know he's going to incriminate himself that's his own fault that what you say under free speech is 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 you know smile felts i think the most interesting thing about twitter is if the internet is not journalism but writing is going to start to say more of a hold than it probably needs to be treated similar sue newspaper ads or other things that might be written in print media and so i'm not sure if twitter should give it up but 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
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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. so. it's kind of a canvas screaming out a window. so i think like most people agree because social media is taking more important role in social justice change and counterculture laws around social media are going to have to evolve as well. time now for more world news in brief. the new un envoy to syria says the crisis in the country is escalating and poses a danger to the entire world looked up to him he is now in damascus and is already met president assad as one of several diplomats opposition leaders but the rebels and government forces still ignore calls to end the fighting the battles continuing in syria's main cities including aleppo and homs british activists say one hundred
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sixty people were killed across the nation on friday. police in south africa fired rubber bullets at striking mine workers in the area this after a raid on hospitals used by workers resulted in the rest of at least twelve people on friday the government announced a crackdown on the strike which is already halted production at several platinum and gold mines the unrest a ruptured last month after police shot dead thirty four striking workers. the taliban attack on the camp bastion nato base will not force prince harry to cut short his service in afghanistan the taliban admitted that the prince was the target of an assault that claimed the lives of u.s. marines twenty eight year old captain wales as he's known in the military currently serves as an apache attack helicopter pilot in afghanistan and is the first member of the royal family to take part in the conflict for thirty years. when big business arrives in a small town on the promise of employment an opportunity is never far behind but
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when the dream turns sour it's often the little people who are left to pick up the pieces. one indian community who are refusing to back down. it's one of the most serene and sacred places in india me i'm gary hills home to the dong tried it three 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 in its refineries specially built nearby but the social and environmental costs have been high. income sources people for three hundred fifty villages have been destroyed so what will these people do they depend on the land and forests for their livelihood and leave 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's it. 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 my haji says that vedanta took two acres of his land promised him compensation but that he never received anything and it's not just his community his environment that has been destroyed he says that the actions of the company have damaged the wellbeing of the 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 development 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. development and we will not we want to live the way we did. and came here and it seems like they might have the chance to do just that the john grier can say they'll fight for what's theirs no matter who they're up against preassure either
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