tv [untitled] September 15, 2012 3:00pm-3:30pm EDT
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the anger of muslim protesters in response to an american film walking. more countries as demonstrations raged for a fifth day. washington races to say facing contain a scandal which ignited a powder keg of anti-american sentiment that according to opinion polls has been brewing for years. and after a summer break russia's opposition comes together once again but in smaller numbers and with public sector workers joining the rallies for the first time.
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international news in come in live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the 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 mocking is an. across the latest developments. the situation remains extremely volatile with western leaders and middle eastern leaders urging for calm the united states has beefed up its security in overseas missions it has threatened reinforcements to the capital yemenite city of summer at the same time a quest to send its marines to be capital city of clocks in the sudan was rejected by authorities there they say that they can deal with the security situation by themselves from libya we're hearing and of course this is where the american ambassador and three other high ranking u.s. softening the killed someday we carry that for
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a grace has been made we have no information at this stage as to the identities of those or grace to it but we are hearing that an announcement regarding these of 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 number two by u.s. drones at the same time we're also hearing that the f.b.i. has responded visit to libya to deal with the investigation because of security concerns in 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 belgium and in american protesters very clashed with police and as i mentioned earlier demonstrations also taking place in yemen where the local client that has scored for more protests and
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also more killings of american staff members on saturday they believe one of the shots fired in yemen during clashes to prevent the crowds of protesters from cheering the american embassy there were also being demonstrations in sydney australia where the police used tear the tear gas to fire at crowds we know. that the muslim population in australia is the next increase the same but anger there is bubbling over i mean there were demonstrations in lebanon on somalia iraq. and turkey so as you see this and has spread across the whole region in the united states who believed creator of this film is not cool at best and he has been taken in by american mccarthy for questioning now he has said that he does not look great making this film although he does with great the loss of life but we are hearing that he is considering releasing the full version of the film and certainly the
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demonstrations here in cairo have lost momentum right now it is essentially a mop up operation but as i'm speaking it seems to be speaking is are still cleaning up the degree the glass rocks and the stones that are left over from the last few days of my saying the united states and egypt are traditionally close talking as it does seem as if this relationship is very rocky at the moment the last word we heard from president barack obama is that he does not consider egypt and lie while at the same time he does not consider them an enemy. dr charlie the dean of the school of international affairs believes people should search 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 evolution of societies and this is where you have seen the brunt of the violence and the skill of the seven rather high and i do these are politically
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orchestrated by local actors who are being backed by some of these rich donors from these don't want to be smaller also behind them dollars through 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 so efficient extreme fundamentalist have been unleashed in the name of calming the assad regime the same so the fees are not money just an intelligent violent and reactionary manner to outrank you feel that you have been ignored it is a connection ignore these you cannot be you know separate green traditions we need to look at it in all of it to get the right guy. but we're also closely following the violence that continues to unfold throughout the hour while the dot com we've the protests time there for you and in-depth analysis plus the profile of the man reportedly behind the scandalous anti muslim film log on to find out more dot com.
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washington is struggling to contain the scandal condemning the controversial film while calling for calm but as if he's going to come reports the anti-american fury has deeper roots than a reaction to a clip on you tube. 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 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 not just about our own interests but about their. that even as voices of suspicion and 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
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by supporting revolutions by fostering regime change washington is winning the hearts and minds of the people in that part of the world but recent 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. 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
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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 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. george clooney a former american foreign service officer doesn't believe the u.s. is backing genuine democracy in the arab spring states. a large part of the problem is that the protesters are poor they are unhappy they would like to have a better situation for their lives and that puts the u.s. in something of a dilemma because here we are we're supporting saudi arabia we're supporting bahrain where we're giving some rhetorical support to the so-called arab spring but
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is it the case that we're really supporting economic justice genuine democracy in these countries i don't think that case has been made and so where if the u.s. were to genuinely support the aspirations of the of the poor and the struggling middle class in these countries then there would have other problems in the in the consistency of our policy with regard to these these regimes that we're supporting for for other reasons for oil and so forth so it would put us in a very difficult situation and to be honest i'm skeptical that that hillary clinton or this administration is up to that challenge. the u.s. made film has also offended the muslim community here in russia which makes up around fifteen percent of the population however no protest rallies a being held in the country some of russia's muslim officials have condemned the anti american rights abroad the head of russia's republic of chechnya says the
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violence will not be tolerated ramzan kadyrov did however condemn the film stressing that those behind it are the ones responsible for the killing of innocents by angry protesters. russia's opposition has gathered its first major demonstration following the summer break however in much smaller numbers than seen previously and for the first time the anti-government movement is joined by public sector workers here's artie's even in central moscow. police say this rally was attended by up to twelve thousands of protesters opposition leaders say it's tens of thousands but i can tell you if it
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was water rise to be held until ten pm moscow time 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 very different demands today ranging from social related issues a way to freeze the tariffs for utility bills and to raise the salaries of social sector workers to political demands like the early presidential and parliamentary elections there's also been a lot of criticism of several new laws michigan 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 alter nationalists communist socialist 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 alexander says opposition leaders do not provide their supporters with the clarity and motivation needed to unite them. speaking about a number of the demonstrators we have already seen that they were waiting in the big key waiting. and why. is that despite all the rules and regulations that have to be very spirit. people on the very motivation that brings people into the streets and who are those people who really need to be motivated the mole in terms of the agenda. happening nationally.
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and liberals. talking to people asking for different things is only confusing for the birth of the population because they. are the opposition movement you see looking at the crowd they are very very mix we see teachers who sing students we see nationalists and they need to be given some. rather than again a collection slogan. victorian age. still have. the right to tweet freely. put out there for the general public so if you look at it's going to be used against the court you know we shouldn't set it you know it's going to incriminate him so that's his own fault as twitter was forced to surrender private records to a new york court we also people in the city that if they concerned about their own internet freedom. there's been an increase in the aleutian which is not so many
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tens of thousands of spaniards marched through the streets of madrid in protest against a new wave of a sturdy measures the government is due to announce a first set of spending cuts by the end of the month. economics professor at the i.e. business school in madrid says huge numbers of skilled workers are now taking their chances abroad. spaniards like to stay close to home this is one of the european countries where you know they probably will. but it's very difficult you know young
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spanish workers qualify we don't have statistics of course but i would say probably close to half of them are looking elsewhere for work you see it in his janick jokes but you'll see people going to who went to the u.k. they were there a couple years brush my teeth we're actually going to latin american looking for work engineers here to france or germany or switzerland or somewhere into the united states so there is an exodus. it's a crisis is it is this 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 prices this summer was a blow say that drops in oil prices being passed on to the consumers the soaring cost of petrol and diesel in the u.k. so we're up or among people already struggling with the country's double dip
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recession of a british campaign fairfield u.k. says the country's economic hardship is directly related to the all costs. there is actually ok it's very. there are many families who are having to choose doing food and activity evil in the car or their small wound it really is that bond prices are now almost back at record levels for petrol and diesel are all keeping which we present to the u.k. government is that high petrol and diesel prices are one of the major called that the economy has slipped back into recession. and actually here huge if families are having to spend nearly eight you know ninety pounds sterling to show back how are they simply cannot spend on all the other things that make the economy moving. in america the empty corporate occupy movements aiming to surge back into the headlines on its first anniversary activists are running support for demonstrations
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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 cities police crackdown on several demonstrations on the tear gas and making thousands of arrests and evicting tent camps from public parks activists kind of malkin believes that 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 in the world can still kind of use in the state of collapse profits rule and we just get more as we just get on foreclosures we just get mass unemployment get all this wealth exist but it is not utilized for
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even so absolutely we're going to see more of it may take on a different character in organized labor the chicago teachers strike that maybe more prominent than it was in the early days of occupy wall street but there's going to be more confrontations as the system dies. the battle between twitter and the authorities for access to the records of an occupy wall street activist attracted why did tension with many saying prosecutors a violating privacy laws present or healthiness hit the streets of new york funny how people there 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 to 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
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american expressing his views. you know just trying to get his message out there ok some would call him a terrorist and if the person that you might think is a terrorist might feel like they're just expressing them their needs and what they're frustrated but. i don't know if he always seem to be you know. giving you information that you haven't been revealed yet or a broadcast yet so i appreciate that about we're going to hope it never stops because he's put out there it's true that general public so. it's going to be used against when court you know we 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 felt's 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
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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. 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. yeah it's kind of a canvas screaming out a window. so i think like most people agree because social media is more important role in social justice change and counterculture the laws around social media are going to have to evolve as well.
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more world news and the new un envoy to syria says the crisis in the country's escalating and poses a danger to the entire world looked up to him is now in damascus and has already met president assad is one of several diplomats opposition leaders both the rebels and government forces still ignore calls to end the fighting with battles continuing in syria's main cities including aleppo and homes british activists say one hundred sixty people were killed across the nation on friday. police in south africa. 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 which is already halted production at several and gold mines the unrest a ruptured last month after police shot dead thirty four striking workers. a taliban attack on the camp bastion nato base 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 two u.s.
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marines twenty eight year old captain wales as he's known in the military as an apache attack helicopter pilot in afghanistan and is the first member of the royal family to take part in a conflict for thirty years. now when big business arrives in a small town the promise of employment opportunity is never far behind but when the dream turns sour it's often the little people who are left to pick up the pieces or . that one indian community who are refusing to back. it's one of the most serene and sacred places in india me i'm gary hills home to the. tribe 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 source with people from three hundred fifty villages have been destroyed so
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what will these people do they depend on the land and forest for their livelihood who 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 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 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 communities environment that has been destroyed he says that the actions of the company have damaged the well being of local people and there's been an increase in pollution which is led to
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many health issues that we've been experiencing on. the. breathing problems 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 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 develop. from the company but fundamentally they do not want development of the company all they want is to be allowed to live their lives and pace the confrontation has received attention from high profile figures like movie director james cameron who compared the dispute to a real life avatar. there 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.
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development and who will not we want to live the way we did done to came here and it seems like they might have the chance to do just that the con say they'll fight for what's theirs no matter who they're up against preassure either r.t. or india. well that to brings up today for the moment the kaiser report takes a look behind the financial headlines in just a few minutes now before that i'll be back with an update on our top stories you're watching. all.
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