tv [untitled] September 15, 2012 8:00pm-8:30pm EDT
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protests across the globe rage for a sixth day engulfing even more countries as muslims vent anger over a movie made in the u.s. that mocks islam. washington condemns the filming of the effort to contain the scandal but opinion polls show that anti-u.s. sentiment has been simmering for years. russian opposition groups marched through moscow after a summer low numbers fell short of previous turnouts despite public sector workers joining in the first time.
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four am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story anti-american demonstrations continue sweeping the globe for a sixth straight day protests have been spreading to new countries and continents with clashes even happening in sydney australia earlier this week a mob struck u.s. embassies in more than a dozen muslim states with violence leaving at least seven people dead in its wake muslims across the world are angry over a film made in the u.s. that mocks the prophet mohammed artie's policy or has the latest. the situation remains. calm the united states has beefed up its security you know this is missions that high things reinforcements to the capital yemenite sun that at the same time to send its new orleans the capital city that was rejected 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
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where the american ambassador and three other high ranking u.s. softening the state will someday be hearing that a great they have no information at this stage as to the identities of those it wasted but we are hearing that an announcement regarding the use of base will be mates. 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 to buy you a stroke is 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 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 consumers there have also been demonstrations in belgium and some american
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protesters there 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 also more killings of american stuff men those on saturday they believe one of the shots fired in yemen during clashes to prevent the crowds of protesters from reaching the american embassy there were also being demonstrations in sydney australia where the police used tear gas to fire at crowds we know that the muslim population in australia is next increase the same but anger there is bubbling over i mean there were demonstrations in livin on somalia iraq aki started and turkey so as you see this and the high school it across the whole region in the united states who believe creator of this film nakoula basseley has been taken in by american authorities for questioning now he has said that he does not look great making this
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film or both 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 demonstrations here in cairo have lost momentum right now it is essentially a mop up operation but as i'm speaking to you the speak to me is a still clean. the degree the glass rocks and the stones that are left over from the last few days a fine saying the united states and egypt are traditionally close partners 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 serum charlie a dean of the jindal school of international affairs thinks people should searching deeper for the root cause of the protests. the producer don't nobody in australia in foreign countries each of you from the center of the arab spring region i think those are more spontaneous but of libya egypt yemen these are not like post
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evolution of societies and this is weird you have seen the brunt of the violence and the skill of the previous segment 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 also behind the edge of dueling through assad in studio so i see this as a you know many ways an extension of the proxy war that's going on cd and we're so efficient extreme fundamentalists have been unleashed in the name of calling the assad regime the same so the fees are no money just an intelligent violent and reactionary manner to all cranky food that should have been ignored this is a connection to all these you cannot be separated dreams we need to look at it in all of that to get the right. work closely following the violence continuing to unfold throughout the arab world on our website our team. there you'll find a timeline of the events plus a full profile of the man thought completely behind the scandalous anti muslim film that's part of the protests log on to r.t. dot com for more.
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the u.s. is trying to diffuse the wave of discontent with washington coming out to strongly condemn the film and call for an end to the protests but as our he's guy to reports there's more behind the anti-u.s. fury than muslims reacting to a single controversial you tube clip. 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 front. and that we care not just about our own country not just about our own interests but about theirs 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
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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. 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 grab 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 the 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
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a major wake up call in the west especially the united states the way the administration is trying to somehow contain the blowback over the same type 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 flames of rage now sweeping across the arab world in washington i'm going to. despite the u.s. speaking of democratic change while promising to support while promising support for the arab spring countries washington actively supports autocratic regimes like bahrain and saudi arabia george kimmie a former u.s. foreign service officer thinks the anger against the u.s. is so fierce because the country too often employs double standards. a large part
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of the problem is that the protesters are poor they're on happy 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 we're giving some rhetorical support to the so-called arab spring but 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. 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 be we 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.
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made film also offended the muslim community here in russia that makes up about fifteen percent of the people however no protest rallies are being held in the country some russian muslims publicly condemn the anti-u.s. riots the head of russia's republic of chechnya says violence won't be tolerated ramzan kadyrov criticized the film though stressing that those behind us production are responsible for the deaths of the protesters. but. turning now to some of the day's other top stories russia's opposition gathered for its first major demonstration since june but there was a smaller turnout than in earlier marches and for the first time anti-government
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movement was joined by public sector workers are reports. police say this rally was attended by up to twelve thousands of protesters opposition leaders say it's tens of thousands but i can't tell you if it was authorized 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 again as i saw for the for the people not to leave at least before ten pm we've heard very 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 the 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
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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 a new form of censorship if we talk about who attended this rally then they do represent 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. political analyst alexander sullivan of says opposition leaders don't provide their supporters with the clarity and motivation needed to unite them all. speaking about the number of the demonstrators we have already seen that they were waiting in the big keep waiting at present and life forms again is that despite all the rules and regulations that house and we have the very spirit it's. people on the very
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motivation that brings people into the streets and those people who really need to be motivated the whole sems all the agenda that they are having those national leave you know communists and so on a liberals one stage talking to people asking for different things is only confusing for the majority of the population because they have counted. and so on the opposition movement you see looking at the crowd they are very very mix we see teachers loosing students we see nationalists and they need to be given some pullman. rather than a gas and a collection slogan sometimes contradictory nature. and still to come this hour the right to tweet really. it was it was an american expressing his views.
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you know just trying to get his message out there as twitter is forced to hand over private records to a new york court the resident asked people on the streets of the big apple if they're worried about their own info falling into the wrong hands plus. there's been an increase in the aleutian which is led to many health issues it may. be. breathing the blooms a london based business targets an undeveloped indian a region of the promises of prosperity but locals say they're paying too high a price for the so-called progress later this hour we'll look at other disputed by james cameron as the real life. but before we get to that more than one hundred thousand people took to the lisbon streets rallying against new austerity measures to be enacted by the portuguese government protesters threw fireworks and tomatoes at the local headquarter of the international monetary fund chanting out of here and the i.m.f. is hunger and misery they blame last year's tax hikes and budget cuts for pushing
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the unemployment above fifteen percent and driving the country into its biggest recession since the one nine hundred seventy s. demonstrations follow massive anti austerity protests in neighboring spain madrid due to announce a fresh round of spending cuts by the end of the month alessandro polity a political and strategic analyst things that governments need to take a new approach to ending the debt crisis. i think spain is deep to watch. financially globally is really would like to do and will do ease extract a. number of us which they're really. which have a very low guarantee to be repaid this is the name of the game now. doing is trying to resist the will falls fix for creation we thought doing a series to do it all gets everybody talks about spending reviews or cuts but no
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one really nukes into the debt and how it is being formed by whom and he think the that must be you know much more serious european political action instead of just saying yes all paying blindly that sort of debts the risk to live an arab situation know what has happened the other side of the mediterranean is not so far from what we are living here so i think that this is the risk that these governments are running against in a rather short time because when people are caught. they exhausts the patients and they will result will switch more violent protests ukase launched an investigation into a scandal involving oil traders and city speculators who allegedly rig markets to high petrol prices this summer where so blowers claim prices have been artificially
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inflated by a light fingered oil traders the soaring cost of filling up vehicles in the u.k. provoking outrage 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 pump prices. there is actually ok it's very enduring there are many families who are having to choose between food and actual diesel in the car or their small town it really that bad prices are now almost back at record they hold the petrol and diesel are all keeping which we present to the u.k. government if the high petrol and diesel prices are one of the major called that the economy has slipped back into recession. and actually here if families are having to spend nearly eight hundred ninety pounds sterling to show back how are
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they simply cannot spend on all the other things that make the economy moving. there's plenty more for you a click away at r.t. dot com here's what else is online right now watching the watchers police in the u.s. state of maryland installed cameras to keep a close eye on their other camera check it out. checks who are fond of the tipple are said to have a tough time as the country bans all drinks containing more than twenty percent alcohol find out why on line. in the u.s. the occupy wall street movement who prepares to mark its first anniversary and once again get back in the spotlight activists rallying support for demonstrations in new york before they hoping to before they hope to descend on wall street again on
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monday the movement spread across the u.s. last year with mass rallies against economic inequality happening in dozens of cities police cracked down on several demonstrations unleashing tear gas and making thousands of arrests and a victim tent camps from public parks activists kaleb moppin believes the anti-corporate movement may take new forms but it is 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 and 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 to me in the us is part of the world capitalist economy in the world capitalist economy is in a state of collapse profits rule and we just get more as we just get home foreclosures we just get mass unemployment get all this wealth exist that is not utilized for you to do it so absolutely we're going see we're told it may take on a different character you know organized labor or the chicago industry to teacher strike that maybe cause more problems than it was in the early days of occupy wall
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street but there's going to be more confrontations as the system dies. the battle between twitter and authorities for access to the records of an occupy wall street activist attracted wide attention with many saying prosecutors are violating privacy laws our resident laurie harshman is to the streets of new york to find out how people really feel about their virtual liberties. 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 needs and 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 are broadcast yet so i appreciate that and i hope it never stops as he's put out there for the general public so pissed off local that's going to be used against one court you know we shouldn't set it you know it'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 or to commit a crime and get away with it and do it on television you know smile faults 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 that it probably needs to be treated similar soon newspaper up beds 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. public to you and keep it to you so yeah it's kind of a canvas screaming out a window at a 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. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the new un envoy to syria says the crisis of the country is escalating in posing a danger to the whole world locked arbor he means now in damascus he's already met
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with president assad plus several diplomats and opposition leaders both the rebels and government forces remain to remain ignoring calls to end the fighting with battles continuing in syria's main cities including aleppo and homs british activists say one hundred sixty people were killed across the country friday. police in south africa fired rubber bullets of striking mineworkers in the marriage in the amerikana area this after a raid on hospitals used by the workers resulted in the arrest of at least twelve people friday the government announced a crackdown on the strike which has already hold of production at several gold and platinum mines the unrest erupted last month after police shot dead thirty four striking workers. britain's prince harry will remain on duty at camp bastion in afghanistan despite a deadly attack on the nato base the taliban claimed responsibility for the assault in which two u.s. marines were killed they also confirm that the prince was the intended target
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twenty eight year old captain wales as he's known in the military is serving a four month combat deployment as a gunner on an apache gunship. when big business arrives in a small town the promise of employment and opportunity is never far behind but when the dream sours it's often the little people who are left to pick up the pieces or tease pria srifa met one indian community who is 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 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 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 vedanta 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 wellbeing of local people so there's been an increase in pollution which is led to many health issues. and breathing problems
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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 only have they not received develop. from the company but fundamentally they do not want development in 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 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. we figured out who will work
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towards our development and he will not we want to live the way we did fool the done to came here and it seems like they might have the chance to do just that and the john grier cons say they'll fight for what's there is no matter who they're up against preassure either party or india. surely coming up an unconventional take on international headlines with juice news but first are a recap of our top stories.
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