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protests across the globe rage on for a sixth day engulfing even more countries as muslims vent their anger over a movie made in the u.s. that mocks islam. washington condemns the film as an effort to contain this scandal opinion polls show that anti-u.s. sentiment has been simmering for years. russian opposition groups marched through moscow after a summer lot numbers fell short of previous turnout despite public sector workers joining in for the first time.
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seven am in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on r t our top story anti-american demonstrations continue sweeping the globe for a sixth day protests have been spreading to new countries and continents with clashes even taking place in sydney australia earlier this week mobs attacked u.s. embassies in more than a dozen islamic states with violence leaving at least seven dead muslims across the world are angry over a film made in the states that mocks the prophet mohammed or his policy or has the latest. 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 faced reinforcements to the capital yemenite city of samarra at the same time quest to send its marines to be capital city of cops 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
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where the american ambassador and three other high ranking us stopping this big killed from daily theory that for a grace has been made we have no information at this stage as to the identities of those arrested but we are hearing that an announcement regarding these of waste will be made soon both the united states and the 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 respond 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 consulate there were also being 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 regret the you know call client that has scored for more protests and also more killings of american staff members on saturday didn't want the shots fired in yemen during clashes to prevent the crowds of protesters from the to 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 the next in three percent but anger there is bubbling over and then there were demonstrations in a ban on somalia iraq pakistan and turkey so as you see this and high school it across the whole region in the united states who believed create this film is not cool at best and he has been taken in by american the parties for questioning now he has said that he does not look great making this film although he does with
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great the loss of life but we are hearing that he is considering releasing the full version of the film 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 are still cleaning up the debris the gloss the 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 is 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 ally while at the same time he does not consider them and then the. doctors here and charlie the dean of the gentle school of international affairs thinks people should search deeper for the root cause of the protests. but producer don't nobody in australia in foreign countries each of you from day the center of the arab spring region i think those are more spontaneous but libya egypt yemen these are like post
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evolution of societies and this is where 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 be smaller also behind the attempt all in through a sort of insidious so i see this as a you know what you mean many as an extension of the proxy war that's going on cd and we're so if it's an extreme fundamentalist and we don't need in the name of toppling the assad regime the same sort of fees are no money just in terms of violent and reactionary manner do of craggy feel that you have been ignored it is a connection to all these you cannot be removed separated dream we need to look at it in all of that to get the right people. we're also following closely violence continuing to fall throughout the arab world on our website r t dot com verify the timeline of events plus the full profile of the man thought to be behind the scandalous anti muslim film that sparked the protests log on for more.
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us has ordered the evacuation of most of its diplomatic staff from embassies in tunisia and sudan because of the ongoing demonstrations washington's been trying to defuse the wave of discontent with the u.s. coming out to strongly condemn the film and calling for an end to the protests as are he's got a cheeky reports there's a bit more behind the anti us hearing that muslims are reacting to a 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 where we 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 theirs that even as voices of suspicion and mistrust
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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 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 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 have it in
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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 a enemy's 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 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 support for arab spring countries washington is actively supporting autocratic regimes like bahrain and saudi arabia
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george kinney a former u.s. foreign service officer thinks the anger against the u.s. is fierce because the country too often employs double standards. a large part 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 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
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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 in a rush which makes up about fifteen percent of the population but no protest rallies being held in the country some russian muslims have publicly condemned the anti us riots the head of russia's republic of chechnya says violence won't be tolerated runs out of here i've criticized the film though stressing those behind this production may be responsible for the deaths of the protestors. but.
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russia's opposition has gathered for its first major demonstration since june but there was a much smaller turnout than earlier marches and for the first time the anti government movement was joined by public sector workers are they were piskun off has been. police say this rally was attended by up to twelve thousands of protestors opposition leaders say it's tens of thousands but i can tell you if it was a water rise 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 again as i saw 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
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elections there's also been a lot of criticism of several new laws we shouldn't pass to 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 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 a clarity and motivation necessary to unite them all. speaking about the number of the demonstrators we have already seen that they were waiting in the big keep
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waiting crossings and line forms again is that despite all the rules and regulations we have to be very spirits it's. people on the very motivation that brings people into the streets and those people who really need to be motivated to bowl in terms of the agenda. happening nationally. and so one of the liberals. talking to people asking for different things is only confusing the growth of the population because they cannot. solve 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 pullman. rather than again a collection slogan sometimes victorian age. still at this hour the
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right to tweet. it worries it was an american expressing his views. you know just trying to get his message out there. i was torn or forced to surrender 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 information falling into the wrong. and there's been an increase in the aleutian which is not so many health issues that we've been experiencing on. t.v. the breathing problems a london based business targets an undeveloped indian region with promises of prosperity local say they're paying too high a price for so-called progress later this hour a look at this speech by james cameron as the real life avatar. but first more than one hundred thousand people to the streets of lisbon rallying against. new austerity measures b. to be enacted by the portuguese government protesters through fireworks and tomatoes at the local headquarters of the international monetary fund chanting get
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out of here and the i.m.f. is hunger and misery they blame last year's tax hikes and budget cuts for pushing the unemployment above fifteen percent driving the country into the biggest recession since the one nine hundred seventy s. the demonstration follows massive protests in neighboring spain madrid is due to announce a fresh set of spending cuts by the end of the month gail allard an economics professor at the i.e. business school in madrid says skilled workers are now taking their chances of broad. standards are they like to stay close to home this is one of the european countries where you know the problem with the least but it's very difficult you know young the spanish workers qualify we don't have statistics of course but i would say probably close to half of them are looking outward you see and it is janet jones but you'll see people going to run in the u.k. i'm sure there are probably here is some pressure might even more actually go into
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latin american from where engineers saying are you france and germany or switzerland somewhere in sanaa and stated so there is an exodus i'm highly qualified because it's a crisis in the last week is this i'm serious just pushing through here and i don't extend there we really see the light until maybe two thousand and fourteen. the u.k.'s launch an investigation into a scandal involving oil traders and speculators who allegedly rig markets petrol prices of the summer was a blowers claim prices were artificially inflated by light finger or oil traders the soaring cost of filling up vehicles in the u.k. is provoking outrage among people already struggling with the country's double dip recession a 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 it's very. there are many families who are having to be doing food and it will be there in the car or their small wound it really is that bad
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prices are now all back at record levels the petrol and they are all keeping which we present to the u.k. government if the high. price of one of the major cool the economy has slipped back into recession the huge if i'm with the having to spend nearly eight you know ninety pounds to go back they simply cannot spend. the things that make the economy. plenty more a political way on our web site r.t. dot com here's what else is online for you today watching the watchers police in the u.s. state of maryland installed cameras to keep up close eye on their cameras. checks who are fond of a tipple are said to have a tough time with the country bands are all doing so with more than twenty percent alcohol find out why.
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in the u.s. the occupy wall street movement prepares to mark its first anniversary and get back in the spotlight activists are rallying support for demonstrations in new york before hoping to descend on wall street again monday the movement spread across the u.s. last year with mass rallies against economic inequality and dozens of cities police cracked down on several demonstrations unleashing tear gas making thousands of arrests and evicting tent camps from public parks activists kaleb moppin 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.
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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 but it is not utilized for even good 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 may become 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 authorities for access to the records of an occupy wall street activists attracted wide attention with many saying prosecutors are violating privacy laws our resident laurie harf in this hit the streets of new york to find out how people there really feel about their virtual liberties. a manhattan judge has ordered twitter to release the tweets of an occupy wall
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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 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 with. he always seem to be you know. giving you information that you haven't been revealed yet or broadcast yet so i appreciate we're going to hope it never stops as he's put out there for the general public so to still feel ok that's going to be used against him in 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
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i go on television and tell everybody how to avoid cops or to commit a crime and get away with it i'm doing on television you know smile faults i think the most interesting thing about twitter is that it's the internet it's 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. 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. the public do you want keep it is 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
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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. staking a look at some of the global headlines now with the u.s. and the new u.n. envoy to syria says the crisis in the country is escalating in posing a danger to the whole world lakhdar brahimi is now in damascus and has already met president assad plus several diplomats in opposition leaders rebels and government forces still ignore calls to end fighting with battles continuing in syria's main cities including aleppo and homs british activists say one hundred sixty people across the country were killed friday. so if african police fired rubber bullets at striking mine workers in the maracana area after a raid on hospitals used by the workers resulted in the arrest of at least twelve people on friday the government announced a crackdown on the strike which is already halted production at several platinum
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and gold mines in a restaurant that last month after police shot dead thirty four striking workers. britain's prince harry will remain on duty at camp bastion afghanistan despite the 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 twenty eight year old captain wales as he's known in the military is serving a four month to stint combat deployment as a apache helicopter gun. finally in the news block when big business comes to a small town the promise of employment an opportunity never lags far behind but when the dream sours it's often the little people who are left to pick up the pieces but artie's priya srijit 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. tribe three years thousands of tribal people here have been
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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 what will these people do they depend on the land and forest for their livelihood to 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 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
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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 the lucian which is led to many health issues. and. 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 only have they not received develop. from the company but fundamentally they do not want the bell and 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
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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 and preserving their ancestral lands. now he will work towards all development and he will not say 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 john grier can say they'll fight for what's there is no matter who they're up against preassure either r.t. india. up next our special report on the russian city of sochi that will play host the two thousand and fourteen winter games after our recap of the headlines stay with us.
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with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. like millions of americans have lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many that's not just about the for them it's about me too. me man brad ya gotta show. santa. at six am. and geez. hussein. needed. and now he. says this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light switch.
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