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a six day fury shakes the muslim world as protesters across the globe brought against america following the release of a controversial film made to market. and diplomats rushton the flames and solve its ties with the muslim world when experts point to america's mideast policy as being responsible for the unrest. plus europe is in. protest and once again as people want the tightening measures to end minin and hoping for in spanish catalonia a call for independence. within
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it back at the past seven days in the latest developments this is the weekly. fury rage am protests tore across the muslim world this week in a fierce showing against an american film ridiculous islam centered in a region still reeling from over a year of unrest it's become one of the bloodiest episode since the dawn of the arab spring. a dozen u.s. embassies in western linked targets were threatened and sieged in international protests with nearly four dozen killed in violence younger is quickly crossing borders with europe asia and australia witnessing mass demonstrations over the film
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it's all been a magnet for the more extremist factions such as al-qaeda which of call for more violence and more attacks. are the latest. clashes have erupted in we pakistanis as we are watching where it is one person has been killed and some possibly as an injured as thousands of people past with security forces not far from the u.s. consulate building in the city now the police fire you want to stop e.t.a. they used tear gas as well as come in to try and disperse. also on sunday with the demonstrations holding various cities across the country in the city of peshawar hundreds of other local businesspeople lakeport for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they will support the boycott on what you do is goods and services not the fact that some authority is that since blocked access to this on you tube it is a fifteen minute train out of
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a film that has been titled innocence of muslims we believe praying to office for the students of placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding also on sunday to meet the needs of up to hundreds of people to stay taunted and to marry women and greatest so this is only intensifying and to the aggravating american afghani relations first vitamines tons of law the united states has to do things to move this these otherwise women who vote we open the make their way into the into the fold the means to the mind mission for mobilizing in sudan the government to say that they could do it is situation by themselves the demonstrations off the reading of north africa and in the east the approaches happening in lebanon in somalia in the one in turkey in gaza even in tel aviv they've also free to do it tyrus their protesters took to the streets near the
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american embassy in the building city of employment at least one hundred twenty people were detained this weekend off the demonstrations. there and this is my field of australia where the police were forced to use that this is not existing where the blind person penetrates. the area and that's a very limited and now with. me in mind is to be on the go now the united states has wanted the evacuation of. instinctual diplomats. mini's from sudan and this as well as anybody holding american citizenship in those countries who want to this is just merely seen traits in a very dynamic situation. tempers are bad and it's not clear if the situation will be down in the coming days. pulis lir is leading our coverage of
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the anti american unrest she reports clashes erupting in afghanistan and pakistan as people demonstrate their anger with the u.s. it's all on her twitter feed that paula slim underscore r.t. . and ahmed could issue from the pack nationalists forum i spoke to a little earlier not he says the protests and all aimed at the video but as a result of long pent up anger. these demonstrations really are not really directed at the film itself they are a result of an accumulation over the past few months and years the good film right now has acted and this is the sparkle that really exploded as a result of the failure of the u.s. government to contain what many many muslims are seeing right now as an organized campaign in inside the united states not to be timid speech but an organized campaign to insult and humiliate this religion i think most of the demonstrations we're seeing right now most of them were spontaneous with the probably one
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exception of the attack and the murder of the u.s. and the us that are in libya that was that appeared to be the work of militant groups on the ground ironically i think them and chris stevens who actually advocated that the united states and nato arm the militants in libya eventually fell prey to the same militant groups on the ground so with the exception of that one unfortunate incident i think most of the demonstrations we're seeing right now are really spontaneous and the pain and the anger is really genuine. after a decade of intense focus and relationship building in the middle east much of washington's work is now in danger of being undone the pressure is now on america's diplomats to minimize the fallout and as marina point now reports they've got their work cut out . oh. anger is rising rage is spreading and american flags are burning throughout the arab world this isn't exactly the type of
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relationship washington envision after barack obama became president i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world the new u.s. leader promised to turn the page and mend relations tarnished by george w. bush's war on terror he even granted his first foreign television interview to al arabiya an arabic language channel my job to the muslim world is to communicate with americans are now you're out of washington invested huge resources in building a massive social media presence comprised of nearly two hundred different accounts to spread its message of friendship by the end of last year the u.s. had spent seventy million dollars assisting foreign citizens with the resources to bypass online firewalls and censorship. the bitter irony is that a you tube clip posted by one american instantly buried massive efforts made by the
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u.s. government as americans were being held hostage by a small group of extremists people here in america think when they put their views on you tube and now the technology is such that it can be seen all over the world i think people in. some of these places don't understand this is not the view of most americans this is not the view of the u.s. government according to many experts a large majority of the arab world has grown too familiar with the anti muslim sentiment america is accused of cementing the policy of the americans towards this part of the world is inadequate and doesn't call for dialogue doesn't call for development it doesn't call for progress and calls for the moving of those units because it puts american interests and some western interests a cause for war and invasion of iraq as we have seen this truck. no progress on the peace lebanon palestine i think the spark for it to you know all come out in violent forms as we can see now on the screen and this is what's happening within
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forty eight hours the fury that began in egypt spread to libya yemen lebanon and iran in afghanistan due to push shut down but tensions in the muslim world seem to be only increasing there has been a lot of simmering nancy american feeling right across the entire world it's their worst in pakistan where polls show there were ninety percent of pakistanis americans their primary an enemy america's net lot of bloggers and it's made in the arab spring countries america helped revolutionize the line between friend and foe has blurred despite all the time and money washington has spent using the internet to promote its a lot of friendly foreign policy the world wide web also served as the platform that enabled one american extremist to infuriate millions overseas in the real years of progress. r.t. me and the u.s.
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secretary to france leon panetta admitted washington expects and is preparing for the process to continue journalism klug says america should have seen it coming. remember the old saying you reap what you sow and the us a reaping what it sold that sent back to february two thousand and eleven the u.s. took nato in the attack on iraq is libya really debt getting destruction they've created this sort of violent situation so what of course we can get the terrible attacks on the u.s. consulate the murder of christine romans and of course the people responsible are those who carried out the killings we've got to put this in its wider context and this will not happen had native not intervened last year the government is losing its grip in libya in egypt now going across the region and the u.s. it is the car that's been stoking all this up the u.s. has been aggressively supporting. writings of course across the region for its own interests and now it's a kind of blowback time the u.s. is getting it back and you know i think not interference is the best way to go really what are they going to do reaching change again i mean we had this last year
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i mean exactly what was it take it was a stable country the u.s. and nato decided to i didn't mean anything if we look across the globe everywhere where nato has to be has been a disaster look at iraq one million people killed there you could be in kosovo we have the ethnic cleansing of surgeon roma somalia chaos and there afghanistan eleven years of war and yet we still get the same or people calling for intervention across the globe when we learn but it just leads to more death and destruction. well first condemning the violence the u.s. has also come out against the film in question in an effort to calm anti american fury joining them as the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon who criticize the production is deliberately designed to sow bigotry and bloodshed there's also reaction from russia with president putin saying all governments should work to prevent religious provocation. it's because of that's the if history doesn't react in a timely and tough manner to provocations that are directed against the religious feelings of people then what happens is that the humiliated and insulted ones start
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to defend their own interests sometimes this can lead to wide bloodshed you can feel the region can fall into chaos which is exactly what's happening now in this respect i'd like to remind the rulers of these new governments and states that under one series changes your issue that they should not forget their personal responsibility for what's going on in their territories which are the picture. with protests continuing across the muslim world in bonn and still very likely we've got full coverage for you on our web site www dot com we have the timeline from the moment the first protests began as well as profiles on the former pornographer and the convicted fraudster behind the production of the film that's in.
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the eve financial crisis has spurred criticism and separatism i should say in spain's catalonia over a million and a half people packed the streets saying the region needs financial sovereignty at least or to be a full independent state college still costs who is a social a just a pump a fabric university thinks the bustle and could see even bigger pro secession protests . the difference between this year and last year particularly is that now the by the obama lot is in the government and it's there a lot more aggressively centralist and and it's and there are a lot more aggressive against sort of the autonomous rights that the regions that like that feel themselves as nations like
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a balloon now or the basque region they're a lot more aggressive in posing that sort of identity upon that this could certainly. service calls to more sort of specialists. the session is i guess sensibilities. spain's capital madrid also saw tens of thousands strong protests against planned austerity measures come to set to announce a new pack of cuts by the end of september portugal's capitalist been an angry mob pelted the local headquarters of the international monetary fund with tomatoes and fireworks john laughlin director of studies at the institute of democracy and corporation says the governments are repeating them estate. the basic problem in europe and indeed other countries of the world is of course that there is too much debt both private and above all public and nothing today and nothing on any other future occasion is going to make that go away even budget cuts are not going to make the central problem go away which is that the states are too heavily indebted and even the various the so-called austerity programs which should be imposed i'm
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not going to produce a budget surplus which is the only way of repaying debt unless of course there is economic growth and there's a final part of this the european union for many decades not just played a game of smoke and mirrors whenever there's a crisis whenever there's a problem to be solved it rearranges the institutional furniture. germany's highest court has cleared the way for the country's president to ratify a fresh bailout fund the five hundred billion euro plan is intended to help the eurozone countries riddled with debt joined the project. to pay unlimited amounts to struggling states but the charge restricted germany's contribution to the rescue fund to one hundred ninety billion euros dr going to back specialist e.u. law at the school of oriental and african studies in london says the motion is dealing with the symptoms but is not curing the disease itself the past is an imperfect guide of the future so far the german parliament has always approved.
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i think we are reaching a point where germany has spent so much money. locked in parliamentarians will continue granting. us every time the only way of getting out of this vicious circle would be the success of the save big spro grab your eye card see that happen the economic situation in southern europe this dire every case we have is that it's getting worse if you probably sub you will gobble up his government debt to about limited extent it will take away the said for cuts it will not enforce it. people in the netherlands have decided to put their trust in the e.u. voting in favor of to european parties at an early general election this means the
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country is likely to stick to a german led way out of the financial crisis because it is to silly reports a rethink of some a sturdy measures looks inevitable. it was back in ninety ninety two when a treaty was signed of michele to win maastricht in the netherlands establishing the economic and monetary union later paving the way for the creation of the single currency but today mounting a euro skepticism has spread to even countries considered poor eurozone nations including the very one where it all began so i don't know at this moment what the best is for europe i have my jobs because of greece. and the netherlands it's a pro european country of course it shouldn't come to the stream level that we see that greece now in a repeated fashion this annoyance among the dutch of having to bail out greece again and again has reached a point where some dutch customers refuse to pay the bill of greek restaurants because well they've already paid with bailout money taking on
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a euro skeptic anti brussels stat has become a popular campaign strategy from the far right freedom party which is called for the return of the dutch guilder to the once fringe leftist socialist party openly challenging the german led a stair the strategy for europe well we're protesting against our liberal government you know made a distinction between which. part of the problem is you know did europe brussels has a lot of power now and people feel like they have nothing to say about what's going on with their money or we cannot make our own decisions anymore and we can see in europe that. voters. are becoming less convinced of the rationality of continued austerity policies begin to vote for parties who oppose the logical force territory we've seen it in france we've seen it in regional elections in germany which makes america very worried about the
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elections next year in the end it was the center right liberals who claim victory followed closely by the center left labor party both viewed as pro europe but the fact remains that discontent has risen to the surface among citizens of a nation part of the so-called core of the euro zone does or sylvia r.t. the netherlands. you're watching a weekly here in r.t. coming up in just a few minutes protests still kicking a year on. to this and the u.s. hope to regain momentum preparing for massive new rallies and the first anniversary of the occupy wall street movement. also still to come iran announces a rise in oil sales as western efforts to cripple the trade make little or no impression. no trace of jewel in the sand his d.n.a. was found in a torn condom presented as evidence in the sexual assault case brought against him in sweden the friends of findings outlined in the police report do not support the alleged victim's story and apply the proof she submitted is fake science denies the
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charges saying that just a way of getting back at him for his wiki leaks activities he's recently her distinguished spanish human rights investigator belters are guards on to head his legal team and ultimately goal is to keep him away from extradition to the us goes on is renowned for fighting the most controversial cases having previously confronted terrorist dictators and american politicians he says his client did nothing more than express his freedom of speech i. do not think mr assange is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much will surprise. is that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security or the safety of american citizens or defense of the reading for the wealthy we've also got plenty of news stories speeches and analysis at the moment on our web site here's what's online right now saturday saw the russian opposition
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supporters flooded back onto the streets and called for detailed timeline reports all that rally. and community and the women some of mossad's top agents speak about that movie star lives revealing what lengths ladies spies will and will go to for the sake of their country. shutting down into sections and getting arrested those are the festivities planful occupy wall street's first anniversary corporate movement started the year ago in new york quickly gulf to other major american cities and even spread abroad it's often faced heavy handed action by police with numerous activists injured and tent
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cities torn down but they'll keep positive terms to show the world they're still alive and kicking to root only meant to be back to his kind of work and believes that the anti capitalist movement could be reborn in more ways the more. 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 yes 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 characteristic of using 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 good so absolutely we're going to see more of it may take on a different character you know organized labor of chicago the chicago teachers strike that they 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. and he will
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be affording the events planned by the occupy wall street movement in new york and other cities so stay with us for more on that. be gentle streets spread world wide. i. ninety nine percent versus the one percent with all the money. are they getting equality into the economy. with the recession ahead can we afford not to miss. the old you. are too. iran's own exports now exceeding a million barrels a day making a mockery of the western sanctions designed to the trade washington's had to waive restrictions for japan and several nations they rely heavily on in raining on the sanctions aimed at forcing to iran to hold its atomic program which it insists is peaceful. to the national iranian american council believes the sanctions only
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force iran to spend even more on nuclear research. i don't know that you could actually look at the lost revenues from oil exports and say iran has taken away money from its nuclear program or reduced money for military spending because frankly with the threat of war i think iran is probably continuing down that path that has already already has been on with sanctions you know there's no perfect sanctions regime there's always going to be holes there's always going to be loopholes there's always going to be this game of whack a mole where iran responds and then the u.s. tries to ratchet up and you're never going to get a perfect embargo. so i think that the question the question is ok now you have these sanctions what do we do with these are we going to leverage these or is this a repeat of what we had with iraq where we did a great job of restricting oil sales and then doing well for crude but the end of the day that didn't actually yield anything but massive humanitarian suffer suffering and then eventually this movement for a disastrous invasion. the russian gas giant gazprom is fighting against pressure
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over the company pricing policy. european commission lost a case accusing the supply of violating. the government officially. disclose any information to foreign parties without the kremlin's permission russia insists it's protecting gazprom from aggressive attempts by the e.u. to get a gas discount the company spokesman. says europe didn't even attempt. should watch during this past year the european commission didn't take a single step to resolve any of the present disputes through dialogue while we have always insisted on the open discussion and many undecided matters time and again both gazprom and the russian government invited the you to start dialogue but were ignored that here's a quick look now at some other news from around the world in the world update this hour in china and the japanese protests escalate as police had to use force to disperse crowds japanese businesses factories and vehicles have been attacked in
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major chinese cities the demonstrations were sparked by japan's decision to purchase a chain of disputed islands in the south china sea he archipelago claimed by both countries may be sitting on vast gas reserves. eight police officers have been killed in a roadside mine explosion in southeastern turkey authorities blame the blast on kurdish insurgents who have taken advantage of the chaotic situation in neighboring syria to step up their attacks turkey which gives shelter to anti assad rebels has recently relocated some syrian refugees from the volatile border region citing worsening security. fears a lot of davis are peaceful march of several hundred striking miners have been blocked by south african police and workers were demanding an end to police violence a day after tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse similar protests as south african government has recently announced a crackdown on widespread minor unrest that is ready already halted several
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platinum and gold mines the protest movement was galvanized after police shot thirty four miners dead last month during a strike over low wages. we'll be watching the weekly here and in a few minutes we'll bring you an interview with a man who's had firsthand insider experience with one well known militant group that's coming up after this week's headlines.
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