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i am. wrong stakes through security officials on school is a muslim countries they are in the fallout from the new french consulate of the prophet mohammad while on go over the glass made film mocking islam writers a. trip to the bahrain rally to demand equal lines from the city more like a while the kingdom pledges to improve on how to create political protests. to release a top aide to go on trails in georgia while thousands marched outside recall to break up the footage of the matter is there's a priest in a show prison guards. this
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is all see coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the broad ground france is rushing to ensure the safety of its diplomatic missions abroad after a french satirical magazine published cartoons of the naked prophet mohamed paris a shot and this isn't schools in some countries to minimize risk but the prime minister has defended media freedom maria finn ocean has the details for us. this is definitely a sensitive issue in the world right now as protests against the u.s. made film. it's especially sensitive for fronts which houses western europe's largest muslim population around five million people we've heard both wards of criticism and just a few cation for the katun from top french officials the foreign minister expressed concern for the safety or french citizens across the world saying that katun may
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add fuel to the flames security has been boosted in the country's missions across the islamic world with embassies and schools closed for several days the prime minister however sad the freedom of expression including set tire is guaranteed by law in a democratic society and those who take issue with the katun should go to court and this is exactly what happened in the case of the duchess of cambridge who was topless photos were printed in the french media the british royal family has taken the matter to court and the reprinting of the pictures was banned and friends but many see poker see here because definitely it's much easier for the member of the royal family to defend the privacy in the courts than for not removed live for example living outside the fronts. of the double standards that be not bloody in the province of. confusion all the. messages to the rest
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of the world are what so the room he has been now. on the other side of the moment good to have been allowed but the stripes in the restrictions of being a bit into this is a bit of a sort of is there a reaction from the government in prince. this is again fuel in the debate on liberty versus security with actually no clear understanding of where to draw the line even with the government itself with the french government in this case but it's your call magazine meanwhile that published the cartoons claims it is their right to mock whatever they want including extremism and they say that they more the issues of the day every week it's actually this particular magazine is supposed to do so this is a satirical magazine and they have famous for a very special humor and i've been very sensitive subjects such as catholic choice
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law make law but some say it's just a rush to make profit as this issue of the magazine sold out and they are planning another printer run. for national reporting there live meanwhile the anger over us made a film mocking islam has not died down as protests rage across pakistan a group of several hundred lords broke into a protected district housing foreign diplomatic missions in the capital but police and security guards preventives the demonstrators from reaching the american embassy thousands also took to the streets of lebanon in protest called by the sheer movement has been on some thirty people have been killed across the muslim world in clashes over the film in the past week including the u.s. ambassador to libya and professor of middle eastern history lawrence believes that small draws the video that's fueling anger with washington. about that comes out of a much broader and then much older context. in the middle.
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east today. i've. brought on the nine eleven. and those attacks the context of the. policy or i'm going policy in the united states that action that. israel. invasion of iraq. i mean the general policy policies of the united states that we hated. there. because we have not addressed this at all. today.
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in bahrain hundreds of sheer activists have taken to the streets to demand they are given equal rights by the sunni marking as well as they release of political prisoners the government violently a big finally why are they coming down on protests for the past eighteen months of the positions of brutality by the regime while it became general has pledged to improve on its treatment of political activists and try to prevent violence against ethnic angrily just to give it sees that's after criticism and recommendations from the human rights body that has also has laura smith reports western leaders have affectively close their eyes on what's happening in the country with other concerns in the breach. but i think i also find out why for the whole world on the nature of this conflict only oppression and brutality of the regime one day no matter how long it takes there will be a day of reckoning for this dreadful regime up in arms about syria and they've put
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their money where their mouth is giving five million pounds in so-called normally lethal aid to those trying to oust president assad but less than a thousand miles away in bahrain there's another human rights crisis ongoing and on that leaders remain conspicuously silent their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all and in the close. of people who were just released in the last day or two. inches have got stuck. of course the use of sectarianism. is there. but more than that is the kidnapping they would not if you people from each village say three or four beat them up torture them not inside the torture chambers but in farms in what they call the whose houses bahrain is home to
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a forgotten revolution ignored by the international community under reported in the media since february last year there have been almost daily anti-government protests in the resulting crackdown around one hundred have been killed with sixteen hundred in jail including sixty children and four of bahrain's most prominent human rights activists all that in a country of only one and a half million but the u.k. government says nothing longstanding historical connection between britain and bahrain which was in fact holland in seventy one certainly the association with the u.s. fifth fleet is the oil problem and that's the banking problem along this is harmful to our interests because sooner or later all the gulf markets are going to disappear in a puff of smoke and then the regimes that succeed them will not be friendly country
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which is their oppressors far from being condemned representatives of the bahraini regime has been a common sight at the u.k.'s major events this summer king how much was invited to the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations in may his eldest son visited david cameron at downing street and his youngest son who allegedly sanctioned the torture of dissident bahraini athletes was at the opening of london's olympic games but it goes further and deeper than that despite the brutal crackdown between july and september last year the u.k. sold. two point two million pounds worth of arms to the bahraini regime shortly after that the u.k.'s most famous military training school accepted a three million pound donation from the king of bahrain and the metropolitan police's former assistant commissioner was appointed as an advisor on security to
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the regime with no objections from the u.k. government bahrain campaigners say it's ruining the government's credibility it's only when they stand up in public and say we oppose this torture we oppose these autocratic regimes and democracy only then will the british government have any credibility whatsoever and at this moment has. the bahraini opposition and their supporters aren't calling for intervention but they do want the international community to condemn a regime that they say is at least as oppressive as the syrian regime that western powers are so desperate to get rid of your a smith r.t. london. still ahead for you this serious stalemate as big as a military solution is nobody else in the u.k. is mulling over something weapons to see when the rebels to fight president assad's
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use. force norm those stories coming your way after a very short break to stay with us. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go in the wrong the wrong and surprising and you'll go
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straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver. where the bears are so full that they have a very well be able to think that we have to keep an eye a wind direction at. them and both uphill that could be dangerous so we're going to go yes we shall but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away
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and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peanuts another local resident who hates his piece being disturbed here is the howlers eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters of nasa only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gagne focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be the reason that you have tons of people coming here not just to get some for me on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get
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your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can. predict you have to rely on yourself and what you back. have to be put back. maybe for the wildlife here the lack of visitors is for the better but when you stand on top of like this you just can't help wanting to share the beauty. welcome back here with i'll see to some other news now in georgia the police will be drafted into what at all jail after the president ordered the suspension of the country's entire prison security staff thousands took to the streets in response to the t.v. broadcast of videos appearing to show mates being tortured and sexually abused by gods it was unclear when the footage was filmed but they also which is have not
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disputed that authenticity the senior official in charge of prisons was resigned has resigned with ten guns being arrested as part of the investigation supporters of the government said the situation in the prisons was the result of a zero tolerance policy for even petty crime while some protesters compacts the case with the u.s. treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay and eric draitser of political analyst full stop in paris and a cold billies do we solve the problem can be found within the regime itself. we've seen over the course of a number of years the saakashvili government has demonstrated that they have little to no regard for human rights we only need to look at the conflict in south those cities and in a positive to see what the saakashvili administration actually is interested in they're not interested in human rights they're interested in aggression and most importantly they're interested in shoring up their relationship with the united states darkish really is without a doubt one of the most egregious violators of human rights and human dignity
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anywhere in the world and i stress that once again that saakashvili cannot exist without the united states we remember saakashvili is close close relationship with the bush administration so i could release desires to put nato into the to. georgia into the nato sphere of influence into laitos orbit and so yes there is absolutely a trend and this is precisely why the united states is able to continue to support saakashvili in the same way that they've supported brutal dictators all over the world for the last few decades. and see correspondent you go. see following this story for us and you can keep up to date with the latest developments on his twitter feed and of course as always more now website called for you and here's a little what you can find there right now i know many of the rides a fact of diet of genetically modified corn produced by u.s. chemical trying on sometimes something at humans and on
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a consistent. and also line of cold movies hold on reaction to the discovery of the century currents which challenge is one of the cornerstones of the question that jesus was not a bit of this whole story to be done. while heavy fighting between government and opposition forces rages on in syria the un chief says a military solution is not the way out of the conflicts there's a syrian rebels have seized another border crossing with turkey which could open a new on the militia the u.k.'s foreign secretary william hague also said it's possible britain will send weapons to opposition politicians while israel has staged a supply is life obvious games at the border with syria although saying those were retained drills israel's concerns that some serious chemical weapons could be relocated to lebanon based has been long and walk out of prayer reform activist says some states are looking to benefit from serious crisis. every single state has
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saw in the syrian conflict a sort of opportunity to go in and try to influence the outcome so that it would be to their fair advantage and we all know the that certain countries in the un have certain economical problems and they would want probably a more favorable government in damascus and seal off the middle east as an economic region in probably what they see as a lot of rivalry that is heating up with the will of the brics countries for example but actually all this has led only to the destruction of bloodshed and so on and so forth have president assad been less popular it would have been ousted long time ago american taxpayers contribute more to the israeli defense budget that israelis themselves that's according to the head of the israeli defense force washington spends more than three billion dollars they get a proper of the country's military more than or any other nation stevens is a professor of international relations at the university of san francisco says the
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money isn't being spent just own defense. not so the money is geared towards the occupation and not not to mention the fact that the rich all the arab states of agreed to make peace with israel. that would security guarantees and everything else in return for an israeli drole from the occupied territories and not only is a lot of the money for the military going into the occupation itself but were not for the occupation they would need nearly as much. military spending as as as they claim they do today but what's also interesting is if you look at u.s. policy in this is both republican policy and democratic policy is that they say we shouldn't just give israel the necessary military equipment and military assistance force necessary defense and to have at least a strategic balance or deterrent relative to any combination and been used but i
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have qualitative military superiority in other words what we're looking for is not of the offense israel but for israel as a regional hedge amman as as a as a dominant of force in the region. and wiley's are lives around paying out the literature and rhetoric against iran over the country's nuclear research to iran is preparing for more international talks that diplomatic option is the best way forward says one man who used to be in charge of israeli missile defense. for the donation community. to the west to the rest of the international community would come to such a situation we do on where you could be clear would it. not be able to be otherwise a military nuclear accident it'll be clear even if the iranians don't admit it but it's a reclusive to ration that there is some kind of red line beyond which the audience will be killed this way or that way it may go this is maybe the third way.
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and you can catch the full interview with. ten minutes time when r.c. on right now let's join casey from this. case see the markets are slipping or noise yeah that's because prices are now trading at their lowest level in more than six weeks and that means energy stocks across the board all suffering as a result of the u.s. stockpiles rose the most since march in the u.s. the world's biggest crew consumer now for consumers is obviously great news too takes a bit of pressure off of your shopping list but here in russia these are all markets in general the price is right the saudi arabia oil minister as well saying this month that prices all too high and like to pull the economic uncertainty that's going on at the money to those the prices right now going to stay with oil but this
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time talk about british energy giant b.p. because they have new partnerships with russia's top companies ross snapped. is reportedly off to buy b.p. out of teen k b pay for up to fifteen billion dollars twelve point five percent of its equity the two companies breathed last may have created a late day on the dale and also discussed expansion in russia to move over staff is talking with banks about raising the funds to finance the potential deal so something was certainly watching and that leaves us with russia surprise check out the markets because they are indeed open now they've been open for about twenty minutes or so and i did mention the old prices were down to is probably no surprise but the equities behind the dollar. terex today following all the losses made on a wednesday as we just had the on c.s. again italy down one point six percent on the russian ruble is also
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a now off the ground it's now trading and we can see it is still managing to grind against the basket of currencies as. so the euro dollar spent the ninety's demonise time as capital of lordly but we found some fundamentalists expect the dollar to go up against the euro once the plan is in motion and now you can see that you're down against the u.s. dollar is down to the asian markets because then out of the last to end of the trading session the nikkei in japan the allies as you can see retreating ready the high is to close my eyes because japan exposed the right not adding to about the global economy as a whole china is not a project to try to inject time about eleven straight months i plan to get on and i just stay on next now it's going to all be about to europe because the markets will be. so i have the official figures for you that. they thank you very much indeed
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for that case to see you later and in a few minutes we'll be looking for was between israel and iran and today's into. world. series technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. and. it's perched atop a jaw drop and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the all i can see. for a city that or siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. things
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like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptismal jesus. there when you will about war that it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its
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time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once a giant that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led a revolt against an eight hundred twenty five known as the decemberists will stand here and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was tsar nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they were at a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or gartside themselves leading
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the ordinary normal countryside life style they even had thought of escape but within the bizarre and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always go with a glorious past that will likely provide the livelihood first inhabitants in the future. you're watching r c and up next we ask the miner who was in charge of razor els missile defense about how serious it's various threats against iran over the country's nuclear research.
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osea revealed the very first director of the israeli missile defense organization it's great to have you with us or today israel keeps all its options open when it comes to iran suspect it's making a nuclear bomb including war but could israel actually go to war with iran without relying on the united states the problem before pinions but i think the big question here is what is the. wisest. and if you knew a permission i'd like to explain that in a few words for the listeners the iranian nuclear program has three components. one component is the commercial power generation which i think no one has a problem with the second. because enriching go for. nuclear materials into a great material and this is dual use technology to the problem starts again this is legitimate but the pope was the question i've been going all side because.
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you could have both. that. the supply the. installation of washoe for the so why they need this independence. but. the third part is the suspected nuclear program which. it is the problem they denied even in the beginning but they're going to enrich the d.n.i. and here this is quite a problem this is one of the other both if we. could so there's a republic is there. does appear from the map i mean this is quoting it. disappear from the map would wipe up the number of the story but even many were near experts would argue and i had one right before your he said that that was just a restaurant anderson that it's more than just a restaurant but the question is.

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