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believe that pentagon jails in georgia while thousands march an outrage across the country after put it imagine is which appears to show a prison guards torturing invades. also the south france seeks to secure its missions and schools in muslim countries fearing the fallout from the new french cartoons of the prophet mohammad while anger over the u.s. made film blocking islamic regimes are. sure to bits in bahrain rally to demand equal rights from the city while the kingdom pledges to improve on how it treats political protest. international news live from moscow this is all she was me. thanks for joining us in georgia the police will be drafted into work at jailed after the president
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ordered this expansion of the country's entire prison security staff they says thousands took to the trees in response to the t.v. broadcast of a video appearing to show inmates being tortured and sexually abused by god's peace can or has the details from tbilisi for us. these are the largest broadest georgia seen in years there are not only talking about the thousands of people taking to the streets in the gravity of the release the process of also happens in many other words across the country many people here are very angry with this video right now and some protestors scream seeing the reef me earlier dressed to georgian of saudis others as sorry and saying concern is not enough addressed the european union have been. some people claim to have recognized their own relatives. allegedly abused by brazil officials and this is a small country and news here really spreads quickly and so does public anger and people testers are demanding not only the sacking off officials responsible for the
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interior ministry but also for their illegal prosecution now the videos themselves were leaked by a former employee a staff member of one of the main prisons in georgia not far away from the b.b.c. this man is currently in exile in belgium and the video show alleges abuse by the staff members of the inmates not only the beating up of inmates but also literally torture including sexual abuse and including abuse of minors all of this is happening in light of a major public city campaign promoting the recent report of georgia's penitentiary system jails are presenting with an image of being as transparent as they get while inmates even have a voice to get rid of carriage to fight corruption so these videos and this whole scandal is definitely a huge blow to this p.r. campaign george is preparing for parliamentary elections there's already tension in
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the air the opposition is being quite active as well and so these videos are a major punch in the piece to georgian authorities these well what's also interesting is that many protesters have compared these videos to footage from the interest of the one time of prison but if we talk about guantanamo then there are terror suspects held there while the people digging for in these videos are just ordinary inmates. who's covering the story for us and police and you can follow the latest developments there on his twitter feed and political analyst eric draitser believes the resolve 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 the
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city and in up 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 anywhere in the world and i stress that once again that saakashvili cannot exist without the united states we remember his close close relationship with the bush administration released desires to put nato into that to put georgia into the nato spear of influence into nato's 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. political analyst eric draitser talking to us live from new york. francaise rushing to ensure the safe have its diplomatic missions
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abroad after french satirical magazine published cartoons of the naked prophet mohamed paris has shot and misses and schools in some countries to minimize risk but the prime minister has defended media freedom. this is definitely a sensitive issue in the world right now as protests against the u.s. make it feel. it's especially sensitive for france which houses western europe's largest muslim population their own five million people we've heard both wars of criticism and just a fixation for the katun from top french officials the foreign minister expressed concern for the safety of french citizens across the world saying that could two may 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 aside the freedom of expression including set tire is guaranteed by law in
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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 corsi 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 them for example living outside the front of the double standards the promise of. fusion or. miss injuries to the rest of the world or once a room two years but now. on the other side of the moment good to be really strikes and demonstrations of. this is a bit of a sort of reaction from the government and friends this is again fuel in the debate
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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 there's a typical magazine meanwhile that published the cartoons claims it is their right to more what a. they want inclusion extremism and they say that they more the issues of the day every week it's actually these particular magazine is supposed to do so this is a typical mad magazine and they have famous for very special humor and have been very sensitive subjects such as catholic choice law make law but some say it's just a rush to make profits as this issue of the magazine sold out and they are planning another printer. meanwhile there are a u.s. made film mocking islam has not died down as protests rage across pakistan now a group of several hundred lords broke into a protected district housing foreign diplomatic missions in the capital but police
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and security guards prevented the demonstrators from of reaching them american embassy thousands also took to the streets of lebanon in protests called by the shia movement hezbollah and some such people have been killed across the muslim world in clashes over the film in the past week including the last some of the to libya and professor of middle eastern history lawrence davidson believes it's not just these here that's fueling anger with washington. about the. much broader and much all the. anger in the middle we. received today. who are on the market. and those attacks the context of those who were. for him going to policies united states.
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who are. supposed to be in beijing. i mean general. policies of the united states that. we question we have not addressed at all or even when every day we see it again. and of course there's always more now website for you and dot com on his a little welsh you can find there right now like a landing was spared a diet of genetically modified corn produced by u.s. chemical giant well some to suffer tumors and other counts the symptoms. of those on line have got more details and reaction to the discovery of
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a certain tripwires which challenges one of the cornerstones of christian religion that jesus was such a bit so the full story is that. while heavy fighting between government and opposition forces rages on and see where the u.n. chief says a military solution is not the way out of the conflicts syrian rebels have seized another border crossing with turkey which could open a new on supply route the u.k.'s foreign secretary william hague also said it's possible britain will send weapons to opposition fighters meanwhile israel has staged a surprise live fire war games at the border with syria saying about as were retained drills israel's concerns that some of syria's chemical weapons could be relocated to lebanon based has been lost and walk out of pro reform acts of it says some states are looking to benefit from serious crisis. every single state has saw in the syrian conflict a sort of opportunity to go in and try to influence the outcome so that it would be
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to their fair advantage and and we all know that that certain countries in the u.n. have certain economical problems and they would want probably a more favorable government in damascus and seal off the middle east as an economic regime in probably what they see as a lot of rivalry that is heating up with 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 he would have been ousted long time ago and more international stories coming your way after a very short break stay with us.
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it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a chance a barren railway but the a spiritual center. eat . things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worship. to commemorate the baptism of jesus. would the matter with 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
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fears in his desire to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles crossed the 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 for the oil of its time bringing in a third of. what the location had of the east as for the russians the. tabasco is one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once a giant bell that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists
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worse than here in droves 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 czar nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they were fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves leading the ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape but within the desire and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always go with
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a glorious past and that will likely provide the livelihood for us inhabitants in the future. this is our c.e.o. we continue in bahrain hundreds of share activists have taken to the streets to demand they are given equal rights why that sunni militant as well as the release of political prisoners the government has been violently clamping down on protests for the past eighteen months but accusations of brutality by the regime however they kingdom has pledged to improve on his treatment of political activists and try to prevent violence against us nick and religious communities that's up to criticism and recommendations from the un human rights body. and in all of the world's main news this hour for you and israeli airstrike targeting a car has killed three palestinians in the gaza town of near the egyptian border
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and police union officials say the victims were security officials responsible for building tunnels to import goods from egypt but these are all claims the men were terrorists planning attacks on its territory. also striking south african miners at anglo american platinum. overnight clashes as police dispersed crowds of protesters using rubber bullets and tear gas meanwhile striking workers at the platinum mine are returning to their jobs after winning pay rises of up to twenty two percent but the wage hike has led to calls for paris here among miners elsewhere and raised fears of further unrest and they say the political and economic fallout could hurt the reelection campaign of president jacob zuma. in the group of a nationwide strike with businesses shut down trains disrupted protesters on the
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streets all this in response to a government plan to allow global so the market trains to earn to retail set. more let's not talk to these prius korea. priya how widespread all the protests that the moment that. all right now actually millions of shopkeepers here in new delhi and in cities across india have decided to close down their stores against a government plan that would allow for a multi brand retail grocery stores like wal-mart and tests go into this country right now foreign retail stores are allowed to sell to small shopkeepers but not directly to consumers so this would have a wide spread of fact on indian shopkeepers them i've spoken to many here in old delhi who say that these stores have been in their families for generations and
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that if stores like wal-mart and tesco were to come in it would completely ruin india's supply chain and change the shopping culture in this in this country still millions of people are protesting the opposition party of the b j p is actually even asked the prime minister of india to step down over these players so fifty million people out there right now that's what the statements are people taking to the streets here in new delhi they don't want these foreign companies to come in and destroy the small business owners here in india but still the government says letting global supermarket chains into india will give its komi a much needed boost why don't the protesters agree. well right now there's been a lot of corruption. scandals going on with the congress party of the leading party
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ruling the government here in india right now and they're trying to do everything they can to turn that around before the elections of twenty fourteen but the average consumer on the street most of these stores that people buy food by their buy buy what they need are small shops there aren't really many big stories here in india and so that would actually change the chain dramatically and really. the middlemen the people who are bringing this stuff from the farmers to the shopkeeper and millions of jobs could be lost if this policy is actually implemented. the reporting there live from new delhi primm many thanks indeed time no full face this with haiti so how the latest measures by central bankers brewster's most well certainly what they were hoping for
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a you have it right now the figures not necessarily telling us but we are anticipating a risk for a site to be reinforced as soon as the stimulus measures take action now if we talk about. against a trend to those heights interest rates and that move makes it even more attractive and many are now think you fly into russia as a result now i'm joined by legendary but in that best just to discuss the issue thank you for joining us today now employs can you tell me do you believe that these new stimulus measures will spur growth as the supposed to do. in the u.s. no absolutely not it was not work the first two or three times they tried it it's not going to work now it's just making the situation worse with more and more debt ok moving on then you've once made a lot of. money about betting against a variable now i hear that you're going to be buying into it you anticipate it to
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strength why that's what we want and i will looks change from now and till that happens they have always been skeptical of the soviet union and then a russia very skeptical as i didn't trust the politicians i don't know if i'm going to buy the ruble i'm certainly becoming positive on russia i am looking for ways to invest in russia i have not yet decided what to do whether to buy stocks or the currency of bonds or what and what deception what's happened why you suddenly more interested thank you thank you. for actions speak louder than words the russians have been saying good things for a hundred years but then they were always said everybody is running away and now they seem to be from what i can gather the actions are such that they are actually putting out their own money to invest side by side with outsiders that is a remarkable change from anything that's ever happened in russia before and from what everything i can see the russian government now understands how the
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international economy works and they realize they have to play by the same rules as everybody else that submits a remarkable challenge and you think many of us is considering at the moment do you think that they'll be seeing from the same hymn sheet as you do you think it's a cheese of jam really changed in the cost investing in russia right now if the reaction to my getting involved with russia is any indication no they're still very very skeptical i've yet to provide the anybody. outside of russia who would agree with my view i can now you've joined flash's the t.v. capital as an advisor on college you can you tell me what's behind this made exactly why you'll be joining that company i'm extremely optimistic about the outlook for agriculture for the next twenty or thirty years rocio and the former soviet union could be one of the great agricultural nations of the world and therefore should now does have the right attitude and. he is going to play by the rules that everybody else plays for russia could have enormous potential especially
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for agriculture you could be the most prosperous agricultural nation in the world could be ok so five years time why do you see agriculture in rush hour what do you anticipate. farmers will be making a whole lot more money when more young people will be going into agriculture the finance is not going to be a very good trade in the next twenty years i recall that it's going to be the farmers who are driving the lamborghinis not the stockbrokers ok well thanks very much that's all we've got time for but thank you very much for joining us this hour to name jim rogers chairman of the largest holdings and interests that saw the business going out i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with more updates on markets. well the. science technology innovation all the developments from the ground russia we've got the future covered.
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it's perched atop a jaw drop and the view from the prevalence stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city that all of 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 like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. 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
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fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's a picture postcard church is 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 oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians the. one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once a giant bow that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led
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a revolt against the eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hair 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 serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution this is the office where nicolas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they were fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves leading the ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape but within the year and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always go with
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a glorious past. like you provide the livelihood first inhabitants in the future. this is our c a quick trip on the headline please have been put in charge of war trails in georgia after a video emerges which appears to show prison guards torturing inmates thousands marched across the country against that brazen. transfix to secure its missions and schools in muslim countries fearing the fallout from the new satirical french cartoons of the prophet mohammad over the u.s. made film not rages on with protests in pakistan and lebanon now. activists in bahrain rallied to demand equal rights from this city monarchy while the kingdom pledges to improve on how it treats political protest as it follows
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a critical report by the un from and why it's council and up next we asked the man who was in charge of israel's missile defense about how serious is various threats against iran over the country's nuclear research. osea rubin the very first director of the israeli missile defense organization it's great to have you with us sir today israel keeps all its options open when it comes to iran suspect its activity of making a nuclear bomb including war but could israel actually go to war with iran without relying on the united states. nunes but i think the real question here is what is the. if you knew permission i'd like to explain that if you want to this notion of. looking up.
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