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selfishly knew very well a bird suit if an inmate had something to do with politics if he was circus for his enemy he would pick him we talked to a former georgia prison official who leads the shocking video showing a gallstone train inmates that half the country are in a. period where insults to islam and western media continues in muslim countries i agree crowds face tear gas and rubber bullets as they try to breach the us some say it's printed. on the british government stands accused of
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splashing the culture numerous policy advisers double the amount of the previous administration while cutting benefits and public spending. international news and common live from moscow this is aussie with me your ship our thanks for joining us george's interior minister resigned to days after a video surfaced which appeared to show inmates being tortured and sexually abused by prison guards the footage prompted outrage in the country with thousands taking to the streets saying they won't rest until every one responsible is held to account is going off reports now from tbilisi. friends burn see if you will the words zero tolerance. the videos that buried
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george's image making efforts in a matter of minutes scenes of torture beatings and the sexual abuse of inmates allegedly in one of the country's most exemplary prisons. human dignity is the last thing they care about it i never believe this worse than just one bit. thousands protested with signs reading. only addressed the georgian authorities some are comparing the footage to that from guantanamo even though these are ordinary inmates not terror suspects many not only want the sacking of officials responsible for the police and the prison system but the prosecution as well. everybody knows this isn't just one case this happens all over the country. the video was leaked by a former member of staff at the infamous jail who has since fled to belgium he claims not only did georgian officials know about the use of the order it to happen
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and have a documented the atmosphere at the entrance to the prison is extremely intense but this is not a protest rally these people are relatives of inmates who are still inside the prison and they are demanding an explanation that needs brother has already spent seven months behind bars and says georgia's democracy beacon image aimed at the worst is merely a well orchestrated cover up of the chills really pretty on the outside sure it's easy for europe but no one really knows what's happening behind these walls. president saakashvili came in as a standing thought several prison officials are now under a criminal investigation and all jail staff have been temporarily substituted with police officers the head of the ministry responsible for the penitentiary system has resigned but for many georgians it's too little too late in a country with a population half the size of terrorists. twenty five thousand inmates is enough to
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fact nearly every family in one way or another either relatives friends or neighbors and as the nation prepares to vote for a new problem in the october the damage to georgia's leaders may be too much for the reputation to be rescued in time. of r t c george or. and also he caught up with them on distributed to the shocking details filmed at the georgian prison leadin abella cause it has not the country and is now seeking political asylum in belgium the former employee of the girl done in prison alleges that the gods were torturing president saakashvili his ideological. george's interior minister showed the videos to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason and it was like we do what we want with people one city key to prison you are nobody you have no dignity this is why these videos cause
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such treats in georgia this is why all those young people are protesting all young people came to putin into water for a lie has been alkali has resigned but this is not enough he should be arrested and tried and saakashvili must resign saakashvili knew very well advice it he just did it for entertainment or if an inmate had something to do with politics if he was seconds from his enemy they would pick him the system is extremely politicized if you work in the prison system or in the police you must be loyal to the saakashvili regime no criticism is a lie you should either leave or they will get to. you and you can see the interview with former employee of the georgian gold danny prisoner later today.
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you know what i'll see and lacing the program for you. they have poetry that went viral the u.k. deputy prime minister turns internet sensation music is that it to nick clegg saying sorry over broken promises. the rift between western powers on the islamic world seems to be growing as insults to prophet mohammad continue it rainy and angry over french cartoons have descended on the french embassy in tehran chanting and burning slides but rallies were bonding tunisia's the hearing ballance after friday prayers in pakistan thousands clashed
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with police furious over the u.s. made on to islam film security forces fired tear gas and a warning shots to push crowds bought from their market on the sea some thirty people have been injured pakistani t.v. channels are showing clips of president obama did now seeing the film or chait's hope will calm the protesters but has also his gun there to take our reports many believe washington's efforts in the region seem counterproductive. as anti-american fury rages on across the world it also raises the question whether washington's efforts to export democracy to muslim nations have instead radicalized the region in libya radical islamists are on the rise especially in the part of the country which the u.s. hopes too little quote unquote liberate in the first place a source familiar with ambassador stevens' thinking says that in the months before his death he talked about being worried about what he called the never ending security threats specifically in benghazi this source telling us that the
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ambassador is specifically mentioned the rise in islamic extremism with the country's internal situation getting increasingly unstable libya now appears to be a spores that can get from the roots that washington in vision for the libyans when they do when bombing the country our goal is focused our cause is just. and our coalition is strong having also cheered on the revolution in egypt the obama administration is now unclear whether they ended up with a more friendly or more hostile country so i don't think that we would consider them an ally but we don't consider them an enemy but looking at their flags burning and mobs chanting death to america meaning americans ask themselves doesn't the widespread on rast in the muslim world mean the president's policies there are flawed or maybe dangerously naive i don't think it three causes a degree in physics to grasp the reality that in the u. slotnick world democratisation means islam is a sham i believe that the u.s.
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state department and the policymaking community in washington were blinded by their own ideological blinkers in afghanistan washington's efforts to make friends also seem to have failed afghan police and soldiers have killed more than fifty u.s. and coalition troops this year alone and many of the attackers have been trained and armed by the us their basic loyalty is to their families you're not going to upset and change two thousand years of cultural matter you could influence of but you cannot change so this is where we have to be smarter about how we proceed doing the same thing over and over but get a better result washington is actively backing armed rebel groups in syria again with no guarantee that those who they helped now will not turn into their number one enemies eventually just like al-qaeda did it may be that the us sees its mission as one way hostile into being where they can but the strategy has been
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shown to backfire time and time again with the us ending up supporting forces who then turn their arms against america in washington i'm going to sit down. and there are fears that freshener as could take hold in islamic countries after friday prayers a professor of politics at new york state patricia believes the u.s. should rethink its racial policy says if it wants to get relations back on track. house been going on for weeks probably think it has been brewing for decades the u.s. has had kind of an ad hoc foreign policy in the middle east for over sixty years now they've been the porters of israel no matter what happens within the context of the arab community in their region and in the muslim reason i was are seeing caucused on it and. their policy is also bad kind of where you are in and out of talking nonexistent so i think if anything's going to happen they're going to have to be very engaged right now i really think that the u.s.
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is confused about what it should be doing and how it should be moving forward it's trying to step back and allow some of the arab world basically of the muslim world to make its own decisions but there's such a there's such chaos going on right now i think we need to be more engaged and more active this is about really qualifying down the rhetoric against iran and moving forward to more peaceful and better relationships and better respect with each other so they can have a good future and so can we. also closely following the rest of the muslim world as oh see it all calls the norm the provoke you see western portrayal of the middle east as how website. anti palestinian add would sickies devan society hatred boko up across the new york subway as u.s. authorities say they believe justified on the basis of free speech. tolls online and actress and down to islam film that sparks the midis project files
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a lawsuit against its producer as well as google and you tube and she fears for the safety of a family. do stay with us he will news coming up in just a few minutes. he says the question is that so much i'm going with record on it again zero zero we're to be occupied it's fair is it now just a passing fad there was a lot of outrage and even violence but what about. rich's soften enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of
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a horn at the heart of bike all his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horses weren't there sometimes he gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes that bites as well it's part of my everyday life. i holmes been home to a rats local just slough for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is always good. we always have enough here. if by coal is often called the pearl of siberia and horn is said to be the pearl of
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by call it so lend a fake forests. and vast staps. it's also a place of traditions respected by locals and travelers alike. an economist turned adventurer has crisscrossed by called shores and learned its customs well. you see pillars like this and thought to have supernatural powers every traveler who comes here asks the spirits to make the journey easier give them strength and fulfill their dearest wishes virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was horny as quickly become a magnet for nature lovers and you will see cars but those used to five star pampering may be in for a surprise the island's infrastructure has yet to catch up with the growing demand you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very
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basic so you can forget about it or even run in water for most people tend is there on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. a journey to buy coal can be unique trip of a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it you'll be coming back again and again. you're watching all see when politicians say sorry tearfully means that trying to wriggle their way out of a sticky situation that's exactly what the u.k.'s deputy prime minister was attempting to do but he landed himself with an even bigger one after his apology
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went viral as a music or mixed. i'm sure. there was a good one so there are mixes now being released as a single so nick clegg was apologizing for breaking a pre-election promise not to increase tuition fees at his party by steve tripling the fees to nine thousand pounds and he admitted he should never have made that pledge to begin with the speech was shown ahead of the liberal democrats convention nick clegg's popularity has flatlined recently and political blogger george eaton believes his own policy will likely get. lead to different lines of this clegg and his apology suggest that the party made the pledge in the first place because there's no money around would have been too expensive to implement now what some are saying is well we would have kept the pledge but it was. a very good.
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but it kept us actually lived as haven't got one single message on this and i think until they so they do then i'll be hard for the very just take them seriously. better the moment. his party's fortunes around to show that they can achieve things for the country government rather than spending side arguing with the conservatives trying to differentiate themselves it remains to be seen by the. i think that clegg is probably finished and that the party will replace him for the next election so why do disastrous. but musical apologies on the only concern for the u.k.'s coalition of the moment as cuts piled into the british public with layoffs to go lower it looks like the government is unaffected by recession and latest figures show the current coalition has doubled the number of policy advisers always point to boycott reports. as the russian empire had twenty six of them but it looks
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like the british government's apos that number alone. time ago here in the u.k. policies is an individual appointed by the government to find solutions in difficult areas of public policy and according to their research about to be released by king's college london the coalition of government has appointed ninety of them over the past two years they include celebrities like mary porteous who is famous for her make over television show she was charged with making over the u.k. high street over the past few years the u.k. government have appointed xaus on everything from enterprise digital communication and even housing but most of them are from the television there are so many of them that they could almost form their own celebrity mini cabinet serious questions about exactly why these people will be going to these rules and the. people to. whom. he was very.
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political analysts say they're worried about the increasing number of policy advisers as i made the coalition governments pledge to cut public spending it isn't just best swelling number that's worrying it's a question of their competence this year the british government's back to work sorry no business woman emma harrison who was appointed to help problem families find was forced to stand down from her role a major concerns over fraud within her company critics say the increasing number of cars within the u.k. government points to a deeper question about how the country is run and where the civil servants lack the expertise necessary to do their jobs properly. let's take a look at some other news from around the world the sign at least fourteen people have been killed and schools injured in the twin suicide bombing in somalia's capital city mogadishu the explosion took place in
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a crowded house near the residential press. palace three journalists are reported among the dead somalis are kind of support group al shabaab has been blamed for that time the bombing comes just a week after an assassination attempt on the new elected president. target has sometimes through its border with syria after a fierce exchanges of gunfire continued overnight across the region it comes a day after rebels occupied a strategic crossing on this sea were in turkish frontier which could open a new supply route a military helicopter was also the same crashing in a city near the syrian capital damascus the regime that clipped the tail of a passenger plane in midair but the armed opposition claims the chopper was downed by its fighters. court is expected to give its verdict in the trial of hundreds of military officials accused of plotting a coup among the charges brought against them are plans to blow up historic mosques
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in turkey sparking a conflict with greece so critics of the trial consider it an encroachment of turkey's secular principles the military will seen as a guarantor of. the let's join katie for business good morning it's been a turbulent week but seems apple is helping the mood yeah exactly right it's been a week and elss the federal reserve announced the first stimulus measures on the markets they have indeed lost their initial momentum but as you say apple's i phone five debut means technology shares are gaining so we get started with asia the world's most valuable company it's what is a catalyst for tech shares right now are giving apple suppliers a boost and helping to lift the general mood this friday has found queue up to purchase the latest offering let's see the close of wall street it adds up makes those they look pretty bleak all round with data from china japan europe all
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increasing concern a global economic slowdown is was saying there seems to be kind of a. prices of vs reality is going on with investors we get on to the oil and all of that data is buying into the prizes the chinese manufacturing report showing an eleven month contraction means zero to a massive nosedive along with supply increases that also helped to outdo surprises but now according the drops over to a correction god as you can see on your screen which is great news for the russian markets with my last one hour's time they finished up makes in those days trades oil made it in part as well as drops that we've witnessed in europe the fact of the fed's announcement was afraid it away a market a loss of what they gained in the u.s. easing trade will weaken as i say less than what i was time and that can be said for the ruble as well which have closed off the ball contraction of risk appetite the same can be said for the year or so mild as you tube noise around that five day
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stimulus package fails to make an impact now and that is the markets next hour talk about russia how the i mean think as you do good job casey thank you very much and ahead and also you look at how workers a risk their lives in bangladesh this month. well with. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. if you're passing through russia's region you really can call the world saw it. thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the learned and enterprising locals show the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it
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a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters. you know he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu of. the two things are successful that kind of. silence which means that i'm going to be very quiet i'm not going to write in the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to
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a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get up close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here. using the old
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rules as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand of the wild. so
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my name is mohammed repeat i'm forty seven years old i dismantle old ships i've spent thirty two years of my life here. about to. get down from there. and most workers come from the north the poorest part of bangladesh that. they got that they all yearn to come here that they consider this place to be like somewhere abroad that. you understand should it go in as like a foreign country to these people. they come here to work. to make money and. the first impression of the workers here is that they are innocent. i guess got
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a roof leak confirmed that impression. and there was another one twenty one year old. he is quiet and has an innocent smile. i've been working here for nine i know ten years i was twelve when i first came here. nobody wanted to hire me them. i brought my younger brother too. he had just finished fifth grade. now actually fourth grade he could barely write his name. this twenty thousand ton cargo ship arrived here two months ago.
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