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sigrid lumber tour. was to build a unique most sophisticated robot which on foot it really doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about human to. this is why you should care only on the dog car. because they just did it for entertainment or even imitate something to do with politics it was only me that would. point talk to a former georgia prison official who leaks the shocking video showing god still trying inmates that had the country and its. period of insults to islam rampages on fresh unrest in pakistan where protesters set fire to cinemas with a driver reportedly killed when police fired to disperse crowds. the british government stands accused of splashing the courage for new forest policy advisers
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double the amount of the previous administration while cutting benefits and public spending. this is coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program georgia's interior minister has resigned and days out of the two years surfaced which appear 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. this story is continuing to unfold here in georgia the interior minister has resigned and our team managed to meet with the bat and started all this the former staff member of the guard the prison the food. least this shocking
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foraged georgian authorities still claim that they didn't know what was going on but according to the guards it this is not the case at all that. saakashvili was fully aware of what was going on and when a fire was appointed minister in two thousand and five this is tim was very far from european standards he started taking very tough steps he would send security forces to prisons if they would break into prisons and beat up in even a polite himself who don't often be there with a camera filming it and then i think he would show those videos to saakashvili in order to show him what kind of system he had built it was going to be because he is now in belgium he's asked for political asylum and he claims that georgian authorities are still looking for him while he says that for anyone who wants to work in the security services be police or the jail system in georgia then no criticism of president saakashvili is allowed of. they just did it
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for entertainment or if an inmate had something to do with politics it was saakashvili as enemy they would pick this it in is extremely politicized if you work in the prison system or in the police you must be loyal to the second really regime no criticism is allowed that you should either leave or they will get to they enjoyed watching how helpless people were in their hands. take it to prison or you know but they have no dignity this is why these videos cost such an outrage in georgia and this is why all those young people are protesting because also says that president saakashvili is purely an american project and washington will do everything for him to remain in power here in georgia and well get the crowds himself says that he decided to show this footage to the world for everyone to see how the georgian leader really treats his citizens. transparency
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he was. the videos that buried 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 just mask of the. human dignity is the last thing they care about it i never believe this worries them 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 atmosphere at the entrance to the prison is
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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 leads brother has already spent seven months behind bars and says georgia's democracy beacon image aimed at the west is merely a well orchestrated cover up of the chills really pretty on the outside sure it is a for europe but no one really knows what's happening behind these walls. president saakashvili came 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 paris twenty five thousand inmates is enough to affect nearly every family in one way or another either. relatives friends or
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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. it's kind of r t v georgia. and you can watch things of you with a former deputy warden of georgia's ago don a prison later today helen elsie. fresh unrest flies up in pakistan's northwest and says have a shot while where protestors have said cinemas and angry over the u.s. made to islam film a local t.v. reporter says his driver was killed one police find to disperse crowds and at thousands clashed with police in pakistan security forces fired tear gas and
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warning shots to push crowds back from the american embassy some fifty people have been injured pakistani t.v. channels are showing clips of president obama denouncing the film for the shots how it will come the first test as that as a team is going to check our records maybe even the washington's outlets in the region saying counterproductive. as anti merican 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 to sort of 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 a source telling us that the ambassador's specifically mentioned the rise in islamic extremism with the country's internal situation getting increasingly
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unstable libya now appears to be a story as it can get from the roots that washington invision for the libyans when nato went 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 policy is there are flawed or maybe dangerously naive i don't think it three cause a degree in physics to grasp the reality that the use would make world democratisation means islam is a show 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 who wants and pollution troops this year alone and many of the attackers have been trained and armed by the us their basic wealthiest families you're not going to upset and change two thousand years of cultural matter you could influence it but you cannot change so this is where we have to be smarter about how we proceed doing the same thing over and over that 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 to hostile into being where they can but the strategy has been shown to backfire time and time again with the us ending up supporting forces who
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then turn their arms against america in washington i'm going to check out. on their fear is that fresh and risk to take hold in islamic countries after friday prayers professor of politics at new york university patricia gennaro believes the u.s. should rethink its policies if it wants to get relations back on track. house been going on for weeks but i 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 staunch supporters of israel no matter what happens within the context of the arab community in the arab region and in the muslim reason i was are saying now in pakistan and afghanistan their policy is also bad kind of way or in an ad hoc nonexistent so i think if anything's going to happen they're going to have to be very engaged right now of why i really think that the u.s. is a bit confused about what it should be doing and how it should be moving forward it's
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trying to step back and allow some of you know 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 stopping 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. and there are also closely following the unrest in the muslim world at home and it got more on the provocative western portrayal of the middle east at our website and tape palestinian adverts accused of inciting hatred will go up across the new york subway as you are so thora to say their billboards are justified on the basis of free speech. and also online for you an actress and down to islam film that sparks the middies protests filed a lawsuit against its producer as well as google and you tube should fears for the safety of her family more details and call. me on mars
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prominent dissident and nobel laureate i saw suci has become the latest star supporter of russia's punk band pussy riot this stateswoman or speaking in washington where she traveled to pick up a medal from the u.s. congress has joined the ranks of madonna so paul mccartney yoko ono and stephen fry a little while russia has been stressing the decision of the court should be respected so black president vladimir putin recently told r.t. that he is aware of the case but will not interfere in any way the band members are serving three years behind bars for staging a so-called pray in russia the main cathedral that performance have inspired several and he really just stunts while this week of russian each yoga teacher and took choir to save it to see drawled the same one where police arrived members states there. are several icons in ukraine members of the feminist group firman
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come down orthodox christian crosses on thursday a group of around twenty also to question protesters try to dislodge the opening of an art exhibition in moscow which was inspired by members of the punk band nine people were arrested. here watching r c and a laser for you in the program. the apology that one to wire all the u.k.'s deputy prime minister turns into that sensation as clegg says sorry other broken promises. and more stories for you coming up in a few minutes after a very short break. world including. science technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future covered.
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which is slow often 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 horn at the heart of bike all his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horses were there sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes big bites as well it's part of my every day life. been home to it nick brats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the
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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 i horn is said to be the pearl of by call it's a land of fake forests. and vast staps. it's also a place of fashion to borat's traditions respected by locals and travelers alike. an economist turned adventurer has crisscrossed by called shores and learned its customs well. you see. to have supernatural powers every traveler who comes here asks the spirits to make the journey easier give them
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strength and fulfill their dearest wishes virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was cornish quickly becoming a magnet for nature lovers and if you will sic others 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 basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even running water for most people a tent is the 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 local say once you've seen it you'll be coming back again and
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again. this is as he welcomed by. what politicians say surratt he usually 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 an even bigger one after his apology it went viral as an order to run next. i'm sure. it's. beautiful his son said the ricks is now being released as a single so nick clegg was apologising for breaking a pre-election promise not to increase tuition fees but his party by the tripping up fees to nine thousand pounds and his method he should never have made the pledge
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to begin with the speech was shown ahead of the liberal democratic convention nick clegg's popularity has flatlined recently and political blogger george eason's believes his own party will likely get. better 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 know what that mistake is we would have kept the pledge but it was part of the good stuff. but it kept lester actually the lib dems haven't got one single message i think until they until they do then i'll be hard for the just take them seriously clegg best at the moment is that best hope of turning his party's fortunes around it's just showing that they can achieve things for the country government rather than spend time arguing with the conservatives trying to differentiate themselves. by the. i think
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that black plague is probably finished that's the party room replacement for the next election so avoid the disastrous. but musical apologies on the only concern for the u.k.'s coalition of the moment as concept piled on to the british public with layoffs that 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 point out reports. the russian empire had twenty six of them but it looks like the british government supports that number. a long time ago here in the u.k. . 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.
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high street over the past few years the u.k. government have appointed zaza on everything from enterprise food digital communication and even housing but most of them are from the television there are so many of them that they could almost full marron celebrity in many cabinet serious questions about exactly why these people will be going to these rules you go to people to. whom. he was very friendly which 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. who was appointed to help problem families find was forced to stand down from her role
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a major concerns of 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. coming up later today an explosive situation on the football field a monstrous put on hold after a device is thrown on the field despised by one of the players and what may not have been the safest manner. details to get in an hour in our sports bulletin but. let's now take a look at some other news stories from around the world a mass grave with twenty five bodies have been discovered in the syrian capital damascus the victims who showed signs of torture and had their hands tied were allegedly abducted and killed by rebel forces this comes a month after a massacre when several hundred bodies were found the town near damascus video
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footage released by the government showed dozens of bodies of blooded bodies lined up a broad daylight graveyard and others lining a trail in dreams animals in the time. at least fourteen people have been killed and scores injured in the twin suicide bombing in somalia's capital city mogadishu the explosion took place in a crowded tea house near the presidential palace three journalists are reported among the dad somalia's al qaeda support group al shabaab has been blamed for that time the bombing comes just a week after trying to assassinate an attempt on the newly elected president. that's now check on the business news and major investment forum has kicked off in russia southern city of sochi and that's where we can join our she's dmitri medvedev hello that we tree over tina. well i do the best before i'm in solitary here is in full swing among the highlights so far the head of russia's largest oil
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company ross is here at the forum and journalism caught up with him now he has confirmed that b.p. is interested in increasing its stake. in the company now how this could be done is through the sale of b.p.'s stake in the russian british joint venture t m k b.p. now if b.p. sold its a fifty percent stake then ross would buy it out with cash and shares in its own companies or basically through market mechanisms now this is a extremely important for b.p. as it would be. according to media reports it would become the second most significant investor in those depths off to the government with around twelve and a half percent ownership in the company now for b.p. that's very important because it needs to move on and develop its business in russia which has stalled ever since its a deal with with rosneft in exploring the arctic shelf was blocked by this the
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russian british joint venture and now also we've had the plenary session address from the president media from the prime minister dmitry medvedev now he has been talking about russia's competitiveness the rights and the he's disappointed that according to recent polls it's at the sixty seventh place stating that basically government institutes are working in efficiently there's very little competition and also that russia needs to have a more competition on the markets and this is basically the highlights the so far. many thanks city that on day to me treatment and care that. summed up next space not lost his gas can be controversial knocking islam really be the only reason behind the protests taking place across the world.
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if you are passing through rushes to view a region you really can call the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the learned and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunt is. going on 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. the things are successful that kind of. silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to frighten the. office.
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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 us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to 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
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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 i had a chance to get 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 rules as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique that they would 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 wolfs reputation in
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russia but the keepers here hope their research and dedication mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. and . a low in welcome across town people of a year on where does the occupy movement stand is it now just a passing fad there was a lot of outrage and even violence but what about the substance supporters of the occupy movement disagree they claim they have changed the political conversation in the us and possibly the world about social justice. education. crosstalk the occupy movement one year on i'm joined by joseph palermo he's an
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associate professor of history at california state university sacramento in london we have charles cook he's a writer with the national review and in islamabad we cross to solomon hyder shake he is the c.e.o. of i.q. ventures across the grows in effect gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want charles one year on the occupy movement would you say it's a lot of heat but not much light. yes and i think it was from the beginning i went down there right at the beginning i covered it for a few months and it's funny if you look back at the first thing i rode i said this is a collection of progressives who've had these ideas for a very long time there's nothing particularly new about it. and it would go nowhere because it was encouraging it was diffused and there wasn't anything new in there offering and i think a year later it has fizzled with the exception of the line one percent in ninety nine percent that has stuck around that and that is now part of the conversation but in terms of the other things i heard that they wanted it was a pretty standard ragbag progress of.

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