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four people are taken into custody in georgia as protests over alleged torture and abuse in the country's prisons continue. deadly fury in the arab world libyan store militia base is angry at the killing of the u.s. ambassador while seventeen are killed in pakistan in clashes against the anti islam . and independent supporters gather in edinburgh with thousands expected to march in scotland's capital to demand it goes along with the rest of the news.
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thank you for joining r t it is saturday here in moscow and three o'clock i'm karen taraji well georgian police have arrested at least four protesters us public fury flared after leaked video showed inmates at a prison being tortured and sexually abused by guards are reports from the b.b.c. . the protests are continuing there have been more arrests and some clashes between the activists and the police i know that a group of activists try to break into a police ring around one of the government buildings on friday the public in general is still very angry with these videos they are demanding for the arrest of the reform or interior minister who's resigned after these videos went public but many people here say that that's not enough they want all those officials
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responsible to be not only sacked or for them to resign but also to be arrested and prosecuted in fact many here are comparing the footage which shows torture and human sexual abuse of georgia inmates from the infamous guantanamo prison except that houses their terror suspects here we're talking about georgian inmates which is creating a huge wave of public anger now on friday journalists for the first time to visit illegal downy prison that's where allegedly the footage is from some of the inmates said that they are still afraid that they are going to be used by the authorities even though president saakashvili has temporarily substituted all prison staff in all prisons in georgia with police officers. used to be one of the senior staff members of the prison he's saying that leaking these videos was just to show the
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world how president saakashvili really treats his citizens since claims that he filmed these videos by the waters off the head of the prison he also claims that the former interior minister still some of the score just well and showed it to president saakashvili he also described how the inmates were chosen for this abuse . sometimes it was just the random people but also only were those school opponents also a circus really speciate all this is definitely a future to the georgian authorities efforts to create this image of a transparent certainly democratic penitentiary system and well the election to parliament discovery go up just the first of october and according to the latest polls here in georgia the reading forty and president saakashvili may have lost up to twenty percent because of these videos so it's people or quickly and massively
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losing trust in the field. thousands have taken to the streets of libya's second city ben consing to demand an end to the terran am armed militia four people have been killed and dozens injured outside an islamist protesters a victim several brigades setting buildings and cars and planes bomb militia members fire to try and disperse the crowds the people are angry at the militia as one of the groups is suspected of killing the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans in protests on for the u.s. made anti islam film last week the islamist militants militias rather are a legacy of the uprising that killed moammar gadhafi now also accused of intimidation and carrying out extrajudicial killings journalist anthony miles says america's foreign policy has destabilize the region and. the cause of what we're
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seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy that backs interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world the middle east is just another region that has been destabilized as the u.s. who really play the role as the front line values and the international spread of democracy on behalf of western intel the u.s. has built you know over nine hundred bases one hundred forty five countries around the world spreading democracy at the end of a gun barrel or withdraw. flying overhead forcing citizens that never asked for the for the us invitation to come to the envoys to come into the into their countries to democratize them is what is causing these these conflicts that you're seeing today this crisis is warranted because of us foreign policy in the interventionist style the tactics that are you utilized in order to occupy these nations and create chaos out of which centralization is the desired goal. in pakistan at least seventeen people were killed on friday and protests over the anti islam film the
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government declared love for the prophet day but it didn't stop violence from erupting throughout the country in islamabad thousands tried to breach the u.s. embassy in clashed with police in the pakistani capital diplomatic area police used tear gas and fired bullets into the air in the northwest city of peshawar brand page and protesters set fire to sentiments after muslim friday prayers in nearby modeled on protesters burned down a lutheran church in the capital bangladesh scores of people were injured when demonstrators clashed with police they threw stones and police responded tear gas foreign policy analyst robert iman says the film mocking islam is breeding extremism and. this is jew all extents and purposes oh jihadi just recruiting video. we've seen in the past that the u.s. government has. in some cases successfully eugene to should press
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what they consider to be jogging through green green years in the west even in parts of the u.s. government there is a prejudice against muslims which is you flocking in u.s. foreign policy and he contributes to the atmosphere which these events are unfolding to pakistan you see shooting the drone strikes is overwhelmingly opposed by pakistani continuing by. a political point stance of glee by the government this is a tremendously to resentment in pakistan against the united states fortunately the military in the cia and to this policy even though many former and current u.s. diplomatic and political officials believe that connor that the drone strikes are counterproductive are causing united states more harm than good. still to come on the program tear gas and stun grenades are used to disperse
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a protests in bahrain as more demonstrations against the monarchy break down. and the u.k. says it has no plans to increase welfare payments in the next two years money that's crucial to those who are struggling to make ends meet the. crowds of supporters of scottish independence are swelling in the center of. thousands have flocked to the capital from across scotland around a deal on the referendum to break away from the u.k. could be hammered out by late october as artie's jacob graves reports the event taking place in edinburgh is been trumpeted as a stepping stone to the referendum to be held on independence in two thousand and fourteen the organizers want similar demonstrations to take place on an annual basis building up to that vote but trying to gain some momentum on the issue any issue indecision when it comes to independents likely to be thrashed out here in
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the building behind me in westminster and here is where alex down the head of the scottish national party just this week met david cameron the prime minister he also though some received a bitter rebuke from the work and pensions minister he said and the scottish national party wouldn't be able to handle the welfare state independently as something that sounded supporters a said soul to an attitude that really few calls for independence. on the main issues that is fueling the fire when it comes to independents has been the handling in westminster of finances on the back of the financial crisis some of it's received a lot of criticism and underpinning all of that off shore north sea all revenues expected to earn about thirty four billion dollars on an annual basis and that's something that scotland and its populace seem increasingly wanting to get their hands on. gail lythgoe is campaigning for independence that is scotland outside of
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the u.k. could make decisions based on it's own me. too with independence when the biggest advantages is the ability to create feed our society the ability to do is to design in our financial system the ability to design our welfare system in scotland we've gone down a different path we have the education we could free prescription charges we are focusing mark far more on construction and job creation and investing in in the economy scotland has massive potential in the new renewable industry in fact the scottish government has just invested a lot of money in the green industry so in scotland we're choosing to do in a different path and we've done really well in the areas where we come from so we have different perches what westminster do and about and we one of the biggest advanced independents will be able to go so the different virtues in all the other
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areas of competency which we don't cut and we have. our online news team is keeping you up to date with the events in scotland on our r.t. dot com and while you are on the web check out some other stories as well. american media is losing the trust of the people as the majority of americans have stopped expecting mainstream news to be objective. plus failure to pay as spanish woman who became famous for blessing in nineteenth century for us to go to cash in on the fiasco. to stay with our team more news coming up in just a few minutes.
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i mean isn't this true even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms. the heart of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from. believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe capture the power of nature.
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there are special instruments that accompany the singing guinea says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed the horse was revived as an instrument . of suppositional is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream he said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head out of the instrument he did so cool these from an. which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour
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pruitt they say for you are p. and since difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it chill you cheer it up. shero you shared them out of that was sure to say can out who was you think gang are oh. but now it is the and moody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. too far in mind that you come from two hundred years ago and still sappy here she's
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not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. sigrid laboratory curbeam was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only dot com. a quarter past the hour here in moscow welcome back you are watching our tool and bahrain security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government demonstrators twenty nine were us that shot protesters are going home and to what they call discrimination bodies turning hard on one side france leaders agreeing to accept most of the u.s.
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human rights recommendations pledging to suppress violence and untrue treatment of political prisoners more than fifty people have been telling us what has been ongoing since february last year but international affairs and defense analyst laos state fears the government is home operating with the letter mr shah. i believe that they are going to continue with their repressive measures and if they appear that they are going to cause. issues that's just got to because we don't receive i believe they have. a particularly if washington. if united states. trading partner as well if it were the headquarters of the fifth u.s. fleet if the persian gulf are located by rate i don't think that the. least with this is to try to see it like it is for people kristie freedom of speech over
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the shia but yuri bahrain. appears like yes there are. there are a lot. they were. either of course that they were going to try to pull them to relax their repression over the budget. is just for the be the zero four but we could be. all right let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world the sound. thousands of demonstrators have rallied in portugal to protest against the government's austerity measures police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd three people were arrested during the clashes with no injuries reported at times a week after more than one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets to protest the new cuts. ecuador says it's considering asking britain to authorize transferring julian assange to its embassy and sweden so he can respond to sex crimes charges there ecuador also says the whistleblower could be questioned at its
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embassy in london has been holed up since june the u.k. is yet to respond ecuador granted the wiki leaks editor asylum last month but the standoff continues assad's fears that if he was sent to sweden he would then face all would extradition to the u.s. to stand trial for the king diplomatic cables. privately it's hard to be called into a suburban dutch town when around four thousand party goers turned up at a teenager's birthday party the crowd threw stones bottles and even bicycles at least but then put on standby after the party invitation when viral on facebook the girl forgot to mark her event as private and had to flee her home after over one hundred thousand users said they had to turn. here with our team coming up later in the program or you say fall in line. not enough is being done on the part of the
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government and there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's. best parties resident hits the streets of new york to find out if enough being done online bank and shopping accounts safe from. ucas plans to freeze social support is causing alarm among the growing number of people in the country who are finding it hard to make ends meet while for payments or such a stay at the same level for the next two years despite inflation arches probably boyko explains it's areas such as this one london's tory on a state that have been bearing the brunt of the british government's austerity drive already more than one in four children here in the u.k. live in poverty and sadly that figure is only projected to increase even so the coalition government says that they need to lash. out on the welfare bill in
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order to cut national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is reportedly considering raising the working age benefits in order to hit that target we're already talking about groups of people who. are struggling have had their living standards affected over the last couple of years because of what's happened in the global economic environment and what's been i think i said to him if this change or something like it was to go through we would see those living standards further affected for the worst at the moment welfare payments are linked to inflation and that is increasing much frost of the wages back in june prime minister david cameron said that it's unfair that the awnings of the people that do work in the u.k. are increasing much more flu. really benefits of the eight percent of the british population that is currently. not analysts see another group being dragged into the
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us and that's the so-called we used. that are currently struggling with being creasing cost of food fuel and clothing almost seven million working adults here in britain struggle with the basic cost of living and it's areas such as these where the trickle down effect of stretched pay packets and a benefits freeze are going to be most devastating with crowds of people eager to get their hands on the new i phone five you know that apple is now researching new ways to know precisely just where user took place but some are fighting back computer gurus from around the world are now teaching people how to keep their privacy in their own hands archies resident laurie harmfulness finds out of people in the big apple know how to protect themselves. security professionals and hackers around the world are holding classes in
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cryptography to teach people how to protect themselves in the digital world how concerned are you with your virtual privacy this week let's talk about that are you worried about your privacy online or on your computer or privacy very. many people are crazy you know and i know that behaves he's going to just sign up for it in a banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to run his account and steal is money but i think it comes down to convenience it's easier just to go online and check everything but. it's a bit scary did you use a password that is your pet or your street name or something like that just. because that's an easy one to get yeah what do you think is the biggest villain out there in terms of invasion of privacy is it the public at large the government hackers. i'd say not and not enough is being done on the part of the government and
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there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more of like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's stuff you know yeah and it's weird that companies are making money off of people's private information that's to be expected if they can make money they will give me information and just give my name maybe a photo. that's all what about on your computer though do you have sensitive files . that maybe better think about it yeah i think about it but. if you can encrypt it would you take a class to learn how to encrypt and you don't care that much. do you keep any personal back on your computer yeah no one would you take a cryptography class to learn how to protect it more. probably not no. i'd rather study it yeah but why do you think people don't do more because i think. maybe we expect it's going to happen to other people and never to
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ourselves the same reasons we eat poorly and don't exercise at the same reasons we don't protect ourselves are you suggesting whether or not you're concerned about your digital privacy the bottom line is that virtual world is swiftly becoming what the real world says a place where big brother and bad forces might be watching you. and in a few minutes we put the spotlight on the news makers and our interview show to stay with us. we'll look at. sundance technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the future covered.
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as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of storey hundred sheep in the mountains in panes of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition unfamiliar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and
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that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive than promising largest. and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd a get the highest fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for
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a new wife. more news today. again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all. which brightened if you knew about songs from the finest impressions some. nice friends down totty dot com.
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hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our stage i'm older now and today my guest on the program is new tact this year israel has celebrate that there are shall not for the jewish new year amid serious security was the first call was to the whole middle east has been rioting these days following in famous u.s. made feature film the face of the prophet muhammad tension is rising in israel true although no major trouble happened. next a war with iran is getting more and more realistic which skews the israelis a lot so how do these concerns effect the life in israel and its most important city jerusalem rasping city mayor.
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mayor of jerusalem mubarak on doesn't get paid for his job a self-made millionaire is modern go ahead and secular because jerusalem the brand and works with marketing professionals to make it a number one tourist destination he has opened arab schools and rages the arthur dogs jewish community by allowing city services to work in the holy day all shut down your barcott used to be an army major. and he was wounded in lebanon on the nine hundred eighty s. so when asked about the status of the contested city he says there's no question. jerusalem belongs. welcome to the show thank you. well first of all let's talk about about this film the innocence of muslims which has caused a few.

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