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why don't what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headline news coverage a report. today on our t.v. fury against the u.s. a muslim country spills into another weekend libyan militia suspected of killing the american ambassador there is targeted by a mall invent also. georgian police lose patience with protesters with the first reported arrest since outrage over a video showing prisoners being horrifically abused by guards. dozens of peaceful demonstrators are arrested and police take down a march despite government promises to ease up all repressing aren't of this. man
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stepping out for scott but huge crowds are expected in edinburgh for the latest push in support of a split from. hello and thank you for joining our two with me karen terrill cham broadcasting to you live from our studio in moscow where it is four o'clock and u.s. diplomatic missions across the muslim world are bracing for more anti-american protests which are now into their second weekend tens of thousands are reportedly demonstrating in nigeria several rallies are also expected in pakistan where at least nineteen people were killed in clashes with police on friday across in libya demonstrators vented their anger at islamist militias suspected of killing the american ambassador. the country ten reportedly died overnight violence overran
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the bases of two militia groups and then causing the prime cause inside it as the u.s. made video which insults the prophet mohammad some observers say the seeds were sown along. the cause of what we're seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy. interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world the middle east is just another region that has been destabilized as the u.s. to really play the role as the front line in 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 with drones flying overhead forcing citizens that never asked for the and for the u.s. 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
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this crisis is warranted because of u.s. foreign policy in the interventionist style the tactics that are you looking utilized in order to occupy these nations and create chaos out of which centralization is the desired goal. in georgia for protestors have reportedly been arrested sensed clowns continue to rail against a prison abuse scandal it was sparked by a t.v. broadcast of footage showing the torture and rape of inmates spine guards and a torch in jail protesters want the prosecution of several officials who resigned over the outrage to go to school all for ports from the georgian capital. the protest in belief we are continuing there are more arrests over the night still clashes with the police i know that a group of activists tried to break through a police ring around one of the government buildings and people are demanding the arrest of the former interior minister use line after these shocking videos went public but many here say that's not enough they want all the officials responsible to be prosecuted in fact the shocking footage of the alleged torture and sexual
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abuse of georgian roommates by the authorities is why we come here with that from guantanamo except it cows us terror suspects while here we're talking about ordinary georgian inmates that's why it's causing a huge wave of public anger on friday a group of journalists was allowed to enter the. prison one of the main ones in the country and spoke with some inmates and they say that they're still afraid that the abuse is going to continue even though president saakashvili has temporarily substituted the staff of all prisons across the country with police officers earlier our team managed to speak with the man who started all this going to be the cause a relief easy dio's used to be a senior staff member also be given the prison he claims still feel that many of these videos himself on the orders of the head of the prison and he says that he didn't want to get involved in politics but he just wanted the whole world to know what secretly going on across the whole country also says that the interior
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minister himself shot some of this video and showed it to president saakashvili to the gods also released some of the details about how the inmates were chosen for this abuse he says that sometimes they were just random people but often they were the those in opposition to president saakashvili all of this is a major blow to the georgian authorities after is to create this image of a transparent and western penitentiary system and it's also a blow to their personal image as well since the voluntary election is coming up on the first of october and according to some polls because saakashvili and the ruling party have already lost up to twenty percent off potential votes. anti-government arrests in baja reign are sparring activists to call for more demonstrations twenty nine people were detained in our alley where police used tear gas and rubber bullets grains shiite majority have been pushing for better human rights from the
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western that sunni since early two thousand and eleven more than fifty people have died in the crackdown since key opposition figures have been jailed clothing movement leader not be over a shop for attending marches and rallies support this week accepted most of the away from the rights recommendations pledging to go easier on protesters and the treatment of political prisoners but international affairs analyst liars are sitting here sponsoring only corroborating the show. 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 because maybe we don't receive i believe. it was a particularly of washing. of the united states i made your part there as well here where the headquarters of the fifth u.s. fleet the persian gulf are already located the bowery i don't think that the hero
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for bari east through with this is to try to coax. people crissy freedom of speech over the shia by doing the overpowering. appears like he is there or could see the. record with patients that need of course that they are going to try to follow them try to relax their repressive over the majority of the bahraini population is just for the media for public will be the own for the worst . so i have this our love on our blog chat. the story our q a former hamas prisoners of freedom early after committing atrocities and how their lives have changed in contrast several destruction they have left behind. the scottish push for independence expects large numbers of supporters to gather today and there is more to come as nationalists try to
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convince well scots being in britain's train on their success here's our thousands take agree. the event taking place in edinburgh has been trumpeted as a stepping stone to the referendum to be held on independence in two thousand and fourteen the organizers want similar demonstrations take place on the annual basis building up to that vote would be trying to gain some momentum on the issue no organized also stress not going to be supporters of the scottish national party in attendance or the like see those who normally vote for the labor party for liberal democrats or conservatives any issue indecision when it comes to independents likely to be thrashed out here in the building behind me in westminster and here is where alex town the head of the scottish nasa party just this week met david cameron the prime minister he also though some received through view from the work and pensions minister he said that sound and the scottish national party wouldn't
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be able to handle the welfare state independently as something that sounded supporters a said is assaulting an attitude that really few calls for independence are top of the hour on the main issues that these fueling the fire when it comes to independents has been the howling in westminster of finances on the back of the financial crisis something has 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 hour. basis that's something that scotland and its populace seem increasingly wanting to get their hands on. and the penance campaigner gail lythgoe says scotland needs to break from the u.k. to achieve its political and social goals so with independence one of the biggest advantages is the ability to create a feeder society the ability to do is to design our own financial system the
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ability to design our own welfare system in scotland we've gone down a different path we have the education we could free prescription charges we're focusing market far more on construction and job creation and investing in and they're going to me scotland has massive potential in renewable industry and in fact the scottish government has just invested a lot of money in the green industry so in scotland were choosing to die in a different path and we've done really well in the areas where we have come to see you back so we have different priorities you know what westminster do and about and we want to the biggest advanced use of independents will be able to do so so the different parties in all the other areas of competency which we don't cut and we haven't. all right some other world news in brief for you now fighting between government forces and rebels continues throughout syria with most of the violence reported in the country's financial harbor aleppo meanwhile the military claims it's cordoned off the city of hama fighting also continues on the country's border
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with turkey where opposition fighters seized an important call saying on wednesday on qatar has evacuated the area and deployed military personnel in response. ecuador says it's ready to transfer julian assange to its embassy in sweden though so he can respond to sex crimes allegations he's facing there however the move would require all three zeeshan from the u.k. the wiki leaks editor has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june he was granted asylum last month doesn't fears that if he was sent to sweden you would then face all the word extradition to the u.s. to stand trial for espionage. a senior iranian military commander has claimed a war with israel will eventually happen stressing that it would only lead to destruction of the jewish state the statement comes during sacred defense week which is under way in iran two countries have exchanged multiple threats over ten
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forums nuclear program which it claims is completely peaceful. afghanistan has declared a ban on all printed media from neighboring pakistan saying it serves as a means of propaganda for taliban militants all pakistani newspapers in eastern afghanistan confiscated by the police as comes as tension runs hard between neighboring states after kabul demanded a stop to calls for the tax pakistan however says it only targets militaries that a state that's territory. still ahead are you worried about your cyber safety. we're brothers she very. many people it's great you know 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 stuff our resident sets off to discover just how far people will go to protect their private data from this
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much more coming your way after this break. with. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were
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they also expressed amazement. at how prosperous this settlement was well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags say it's still attracting the region tourists are barons work i would then out comes much needed cash that's why when business bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint a venue and put it at barron's work central square that can do nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north. america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. it is essentially
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a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops. bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing. it's all rushing through your. body. the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would
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not like to have it in a shiny condition to be the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.
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best as our team with the latest news from around the globe karen tara. from serving time to prime time next the story of a former palestinian prisoner who was jailed for her part in organizing i play slaughter yet today she is a t.v. star hailed by viewers while others worry that her rising fame sense the role message to other palestinians here's our middle east correspondent paula slayer. every friday viewers across the arab world into this talk show to many it's presented them to me as a hero a symbol of palestinian resistance against the israeli occupation cost on the hamas affiliated al could stevie it highlights the fate of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails will never be a topic close to the heart of its young presenter back in two thousand and one on this busy intersection in downtown jerusalem was one of the most popular pits or restaurants in the city it was just after two o'clock in the afternoon when atlanta
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mimi said goodbye to a suicide bomber and left him to his mission it was the busiest time of the summer holidays and the restaurant was packed with school children and their parents fifteen people died there in the suicide bombing had helped plan another one hundred thirty wounded one is still in a coma. i was. listening you know that you are really. see the ball so you see what it's for me to. understand that this is what do i do to fight. our home was sentenced to sixteen life terms for her role but in the end i hum served only ten years of her prison sentence in october last year she was set free during a deal between israel and hamas in which one israeli soldier gilad shalit was exchanged for one thousand and twenty seven palestinian prisoners yeah and you must know this that's about all of us one hundred fifty women prisoners were crowded
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around the one prison radio i knew they would read out all of the women's names first when i heard my name i was extremely happy but it was mixed with sadness for the women who were not being freed i couldn't sleep for forty eight hours until worl east. was exiled to jordan where she received a hero's welcome and much to the chagrin of the family she helped kill she was able to pick up her life and wait for the man she'd made only once one in prison and fall to marry but. i remember every single detail of our first meeting she came to visit me in the prison and when she saw me she started crying the sentence i will never forget she said finally i did the second dream of mine or the first was to come back to palestine and the second is to see you in his own was serving life for killing any israeli settler the two are related and i had grown up hearing stories about her imprisoned cousin he too was sick freak in the same prisoner
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exchange deal. no no i was not surprised she was part of the exchange because i knew how much would never sign a contract without her name i was guessing too that i would also be released but even after i heard my name read out i couldn't believe it. a few months later the two married in freedom and unlikely waiting because of the bloodshed that haunts the past. if the right way is to so it's not feel but they feel that it's not a food it's more. it's a message they're on with such poor before the thing in the world people that want to be a truth to learn and these are this is a love story that stood the test of time but to the families of those they killed it is an enduring insult to the memory of those who died policia r t a minute.
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on r.t. dot com right now iran's ambitious squats. step on looks to the south pole to extend its presence in international waters. was a real gate crashers bowl after the party invitations accidentally one viral party dot com has the details. britain's poorest star likely to get another hit from the treasury chief was trying to rein in spending millionaire drawer charles bourne wants to freeze welfare payments for two years. has the story. it's areas such as this one london's tory 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 order
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to cut the national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is reportedly considering freezing working age benefits in order to hit that target we're already talking about groups of people who are squeeze 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 west 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 names of the people that do work in the u.k. are increasing much more slowly than the benefits of the eight percent of the british population that is currently. now analysts see another group being dragged
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into this and that's the so-called middle 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 phone font if you are aware that apple is now researching new ways to know precisely just where you are using your device but some are finding computer from around the world are now teaching people how to protect their privacy party's resident laurie harmfulness finds out of people in the big apple know how to keep their secrets say. security professionals unhappy around the world are holding classes in cryptography
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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 he is he's only just signed up for it at banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to steal his money but i mean it comes out of convenience it's easier just to go online and check everything but it's it's a bit scary if you do use a password that is your pet or your street name or something like that or 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 there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more of like
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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 i don't 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 something. that maybe better think about it yeah i think about it. 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 you know what would you take cryptography class to learn how to protect it more. probably not no. i'd rather study it now in good 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 ourselves
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the same reasons we poorly and don't exercise at the same reasons we don't protect ourselves are you suggesting i eat poorly 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 in. here with aren't the few minutes we talk to a former u.s. governor our navy seal about the america. wealthy british soil it's time to.
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market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. morning news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.
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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in the news a secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything turns mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com.
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welcome to art americans are weeks away from choosing who they want in the white house for the next four years one former governor and navy seal wants the job after twenty sixteen and next he tells r t what has to happen to get real people to the top.

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