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fury against the u.s. city muslim country spills into another weekend while a libyan militia suspected of killing the american ambassador there is targeted by . georgian police lose patience with protesters for the first reported arrests since outrageous video showing prisoners being have repeatedly abused. dozens of peaceful demonstrators and arrested in bahrain as police take out a march despite government promises to ease up on repressing activists.
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here my name is kevin i mean first u.s. diplomatic missions across the muslim world are being targeted by more anti-american protests which are now into the second weekend tens of thousands of nigerian muslims held a peaceful march earlier on saturday meantime in the capital of bangladesh hundreds of protesters have clashed with police there with scores reportedly injured fresh rallies are also taking place in pakistan where at least nineteen killed on friday a pakistani ministers reportedly offering one hundred thousand dollars for the death of the maker of the islam aachen film that sparked the arrest and in libya demonstrators vented their anger at the bases of islamist militias suspected of killing the american ambassador to the country while the controversial video is cited as the prime cause of fury some observers say the seeds were so long ago. the cause of what we're seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy.
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interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world the middle east is just another region that has been destabilized. the u.s. really played the role as the front line in the international spread of democracy on behalf of western intel the us 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 for the us invitation to come to the envoys to come into the into their countries to democratize them is what is causing these conflicts that you're seeing today this crisis is warranted because of us foreign policy and 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 protest is of reportedly been arrested as incense crowds continue to rail against the prison abuse scandal it was sparked by t.v.
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broadcasts of footage showing the torture and rape of inmates by god in a georgian jail protest as well the prosecution of several officials who resigned over the ridge can offer 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 he resigned 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 abuse of georgian rates by the authorities is widely complete 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 weight off public anger on friday a group of journalists was allowed to enter the. prison of one of the main ones in the country and spoke with some inmates and they say that they're still afraid that
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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 and belief beazley dios used to be a senior staff member off to go to any prison he claims to have filmed 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's secretly going on across the whole country also says that the interior minister himself shot some of this video and showed it to president saakashvili 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. opposition to president saakashvili all of this is a major blow to the georgian authorities after is to create this image of
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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 we counsel. for you have already was up to twenty percent off potential. you know we've got the full interview with the man who leaked the disturbing footage from. online now at r.t. dot com if you want to check it out. here shortly tonight love on a blood shared the story of two former prisoners freedom really after committing atrocities and how their lives changed in contrast to the destruction left behind and also support for a scottish split crowds gather in edinburgh for the latest push in the drive for independence from britain. to government arrests in bahrain a spring activists to call for more demonstrations after twenty nine people were detained in a rally where police used tear gas and rubber bullets bahrain's majority have been pushing for better human rights for the ruling western backed sunni monarchy since
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early twenty unleavened no more than fifty people have died in the crackdown since while key opposition figures have been jailed including movement leader now bill rudd for attending marches and rallying support bahrain this week accepted most of the un human rights recommendations pledging to go easier on protesters and to improve the treatment of political prisoners but international affairs. shows fears bahrain's only operating for show. i believe that they are going to continue with their repressive measures and if they appear that they are going to go see those issues that's just because may take a window dressing but i believe they have the backing of the west particularly if washington says it's a strategic ally of the united states i made your trading partner us will it where the headquarters of the fifth u.s. fleet in the persian gulf are located he bahrain i don't think that the. middle
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east or willingness to try to sleep in it like it is for at the bokhara sea and freedom of speech over the shia majority over bahrain. appears like yes they are called cd. aseptic their equipment patients i mean of course that they are going to try to follow the i mean plymouth them try to relax their repressive over the majority of the bahraini population is just for the media for public opinion the old for the west. other world news a brief fighting between government forces and rebels continues throughout syria with most of the violence reported in the country's financial hub a leper meanwhile the military claims it's cordoned off the city of hama fighting also continues on the country's border with turkey where opposition fighters seize an important crossing on wednesday vacuity the area and deployed military personnel in response. ecuador says it's ready to transfer julian the sun is to its embassy in sweden so he can respond to sex crimes allegations he's facing there however the
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move would require or for authorization from the u.k. now the wiki leaks that has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june he was granted asylum last month sounds fears that if he was sent to sweden he would then face on with 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 now that statement comes during sacred defense week which is currently underway in iran the two countries of exchange multiple threats over the years or which ones nuclear program which it claims is completely peaceful afghanistan declare the ban on all print 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 this comes as tension runs high between the neighboring states after kabul demanded a stop to cross border attacks pakistan whoever says it only targets militants that
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escape its territory. the scottish push for independence is seeing about five thousand supporters gather in edinburgh and there's more to come to is nationalists try to convince fellow scots that big and britain is a drain on the success is artie's jacob grieves. the event taking place in edinburgh is being 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 the annual basis building up to that vote trying to gain some momentum on the issue any issue indecision when it comes to independence 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 sam received a beaut from the work and pensions minister he said sound and the scottish national party wouldn't be able to handle the welfare state independently as something that
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sounded supporters to say it is a soul thing an attitude that really few calls for independence are top of that one 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 something has received a lot of criticism and underpinning all of that offshore 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. independence campaign goes in scotland needs to break from the u.k. to achieve political and social goals. with independence one of the biggest advantages is the ability to create and feed our society the ability to do is to design our own financial system the ability to design our own welfare system in
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scotland we've gone down a different cast we have the education we can free prescription charges we're focusing mark far more on construction and job creation and investing in in their economy scotland has massive potential in the new renewable industry in fact the scottish government has just and basically a lot of money in the green industry so in scotland we're choosing to die in a different path and we've done really well in the areas where we have come since you are so we have different priorities you know what westminster do and about and we want to the biggest advanced use of independence was to be able to sell the different parties in all the other eight is a competency which we don't cut and we haven't still ahead we are asking you worried about your cyber safety. bob rather see very. many people are great you know 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 residents said
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softly discover just how far people will go to protect their private data from packages that are a lot more to you coming up after this break. in the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings tilting over their foundation pipes spinning black small. over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the burgen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst that are local like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were
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they also looks. at how prosperous this was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lags say still attracting the region tourists are barons work and without commerce much needed cash that's why while. our goal is common it was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration. knew. where that in the 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 with 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
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one of the last preserved relics. of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades if you're curious interested i think it could be even more appealing for russia. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops. is a big hit defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing. it's a russian you know. you can put in. the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the in for. up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i
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mean that's the part of the you know authentic traditional. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on as 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 die repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. with the. technology innovation. developments around we've. covered. this is r.t. with me now from serving time to prime time next the story of
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a former palestinian prisoner who was jailed for her part in organizing a deadly slaughter yet today she's a t.v. star hailed by view as one of those worried that rising fame sent the wrong message to other palestinians a middle east correspondent paula slee has got the story. 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 broadcast on their must affiliated al could stevie it highlights the fate of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails a little 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 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
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fifteen people died that day in the suicide bombing had helped plan another one hundred thirty wounded one is still in a coma i want to mutal i will. listen know that you are loose. see the both sides see what happened for me. this is. to fight. 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 is the one all of us one hundred fifty women prisoners were crowded around the one prison radio i knew they would read out of the women's names first when i heard my name i was extremely happy but it was mixed with sadness for the
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women who were not being freed i couldn't sleep for forty eight hours until world least. i was exiled to jordan where she received a hero's welcome and much to the chagrin of the family she'd helped kill she was able to pick up her life and wait for the man she'd made only once one in prison and involved 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 as i was serving life for killing any israeli settler the two are related and are had grown up hearing stories about her imprisoned cousin he too was sick freak in the same prisoner exchange deal. no i was not surprised she was part of the
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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. the right. but they feel that it's not. it's a message with which before the. people that want to be. known and these are this is a love story that stood the test of time but to the families of those they killed it is enduring insult to the memory of those who died policia r.t. . if you get a minute to check out our website r.t. dot com tonight might be interested in these stories amongst many their. quest is to round look to the south pole now to extend its presence in international waters reporting on that also
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a real gate crashers ball you hear about this but it's out again now party invitations went viral on the web too many people turned up we got the details our t. dot com. britain's poorest are likely to get another hit from the treasury treat chief who is there trying to rein in spending right now millionaire self george osborne wants to freeze welfare payments for two years artie's party boy has got 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 to cut national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is reportedly considering freezing working age benefits in order to hit that target
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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 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 slowly than the benefits of the eight percent of the british population that is currently out of walk now analysts see another group being dragged into this and that's the so-called we used middle that are currently struggling would be increasing costs of food fuel and clothing almost seven million
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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. now of crowds of people eager to get their hands on those new i phone five c. you are aware that apple is no researching new ways to know precisely just where you are with your device but some are fighting back computer gurus from around the world or know teaching people how to protect their privacy artie's resident or half of us find out if people of the big apple know how to keep their secrets safe. security professionals and hackers around the world are holding classes in 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.
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many people are crazy you know and i know that he's he's on he just signed up for it in a banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to care and steal is money but i mean it comes out of convenience it's easier just to go online and check everything. it's just 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 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 i don't give me information
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in 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. 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. why do you think people don't do more because i think. they really expect it's going to happen to other people and never to 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
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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're watching are just couple minutes time we talk to a former u.s. governor a navy seal about america's electoral flaws as he sees the. i .
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continue now americans are weeks away from choosing who they want in the white house for the next four years and one former governor a navy seal wants the job after twenty sixteen next he speaks to us tells r.t. what he thinks as to how to get real people to the top.
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sitting down with jesse ventura former governor of minnesota former navy seal former professional wrestler bestselling author it's very nice to see you back in our new york studios great to be here now just so you recently announced that you are considering participating in the presidential race in the year twenty sixteen as an independent candidate because of course you believe that the two party system was crippled and corrupt so what better timing than now why not do it this time around because it would take too long you have to build for this difficult if i do it i will be with no party it will be just. running for president if i do it well that requires me to get go out get ballot access in all fifty states you can't do that overnight and it costs a lot of money that's why i've made the statement it will return require a grassroots movement of people in every state to go out and do what it takes to fulfill to get me ballot.

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