tv [untitled] September 22, 2012 4:00pm-4:30pm EDT
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tonight fury against the u.s. in muslim countries spills into another weekend after a libyan militia suspected of killing the american ambassador there was targeted by a mob in benghazi. georgian police lose patience with protesters from the first reported arrest since outrage wrapped it over a video showing prisoners being a riff italy abused by guards. and dozens of peaceful demonstrators are arrested in bahrain as police take down a march despite government promises to ease up on repressing our.
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fellow live from moscow at midnight this is r.t. international i'm kevin now in first u.s. diplomatic missions across the muslim world are being targeted by more anti-american protests which is now into the second weekend tens of thousands of nigerian muslims held a peaceful march saturday meantime in the capital of bangladesh hundreds of protesters there clashed with police with schools reportedly injured fresh rallies have also taken place in pakistan where at least nineteen were killed on friday at a pakistani minister's office one hundred thousand dollars for the death of the maker of the islam mocking film that sparked the unrest earlier in libya demonstrators vented their anger at the bases of his list militias suspected of killing the american ambassador to the country journalist lawrence freeman told me washington's policies in the region of the blame for this ongoing violence. the situation. directly correlates by this film attacking islam
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which you have is you have people who are trying to stir or certain elements in the muslim world and it's being worked the spirit is exactly to get the north six three elements into these kinds of frenzied demonstrations but the underlying reality is the fact that the u.s. policy towards libya towards north africa towards the middle east is the number one problem and it's the demonstrations of the use to create essentially a hundred years tried to lead you through or do something with the written about or the clash of civilization but the what happened in libya predated when they were freed gayety this very islam film so that wasn't the cause of the crisis in libya it was well known in georgia for protestors have reportedly been arrested as incense crowds continue to rail against the prison abuse scandal there it was
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sparked by t.v. broadcasts of footage showing the torture and rape of inmates by guards in a georgian jail protest is what the prosecution of several officials now resigned over the ridge at his cigar piskun off the ports from the georgian capital. the protest in billy's see are continuing their own war a rest 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 used line after these shocking videos one is 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 roommates by the authorities is why we come here with that from guantanamo except it kills 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
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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 belief these videos used to be a senior staff member all speak about the 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 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 the two guards 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 you know opposition to president saakashvili all of this is
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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 we counsel. really and truly paul you have already walked up to twenty percent off potential balls. now we've got a full interview with the man who leaked that disturbing footage of. cads a online streaming whenever you want to catch it at r.t. dot com has not seen it already here shortly tonight to love honor and bloodshed the story of two former how mass prisoners freed after committing atrocities and how their lives and changed in contrast to the destruction they left behind. the next. anti government arrests in bahrain a spring activists to call for more demonstrations after twenty nine people were detained in a rally with police used tear gas and rubber bullets bahrain shirt majority been pushing for better human rights from the ruling western backed sunni monarchy since
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early twenty eleven now more than fifty have died in the crackdown since while key opposition figures have been jailed including the movement leader now bill rudd job for attending marches and trying to rally support bahrain this week accepted most of the un human rights recommendations pledging to go easier on protesters and improve the treatment of political prisoners and international affairs analyst the fears bahrain's early cooperate in for shit. 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 going to be cosmetically it we don't receive i believe seems they have the backing of the west and particularly of washington c c it's strategic ally of the united states i'm a joe taking part there as well in where the headquarters of fifty ft u.s. fleet it depression rolf are located he bought rain i don't think that the at your own for. easter with us to try to coax. for
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people chrissie and freedom of speech of the shia majority of bahrain that appears like yes they are called to see the. their record but they sure would need of course that they are going to try to follow them try to relax their repressive over the majority of the bahraini population but it's just for the media for public upbeat the old for the west. the fighting between government forces and rebels continues throughout syria with most of the violence reported in the country's financial have a leper meantime the military claims corndog the city of hama fighting also continues to win the country's border with turkey for opposition fighters seize the important crossing on wednesday and chris evacuated the area and deployed by the tree personnel in response to more world news in brief ecuador says it's ready to transfer julian assange to his embassy in sweden so you can respond to sex crimes allegations he's facing there however the move would require authorization from the u.k.
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the weekly said it has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june he was granted asylum last month the son fears that if he was sent to sweden he would then face possible onward extradition to the u.s. to stand trial for espionage should. a senior iranian military commanders claim the war with israel will eventually happen stressing that would only lead to the destruction of the jewish state but that statement comes during sacred defense week which is currently under way in iran the two countries have exchanged multiple threats of late over to rand's nuclear program which he claims is completely peaceful. a little later this hour britain's welfare woes were reporting on leaders plans to strike the dead could mean that more of the poorest people are plunged into poverty and. i worry about my brothers see very. many people would raise you know if 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 our resident sets
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of this go just how far people go to protect their private data from hackers got that much more after this break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters i'm ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refuse to hire me one of them. told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic. in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in many cases
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their shattered lives were in the goal when professing designed his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the center now days seeking series magic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them it usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from the p.d. point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living
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their lawyers fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations for one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to west and save you. main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared. in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to every because i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still would want to have had the surgery
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logan from serving time to prime time next the story of 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 viewers while others wore that have rising fame sends the wrong message to other palestinians middle east correspondent paula sleeze got the story . every friday viewers across the arab world into this talk show to me it's presenting them to me as a hero a symbol of palestinian resistance against the israeli occupation podcast on the hamas affiliated al could stevie it highlights the fate of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails 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 schoolchildren 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 was. listening know that you are religious. see the both sides see what happened for me to. understand that this is the right way to do to fight. was sentenced to sixteen life terms for her role but in the end a 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 yet you must not dismiss the one all of us one hundred fifty women prisoners were crowded around the one prison radio i knew they would read out all of the women's names first when i
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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 we were least. excel 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 vowed 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 a lot of 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 i had grown up hearing stories about her imprisoned cousin he too was set free in the same prisoner exchange deal. no no i was not surprised she was
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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. the right. but they feel that it's not a food it's more. it's a message they're one with which poor before the thing in the hall people that want to be true to athlone and these are this is a love story that stood the test of time but to the families of those they killed it is any enduring insult to the memory of those who died policia r t a man checking out a few stories top stories tonight r.t. dot com a website get a lot of clicks you might want to see into reporting about iran's ambitious quest as to rare look for the south pole now apparently to extend its presence in
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international waters want to find out more about that said r.t. . and well a birthday to forget this one a real gate crashers ball happened in the northern netherlands three thousand turned up after invitations were accidentally sent on the internet they went viral big old mess their party dot com is the place to find out more. britons poorest are likely to get another hit from the treasury chief who's trying to rein in spending millionaire george osborne wants to freeze welfare payments for two years he's probably has got the story. 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 order to cut national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is
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reportedly considering freezing 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 crossed of the wages back in june prime minister david cameron said that it's unfair that the earnings 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 work now analysts see another group being dragged into this and that's the so-called we used middle that are currently
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struggling would be increasing costs 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 those new i phone five c. people are aware that apple is also researching new ways to know precisely just where you use your device but some people are fighting back computer gurus around the world and they're trying to teach people how to protect their privacy artie's resident laurie half of us finds out that if people in the big apple know how to protect their secrets and keep them safe. security professionals unhappy around the world are holding classes in cryptography to teach people how to protect themselves in the digital world how concerned are
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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 in a banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to 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 so 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
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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 give my name and maybe if. 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 so much from here do you keep any personal back on your computer yeah you know what would you take cryptography class to learn how to protect and 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 accept the same reasons we don't protect
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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 him. in a couple of minutes time we talk to a former u.s. governor a navy seal about america's a true flaws as he sees them. the sun rises over what seems like and lowest forest to here in the new directions quite hundred kilometers north of life while stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the
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forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forests or it's in our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get
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out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some morning has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there's twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he's overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now as i started city for more whole forest legislation so assumes
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the pals and so on the new forest court and according to. the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still the forest still doesn't work just. as no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. well the. syrians technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.
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seal former professional wrestler oxer and best selling author it's very nice to see you back in our new york studios great to be here and just say you recently announced that you are considering participating in the presidential race a mere twenty six to you as an independent candidate because of course you believe that the two party system was crippled and corrupt so why what better timing than now why not do it this time around well because it would take too long you have to build for this she the difficult for me if i if i do it i will be with no party it will be just just ventura running for. president if i do it well that requires me to get go out and get ballot access in all fifty states you can't do that overnight and it cost 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 access that i can be on the ballot and then there's a second requirement i have to be guaranteed i've got to be in the debates because
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if you're not in the debate you can't win and i do not run for political office just to make a statement when i run i run to win now your new book of course democrats and very bluntly focus is on the parties being gang like. fighting for power just for the sake of having power and you talk a lot about the need to eradicate corporations from politics and my question to you i guess is how can this realistically be done in a country where this has been the system for ever and you yourself compare politicians to you know possibly wearing now scar racing since because they have so much support from corporations who are going to first nash car racing suits like if you look at jimmie johnson the great he's got patches all over the tells who his sponsors are well if we require them to wear that then we as voters will know who owns them there's so much corruption it won't take long it just recently happened before it was against the wall.
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