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today's news on the week's top stories deadly violence started by an anti islam film around pages across the muslim world as crowds call for revenge on the uighurs . questions over georgia and democracy protests and demand an end to the brutality of some videos of alleged torture in the country's prisons come to light. and one hundred eighty occupy wall street activists are resting in new york as they march to market different demands economic and social equality.
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hello and welcome to all see twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the latest news on the week's top stories tens of thousands have been venting their anger over the u.s. made on to muslim film for two weeks now professors have been gathering in canada germany and israel scores have been injured in the capital of bangladesh protesters threw stones at set fire to cars while police used tear gas and gas phones to subdue crowds massive drug traces were held in pakistan these descended into violence on friday killing at least twenty people in islamabad thousands trying to breach the u.s. embassy while another city is crowded set fire to cinemas and burned a listener in charge one pakistani minister offered a one hundred thousand dollars to those who killed the make of the un to islam
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failed however the country's leadership denounced his and though she is again a chicken reports now the video is not the only thing stoking and to america. the white house keeps saying it was just the anti islamic video that caused the muslims rants across the world this is not a case of. protests directed at the united states. it's written large or at u.s. policy this is in response to a video that is offensive but that's a claim no one is buying it ministration wants us to believe it's not the administration's policies that have generated this behavior it's this one idiotic piece of so-called film which is what out there for two months well it is you know you said it's stupid film that nobody's seen causes people to assassinate ambassador and to storm the embassy and the question the us media keep asking why do so many millions of dollars homes hate the usa but the answers they're getting are the answers very few in the u.s. want to hear if you're to point to one thing that makes some muslims hate the usa
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it would be. hypocrisy over democracy. while america the government now preaches democracy it has propped up authoritarian leaders but that's not the only accusation of hypocrisy that washington is facing there's also u.s. policy makers failure to condemn the violence when it suits their goals like the numerous terrorist attacks in syria washington seems to approve of them as long as they are targeting supporters of the saudi government or another act of violence a rebel mob executing colonel gadhafi the us a police state cheered at the news as we came we saw he died but that. washington's failure to condemn all violence equally has prompted radicals to take an even more aggressive course if most americans understood what was being done in our name in the stabilizing the middle east and north africa it would be absolutely
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horrified what other result to me expect these people to have no hope their economies are destroyed they see what they're calling for foreign invaders of course this kind of thing is going to happen when the tragedy in libya happened the international community wholeheartedly condemned the attacks on american diplomats but the u.s. for its part. it has been quite selective in condemning violence it could be that the white house start by supporting revolutions by fostering regime change they were winning hearts and minds in the muslim world but that doesn't appear to be the case for now the obama administration constantly refers to the film as the sole reason behind what's happening a reasoning which basically allows them to avoid addressing the deeper issues in washington i'm going to check out.
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this week public anger has wrongs georgia in reaction to a prison abuse scandal with big government now scrambling to save face here in florida for leaks video showed an image being tortured and raised by guards at one of the country's trails on friday through protesters were arrested after trying to break through a police cordon despite the resignation of several georgian officials on the interior minister demonstrators say they won't rest until everyone responsible is held to account prison guards across the country have been replaced with police officers but even may say they fear the brutality is worth continuing as can offer force now from to be. transparency human rights euro dollar. the videos that hurried toward his image making efforts in a matter of minutes scenes of torture beatings and the sexual abuse of inmates
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allegedly in one of the country's most exemplary prisons just as government bus illegal now but human dignity is the last thing the cure about it i never believe this year isn't just one bit and i was the by the most amazing script still. thousands protested would sir is reading the reply only address the georgian authorities some are comparing the footage to that from one. even though these are ordinary inmates not terror suspects many not only want the sacking of officials responsible for the police and the prison system but the prosecution as well. everybody knows this isn't just one case this happens all over the country which is the atmosphere at the entrance to the prison is extremely intense but this is not a protest rally these people are relatives of inmates who are still inside the prison and they are demanding an explanation. brother has already spent seven months behind bars and says georgia's democracy beacon image in the west is merely
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a well orchestrated cover up of the chills really pretty on the outside sure it is a for europe but no one really knows what's happening behind these walls. president saakashvili came as a standing thought several prison officials are now under a criminal investigation and all jail staff have been temporarily substituted with police officers but for many georgians it's too little too late in a country with a population half the size of paris twenty five thousand inmates is enough to affect everything in one way or another by the relatives friends or neighbors and as the nation prepares to vote for a new problem and a look toward the damage to georgia's leaders may be too much for the reputation to be rescued in time. of r t e c ga. and r.t. caught up with a full my staff member from the infamous georgian jail who leads the shocking video
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has led to me because it has left the country and is now seeking political asylum in belgium and he claims georgian officials knew the case would be regimes ideological opponents often becoming the victims of torture. george's interior minister should the videos to be. didn't it was just for fun for no particular reason and it was like we do what we want with people want to take you to presume you are nobody you have no dignity this is why these videos cause such outreach in georgia this is why all those young people who are protesting are all young people came out to putin into water for a lie has been doing the cooler heads for sitings but this is not enough he should be arrested and try and saakashvili must resign saakashvili knew very well about it he just did it for entertainment or if an inmate had something to do with politics if he was saakashvili as enemy they would pick him this is tim is extremely
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politicized if you work in the prison system or in the police you must be loyal to the saakashvili regime no criticism is a lie you should either leave or they will get to. and you can see the pulling to view with their former staff member from big old dunny prison in twenty minutes here on r.c. and it's also available right now for you at our website dot com also this hour civil unrest plagues the middle east as people flood the streets of bahrain protests continue in the country with the shiite majority demanding equal rights from the sunni mona kate more than one hundred eighty people were swept into custody. more than one hundred eighty people were swept into custody as occupy wall street protesters marks a good says they demanded an end to corporate greed has descended on the financial
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district and try to block the entrance to the new york stock exchange and the citric and the reports. are that the occupy wall street movement is here after its inception. takes the big apple by storm into the us i think i do believe that. who saw it more spac and behind barricades from the wee hours of the morning. marches and acts of civil disobedience all day long images that have become all too familiar throughout the past year reoccurring protesters thrown to the ground people there to document the action knocked down by . activists attempting to help others wrestled by police. arms twisted handcuffs left and right over a hundred and eighty people of rested in one day when there's no place for people to come outside and to meet each other and talk about issues when that is so
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dangerous that you get such severe beilenson police repression that we don't really have a democracy for a year now occupy has fought for eradicating wealth inequality and social and economic injustice on the u.s. give people jobs give people an education get people help you you have to help the mass of new accountability for wall street bankers years after becoming a collapse. that was down still has people outraged expecting it may be naive but demanding it is and it starts with making a statement and that's what the people here are doing skeptics had hoped that occupy camps which once flourished over the west but now have cleared out would put an end to the movement after months of camping out here in the financial districts of the colony park during what seemed to be the peak of occupy hundreds of protesters are back here on the first anniversary of the movement to show that it's
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very much alive. yet the lack of encampments protesters say has not been an obstacle we've really been able to focus on the issues that are important to us and that brought us out here in the first place of economic disparity and and a political system that no wrong longer represents people who don't have the money to compete one of occupies kids. and so far that triggering a national dialogue about what matters to the majority of americans the occupy movement has kept a dialogue around fairness and equality and access to the good things that we all want that should be available to everyone and that dialogue is now in the public and the occupiers intend to do their best to keep this dialogue alive like the civil rights movement it would say that you know still has a long way to go. and it's been you know since before i was born i think occupy will have a similar history i think there's so much that has to be done that change is not
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going to be handed to us with a bow on it with no miracles just around the corner patience and perseverance they say are what will bring tangible change to the u.s. and the party. earned will go back with more news for you after the break to stay without. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's 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 is good for you is there and 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 off was able to
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dot com. you're watching aussie let's move on now to a government run is in bahrain a show no sign of dying down what shall i say acts of it. calling for a halt to all they call discrimination by the sunni monarchy on friday security forces in the capital manila no five tear gas and stun grenades of demonstrators dozens were arrested the country's leaders agreed this week to accept most of the un human rights pledges to suppress violence and approve the treatment of political prisoners reports of torture and abuse by diversion. however they are going price is attracting a little international attention despite dozens of writing code as laura smith our poll some states also seem very selective when condemning bloodshed in the region. but i think i also find a like for the whole. of this conflict only oppression and brutality of the regime
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one. takes that will be a day of reckoning for this dreadful regime. about syria and they put their money where their mouth is giving five million pounds in so-called lethal aid to those trying to oust president assad but less than a thousand miles away in bahrain there's another human rights crisis ongoing and all that leaders remain conspicuously start their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all and. the money is of people who were just released in the last day or two. since have not stopped. of course the use of sectarianism. is there. more than that is the kidnapping he would not if you people from each village the three or four beat them up tortured them not inside
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the torture chambers but in farms in what they call loose houses bahrain is home to a forgotten revolution ignored by the international community under reported in the media since birth. last year there have been almost daily antigovernment protests in the resulting crackdown around a hundred have been killed with sixteen hundred in jail including sixty children and pool of bahrain's most prominent human rights activists all that in a country of only one and a half million but the u.k. government says nothing to long standing historical connection between britain and bahrain which was in fact holland in seventy one certainly the association with the u.s. fifth fleet is the oil problem and that's the banking problem along this is harmful to our interests because sooner or later all the gulf markets are going
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to disappear. and then the regimes that succeed them will not be friended country which is. far from being condemned representatives of the bahraini regime has been a common sight at the u.k.'s major events this summer king how much was invited to the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations in may his eldest son visited david cameron at downing street and his youngest son who allegedly sanctioned the torture of dissident bahraini athletes was at the opening of london's olympic games but it goes further and deeper than that despite the brutal crackdown between july and september last year the u.k. sold two point two million pounds worth of arms to the bahraini regime shortly after that the u.k.'s most famous military training school accepted a three million pound donation from the king of bahrain and to the metropolitan
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police is former assistant commissioner was appointed as an advisor on security to the regime with no objections from the u.k. government bahrain campaigners say it's ruining the government's credibility it's only when they stand up in power. like and say we oppose this torture we oppose these autocratic regimes and we want democracy only then will the british government have any credibility whatsoever at this moment no has. the bahraini opposition and their supporters aren't calling for intervention but they do want the international community to condemn the regime they say is least as oppressive as the syrian regime that western powers are so desperate to get rid of norris myth r.t. london. and out team is working hard twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and pictures online and you can take
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a look at what we have prepared for you on our website r.t. dot com iran accuses german companies siemens of hiding explosives and its equipment in order to destroy the country's nuclear program find out online whether there are grounds behind they were behind the rumors. and lower your voice if you want to keep your thoughts private as you are slowing foresman agent says use of russian software which allows police to identify and analyze intimations in a matter of seconds. beijing and tokyo continue their standoff over a group of disputed islands which both sides claim. protests have been building across china and japan beijing's also expressed his frustration over a proposed american missile shield in japan protesters slammed the u.s. by increasing its activity in the region which they claim has formed and talk here to challenge china inside just pete and experts how the ongoing disputes threaten to spread further afield. what we have both sides doing is proving weaknesses of
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the other try and feels that it's due more respect and it's using issues like the islands issue or using. some stream issues over japan and just having a concern for depletion of their ballistic missile defenses. has essentially two powers squaring off and while this looks like china japan and there certainly deep historical grievances this is really about china testing the united states and its alliance with japan and to some degree i expect these kind of skirmishes to continue for a long time be the it's games of brinksmanship it will continue to look tense intense and dense and then you'll have moments of relaxation so what we're seeing today is a snapshot of what we're going to see for the next decade or more. and let's not have some other stories making news around the world a prominent militia group who needs to leave there an ounce it will does the bond and quick to its bases in a big guy say the decision was made hours after police and protesters in the city
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over one another militias compound setting it ablaze hostility toward the islamist groups has risen in this city since an attack on the american consulate there which claimed four lives including the u.s. ambassador to libya. the free syrian army has announced it's moving its command center from the turkish border into syria itself the decision is meant to hold to help opposition forces unite in preparation for an offensive against assad's troops in damascus meanwhile rebels are claiming responsibility for downing a military plane near the syrian city of artillery of at least one hundred eighty people have been killed in clashes in aleppo and other cities across the country in one day alone as government troops is all with opposition forces are right near the city center. media reports claim flyers have shelled a probe into accusations the former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn took part in group rape that's after the main witness reportedly was drew hard a geisha as they investigate have been focusing on strauss combs alleged ties with
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a prostitution ring last year the politician was also at the center of another sex scandal when a new york hotel maid accused him of attempted rape however he was cleared of charges. the u.s. senate has called upon ukraine to release former prime minister yulia timoshenko saying it's ready to impose a visa sanctions on those responsible for her detention to much anger was given a seven good sentence in october twenty eighth love them for abuse of this over a gas deal with russia the trial and subsequent detention caused many western countries to speak out against the current administration in ukraine will it was your without interest a few minutes we'll talk to a man who leaks the disturbing. footage from a georgian president. you
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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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about the them it's about need to. me man brown when i got to show. some. missing a hand. and accede . to things. needed.
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now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light switch. the friendship asian of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the. sub jet the emperor of the polio has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right i know. the bloody battle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to do it all again.
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so what now to ft richards a slug today on a detox a georgian meijer and ready made by the guards who missed videos of inmates prison in billings see being tortured out of the big muddy mess but how long has this torture been taking place how long have you been filming this if this long. yeah i've been working as the president's deputy chief warden since two thousand and eight since he was full of world.
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