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the latest news on the week's top stories dozens more people are killed in clashes across the muslim world in a second week of time merican riots sparked by the film which mocks islam. zero public tolerance for prison abuse and the old brownstone back to the stand georgia by demonstrations continue in reaction to the leaked footage portraying atrocities find barker's. army occupy wall street movement marks its one year anniversary with a demo in new york that's all for one hundred eighty and diverse arrests.
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and welcome to our teens the weekly on charon taraji vehement anti-american protests have been shaking the muslim world for nearly two weeks now but they've lost a little steam tens of thousands have demonstrated in several countries with rallies turning especially violent in pakistan at least twenty people were killed there on friday in clashes with police who cracked down on mobs targeting american diplomatic missions meanwhile some pakistani officials have condemned a statement by the railways minister for offering one hundred thousand dollars to kill the maker of the controversial film that sparked the protests the official also called on taliban and al qaida brothers to take. part and assassinating not to
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see did not call up was in hiding in america but as guided to can reports his amateur film was only a catalyst for fury that has deeper roots. the white house keeps saying it was just the anti islamic video that calls the muslims wrath across the world this is not a case of. protest or wrecked it if united states writ large or a us policy this is in response to a video that is offensive but that's a claim no one is buying the administration 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 right out there for two months whatever you think it's stupid film that nobody's seen causes people to assassinate ambassadors and to storm the embassy and the question the us media keep asking why do so many millions of muslims hate the usa but the answers they're getting are the answers very few in
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the us want to hear if you were to point to one thing that makes some muslims hate the usa 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 outside government or another act of violence a rebel mob executing colonel gadhafi or the u.s. secretary of state cheered at the news as we came we saw he died. washington's failure to condemn all violence equally has prompted radicals to take an even more aggressive course if most of. it's understood what was being done in
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our name in the stabilizing the middle east in north africa it would be absolutely horrified what other result to me expect these people to have no health their economies are destroyed they see their 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 us for its part has been quite selective in condemning violence it could be that the white house thought 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 on. france was also targeted this week after a french magazine published caricature of prophet muhammad police or paris or us or twenty one people for defying a ban on protest rallies france has western europe's largest muslim population at
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around five million their outrage over the latest cartoons was then compounded by a far right leader marine the power who wants a ban on the public wherein of muslim headscarves france based journalist robert harness says harris has only itself to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government as you know very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistences. is large but all french leaders like most european leaders are in the in the nato and buying that they've committed themselves to nato tied up with nato france under so cozy committed itself more strongly than at any time since general de gaulle to a nato. air is the usual sore stick and carrot trum from washington so that there's that aspect of it and also they want to appear to be
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a country above their weight to use a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in left wing circles that the government's policy is nonsense you cannot support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it again on wednesday they're playing it both ways they don't want to enrage the the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand they got to stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is only allowed in france on certain subjects us up ahead of the flight of the french who are finding things are getting a little too taxing. we are going to responsible for this crisis this should be more than the. since they have more millions but instead the big earners are bailing out to places where they don't have to share their piles cash with anyone else. and georgia the prison abuse scandal has now led to
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a group of opposition activists sky on hunger strike they want the release of several arrested collings who were among thousands protesting after a leaked video shed light on the torture and rape of inmates by jail guards two ministers have stepped down over the scandal the president placed prison staffers police officers demonstrators say that's not enough and are calling for the prosecution of everyone sponsible for the. revelations come just days before parliamentary elections but the government's popularity on where the failing parties you've got this kind of has more. transparency he would zero tolerance. the videos that breed 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 here's mask of the. human dignity is the last thing the cure about it i never believe with worse than just one bit less people than the many. thousands protested with sir is reading the reply address the georgian authorities some are comparing the footage to that from guantanamo even though these are ordinary inmates not terrorist suspect many not only want the sacking of officials responsible for the police and the prison system but the prosecution as well. as the i mean look at the everybody knows this isn't just one case this happens all over the country which is the atmosphere of the entrance to the prison is extremely intense but this is not a broad just rally these people are relatives of inmates who are still. inside the prison and they are demanding an explanation that means brother has already spent seven months behind bars and says georgia's democracy beacon image in that the
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worst is merely a well orchestrated cover up of the cheerleaders real pretty on the outside sure it's easy for europe but no one really knows what's happening behind these walls. president saakashvili came as a stirring 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 four thousand inmates is enough to affect nearly every family in one way or another by those relatives friends or neighbors and as the nation prepares to vote for a new parliament a look tall were the damage to georgia's leaders may be too much for their reputation to be rescued in time. the scope of r t c georgia. has more to come from the former staff warden of the infamous georgian president
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who leaked the horrific very else but i deem it a bit of cancer tells his side of the story to r.t. later this hour. over one hundred eighty people were detained as occupy wall street protesters marked the movement's one year anniversary this week activists to send it on new york's financial district and try to block the entrance of the city's stock exchange parties and us the situation are parts. of the occupy wall street movement here after its inception. takes the big apple by storm in the us i i i. i nursed back and behind barricades from the wee hours of the morning. marches and acts of civil disobedience all day long images that have been. 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
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police. arms twisted and cops 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 dangerous that you get such severe violence and police repression and then 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 us give people jobs give people an education get people help you you have to help the mess of new accountability for wall street bankers years after the comic collapse saying. that this was down it 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
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an end to the movement after months of camping out here in the financial districts of comedy park during what seems to be the peak of occupy hundreds of protesters are back here on the first anniversary of the movement to show that it's very much alive. 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 key achievements so far triggering a national dialogue about what matters to the majority of americans the occupy movement has kept a dialogue around fairness equality and. already and access to the good things that we all want that should be available to everyone and that dialogue is now in the public the occupiers intend to do their best to keep this dialogue alive
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like the civil rights movement it would say that you know it 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 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. it's the party in order to forget that you can get updates on any of our stories and much more by logging on to our website our team here's what we have waiting there for you right now. baseball pulls the plug on its fishel recognition application in europe while in the u.s. the big brother tool is gaining traction. also online a trojan horse german style iran claims tech firm siemens stuffed equipment it bought with hidden explosives to eliminate the country's nuclear program and here
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on our team in just a few minutes it's only with a stand up in public and say we oppose this torture we oppose these autocratic regimes did with the british government to have any credibility but so far u.k. leaders have continuously turned a blind ol brain are calling for human rights were spanked has led to a deaths or jailing we report on the latest from the gulf states shortly. but i'm plenty more in just a few moments after this short break. was . i was in the middle of
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russia's north thrown away from civilization in a three hour helicopter tree from the nearest village. so they stole one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. lodging runs in a signal and minutes they also grew up in the two but left it at the age of six and never returned they now live in the city in apartment building but still room and their regions. want to do is
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a dancing teacher. was. two of his ten says he tells the stories about his mother around. laws in europe to now has a one thousand strong reindeer herd when the any male eight saw the lichen and mops around brood is gather the turns and move to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter we men and children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though new songs are similar.
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as are two of the latest news from around the globe karen tara chain arrests and climb downs haven't deterred by friends majority shi'a population a problem campaigning for equal rights they were out in force again this week and their efforts to convince the whirling western backed monarchy to end pressure her . it's but it didn't take long for the police to move in with tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and detain thousands of protesters so if their campaign to call twenty months ago around one hundred people died the authorities have also targeted key figures like opposition leader in charge is being jailed for taking part in rallies and stoking support a response from western nations though remains strangely muted as laura smith investigates. but also find out why. this conflict only
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oppression and brutality of the regime one day no matter how long it 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 started their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all and in the closed system is of people who are just three days in the last day or two. says have not stopped. of course the use of security. is there. more than that is the kidnapping he would not if you are
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people from three or four. tortured them not inside the torture chambers but in farms in what they call the old houses bahrain is home to a forgotten revolution ignored by the international community under reported in the media since proper every last year there have been almost daily anti-government protests. in the resulting crackdown around a hundred has been killed with sixteen hundred in jail including sixty children and full 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 longstanding 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
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is harmful to our interests because sooner or later all the gulf markets are going to disappear in a puff of smoke and then the regimes that succeed them will not be friended country which is. far from being condemned representatives of the bahraini regime have 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 he is 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 zero zero 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 public and say we host this torture. we oppose these autocratic regimes and we democracy olivier with the british government have any credibility whatsoever at this moment. as. 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 at least as oppressive as the syrian regime that western powers are so desperate to get rid of laura smith r.t. london some of france's richest people are packing up their designer suitcases and
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taking their families and a wealth of broad it's because the president's planning to hit them with seventy five percent income tax cuts are silly explains how aiming at the highest earners to plug the budget gap by create a bigger hole instead. when the world's fourth richest men a frenchman bernard i know asked for belgian citizenship some of his compatriots took offense with one left wing french newspaper publishing this image with this headline the mayor of this area of the brussels capital region has confirmed that bernard imo has indeed established residence here at the french tycoon denies his move had anything to do with french president francois laws one to impose a seventy five percent income tax on those earning above one million but many suspect otherwise and the rich have become the subject of much discussion up of their quite responsible for this crisis they should pay more than the rest since they have more. people who are responsible for the
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crisis. so the point of the it depends on the rich bankers who contributed to the crisis should pay as well. along to set to soak the rich even more as he struggles to raise the money to fill a thirty billion euro hole in the country's finances the tactic of use to our own doings appreciate election against president sarkozy was to say that suckers he was a pretty good it's also rich in friends of yours did you come tax rates going up but on top of that where stocks and then the top tax thing went and on top top top of that we had the seventy four percent tax that's where really thinking about moving outside friends started but the move did go down well with everyone including some french taxpayers who fear having to foot the bill if the tax the rich strategy fails all their fears are well founded as businesspeople consider
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losing three quarters of their income across there simply unable to bear like thirty year old entrepreneur jetted need the feds he hasn't made the jump just yet but he says he may find himself with no choice is clearly the. the climate that's that that's found. that's found a haven in france. which which basically promotes stigmatise a sheen of success wealth ambition and so on and france is definitely worth its taxes to a certain extent but if the don't work in my head anymore if i'm certain you're create more value than for others then that i do for myself with the implementation of the seventy five percent and saw clearly i will relocate as an individual and become a tax it is an a for another country like belgium for example but belgians of already
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taken to the streets to protest against what they call a lack of morality of the rich who come to their country to avoid a certain taxes in france this case this super tax may affect as little as three thousand people out of sixty six million and if that elite minority continues heading for the door the deficit hole will only grow and along it may be forced to embrace the one policy he rejected throughout his election campaign a stereotype. that tests are still here r t brussels coming up as art is exclusive interview with the man who blew the whistle on the ongoing prison abuse scandal and torture that's in just a few minutes after this short break. the
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french invasion of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the. good stuff just 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 soldier's a back to do it all again. but as you know version twenty twelve of our teeth. courageous and
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creative. elegance and full and those public speaking. a few european bodybuilders against millions of weak immigrants. this may not seem so serious now. but this could be a real threat to. european extremists. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many that's not just about the fed it's about need to. grab. that issue. and say.
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geez. now. so this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light snake. does artie's being awake laying next to a prison warden who expose the extent of vicious torture and solid georgists jails tells r.t. why he took a stand. it would have to feature the sludge today on a detox a georgian meijer and lucky maybe the guards who missed videos of inmates prison in
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the i.c. being tortured would have been bloody no good hello has this tortured been seeking please how long have you been filming these pictures one. year i've been working as the prisons deputy chief warden since two thousand and eight says she with all of the above all who gave orders to him the government knew what was going on and who kept this matter under wraps for nobody just the chief fords and i was deputy chief ford and he wanted me to film some interesting moments for example when police arrest an opposition activist or a prominent figure is arrested he wanted it on tape probably they intended to use those videos later against those people and i made those videos over the period of a year or maybe six months i'm not sure i didn't meet them in a day or two they were accumulated over a period of time and eventually i had two hours of video a big chief warden would take those videos too. and that's a lie.
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