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any time. latest news the week's top stories from r.t. dozens more people are killed in clashes across the muslim world in a second week of riots sparked by the film that mocks islam. zero public tolerance for prisoner abuse and the arrest of activists in georgia where demonstrations continued in reaction to the league footage betraying atrocities balance. and the occupy wall street movement marks its one year anniversary with a demo he new york that saw over one hundred eighty of the rest of.
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you watching the weekly on r.t. with me kevin now in our round up of the big stories of the last seven days and first american protests have been shaking the muslim world for nearly two weeks now but they have lost a little steam tens of thousands of demonstrators in several countries with rallies turning especially violent in pakistan at least twenty people were killed there on friday in clashes with police a crackdown on targeting american diplomatic missions meantime some pakistani officials have condemned a statement by the railways minister for offering a hundred thousand dollars to kill the maker of the controversial film that sparked the protests the official also called on taliban and al qaeda brothers to take part in assassinating. the cooler who's currently in hiding in america but as you can report says it's a film was only a catholic. the fury has deeply as. the white house keeps saying it was just the
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anti islamic video that calls the muslims wrath across the world this is not a case of. protests to rectify the 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 what out there for two months well it is you know you stupid film that nobody's seen causes people to assassinate ambassadors to storm the embassy and the question the us media keep asking why do so many millions of hate the usa but the answers they're getting are the answers very few in the us want to hear if your point one thing that makes some muslims hate the usa would be . hypocrisy over democracy. while america the
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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 government or another act of violence a rebel mob executing colonel qadhafi the u.s. secretary of state cheered at the news yes we came we saw died 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 horrified what other result can we expect these people they have no. their
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economies are destroyed. they're calling for foreign invaders of course this kind of thing is going to happen when the tragedy in libya happened in the national community wholeheartedly condemned the attacks on american diplomats but the us for its part has been quite full like a tipping 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 saw them 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 caricatures of the prophet muhammad peace in paris arrested twenty one people for defying a ban on protest rallies france's western europe's largest muslim population of around five million their outrage over the latest cartoons was then compounded by far right leader marine le pen who once of the public was the head scarves for
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a space journalist robert hardier says paris sony has itself to blame for falling out of favor with all of this if it's not. the government is in a very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is law all french leaders like most european leaders are in the in the nato buying they've committed themselves to nato tied up with nato france under sarkozy committing yourself more strongly than any time since general you go 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 punching 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 surf balls that the governed. he is nonsense you
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cannot support 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 think they've got to stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is our new you're not in front on certain subjects it's coming up this hour china and japan keep on crossing swords beijing cools off now a celebration to mark forty years a diplomatic ties with tokyo all over those uninhabited islands we go more on that coming up to tell you why. next in georgia the prison abuse scandals now led to a group of opposition activists going on hunger strike they want the release of several arrested colleagues who are 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 while the president replaced prison staff with police officers demonstrate
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a side that's not enough they're calling for the prosecution of everyone responsible for abuse revelations come just days before parliamentary elections but the government of the low children before he got his tonight show. the public is back to full shocked and angry that their father comparing the footage for george and for those with america one third of all except it convenes a suspected terrorist plot here we're talking about or we george and it meets another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the foreign leaders of the story corps just got to ignore you and he was detained on saturday by tracking police allegedly or officially or not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he was that he would be right be wheeled off before stopped by the police early our team ready to meet the medical sort of all the release of the videos i was given to the crowd that we used to be one of the senior staff members of the ability for that in b.b.c. . personally shot me off these videos we also said that the interior minister filmed
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the video himself and personally showed it to president saakashvili all this is definitely a huge call to be a mutual theo cornice since the election to parliament is growing up on the first book tour of europe boarding to be leaders and. both president saakashvili and the ruling party have ordeal lost up to twenty percent paul supporters. there's more to come from the former staff ward not the infamous georgian prison too late they have referred video but it can't say tells us his side of the story to r.t. just bit later this hour. over a hundred eighty people were detained as occupy wall street protesters mount the movement's one year anniversary this last week i took his descended on new york's financial district and tried to block the entrance to the city's stock exchange but he's in a situation that reports. you have heard of the occupy wall street movement
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here after its inception the takes the big apple by storm in full force i think i think that it is up to some 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 and cops left and right over a hundred and eighty people arrested 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 that we don't really have a democracy for a year now occupy has fought for eradicating wealth inequality and social and
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economic injustice to us give people jobs give people an education give people help you you have to help the mess of no 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 district the party hard to 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. yet the lack of encampments protesters say was not the last week. 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 political system that no wrong
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longer represents people who don't have the money to compete and 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 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 the occupiers intend to do their best to keep this dialogue alive like the civil rights movement and 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 going to be handed to us with a bow on it with no miracles just around the corner patience and perseverance to say are what will bring tangible change to the u.s. and. r.t.e.
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. quick reminder you can get updates on all of our stories and a heck of a lot more two on our website tito call me as well says waiting for then online right now facebook pulls the plug on its facial recognition advocation in europe while in the u.s. though the of the good tools gaining traction for we get more about that go play about online also reporting to a trojan horse german style a rand that now claiming tech firms siemens stuff equipment have bought with hidden explosives to try to eliminate the country's new play program siemens is deniable is more about online but also here on r.t. in just a few minutes it's only when they stand up in public and say we oppose this torture we oppose the sports a critic regimes holyday with the british government to have any credibility but so far u.k. leaders have continuously to blow. to bahrain where calling for the human rights to be respected has led to deaths or jailing with this story much more often this
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spread. in the middle of russia's north from going from civilization in history our helicopter treats from the nearest village. they stole one family have been living here for a long time in tents and they don't bring dius canes. lodging
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a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though there's sometimes a similar. line . would you be so rich brighter if you. sung from france to.
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start totty dot com. hello again you're watching r t latest news from around the globe with me kevin now in the russian clampdowns have deterred bahrain's majority shiite population from campaigning for equal rights they were out in force again this week in the reference to convince the ruling west about monarchy to end repressions 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 since their campaign took hold twenty months ago around a hundred people have died the authorities have also targeted key figures like opposition leader now bill rogers who's been jailed for taking part in rallies and stoking support my next door smith investigates force the response from western nations remains strangely muted though compared to the deep animosity towards others in the region. also final like for the whole world on the nature of this conflict only oppression and brutality of the regime one day no matter how long it
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takes there will be a day of reckoning for this dreadful regime up in arms about syria and they've put their money where their mouth is giving five million pounds in so-called known 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 on that leaders remain conspicuously silent their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all and that includes the one is of people who were just released in the last day or two. says have not stopped. of course they use. of sectarianism. is there. more than that is the kidnapping. few
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people from each ministry three or four beat them up torture them not inside the torture chambers but in farms in what they call the whose houses bahrain is home to a forgotten revolution ignored by the international community under reported in the media since february 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 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 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 monarchies
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are going to disappear. and then the regimes that succeed them will not be friendly country which is a process 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 his elder 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 the metropolitan
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police's 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 want democracy only then will the british government have any credibility whatsoever and at this moment it has. the bahraini opposition and their supporters aren't calling for intervention but they do want the international community to condemn the regime that 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. china has called off a celebration marking forty years of diplomatic ties with japan because of their
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ongoing row over a group of strategic garlands that both lay claim to mass protests have been held throughout the week across both china and japan some to. the law i know lives out in these disputed archipelagos but it is said to hold vast reserves of natural resources beijing also slammed the u.s. for building up military activity in the asia pacific region to which it claims is bolstering tokyo to challenge china in such disputes it's a hot spot let's talk about it gets more analysis on the story in terms of international affairs and defense analysts live from virginia in the united states . has taken the time to go you could see it tonight now the latest developments have been talking about those just both sides are moving further and further away from a reconciliation what's the next step the do you think. well chinese foreign ministry said. he's apparently september early this month it was reported it is spewed should be. it should be list for their. solution in the
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future and the temper should go so hopefully it won't be the case it would of course that they are national police forces nationally special and so let's say both ensuring that from private citizens who are making. these spoto it certainly is one that there are maybe even issues of stake totally sober and the who actually. has the right to bear these islands the chinese think i can forget by these but also like human should be. if their reach is so that they are also there are these peut so their research peace or resource will be silence so it's a situation in which. one side don't you know they don't let us not forget it maybe as the sort they are replacing those with don't list there. they're claiming no
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those items so he's cut off a complicated situation yet will pick it apart a little more of the next couple of minutes but you mentioned one. about the natural resources in the territory i wonder if it is actually about that end of the day is all this up roll simply over these islands nobody lives on or is it more of the natural resources than the the money end of the say that. well there are certainly. patriotic. toles there are people in china that strongly believe that the islands belong to china in japan that's where. they have been they keep it those through islands at least at the it was to ratify it there the san fransisco peace treaty with the united states and other powers and i think . those islands it came to their us trust the sheep is superficial for twenty eight years together with the. free stuff that were returned
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to europe. but of course they are very much interested could all be behind the japanese for instance they say it both taiwan and the people's republic of china they didn't raise the issue if they were on their own there the treaty of san fransisco or in that the fifty two would be taiwan signed the peace treaty with. all of the aid the seventy's what it was discovered that there would be. territory so that all their water hold the reach and resources it took so for them gosh that's when they are yet by the say the us or raise by the other two quarters but i would say that yes they're equally keep tryst is very much behind but at the same time we should look for a pay pay through a piece of. that they feel that that's territory that belongs to them so that we cure all for all the explosive couldn't because you've mentioned to talk i want to couple of times that that is the third party in this dispute is also laying claim
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to the islands you saying what influence could taiwan potentially have in the route now you said it didn't sort of mention it years ago but it seems to be caring now how influential is it going to pay. not very much i don't think so they are on the sidelines they also lay claim to lance in the south china sea these probably the pirates sil's it which are claimed by china which i think is the part of some of the spratleys i want to much about it so it really i just mentioned he says that there is some other part people but really i don't think they can exercise much pressure here at the parties or china on one side but of course the us. over these disputes all that said yeah the u.s. assistant secretary of state said these islands fall under an american defense pact with japan what kind of message is that sending out to beijing well. that means that the two really old but at the said the secretary of defense that he fears that
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their. dispute could be a war between your partner china he also expressed that the united states is going to support your plan so that means that if you come to blows let's hope that let's say china would set the table a force to try to apply the laws that would serve each force and the exchange fire . of course china tries to follow their measures like try to locate three the further so then the united states would be to operate the sea lanes of communication and that could lead to a major regional war or at least to. us one side are trying to be older thanks for your thoughts much appreciated thanks for the program assessed in international affairs and defense analyst thank you. in a couple of minutes here on out say the prison warden who exposed the extent of the vicious torture inside georgia's jails talks to us tells us why he took a stab. welcome
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