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the. news of the week's top stories from r.t. dozens more people are killed in clashes across the muslim world in a second week of anti american riots sparked by the film which mocks islam. zero public tolerance for prisoner abuse and the arrest of activists in georgia but demonstrations continue in reaction to leaked footage put training atrocities behind bars. and the occupy wall street movement marks its one year anniversary with a demo in new york that saw over one hundred eighty activists arrested. hello
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you're watching the weekly here on r t with me kevin owen it's our roundup of the big stories of the last seven days and a very medan t. american protests have been shaking the muslim world for nearly two weeks now but they've lost little steam tens of thousands of demonstrated in several countries with rallies telling especially violent in pakistan more lately at least twenty people were killed there friday in clashes with police are cracking down on more who are targeting american diplomatic missions meanwhile some pakistani officials have condemned a statement by the railways minister there for offering a one hundred thousand dollars to kill the maker of the controversial film that spark the protests deficient also called on taliban and al qaeda brothers to take part in assassinating a caller purcel in a cooler currently hiding in america first going to change account of course his amateur film is only a catalyst for feehery. that seems to have the. the white house keeps saying it was
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just the 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 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 what if you know you're that stupid film that nobody 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 to one thing that makes some muslims hate the usa it would be. hypocrisy over democracy.
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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 government or another act of violence a rebel mob executing colonel qadhafi the us so true state cheered at the news came we saw he 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 to me expect these people to have no hope their economies. destroyed. their calling order
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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 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 with them behind what's happening a reasoning which basically allows them to avoid addressing the deeper issues in washington i'm going to check out. france was also targeted this last week and for a french magazine published caricatures of the prophet muhammad police in paris arrested twenty one for defying a ban on protest rallies from says 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 wants
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a ban on the public wearing of was limited scarfs from space journalist robert they says paris only has itself to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government is in a very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is alarming 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 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 country in a way 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 . not support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it again
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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 bank got a stick so bad line that they allow free speech which of course is our new aloud in front all certain subjects that's still to come china and japan keep on crossing swords beijing cools off a celebration now to mount forty years of diplomatic ties with tokyo all over some uninhabited islands will tell you why shortly. the next in georgia the prisoner abuse scandal is 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 offices but demonstrators say that's not enough they're calling for the prosecution of everyone responsible for the abuse those revelations come
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just days before parliamentary elections to with the government popularity already falling is o.t. to go piskun on. the public is in fact fulfill shocked and angry that their father comparing the footage from the georgian prevails with barrett from guantanamo except it convenes suspected terrorists while here we're talking about ordinary georgian in me another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the foreign leaders of the street protest movement got to take more yeah he was detained on saturday by traffic police so widely or officially for 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 privately we'll all be forced stopped by the police early our team are going to meet with the americans started all the relief video of what they were to the crowd that used to be one of the senior staff members of the body for that in b.b.c. claims to have personally shot. many of these videos we also said that the interior
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minister filmed the videos himself and personally showed it to president saakashvili all this is definitely a huge call to be a bit choppier cornice since the election to the wall and it's coming up on the first of october they are boarding to believe his name was both president saakashvili and the ruling party the ordeal was up to twenty percent of all supporters. and i let you know there's more to come from that former staff warden at the infamous georgian prison who leaked those horrific videos originally is nice but even better can't say he tells us his side of the story in just about twenty minutes tonight. over a hundred eighty people were detained as occupy wall street protesters marked the movement's one year anniversary this week activists descended on new york's financial district and tried to block the entrance of the city's stock exchange covering the story artie's innes to suture can. after the occupy wall street movement is here after its inception the takes the big apple by storm
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in full force i think i think that it is up 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. activists attempting to help others wrestled by 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 that nearly 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 education get people help you you have to help the mess of new accountability for wall street bankers years after comic 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 to party hard to 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 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 political system that no
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the wrong 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 i 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 they say are what will bring tangible change to the u.s. . party. they'll get you get updates and it was stories much more to the
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web site to pump up the stories that it's not we like to bring to your attention you might want to check if you get a moment facebook is pulling the plug on his facial recognition application in europe. but in the u.s. it's a tool that big brother is using and it's a gaining momentum. also online trojan horse to stop iran claims tech firms savings stuff the quick money ball with hidden explosives to eliminate the country's nuclear program also. see in a few minutes to. it's only when they stand in public and say we oppose this torture we oppose the spot to critique the regime's holy day with the british government to have any credibility but so far u.k. leaders are continuously turned a blind eye. the rain we're calling for the human rights to be respected has led to deaths jailing story much more after this spread.
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news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. sure is that so much about six mayors and i mean to say it's nice to meet people at area growing competition for sovereign control over a number of pacific islands highlights the growing instability among important trading partners what is true.
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hello good very good have you company here in moscow you watching the weekly would make a video in from r.t. international arrests have been deterred bahrain's majority shiite population from campaigning for equal rights they're out again in force this last week in their efforts to try to convince the ruling western backed monarchy to end repressions but it didn't take long for the police to move in with tear gas and rubber bullets
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to disperse the crowds and detain dozens of protesters since their campaign took hold twenty months ago around one hundred people have died here sorties have also targeted key figures like opposition leader bill rodgers jailed for taking part in rallies and stoking support zora smith investigates the response though from western nations remains strangely muted compared to the deep animosity towards others in the region. but i think i also find a light for the whole. of this conflict on the oppression and brutality of the regime one day no matter how long it takes there will be a day of reckoning for this dreadful regime up in arms about syria and they put their money where their mouth is giving five million pounds in so-called known lethal aid to those trying to oust president afterwards but less than a thousand miles away in bahrain there's another human rights crisis ongoing and
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all that leaders remain conspicuously start their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all. in the laws the one is over people who were just released in the last day or two. have not stopped. of course the use of sectarianism as. is there well for. more than that is the kidnapping. few people from three or four beat them up torture them not inside the torture chambers but in farms in what they call the woods 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 anti-government protests in the resulting crackdown around
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a hundred has been killed 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 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 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 friendly country which is their oppressors 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
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cameron at downing street and his youngest son who allegedly sanctioned the torture of dissident bahraini athletes was at the opening of numb to deliberate games but it goes deeper than that despite the brutal crackdown between july and september last year the u.k. sold. 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 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 oppose this torture we oppose these autocratic regimes and democracy only then will the british
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government have any credibility whatsoever and at this moment has known 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. london. china has called off a celebration marking forty years of diplomatic ties with japan because of their ongoing row over a group of strategic garlands they both lay claim to mass protests have been held throughout the week across both china and japan some turning violent no one lives on the disputed archipelago but said to hold vast reserves of natural resources beijing also slammed the u.s. for building up military activity in the asia pacific region which it claims is bolstering tokyo to challenge china and such to speeds international affairs and defense analyst says he spoke to me please washington's far more than simply an on
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look at. the secretary of defense that he fears that there. is bute could be the war between your partner china he also experience that united states is going to support your plan so that means if you come to blows let's hope let's see the chart that would send the naval force to try to. save each force would be exchanged for the work i did of course charge that tries to follow their pressures like try to locate three the further south of there in 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 beat. us up once the other. some world news headlines brief libyan authorities a vow to break up all the illegal militias after the american ambassador is murdered earlier this month that news came shortly after the country's powerful eastern militia group announced it was disbanding just
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a few hours earlier security forces and protesters chased them from the city of benghazi and set fire to another militias compound. syria's internal opposition movement which is considered by many rebels to be lenient on the ruling regime has called for the overthrow of the president did a rare meeting in damascus that says the free syrian army says it's moving its command center from the turkish border into syria itself to help opposition forces united of an offensive against assad troops our battle a year and a half of fighting against the president rules left thousands dead across the country. france is apparently shelving a probe into claims that former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn took part in group rape the maid witnesses thought through withdrawn her allegations stress cards being played by accusations which would cost him his career last may a new york hotel maid accused him of attempted rape he was later cleared of all charges. coming up after a break the prison warden who exposed the extent of vicious torture inside
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thanks. i. plan. well for the. science technology innovation all the list of elements around russia we've got the future covered. so what now to fix those flooded out of today on a detox a georgian me general idea made by the gods and you who needs to be details of inmates prison in billings see being tortured what are the big leadin it was how long has this torture been seeking please all along have you been filming this if
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this long. your life's been working as the president's deputy chief ordered since two thousand and eight sincere with all of the above all who gave the orders to him the government knew once was going on and who kept this matter under wraps for nobody just the chief fords and i was deputy chief. gordon 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 to ask a liar and a liar would take them to the president they used it for entertainment they enjoyed torture.
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