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tonight's nobel award winning harmony years of violence have a cut on employment and rising separatism but the e.u. wins the peace prize amid the worst crisis it seven faced. the protesters attacking cairo's tahrir square tonight of equal of chemo loyalists and president morsi lack of reforms scuffles leaving dozens injured from both sides. while in bahrain the protests go on noticed in the world media an eyewitness describes fierce clashes to a soft fresh anti-government demos as police tear gas crowds and make arrests.
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claims that they were russian made weapons on board the syrian passenger jet diverted to ankara insisting the cargo was totally legal. good evening from kevin oh in this is the live ten pm from moscow all top story the nobel academy has decided the twenty twelve best example of delivering peace and harmony is the e.u. this prize is a million euros money it can certainly do with right now but it will be tough to swallow for the hundreds of thousands of europeans who've been angrily and violently protesting for years against governments forcing harsh cuts and tougher living conditions on them equally surprises artie's finance an economy pundit and should expect. this is that rise of the machines this is
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a machine selection that chose a machine the e.u. is a tech knocker see governed by machines joined with the banking establishment to suck wealth from all of the citizens of the e.u. and send it to brussels as said it to the bank stars and senate to the world bank and the e.u. and the troika this is the rise of the machines this is the machine choice is as far as far as to call this is like giving the prize to frankenstein for being the best monster created during the past twelve months where they go from here or they're going to give it to next i mean they're going to give it to a genetically modified seed in india where farmers are killing themselves by the thousands because of companies like monsanto give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine legarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing
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suicide. while another sign of growing up within europe to italian students and teaches have gathered for nationwide protests that are raised by cuts to education spending which already by the government and by prime minister mario monti that if it is to get more belt tightening has to come thousands of people have much to ninety cities across italy. because international investor and author james rogers he says the you may have got the prize for bringing nations together but it could all actually fall apart. i assure you next week or next month when people are out rioting in the streets again in parts of europe they're not going to care about that. nobody's going to remember it except whoever gets the check the checks going to be spent just like that but there's going to be a lot more pain in your europe it's been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop and it's going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing and perhaps even country so i think that perhaps
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even people pulling out of the euro conceivably if you have huge amounts of tension in europe and the euro breaking up that could increase tension not diminish tension and could lead to war again in europe. before said to be a long way away but it could happen again if this causes or if the present circumstances cause the euro to break up. the time spent kind of lonely here is where calls to break away are among the. feelings running really high there among the people that a fresh approach is most to barcelona from those both supporting opposing the region's independence show separation test and square the police while trying to attack people taking part in a rival march attempting to seize the spanish flag carrying. the peace prize was conceived by alfred nobel to foster fraternity between nations put out his gun and shoot you can reports next some recent winners have done more to fuel conflicts around the world but the comment. this is an on the nobel peace prize is often
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politically motivated for a simple reason it's mostly about war and peace and we know that it's those with power who can wage or stop wars but where there is politics there is room for argument here we have the nobel peace prize laureates from the last ten twelve years let's try and bring up some of those arguments kofi annan served as the you want to secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to do thousand and six while in office is stood by the u.s. and supported the nato bombing of former yugoslavia essentially bypassing the u.n. security council the move set a precedent in the polls cold war war than in some sense paved the way for more unilateral interventions by the us as was the iraqi invasion so kofi annan received his price in two thousand and one another you want official on the list mohamed el baradei who served as the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog for more than a decade until two thousand and nine he received the peace prize in two thousand and five years later mr el baradei announced that he regretted his silence over the
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u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three at that time the un watchdog had no evidence of your iraq having weapons of mass destruction and maybe argued mr el baradei could have done more to stop the invasion on false grounds but he didn't back to our list several us politicians among the awarded including president jimmy carter . from nine hundred seventy seven to nine hundred eighty one his peace prize in two thousand and two shock to those who remember that ministration helped indonesia slaughter tens of thousands of people in east timor then there was al gore a presidential nominee who received the prize in two thousand and seven for raising awareness on climate change there were some arguments about that when as well and in two thousand and nine the nobel peace prize went to president obama probably the most arguable choice of the prize committee because at that time he was on. less than one year into his presidency he has just announced the surge in afghanistan
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yes he was pulling out if iraq but the deadline for withdrawal had already been set by the bush administration and it's worth noting that later the obama administration was working behind the scene to persuade the iraqi government to ask for a certain number of american troops to stay on but the iraqis didn't go for it so there is only one known american head of state on the list came de jong awarded in the year two thousand the former president of south korea contributed to easing tensions with north korea and to the economic progress of his country whatever arguments for may have with regards to each of those laureates the nobel peace committee doesn't have to explain their choice the process is known to be very secretive and they wouldn't even say who the other nominees were until fifty years after the prize was awarded in washington i'm going to check out. e.u. peace prize reaction later in the program as well in our business bulletin r.t.
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. while the e.u. has won a million euros in nobel prize money it still needs another three and a half billion to stay afloat more on the face of the european financial system and other stories around fifty. dozens have been injured and egypt's tahrir square tonight in scuffles between supporters of president morsy and those disillusioned with his leadership what's been labeled accountability friday has become the most violent protest the country's seen since he came to power just over one hundred days ago journalist bell true in cairo explains what's happening in the capital. what happened was there were two protest organized today one by the liberal forces who are complaining against these last one hundred days this plan that he said he would be able to to achieve significant changes to key social issues i mean egypt also going to the constituent assembly we're currently drafting egypt's national charter which is being dropped in quite an islamist way so we had the liberals who were here to
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protest against that to the same time the brotherhood came down there was an organized protest in the brotherhood and the brotherhood said critical party of the f.t.p. the freedom and justice party against the recent ruling acquitting twenty five people who were involved in reports of involved in the back of the camel one of the bloodiest battles of the eighteen days last year when we had really with liberals and islamists in particular prove brotherhood supporters meeting on top here which then erupted in clashes this afternoon because just continue in hama the mood streeter's where we've seen many crashes before november and december and kind of top street and just behind me as you can see by the museum i personally witnessed a lot of rock throwing several very heavy head injuries to talk throwing we have heard gunshots there's been no police presence whatsoever even though in more sees a hundred day plan he did say that he would block security in the country and reassure people that they wouldn't see scenes like this which is what we're witnessing right now there is obviously
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a growing political islam happening in this country what we saw recently was the supreme guide of the most in brotherhood of course the president the organization that president calles from he made quite a contentious statement recently calling for jihad or holy war on jerusalem to wrestle it away from the jewish population and give it back to the muslims this is a very contentious statement made morsi himself the president hasn't affirmed it or distance himself from the statement but of course the spot many feel is in addition which is one of the reasons why liberals came to the square today we're seeing a massive it isn't my zation of the constitution which that was the key at the moment key articles in the constitution like article two an article thirty six relating to the egyptian. penal code and those who really can see women's rights are really seeing a lot of these in my station in that people are saying that the egyptian no should not just a right from the from islamic sharia but actually following from it sharia these are one of the ongoing battles within the constituent assembly so basically what we're seeing is on a grassroots level the national level the political level quite a heavy islam is ation of egypt. the latest there from tahrir square all jerusalem
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post reporter lapin spoke to me and said despite clear anti islamist sentiment on taria today egypt will inevitably turn into an islamic state if the draft constitution there is passed if we look at some of the draft laws that are now up for debate something more very concerning for anybody who would like to see egypt were made a secular democratic state for example there was a draft clause that would make the foremost sunni islamic wording institution some sort of body that would be able to decide whether he would laws are compatible or incompatible with islamic law and these are the basic steps that one would take if one wishes to set up an islamic state i think so long as a majority of people who are setting up the new constitution are. they will naturally seek to create an islamic state and at this stage i don't see how that could be avoided and the unrest rolls on elsewhere in the region to put it what's
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being labeled a forgotten revolution police in bahrain brutally dispersed pro-democracy protests with tear gas we have got for you an eyewitness says account and story just ahead tonight. it always amazes me the lengths that people go to for things that are pointless people camped out for a week waiting for a new i phone that will be archaic by next year when the next one comes out every black friday many thankfully not all americans celebrate this holiest of shopping days by waiting outside of a wal-mart in the early morning to fight over trendy plastic gifts for their children that they're too young to appreciate hey even i'm willing to sometimes wake up early in the morning to drive downtown and pay twenty five bucks for
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parking to watch a football game under cations but just imagine a world where we actually were willing to wake up early and stand a big crowd for something say more important than some stupid gizmo or the sake of our favorite sports team just imagine iraq and that world would be yeah maybe standing around some protester collecting signatures won't do anything we can't be naive enough to think that big corporations will bow to ten people with signs bought spending days worshiping at the altar of the i phone gods certainly won't improve your country but that's just my opinion. culture is that so much as i can which of course he's right on it comes of years and the republicans and democrats alike tell the american people that they have a stark choice before them in this election year is this really the case. by horse. by tractor.
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by car for the road ends. as a carpenter. as a stove setter. as a farmer. as an assistant. as a friend. as a relative. delivering post and delivering goods. welcome to the big picture.
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he. claims that there was a legal russian made military hardware on board that syrian passenger jet was forced to days ago russia's foreign minister insists that the cargo didn't violate any international regulations. has more on this ongoing diplomatic standoff. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that the contents of the plane which was removed was totally legal the documents were checked in moscow as the syrian
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plane departed but the equipment wasn't designed to be sneakily smuggled into the syrian government and that it broke no international laws. you can use it was certainly no armaments on this plane and they simply could not have been any the aircraft was carrying a cargo that was being shipped from a legitimate russian supplier to a legitimate customer in a legitimate way there was a cargo of electrical supplies for radar stations this is jewel purpose equipment but it is not barred by any international conventions of the ship the shipping documents comply with all relevant requirements and delivering such a type of cargo by a commercial air carrier is a perfectly standard practice. this statement is the latest twist in this angry diplomatic route over this plane that was forced to land it follows a statement by turkish prime minister. saying that they found military
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equipment and ammunition on the plane of russian origin rusher in its turn says that turkey's actions in sending up fighter jets to escort the plane down was excessive and put passengers at risk and passengers on the plane themselves said that turkish authorities acted with excessive force the plane has now gone on towards damascus but there are concerns that this could further inflame tensions between turkey and syria. while in syria itself rebel activists say jihadist fighters linked to al qaeda are for with and he said forces to capture an air base near the city of aleppo announcements likely to further fuel fears that islamic extremists are playing a greater role in the country's uprising aleppo has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks. we've got more expert analysis to cover the. elop intentions in and around syria in the next hour as well here on our t.v. . has been a further violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in bahrain as capital
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friday security forces attacked demonstrators who crowded into a main street there in their ongoing calls for greater freedoms for the shiite majority from the sunni rulers hundreds of police officers are said to be deployed to minimize streets there were reports of the demonstrators provoked the police but that's been strong refuted by one eyewitness from bahrain's center for human rights saying to us now. the world has clouds of oh but this war will just peacefully protesting to freedom and democracy and such because of an issue as they were they were at the activity by. clearly it's. just got the better of the protests that they were just beautiful your acts like of. and told you the picture of trouble if you give you. chad between two frito peaceful peaceful and that's just a tactic or without a war a big deal just directed to the head forward or with the weak bullet those just go
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ahead and i tried it before we were to do what we want freedom to you know what the we. don't cover came from bahrain's justice development movement told me western governments continue to sell arms to the regime to secure their interests in the region. obviously it doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you are sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why the why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep the brain as an ally seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship what these governments don't realize that they are perceived to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince the trade or to pressure them into reform perhaps they misunderstand the strength they have or perhaps you know they're scared that their
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interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain of calling for democracy they're calling for change i don't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world would have a democratic and stable country but the stories hitting the headlines tonight the japanese company that owns the fukushima nuclear power plants this is the first time that could have been avoided tepco said that the facility needed safety improvements long before last year's disaster which was triggered by that quake and tsunami that followed it it added the concerns of political economic and legal consequences were behind the inaction and also fear provoking strong nuclear sentiment. to rescind local so tenth anniversary of the bali bombings by laying flowers at the site of the tragedy the suicide strug group on a nightclub killed two hundred two people morals mostly held across australia the eighty eight citizens who were among the victims. or people saudis or from your own
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or where your more people signed up for medicare advantage out of the change what there's nobody is this right i don't know this is rather this is i know you're under a lot of to rest to make. but i think it will be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other well if we don't take all four minutes well we are american vice presidential candidate joe biden. trading tough words there the only head to head t.v. debate ahead of next month's election republican hopeful ryan attacked the democrats for the death of america's bastardry libya so i think security failures for his part by the cutest rival of double standards on tax and then over the attitude to weigh all of broad. and some fired up debate over zero to hero is coming up next i'll just remind you paid to develop these guests look at just how different the candidates and their agendas really are. if romney wins if the republicans win the
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white house they will also probably keep the majority in the house and wins a majority in the senate and if the republicans control all the important political positions the white house the senate and see house then you will see a huge difference america has a huge debt and the next four years will be about who pays for that and i can tell you it will be a huge difference was obama controls the white house or mitt romney control group think it misses the point he the fact is that you know you need the have any ideological debate to sun degree during the campaign and when it comes to actually governing it's the same old story obama said lots of things during his campaign in any renounced virtually all of them when he became president and that's what you can expect with mitt romney romney's got five positions on every single issue he's jumped forward in back.
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you can see more of pete the rest of his guests next hour. now seven british royal marines join the list of soldiers accused of committing war crimes the elite troop members have been arrested on suspicion of killing an unarmed insurgent while they're on duty in afghanistan anonymous sources say the case only became public after a colleague broke the marines code of silence. picks up the story. well there's very little in the way of details from the ministry of defense at the moment we know that seven marines have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of an afghan insurgent and this incident took place in helmand province in afghanistan last year now they're being questioned at the moment is still they haven't yet been charged to system to suspicion of murder and it's sort of that investigation that was launched after the code of silence is very typical amongst a very very tense now that investigation is going to be now carried out by the
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service justice and it's going to focus around the rules of engagement the treats operate under very very strict rules and if they get it wrong then they can be prosecuted now the ministry of defense been very clear that this is an insurgent but certainly as we said very disciplined way of detail a lot of questions that need to be answered at the moment of a very very serious allegations indeed but of course this you know this isn't an isolated incident at the end of last year we saw a british soldier a jail for eighteen months after he stabbed a ten year old afghan boy was he was drunk on vodka we've also seen the u.s. teach sparked widespread protest after burning the koran we have the very shocking details of us chief during dating on the bullet bodies of taliban fighters and of course this is just the incidents that we know about at the moment that code of silence that is so common amongst the marines the most depletes that are out there as they very rarely do these types of stories make it very this is just another one that actually has and that we're hearing about now our correspondent in the
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business just ahead after this break. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find
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a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf i had a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolves reputation
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in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that we file and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. world with. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.
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welcome to the business updates on r.t. as we've been reporting the e.u. has been awarded the nobel peace prize the reaction the financial world has been somewhat mixed here which chris we felt from this burbank investment research says it basically means that fears of a euro collapse are going away at least for now. then the spring i think there was much more of a risk of the eurozone breaking up of greece leaving but i think you know through the summer politicians of how to you know more of a reality check can see to the consequences are very dangerous of breaking up the euro of greece and now since then you know the effort is all towards or to focus all towards keeping the eurozone intact keeping greece within it we probably will
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see a bigger band-aid being put on the problem over the next couple. weeks or the next month or so but i still think that we're going to run into perhaps even a more severe phase of the eurozone crisis probably next spring all right let's take a look at the markets the only ones trading in the united states are showing negative dynamic with the dow jones and nasdaq are going down point two percent j.p. morgan is feeling better than the market and surprise good earnings over in the europe there's been no reaction to the nobel peace prize the down point seven percent driven by resources firms in london and by industrial giants in germany every second young person in greece is failing to find a job as the jobless rate has hit a record twenty five percent in july one point three million greeks are unemployed a thousand jobs have been cut every day the past year tough austerity measures are likely to push the country into another year of recession. and over on the currencies market we are seeing the euro.

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