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people across the world demanding an end to austerity is global noise protests make themselves heard more than thirty countries with the loudest and angriest rallies taking place in europe this as separatists in belgium get a boost from the continent's financial woes. you were in syria envoy draws up plans to deploy a three thousand strong peacekeeping force oversee a potential truce in the country this as turkey closes its airspace to syrian civilian flights in response to a similar move by damascus after a syrian jet just grounded by on her. and one of the job members of the russian punk band pussy riot released on appeal to other band mates will continue their
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twenty four month prison sentences for who again is an opera punk prayer stunt in russia's main cathedral. six am in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news demonstrations have kicked off across the world for a people calling for an end to austerity the movement is calling itself global noise more than thirty countries are hearing its message europe has seen the biggest rallies so far just after the e.u. was awarded this year's nobel peace prize sorties alexei out of show ski reports things aren't looking too peaceful right there at the moment. the union needs for nudists have over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation and democracy on human rights in europe but is this the peace
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they're talking about tear gas fascist flags and massive furious crowds of the most common sites across the award winning continent lately protests like this will add go in thirty five countries across the world over the next several weeks the global and cyo stary to voice only in spain alone hundreds of thousands have been voicing their anger ever since the government announced more painful budget cuts for next year everything with spending are is now unemployed and this grim story is pretty much the same for portugal and greece is one of the leaders of the protest movement in madrid he says people have just about had enough behind it the crises and capitalist system right now in spain france private debt came to public that and these causes huge cuts to public spending and health system and it took a share and it's affecting millions of poor people it's producing huge you can
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employment and it's producing and whole social best composition of the old society with so many going against the system across europe at times clashing violently with the police the decision to award the e.u. with the peace prize has raised many eyebrows this is like giving a prize to frankenstein for being the best monster created during the past twelve months there's only one contender for the peace prize this year and that's julian assad and the fact that he did not win this prize is will be in a terminal stain on the nobel committee no one has done more to push peace than julian assange should be getting the so war from this committee the fact that they turn to a bunch of machines and technocrats and the a hero is an embarrassment they should go back to making dynamite. this ward is even more questionable to some because of the e.u. is rather dubious peacemaking record and that moreover the current financial turmoil is the biggest danger to peace europe has been bombing libya europe has
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been bombing syria you know it isn't bombing afghanistan or iraq yugoslavia a few years ago yes it's because they're trying to say ok guys we're giving you a whole year together europe has been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop that is going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing perhaps even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of the euro could lead to war again in europe in two thousand and nine barack obama won the same award having been in office for only two weeks that was before he sent more troops to afghanistan and waged war in libya but as the latest nobel peace prize award is debated worldwide protesters in spain seem to care little about the prestige than their own survival calls for independence are heard loud and clear in the country's largest and wealthiest region the lumia a clear indication the continent is losing that unity which the nobel committee has decided to. see reporting from madrid in spain
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in belgium separate is have scored big gains in the country's dutch speaking region flanders leader of the flemish nationalist party is also looking to become mayor of and one of europe's key ports is regarded as a breakthrough for supporters of flemish independence as belgium as belgian polish politician philip class says he thinks it's been a long time coming. the idea is gaining ground that it's the most important thing because we are having a lot of problems now in belgium we see that france is the federal government doesn't have a majority on the flemish side in the federal parliament although the flemings make up the majority of the population in belgium the federal government doesn't have a majority. in flanders and that's of course isn't the problem it's a problem of democratic deficits and this means this government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flanders flanders has voted for come something
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completely different that we are getting now with this federal government and flanders is an economic economically socially powerful prosperous region we have we are already if we have a flemish nation and we have a flemish people you have to know that blow them is an artificial country it's really two separate countries already within belgium and we see a completely different political consensus on the federation on the world will lose side and flanders would be perfectly able to do have an independent state and be a member of the you know european union. be u.n. and arab league envoy to syria has drawn up plans for a three thousand strong peacekeeping force that could see european soldiers police any potential troops u.s. and u.k. troops unlikely to take part because of their involvement in other conflicts while countries like germany and france are expected to play a leading role international affairs and defense analysts he says great care should
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be taken in choosing which countries contribute to any peacekeeping role. let us not forget the countries like france united kingdom have the clear that they are supporting the insurgency. they have so they're providing non-lethal support but in fact it seems the intelligence services are quite simple be supporting the free syrian army they said problem. it one of the proposals i think for. mr brahimi peace to try to get this ceasefire on the part of the syrian government but how can this your own government released e-coli implement a cease fire when the rebels don't want the ceasefire because they want to steer the government militarily and they know that help you but you know if the united states and all members of the european union saudi arabia of kut don't know oh there it will feed persian gulf arab states turkey of course member of nato your them so. we have to see how he goes. while the u.n.
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struggles to end violence in syria tensions are rising with turkey on cora's now closed its airspace to syrian civilians flights echoing an earlier move by damascus this after turkey intercepted a syrian passenger jet wednesday claiming it was illegally carrying russian made weapons alleging allegations strongly denied by moscow artie's arena ports. they pointed their guns at those hunk of those put those on the ground then they drove us back to the plane into vehicles bruised arms and better dignity with an international scandal thrown in on top all in the name of peace at least that's the stance taken by the turkish authorities when they tried to justify force for the grounding a syrian plane on route from moscow to damascus us. we in turkey only want peace and safety in this region that is our desire but we would never have an incentive to start a war hasn't revealed exactly what was in the cargo of that plane though they do
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insist it was russian made ammunition and technical equipment something moscow we mentally denies. there were 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 surely neither do turkish officials say where they received the tipoff about the supposed weapons onboard sound though have their suspicions this is washington telling prime minister early one who says he's so independent to go in and go for it down the use the f. sixteen s for all its peace mongering talk and righteous outrage over russia's supposed unwillingness to help out in peace efforts and karrar peers to be surprisingly open when it comes to supporting one side in the syrian conflict the
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rebel fighters it is supporting the rebels it's allowing a. large quantities of ammunition. to enter syria. lebanese journalist unifor was described what she believed to be an arms delivery on the border between turkey and syria yet. the scene was through real barbed wire a dark plane filled with all of trees armed men and flashing lights from trucks packed with weapons each syrian group takes its share in leaves i was asked not to film but the immensity of the scene the journalist you know was interrogated for days by turkish officials before being released once she was back in lebanon should realize the incriminating pictures she'd filmed on the turkish syrian border had been wiped while she was in custody some believe still ety towards president assad has little to do with the situation in syria and everything to do with the arms
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ambitions i was devilish in this country as a major political player turkey is preparing itself for its one hundredth anniversary and twenty twenty three it was the whole campaign of a very ambitious platform of how turkey has been doing so for alliance is going to position itself as a global power conquer rise establishing itself as a regional boss threatening awful lot war with syria and openly violating iraq just over into by bombing kurdish bases not exactly what bomb but all feats of diplomacy so in turkish officials to speak of peace and stability in the region their words are drowned out by the sound of an exchange of fire with their neighbors in tel aviv in an r.t. . the pentagon confirmed thursday that it sent troops to jordan with one hundred fifty u.s. officers now stationed near the border with west of syria washington claims it's to bolster jordan's military capabilities if its neighbors conflict escalates libertarian commentator lou rockwell thinks the u.s. could be trying to intimidate damascus with a move. jordan has long been
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a bit of call it a satellite the us is not actually an ally it's a province of the us and so why is the us putting in these troops at first of all to imply that some of syria is threatening jordan which of course is not true syria's got their hands full with the us inspired rebels who were trained by the way in turkey at a us air force base for the last past several years before this all started so this is just a way to juge gin up the tension to bring on more trouble i do i think it's true the u.s. will not use its troops to invade syria but will try a libyan strategy of simply bombing people endlessly from the air very possible still ahead this hour bahrain security forces again cracked out on peaceful protesters and demonstrators demanding that the reforms of the monarchy strengthens ties with its military backer the u.k. . as
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a moscow court frees one of the three one of three members of the punk band pussy riot we look at what's behind it is asian that still to go. but first iran says it might consider limiting its enrichment of higher grade uranium if it's allowed to have fuel for research reactor that's a revival of a previous offer trying to break the talks deadlock over the country's nuclear program germany is holding the line though urging the e.u. to heighten already harsh sanctions professor mohammad guarantee from tehran university things to iran's policy hasn't changed. the iranians are willing to be more open and allow more intrusive inspections and they're willing. to talk about enriching uranium at twenty percent under certain conditions but in general nothing has changed and increasing sanctions by the west will only make things more difficult because the iranians see the sanctions that are being imposed
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by western governments as inhuman the intention is to make ordinary iranians suffer or there is a consensus that this is not this doesn't have much to do with the nuclear program the issue is iran iran to independent iran is a country that will not bow down to the western powers and the europeans and americans want iran to kneel like saudi arabia like most of the other countries in the region and that's the objective to make ordinary iranians suffer polling stations have now closed after russians nationwide voted in the so-called single election day they were in fifty seven thousand candidate is for positions ranging from regional heads to be missable officials and for the first time in eight years voters got to directly choose their governors artie's many coach you know has more. the single voting day in russia has answers and now the polling stations across the country are close overall more than twenty two million russians
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had an opportunity to arrive at the polling stations and choose from an unprecedented number of candidates regional elections have taken place in russia for the first time in eight years and what is so special and interesting about this day is that it was introduced following laws disabuse ways of opposition protests which were the biggest in russia's recent history a return to direct regional elections was one of the demands of the protesters people also wanted to see more opposition in parliament so at that moment than president dmitry medvedev scrapped the old system which the regional officials in regional governance contradicted by the government and he also made it easier for the new political parties to emerge on the political arena by giving a more competitive complection to the local elections and this day we saw thirty two different political parties of god taking place across to the country we have just started to receive some early results and house we know prime minister dmitry
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medvedev has not with the members of the united russia party and he emphasized that that's the united trust the party has shown better results out of this regional elections than they did at the state duma elections that took place in december last year and as i said before the single vote today was taking place over the first time in russia and the last eight years. are stories just a click away on our t.v. dot com here's a little of what's on the line for you right now ukraine's latest military attachment how's this for a marine border countries training dolphins are reviving an old soviet project to patrol the souse with the military and. the fearless felix austrian skydiver leaves his highers for for ever. you fall from thirty seven kilometers above the earth becoming the first human to break the sound barrier without any vehicle moron this out r t v dot com. wednesday
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a court released one of the three pussy riot band members on probation two others however ordered to serve the remainder of their time their twenty four month jail term and have been put behind bars for hooliganism in august after their quote punk prayer in russia's principal cathedral polly boyko has more. a media frenzy one that breaks out any pussy riot court hearing the same old faces as supporters and critics gathered for the herring after emerging from her successful appeal everyone wanted a piece of the one band member released on probation but you are somewhat save it remain tight lipped even when you lawyers to do the talking. about the story i am very happy that i managed to help a person but i just did my job. last week the now freed band member fired her original legal team her new defense change strategy arguing in court that their
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client didn't take part in the now notorious punk prayer in more main orthodox cathedral she was in fact chewed out by gods before she got the chance to join her band mates and their so-called protest start that argument was accepted by the court some trial observers believe that the strategy of the original pussy riot defense team wasn't to reduce the women sentences but rather to expose flaws in russia's judicial system for all the world to see by switching to lawyers that focused on her personal case some might say that she walked out of court for a while her fellow band members went back to jail so. i think she decided to get some real lawyers they weren't before. in the face of the worst but to actually free her one major russian concert organizers says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could earn up to six hundred million euros western and
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russian celebrities have called for the women's release amnesty international considers them prisoners of conscience free pussy riot t. shirts are all the rage. that's the way you attract attention. they always look. famous pop stars around the world look at the way but don was dressed look at the look at all the others. we can do as well is that all we could do something different in the heat of the idea going into the cathedral and seeing the blessing of songs because that. would in fact be something reduce with the media circus in full swing and the client requests pouring in brand pussy riot isn't set to go away any time soon. see moscow. the arab autumn could be underway in bahrain as security forces launch a crackdown on a fresh anti-government rallies in the capital my nama friday police used tear gas
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and stun grenades to disperse crowds at least ten people were arrested. i don't arrest on the country for more than a year and a half as the shia majority demands the sunni monarchy and that democratic and political reforms britain meanwhile cited military treaty with the kingdom seen by many as a sign of support for the ruling regime dominate topic have the justice and development movement things western countries stand more to gain by supporting the protests calling for democratic reform. doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you're 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 why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep an eye like the hague is seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship while these governments don't realize that they are actually seems to
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realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince about cradle to pressure them into reform perhaps they missed on. the strength they have will perhaps you know they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there was a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain a forty four democracy that calling for change i didn't have to be against the west interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world to have a democratic and stable country. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's national congress has elected a new prime minister alys a don was voted into office after his predecessor failed to form a government except of acceptable to the divided national assembly he was a longtime opponent of deposed leader colonel moammar gadhafi any human rights advocate would sit on his face but to bring stability to libya and has already promised to make security one of his top priorities. the former king of cambodia
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has died aged eighty nine in beijing after suffering a heart attack see how nukes took to the throne in one nine hundred forty one eventually securing his country's independence from colonial french rule and later life here made a political force in the country as a power broker between warring political factions. in china a fireworks show left more than one hundred fifty injured when a rockets misfire and exploded into a crowd of onlookers none of the wounded has a life threatening injuries but five people had to stay in the hospital thousands were attending the show to mark the opening of an international industrial exhibition. hundreds of brazilian police officers raided two of rio de janeiro's most notorious slums the operation aimed at arresting control of the shanty towns away from drug gangs and the twenty fourteen football world cup at least five suspected traffickers were killed in the operation
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specially trained agents will now be on permanent deployment in these areas. it was the turn this week of the u.s. presidential running mates to lock horns in a pre-election t.v. debate but was anything but a friendly sparring as they jostled over domestic and foreign policy for viewers though there appeared to be no clear winner according to cal state university professor paul sheldon foote who says joe biden and paul ryan didn't play it straight with the voters. after the first debate between obama and romney a political cartoonist drew a picture of i don't know kills fighting each other with their noses this is no different than these than what other way to live throughout neither side would attack the other on things in which they were vulnerable and that's why you have to pick these tiny little issues for example biden biden said directly that the ryan had voted to put the iraq and afghanistan wars on the credit card helping to cause the deficit is actually right he was right about that he didn't bother to say the
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democrats will report. right and of course he's one of the ones who says that the only way to pieces by total world domination by total military power it's time for them to quit whining start with the american voters with the world. and a few minutes with the east peace prize being drowned out this week by protests when n.e.p. explains what he thinks is wrong with the system. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.
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