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three. three. three brought video. of. fresh protests in egypt where the opposition declares war on the referendum of the constitution a repeat of the vote of widespread. continue to reel from the effects of the arab spring some revolutionaries now say that. the medical workers in spain protest the health. care. demonstrations against financial cuts.
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it is a pleasure to have you with us here on. live in moscow welcome to the program. now the main opposition group in egypt has urged its supporters to again occupy the streets on squares in a bid to challenge the first round of the referendum on a brand new constitution at the national salvation front once a repeat of the weekend poll claiming it was plagued by overwhelming fraud. results indicate that fifty six percent approve of the draft constitution which was drawn up by the islamists with the backing of the president and the muslim brotherhood it's vigorously rejected by the opposition who blame the government for turning the constitution into an code and there's still time. to turn things around before the polls open for the referendum second stage on saturday
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a national salvation front spokesman that would hoping the opposition's complaints remain on. right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is good enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that these violations are not going to be repeated particularly the lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence which is in trying to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are against this them so we're still holding
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a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and considering that this is an institution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by fifty something. well egypt is also a hot topic at r.t. dot com they were asking you what the future would be for the country if indeed a new constitution is adopted let's bring up the numbers now and see how you're voting this hour so far a third of you just over a third actually believe in the country could turn into a hardline islamic state and might see an eruption of sectarian violence looking down now if you were expect an uprising among those who believe the revolution has been hijacked by some pointing out that the new constitution does not differ that much from the old one and a minority say egypt will face a new fight for power between the muslim brotherhood and the military still time for you to. get involved have your say. and is egypt continues to be gripped by
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instability it's just one of the countries still feeling the effects of the arab spring or the regional string of revolt. to really claim tens of thousands of lives and brought down several regimes with no sign of it stopping some of those who helped to usher in the changes then now say they are no better off as our trees are really going to scream. if we get here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken friends vendor set himself on fire in an act of desperation so i'm saying he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more holland was uses real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections right on the table as the. one thing that seems to be
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very precise situation this war strived comparison to war. and comparison to the before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police. or of the salafist. if unpoliced attacked by some nationalist people. there are less freedoms right now when it comes to and they were doing freedoms there are at their acts on individual freedoms every day they received so many messages from girls saying but they were. on the street even by police men. who did tolerate their or their way off dressing
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this if you can have a chance to show so. just to hear as they go hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes you. the classic forms of government seem to have a hotel writing is a mason economy is in shambles and increasing discontent the pattern is the same in tunisia and egypt where people of pouring out on the streets again with the new incest the only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during the elections i think a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt did so because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak and having morsi and morsi over though he's obviously you know very different political figure in terms of his ideology has carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising to comply he turned moammar gadhafi controlled the country for over four years was deposed and killed in two thousand and eleven and nearly in
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government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard conductor supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses second be using now. guys that are going to be fueling people children and now and then deadly sick reaming we would not humanitarian of the water to please help us save our family. i got this time to make libya now the quantum bit where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and we're going to the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s.
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would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region. and even libya where war was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region. right. now and r.t. is coming to life in the heart of moscow and thousands of medical workers have marched in the spanish capital against plans to privatized hospitals with yet more answer or stare at the protests planned over the next few days i'm richard insists the harsh financial measures are crucial to help the country climb out of its deep recession investment advisor patrick young believes the government's approach to the crisis is what landed spain in trouble in the first place. the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to to bite the bullet over the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years
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and minutely one could say that was the previous government run that rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold off and there have to be stoppage cults because truly stay in has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that and unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent health care professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain the biggest shock of the whole year hasn't doggedly been the fact that the euro is held together the european union is putting on a brave face it's throwing money around the place it's trying all manner of things to hold together a cracking and creaking facade and ultimately you know they might just manage to carry it off but ultimately i think the smart money is waiting in the wings and
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it's looking at the whole idea that we are going to see a euro break down even if it's not going to be as instantaneous as some of us might have predicted. still to come for you here on the program on arts he green with. a war of words in the u.k. as the government sets out to boost renewable energy but many britons are questioning whether being eco friendly comes out too high a cost. plus protesters in bahrain feel the heavy hand of the state police used tear gas to disperse anti government rallies following the king's speech what he called for unity. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.
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joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi in moscow fully declared and apparently legal reports are emerging that amounts of gold are being flown out of afghanistan according to airport personnel most of it's headed to dubai which has long been considered a haven for laundered money for more on this we can now across to kabul and speed dial sultanzoy a political analyst a former afghan m.p. a pleasure to see you today thanks for coming on for years suitcases of cash in western currencies have been taken by people out of afghanistan we're talking several billion dollars annually now it seems gold is also on the way out apparently perhaps illegally it all seems a bit murky can you just try and clear it out for us what exactly is going on with afghanistan's gold. this. well actually when the dollar was fleeing. government of afghanistan and the us and others were paying
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attention to that and naturally when you're trying to stem. from flowing away there would be other ways of doing it and they actually called as a is being used not only in lieu of dollars leaving afghanistan but also it's a very very interesting change for money launderers for drug smugglers and also there's. another angle to this which would be the dumping of. regional players and even beyond the region because around afghanistan there are some central asian countries and even as far as russia to russia a good bruce's of gold and the drug. money that was coming into afghanistan or other martyring was taking place gold is taking a new shape and it's easier to carry and also the central bank of afghanistan is totally oblivious to these things and they're always act after the fact the same way that they acted about after the failure of the afghan children so i'm i do
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apologize. i just i don't understand exactly what's going on here the gold is being mined in afghanistan but it's falling into the hands of the drug dealers and then traveling over the border is am i correct. no no not afghanistan is not producing enough gold to be taken away from the country afghanistan's gold production is very meager but this gold that is being smuggled it's a gold but it comes finds its way from from other countries this is not african gold most of this gold is coming from other countries and shape of payments for drug money also arms dealings and other money laundering schemes that are going on and dumping it also in not only dubai but also india is also another distant nation for gold no one knows how much gold is going to india because india is a big consumer of gold also this is just one avenue that they have discovered there are many other places that gold will go up including india and iran or so so cold
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in afghanistan is flowing out of afghanistan is also coming into afghanistan is asserting it's a story that requires more investigation if i may for a moment here just to shift gears a moment barack obama has invited him and karzai to the white house in january of course u.s. troops are due to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen any expectations from the visitor karzai once again invited to the white house. i think there will be some expectations first of all the u.s. will probably be heading towards a new. inauguration a new cabinet and a new secretary of state which presumably is mr senator kerry and senator kerry's relation with mr karzai is very close so we will expect some new changes and also i think air the u.s. will probably announce after that visit the number of troops and the duration of those troops staying in afghanistan so we the afghans and the international unity
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should expect some new announcements but i don't think there will be too many details in a very near future that we would know about it will take time for details to emerge all right adel sultanzoy a political analyst a former afghan m.p. i thank you very much for joining us from kabul today on nazi. now more violence has hit the streets of bahrain's capital my mamma where activists say police used tear gas on hundreds of program form demonstrators the clashes happened on sunday after the gulf monarchies king delivered his annual national day address calling for more unity and the country's opposition though threatening more marches later this week as anti-government campaigners continue rallying against discrimination in october twentieth already has banned all public gatherings in an attempt to stem almost two years of nonstop protests in which up to eighty people have been killed and many thousands arrested last week prominent human rights defender job had his
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prison sentence reduced but this wasn't enough to calm activists who are calling on his immediate release hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain so the situation will not change as long as the government is backed by the west. whenever they come under pressure from western allies like united states or the u.k. they are with the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards it is simply they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start to see the lock to reform the political situation however no such serious steps has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners released torture still taken place human rights violations are in place on daily basis the human rights issue as they go into behind not allowing or just in the first place first the law of the
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king came up with a law that basically banned any peaceful protests there itself this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially. grain and syria where the rise violations are committed and behind on daily basis however we hear no condemn nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the bahraini regime so it will basically start a serious dialogue release all political prisoners and hold the criminals are responsible who killed and tortured the citizens of. now the british government is determined to go green it's aiming for fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be generated by renewable sources by twenty twenty but those eco friendly
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ambitions could come at a harsh cost for its citizens as artie's laura smith has been finding out the wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy secretary says he's going home for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter nubile energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly please those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner thill it merits who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single
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democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that bought a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do sing seem to think that they're helpful to the environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty low base but only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year. there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day although wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not
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the case and a lot of the time they just start doing that and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowing so wind power is still need supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of it's running costs all subsidies the right way to encourage and in streets mature or are actual shooting i think what we're doing is we're rewarding in adequate technologies now and indeed with fossilize in the more infantilizing them we actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes well if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place to miss you're welcome at the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact i quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight kilometers away is a nuclear power station so posted by the community as a reliable source of power and local employers unlike the windfall which is controlled from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the
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government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind powered by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith can't. oh i just a moment here on r t we are doing a quick focus on the extremist movement in europe or limit of course the continuing inflow of immigrants the sounds. in his sigrid laboratory to mukherjee was able to build a new. most sophisticated. tim's mission to teach me. this is why you should care
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