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ready and steady good a year long countdown to the soldier winter olympics a launches all across russia was all stars already on the starting blocks it wasn't easy listening with fresh paint and also shows cutting ribbons. droning lawn american america sees a media blitz aimed at enhancing perceptions of washington's i demand for these questions over the news aboard only every now. and attention that in the tunisia public anger and even opposition leaders killing comes close to boiling point prompting the government to dissolve and raising fears of a second revolution and. it's
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a may day here in moscow you're watching r t live well with me to say russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events for action love isn't real secret is the winter olympics giant countdown clocks have started taking in a major cities across the country arches lizzie france has to details. farther to the south zamboni says cyclists are having is in a much bigger way a president who didn't choose his meeting with the cheetah by the international olympic committee along with the seven these delegations are representing their countries participating in the olympics in the then his big celebrations down there in tsotsi kicking off today for his off with the washington highs the palace here and then of course you know gas and it is a big iceberg with some of the leading is ours i love it russian figure skating
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when i never have it all out for the large fireworks display rover now the hope is that russia will take home good at least eleven or gold medals here by end result two winter olympics and no doubt many experts are saying a wimpy olympics being on home turf or russia will make good just very well carry that off now organizers are saying that even though the it is bent is your business not being spared whatsoever to organize these olympic games at the ticket prices will still be affordable for the average person to work that has anything to give us a better idea i just wanted you to consider what it can be like i didn't get any years of him like you know whether had information in an aussie gave us a better luck of what to say of sims piece by piece cheese and then pick dream is coming together continues around the clock but with things are shaping up in the
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company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for yourself but. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions hold hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred based unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personal can train a man who just can gain experience in providing. good service but a chief in this gold has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the olympic history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take
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a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jewel in the crown the bolshoi ice day inside this past hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stage the under eighteen world championships in april when the team does an international event that will test their knees before the games begin the slogan for saatchi twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the little big park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events will take place just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story there not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to miss but if you make your way down the mountain
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will eventually come to hit one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger round on the left hand side is for the men and the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of road and rail lines have been laid and they have transformed sorties infrastructure with the city mayor believing the region will reap the benefits. for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the
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transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes he can and will deliver a gangster remember this time next year and. a soft change. yielding to an end re congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says justify his policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for yes but the president had. recently and some senators had hinted they would block his nominee evil cia chief from taking
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office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate's at the confirmation hearing on thursday and as artie's gannett chief again reports his confirmation could only broaden the horizon america's phone fleets. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and . from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper
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have killed thousands of individual since two thousand using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the number. this should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're
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getting very close to a thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop
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bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further the goal is pretty much clear to be able to control the world with a remote control in washington i'm going to. and in britain for your eye is the
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only private message to send between the internet users could be decoded and monitored and the government says it's to keep the country safe. a brand new wave of public fury in tunisia has seen the country's government dissolved the ruling islamists say a nonpartizan tapenade of technocrats will be formed to manage the state until elections can be held police fired tear gas and thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices all the governing party in the under us was sponsored by the assassination of a key opposition leader. with some claiming the authorities were sponsible political analyst day me mike you believe the government reshuffle won't be enough to calm the storm. this could act as a calculus for more violence and the more i look into music of continuity with the
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hope of the arab spring we don't have an area where you have the arab street it's a little sign of any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially conveyed to museum now where you have mass protests there because the government we have many calls for the government to resign you have outrage public outrage against this affiliation which has been deemed profane committed by people who have close links with the government this is the good of the using government but this really shows that they are spring is not necessarily going to force a change in good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and it showed that the muslim brotherhood they really have to go political policies or they are more they have done essentially replace the regime which they have supposedly overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us to. and while some in tunisia of blame in the
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high profile killing the on the ruling islamist admin not to want to miss international radio says some believe also influence could be to blame. people believe that. you just might be behind the attack but the majority believe that we have to be patient in two weeks the final report to the nation from the interior ministry to be able to say whether this work or the other one. committed this crime to success in asian. leaders. they have mentioned they said there are probably three hands we're trying to do straight out to an easy road this country to hijack the revolution it's. well of course following the story very closely and we want to know what do you think of the story at r.t.
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dot com we're asking about a possible outcome from the latest showing of anger in tunisia and what do you think could happen here the options you can choose from write a push for a new revolution islamist dominated government or will be forced to make concessions all a descent into widespread violence and evil and the last one being crackdown on opposition protests let's have a look right now to see the results on our pied chart to see how far the voting has gone so far a majority of those who've already taken part on the in the vote think that tunisia will see a repeat of the arab spring that's there forty two percent of you say that while around a quarter believe that the country will plunge into further and dress now nineteen percent of you believe that they were him crackdown will go on the opposition and will say it's a harsh response from the islamic authorities the rest on the contrary have
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a feeling that the leadership is a ready for political concessions that only sixteen percent of you write head to r.t. dot com if you want to take part and have your voice heard on that to another country in go. to with some all the heaviest fighting in months in the syrian. rebels a. key approach to the city. has been government resistance. vocalizing a willingness to negotiate on that. mission is. going to take three years for charges free. range means free. three stooges free. old free blog loving video. free media.
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back you're watching r.t. the british government is considering using so-called black boxes do you monitor private citizens internet use they say in the interest of safety the move has been slammed as a pointless invasion of privacy and the car the deputy director of the big brother watch organization says of the new measures would do nothing to catch people who pulls a real security threat the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this
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information and will react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fund the full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get to the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. drinking away you'll fly fried may soon become illegal in russia the government is considering like down on the alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of in-flight brawls one of which even falls an emergency landing the story is on r t v dot com. and will control the full plans within twenty yes' says the country's foreign minister he claims it won't even take a military action like he had time to take the islands from the new tape thirty years ago but i don't want to feel his certainty and.
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the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations throughout the day. syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked government forces trying to seize control of key approaches to the city center that's why didn't came despite an early awful by the opposition leader . to negotiate with president assad step you keep the assad government could also be willing to talk of that's according to its ally iran who's foreign minister was quoted adequately egypt a sponsored islamic summit however there are splits within the opposition that make
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stability unlikely even if they bring down as such says syria dr you know editor in chief of the muslim it. isn't just funny it's just like the ones in the lines here and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and it's not really having t.v. become are actually quite full of victims in detroit even when the you do this list to. pass it on. it's a black lives they would not of defending it because they know they cannot control it so no more be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups are so tough leave division in the beginning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you please of people they are not full officials they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing to support
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so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and if the west would like to see this big mess falling the country. well news in brief the leader of hamas says he's in with i was seen in president mahmoud about forming a coalition government khaled meshaal says that he's now laying the groundwork elementary and presidential elections from us to control of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning an election in the year before this month to heavy fighting with the fatah movement headed by mahmoud abbas continues to control the west bank. the french defense minister says his client is has fired rockets at his forces in the north east of mali it's not known if there are any casualties there are now more than four thousand syrian soldiers in
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the country troops of the government in paris say it wants to withdraw from next month the defense minister says the war has caused seventy million viewers. tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets cross as plain as they continue their protests against educational reforms the last two days have been huge huge demonstrations but there is expected to be the largest yet there are calls for the country's education minister to resign over the dress to as jimmy did by the student union to be nearly five billion euros many experts in responsible banks will spark in the economic crisis coming up later the closer report and looks at how politicians who won to rein them in. well i mean is george osborne line but i mean that's the question is he just line bald faced lies you're telling the
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