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petrol bombs and tear gas fired in egypt in renewed violent protests against president morsi we've got the latest from cairo on the country's deepening crisis. which is something i do not. want force for the u.s. government wants under any circumstances and in the united states police in california lose track of a month wanted man as their former colleague gives them the slip and disappears into the mountains michael free to grant. where did. this and more furious reaction as u.k. lawmakers look for parliament café workers offering a higher salaries than to those who defend the country and keep the peace.
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good evening and watching r t with me lucy catherine of one on to our top story right now egypt has been plunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence as protesters vent their firy against president morsy clouds of tear gas have been fired by the police and golfing the demonstrators who had pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs now amid the deepening crisis the authorities have now decided to ban the you tube video service in the country for an entire month saying that this is because of the anti islamic content on that site and the decision has sparked outrage among many egyptians questioning the need to shut down the whole service true as the latest from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the
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security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the section. justifying sex mobile talks on egyptian protesters into. what we really face here in egypt this will only fuel for the violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey right into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution yesterday we saw on friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building with molotov they were pushed back by take
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us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. will full on exactly where egypt stands right now i'm joined by egyptian journalist and blogger. so how do you read into this decision to block you tube in egypt is this a justified measure in your view. not think it's justified in their own opinion because what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actor see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not climb down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that
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clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one other thing we've seen as well is. admins of facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've seen one one one death in clashes last week. an admin of a of a facebook page called called when are liars the muslim brotherhood are liars and we've we're seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and various other sites we can expect more of that well sir if we can expect more of them i mean the reason that the whole egyptian revolution happened in the first place is because people were frustrated with the situation with the government they
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wanted more freedoms more so-called democracy more of a chance to have their say in their own future so if these kinds of clampdowns are now happening again at a stronger higher rate do you think that egypt could be in for yet another over a revolution in fact. i think that the state of revolution in calling for these rights is already. in progress what we've seen is anger around the same demands actually that started this revolution where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because. if you look at the situation in egypt the regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules so we can say we can expect more more you know unrest because people are still not god what they what they asked for two years ago or more on rest indeed of course i do want to bring up another element here we've heard some pretty striking rather shocking statements made recently by some
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egyptian clerics including calls to kill opposition leaders as well as justification at least by one cleric on assaults against female protesters where is all of this heading in your view quite disturbing. the fight the fight between the regime and the people exists about clamping down on freedoms and dissent. feels right now the islamists are getting frustrated because they thought that just by getting the vote in a ballot box they can do whatever they please but what they're realizing is that people still want a bit of justice so i think that it's going to be a very long drawn a soft between the proponents of the you know islamist regime and the revolutionaries right well long drawn face off indeed thank you so much weighing in there egypt journalist and blogger y l s con dar thank you. well ongoing
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unrest is not confined to egypt as we report later this hour a deepening political says and housecleaning clash in tunisia could the country that gave birth to the arab spring be headed towards another revolution. also coming up a crackdown on the opposition in bahrain on the streets in the courts and in the media we report from the gulf kingdom where people have been demanding change for more than two years now. well in the u.s. a full scale manhunt is underway for a former police officer who is seeking revenge after being fired the search for christopher dorner suspected of killing three people continues in the mountains in southern california he's a highly trained former los angeles police department officer with a military background he's also believed to have around forty targets on the hit list according to a manifesto that he posted on the internet dorner is accused of accusing his colleagues of corruption racism as well as the concealment of the use of excessive
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force now investigative journalist michael rupert who used to work for the l.a.p.d. says the department has many skeletons in his closet. i don't condone what's happened and i want to violence and killing more important i want him to be brought into law which is something i do not think l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circle. stance with regard to his specific allegations about his case and i'm currently reviewing legal documents that are becoming available online i have to tell you that with regard to his allegations about a rigorous trial board hearings and. very egregious unprofessional coverup excessive force but also management mout malfeasance perjury and a lot of other serious things i believe in one hundred percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown and has a consistent cultural problem with racism coverup and cronyism within the
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department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i left for similar reasons we can head over to r.t. dot com and join the debate on christopher dorner you can also follow the latest events and find out why the former police officer allegedly turned into a killer. well u.k. lawmakers seem to be in need of a quick fix and they're looking to use taxpayers' cash to help them get their campaign hit i guess playboy goes on london and has more on what some are calling
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a case of cops and robbers. the house of commons is looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically serve hot fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays over twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman whose style areas have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds per year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people protecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians a lot of the police federation representatives took to twitter to ask where they could apply for such a nice job in parliament because it's obviously
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a lot safer and it's paying more than some of the frontline police officers but i spoke to the former editor of the police review to find out what the morale all is like among the police officers amidst these revelations while moral is already rock bottom amongst police officers many roses because of this tax on their pay and conditions their pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us made to coffee themselves and let's not let's remember that the coffee they have will be heavily subsidized by us the tax payers a lot of people's wages being either frozen or slashed just like the police officers we hit the streets of london a little bit earlier to find out whether people in london think that someone who serves coffee to politicians should be making more money than a front line police officer let's take a look. my coffee twenty grand commons where do i saw it i didn't see so i'll just
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get this from washed over says coffee give me my scissors you have probably no sir i said drink tonight again tonight is basically a kick in the growing because they're just being ridiculous and have a ties here and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary brits and of course not critics saying that with austerity measures we buy something for a lot of people in the u.k. and politicians have made with a capsule of boiling water and some instant coffee. well just ahead for you this hour it seems to be true our elitists celebrate by the store a budget deal for the e.u. which had to cut brussels red tape could now fall victim to be a walker see itself that and other stories are coming up for you after a short break stay with us.
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right. welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well moscow court has ruled to place russian opposition leader sergei would self under house arrest for violating travel restrictions while under investigation with itself is accused of inciting violence during protests and using force against a policeman or to his own niece and now he is here to break down the details in the story of what's actually what's actually going on here and he said what we've done so first of all has become quite a figure here in russia he emerged as a prominent protest leader just over a year ago in russia when the anti-government rallies really began to take off in unprecedented numbers so he quickly became one of the main faces but he's been in politics for much longer decades really he's now officially the head of the left
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front not many people really know what that is and the red flags you see at many of these protests and a lot of the no. embers that were coming out especially before the presidential elections last year word these left front flags a young radical communist organization but it goes even further back than that in the late one nine hundred ninety s. actually ran for a seat as an m.p. for a party called the stalinists block for the u.s.s.r. now during the recent protests he has been detained on multiple occasions for violating police orders and calling on other demonstrators to do the same let's take a listen to some of his calls. let's remind those thieves and scoundrels in the kremlin who's really in power here we have the. you know some of the charges against him really do vary in june for instance he was charged guilty with attacking a young woman at one of these protests several months ago another claim coming this
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time from television a russian t.v. station aired a documentary which featured a hidden camera and footage allegedly showing will be solved in an effort to raise foreign funding and organize riots in moscow and other regions now investigators have since been looking into those allegations and have put charges against he's also been charged with inciting violence during the most anti-government protest in russia that was may sixth last year just ahead of putin's inauguration i was at those protests and it should be said they were really the only protests to get that violent now although opposition activists have initially used as one of the main faces like i said of this movement he does often fail especially recently to see eye to eye with other activists and not a few role not so long ago fellow activists actually got into scuffles with him and this happened because the fellow protester with fellow protester because they were
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upset that he was using a few role as a p.r. platform to kind of move himself forward now with both being arrested without detention has become somewhat of a thing he's been taken into jail without being held for very long twelve times in the last twelve months will now see how about all works out with him being under house arrest all right certainly an interesting story thanks for keeping us up to date on all the twists and turns on these anally reporting there. all right plenty more reports and also for you on the case of sergei adults over our website r t v dot com also there for you the ku klux klan is trying to make a comeback in america's south as a city of memphis braces for the longest ever demonstration extreme movements supporters but organizers claiming that there's a good reason for the rally. also get out of the way our you tube channel we have a stunning video of a canoe being hit by a whale to go to youtube r.t.
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for that and other eye catching videos. well leaders may be popping the champagne corks to celebrate a historic budget deal but it now looks like the european parliament may spoil the party the emmy have final say on whether the first ever cut to the union spending goes through and it could and they could eventually in fact block it now they're planning on a secret vote on the budget plan in what seems a revolt against the e.u. leaders economist james medway says that the budget may yet be sunk by the parliament. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do
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that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already present a new parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there are likely to be support it so it can be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right to talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can even try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out
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of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. well david cameron cameron may be claiming victory in brussels but don't mess took a one issue just refuses to go away it's the investigation into the rate fixing at banks in britain and it is expanding with revelations over just how widespread the practice really was revelations that have left are two years max keiser exacerbated and that's i'm waiting for the t word for example just for variety i mean if i thought the t. word is being prosecuted in this country or america i would mention it if i thought there drone sent up this thing. jenkins over at barclays bank and exploded in this intestines was splattered on the wall and i thought that would have any effect if i thought the government would give a flying shit about their own population i would mention the word but i don't because they don't. we're turning to the ongoing turmoil in the arab spring countries in tunisia the cradle of the regional op
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risings an escalating political crisis the country's ruling islam as party is set on defying people's demands for change following the assassinations of the assassination of the secular opposition leader there now its own prime minister's plan to reshuffle the government the islamists are now holding a mass rally to back the legitimacy of their power this comes one day after believes funeral was marred by clashes between protesters that blame the government and the police for his death the violence that erupted near the cemetery culminated in anti regime rallies that ended in arrests and security forces using tear gas and of course despite authorities managing to keep huge crowds away from the city center for now experts some of them believe the unrest could take a turn for the worse. two cities enduring a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing new arrangements for holding
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and a massive discrediting of the way in which they operated i think there are signs that this could easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war only hopefully it won't happen and we remain to watch to see how the popular movements organize to prevent this one of those frightening thing is the amount of external support for example by the qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be seen whether they've got the present government will take any action against these terrorist groups. and as bahrain approaches the second anniversary of the beginning of the anti-rejection protests the government and the opposition have finally agreed to resume dialogue your chances for ending political deadlock in the gulf kingdom happen to be slim the opposition clearly not trusting the authorities following months of persecution that's according to your chefs was reporting for r.t.
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if you look through any pro governmental newspaper in bahrain you did an impression that the government has nothing to hide the news of an uprising of the opposition is dominating the front page and if you look through it you'll see other stories about the political discourse in the country. the country's information minister insists bahrain has no problems with people speaking out that freedom of expression in bahrain is very high because it is guaranteed by the constitution moreover there is a law to be issued soon that further guarantees it we have a problem related to banning some upsides but that's to protect bahrain from six year in ethnic problems and violence only and not for any other reason. but this is what happened when we tried several opposition websites having looked through these pages later we did not notice any extremist overtones and so you see from bahrain center for human rights believes the government is deliberately
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attempting to silence views different to its own center for a moderate which i work for website is a blog we have almost more than four hundred words side out a block or more than most of them are human rights. political website although of certain beheaded our block we have facebook and twitter there are many which is not a blog. so you had spoke to us on the back over two week prison term for what was called breaking the law on public gatherings several weeks later he was arrested again and the editor in chief of bahrain's own the independent newspaper says this is how things are in his country if you speak out if you express yourself you are expressing yourself at your own risks people are brave enough now to speak out but they do that and they could be punished one day you could be put in jail you could end up like three years because you've tweeted something social networking came of
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age during the uprisings of recent years a fact not lost on bahrain's leaders who have watched almost daily street protests from them unusual drop in web traffic through the country picked up by an american internet morning tour leaves human rights activists here wondering exactly who the constitutional right to expression really applies to alexi russia of ski r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain let's take a look at some other headlines in the news right now. at least one person has been killed as the storm nino pummels the northeast of the united states the blizzard has already caused massive blackouts leaving more than six hundred fifty thousand homes without electricity the government declared a state of emergency in five states. clashes have erupted in india after a man convicted of a terrorist attack on parliament in new delhi back in two thousand and one was executed the suspect was hung after his final mercy really was rejected by the
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country's president the execution led to violence between protesters and those who supported the decision the high profile terrorist attack led to the death of a dozen people increasing tensions between india and pakistan. let that for me right now after a short break it's the kaiser report stay with us on our team. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty in.

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