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petrol bombs and tear gas fired in egypt in renewed violent protests against president morsi with the latest from cairo on the country's deepening crisis. i want to broaden the law which is something i do not see. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances in the u.s. police in california lose track of a wanton man as their former colleague give them the slip and disappears into the mountains. meanwhile tens of thousands turn out for a nationwide rally in ireland against austerity cuts claiming they're being made to foot the bill for bankers failures.
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good evening i'm lucy cow fan of and you're watching our t.v. well moving on to our top story now egypt has been plunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence this after protesters vented their fury against president mohamed morsi to crowd clouds of tear gas were fired by the police and golfing the demonstrators were pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs now amid the deepening crisis egyptian authorities have decided to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month this after it declined to remove an american made a video clip that was deemed to be insulting to islam now that the decision sparked outrage among many egyptians are true has 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 security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation all of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in
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the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the egyptian. 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 one hundred five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that the president i'd most see 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're pushed back by take 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
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protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. egyptian journalist and blogger waddell eskandar says the decision to ban you tube is part of a crackdown on protesters which has now been extended to the internet as well what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule in 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 clamp 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 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 of the thing we've seen as well is of admins of facebook
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pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted 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 the ongoing unrest isn't confined to egypt as we report later this hour tunisia has been a rocked by a deepening political crisis and escalating clashes so could the country that gave birth to the arab spring be heading towards another revolution. plus a crackdown on the opposition in bahrain on the streets in the courts and in the press we report from the gulf kingdom where people have been demanding change for two years now. 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 of
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southern california and he is a highly trained former los angeles police department officer with a military background he's also believed to have around forty targets on a hit list. according to the police now dorner is accusing his colleagues of corruption racism and concealment of using excessive force earlier we spoke to investigative journalist michael ruppert who used to work for the l.a.p.d. he says the department has many skeletons and its closet. i don't condone what's happened and i want to violence and killing to end but more important i want him to be brought in alive which is something i do not think that l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances 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 rich trial board hearings and very egregious unprofessional coverup excessive force but also management mout malfeasance perjury and
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a lot of other serious things i believe in one hundred percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown has a consistent cultural problem with racism coverup and cronyism within the department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i left for similar reasons of course you can do as head over to our team dot com and join the debate on christopher dorner you can also follow the latest events and find out why the former police officer has allegedly turned into a killer. i'm
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also court has ruled to place the russian opposition leader sergei would under house arrest for violating travel restrictions while under investigation when i was accused of inciting violence during protests and using force against police officers are using me as an alley has more on the man in question. merged with the protests as a leader just over a year ago here in russia when anti-government rallies really took off in unprecedented numbers and we quickly became one of the main faces but he's been in politics for much longer really in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he ran for an m.p. seat for a party called the stalinist bloc for the u.s.s.r. and today he's head of the left front which is a young radical communist organization and that's actually how they describe themselves and they're most known publicly for calling for revolution and during the recent protests was detained on multiple occasions for violating police orders
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and calling on other demonstrators to do the same let's listen to some of the things he calls the crowd to do so. he. joins us. now charges against a very in june he was found guilty of attacking a young woman at one of these protests and several months ago in october a russian t.v. station aired a documentary which featured hidden camera footage allegedly showing of trying to raise foreign funding and organize riots here in moscow and other regions throughout the country although opposition activists had initially viewed him as the leader of the sort of face of their movement he often now fails to see eye to eye with fellow activists most recently at a funeral of another activist scuffles broke out between about so and fellow
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protesters because they were so upset he was trying to use the funeral as a p. r. platform take a look at the scuffles now he's under house arrest but the more west too has really become somewhat of both so if you could say he's been taken into jail without detention twelve times in the last twelve months will now see how being under house arrest for those travel restrictions on the violations plays out. we will of course be keeping a close watch on the story online so head over to our t. dot com to learn if the rate latest arrest could be a signal for the russian opposition to brace itself for further tension with the government. well tens of thousands of people have marched through cities in ireland in a massive show of outrage against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors the country has been relying on a joint e.u. internationally monetary fund loan since two thousand and ten well for more on the story i'm joined by a financial advisor marco fro beliefs or just this week ireland security deal with
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the european central bank that's expected to reduce its debt load these protesters frankly seem unconvinced why is that. i think it's going to be difficult but beyond that you get the review from where they're going to campaign for it. if it will be good very cool public come. from really. from the. from the europeans. if you go there. then you've got to give relief where a cool p.r. you. have ended up with a far bigger bill that most countries for the band and then. they're suffering a great deal more. for suffering a great deal more as you mentioned everyone a lot of piece of the pie if there is more relief for them but if we look at the trade unions in the country i mean they say that they're going to continue their protests until the government separates bank debt from sovereign debt do you think
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that that's a realistic demand. well. for you we. are not there their job to do i really don't think they're going to. be. removing. some of. the. i think we can and we have another crisis. bring. another car to we're half an hour from. the reality you are in and you know what you mean like many factory. government have accumulated could fall. far from any future a lot of different. things a lot you very difficult for quite
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a few years. speaking of this year ireland currently holds the e.u. presidency do you feel that they can lead the global recovery effort if the country fails to ease its own debt burden. the whole story about a global recovery you. playing the many in the mainstream media to keep talking about a recovery when acme that there is no recovery we are in a depression europe i mean you care you didn't. crash and there's a lot of leveraging the need. a lot of read. that need. and i think that getting back to normal recovery normal economic growth may be five years ten years from now i don't think that you are. with the president are necessarily going to be able to. pressure will mark.
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to be trying to where you can. your up because the power of. europe and. the german accent are that you have an integration or you have a breakup of the euro the problem will. certainly a lot of problems in a long hard slog ahead thank you so much marco pierre triply financial advisor for our wealth management weighing in there. there although just while the people in dublin are tightening their belts there is a place in the u.k. still ready to pay. michael for twenty grand old ones where do i saw this and more furious reaction as u.k. lawmakers look to higher parliament to cap a workers offering salaries higher than a police officers about that story after
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a short break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.
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u.k. lawmakers seem to be in need of a quick fix and they're looking to use taxpayer cash to help them get their caffeine hit artie's point boyko in the london has more in what some are calling a case of cups 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 overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand
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dollars per year 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 who are detecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians one of the police federation representatives took to twitter to ask where they could apply for such a nice recent job in parliament because it's obviously 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 well morale is already rock bottom amongst police officers and i knew i was because of this harks on their pay
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and conditions that pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us make 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 don't think so i'll just get less than washes over says coffee give me the most is it probably no so i said drinks night again tonight is basically a kick in the going because they're just being ridiculous and have a tight end they should be ashamed of themselves for doing something that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary brits and
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of course not critics saying that with the austerity measures read by saying for a lot of people in the u.k. the politicians could have made with a capsule of boiling water and some instant coffee. returning to the ongoing turmoil in arab spring countries now the political crisis in tunisia is escalating following the assassination of. a secular opposition leader critics have accused the country's ruling islam as party of defying people's demands for change by rejecting its prime minister's plan to reshuffle the government the islamist are now holding a mass rally to back the legitimacy of their power now this comes a day after blade's funeral was marred by clashes with protesters blaming the government and the police for his death violence erupted near the cemetery and culminated in an tyra's name of rallies which ended in arrests and security forces using tear gas that despite the authorities managing to keep huge crowds away from the city center for now experts believe the unaddressed could take
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a turn for the worse. two cities and hearing a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing new arrangements to hold him and any massive discrediting all the way to which they don't rate i think there are signs that this could easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war going to hopefully it won't happen and we remain to watch to see how the popular movements organize to prevent one of those frightening scene use the vote to 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 to take any action against these two terror groups correspondent maria for an ocean is in tunisia she's updating us on the latest fear her twitter accounts now in one post she reports that early three thousand people took to the streets in
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a pro-government rally and you can follow her at emf an ocean underscore our team. well as bahrain approaches the second anniversary of the beginning of the anti regime protests there the government and the opposition have finally agreed to resume dialogue but chances for ending political gridlock in the gulf kingdom is slim with the opposition not trusting the authorities following months of persecution artie's i would say are chefs has more if you look through any broad 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 what it is that freedom of expression in bahrain is very high because it is guaranteed by the constitution moreover there is
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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 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 website out of the most of them are human rights or political website although of certain beheaded our block we have facebook and twitter there are many which is not a blog sayed spoke to us on the back over two week prison term for what was called
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breaking the law on public gatherings several weeks later he was arrested again the editor in chief of bahrain's only 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 it could end up like an a builder job three years because if you tweeted something social networking came of age during the uprisings of recent years a fact not lost on bahrain's leaders who have watched almost daily street protests and an 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. looks you are sure of ski artsy reporting from the kingdom of bahrain and to some other stories in the
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headlines right now. at least six people have been killed as the ferocious snowstorm neemo pummels due northeast of the united states the blizzard has already caused massive blackouts cutting power to more than seven hundred thousand homes the government declared a state of emergency in the region more than five thousand flights have also been cancelled. clashes have erupted in india after a man convicted of a terrorist attack on parliament to new delhi in two thousand and one was executed the president of the country rejected a mercy petition from the home an office all group who was reportedly hanged out dawn violence between the protesters and supporters of the decision erupted following the execution the high profile terrorist attack has led to the death of a dozen people increasing tensions between india and pakistan. ukrainian feminist group femen have made it to the berlin film festival but only as far as the red carpet going to torrijos activists were staging
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a topless protest against female circumcision but police acted quickly true moved the half naked women from the venue parties were hard for this has been quizzing some in new york to find out if they would be ready to bare all for a good mars. in new york city it's legal for ladies to protest topless so where are the boobies this week let's talk about that part of the body even though it's legal it's still private. but do you think that would draw a lot of attention to the cause yeah but then again you know the tracks are all growed sometimes too but it attracts you dare. i would want to say. would you
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ever consider protesting topless for a reason yeah what would be the reason. you would go topless for that yeah would you do it well maybe you are not truth but do you think french girls would do it more often than american girls i think so why is that what's wrong with a kind of crazy it would be a way to get he was attention but i personally wouldn't do it maybe someone knows and i mean do you think that it would be little a cause or help because. i don't know if he'll do it much it's will bring more awareness i guess people will look so it's not what protesting is all about. let him out ladies the bottom line is going topless is a sure fire way to bring attention to your cause so ladies you might want to consider that the next time you suit up for your big rally.
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stay with us breaking the set with abby martin is up next. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary
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has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread shouting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidentally or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion.

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