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from around the world. more than twelve hundred people. from. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in chile i've insistence there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful and the main challenge for now is to repair the damage especially all the
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broken windows in the home since we are in the year also it's not exactly summer here and overnight temperatures did drop a way below zero although i thought he said that they've already managed to restore repair around one third of the damage but it's not only about shattered glass a lot of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers which is there are sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty new cars dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird a plane or superman but something much louder. faster and many times of war terrifying speed bright like him shining across the sky you know blinding brighter
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than the sun it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by media or flying over breaking into three parts leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by a series of massive explosion. and i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas to bottom i know i was told that it plane crashed right into a building then we were told that a wall has been partly disloyal and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was a very scary. many were able to film the unearthly sanaa manana leader flooding the
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web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world in our t.v. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events that put up that we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are three shattering we thought a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find out it was a natural phenomena anybody except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass not one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room get down filled with dust just like like
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a fog it's estimated the media as we need to varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos in russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know due to the os what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily even we didn't hit just the facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. as well as lawrence maxwell kraus from the school of earth and space exploration he says this was scientifically a very precious event. meteors and asteroids are commenting and then come from the
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outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since a solar system formed four to have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for scientists. and we cause some amazing photos of the exploding space are off as well
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as vivid examples of exactly how powerful it was a little itty dot com you can ahead on had a life of that as well as updates of footage and i certainly a lot more expert analysis as well. this is our t. hey chips hard line islamists including members of the ruling muslim brotherhood party have gathered in cairo for a rally calling for peace so after three weeks of protests against the government which started on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak the rioting as seen tear gas and water cannons used against protesters who have been armed at least with fire bombs or than seventy have died in the clashes so far william engdahl author of myths lies and oil wars he believes the muslim
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brotherhood has now lost all support both at home and abroad what you had in egypt in the last two years is in effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for the sharia constitution and that's the muslim brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe openly and were should go out in their own way and not be told what to do now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since the second obama term began i think what we're seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring is turning out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading their support of groups like morsi so i think what's playing out now is the brotherhood is finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be
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a reconciliation and the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving and so even the brotherhood steps down he's fully in respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly egypt. from egypt to libya where people there are celebrating the anniversary of the uprising against gadhafi while the government fears of a new one in the making thousands of all militias lined the streets of major cities despite activists assuring that hold rallies will remain peaceful. more than a week of debate brainstorming and policy revision or will now be needed following on president had a vote which saw president obama's nominee for us defense secretary failing to get enough support from the republicans well the results not a complete defeat for chuck hagel and that may give his opponents more time to further spoil his chances of vietnam veteran is known antiwar activist had
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previously clashed with republican lawmakers over his criticism of the jewish lobby in washington and this is precisely what got him in trouble in the first place that's according to paul craig roberts assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury under president reagan. a lot you see him. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american senator not an israeli senator and this instant come up. in the in the last presidential election in the united states the israeli prime minister. supported it but. the peace process for that and created president of the united states and in very demeaning way. and so the bombing there i was answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the
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israeli government. this is r.t. and the us library of congress is working hard on filing away every tweet ever. everywhere all of this and. they're doing a lot of. people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do and i think. i already but. i come on the program here. steps out onto the streets of new york to find out what people think about the government holding onto the online message. and attempts to study global economic troubles are being made of the g. twenty gathering of financial heads right here in moscow. heavily on their minds. after the break.
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thank you joining us here on. live in moscow and i'm accused the group is threatening a major rally and today against what it sees as a massive expansion of c.c.t.v. cameras across germany and the movement's opposition against the ever encroaching big brother from words to action a long time ago with a becoming notorious for trashing street cameras all across the country. look at whether the group's message makes them any different from ordinary vandals. if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital that may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of
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sensitivity civilians in germany is on the rise and it's not as bad as in other countries for example in the u.k. very millions of cameras installed but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some villages take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and points are awarded for the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is uneasy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's violence against things that's a form of protest we do not support of the ovi support the message. is contest will
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culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody or
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germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this street service the advancements of things like smartphones the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day is sure to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r.t. . while being caught on camera is precisely what happened to a group of security guards and the man suspected of having me o. not sealing so now accused of abusing thousands of foreigner workers up and down germany details on our website r t dot com for the. us america is known as the land
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of the free but online we have the story of one man who doesn't seem to cherish his freedom as much as others are free robbed a bank just to get sent back to jail. there's been another delve into how to deal with the prospect of currency wars and as yet the g twenty finance leaders are still to agree on the issue which is dragging the world's markets into a state of turmoil and the gathering is taking place right here in the russian capital as the country gears up for a broader summit later this year artie's caffein off has been following the talks in moscow. a lot of conflicting statements have been said about this talk of the impending looming currency war which has led some folks some market watchers to be quite confused as to what will actually see coming out of this g. twenty talks here in moscow now at the center of the whole controversy and crisis is japan it's doing its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies it has seen a weakening of the and so what this has resulted. it is essentially
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a clash between the countries very little consensus we did hear from a russian finance minister. who has said that this is certainly an important issue that of currencies that is very much on the table but at the very same time we've seen other world leaders come up and say that you know what currency wars aren't really a threat they're trying to calm down the market to some have even questioned whether japan's actions constitute as a manipulation of the currency basically when a country is in a dire fiscal situation such as of course as we all know many countries are today like japan for instance is one option that a country has is to devalue its currency so making something like this a twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means for example by printing cash and why would you want to do that when your currency is worth less your manufactured goods are cheaper on the market and that gives you a temporary boost in the economy which could be pretty critical in tough times like
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this now what we've actually seen the fear here is that when a country does that your trading partner strike back they say ok we're going to lower the value of our currency and that sets off a currency war such as the one that we saw in the one nine hundred thirty s. which has led to the great depression now japan insists that it is simply trying to stimulate its quantum e. it's not doing anything to prompt a full scale war of course no country here wants to see that but the reason that we're seeing so much disagreement and so little consensus among the countries is that you know what for example the united states its policy isn't all that different the fed in the u.s. has been printing money like crazy so these developed countries don't really see any incentive in isolating japan in trying to really squeeze down of this currency manipulation issue because they don't want to mess around with their economies essentially so that is really the crux of the issue. well why are some currency war talk to. for us to be discussed by all jews financial gurus or my. kaiser
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stacy hope as well the full program coming your way next hour for now though here on out see a quick preview. everybody is doing it then is well i devalued recently by over thirty percent in the u.k. the pound has pound sterling has fallen by over ten percent against international currencies and yet their export market is up barely point one percent so it hasn't worked for them they showed up to a global currency war with their feet paper and it hasn't done anything for them you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are you're getting out of your guts ripped shot dead in the street like a dog show up to a currency war with paper like mervyn king or ben bernanke here these other central bank lands and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing. this
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is on t.v. just a moment on the world for now though a tense mostly peaceful celebration has begun in libya as the country marks two years since the start of the uprising that ousted khadafi a massive rallies were held in two major cities tripoli and benghazi a flag waving crowds marching through the streets protesters are planning further demonstrations against the current regime but they claim they will be peaceful still fear the violence will break out thousands of police and militias are in the streets and have been reports of nato forces are rising in tripoli as well two years after the initial uprising the government is still struggling to keep the groups under control as well as ease separatist moods in the east and south of the country but apparently they're not succeeding according to political analyst. what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of any form of sun throw control paving the way for the fragment they. of the country into
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three states at the same time the lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the chrome on the one that has over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months. but more than two months and at the same time we have this but. thrive breaking out between the front militias so yes a lot has changed but not for the better for it into the we go starting with iraq where a senior iraqi intelligence officer and his three bodyguards have been killed by a suicide bomber in the northern city of mosul. reportedly detonated his explosives as the brigadier general was leaving his house there has been a spate of more than ten suicide bombings in iraq since january ultimately aimed at
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security officials and shia majority. firebrand cleric. has held a massive rally against political corruption in northeast pakistan citizen of both canada and pakistan qadri launched a petition to reform the national election commission a move rejected by the supreme court he's organized two more major rallies for the coming week in the build up to the country's general election expected in may. there are now close to two hundred billion tweets stored in databases of the library of congress in america the government says it wants to keep a snapshot of life in the country seen through online messages but some citizens are concerned it's just one more invasion of privacy so often it takes to the streets of the big apple to find out what the people there think about it.
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the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that now why not they're quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not so what do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah that's what i think how would you feel about your government storing all those tweets that scares me the soul of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean if i try it for about three years now and i kind of member what we had back then if they can find out and just kind of see what it was
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that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean those are really surprised the truck your facebook and they track everything you do a lot i mean they have the rights and they stay along as the invitation was private there's doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're i mean what more can they do i mean if you know if you put stuff i'll do that you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should put it on twitter and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening.
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you know just a moment here and i'll see it's a must and i'm breaking the side. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of truck a soda located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general severe guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said
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that currently it is not quite possible. but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general gordon also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion.
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