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i didn't do it the adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the u.s. says his death was an accident and the investigation into the case continues to drag on. broken trust a recent poll shows people in the u.k. don't believe the country's journalists anymore than its politicians. and from sentenced but forces to rescue a kidnapped family in cameroon ruling out any goshi ations as it puts boots on the ground of another african colony. i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow now our top story the adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the u.s.
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exactly a month ago says maxine cousens death was an accident russia has demanded justice suspecting the toddler was abused however local police are claiming it is too early to draw any conclusions artes and to see it is in texas twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much mean known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was just the kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old mark sam and his younger brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to come back the boy had severe bruises on his legs head and internal organs can get into there because it would be speculative. for the results to come by russian authorities didn't hear
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about the case for almost a month. even unfortunately it's usually months after a russian child who's dying to in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it in one case it was five years after a boy died meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow a little corp has been shown until it was demanded. we're going to. come up with two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids i have always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure weeks after markstein close means death tax and officials have little to say while they wait for autopsy results the results of the investigation with russia heavily involved and asking for punishment of those responsible could take
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weeks to be announced no arrests have yet been made while the investigation of floor paste and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it take a rigid push from abroad for the us to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on its soil and r.t.e. actor county texas. well news who give the spokesperson for pound legacy which promotes the safety and wellbeing of children in care believes this incident puts the u.s. adoptions firmly in the spotlight. in general we can say about the adoption system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over actually happens in options you need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before
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the adoption which has post docs and monitoring all that is not really in place there is screening but it's not properly done most of the action monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy now the media is traditionally known for its high standards but a recent mori poll has put journalists in the top three d. least trustworthy professions in britain so let's have a quick look at the numbers here even members of parliament polled better than journalists with almost a quarter of the british public trusting them to tell the truth with the u.k. under the threat of a devil deport trip recession three quarters say they don't trust bankers politicians in general came at their worst trusted by only eighteen percent of those surveyed and sadly for journalist over seventy percent of brits no longer trust them while early on my colleague kevin to investigative journalist tony
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guzzling who believes it's all down to the media bosses. the first thing i'll say is this probably expect me to say this is not the fault of journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy bosses volcano is the senior staff well it is actually and it's the owners as well i mean it's been one of the byproducts of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the it's been become much much easier to hire and fire journalists and so what's happening is the media is concentrating in the fewer and fewer hands and these owners are basically using their outlets to push to peddle their own political line the idea being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole you know you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just stunning for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them starting as you see it
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in britain is that a fair assessment or is it overblown. well i think it's overblown to say they're lying it's just that we're not told the entire truth i mean for example in denmark about ten years ago one of the news presenters was actually sacked for being on the news and saying at the end of the news that is what we decided to tell you tonight as a bit of a joke but you know there is a lot that isn't being said in our media i mean the b.b.c. is losing its credibility slowly ever since really the one nine hundred ninety s. because of the way it's been being managed not through the fall of the journalist but i mean for example the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c.'s chris patten he's a former senior conservative cabinet minister you know he's coming from a very specific point of view i mean i don't really think he should have people with that political persuasion or any x. you know senior politicians running the b.b.c. and of course the result is being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked for that. i mean the ongoing french intervention in
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mali paris has sent a team of special forces to cameroon to help track down a kidnapped french family seven civilians were seized by militants on tuesday in reportedly taken across the border into nigeria paris has ruled out negotiations and believes in the tourist nigerian islam is said to her dam is responsible the french foreign minister says if the news is confirmed it justifies the ongoing fight against terrorist groups in africa like marty cameroon is a former french colony on nigeria is now the top producer on the continent and some observers say france and its allies are responsible for the rise of extremism in the region and could use it as a pretext to go after african resources or money or colonial powers or once again flexing their muscles and they're starting to reach back into into yugoslavia into iraq or afghanistan into libya and now into west africa if the main product mali for example were mushrooms there would be no french troops there are
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in niger but the main export is you're aiming at and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies beginning it's tragic that there is a further problem that the west has introduced to in a successful overthrow of the look of the gadhafi government it introduced. al-qaeda type terrorists into africa where there weren't them where they didn't exist in any significance before so that has created a can of worms the main point though is that the western powers. and europe the neo colonial powers and the united states nato these countries have no right to act as the police of the world. not coming up right using the standard the debt crisis and financial woes in europe see a return to bygone days with gold again even though as we report plus we analyze
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the rise in popularity of the muslim brotherhood in jordan and look into that changing role a lot is coming up just after a quick break. download
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i welcome back greece has been brought to a twenty four asked and still after workers across the debt stricken nation went on a general strike halting transport shutting schools on leaving hospitals on the stuff in the capital war crimes were accompanied by huge marches over fifty thousand people converged on downtown athens riot police fired tear gas at the crowds as some of the demos did ten violent protest is a demanding an end to the government's hysterics and policies with the country in recession for a sixth year and then employ. and in a record twenty seven percent documentary filmmaker addys had just the fun a says the birthplace of democracy is now becoming a debt talk or say. when you have humans dead leg there's
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one that greece and other countries of the european very very are facing if you start losing levels of democracy and i'm afraid the south don't forget that one year ago we had nothing like the crankcase there and after the election we have a government that brought us to renegotiate the day but never did something beyond lean best in riot police and in unconstitutional. and we always more spirit the country i'm afraid that and we are. becoming a third world country not only as far as the economy structure but also as far as democracy is which europe was one of the major players that destroyed the greek economy by imposing visions through the measures only countries that said that we not follow the orders of the i.m.f. or big financial institutions miners who survived big this crisis and don't
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in our country's leg argentina or iceland who didn't know any of the proposals of the big financial institutions or the or the governments what it used to be the main exchange currency in europe soon after world war one governments ditched it now and then been in financial times and economic woes gold is fashionable once more as are to all other expects. sometimes all that glitters is gold those who deal in the mess all say its importance today can't be overstated in crisis when you have come some prizes some monetary prizes gold and silver every time as a security for people for bad times and with europe still far from out of the financial woods buying up gold is no longer just the reserve of the super rich the reason we sell small pieces is because we get customers
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a lot of people see buying gold something only the rich can do we get customers who i reach poor everywhere in between just people wanting to secure the value of their cash. well if you're feeling the gold rush when you're in something of a hurry there's a.t.m.'s they can dispense it whenever you need it here's why greed and fear is a very powerful combination of fear of her demise of all paper money. but your alone. paper money is probably and if that actually happens that will trigger praise free where everybody has to go into gold because they will feel. that their paper money will be worthless one reason behind swapping currency for carrots could be more stark than this gold silver is a real monetary well there is a paper it's printed it's like leg monopoly and it's that feeling that the way you
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would you were with no longer hitting the right notes. that sending europeans on the hunt for metal that matters peter all of the r.t. germany. golden issues also one of the topics in our latest kaiser report where no financial secrets are to be revealed don't miss the full program every night in this hour. the u.s. dollar is like this horsemeat that's circulating the globe and fact is that the u.s. dollar will eventually become worthless because it's back to some degree by workers in america. tax revenue is are the backing the u.s. dollar there's the tax revenue the american people and the u.s. military that's what backs the u.s. dollar tax revenue in america is crashing wages are crashing people can't afford donald's anymore people can't afford even to go to wal-mart anymore food stamps are
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soaring and then of course the inflation coming to the energy complex including gasoline is going to help going to hurt the u.s. military because they buy two hundred fifty million dollars worth of gas every day to fund the pentagon's war machine when the price of gas continues to go up as it is hitting a record prices in california and other states the pentagon won't be able to afford to fill up their gas their tanks and their other vehicles of destruction so it's a double edged sword so that dollar is going to zero and gold is going much higher germany will ask for their gold and i'll be given a receipt for worthless dollars or a horsemeat burger from findus. there are reports that a government plane has been shot than the north and part of syria's capital damascus killing twenty people meanwhile activists say at least twenty people were killed by an in rebel held area of aleppo the u.n. estimates that estimates that the death toll in the two you conflict has now
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reached seventy thousand on the diplomatic front russia says it's ready to host tools for syrian opposition and the government with indications that the stalemate could be ending. as move. earlier the leader of the syrian opposition for. first time you said that they're ready to negotiate with the government but only on condition that they release one hundred sixty thousand prisoners will be claimed have been jailed because of their political views the government on its head and said that it's ready to talk without any preconditions or clearly there are still major sticking points including the fate of president assad but russia's foreign minister says that there is room for potential progress now moscow has been saying that it's not taking sides in this conflict but is calling on the international community to acquire apply equal pressure on them in order to begin a political process in syria when you knew they didn't until recently that there were those who discouraged the opposition from participating in dialogue with the regime this far as i understand now the situation is changing and so it's important
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that this readiness of the syrian opposition leadership will be met with the government's response so that they are willing to do the same in the meantime and the situation in syria continues to deteriorate and on tuesday the russian emergencies ministry plane evacuated around one hundred russian and c.i.s. citizens and there's also speculation that several russian navy ships have been sent to the united to reunion to assist possible further evacuations. we're staying with the syria conflict and despite optimism over the talks the conflict could spill beyond the country's borders after a warning from the opposition free syrian army a rebel commander has threatened to shell the positions of hezbollah in lebanon unless it holds its alleged attacks on villages held by insurgents follows an earlier forty eight hour ultimatum by the f.s.a. which expires on thursday lebanon is sharply divided over the syrian civil war with the nation's cities and she is supporting opposite sides. elsewhere protests
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against the government and continue dimple garia after the country's prime minister announced the entire cabinet had resigned the move was in reaction to mass demonstrations in gold from the poorest nation since sunday some of the rallies ended up in violence as police responded the public outrage is fueled by exorbitant energy costs sterrett images and a steady decline in living standards. emboldened by the rise of their islamised allies across the arab world the muslim brotherhood branch in jordan is now looking to expand its influence the movement has long been tolerated by the monarchy there allowing it to gradually win hearts and minds among the population some locals now fear the brotherhood changing priorities could spell trouble there's a couple of reports. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance
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art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's going concerned about the muslim brotherhood's rise to power in the region a force says his students don't want to lose the freedoms they now enjoy and often worry about how their lives could change if jordan came under islamist rule. but. maybe if all is covered by islamic brothers. we are afraid. of the mass. but not all share in that fear for decades the muslim brotherhood enjoyed a safe haven in jordan even as it was outlawed elsewhere in the middle east the monarchies tolerance has helped the group to become the country's most influential islamist organization.
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so. that system was on a full display at this islamic hospital in downtown amman the muslim brotherhood has gained support throughout the arab world with its model of combining political activism with charity work here in jordan the brotherhood is responsible for building schools clinics and hospitals like this one a critical lifeline for the nation's poor. emboldened by the arab spring rise of their counterparts jordan's brotherhood is seeking more power it rallied behind calls for democratic reform of the country's political system trying to cast itself as the face of the opposition the group has vowed to refrain from violence but its leader saeed promised jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice . victory is at hand. and islam excrete will be created on this subject can prevail. in january the brotherhood made its move leading
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a boycott of the parliamentary elections but instead of being a nonevent high voter turnout evidence perhaps that jordan's brotherhood isn't ready for prime time just yet. i have a lot of concerns and must be resolved before i can support the muslim brothers we've seen their recent rise in egypt and tunisia but so far they haven't proven to be a good solution in either of those two countries the power grab has also turned off some longtime brotherhood supporters like this patient who is recovering in the islamic hospital. the muslim brotherhood the street from its traditional role in helping community now it's too focused on getting. despite such sentiments and fears about its true intentions the brotherhood still remains the only organized political opposition in town for now the group will have to bide its time helping perhaps that regional instability could tip the balance in their favor they think. if their evolution succeed. we have.
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it's a game of political chess and chance for now the students could only wonder whether their futures will be shaped by the islamists or by their own hands you see coughing of r t amman jordan. if you get a minute don't forget to check out our new look website and these are some of the stories we are covering at the moment an r.t. dot com hatred anger and fury on the rise a recent report shows shocking statistics on violence against teens in france last year the number of and some i think attacks more than doubled find out more online also a squadron of anonymous hackers may have fought shoulder to shoulder with washington's cyber security experts to china on the cyber battlefield to find out more about the surprise alliance that are take dot com. next it is the man loved by the people but
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