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this is r.t. fifty three people are dead after a series of explosions rocked the syrian capital the ruling party's headquarters and the russian embassy suffered damage in the blasts. mother of a three year old russian boy says his tragic death a month ago was an accident russia wants child abuse allegations probe further while officials still await autopsy results. and like britain faces the prospect of energy shortages regulations force the u.k. to search for power over seas. well over a good morning see if you just joined us just after midnight now here in moscow
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this is our name is kevin allen and as you've just heard a series of explosions rocked the syrian capital a state news agency says fifty three people were killed and more than two hundred injured of the most powerful bomb blast it also caused severe damage shattering windows and sending a cloud of smoke above the city this is the clock ticks on the free syrian army is deadline to hezbollah to stop shelling its locations from neighboring lebanon a middle east correspondent paula sleazier has the details. a car bomb has exploded near the headquarters of the ruling baath party in central damascus it happened in front of a battery away regular troops are stationed this is also not far from the russian embassy according to eyewitnesses there was a gunfire off to the blast that seemed to come from the vicinity of the russian embassy compound and the building there now both government and opposition forces all confirming that this boston fact did take place but we are hearing from opposition fighters and opposition sources and activists that they work least two
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other similar ten years explosions we have no independent confirmation of this at this stage state media is reporting that there have been many casualties they are quoting that a suicide bombing that was carried out to quote by terrorists there are also reports as of yet unconfirmed that all four of his having that position a truck that was carrying up to some three hundred kilograms of explosives now there seems to have been a large number of children among the wounded and this is largely because it happened near a school syrian television is both cost in footage of at least four bodies that have been thrown along a main street and also footage of fire fighters that are dancing dozens of burning vehicles that were in the vicinity this conflict is likely and in fact is already spilling across the border thursday is the expiry date of a forty eight hour deadline that was issued by syrian rebels to the lebanese political party has been that now the ultimatum says that hizbollah needs to stop
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shelling free syrian army controlled areas or otherwise it will retaliate it follows several days of clashes between syrian rebels and his bill of militants near the lebanese border so far has been has not officially responded to the straits but it certainly has more regional implications and we're now seeing this kind of conflict between two warring factions on either side of the border and at the same time if indeed the ultimate. impostors today and there is an over sponsor it also seems to present a sonali in which you have the syrian rebels giving a lot of hard and walk talk but actually not following up with much action on the ground so they'll be hard pressed to make good on the threats. and you can follow paulus leader on twitter for regular updates what's happening in the region she's posting on developments in syria and repercussions for its neighbors. now r.t. has been speaking exclusively to the made mediator in the syrian conflict and heard some harsh comments from him the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said the opposition's reluctance to make any concessions in their stance against the assad
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regime is one of the roadblocks to peace is a preview of artes exclusive interview do you think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down that is a lot of the world. who are involved or school in syria. is syria's poor. this is a further investigated do you believe that's the problem because the world does not or do you believe you when you're saying maybe talking to the government but not the president directly the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself the opposition is. for a few minutes but they don't want to of course. this is the problem his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands and talking about assad i don't want to go. forward if you would like to be had later today friday here on
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out. and whether the free syrian army will actually attack hezbollah in lebanon remains an open question tonight as middle east expert early explains. their bark is often worse than bear bite but worth it to do that they would be dealing with a totally different entity limby deal within syria because as follows a popular mass organization with the support of a very sizeable section of the lebanese population and walks that's going to be going to be to reopen the wounds of previous civil wars in lebanon which no one wants neither has to learn nor its opponents and backer don't forget that the last attempt to crush hezbollah i was made by these release who invaded lebanon on bombed bare root tried to crush but suffered reverses themselves the recent attack was and the syrian government. it was aimed to do you
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stabilize say it further they should be a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue. any longer and they're both saner elements within the opposition should sit down and see what can be sorted out even at this late it late stage because if this doesn't happen the war will expand as we're seeing into lebanon on and then anything's possible. still ahead an r.t.a. a leap of faith in jordan support for the muslim brotherhood surging there right now and it's worrying many of these mr organizations growing influence in the kingdom has about that a bit later. but next the mother of a three year old russian boy she adopted claims his death was an accident russian still not satisfied with the investigation information coming from america or u.s. correspondent report night as the latest. four weeks following the death of little
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maxime and no arrests have been made in texas officials have disclosed very little while they say there are they are awaiting autopsy results now what police officials have said so far is that max was last seen alive playing outside with outside of his home with his two year old brother his youngest brother on the afternoon of january twenty first according to police his adoptive mother claims she went inside and when she came back outside max was on for sponsored by that time police say that by the time police say they arrived at the home max was already being transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just one hour later now investigators say they question laura shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the whole alan and laura shadow adopted him and his younger brother carol from russia in november his adopted mother says that maxime's death was an accident moscow officials however
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believe that it was at the hands of his adoptive parents that mox lost his life we have information that he. had been severely beaten. before birth for. to conclude that we were both he had been. maybe cuba hughes. american mother russian authorities say that they are waiting to see how the investigation turns out and to be fully informed about the proceedings and the outcome of the investigation but russian officials believe that if the probe finds that maxine was killed that those responsible should be brought to justice knox is the twentieth russian child to have died in the custody of an american adoptive family in the past seventeen years one of the most well known recent cases is the case surrounding d.-ma yakovlev which took place in two thousand and eight that young
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boy was left in a car by his adoptive father for eight or nine hours the temperature inside that car was about thirty two degrees celcius as a result that little russian boy died when his father was trying that american father was found not guilty that case prompted moscow officials to adopt a new legislation that recently imposed a ban on american adoptions that move was harshly criticized but right now tensions clearly are escalating between moscow and washington over the way that russian adoptive children are being looked after here in the united states hopes it is from a group which works for the safety and well being of children and he believes maxime's death puts american adoption firmly back in the spotlight. in general we can say that the that the adoption system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over
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who will actually happens in the option so you need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts docs and monitoring all that is not really in place there is screaming but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy coming up cash in on military inexpensive aid it's something be mooted by british prime minister david cameron he suggests siphoning some cash from the foreign development budget to spend on peacekeeping operations expert opinion on battling to come in the next few. out also not my sort of aims and discovered in the caucasus by russian archaeologists we dig deep into the details right after this break.
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wealthy british style. market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max culture there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r t. well into the trip to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi brand new a list big venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling. infrastructure digs deep and builds hype to get thousands where they need to be it's building bluebook fueled by clean energy while research is preclude life into gold medal dreams the race is on. a year on. leave the
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country. again britain may struggle to keep the lights on in a few years with the country's energy regulator warning that it's coming dangerously close to power shortages that household bills likely to skyrocket to because more fuel need to be brought in from abroad that's because pollution regulations mean coal fired stations have to close the sarah ferguson in london. not good news for consumers here in britain after all they've been warned once again that their energy bills set to rise now this warning was issued by the chief executive of the energy what store of gen and he said that a fall in the u.k.'s power production capacity a gap where renewable energy market hasn't quite caught up yet kid be set to push
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our bills even higher as we rely more and more on energy imports i want to put this in context the because the debate around energy bills here in the u.k. has been raging on for years we've had control of a cia for energy terrorist you've got the big six kind of cartel of energy companies that have been under constant criticism for not giving a fair deal to consumers just this morning i was talking to someone about this he said you know it's outrageous i pay a hundred and forty one pounds a month just for my gas us not including the electricity and the water so you know this is really hitting families here in the incredibly hard it's becoming very scary to get that energy bill through every month millions of households here in the u.k. already in fuel property and it looks like many more could join and so that's obviously extremely concerning now the same time it was we've had these warnings before what's happening right now is that you're seeing power station closures here
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in the u.k. as they try and get some of these old polluting plants off the grid but there hasn't been anything yet that's being boat to replace that and as he said renewable energy isn't quite there yet so there are warnings that we could see a fall in u.k. capacity by as much as ten percent by this april so this is going to be happening fairly quickly now to shed some light on just exactly what is going on and how concerned can seem as could be i'm joined by richard running from the institute of economic affairs thank you very much for joining us not gray. for consumers we have heard that we're going to be relying more on imports but at the same time you know when we're trying to meet our climate change targets we need to get those operating power plants off the case system so nice but this is unavoidable and i don't think so and this is really terrible for news for consumers so energy prices are going to buy one hundred sixty percent since two thousand and four we've got six million
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households in fuel poverty expected to write a nine million within just three years and the problem is of course by having higher energy prices in this country tends to exports economic activity psychiatrist such as china and india so the effects of overall effect on climate change lies very small so you actually could end up being counterproductive even to china and india the government has said don't panic and pheno if we're going to keep britain flight switched on and actually as countries like china are demanding more imports that's pushing the global prices higher so we're actually we're moving ourselves in the risk of way by you know looking towards renewable energy non-fossil fuel types of energy and actually exposing the u.k. more to external risks for example imported gas is a lot more vulnerable to security recently imported coal it comes from potential flashpoint such as the persian gulf of course some u.s. states now enjoy electricity prices around a third the price in the u.k. gas prices around the fifth the price is putting british businesses that's a major competitive disadvantage as he said
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a very controversial debate affecting millions of pounds of all across the and it looks like the debate around britain's energy both thought to be hated and continue . british households for cokes more and more they might be interested to know what some of their cash is being a mug for money from the foreign aid budget may be diverted to military operations promise david cameron says is very open to the idea the green light now on for the aid money is to be used in three areas security mobilization of peacekeeping is germany to stop the war coalition i'm sure as god said to say about this states talk to a limited warning to the big cuts on the cards for the u.k. defense budget what do you make now that possibly getting an extra peacekeeping hand there as it's being booked well i think it's fairly shocking although perhaps not so surprising that david cameron is making a move away from the relatively very small budget for overseas a foreign aid towards yet again towards the military and although there is talk of
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cuts in defense of course the amount spent overall on wars of continued interventions is very very high and for example in afghanistan britain spends forty five billion pounds a year on the war in afghanistan whereas last year it was committing one hundred seventy eight million pounds a year to aids and you do really ask yourself what would be more useful in a country life goes there are more more training of troops or money spent on improving infrastructure or improving agriculture and on giving people better education or could he be better spent at home prime minister cameron talked of moral and security responsibility should help in the early economy at home in britain be a bigger priority. well your last piece just demonstrated the very very high costs of of of fuel in in this country the very high costs of food the fact that
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we're in the recession and people say this is very largely because people's wages aren't sufficient to cover anything apart from their housing their fuel in the very basic food that they need they don't have money to spend on things yet there seems to be endless money for war and this is a war which it is generally recognized has not been won it's generally recognized that when whatever scale of withdrawal there is the end of twenty forty none of the fundamental problems in afghanistan will have been dealt with so you're not just again i think imperial power and spending money on walls which would benefit you know maybe a big a bit harsh on the prime minister if you look at the detail of this a little bit more waging war here offer to clean afghanistan the suggestion is to spend more on peacekeeping operations and an eye on the face of it looks like a noble cause as. well i think people could be forgiven for not understanding quite
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the difference between going to war and peacekeeping involves the military it involves soldiers it involves an operation which is about counterinsurgency operations i think people have the right to be very very skeptical about this and to also wonder why so much money is spent in this kind of why and it is more and more the case that this is a country where cameron is just being in india and said that he wouldn't apologize for the massacre because it would mean that i have to apologize for so much during the colonial period and yet this government had previous governments behaving as though britain still are them are and still have the wealth to sustain the kind of army there has and how can britain's be sure that this money won't be misused misappropriated abroad. or the money for for a dollar money for money for a this or this this potential money that's going well of course keeping of course they one of their all governments here is that they don't want to give too much aid
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to for example afghanistan because the government is corrupt but they don't mention the fact that they support this corrupt government so there's a very easy way of dealing with this but that require some honest accounting about why they went to war in the first place the terrible mistakes they made with the warm why'd they do but such a corrupt government the people of afghanistan are among the poorest in the world they're trying out for some of the very basic things which we in the west even today do expect to have like education like a decent standard of living light rights for women all of these things money will be much better spent paying for some of these things i'm for supposing peacekeeping in a war which nobody wants into germany to stop the war coalition thank you now. to fly in a war might have more to it than you think we're talking about that very soon online in fact we got details of the american air forces insecticides drones will be able to fly and spy and carry
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a deadly targets hit missions also to the squadron of our known hatches mail for shoulder to shoulder with washington cyber security experts to outstrip china of the cyber battlefield more details about the surprise alliance on our website as well. prosecutors in poland are reportedly said dropped to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief stemming from allegations that the cia was allowed to run a secret prison in the country he was the first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted over the so-called black sites lawyer i mean a packer who coordinates the cia observatory program says national security is widely used as an excuse for human rights violations. there is a very interesting the records of the council the hero of the mighty who. stated national security is actually. kind of instrument and justification to high human rights violations and i think it might be also
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a case in poland where the whole investigation and publishing this edition is sick classified it's covered by state secrecy and this is why. the government like titian's and prosecutor office they don't want to disclose any information regarding this case. big story a big discovery literally next russian scientists of another huge glimpse into a prehistoric past after discovering the remains of a mom if it's thought the area could hold more skeletons of the animals to which became extinct tens of thousands of years ago a colleague carrie johnson spoke to our. details about this maze. it wasn't siberia where they found it like many would have thought i'd actually have been in russia's north caucasus now the discovery was made and the cupboard is in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to al bruce europe's highest peak now
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during the seasonal snow saw landslides occur and it's these landslides that can reveal what's been burry deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened local researches say that these are the remains of the south and mamma's now that animal lived in europe and central asia some two and a half million years ago which was around the time the ice age began they were huge animals four meters tall and also known for its curled tusks their laughter african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort as widely seen as what is now sells and russia we should also say that out of seven full mammal skeletons that were found in the world three were found in russia well what are they going to do with all these remains that well first of all research shows will have to date and touch them but the most interesting part here is that they believe that there could be many more remains close by. living near the site have been finding pieces
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of bone vertebrae for many decades some of them used to vertebrates that gives you an idea how large it is one theory suggests that all mammals became extinct at the same time so we may have found an entire graveyard where they were all together before that so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure trove the caucus as could be and i've lived in the caucasus and i've reported from the north caucasus and i can tell you it's a place that's really dripping in history which parts of which have been remained untouched for thousands of years and who knows what it actually holds. the show will find some to some point just had a back step for revealing the cia secret prisons as an investigation in poland flounders reports say prosecutors are about to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief suspects of allowing americans to run torture jails in
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the country to come as well good as gold was many people choosing to invest in the precious metal the weather the financial storms and then katie talks about a lot in this talk to katie no business coming up by the way. to deliver on the lighting the candles that gazprom let's not using the gas to joke. have a phase in it yes my age kevin twenty is that you've been a really. high way to get ready with bullets in coming up again yes indeed so going to talk about gas problem they are indeed twenty years old today and they've got some a quite a posse that's going on the president vladimir putin probably expect you know he's very proud of the company but also a kind of friendly thing rocco is an interesting one we're veil off of the break in the business but i thought as a life over to you. if
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you have a business that you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge mark silva role of junior from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted up to five thousand youths some of whom were as young as ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need. think about is the fact that the us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that maybe this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby
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guilty of something but that's just my opinion. welcome to the truth to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi brand new olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep and builds hype to get thousands where they need to be it's building bluebook fueled by clean energy while research is prepared to life into gold medal dreams the race is on to see
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a day here on. the country. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so 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. hello there welcome to business thank you for joining me this evening now wall
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street has been enjoying five year highs since twenty thirteen kicked off but now that there is a chance the federal reserve could stop pumping cash into the system is a policy about to come to an abrupt end such pigs were enjoyed back in two thousand and eight just before the global financial system came crashing down with catastrophic consequences now as you can see the situation the markets are enjoying right now isn't a full cry from what was happening right before the recession hit now the comparison as you can see that we've got the dax the biggest economy in germany a most mainland european stocks are also following the same trend as the u.s. stocks the first c. is doing its own thing so the question is right now are investors and global finance misses ignoring another huge bubble does it set to bust well that's exactly
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what i asked a market strategist from e.t.f. capital today. oh in a bubble yes i think we're heading that way i think been ended liquidity program with central banks leave the quality taps open leave the door wide open for more more liquidity or ultimately on the long term perspective would lead to. inflated asset prices it could be a strained balance sheet for the fed housing bubble and also commodity price bubble ok will talking of headaches let's mention europe now because it's been a choppy week. full of the euro zone absolutely p.m.i. coming out today how do you see the situation in the short term is the recession deepening. the eurozone is in the struggle for the next six months i think we all know that the e.c.b. chief mario draghi has highlighted that. and at this particular point the the picture is very cloudy and so there is pure my eyes. but the recession may be
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deepening it may not. really kick in place until the end of two thousand and thirteen and if we continue seeing weak economic data from eurozone then we may have to rule out a recovery in two thousand and thirteen just to conclude now you don't physically another two thousand and eight global recession. no i at this particular point no i think the two two big risks that could ignite such of a vent and i would have to be a lehman type catastrophe and i would have to be a spanish exit from the euro zone or a spanish bailout or a more political instability in its lead if we do see silvio berlusconi take power after this weekend's elections that's reading in a push up those borrowing costs for both spain italy and that would force the hand of these governments to request bailouts from the e.c.b. or even an exit and that's the same case with the with the u.s.
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the sequester the showdown in the spending budget spending cuts sorry the divide in washington between two parties if we continue seeing that divide and the fact that they're not. coming to grips with the remainder of the fiscal cliff there's still a lot to do there for us politicians then we may be at a point where we could dip back into negative growth and we may see a recession. i will have a look and see how u.s. stocks are performing right now and they were made in the red it's the minutes from the f o m c meeting that really illustrated a split over the central bank's monetary easing program that is really pulling down any optimism that we had earlier on in the week also domestic data u.s. labor department reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week as well so lots to contend with europe is also responded to the conflict across the pond digesting domestic data business in the european union slowing into february i mentioned that earlier which suggests that the trend
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could continue throughout the twenty thirteen in the us the right now we check out the russian ruble to see what happened there because it managed to actually lose out i believe to the u.s. dollar and the common currency ok yet we've got it just we've got the moscow markets as well to see they did and up firmly in negative territory lots of doom and gloom on the international markets mostly markets as i say that's how they set a better over two percent down for the r.t.s. you can see it over one for the my six the fact that oil prices also headed south is it really helping the energy dependence stocks here. moving on russia is that gas made of gazprom is having a huge no expense spared birthday bash to celebrate twenty years of pumping out gas is probably no surprise that russian president vladimir putin will be there to congratulate the landmark event but
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a surprise guest is eco friendly british exhausting but the politico reports they may not have much to celebrate annoying. putin and rockstar stating that will help the gas from celebrate its twentieth birthday although it's interesting that the british singer who's well known for his save for the college of cake is now accepting a gig from the old largest gas producer i guess it's hard to resist a big payday gas from has reportedly blown two million dollars on its birthday bash but is such extravagance justified yes as the world's biggest gas producer with a developed pipeline network and vos to untapped resources in the arctic bob the company is now facing challenges and watching its earnings shrink the gazprom is main problem is depressed economic growth only its main markets europe last year gazprom pumped its percent last gas to the continent and that's despite prize
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discounts and even a symbol of best friend and partner and it has started a new round of contracts revising and may even challenge a gas pump through arbitration in other parts of the world shale gas revolution and new suppliers of unconventional gas do not help and even at home gas from is now facing competition from the fos the expanding independent gas producer lower tech as well as state run rosneft both firms are now claiming l. and g. experts writes that to me soon and gas problems monopoly so bad news are piling our poll in this both the boy gas probe is now worth just over one hundred billion dollars the cheapest among global peers on the stock market so that's the business for now as we back later on this right i was small business how it was for the way
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a kid case i'll tell you very much great. tough the break will be finding out why you have british journalists again the good old slap these days not popular with the public plus also why it's good to go and stay with gold. wealthy british style. time to look for. market why not counting the find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. we are facing a lot of problems you know. because no one thought to drink no good school.
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hello again you're watching on t.v. with me kevin our journalists it seems are among britain's least trusted people according to the nationwide survey you guessed it let's take a look at those ipsos mori poll show and say are they pound that who they pound whether they're against politicians and bankers great start will politicians in general came out was a whopping seventy seven percent don't buy what they've got to say bankers only did
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slightly better i get guess not to an expected three quarters of people a deeply suspicious of them a surprise really given the money troubles they've landed the public in but as you can see there said two percent the don't like journalists the viewed almost as untrustworthy as those bankers there's more than seventy percent of people in britain no longer believing them there tony goes like an investigative journalist himself however he told me it's not the journalists fault it's the bosses. journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy editors of newspapers the senior staff one of the by products 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
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push peddle their own political line and it's very difficult to tell the truth 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 so if you blow and 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
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nobody is actually being sacked for that. prosecutors in poland are reportedly said to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief stemming from allegations that the cia was allowed to run a secret prison in the country it was the first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted over the so-called black sites lawyer aminah packer who coordinates the cia observatory programs as national security is widely used though as the excuse for human rights violations. there is a very interesting the records of the council of europe. marty who are our. national security is actually. kind of instrument and justification to hide human rights violations and i think it might be also a case in poland where the whole investigation and publishing this edition is to classified it's covered by state secrecy and this is why. the government would titian's and prosecutor office they don't want to disclose any
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information regarding this case. as the recession bites and currency wars continue there is one safe haven asset gold is growing in popularity is the savings method of choice for a lot of people as it were all of. sometimes all it glitches is gold those who deal in the mess all say it's importance today cold be overstated in crisis when you have come some prizes some monetary prizes gold and silver every time as a security for the 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 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
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cash. well if you're feeling the gold rush when you're in something of a hurry there's a.t.m.'s that 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. be of be your alone or paper money is globally and if that actually happens that will trigger praise three where everybody has to go into gold because they will feel. that their paper money will be rough worth while reason behind swapping currency for carrots could be more stock than this gold silver is a real monetary value is a paper it's printed it's like leg monopoly and it's that feeling that the way you would you always longer hitting the right notes. that sending europeans on the hunt
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for metal that matters peter all of the r.t. germany exactly midnight forty four this late thursday night moscow time early friday morning they were talking about of course now world news from our team that we bring up to date so we've got here to explosions in seoul central hyderabad in india have killed at least eleven people and wounded at least fifty more to sad story this unfolding the simple tennis blast meters away from each other eight people died in the first bombing while the other attack claimed three lives and devices were attached to bicycles which were left in a crowded marketplace all major cities nationwide are now on high alert. other headlines we're covering tonight in the very heart of the e.u. this is the same in brussels it's apparently what belgian workers think it was stellar to tens of thousands turned out to demand better job security more than double the number expected but most european countries belgium has been tightening its belt to survive the economic crisis gripping the continent. nearly two
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thousand palestinians have marched to an israeli prison in support of hunger strike is in jail but it descended into riots when security forces tried to disperse the crowds avenge the resorting to rubber bullets and tear gas march follows the high court refusal to hear of the titian for parole from one of the striking prisoners but public anger is mainly focused on claims the inmates were in a critical condition and were wrongfully tagged. the muslim brotherhood has been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the kingdom's most viable opposition movement the islamist organizations gained acceptance within the ruling monarchy to within see monetary and work winning over some of the population however as lucy caffein off reports next many locals worry about the possibility of living life under the organizations islamic rule. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east
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and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's grown 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 and when a. future they will destroy 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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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 to promise jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice. victory is that has. this law mix state will be created on this subject
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can prevail. in january the brotherhood made its move leading 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 and. i have a lot of concerns and must be resolved before i can support the muslim brothers we've seen the 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 treat from its traditional role in helping communities now it's too focused on getting poll. 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.
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if the revolution. we have. so that we can. 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 how full of r t amman jordan. it's checking out on a website this one i got a brand new look to it if you haven't checked it out to so far today came online yes they wouldn't tell you more about that very soon but a couple of the top stories that are headlining there seems that french president francois alone is to be awarded a unesco peace prize for the of mali operation and a winter storm has prompted a state of emergency in mood zuri you know read up more about those stories or of course some of the very very many more on there you can r.t. dot com my name is kevin and thank you for being with out save more the world's biggest news stories ahead for you after this break.
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