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diplomatic tension over the syrian conflict rises after a deadly bomb attack in the capital the country's rebel movement seemingly on the brink of war with. russia once the younger brother of a russian adoptive child who died in the u.s. . in the case which. some. suggest david cameron is britain's most indecisive prime minister in recent times. worldwide news from moscow this is. welcome to the program.
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russia has accused the u.s. of attempting to justify terrorism in syria and moscow criticized washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning a string of bomb attacks in the syrian capital and the blast on thursday killed at least fifty three and winded over two hundred while also damaging the russian embassy and moscow says it's unacceptable to make excuses for terror especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries and this says the conflict in syria could well spill over into neighboring lebanon and the rebel free syrian army says it attacked hezbollah bases in advance of an ultimatum for ceasefire expiring on thursday that insurgents demanded the lebanese group and the shelling of rebel held areas in syria it's a former deputy head of the israeli defense council he says if there is further confrontation between both sides could ultimately affect the entire region.
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the main question is. if there is a possibility the fighting between the syrian groups. within syria and now perhaps within lebanon. will bring those to be involved within lebannon all between lebannon alone who is really israel for example. or you can no longer between syria and other places jordan for example in the. whole region might be involved and of course the syrians have a very strong interest not to open for. rifle. much for you but the again is really main point is not operational going to open in front of the main point of the tricked the if you because below would be involved more and more in syria would cause it difficult to
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zoom in. one of the syrian groups act against his will or within lebanon they will use the same tactics that we send people that will. build themselves but we thought it really jews. control their we try to vehicles that we try to make the people life in lebanon in general risky and here at r.t. we have spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the ongoing syrian conflict he had some rather barbed comments for the opposition and talking of course about the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi he says their reluctance to make any concessions to the assad government is one of the major roadblocks to peace. i think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down. a lot of people who are opposed to all who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is
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a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and their picture to every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either when you're saying maybe talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man. himself the problem is that the opposition is saying every five minutes but they don't want to talk to the shower master this is the problem it's his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands i'm talking about assad i don't want to talk about that and. you can see the full interview or the exclusive interview i should say with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria that is at a fifteen hundred g.m.t. . for now the death of
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a three year old adopted russian child in america last month has become an emotionally charged international incident moscow's demanding the return of maxim's younger brother with the police investigation still ongoing details on this now towards easy court of piscator. the death of three year old marks in queen has caused definitely an emotional reaction from russian authorities but first let's look at the facts the boy died over a month ago the exact cause of his that still haven't been established there are reports that american of the bodies have. received to the preliminary results of his autopsy but haven't disclosed them yet his adoptive mother as she described what happened said that she was in there all the while she was playing outside with his brother where she unresponsive immediately called for help with this brings us to the second sticking point yourself towards themselves mitt that to be investigation into much seems that was not started immediately unfortunately we get
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these kind of this particular kind of calls for. every day. somebody has had a heart attack we don't put of pressure at all that we have a child that's been injured in an a.t.v. we don't put a press release out on this unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it wasn't all a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and then all developed from talking to the parents the people that live there it just took a little more time for us to develop. adoption is a major stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths of russian children after they were adopted and brought to the united states that's why shortly after the new stock market teams that came out several russian officials including richest children's alderman summoned were quick to point the finger of blame at his
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american adoptive mother also because of reports from u.s. authorities that he found bruises on the kid's body we had information that the. boy had been severely beaten. before birth. or. led to a conclusion or possibly he had been killed now officials in moscow do acknowledge that the investigation is still ongoing and it hasn't established the exact person to blame for months seems that but another issue fueling a new era in russia is that mark seems the game less than a month after russia introduced a general ban for all americans to adopt russian children not only because of the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths but because of a lack of a proper legal reaction from the u.s. authorities including the lack of proper follow up which apparently we're seeing now again r.t.
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course when you go to preschool reporting there for now david cameron may be the most indecisive prime minister in recent british history new figures calculated by the guardian newspaper show that he's made it more u. turn since taking office in two thousand and ten than his two previous sources seize sur firth went to investigate. it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime minister say many decisions to be made on a daily basis it's perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus and old petrol and even pass these the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that some wonder if this is the most indecisive british government ever it's kind of difficult to get the data right partly because people change what we call them so and after modified
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to talk about you turn the low you stop turning your everybody's where do you turn but before that people talk part quine downs or part downs or whatever back then the words you turn carry negative connotations you turn if you want to i thank the ladies not for turning my the warmest might not have been for turning this prime minister is certainly is his coalition's clocked up a good thirty five you tend to say far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like i can pass around fifty two days from gordon brown and tony blair was much more on most less likely to change ration he was one of the himself and margaret thatcher you know use terms i took around four hundred days to go to change direction out of tony blair's government going back to the coalition then
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when it comes to you why do you think we have seen this government have so many say many more than previous government i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think i think it's been difficult for the leadership point of view but i think it's something that. been accepted going in and during the coalition agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government it's clear that what they say might not always be exactly as i think it is the fact that they clocked up so many you turns a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well false that's not good is not a good thing. if you vote for a government. it's going to be good for you actually going to. be well i don't know why i think if it's an issue that obviously people are worried
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about that it we're interested in something that no people don't have. but with the quality you turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many thera it's a case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well be recorded as being indecisive but he was being indecisive it would be attacked for the opposite for being. so ultimately and this is something we often used to say you take your money you pays your money and takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind so if. london. well still to come here on the issue of accolades and the french president receives a u.n. peace prize for his military intervention leading a rights groups label the campaign as
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a humanitarian disaster details on that expert opinion just a bit later in the program here. also ahead. reports from activists in egypt they say police are using torture against protesters going back to the tactics of the mubarak days. and many other stories after a very very quick. to the. to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestions battling infrastructure dig deep and hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building fueled by clean energy the research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams is a. day. it
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is a five fifteen pm on friday here in moscow this is on the weekend not far off from you at the french president will receive a peace prize from the u.n. for his military intervention in mali you know cultural organization says francois alon should be rewarded for his quote valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa and this is violence in the war torn nation shows absolutely no signs of slowing down leading rights groups of condemning the french led operation saying the country has some serious human rights violation mr putin killing of children
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french and malian troops and meanwhile struggling to keep islamist militants out of gal that has been yet another wave of fighting the latest on the rest comes as france plans to start withdrawing some of its four thousand troops next month. pan-african newswire as a kiwi says that the french leader doesn't deserve such an award given what's truly happening on the ground in the west african nation yeah it's not been in office that long his political career since being in office as president of france has been marked this intervention in mali something that was done you know laterally it was totally unjustified there's been reports of gross human rights violations that have taken place since the french intervention in mali they've admitted the defense ministry in paris that they killed hundreds of people and the operation overall is
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not turning out the way in which france had initially planned this. developments in mali do not bode well for someone who is being offered such a prestigious award for peace of course this is being fueled by the overall economic crisis that exists in france they have the highest unemployment rate that they've had in many many years that's almost eleven percent they have a huge deficit which they're trying to deal with this intervention it's not a humanitarian one it's based upon the economic and political interests of france as well as the other countries in nato is also including the united states as well because the united states is actually transporting troops into mali. awards for movies and oscar nominated film director has been stopped at a los angeles airport and threatened with deportation he says because he's palestinian authority he simply couldn't believe he was in the running for
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a top movie accolade well we wanted to find him to ask him exactly what went wrong . the immigration started questions me and the dog. they want me to give them more abreu and invitations and why why i came to united states i thought of them that i am an all star nominees so for them to understand that the palestinian and also have no money is very was very difficult i gave them their i had their visa and i had the hope that it is a vision of light and i was trying to show them the e-mails from deck at the emmy awards and the invitation by their immigration lady their officer she she didn't pay attention to me what was i saying to her and she told me if you don't come up with bruv and more documents we will send you back a sap and so often to palestinians will be able to hold for the scene and support
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and i had this problem this is billions in different countries also and we have all those this problem and we cannot just live like this we are a human also and we are the only. one all the world that we live on the local beach and that is that i do call vision. so you are always keeping you updated online with many more stories and some videos a. couple of items are waiting for you right now for example israel is drilling for oil in the golan heights. from syria over forty years ago. disputed you can get those reactions on details online. drug deadline sentencing for georgia state prison depends on the expiration date. medicine used execution story also on the website.
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egypt's president mohamed morsi has called parliamentary elections for april struggling to calm the ongoing protests on street violence in gulf in the country and the opposition's accusing morsi of backtracking on reform promises of hijacking the revolution rights groups are reporting widespread police abuse and torture resulting in the death and detention of mine is true has been investigating ferrazzi. in his hometown of tanta the bill i'll give the points out where local youth have renamed to street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on tyreese square in order to hold on for the first time
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i went to see mohammed in the hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his face was covered with wounds his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohammed going to be limited to declaw i know that one would be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash yet to be about the steps in what vehicle breaks teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legs yeah. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the worst divide it's often a cause in places like this infamous security directorate behind me which can be viewed from comments about kony however the most worrying trend activists say is
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the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son abdullah rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration the police use violence against children my son. just all over his body they hunt young children because he keeps contre away from them or. if anyone cries to contact their family or friends they would beat us. despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and refutes that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police officers sparking fears of other pieces human rights organizations and advocates are extremely concerned by the increase in one violence between the supporters and the opposition to president
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morsi to the political cover that president morsi the administration and the legislators are giving to the. violence exercised by the police force and the increased level of brutality. being exercised by the police force three were they concerned by the increase of weapons back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform people here say there is no evidence or facts until there is crowds of thousands continue to push for change so many fear the worst is yet to come true for see kyra. and starting with bangladesh into the outer world there we go now. to the green police and the next couple of see you know one person killed in that many many a crowd that are mourning the atheist bloggers be sentenced to death for what they
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say are blasphemous online articles against islam violence broke out all for friday prayers and various cities across the country. indian police have revealed they were warned in advance about two blasts that ripped through the city of hyderabad on thursday about two similar ten years explosions killed at least fifteen and wounded over one hundred fifteen of the militant group. say that no group at this point has claimed responsibility. every rainfall has school severe flooding in many parts of southern europe and this right here was the scene in the italian city at the time the cause was swept away with the deluge prompting traffic destruction the closure of schools on the cancellation of flights at the greek capital athens also being hit many roads shut down and public transport brought to a standstill. the united nations has refused to pay
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haiti any compensation for the cholera epidemic that killed about eight thousand people three years ago un sewage pipes and poor sanitation were blamed for spreading the virus the world body secretary general ban ki-moon denied responsibility saying the source of the epidemic cannot be known for sure. or it's time to get geeky here on r t dive headfirst into the world of the latest on the shiny of gadgets and gizmos technology update in just a. if you have a business then you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of
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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 jr 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 forward's 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 to 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 guilty of something but that's just my opinion.
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