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one policeman is killed and hundreds angels as fierce clashes erupt in the egyptian city of port side after police moved those held over their alleged involvement in last year's deadly stadium riot that the country's opposition greets america's top diplomat with hostility and accusations of meddling on his person visit to cairo. u.s. soldier bradley manning admits being behind the biggest leak of secret documents in american history claiming he wanted the public to know the truth the military prosecution is pushing for a life sentence accusing the whistleblower of eighteen terrorists. and the bye-bye benedix the party becomes the last catholic leader to quit in two hundred years and leaving behind a charge for mired in child abuse and corruption scandals. hello
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and welcome to twenty four hour news line for moscow. to our main story now hundreds have been injured and at least one policeman has been killed as fierce clashes erupted in the egyptian city of port side need demonstrators took to the streets after all sources chose to move prisoners jailed over their alleged role in last year's deadly riots that left over seventy dead this comes as the u.s. secretary of state is in cairo for talks with president morsi a move the sparks an angry outcry from the opposition and. true ok trees here with us all right about can you hear us. hopefully you can all right but yes it can be heroes so can you please tell us what's happening in the port side at the moment. where we've having a quite dramatic reports from port side the coastal city we've heard that possibly
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a member of the security forces has actually died now was a released recently hundreds have been injured the ministry of how to saying this started off to thirty nine defendants in this pool so are you trying to put out this ad massacre that happened in february of this poor this police are you based football match these defendants are being moved the families are very angry about them being moved they gathered at the security a directorate building and broke out between the police forces protesters because you also have violence in monsoon or the naldo city here in egypt this is after a young man was killed he was run over by a police vehicle the minister of interior saying it is a mistake to his father how to maintain two is one of the twice rights groups reporting that a field hospital in the. political green popular current headquarters was also attacked by police with tear gas what we're really getting is chaotic and quite
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violent reports across the country including here in the conflict will of conscious have broken out on the cornice between us becoming pro justice and security forces a very restive egypt right now. what do you think was on the table when the u.s. secretary of state my present. course to this is all the backdrop of all the u.s. secretary state visit to egypt is sure to david visit this is very visit to egypt which was seemed to be very unpopular here in egypt he spoke with the president today and said he would america would pledge four hundred fifty million dollars to the country how would this is done little to appease the people here right. and how does meeting yesterday protesters gathered in front of the foreign ministry and pictures of john kerry saying that he was a good support for his brother his american interests in addition key members of the opposition. baradei boycotted
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a key thing with john kerry by himself has said that he would not meet with kerry as kerry was really just interested in america kerry as he left egypt still had troubles with the egyptian people the ultras the hardcore football fans blocks the road to the airport delaying him for a further two always really showing the anger here in egypt towards america they say is attempting to push forward an unpopular i.m.f. loan which will see subsidy cuts tax hikes as well as pushing forward american interests here in the middle eastern region. all right she's beltran's live from cairo well many thanks indeed. and william and political analyst and also myths lies and all wars believes washington is starting to realize it may be supporting the wrong side in egypt. i think there's a double faced r.c.
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in washington back in the muslim brotherhood goes back to the cia's role in egypt back in one thousand fifties when he saw the muslim brotherhood as a potentially useful tool to put in their bag of. organizations that they manipulate around the world i think some people around president obama have the delusion that they could control what's basically of political islamic fascist movement actually it's not a movement for democracy and it is actually the imagination at this point morsi is in a life and death struggle because the popular support is not there for this this who and washington is beginning to get a little bit wobbly on its record for watching for that reason they're beginning to rethink i think that's one of the reasons for the change between hillary clinton and john kerry to bring in a new cast of people and see what what kind of options there are in egypt just for . paralyzed by a part of the stalemate just when it needs
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a reliable government more than ever. the don't eat a can't be paid for of the current economics of the italian system. very shortly will tell you what return in coalition chaos would cause a headache for the whole eurozone and also later. america bracing for some tough times with partisan bickering costing the country would dearly also most expanding counts will slash five billion dollars of they say is budget we'll tell you more later this hour. we can look source bragging mining for an illegal to explain his actions in public after almost three years in confinement on thursday the soldier pleaded guilty to the biggest leak of classified documents in u.s. history the whistleblower is facing a possible life sentence as the prosecution accuses him of a using the enemies something he denies marina partner has been following the story in new york for us. guilty but not sorry more than one thousand days after
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his arrest u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history private first class bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges against him private bradley manning mail admits he gave thousands of secret document to the wiki leaks website manning gave his first detailed explanation of why he did it manning said he uploaded troops of u.s. secrets to the weeks and weeks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war with the purest form with he had the very sophisticated nawaf is why he had to do it as a duty to spread americans to expose what their government was doing in the name which with illegal uncouth in homes around the world so all credit to him he's a. former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact traditional media outlets like the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get
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through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to wiki leaks manning said he engaged in a prolonged internet conversation with the wiki leaks member called ox who he assumes was julian a songe i think it's very clear that the risks of street government secrecy are much graver and have already done much more serious damage to the united states and god knows other countries then the risks brought by whistleblowers and leaks like this one manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge which washington is determined to prove the u.s. government is reportedly planning to call a key witness to testify that osama bin laden actively sought to access material manning passed along to wiki leaks some reports suggest the unknown individual could reportedly be one of the navy seals involved in the about about raid that killed bin laden the fear here i think is that you would be sensationalizing the proceedings and it would it would make it nearly impossible for manning to have. a
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fair trial in a just because we now be talking about terrorism terrorism and terrorism will get away from the fact that he is charged with the offense of releasing the information and they don't have to show that terrorists received it this will continue the obama administration has ushered in this era of pursuing whistleblowers and making certain that they are prosecuted and they go out because i'm zealously in a manner that they do not go after other individuals that's been the thing i think is the most particularly striking news you can have private contractors who invade your weapons smuggling right like the blackwater executives or you can have bankers that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistleblowers following his arrest in may two thousand manning would have to solitary confinement at a military jail in kuwait then at a marine person in quantico virginia for the first ten months of his detention the former army analyst spent twenty three hours a day in
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a six by eight foot windowless cell and was forced to sleep naked without bed sheets treatment that hundreds of legal scholars including president barack obama's former harvard professor claims was cruel and inhumane punishment that may have undermined manning's psychological stability i think he was treated very horrendously and they would be they were very much trying to break him and subject him and to make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that granny meeting did to try and it through them from doing that manning himself said he believed to do move it would only embarrassed but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start the public debate the result the u.s. was shamed in front page headlines around the world a nervous superpower launched a witch hunt against whistleblowers and wiki leaks became a household name for cost or young private may spend between twenty years and
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a lifetime behind bars for an important i.r.t. new york. looks in a way comes to parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner parties across the political spectrum so far things in any talk of coalition arguably holding the balance of power is former comedian but the green and he's suggesting that they may leave the viewer and return to the media that raised eyebrows across the eurozone which is cautiously watching how the deadlock while they were. placing is still behind the democrats and a coalition led by a disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi and investment advisor patrick herring says it's in his eurozone partners have good reason to worry the dot should veto it can't be paid for under the current economics of the italian system of course we've had a number of politicians who've spent the whole of the last fifty or sixty years in
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frankly all of western europe telling people the government would ultimately be the answer to all of their problems that era is over we're looking at a new era of smaller government smaller debt and actually a great deal more power to listen rather than the government that djibouti italy is running into an incredible brick wall and the european union with it if the child cannot keep stealing the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems and unfortunately with the coalition that's essentially a coalition from hayle looking at the lugosi issues that are noise being put together by the president it's going to be very difficult for italy to sustain itself in the euro zone and if it really is not going to be all that reliable member of the euro zone then there probably is not going to be a euro zone. the catholic church made history this way against benedict the sixteenth officially resigned to something a pope hasn't done for six hundred years and as the church remains in leaderless internal divisions and a damaged reputation mean that many are losing face and she's arena going to
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explain. it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important prizes it is a crisis at two levels there's a government tries this and it is a crisis of the believers there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of about the leaks far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church once all about i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been taught look it was especially after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality benedict the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses know this is the age of transparency the age of the people
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the churches should be properly so. they've been. considered sacred. the great assets everybody now you see that they will be to be. the problem with the media they're really working on the system he went to change many things about the church for people of gabrielli of this inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responsible for tainting the image of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. there's another scandal with a girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say the man found her remains the italian police are leading the investigation here but instead of helping them with vatican use obstructing the investigation will. and on top of all those cases. the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophilia accusations allegedly corruption and
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possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a field day with the scandals the vatican either stayed silent or rebuffed all accusations but those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance because the church can make a comeback. with the church would. be strong. but in spite of that. the relations have left me wondering if he has been the world is rapidly changing and that the catholic church has failed to keep pace here it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as scandal in two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under
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the carpet and feeling it with the people drink with. tradition better left in the past in rome. have ahead cementing a special relationship with deadly consequences for israelis don't gather in washington and what they have planned could lead to support for a strike on iran so we have asked that opinion on that coming up right after the break.
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download the. application so. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television and well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. you're watching the weekly here on l.c. let's move on now is row could become the first ever country to be formally designated as the united states a major strategic ally ambitious goal is apparently on the agenda at the annual
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american israeli public affairs committee gathering or a peg that has kicked off in washington if the plan becomes in a just lation it could oblige the u.s. to support israel diplomatically and militarily if a strike so wrong it could also examined israel from anywhere duction in foreign aid that might result from budget cuts the conflict with the palestinians however is not some for discussion at the gathering of america's most powerful pro israel a group and what's more neither of the country's leaders all the attending and that's prompting speculation that the group is known on guess powerful as it used to be. there is a lot of belief that the. israel lobby is losing the clout. davis. series of reversals bush about the election the reelection of obama was a reversal where the israeli go clearly need clearly anyone that obama to be reelected feel badly run then their candidate for secretary of state was susan rice
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she was our john kerry came in they didn't want john kerry so that was your second defeat and then just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination and confirmation of chuck able to stick terry effectively is just suffered a number of the worst in the one hand they're losing khloponin the other hand their agenda is getting more stream and more radical these two things are a little he used to be a pac used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image republicans democrats but increasingly they are openly advocating a great gender dad a lot of democrats don't want to be assertive so for example they are pushing legislation that would have the congress explicitly endorse in this really attack on iran well many democrats don't want to have anything to do with that that's a contradiction to the obama administration's policy multibillion dollar because
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have kicked ten in the united states out of the white house fail to find common ground with the republicans on how to cut america's massive debt it's estimated they so cold a sequester will cost america of a seven hundred thousand jobs but even as the first snaps amazed the blame game grows with both comes desperate responsibility and economist and richard wolffe says the u.s. kind of cut its way out of the current crisis republicans and democrats alike are committed to an austerity policy as we do in see it in europe their only disagreement is exactly. axes get raisins and i'm very pessimistic as are most observers in washington that we are about to do what britain italy greece have done with the same dire consequences looming in our future if you cut government spending as we're about to do if you raise taxes on average people which we did on january first with the rise in the payroll tax those are
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a double whammy two hits on our economy they depress the economy they lose people jobs they make people cut back in their spending with less jobs and less spending government tax revenues go down and that you races whatever benefit you might have imagined would come to the government's budget the irony is the economy gets worse and the government budget gets worse until they wake up and realize that this is an inappropriate way to go at a time of economic crisis. now to some other news in brief around the globe this hour in bulgaria turns a thousands have to voice their anger over the economic situation in the country brush fires broke out over dozens of cities across the country with rising fuel prices at the heart of the public discontent there's been no peer support for any political party since the entire government resigned last month in the face of increasingly violent demonstrations. in
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pakistan a bomb has gone off near a mosque in karate trick killing up to forty five people and injuring a hundred and fifty more the blast apparently targeted a shia area of the city as wash was left evening prayer is the most recent in a series of attacks on the issue of minority in the country last month rallies were staged to demand the government to boost security. police and military banks by helicopters and tanks have raided the slums in the rio de janeiro the operation was aimed at a retaking control of the peoples from drug gangs ahead of next year's world cup the twenty sixteen olympics the authorities have labeled the raids during which not a single shot fired as a success. struggling to stay afloat britain's middle class faces a bleak future with toxins and household bills rising each year and on top of those
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wages up falling in the u.k. in the u.k. it's one of the fastest rates in europe surpassed only by three other states and that's the government's teams on with austerity the opposition is warning that time is short for the country's embattled middle class but for some as a first reports now it is all but run out. for a large part of her life liz hoggard has been tapping away building a life for herself as a freelance journalist she's been part of britain's middle class seeing credit cards pay their mortgages on time and they thrived during being but then came the bust and with the decline of opportunities that were for so long a middle class perk i didn't get a contract we knew because budgets were being cut and so all those little things you have in place you always live slightly on credit you know you go into interest in anticipation it will get paid quite soon that got much to low incomes coupled
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with high living costs staking fears of a shrinking little in britain is backed up in a report by the resolution foundation think tank it looked into what the future holds the ten million adults in the low to middle income households forecast another decade of hardship well unfortunately it's a bit of a grim prospect prices have risen faster than earnings for quite some time now and what that means is that people. simmer about perhaps a little more but they can't buy as much with it a stark example of this is housing a couple of decades ago you've had to save for a couple of years maybe three or four years to get a deposit on a house if you're a low to middle income first time buyer at the moment you're looking at about twenty two years so middle class trimmings like foreign holidays meals out and home improvements are on hold for the time being as lives has found out she's having to sell off possessions to pay for essential is like dental treatment is it picking up
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the quotes. so it's quite emotional at times and you have a rush of memory and then you think for ten years and probably if there's something really important i can find online that has revolutionized it but i also think. these books are. my freshman to new ways really inching exhibition catalogues that i bought back in for not very much money just just a normal price and then of course they've become rare as the years go by so in some ways my stocks and shares been sitting on my shelves which i hadn't known about you see when you look online and i'm something that was confronted so there is a sense of well at least i can pay for my newspaper can also treating that. you know you have to not be a snob in something you cannot make times that can be hard to keep up the parent says is why seems like the one run by the store here in is that approving so
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popular bring along a designer clothes need to fix things at the credit which could be in the store. but it was a bit of a first actually i think we're the first person to actually combine the dress exchange element with the charity. and introducing the exchange voucher system rather than buying stock in. that's the kind of give and take on them as more and more families look for ways to make their money go further the government's being warned that without shared growth britain risks becoming a country of two halves the rich getting richer and the middle classes increasingly losing out meanwhile lives in a generation like a facing up to the reality that the britain's middle class is the next chapter is looking pretty bleak. r.t. london. and also the break we'll look at why half of all h.i.v.
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infections in the united states ok and just assessing percent of the population. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes when we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of some place on earth like score still over bowl or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he's read.
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