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killed hundreds injured in egypt is the army steps in to break up fierce riots in port side clashes happen after football violence defendants were moved between prisons. deadly consequences of the u.k. government's tactic of stripping passports from citizens suspected of terrorism there's no evidence to prove or revealed. more nukes and a growing rift with the administration dominated a meeting of america's most powerful israeli lobby while protesters outside make clear there are other problems deal with. the area joining a chorus of european regions stepping up claims for independence saying it's done with bailing the capital out of financial misery. nine am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r.t.
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we start off egypt where one police officer at least one protester killed in the city of port psyche the army intervened to break up clashes there leaving more than three hundred injured violence erupted over a decision to move those detained over last year's football rioting to prisons outside the city this came during the u.s. secretary of state's visit for talks with president morsi that have outraged the opposition party's bill true as the latest. this started so off to thirty nine defendants in this post are you trying to push the about this ed muskie that happens in february off this pull this post are you based full much these defendants are being moved the families are very angry about them being moved they gathered at the security had to wreck trip building and broke out between the police forces protest this of course you will see how violence in months were 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 for his father how to maintain them is one of the twice rights groups
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reporting that a field hospital in the. political group a popular current headquarters was also attacked by police with tear gas what we're really getting is chaotic and quite violent reports across the country including here in the conflict will of conscious have broken out on the cornice between anti-government protesters and security forces were posted this is all the backdrop of the u.s. secretary of state's visit to egypt which was seen to be very unpopular here in egypt he spoke with the president today and said he would america with that pledge four hundred fifty million dollars to the country how would this is done little to appease the people i see right and had his meeting yesterday protesters gathered in front of the foreign ministry and burned pictures of john kerry saying that he was here to support the mission but his push an american interests well you know an analyst and author of the book myths lies in oil wars things washington is starting
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to realize that maybe supporting the wrong side you need to pay. i think there's a double faced in washington the backing of the muslim brotherhood goes back to the cia's role in egypt and i nine hundred fifty s. 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 a political islamic fascist movement so it's not a movement for democracy and he's 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 support for morsi 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 kind of options there are in egypt as for having
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a british pass for a vote can be a death said in this recent numbers suggests the number of people having their passports torn up on national security grounds as recently sword on the blacklist people lot of are suspects are linked to terrorism but it doesn't have enough evidence to prosecute let's take a look at some of the former british nationals that often that allegedly detained tortured even killed abroad here's a look at some of those names in situations british born mohammed soccer had his citizenship revoked almost three years ago he turned twenty seven he was killed new u.s. drone strike in somalia a close friend bill albert jawi came to the u.k. as a baby grew up there killed under the same circumstances in somalia within hours of calling his wife in london to congratulate her on the birth of their first born son that same year a sudanese british man took his four british soldier in on a holiday to the sudan four days after leaving he was stripped of his passport and his children were kept from growing up in the u.k. another case
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a british born family including three children all stuck in pakistan after losing their citizenship while their two years ago let's go to london where he's a new farmer spoke with the person behind the investigation. well the full extent of chilling government program to rid the country of suspected terrorists has been revealed we now know that over the last three years sixteen people have had been stripped of their british passports and the grounds of national security critics claim that these suspects have little chance of appeal with human rights lawyers actually describing the whole process as mediæval and sinister well to talk more about this is chris words from the bureau investigative journalism which actually broke this story chris with a new report it says or people are claiming that this completely ignores people's human rights and also the basic principle of innocent until proven guilty what is the evidence to support this all of these sixteen individuals have had citizenship revoked their passports canceled on the personal side of the home secretary to the courts have had no say in this process we don't know the evidence that's been laid
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against these men. and even if they are able to get an appeal which is very very difficult that appeal will mostly be heard in secret and again those affected and their lawyers may never know the true extent of the evidence against them so it's a very secretive process in which the rule of law really does seem to be absent in some places and that's been commented on by judges sitting and looking at this process some of whom have raised the point that the government has waited until people have got on family holidays for example before stepping in and removing the citizenship effectively locking the door behind people who are not only locking those affected out of the country but their families as well the children who are british or british born and able to come back into the country without separating the families and so on so this can have very serious implications far beyond the individuals affected as we know to these suspects that are actually being killed by u.s. trained strikes is that a coincidence there's no proof yet of any direct connection between those events
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but certainly people are asking questions it is clear that those people died after the certain shit was removed as part of an active targeting by the united. states and again neither of those individuals were ever charged with any offense in the u.k. we know they were accused of serious terrorist offenses but there were no charges have been laid against of the government's response so far has been to say that citizenship here in the united kingdom. is a privilege and also wrong to buy the guns that these are all cases where the government has acted because of their concerns about the threats that these individuals represent the united kingdom so the home offices view they've done the right thing and sticking by their action ok chris thank you we will have to leave it there it is worth pointing out that the government has had these powers since two thousand and two well that would is this current government is really ramped up its use and over the last three years the number of cases has increased from six to twenty one and of course as we've heard the government only has to publicly justify
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what it's doing on the grounds it is in the interests of national security andrew farmer fasts eight london. more examples of a british us connection to last june a former london based care worker mahdi hashmi lost his citizenship and was allegedly pressured by british secret services into working as an informant after rejecting him i five's option he was reportedly secretly rendered to be us where he's facing terrorists are jews apparently we caught up with his father who says his son is being unfairly persecuted it was unexpected and shock to the horror family who are pretty sure who are leads he has a pretty sick but it's a lot of a shock to us who have wondered how it could be like that for someone just to be as if she's just to be provoked like that has been removed from what he was that he was away and it was even hard for us to contact him to operate against the kids all i can see that my the he's a muslim and believe and he's a practicing muslim but being
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a muslim is not being an islamist that's all i can say oh that's why that's always been victimized. still to come taking to cloudless skies a vast array of planes old and new on display at an international air show in melbourne australia visit our web page for a spectacular photos and video plus. tragedy striking in eastern siberia an avalanche hits a group of teenagers one freedom self before alerting emergency services five remain missing all the details online at r.t. dot com.
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the seventeenth century. strict. they clearly distinguish between.
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their families and think is the treasure. sky. thanks for staying with us twelve minutes past the hour how explicit warnings of military action against iran coming in hot and heavy at the american israel public affairs committee conference in washington israel's most ardent supporters pushing for greater u.s. backing but the meeting is drawing fire with protesters staging a somewhat colorful demonstration among their concerns as aggressive settlement
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expansion on occupied palestinian land and war mongering by netanyahu our he's got it takes a look at the aims and goals of the conference. apac is pushing for a congressional resolution that would say should israel decided to strike iran the u.s. would give all the support including military options. we have stated this time in the game and we expect those. say to me this kind of a congressional green light for preemptive strike although non-binding is seen by some as a way to put more pressure on the obama administration which so far has been reluctant to see the u.s. dragged into another war in the middle east the moonless will never abandon their nuclear efforts unless they genuinely believe that america is serious about keeping
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all options on the table. i many of the conference said they thought the administration was soft on iran but that's a view that was expressed on the sidelines not from the podium the potential of israeli nuclear defense is the only thing that's keeping the country alive not relying on america because obama has not been forthcoming in defending them against iran in fact he's been stalling apac is also pushing for legislation that would designate israel as a major strategic ally of the united states the question many ask is why does the country that's perceived as being closest to america suddenly need the congressional seal of approval now according to an n.b.c. wall street journal poll that came out just a few days ago fifty five percent of americans now no longer want any sort of preference between either side of the israeli palestinian conflict the lobby may view this is a chance particularly in the face of sequestration where there could be cut just
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across the board almost two hundred million dollars they could view this as a last chance to tie in supports. this fight here you see of the subject the conflict with the palestinians has received considerably less attention at the summit in iran but the general impression here is that what's widely regarded as the most influential lobby in the american politics has detected a potential threat not just from israel's neighbors but from inside washington itself. in the wake of two wars in a battered economy we see signs of an increasing decided to disengage from world events and focus inward. this growing your name to untangle from what is perceived as too complicated a world effects both parties conservatives and liberals alike they just want out for israel even the tendency toward isolationism is extremely dangerous
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refusing to speak on camera some of the delegates expressed frustration over the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel as defense secretary chuck hagel is known to have been critical of the pro israel lobby president obama will not be speaking at the conference this year but he'll be traveling to israel at the end of the month than one of the speakers years said it's going to be a real challenge for him to show that deep down and i quote him he really understands israel under threats that it faces that gives an impression that the apac is not too happy about the administration seemingly trying to play down the war talk in washington i'm going to check on. the lack of a widespread appetite for a strike on iran maybe only the latest in a series or reversals for apac according to political analysts robert naiman from just foreign policy. there is a lot of believe the. israel lobby is losing the clout for milo they have had a series of reversals pushing all the election the reelection of obama was a reversal when the israeli go clearly made clear as he did we want to be reelected
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they were backing romney then their candidate for secretary of state was susan rice she was john kerry. they didn't want john kerry so that was their second defeat and then just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination and confirmation of this effect to these just suffer a number of personal and when they have they're losing clump in the other hand their agenda is getting more stream and more radical these two things are they used to be used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image republicans democrats but increasingly. advocating a great. dad a lot of democrats don't want to be so. explosive temper spoils libya's business plans coming up the country stops and gas export to italy after a fierce firefight between rival groups for a right to guard
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a plant. but first various joint catalonia and scotland in maneuvering toward separatism many politicians there think germany's largest state is better off going it alone complaining it's forced to hand over too much cash to poor relation berlin artie's peter all over takes a look at how far but very it may be ready to go. germany reunified twenty three years ago but the cracks are showing in at least one of its regions void. we want an independent state of bavaria this is an extraordinary aim there are twelve million by variance if independent we could be the ninth biggest nation in the e.u. with the fifth largest annual economic turnover i'm convinced we have the cultural historical and economic strength to survive the bavaria party's campaign literature certainly doesn't pull any punches when it comes to showing how they believe the rest of germany treats the sun state the group poses little threat to germany's
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political big guns it took just over one percent of the vote locally in two thousand and eight but their ideas are spreading an increasingly influential circles. depict when i look at the map of europe and of history i see that boundaries are not made to last forever they can be moved by free people czechoslovakia made the peaceful transition into two democratic states in two thousand and fourteen scotland will have a referendum there is work being done in catalonia this movement is happening in europe today. the varia is booming when it comes to business it's home to some of the most recognizable and expensive brands in the world b.m.w. audi. and siemens have their base of operations here while munich is one of the world's major economic centers all contributing to an annual income of almost half
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a trillion euro a major factor which sticks in the craw of the variance is how about wealth is distributed throughout the federal states they're sick of paying for poor berlin it hands over around three billion euros a year to the capital what impact would an independent bavaria have upon the daily lives of those living and working there to find out i've come here to the beautiful bavarian countryside to speak through a very keen on independence. yossef farm produces bio gas suffered he diversified from dairy you know generates electricity from local homes definitely a case of where there's muck there's money but it's where his tax cash goes that's concerning him more than the smell. we're completely on represented in germany on our own we would be a good size european state all we are now are the financier's of berlin and others
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are. and there's more at stake than just money for one of europe's oldest states. since reunification there's been too much number varian influence on us i want my kids to grow up feeling very culturally linguistically no one learns the bulgarian language in school we want to change that. when germany's unity day celebrations get underway in the ultimate organizers might find that here in the largest states. weighs down upon seeing these are all of. the very. very not of some other stories making headlines across the globe a massive car bomb has gone off outside a mosque in the pakistani city of karachi killing at least forty five and injuring many more police say a hundred kilos of explosives were used ripping through several buildings and setting fire to others and their groups yet claimed responsibility the shia
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population in the city often targeted by sunni muslim groups. fifty thousand people protest in the cities across all garia marking national liberation day angry they say at the rising cost of living and political corruption former prime minister boyko border saw forced to quit last wednesday under public pressure new elections planned for early next month rolling demonstrations are brought into a backlash against the whole political system there. in south africa eight policemen caught on video driving a man through the streets handcuffed to a police van due to appear in court charged with his murder a man from mozambique you can see in this video died from head injuries an internal bleeding taxi driver was arrested for parking his car illegally pictures have sparked outrage in south africa after being broadcast on national television. british cardinal keith o'brien has admitted to sexual misconduct seventy four year old who resigned last week apologized effectively acknowledged. and he broke in the
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catholic church in stands banning homo sexual relationships he's the highest place member of the church in recent history to have made such an admission or brian it won't now attend the conclave that will select the next pope coming up in the next hour tomato cross-talk takes a look at the heart of a hard look at religious belief and its relationship with atheism it's very important to understand that as we look at religious people as we do interfaith alliances and atheist religious alliances if we try to wake the world a better place what we need to be on both sides of the of the equation most vigilant against is those pitfalls that are most dangerous and that celebration of ignorance over evidence and celebration of myth over reality that's something that we need to be most most concerned about and it's one of the biggest differences between humanistic beliefs and practices and and some of the you know some of the traditional religious values and some of the expressions of those traditional beliefs lawrence you want to you're disagreeing there go ahead that we suddenly
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have transcript of well i said i was tired dogmatically. lawrence go ahead atheists are dogmatic atheists are dogmatic about their position concerning evolution evolution is the basis of their religion it's the at least the evolutionary theory of hunters into human theory is the basis they have to because as i said before you either believe in something supernatural or you believe in eternal natural and so they stick to the natural. libya forestalling gas exports to italy after a deadly gunfight between two armed groups in the northwest shooting broke out after an argument between militias over who should guard a major plan conflicts like this have become a regular and post revolution i'll be out as a kiwi from the pad african newswire things libyan stability may have fallen victim
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to western energy interests. some nine billion cubic meters of natural gas from libya is export it to italy. to see love and percent of the national supply. natural gas to that country and now western europe and i think this is a reflection of the fact that there is this codependency between the former colonial power of italy and libya they are attempting in many ways to productize the natural gas as well as the oil industry inside of libya of course the majority of libyans are suffering immensely as a result of this post gadhafi political configuration and as we've seen the clashes between the various militia groups as well as the so-called army that is ostensibly under the control of the general national congress is still not going to situation
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where it could actually bring about stability. coming up delving deeper into the mystery of the death of a man that helped shape the twentieth century joseph stalin stay with us. world. science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. as it was the envy of ambrose. never put his trust in anyone and rightly so. his body was found on the floor of his shoes and tails. did he die of natural causes. the mystery of stone. on
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a documentary. hold
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sixty years ago there was only one person who could ride out of the kremlin spassky tower gate in an homage cis one one five soviet limousine he had any emperor would envy. this come belongs to josef stalin driving home from work was no simple affair for the leader stalin used to sit on a special converted seat protected by guards on each side he trusted no one. the soviet leader strictly instructed the driver which way to go in the car would often turn abruptly from the white when he was on to moscow's side streets weaving along and confusing. when he was ready to kill people and he did kill them and if he could.

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