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the very heart of moscow. which is r.t. tonight career on a collision course the u.n. says the crisis has gone too far as the north fires up an old new please cite one of america's military edges closer to the peninsula because the latest. brides break out of israeli prisons over the death of a palestinian inmate who was allegedly refused lifesaving cancer treatment. environmentalists over america's outdated oil pipeline network at the industry's future project as an hour consort town recovers from tons of crude spilled onto the streets. and standing up for free speech to run for office wiki leaks editor julian this sets his eyes on joining a stray parliament now its campaign director tells r.t. but will supply is going in my.
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there live from the r.t. new center at eight hundred seven zero in here very good to have you company wherever you're watching around the world first then the u.n. says north korea is on a collision course with the world community with its recurrent threats against its southern neighbor and the u.s. declared a state of war with the south and vowed to restart its main nuclear reactor in response to u.n. sanctions meanwhile the u.s. moved its military hardware closer to the north coast including a warship and a sea based radar system earlier seoul based correspondent joseph kim told my colleague by might say that america's geopolitics in the region is what's firing up pyongyang's rhetoric. in terms of people in the capital in seoul there's not much reaction and much alarm as these threats and the rhetoric from north korea has been continuous throughout the years we've seen an annual drills with south korea and
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the us that north korea has continuously condemned and denounced them but the u.s. and south korea continually do these drills so we can see that a lot of these rhetoric these harsh rhetoric that are coming out of north korea in pyongyang are in response to these these military exercises as we mentioned a warship has come on the korean coast and now north korea has said that it will restart its grant nuclear reactor so we see that a lot of what the threats that are coming out of kenya are in reaction to the actions of the u.s. and south korea those of us i just want to quickly just ask you this pyongyang has made similar threats many times in the past and analysts tend to question the seriousness of these warnings why is that such a media hype over them this time around there is a lot of media hype in terms of western media with what north korea is currently
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doing right now and we have to actually see this as something that the u.s. perhaps is maybe thinking about in terms of their rebalancing to east asia they are in a cli trying to get back into east asia to be able to counter china and its growing powers in terms of the economy and why not use north korea north korea is a threat in what it says is a threat and so they are using this opportunity to be able to rebalance his military as well as his presence here to be able to continuously monitor and gain more influence in the region and the also spoke as well to r.t. correspondent alexia jeff ski one of the few foreign journalist who's actually been able to report from north korea. to be honest with you i haven't had a chance to talk to many ordinary people six years ago when i was there in north korea but i don't think the situation has changed i talk to the officials there and i didn't hear a single negative toward south korea i got the feeling that this was more about
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north korea versus the west and the us rather than being against the neighbors. and i was and i thought back then i still stand by that by this thought that this conflict between the two koreas is more about something inspired from abroad rather than being an internal issue between the people of the two green of the two koreas i mean they're very close they used to be one country they used to be one empire they are divided politically by the thirtieth barrel they're not divided by any other way so i don't think there actually is so much as hostile as everyone wants them to believe what you know impression on north korea's kim mean he he's come people have said he's coming to change the if they really are going to do he has already changing you know we saw google officials in pyongyang unthinkable just five six years ago we saw dennis rodman i mean it's just maybe just a show but still he wants to show that he wants to be more open than his dad and his predecessor his granddad who was also a power he recently said he likes american computers mac computers he likes pop
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culture he seems pretty in touch with what's going on right now you know what when you when i like is clearly the man in his mid thirty's he's interested in everything happening in the world in particular the technology he said that the country needs to embrace the technology north korea already has internet north korea doesn't. confiscate cell phones from foreigners at the at the post passport control like they used to do before this is a major change to what used to before the question is whether kim jong un will be the man to reunite careers and not to go to a full out war with the south let's talk about that a little bit that rhetoric this harsh rhetoric that's been going back and forth between the two koreas how likely is going to come out of that if you ask me i don't believe anything will have. when anything bad will happen any war there might be some tension there might be some border clashes and nothing more than that as long as china plays such important role in the region china is basically dictating what happens there and what doesn't happen there it's quite strange to see that the
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us doesn't want to try to become the sole and the most important to go ca to between the two koreas because china doesn't want this war it would damage its infrastructure china is already involved in many economic projects with the south korea so as long as china is there there will be no war and china's position on that has been firm and strong there will be no war. writes a broken out in several israeli prisons over the death of a palestinian is an inmate. there was serving a life sentence and had throat cancer palestinian officials say israel refused to give him vital treatment but israel insists he did ask for an early release but it was already too late. the story. he started feeling ill last summer and he has asked the authorities for checkups but they basically have done those check ups but never told him exactly what was happening and even though the man was obviously lost more than fifteen kilos in less than two months they still kept him in the dark as well as his family until they've told him just in march of this year that
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he had terminal cancer and literally had to live so the minister for prison affairs of the palestinian authority has already said that israeli actions in this instance are heinous because. the prisoner did not receive timely medical help and he also called for an international investigation into the death of up to him via now of course this is something that left a lot of palestinians incredibly angry in fact we do know at this point that in several israeli jails palestinian prisoners already staging. actions of protests there are throwing things around and burying on their cell doors because this is not the first time that something like this has happened just in february another palestinian inmate just thirty years old died of an apparent heart attack was in jail since two thousand and two he was imprisoned on charges of conspiring with hamas terrorists and he was sentenced to ninety nine years in prison and i was
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really fishel see that they have sent an appeal for the for the early release of due to his ailing health but unfortunately he died before that appeal could be processed by the israeli officials with the death of. the street clashes with police of the public to the city of her broom from police to geo that supports the prisoners' rights says people are enraged because this really does go against international law. i think the issue here is the police see that is used against the palestinian political prisoners in systematic way actually and this is the health neglect and i wasn't complaining just in the last two months or three months he was complaining about different symptoms and illness sense two thousand and seven actually and the delay in doing their analysis and checks and they are going no stick for his second is. his this day and this is what we are claiming that is really prison system actually the whole policy of the health treatment in the
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prison service is lacking properly the correct treatment it doesn't matter what he was convicted with the fact that he was trialed and imprisoned he deserved to be treated properly according to the international standards of the three men off prisoners that any prisoner should get inside any prison actually and is royal is the signature e to these international conventions and international retirement actually should offer these standards in their prison so i think the solidarity is with the fact that the sick prisoner was into getting proper treatment in. the environmental damage from a massive oil spill in our consort terms becoming clearer tonight as cleanup efforts continue the residential area was swamped with thousands of barrels of crude when a pipeline burst last friday dozens of homes of the be evacuated more tito's know
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them from going to chicken. exxon mobil is naturally trying to downplay environmental concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas but the company says it has already collected more than twelve thousand barrels of oil mixed with water from the affected area not clear how much of it was water though twenty three homes were evacuated there as they're still cleaning up the pipeline that was carrying canadian heavy crude to the south of the u.s. this is the country's gulf coast refineries this latest spill response from critics of the proposed keystone x.l. pipeline the keystone x.l. pipeline would carry eight hundred thousand barrels per day just to compare the pipe that leaked in arkansas can carry around ninety thousand barrels a day so the consequences of a leak could be devastating the keystone pipeline would also carry canadian heavy crudes to us we finally seeing the self the project doesn't have the final green light from the administration just yet but the oil giants involved are pushing the
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administration very hard to go ahead with it saying it will bring down fuel costs in the u.s. trans canada is first key still lining the u.s. spilled the diesel a dozen times just in its first year of operation the company of course says the new keystone x.l. will be so much better but people know from experience how devastating consequences of an oil spill can be and how hard it is to clean up this is certainly not the first incident of course everyone remembers the disaster in the gulf of mexico in twenty ten when after an explosion and he had been leaking oil on the ocean floor several months before the well was capped an estimated four point nine million barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf day three years later the call is still not free in july two thousand and ten a pipeline brought the church school more than twenty thousand barrels of canadian tar sands crude oil into the michigan waterway so this happens all the time just
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last week the government suggest that axe. mobil paid a fine of one point seven million dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years the coal in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that the oil giants get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly have and that at the end of the day it's the people affected will pick up the slack in washington and kind of check them. well corsi accidents reignited the debate over the use of decades old pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of crude oil across north america let's take a look now than shwe at the continent's oil transit infrastructure more than half of america's all routes to build to the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's according to the u.s. department of transportation some including the pegasus pipeline which is the one that caused the trouble now in arkansas were constructed in before that billions of
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dollars worth of oil flows through these pipelines every year in twenty eleven five of the industries giants exxon mobil will broil dutch shell b.p. conoco phillips and chevron all of a combined revenue indeed of nearly two trillion dollars congress says the turnover is equal to more than ten percent of u.s. g.d.p. but despite the huge profits the government corporations are cutting corners when it comes to repairing and renewing infrastructure environmental consultant richard styler told us the r. console pipeline is long past its use by date. there's no excuse what so ever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old or general design life is maybe twenty to thirty years there's been several spills about six or seven of this heavy deluded bit timid it's called dil bit which is the tar sand oil which is so thick it can't be transported through a pipeline unless it's cut with condensate and benzene exxon has shown time and
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time again that they are not willing to accept responsibility legitimate financial responsibility for their actions however negligent they are they got out of the alaska spill with you know about a billion dollars paid to private thirty thousand private litigants that should have been by many of their estimations much much more than that so they have a history of short changing responses right now that's what we talk about online tonight. as always the big stories the day we want to know what you think about them thanks for voting if you have so far this is what you're telling us so far this just a bit more than half fifty six percent of you think that the u.s. government should be held accountable for the incident twenty four percent think that this controversial keystone cross-country pipeline should be scrapped altogether fifteen percent this think the compensation should be offered for people who suffered from the spill but that the keystone project should remain untouched you think it's still vital just
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a small minority there this five percent think that the show should be temporarily halted but not stopped completely plenty of time to change that chart tonight of course dawtie dot com. he. gave. me. it's a fifty moscow time on the word out tonight made in america we report on how u.s. student plans to help the. gun control regulations by crafting weapons in the comfort of their own homes that are simply more stories just a few minutes. old
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the correct international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello again wiki leaks headed to julian assange may be holed up in the embassy in london still but that's not stopping him running for election in his home country astray the songes appointed a high profile political campaigner to spearhead his bid for a seat in the australian senate the son just spent the last nine months confined to the ecuadorian embassy in britain ways avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crime allegations if is the absentee election been successfully be sworn in as a senator in july twenty fourth take but would have to return to canberra to do that is campaigns being led by greg barnes a form a barrister and head of the australian republican movement he says such as wiki leaks party aims to bring transparency to the government insists that it has
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realistic chance of victory. they certainly stand for a new strain in which is effectively the house of review in the straight and parliamentary system using that more effectively to keep government honest about what it's doing and so not simply rubber stamping government policies using the senate as a house review to ensure that all of our little documentation in relation to policies tie between the parliament that we see. points of my appointments to the government appointments of my that they scrutinize properly but also ensuring that we start to roll back some of the security measures that have been brought in in a strike in a post nine eleven environment where you've seen major inversions by the security services into it in australia into the lives of ordinary australians there are six senators who will be elected out of the curia one of the strikes destroyed he's got to get fourteen point two nine percent of the vote in order to get elected now with
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a preferential system which is of the party's preference in julian assange. if he gets six to seven percent of the rules but he's going to get elected at the moment he's polling around about twenty five to twenty seven percent that he's twenty five to twenty seven. percent of australians say they would vote for julian assange actually starting from a very high price which is going to come down a bit in the context of the campaign but it's a very good place to. look in post a very good song the syrian government in opposition but exchanging accusations over in a riff it massacre in the country's border with lebanon which at least fifteen civilians were killed a couple of secular a correspondent for marty's sister arabic channels been reporting on this from the syrian capital must warn you you might find some of the images coming up upsetting and those that are let me show you that the massacre that took place in the border town of tal collage in the homes government shows just how bloody the syrian conflict has become a group of armed men forced their way into the alborz neighborhood in tellico on and killed other fifteen civilians some of these civilians were shot in the head
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and the torso from a short distance while others were killed with sharp instruments women and children who were among those massacred including a three year old girl the authorities in opposition have accused each other official sources say that the victims of the massacre were pro-government and had previously demanded that the syrian army come to their district and had urged armed rebel groups to leave because they did not want to be caught in the crossfire between the government and rebels official sources say the massacre was actually a revenge killing as the opposition accuses these people of supporting the syrian government the following footage clearly shows the ruthless way in which the civilians were killed. this comes after alleged chemical attacks in aleppo two weeks ago closely followed by a bombing in damascus that killed forty two people including a problem a cleric syrian reform campaign says anyone who doesn't share the rebels ideology is now at target. because the conflict is really intensifying week after week as we
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can notice that there is no doubt at the moment that this has turned very much into a war to bring down the syrian state this has started probably. you know from the arabs or muslims point of view to support their oppressed brothers or sisters in syria the theory was that once they go into a certain place they should be viewed as liberators from the operation of the regime or the government what turned out is that they were interviewed as liberators but as a new person force themselves so there is a huge intimidation practice that it's that is taking place at the cornerstone for the philosophy of the rebels at the moment is an extreme exam ikhwan and there is no formulas for such. you know ideologies and those who do not take the view of the these armed groups they are immediately punished so that everyone else will be in a sense enough is enough for the cypriot finance minister mccully satirist says and
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it is notice after securing that ten billion euro bailout that will see savers into majority bags pay the bill the finger pointing is far from over though is the ireland tries to establish use to blame for the country's economic meltdown reports claim millions of euros have been pulled out of the country in recent weeks suggesting some were tipped off about the approaching crisis over under thirty people in firms are now under scrutiny for suspicious financial transactions among them of cohen by the president's son in law. in the us where the gun control debate is focused on what type of americans are allowed to obtain and thanks to a groundbreaking technology entire gun parts than can now be manufactured without a license one u.s. students working to make sure everyone can make a weapon at home as one important i found out. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing but has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything to a store in soho new york three d.
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printing technology has officially gone mainstream the demand is much greater than our supply right now and we're actually ramping up and expanding rapidly to meet that demand this three d. printing company maker bot opened its first retail store last year it is selling its newly released replicator to desktop for just under twenty two hundred dollars using a plastic material the machine deposits ultra thin layers to form any object that can be molded in software welcome to the world of independent manufacturing so this stretch bracelet took about sixteen minutes to make but other objects that are get bigger like this cupcake gift box took about fifteen hours of printing now while the time a very anyone with a three d. desktop printer can essentially make anything that they want at our web site thing first is a repast atari for three d. printed items we have more than forty thousand items i'm going over that are free
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and downloadable and one of our terms of service is that you cannot upload anything that is deemed a weapon. this is where twenty five year old cody wilson enters the picture a group of friends and i started a project called difference distributed. we want to use a three d. printer to print a gun to release the files open source the texas law student has already printed a thirty round magazine and lower receiver that houses the bolt for an ar fifteen and he's reportedly working on completing a rifle with a three d. printer his blueprints were gone and gun parts are distributed for free on his website what i'm doing is showing people ok this is something that can be done right now. right now the self described. market after kist has thrown a major read into america's gun control debate as a national conversation it was a debate that started in december after twenty children and six adults were shot
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dead at a connecticut elementary school overwhelming majorities of americans americans who believe in the second amendment have come together around common sense reform by background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun meanwhile just last month wilson became a federally licensed gun manufacturer and dealer there bypassing the debate there rendering the debate irrelevance whatever laws make about of this discussion this sort of ability to manufacture objects and bodies firearms on a localized centralized basis means of the law really won't matter the law may say that something is illegal but if you can turn to a device that's on your desktop and manufacture that at will with nobody knowing that you've done so then the law doesn't matter at all with a reported three hundred million guns in circulation the u.s. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and the second highest rate of deaths by firearms among industrialized nations. and just as
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lawmakers are finalizing new legislation that would tighten the nation's all too easy access to firearms experts claim that technology will ultimately outpace their meager efforts at gun control. r.t. new york. coming up much as they say go gunning for the financial world shady dealers in the way station cars report in a couple of minutes. wealthy
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british. markets. know what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser it's time to hit the reset button
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because in case you haven't noticed the system around as has collapsed the banks have got the runs currencies gone fricken crazy equity markets are high as a kite. that coude for to get out while capital markets. killed over. policymakers are so stuck on stupid they need to be objective. they need to walk the plank not too quick as far as i'm concerned but i barbel phones and bank stars now about which is it reset or let's talk to the smartest woman in london today stacy herbert and max everybody is denying that they are like cyprus malta is denying they're like cyprus luxembourg is denying they're like cyprus italy is spain portugal as fred says everybody's saying we're not like cyprus so of course those are all european nations i want to turn to america where
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they merican dream is always held some sort of hope for europeans when their system is collapsing they often flee to america. so the first headline i have on the state of the american dream today s a c s cohen buys one hundred fifty five million dollar picasso after settling trading probe steven a cohen whose s a c. capital just settled two insider trading lawsuits with the government for six hundred sixteen million dollars has bought himself a gift picasso's low rev for one hundred fifty five million dollars the most ever spent by an american yeah well this is great because you have a money ponzi scheme this guy steve cohen breaks the law just going to the bathroom everyone in the industry knows it is he's a huge percentage of volume of the new york stock exchange he feeds a lot of those hungry brokers a j.p. morgan goldman who they feel.

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