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the movie about international and world in the very heart of moscow. car blast ripped through marketplaces into iraq's shia provinces killing eleven people in the latest escalation of the sectarian unrest that's gripping the country . torn from his parents' arms a russian couple wages a legal battle with u.s. social services after their five month old baby was seized following as a to doctor. and greece writes off fifteen thousand state jobs to meet the terms of a course will bail up while france turns its ire on germany over chancellor merkel's quote selfish drive for bloc why does terry.
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what are you going to live from the russian capital where it's eleven am in the morning in the moments street car blasts have killed eleven people in a marketplace a southerner russia provinces x. and police the country experiencing its most severe spate of sectarian attacks since the us occupation tensions have been heating up in the country since a deadly military raid on a sunni promised camp. a one hundred seventy deaths in a series of clashes in the space of one week the shia led government has also banned t.v. channels including all jazeera from reporting inside iraq saying they inside a sectarian unrest. and from the aid organization s.o.s. and iraq says the protests are deeper than just interreligious clashes. at the use of education because we can see that is still an occupation there is still no basic service just people of rubbish looked at without your just. there are door to
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women children and men are being raped that's why the protests started by the way and so this talk about darien is this is is totally wrong and these are not sick darian protests these are protests against a situation that is untenable for a forty iraqi people. that is unemployment there is no health care that it is a good education system has collapsed the media has been very we come to covering these protests have we seen images on television about the millions who would industry chin in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places now and now there are divisions facing iraq is along ethnic lines with kurds in the north increasingly vying for autonomy the country's prime minister is set to meet for talks with iran or on money for a full solution meanwhile neighboring turkey appears to be on the past or resolving
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its own conflict with the kurds peace talks there are already underway however as maria said also now reports distrust on both sides means the negotiations could crumble elements. all three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. guerrilla movement fighting turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died. youngest son and man them he's angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives. no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out on his second son was arrested in journey to the k.k. the third is the only one still fighting one war the kill i'm proud of him but i
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would love to have him back home. a milestone agreement between the turkish government and the p.k. k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but that won't necessarily mean families are united they can do mountains in iraqi kurdistan away pick a fight as a base for a great natural fortress and it's totally in the girl's hands no one can say exactly where in these mountains the fighters a high don't know how many they are and it is to these safe haven that those of them now fighting in turkey will most likely withdraw too if the peace process lives up to expectations. turkey's prime minister and who has been personally negotiating with jailed kurdish leader or john says it would be sabotage if those retreating take their weapons with them but current kurdish national congress member believes exactly what will happen. always called for a kurd fighters to have more weapons and they'll never give them up easily or ever
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leave them on turkish territory. isn't it only get real principles a member of the only pro kurdish party in the turkish parliament told me that while every side types for the best they are preparing for the worst from the other side actually there is no food cross from cody site to government because we have a very bad experiences since establishments are public up to now a message from rights violations the denial and a major they say that many others that keep the wealth but even if big a fight is did we draw an armed they could easily requip themselves if it was needed but this was tried before. and the true into iraq they came back because you know they had already. forced the ruling a k party which is the driving force of talks with p.k. k. and or john wants everyone to show just
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a little more optimistic on an issue which has been the result of losing over thirty thousand lives in this country will come to it and i think that is more important than how it is handled who it is who is who is going to brief i think those many do actually share some hope all the perhaps even more worry that in these details lies the devil reef notion r.t. from turkey. a fighting erupts near a chemical arms site in damascus and the allegation that president forces used chemical weapons on bibles intervene in countries conflicts. and i slid for you like the parties that oversaw the country's financial disaster in two thousand and eight we hear about why on earth are apparently so for the offer. of russian coal living in the u.s. are battling to get back their five month old baby boy who was seized by child protection services the authorities stepped in when alex and anamika live sought
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a second opinion after their child was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was ordered to undergo immediate surgery my colleague john thomas managed to catch up with the boy's parents. been shocked when they walked in the door and just all of them in saying it's just let us see your son if he's ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is so ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child that's when they took away no paper not so ever they've been providing and they just walked off the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital or second to opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say to send them urgency that he's almost dying that needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. or do you believe this. no he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child
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a normal baby to go home and he was released from death from the other hospital that we took him to the doctor used to be and did a statement so the parents are basically good to go home with their baby the baby is safe in their arms. very interesting now taking a step back facebook and social networks they are a way for you to get support and you said facebook shut down the page that you set up to get support for your case did they give you any reason why they closed down this page no i think it has everything to do and we got a lot of support we got a lot of prayers a lot of people who had them just praying for us and all in the first facebook page a blog we called facebook basically my sister in law called facebook no answer every question as she was going out we opened a second facebook page for support same thing happen again your child hasn't been
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a lot of home in four days what's going through your minds it kills me i don't have my baby of me at nighttime i just visiting him like been visiting him three times is today for an hour and you're leaving at seven o'clock of again the hard going home you babysit not the few you're just feeling empty there's some missing something in your and we're just waiting for tomorrow's day just to you know like comics court hearing good news taking your baby going home or going to a different hospital the parents are now facing torturous court proceedings and according to their lawyer it will take time effort and patience to bring the child back home. history says that six will win this case if the initials. judge judges will tend to err on the side of caution i am hopeful that when all of the evidence is put forth and the facts are shown it will be very clear that these are wonderful parents who have taken every measure to care for their son and
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have done everything appropriately and have done nothing more than just like what it wanted to their son cared by someone who they had faith and confidence in. some fortunately just the latest in a string of recent incidents involving russian couples abroad earlier this month an infant girl with a new zealand child welfare officers after a hospital x. ray revealed an ankle fracture the answer then has been successfully resolved and child has been returned but a couple in norway was less fortunate social workers decided to separate a russian citizen and her with when a husband from their three daughters a young that's just three years old and that's because the parents were deemed to be treating their children to strictly the battle to get the girls back it's ongoing. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world
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has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. now fifteen thousand civil service jobs have been legislated away by the greek parliament in a late night vote the layoffs are set to begin immediately to gather with an extension on taxes and it's all part of an effort to push through an i.m.f. mandated a staring in return for a bailout cash for pterosaurs made their feelings clear outside parliament as lawmakers gathered for the vote drastic cuts take hold throughout the eurozone germany is feeling the backlash france has alleged that chancellor angela merkel said quote obsession with spending cuts are leading europe to ruin a document published by francois alonzo ruling party accuses germany of selfishly forcing block wide as terry investment advisor to kyung says there's a growing rift between the eurozone to lead a lot of these. it sure is carrying up part the fundamental fabric of
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the european union at the moment are not is between the northern european nations led by germany who are seen to be fiscally sawing the pragmatic and sensible of what their economy and then you have the rest all of them tend to come closer to the mediterranean and their late affectively by problems i mean france likes to think that it's still a first world economy but the difficulty is their numbers really aren't dramatically better than some of the feelings or comedies of the mediterranean such as say if they leave or stay in the french open a situation where sprint should do anything and basically move us back to the one june sixteenth or seventeenth level of the plastic if they want to in that lift the economy by spending a lot of money that from stopping power they're hoping germany is going to give them this is not gold says no. iceland has seen the return to power of two formerly disgraced political parties that were in power when the country's banking sector collapsed in two thousand and eight their turn of the euro skeptic
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coalition led by the independence party is seen as a rejection of the outgoing government's drive to join the e.u. robert oulds director of the group think tank believes other debt ridden nations would benefit from following iceland example there was a bit of a wobble in terms of icelandic public opinion of the two thousand and eight financial crisis where of course arsenic banks one after the other fell like dominoes but of course since then because it's outside of the e.u. it has its own currency it's not in the euro of course then what they've been managed on its own economy as it sort of it is recovered it's still got problems but of course the economy's growing and unemployment is falling which is far removed from the situation in southern europe in the eurozone where unemployment is continuing to rise and the economies are continually continually contracting so really honest and gives a wonderful example to those countries such as so i burst or greece or spain or
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italy ease life elsewhere at the euro the existing the single currency can actually help the euro and it's coming structure is not working and there needs to be a change of course the little old austin can do it other countries can do it as well. and coming up here in our team we report from the country are in awe of europe's economic storm. more and more greeks are giving up on the big city i'm moving to live and work back in the countryside to find out why join me told boston on oxy in a few minutes. and the hunger strike is game of benjamin one time of a prison with one hundred inmates now confirmed as having joined the protests and turney of one of the prisoners tells our teeth his client story and says the situation in the camp is deteriorating all this and much more after a short break. the
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with about international airport in the very heart of moscow. clo welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow and desperation is growing in one town of a bay detention camp were more inmates are refusing food in a bid to draw attention to mistreatment and rights abuses according to the u.s. military the total now hunger strikers has reached one hundred but attorneys insist they are understating the figure at least five detainees have been hospitalized and twenty are being force fed medics fear that several protesters could die before the protest hands carl's warner a federal public defender is representing a one ton of a prisoner things it's time the government stepped in. he's in terrible condition and i talked to him on friday by telephone he indicated that they are using a large tube in his nose a size ten instead of
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a size eight anyone who has been tube fed is and who's lost it at this point to more or more of his body weight is in a very dire position you have the military advisor in the press saying that there are going to be multiple deaths because of this and that's just that's the fact that's what happens when you have hopelessness and that's when what happens when you have this terrible situation that's being aggravated by the military now the military is not has fault here they need to negotiate an end and not just try to exert their will on these hopeless men but ultimately the moves have to happen in washington issue here is with the president again president obama pick up the ball and this strike the military has come around and it's amazing that they can't get a full scale strike duration and scope of which we've never seen the president has to intervene yesterday's at the correspondents' dinner making jokes while men are dying in guantanamo we ask that he has some attention. and artie has
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been speaking to several other lawyers representing going to inmates for their stories so has our web site r c dot com for more well also on the web site today the u.s. department of homeland security proves it's tough time then the army its personnel reportedly use a thousand more bullets per person and soldiers. plus the scientist named to create a new breed of hornless cow claiming this will make the world safer find out more on our website our team dot com. now syrian rebels and government forces have been fighting in damascus in
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a complex linked to the country's chemical weapons program this comes a day after american and bahrain accused of resorting to chemical weapons something washington considers a red line that reports can be confirmed though as the u.n. said there was no solid proof republican senators have nevertheless urged obama to weigh in on the conflict in syria calling for a strike on their own air bases without deploying troops. ok now let's take a look at the poll that we have been conducting in our website so far what we are asking today what those alleged chemical attacks could mean and let's see how many people voted and how so far about more than half which is sixty six percent think it's all part of a u.s. and a cover plot to justify an invasion or just over a fifth says rebels are using such reports to get western help to oust president bashar asad now seven percent and as we see here think of reports won't change
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anything at all and just about six percent believe president really has crossed the red line this time so do let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our web site r t v dot com now today's edition of our cross talk show is focused on the syrian civil war as well so more opinions on this coming your way at nine thirty am g.m.t. . you believe we. have a civil war in syria is pulling its citizens from more and more countries the canadian government says dozens of its nationals are fighting in syria and could pose a risk to their country's security when they return home that similar concerns voiced by the british and dutch governments which both recently sided returning
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fires as a threat this comes almost a week after two foreign born canadian muslims were charged with plotting to the rail a passenger train. gunman have surrounded the foreign minister in libya's capital tripoli demanding that no sierra posts in the new administration be given to members of the former regime of colonel gadhafi a government official has said up to two hundred militants are outside and negotiations with a group have begun armed factions tried unsuccessfully to storm the interior ministry and the state news agency on sunday. a small bomb exploded near a police car in bahrain after authorities there arrested twenty two anti-government activists no one was hurt in the blast and the activists were detained individually and in groups over the past week some of them now face terrorism charges for participating in anti regime protests and throwing rocks at police during rallies.
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and the owner of a factory that collapsed in bangladesh killing more than three hundred seventy people has been rested on the indian border and taken to the capital dhaka at the site rescuers have suffered a disappointing setback after spending hours trying to save a woman trapped under the rubble a fire broke out killing her and some two thousand and four hundred people have so far been pulled alive from the rubble five days after the building caved in. and now the slash and burn economic policies of the greek it's taking a heavy toll but the tough economic times aren't felt equally across the country reports now many people are being forced from big cities to greener pastures where prices are lower. for young on the sea theodora says in his forty's but while he used to make his living at a newspaper in greece's second city this only can he's now returned to his roots on
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the greek coast this is theodorus his fresh fish shop he took it over when his own girl retired two years ago and now theodorus is making a go of it himself far away from the big city. his decision is part of the trend greeks unable to make ends meet in the cities looking to areas with smaller economies and costs. the company i work for cut our salaries so i decided to come here to find a better life for my children and me it cost us also gave up a life in athens to open a guest house in the hills of northern greece the life of a city advertising manager was good he said but people should think before writing off the world outside. thing that there you go there are many opportunities for you to make your life better in a small town rather than in athens. and a potential reverse brain drain from cities back to the regions could hold hidden benefits being educated and hip with the experience of living in the areas
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and all the experience of the money gives living in the city lives i mean these are these people be. going to do the countryside to develop not that everyone relishes the prospect demetrius moved away when he was eighteen and is now a freshly out of work t.v. director he finds adjusting to life back here difficult he wanted to stay in the capital. i was forced to come back here because of the high rates of unemployment in athens it was a matter of survival for me for these three greeks as for increasing multitudes of others this move choice or not is a path away from unsustainable living in cities hit by economic crisis here at least if they have little else new arrivals or old home comers have the scenery and the sea tom bottom r.t. . an expert take a look at the lives of syrian refugees who have found
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a new home and russia's southern republican i think that's an away from the bombs in just a moment here. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially create second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or black starting apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow errors in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices to me bob baer american backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u.
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countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds who still don't also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of apartheid the non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect or participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think that people would be outraged over segregation but what happens to russians and russian speakers is just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion.
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i am from. the war that. was and every day she says another body in the body in a syria or syria in arabic. my name. brought him into the war beginning looked far from almost killed. the syrian woman is a hero. trying to protect her child. the service of those i know the father of the law my name is sama has muhammad and i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. and
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