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quick to blame turkey detains nine suspects following the deadly car bombing of a town near the syrian border claiming they have contacts to syrian intelligence. also this week pakistan's milestone democratic election is marred by violence with both former prime minister and the head of the muslim league claiming early victory . ballots than bullets in saturday's historic vote r t brings you the latest from outside of the parliamentary right here in islamabad. and i'm popular presidents french leader francois long faces plummeting ratings as his first year in office comes to an end with a steerage unemployment engulfing the nation. four
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pm in moscow you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with saturday's deadly car bombings at a town near the syrian border two blasts killed forty six and injured over one hundred turkey was quick to blame syrian intelligence for the attack something that damascus denies the area's home to tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the ongoing syrian conflict what's now get more on this from our middle east correspondent paula slee are close to you paula well it looks like the investigation into those blasts taken a new twist tell us how it's progressing so far. well turkey has blamed the syrian president bashar assad for these bombings without having undergone any kind of investigation what they have said is that syrian intelligence is to quote them the usual now the deputy turkish prime minister says that the
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organization and the members behind the attacks have been largely identified but what is worrying is that this does say it's a bad precedent to merely blame assad wants away without giving any kind of proof or any kind of conclusive evidence as to why you say that nine people have been detained all of them citizens according to the turkish deputy prime minister and he has stressed that they be no links to the syrian opposition previously three of the five suspects arrested after the bombings were thrilled to have seen the nationals not so it has denied that they are behind the attacks the syrian government issued a statement in which it said that we are saddened by the fall of martyrs into a cave yesterday in one way or another the turkish people are syrian brothers but turkey has stressed that they've established links to syrian president bashar assad's security agency and that they do not have any links with the opposition the turkish prime minister has said that the attack could also be linked to the peace
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process with the kurds and they of course have for a long time been at odds with the government you could of course also have took so unhappy with the growing number of syrian refugees in turkey according to the latest figures from the united nations as many as four hundred thousand syrian refugees have crossed over into turkey and then of course they could be people who are part of the syrian opposition who are behind this so you could have a whole host of possibilities so if you know kind of evidence of nudity that suggests why turkey has been so clear to put the blame on the shoulders of damascus while we also know that north of the country has been overrun by various radical factions within the opposition so how is this affecting security inside the border towns like. for example. well the north of syria is the region bordering turkey and that's where extremist opposition groups are particularly active what is unclear as it is home many of them could
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have in fact crossed over into turkey now the city where the explosion occurred has received tens of thousands of refugees and it is possible that some of them already core elements there's no proof to say that they are these no proof to say that they are not these radical elements are sitting up in their own infrastructure and there are many groups among them such as the al mistrust front and the salafist who've already done so we have been receiving reports that in aleppo for example there are reportedly some twenty rebel brigades operating and they've set up the machinery of government and justice in the court is that they have taken over they have set up courts for example that are manned by lawyers and judges they've set up schools so they say so that there's no vacuum in the administration and public institutions so you certainly do have this very warring phenomena that there is a large number of experienced elements that often rating particularly along the turkish syrian border or paul thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very
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latest for this up because the middle east correspondent there. and as we just heard turkey's deputy prime minister stressed that the detain suspects have no connection to the syrian opposition but foreign policy analysts dr khan holland believes the attack appears to be appears to bear or rather all the hallmarks of al qaida linked extremists you have to enhance will be on should government. be stupid enough to. open fright with a country on edge borders an answer second largest army in the north atlantic treaty organization i don't see the sense in there i mean it would she gestured at the regime has you know a suicide complex they haven't demonstrated. any of that in the past the timing is certainly very suspicious hume a couple of weeks ago the syrians were huge diffusing poison gas and then call it
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a party from the united nations recently that it appears as if that was the insurgency that it used poison gas certainly wasn't gas disappears then this bombing happens car bombs are the particular signature device that are used by their some of this very extreme islamist rebels in syria so i would be very careful about clinton figures at this point many people want that to disavow war have the potential to spill over into other areas of the middle east that prediction is coming very true meanwhile international peace efforts to resolve the syrian conflict seem to be on the verge of a breakthrough russia's receive backing from the u.s. and the u.k. for a syria conference totally scheduled for the end of this month however washington and london are still considering arming the syrian rebels with the e.u. arms embargo up for renewal in just over two weeks or dislikes here cesky has more
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. after months of fiery exchanges on the syrian conflict the major international players russia the united kingdom and the united states have managed to find a common ground principle position has been that it accused the west of supporting only one side of the syrian conflict that is the side of the syrian rebels moreover russia has been particularly concerned with the calls across the atlantic to arm the syrian rebels to provide them with military training and even possibly intervene into the conflict by force also russia was. with statements in the western countries that bashar assad must step down at the same time the western world has never been saying that it's the syrian people that have to choose their new government they have to choose their new future now hardly anyone expected after all of these. a meeting between the u.s. state secretary john kerry and the russian president and the russian foreign minister in moscow would produce something positive nevertheless international
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conference which is to be called by the end of this month was the direct result of the meeting in moscow that a conference is expected to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the syrian government at the same negotiation table at the same time a press conference between the russian foreign minister lavrov and john kerry took an interesting twist when a reporter asked about the bill to support the syrian rebels with weaponry which is now being considered by the u.s. congress the reply from the u.s. state secretary it was that if the united states finds substantial proof that chemical weapons were in fact used by bashar assad's troops in syria something which hasn't yet been proven of course then this bill will ultimately become reality which many experts have already described this as a certain leeway for the united states to still have a certain leverage in the syrian conflict now also on friday the british prime minister david cameron came to the city of. russia. and the biggest intrigue of
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that meeting was whether david cameron would sing to the same tune as john kerry did in moscow it's no secret that we have had differing views on how best to handle the situation but we share fundamental aims to end the conflict to stop syria fragmenting to let the syrian people choose who governs them and to prevent the growth of violent extremism so i strongly support the conference that mr lavrov for mr kerry agreed this week to deliver a political solution a solution which has a transitional government based on the consent of the syrian people as a whole so clearly the events of the of this week have given us a clear indication that there may be interesting things to come in terms of the syrian conflict and this conference can actually produce something of a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict. he was toppled jailed and then exiled but now. looks set to return to power after claiming an early victory in pakistan's
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general election the vote was the first student which is civilian government after serving its full term and will hand power to another democratically elected government threats by the taliban to disrupt the poll were borne out by attacks across the land that killed at least twenty four people while the details are now from our correspondent. despite the threat of violence pakistanis came out in record numbers to vote in the election which will determine the fate of the country for the next five years and as the votes are counted the man poised to come out of the very top is not was sharif and his party fourteen years after being ousted in a military coup he is on the road to a third term as pakistan's prime minister will have numerous problems to deal with from chronic power cuts to a taliban insurgency will be pushing for create free market economic policies and further strain ties with the united states but the vote has also crushed the hopes of millions of pakistanis who want to see real change in the entrenched political
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system they were counting on cricket legend imran khan and his p.t.i. party he had rallied massive support here in the country with calls to end corruption and to end u.s. drone strikes especially among young voters but it wasn't enough to put him at the top still a significant victory for his party now the pakistan people's party which formed the outgoing government took a beating in the polls paying a price for being seen as failing to tackle corruption unemployment and violence while in power of course this in many ways is a historic election it's the first time a democratically elected government is replaced with another the first time that a staggering sixty percent of voters turned out but also in a darker note the first election to go down as the bloodiest in pakistan's history now a string of bomb blasts disrupted election day killing dozens of people the violence came on the heels of a bloody intimidation campaign by the pie. just on the taliban just claimed one hundred thirty lives leading up to the vote the group is fighting to topple poppy
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stanzi u.s. backed government which it sees as quote on islamic now there were also some allegations of voting irregularities and problems in certain areas mainly in karate new voting will be held at forty two polling centers where officials said elections were not free and fair overall however a successful largely successful election here in pakistan will of course keep you updated on the latest reporting from islamabad. and one of the washer main challenges will be to talk to the pakistani wing of the taliban which was one of his campaign pledges but this could be met with resistance from the military that last sow's of troops fighting the insurgency for a major and the pakistani army believes when america leaves neighboring afghanistan all hell could break loose on pakistani soil. no. horses are different better actions so i think the election. good aim and brave
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step towards the bell commission of pakistan oh the whole game is turned against them we need to be because the same it is going to have that effect the military and the military is in deep trouble if i live one third just within three nordvig what must the americans would. do it was either strike the situation in china in nineteen thirty nine when you know the common tongue and the communist party combine the fight against the chinese. maybe with some part of taliban the afghan taliban ninety percent of the taliban fighting and i went to spawn a box on sponsored maybe the peace with pakistani state or in the long run when the americans liberal all the taliban frictions will combine and they're going to play head with the pakistani state. the more stories are just ahead for you including first turn failure later on r t finds out why streak waters of the french
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speak your language. program see documentaries in arabic it's we'll hear on t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. the. arabic to find out more visit our big. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow french president francois hollande is facing one of the worst poll ratings in modern history and that's just one year since his jubilant victory our view action three quarters of the population are now disappointed with the way he has been doing the top job artist or so he has been finding out why.
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there was or was there at all the i heard you i heard you will change. a year ago thousands of people had gathered at this very place to celebrate the victory of socialist president francois low altitude but here on the thousands of people are again gathered but for a very different reason this time they're asking their president where are the changes that he had promised asked by the very same people who had voted left and put along didn't place recent poll shows popularity has plummeted to less than twenty five percent the biggest score for any french president in the past fifty years but you know that's a diplomatic. i let you know where your promises are come on where are they is said i'm sure he does not make it out yet this is the mission that from now on will be mine to give the european construction a dimension of growth employment and prosperity you have france's hit record
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unemployment of three point two million people in march the biggest source of public anger it's also scratched hopes of cutting the budget deficit to three percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and thirteen and the european commission's most recent forecast shows frasse will be in recession until the end of the year the seventy five percent income tax on the super rich is also a no go after france's constitutional court overruled it on the very talk of it pushed french. to give up his citizenship for a law should one one promise along to did manage to keep is legalizing gay marriage please a supporters it also sparking fears consultation. the way it was all the. people happy with gay marriage but it doesn't feed our families it doesn't give us food there are realities that are good to say but are also priorities a priority is employment we need to eat it is obvious is it to blame.
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your. new president immediately. into the economy one hundred one anyway i just would like to hear your president which is not making that much promise which is keeping some heat on which is not going to explain that you know they're the magic receive no one has all. yeah yeah yeah. a magic recipe this film. says is nonexistent he made this video during last year's presidential campaign to show the country's lack of choice. they quickly made. in the memo that when you listen to the media you think there were a lot of differences between the two but that's just on a superficial level on the most important things they agree do we need to intervene
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in another country to fight they will agree to intervening in other countries because the weapons lobby will always be behind a lot is well aware of his unpopularity but says he will weather this storm and prove he can keep his promises at the end of this five year term. that he needs time fine we are here to tell him mr president time is up in the need to start changing things but others like these workers are recently closed steel plant and easter friends are not even hopeful symbolically laid to rest a lot of broken promises under a heading which breeds the trail. does sort of arty paris and struggling to fix this plumbing popularity president alon has promised to put his ministers under pressure and possibly reshuffle the government he also pleaded for more time for reforms to take hold for in journalism called fallen says all odds just the wrong
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man for the job is a bit the president by mistake nobody expected him to be president a few months before the election and there are doubts on the stage show us a statesman but the main problem remains jobs. power on the economy i think people really see. day after the full power eroding and becoming fewer and fewer unemployed and the people who have jobs feel that every day the job is the biggest struggle and the biggest stress to keep it in to reach dell'abate objectives i think those are pretty general i speeding across from a few three vintage people that things are getting read for everybody day after day in france today. and while employment frustration is growing in france across the channel the brits are feeling the pinch too but now it's their queen who's getting a five million pounds pay rise while the nation bears the brunt of
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a staring find out why in just a few minutes. my pension gets cut time and time again soon i'll get nothing but. i'm waiting for the day they ask me to go back to work. and unemployment also hits better highs in portugal people there are seeking to skate from their home country in search of a better future that's just ahead here on r t. russia's been throwing some spectacular celebrations this week marking victory day sixty eight years since nazi germany was defeated moscow was the scene. one of the biggest events among sauza is across the country the traditional parade on red square featured eleven thousand troops military hardware and fighter jets the day was rounded off with massive firework displays from fourteen different locations around
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the dozens of precisely timed aerial designs appeared of moscow's night sky during a spectacular show. violent clashes erupted in bangladesh this week one thousands of hard line islamists took to the city streets around the country police had bath with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon the country's as on this war are calling for laws against blasphemers and the death penalty for atheist bloggers because outcry earlier this year the government so far refused to give in to the demands that a day campaign or advance war crimes as they strip us have been conspiring against a secular state for decades now they never exhibited they really did to job on that issue and over the last fall into years that they have conspired against the ito's
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of a secular state and they are trying to convert each to another state like they're trying to make the. state but creating anarchy and what do you assume is actually good result of all the times they have been trying organizing for the last four years for some of the major political parties that you can be the main opposition party has been supposed to. take a look at some other stories from around the world a coal mine blast has claimed twenty seven lives in southwest china emergency services were able to save the other eighty one trapped inside although one man later died of his injuries another twelve miners were earlier killed by an explosion in a neighboring province as china's mines remain among. the most dangerous in the world. thousands protested in cities across israel on saturday against proposed a sturdy measures due to be debated early next week the plan maps out tax hikes and welfare cuts aimed at saving the government more than five billion dollars middle
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class is likely to be hit hard by the finance minister's proposals this election campaign promises to support them. police in new delhi have used water cannon on protesters marching towards the indian prime minister's residence there demanding his resignation and us to geishas into garage in allegations this comes after two ministers resigned on friday and the mounting pressure against prime minister singh. as unemployment and cuts by in the u.k. british taxpayers will now also have to cough up for another five million pounds for their queen to carry out her official duties there well pay hike comes as her majesty promises to stick to staring in her annual speech outlining the government's dislike of programs as artie's boyko now reports my ministers first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability at the same
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time the creed is set to get a five billion pound pay rise this year thirty six point one million pounds from the u.k. taxpayer will go towards the queen and her residence says her royal chefs and footman cost an estimated ten million pounds a year thirty six million is divided into money which runs the royal household of the queen and the duke of edinburgh most of it goes on salaries also on the upkeep of royal palaces such as buckingham palace and windsor castle and all royal trouble at home and abroad the british monarchy has become synonymous with the image of britain because it is the world's most high profile monarchy the queen of ages seven and a consul the duke of edinburgh at ninety one are remarkable examples of
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public service and of national unity but the cost to the public purse rises steadily as austerity sets in the five million pound increase in the queen's expenses from the states represents a fifteen percent rise in vital services are being lost while the queen gets this big pay rise i think it's very unfair given that she is personally one of the wealthiest people in britain where the personal wealth of an excess of three hundred million pounds the rules. he has over seven hundred servants six palaces they can quite clearly afford themselves to cover any increased costs they shouldn't be begging for the state it's a royal spectacle such as the daily changing of the guards at buckingham palace the drugs and terrorists from around the globe but in these times of austerity some of beginning to question why the wind says comments tighten their belts along with the rest of the queen's subjects poll found that eighty eight percent of brits weren't
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happy with the pay rise think this should give more to the poor not to get too much money the future of not overly impressed to be honest i'm sure she's got more than enough money to survive when she. brings in quite a bit on the toys some whatever but where does it go where where does it come people there because i'm ok where. they're being kept but where does it our progress going on money elsewhere in europe royals have had to raid best spending in the face of public opinion the spanish royal family's budget has been reduced for a third year in a row the british monarchy actually stands out around the world it's completely different to almost every other molecule that you can think of in the sense that they are still surrounded by so much home and circumstance and all the marching bands and the. the horses the wide alongside the fronts of carriages the published figures suggest that the royal family the queen and everybody else process around
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something close to forty million pounds a year but doesn't take into account all the extra security all the police work that that's involved in protecting her and the rest of the royal family and it doesn't take into account the money that's lost to the sticker because she and prince charles in particular get lots of tax privileges that the rest of us aren't entitle to and while the government has pushed through budget cuts to the national health service and slashed welfare as part of an unprecedented austerity drive there are those. that say that prime minister david cameron's promise that brace him is all in it together doesn't include the queen of england. just how for you find out why sauza portuguese are heading for the exit and also what lies in store for ghana stand on its neighbors when u.s. troops pull out next year.
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any time anyway. welcome back here with our team portugal's unemployment level hit a staggering eight hundred firsthand this week with close to how the population of young people now out of work are just peed all over reports cores of portuguese are hurrying up to jump ship from job for jobs and better prospects abroad. leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's needing to work outside viktor is a journalist he's heading off to angola to work for a magazine because there just isn't work in portugal that allows him to support his family he says this is a problem that affects all portuguese society you have. people working
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in construction ok so with with low education. and then you have the middle class upper class journalists financial direct. commercial direct. advertising agencies portugal is in the midst of an unemployment epidemic around twenty percent of the population are out of work and those with jobs off basing salary cuts with many families trying to live on under five hundred euro month as more and more portuguese people look to make a new life for themselves abroad just how easy is it to make that dream become a reality this is where ricardo comes in he often rates a website telling people what to expect when they decide to make the move. of marketing. quantum so it's not for everybody i saw
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a lot of people decide that they would move to somewhere like brazil only for it not to work out i tell them what to expect and how to make the right choice also there are so many scams out there people saying that they will help you get a work visa disappear right after they get your cash he's emigrating him self at the end of the year but he worries about the country he's leaving behind. you were facing a serious brain drain in portugal oaken three educates people but can't employ people so. well left with a grain population. graying population are all too aware of where the current situation will leave them here several times you stop my pension gets cut time and time again soon i'll get nothing but. i'm waiting for the day they asked me to go back to work. for young people like a nation yeah the decision is clear they are off to presume for a new life in
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a country they say can give them what portugal just can't ask them in the fuzzing we don't want to they reach out and move in for the money we are movin so that one day we can earn enough to start a family leave normal lives here now if you can get a job its all slave wages for perhaps three years thats not living. these are all of our t. portugal. worth checking out on our website right now red tape blocks the ambitions of a killer there we did a mass murderer anders breivik wanted to start a fascist organization but his prison panel application has been turned down because the other filing wrong. and another earthquake will take you behind the scenes of the crown one as russia's great cardinal suddenly steps down this week on r.t. dot com we take a closer look at gladys loves to recall
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a leading architect of presidential policy. the american civil liberties union is warning the u.s. public against being bogged down in too much debt the group's revealed figures showing a rising number of people who fail to pay their debts and fines and a behind bars without a court verdict and practice is being criticized as unconstitutional but it's alive and kicking in the state of ohio has more in a fortnight now explains. a midwestern us state. internationally recognized for being the battleground where america's next president is decided let's talk about the importance of ohio and in the battle for ohio state eighteen electoral votes means so much elbows paid a lot of attention ohio ohio. you're probably going to decide the next president of the united states for the past thirty six years no candidate has entered the white
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house without winning this swing state while ohio undoubtedly wields an enormous influence in the arena of u.s. presidential politics the state is currently garnering headlines for its prisons specifically the medieval type punishment being imposed on countless citizens who are drowning in debt. according to a report released by the a.c.l.u. of ohio thousands of citizens are. illegally being locked behind bars because they are too poor to pay their debt and we saw some really troubling numbers one case that we looked at out of mansfield ohio there was a gentleman and his crime against the community was he let his dog walk in his mobile home park without a leash he was fined thirty dollars and he ended up being found in contempt of court and was sent to jail for not paying for a thirty dollars fine open what we're doing is going to change that fifty five year
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old jack dolly was incarcerated three times for failing to pay nine hundred dollars in fines every ninety days you had a jail date. and if you weren't working well you're going to jail. i don't have a problem all i was working playing on my fines that they set me up on a payment program which was reasonable for me but upon losing my job i had no income debt prisons violate the u.s. and ohio constitutions according to the a.c.l.u. most of the defendants weren't given hearings before being jailed for outstanding fines if the court had taken any time to ask whether or not they couldn't afford to pay that they would see that these were people who just simply cannot pay they were individuals who are homeless many who haven't worked for months if not years people who are disabled people who are taking care of disabled family members these are people who are working and just don't feel like spending the money these are people
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who literally have no money people like dante stiles who is unemployed and says he often has to choose between feeding his two children or paying his fines a promise so back and forth back and forth in court back before of constancio ten days here fifteen days here and while the cash strapped citizens are incarcerated in gutters prisons. there are fines keep growing like credit. card interest it's described as a vicious circle it was seven hundred thirty three thirty seven dollars ok at the eleven days when i went back to court at the core course and pernod the public defended it went up actually two hundred dollars more than one point eight million ohioans reportedly live in poverty and more than four hundred thousand are unemployed i want to get it behind me dolly lost his job last year after missing work for a ten day sentence in debtors prison just part of the job i was probably there not quite a month. i was expecting a paycheck so i'd gone in early to get
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a paycheck so i could go in and pay on my fine my release was terminated from my job dolly has received a fifty dollars credit for each of the sixteen days he was illegally imprisoned but most like styles have not and the state revered for predicting america's presidents has garnered a new reputation for how it punishes the poor. archie ohio as american troops get set to leave afghanistan next year neighboring india's nerves are already beginning to rattle the rapidly approaching withdrawal is heightening seniors' to the afghan taliban will spill over into the volatile region of indian controlled kashmir expert on south asia after a party says the region may be overwhelmed by extremism. his main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable what's nato troops withdraw
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and by the stony intervention might increase there may well be another round of civil war and that will turn of my star into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. it is an unstable part of india and one's fellow man and other militant groups in afghanistan and in understands tribal areas. become more active there's no control over them then they could influence trade didn't greater numbers in kashmir and there's a lot of of course all of the what it. and i had our t. takes a seat was a.j. jacobs esquire magazine editor at large the restless man of a gay male living experiment by selling everything from. wealthy british.
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choose the stories that entire life choose the access to your office. author and journalist a.j. jacobs is a man of many experiments one year he lived according to the bible also another two were dedicated to becoming the healthiest human being look most recently it's remarkable it holds ten hours of video as wired magazine's editor at large spent twelve weeks logging his life now live it sticks in there and it fills whatever
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you're looking at documenting every second with a camera that looks like an oversized bluetooth. this so-called self surveillance seems extreme but in an exclusive interview with r.t. jacob says it's only a matter of time before the majority will be living this way but a.j. jacobs thank you very much for sitting out r.t. thank you. so for the past fifteen years you've essentially made your life a series of experiments you told me at least twenty five experiments you've conducted. why have you decided or why did you decide to do this but i think it's the best way to learn about something is to become a human guinea pig so if i want to learn about religion i try to live by the bible if i want to learn about outsourcing i outsource my own life so that i feel it's a good way to learn how to improve your life because after the experiment maybe i
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won't do everything i did during the experiment play always take away something that makes my life a little better are you capable to live a normal life as a normal human being while you're doing those. you know it depends on the experiment but sometimes it's quite difficult sometimes it takes over your life and drives my wife crazy let's talk about what if your most recent experiments it's the life logging experiment that you conducted for about three months he was sensually were videotaping every minute of your life rafts right from them to moment i woke up until the moment i went to sleep i had a little camera in my ear that was videotaping everything and the idea was that our memories are terrible and this was a a way that where i could actually remember so when i got in an argument with my wife and she said oh you never said that that's now you told me that before i would i could actually say well let's go back to the videotape and see what really happened and how transparent can a life of a human being get when you're recording every second of your day well it's a it is
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a bit of a problem because you know we do things that that are a little embarrassing but i thought this is sort of taken the whole idea of facebook and twitter and taking it to its logical extreme this is what we're going to be doing where all of our lives are going to be on the record so we're all going to be like politicians whatever we say will be recorded are there any destructive you know elements to that oh yeah i think it had some big downsides i mean just the when i went over an argument with my wife you know that was horrible because it was a lose lose because if i was wrong then i was wrong and if she was wrong then she just got angrier so there are problems with it but there are also great things about it you know when i have kids and what ever they did something cute i always had it on tape but didn't the way that your friends behaved with you did their interaction didn't change i mean how do people change when they know that you're
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videotaping them yes sometimes it's freaked him out so some would you know literally dive under tables to avoid being videotaped but it also had an interesting. in fact because people act of a little better they you know people didn't want to gossip in front of me so it will be interesting when everyone has these little video cameras which i believe is coming and then i think we'll see maybe the world will be a better place you also describe conducted another experiment called the unit tasking experiment tell me about well this was because i'm a terrible multi-tasker so when i'm on the phone i'm also you know typing e-mails and watching t.v. and riding my bicycle and you know everything at once but the studies show that's terrible for you and that is actually not efficient.
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