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nineteen people injured after a mother's day parade in new orleans is sprayed with bullets a manhunt is underway. to get drums up a fresh case for foreign intervention in syria after blaming damascus for a deadly calls aboard a bombing. does athens away the latest cash injection from brussels we'll look at how three years of trade think a bailout has got is the greek economy. and
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welcome to our t twenty four hour news live from moscow i mean you know ship of our timeline story at least nineteen people including two year old children have been wounded during a shooting at a mother's day parade in new orleans is sums up the story gunmen may have opened fire on the crowds details now from our she's going there to check out. new orleans was celebrating mother's day with over three hundred people participating in a parade police say three individuals are believed to be responsible for starting a shootout two four of the wounded though are believed to be in critical condition another public event another tragedy there is a manhunt underway for the three suspects who police believe have managed to escape one of them is reportedly wounded in the same way as investigators of the boston marathon bombings appealed for crowd sourced photographs new orleans police have urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just in boston
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the police are drawing the public into the manhunt certainly putting your by neighborhoods on high alert police are going door to door in search for suspects and of course everyone is hopeful that they will find them but at the same time many are looking at these recent public events which of gone terribly wrong in thinking where the law enforcement can really provide security at outdoor gatherings like this with the boston bombers or could it be early warnings that were missed the perpetrators of this shooting in new orleans we don't know who they are but we do know that in the u.s. there's very little control over in whose hands guns end up guns are freely sold the gun shows and online and all of this makes people nervous about their safety at public events naturally. in the international community to act against its own neighbors syria the blaze the regime in damascus for saturday's double bombing of a turkish town that left forty six dead but see where it denies involvement and
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says that is being used to justify foreign intervention policy and hostile. 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 suspects now the difficulty turkish prime minister says that the organization and 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 right 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 are turkish citizens according to the turkish deputy prime minister and he has stressed that there be no links to the syrian opposition so it has denied that they are behind the attacks these syrian government issued a statement in which it said that we are saddened by the fall of martyrs in turkey in one way or another the turkish people are sunni and brothers the north of syria
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is the region bordering turkey and that's where extremist opposition groups are particularly act. is how many of them could 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 this no good to say that they are not that these radical elements are setting up their own infrastructure and there are many groups among them such as the of mr front and the salafist if you've already done so we have been receiving reports that in aleppo for example there are reports of the some twenty rebel brigades operating and they've set up the machinery of government and justice in three quarters that they have taken over they've set up courts for example that are manned by lawyers and judges they've set up schools they say so that there's no vacuum in the administration and public institutions so you certainly do have this very worrying phenomena that there is a large number of extremist elements that operating particularly along the turkish
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syrian border. runs ago islamist groups have a vested interest in provoking foreign action in syria and could have orchestrated the turkish bombings that's the video they released expert jeremy sold al-qaeda is in syria we know that that's not confirmed the smallest been suspected from the start and so what they're saying now is kind of charge and countercharge as people try to put the blame for this on to someone else the most obvious kind of guess would be that the party responsible for this is one of the groups there's really one has a reason for trying to heat up the situation and dragging out countries it would be them the fact is that they do want is going to washington this week and syria will be on top of the agenda and my my feeling is that the take you want to anybody so that it won't bite if he won't commit america to take him to a more involved solution over syria i don't think that turkey will do anything key issue here is what kind of it is they're going to come up with will they come up
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with any evidence that's going to convince us the distance like was an action carried out by the syrian intelligence service so there's a many many unknowns right now and most everything is going to depend on the outcome of the talks in washington but you know obama and. and we always want to know your opinion and your take on the deadly bombings in turkey in particular just had a to our website altie dot com to take part in the ongoing live poll that and so far almost half of you about forty seven percent of you think the syrian opposition orchestrated that talk to pin the blame on damascus around assad of you believe turkey itself is responsible and wants to provoke foreign military intervention in syria and they don't many of you just round nine and eighty percent of you are saying that the bombings were the work of damascus or extremists with no particular motive so if you haven't already just had to. go under for more insight into the deepening between on karate and damascus his marias the
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notion of from the turkish they were in border. turkey shares its longest border with syria it's hard to imagine now but in two thousand and nine the two countries even held joint military drills across that frontier in what was a brief thaw in relations between the two while commonly syrian and serbian turkish they are so close but it's really only the border that prevents them being a single city people here joke they could have dinner here and syria and coffee in turkey just by strolling through the gates you can see behind me but it's now closed and the relations between the two neighbors are strained like never before changes came after turkey joined the chorus of fellow you need to states and called for assad to step down immediately diplomatic political logistical support for the syrian opposition has made turkey one of syria's key foes there are numerous unconfirmed reports of weapons and ammunition smuggled into syria with help of people on the side of the border either through airports or on land.
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often. in the absence of any convincing denial from the government given the government's policy of saying. what position when you look at the whole picture sure it's not. inspiring pictures damascus has even accused anchor of allowing the rebels to bring chemical weapons into country from this turkish religion at the syrian border you can see tech is military base it's a well secured area with highly restricted access no civilians including journalists are allowed to enter the un they also use a special access roads to get in and out that are also closed for no one military vehicles well if even if accusations of turkish involvement in supplying weapons to fighters in syria true it would be almost impossible to prove by supporting the opposition in syria turkey may pledged its loyalty to nato but this has come at
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a price hundreds of thousands of desperate and green refugees are fleeing from the war zone making the security situation on the border as tense as ever we spend more than eight hundred million dollars for the syrian refugees so it's a huge number now they want jobs in in those cities so it is also somehow affecting the social. stability in this region some say turkey is being used as a proxy by the western and gulf countries hostage to power that's forced to pull the chestnut's out of the fire but there are those who approve of enterprise actions and think turkey should take advantage of that situation if the syrian regime it will be changing and i think it has lost its legitimacy and it has lost its political credibility with its own people that the syrian people will not blame
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turkey or having chosen the. in the period when they were suffering turkey feels that this region these close region. central asia and middle east is a priority region we should be the. power which has influence in all the regions echoing these were the two recent reports by amnesty international and international crisis group global independent movements the documents reflect the concern by western and gulf partners over what they call turkey's near ottoman imperial aspirations what these countries certainly don't want is their loyal ally who paid a high price for being a good team player starting to play for itself. r.t. turkish syrian border. and today's edition of crosstalk also touches upon the share of the ongoing crisis in and around syria and the international efforts to solve it
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. all the parties should be at the table but all the parties will posture all the parties have both said agenda and so far we haven't seen any willingness on the side of any party to move toward a political suit the solution if you want to stop violence in syria you have to get all parties to the table you can't have these kinds of absurd preconditions and you have to have to get down to the business of diplomacy i think russia frankly iran have been trying harder to do that trying the harder to get that kind of process off the ground than the united states has been because to do it for the united states to do this means it's it's acknowledging it can't just dictate outcomes in this part of the world. so don't miss the program
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in full at twelve pm chante here on on c.n.n. also coming up the depths of despair. i went to the pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any there's a problem with this sign these these days it may mean you no longer get the medicines you need join me ten bucks and for more than just a few minutes. now and also later stopping put just it's more than one hundred detainees that americans notorious gone tunnel by a facility continue their hunger strike for a full three months with no sign of backing down that's right after the break. modern russia was built on coal. fuel for its front to raise. hopes for it steal. more goodies it will and heat for its people. join me james brown to meet them and spend their lives underground them. one of the
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this is welcomed by the british prime minister a seeing most of his government ministers come out of the closet as you were skeptics the defense secretary has now joined the education secretary in saying he would have voted for the u.k. to leave the e.u. if a referendum was held right now and for known what that means for the governing conservatives and britain's future within the union i'm now joined live by our correspondent for us in london how thus far lovely to see you so david cameron wants to stay in the you all of us senior conservatives wont to pull out it's the same old story on europe for the tour isn't it. well this is going to look to many like the prime minister struggling to maintain control of discipline amongst his own party a for the e.u. issue you know he seemed very senior figures within his own party education minister michael gave come out and say that he feels that there could be a benefits to leaving the event that sentiment echoed by the defense secretary
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philip hammond he said that he'd vote to lead if the referendum were on the basis of our relationship in britain with the e.u. as it stands today you know rather embarrassing for the prime minister of course because he's in the us at the present time meeting with president barack obama suppressed a trade deal between the e.u. and the us that he claims could bring ten billion pounds that i knew benefits to britain. through the commons the prime minister that chile had a statement where he's where he's responded to these statements from senior figures and he said that he feels senior figures a swing in the tao even before will the negotiation has started now this is in reference of course to his the speech at the beginning of the year where he promised that if the party were they to do with a majority in the twenty fifteen general election that they would then be in out
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west region by twenty seventy all to those who really socially shares of dissidents relationship with the remember a lot of people amongst his own party included want to see a substantial repatch relation of powers from the e.u. but of course there were many unanswered questions and predominately well would actually be considered a failure because of course it there's no guarantee whatsoever that person would get that renegotiation of a relationship as he said it was embarrassingly because the prime minister's now face today with the euro five us president you remember in the lead up to david cameron's east pizza little of us seem to think. coming out saying that they were very concerned with which this blessing with this i did it leaving the e.u. and of course the criticism with his same backbenches so i don't good position for the prime minister and secondly he's going to face book questioning today by the magic and what can you tell us about the general public can move to regarding the
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u.k.'s membership of the e.u. what will two people feel what do they think. well we've seen that sift in public sentiment when it comes to the issues of the sites and neither is being seen to be a writes in and t. e sentiment that's being with flex and somewhat by this a rise in support we've seen the parties like a princess and he recently in recent by elections they've done incredibly well it is spoke about speaks some of the main parties especially the conservative party when it comes to the issue of the ministers want to be seen to be listening and look this is what a lot of people who support what the senior figures have come out and said is that they are trying to reassure the public that there will be a referendum but this issue has been going away for the prime minister at least this week is expected on wednesday there's going to be a vase regarding the queen's speech an amendment to that motion saying that they regret that there wasn't mention of the in out referendum enough the rest that saw
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hundreds of m.p.'s could be expected to vote against their governments led to the legislative position and now that the ministers in the government are going to be able to have staying they're not allowed to join that this is all going to add to the pressure the prime minister is going to be feeling better this sort of backbencher rebellion now around this issue and there's going to be a lot of questions about the prime minister's oglethorpe see within his own party this isn't any problem the split over the issue is an old problem for the conservative party if you can imagine that the other parties right now are going to be absolutely gleeful that this whole family will is once again being played out say publicly. he sounds live from london for many thanks indeed for that have changed. greece is waiting for brussels to hand over the latest part of a massive two hundred forty billion greeks have been squeezed by painful austerity
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measures in order to meet the bailout terms and while international lenders say athens has succeeded in bringing down the country's budget deficit other figures show the greek economy is still in a tailspin as medina explained. has been three years as greece was granted its massive bailout by international lenders since then the harshest measures have driven the economy into the ground but some claim that the risk hope on the horizon for gris and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy fares today compared to what it looked like in the last full year before it needed rescuing starting with the country's g.d.p. an indicator of the standard of living that's plummeted almost fifty billion euros in the last three years while government data has surged by forty five percent so where do the optimists stand while the good news these measures have improved the
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country's budget deficit to three point eight percent to put that in perspective it's now very close to the so that's why the european union but for the greek people though the most alarming trend is the unemployment rate that stopped twenty seven percent mostly the country's youth and that's going to get worse four thousand civil servants are being laid off this year alone with the number is set to triple by the end of the year and during an astonishing six years of recession is also having a harrowing consequence so is signs in greece which used to be the lowest rate in euro are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taken their lives in public hanging or shooting themselves or even self-immolation while politicians and economists shuffle the figures as the people of greece spinning the price with their livelihoods and their futures the crisis in greece may have led to
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a boost in suicides but is just as hard for people looking after their health correspondent tom baltar now reports. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of jesus of medicine and they're worried. what's going to be the. next day price controls and tight cash flows mean many drug companies won't supply them greasers health industry is denied profits and patients their medicines so for example if you came into the pharmacy with high blood pressure many doctors like to prescribe this medication but d.n.a. is just as and have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this it to ation is replicated with hundreds of medicines in hundreds of pharmacies across the country. but the charity doctors of the world in thessaloniki patients are in an even more desperate situation some docs talking about now what i'm really afraid
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about the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job but i don't discard as you know i came here because i don't have insurance and the money to pay for my parents some force to come and the situation will only get worse less people. cannot i went to a pharmacy why injections for my baby but i couldn't find any so now that i am unemployed i came here. forty five volunteer doctors a week battle with as many as two thousand monthly visits in this crowded space they rely on donations of medicine donations that are running from people who are very. very serious health problems such as they don't know jack and problems they have to get their medicine. every month every day it's very serious for the not have their medicine if they do not they could say greeks aren't surprised at
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any of this anymore they've seen crisis and austerity reach throughout their society this is a new think and makes things even here even more difficult than to put. in even more strain on me known because to me the strain of greece's economy on greek workers and now on greeks help worsening scars of a crisis that seems to cut have a deeper thomason party. given all the problems greg says suffering from pena guilt his saltaire is from the university of the ha anthony of celebration they were duction of the budget deficit it's just the government. regards tried to create an image running programs in we're concerned budget deficits by simply slicing public investment and continuing continuously delaying statements about its directions so in reality if if that were extended paid on time
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whatever money he owes we were still have a big deficit so that's why i insisted that this and you know this isn't just an attempt to remain within the nominal terms of the bailout agreement and not a real improvement and on the other hand all that it all or recent decisions from that part of the greek government such as the decision to lay off tens of thousands of public servants of the that the very big wage or reduction in the private sector that will start tomorrow so there are real aspects of it a brick of the government's economic policy a policy if you're one of the recession the amity demands that greece remains to go to other policies that will simply make even worse the humanitarian disaster we are already facing and which was described in your reports just. despairs growing at
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america's gone time obey prison where detainees have been on a mass hunger strike for more than three months the military which runs the facilities force feeding some inmates to prevent them to prevent them from starving to death a protest was sponsored by alleged mistreatment by dogs on the definite detention without charge of many inmates more than hold the one hundred sixty exist chinese at this point will cleared for release years ago but still complete gitta illegal due to legal hurdles on capitol hill lawyers for the captives and activists worldwide are calling for action from washington as barack obama has still not kept is no running promise to shut down the prison. but i think it's such a sham that we hear the president say that guantanamo should be closed he is the most powerful man in the entire world why can't he close guantanamo will he can the question really is why doesn't he call close guantanamo he is lacking the moral
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courage he is lacking the political will he blames congress but really he has the power to release those prisoners who have already been cleared for release demand a speedy and fair trial for the other ones and bring them into the united states and close down the shameful prison at the prison of guantanamo the force feeding seems to be a situation that is analogous to torture and this has been said by the american medical association and human rights experts they say that the way in which this is being done is so painful to the prisoners and those prisoners who have had a chance to get messages out to their lawyers have described the terrible situation that they are in being strapped down for several hours having these tubes stuffed down their nose and into their stomach and it says they say it feels like a razor going down their bodies so this is another form of torture and these
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prisoners have already endured years of torture in the prison in guantanamo. when we come back and look at while the world from other dangerous jobs in the halls of home right after this break. the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america i notice pushing the keep you safe at any cost and blow up more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo
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style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy declaring if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sample well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion.
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it's the. time of massive change. and he wants. to do it. the coal is the bread industry and during the soviet union the miner was held up as a shining example of what a work tireless ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the hardest workers of all were here in siberia. taking the coal that would make everything from steel.
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