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i mean they really believe. sectarian rifts deep in iraq with one hundred thirty people killed since wednesday with some of the worst bloodshed in years sparking fears of her turned to savage civil war. turkish police clash with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over turkey's support for the armed rebels. plus u.s. security sward again a weather wreck their arrest of a suspected terrorist who got into their country lawfully just like the boston bombers. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital five am here on marina tashi welcome to
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the program now iraq's again finding itself torn apart by bombs and sectarian strife gunmen have killed the family of an anti-terrorism police officer in his own home and baghdad while on friday at least seventy six people died in a series of blasts in and around the capital iraq's deadliest day in over eight months of the worst attack a one two bombs exploded outside a sunni mosque in book hoover killing more than four dozen people deepening political turmoil has left the government deadlocked as a price to lead a country made up of radically different groups iraqi sunnis complain that they're being marginalized by the shiite led government ever since u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein if allison is a u.s. congressman who believes america must clean up the mess created. i think we. have an obligation to stay engaged with iraq. diplomatically and developmentally. militarily quite honestly i don't i am i am not convinced that we can
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meaningful improvement to the situation with some point our role in iraq militarily needs to come to an. end even if there is horrible military viler of the violence going on there i mean the question needs to be raised is our reengagement going to help i don't i doubt that seriously but what i think we do need to do is to remember that we helped create these conditions and we haven't are going obligation and you know we've got to make sure that i mean if we can play a diplomatic role to help cease the violence we should and if we can certainly help rebuild this country i think we have a moral obligation to do so because we are part of turkish police fired tear gas of protesters in a town near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago and rest follows similar clashes in a standalone ankara demonstrators are angry over turkish support for this year in
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rebels which they say is putting terrorists at the firing line or world affairs journalist and broadcaster neil clark says ankara's aggravating the conflict that has made a. lot of blood and blood here because in august two thousand liberty took a leading role in trying to talk with the syrian government allowed to be placed in the country's government arms to them an equipment and now it's sort of blowback targets in terms of going into this week and this will only continue until turkey changes course in relation to syria will be absolutely suicidal depression exact order to turkey knowing that very powerful countries in the west are just itching for any any excuse to military attack the country to bomb the country so the last thing they would get would be trying to bomb turkey so it's absolutely absurd i don't know who was responsible for these bombings but it's clear that what they did how it's done is it is actually neutral to turkey in this. and understandably turkish citizens not just those on the border with syria the country are getting
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increasingly angry and the army returned discourse to show restraint here because we have any evidence as to who is responsible for these products and i think. there is a great because it is in time policies because what he's doing increasing the tensions here are he's backing the rebels he took a gamble in august two thousand agreement that the syrian government very shortly and let there be a nice islamist government in power in damascus to be very friendly to turkey it's backfiring as it happens and i think good of you know the position to getting it worse and worse i. hope i'm wrong we're going to see more bombings i'm afraid because that was before turkey and of course the rebels themselves are fighting amongst themselves between the radical islamists not so bright that it is risky and it will happen in turkey now and the join up european project is looking at least united in years and fine and france says britain is to blame present a lot of cues as the u.k. of splintering the e.u. by pledging a referendum on quitting it and that it's now up to him to navigate europe out of its mess british here on pm martin and ransomed says french won't change the mind
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london and the u.k. is trying to drive its own economy in the best way possible i think orlando is criticizing a u.k. when in fact he has plunged his own country into this deep a long term recession so really the u.k. is not here to take lessons from a socialist government. with high taxes passports the country he says own country into severe difficulties even mr hollande is asking . and this will require a new treaty so the acacia names into neutral david cameron could really interviews are numbered off beneficial. for the
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united kingdom and eventually also i say he has promised a referendum so i don't think it's mr land they saying it's causing any damage or to this really influencing any situation in the united kingdom. and britain indeed does have bigger fish to fry as we report later this hour despite promising to tackle tax avoidance one in five offshore havens are british jurisdictions and the billions of dollars being siphoned into profits are starving developing countries the most. it is time for us to settle this question about britain and europe. david cameron's under increasing pressure to guarantee a vote on the u.k.'s future in the new level of britain's european partners fear that such a divorce code is a strong pick. and is back to stand ashton has been arrested on federal terrorism
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charges in the us he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihad is movement the man had entered america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stoked fresh fears that washington's failing to screen potential terrorist as marina planes. a thirty year old was pakistan national has been arrested on a federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily missed the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged for but often with conspiring to provide material support to the islamic movement of uzbekistan an american designated terrorist organization and off he was arrested in boise idaho where he has lived since immigrating to the u.s. it's also kind of what's not clear is how a man allegedly tied to a terrorist network was able to bypass the u.s. is seven hundred billion dollar national security apparatus and enter the country
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some would argue that homeland security officials should have thoroughly vetted it was back and rejected his application for refugee status but when it comes to the u.s. homeland security system expensive doesn't necessarily equate to affective according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s. justice department temporarily lost track of true former terrorists who participated in america's witness protection program now the independent investigator found that officials at the witness protection program failed to share the fictitious identities that had been created for terrorism linked witnesses with the f.b.i. terrorist screening center that's the agency that maintains america's terrorist watch and no fly lists so as a result some participants of the witness protection program that were put on a no fly list could have flown commercial flights without approval in the meantime
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the u.s. that of these use to track suspected terrorists has reportedly reached eight hundred seventy five thousand names that's more people than the entire population of cyprus clearly washington does not count but our resources to monitor each and every name. on that list and as recent developments have challenged the u.s. government has also failed to keep suspected terrorists from entering or leaving the country according to new york bring up or not are to. the u.s. keeps a database of known or suspected terrorists with around seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was the dad boston bomber who was considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon at prosody one libertarian the news out of there or told us of a massive list of suspects maybe too big for the u.s. to handle the great irony is that the more information together and we do press or
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security organizations together more and more and more and more but somebody has to process that information is the more information it gather chances are the less you know to do it and he did it and he data that's in that database so you can have it as many names and as you will on soon as hundreds of thousands of just a million names in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with any one of those names and if he useful diminishes to the database comes the more information we scoop up the less we do it so we can we can talk about security measures all day long but if we can have an open society people are going to come and go and someone will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects. america's family drug stores are in critical condition and that's because patients are being forced to use the impersonal big chain pharmacies that tell you why. plus why europe similar neo nazi movements are becoming an increasing cause for concern.
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with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a told destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact a swelling in mexico whatever happens here throughout the whole world now we're eating at us in the in the know in the eighty's you know all the organs. so are. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. welcome
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back you're watching r t coming to live from the russian capital now in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct the personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains at its heart are the pharmaceutical majors and insurance firms have teamed up to stifle the competition of the sea it now reports. pharmaceuticals in the us a major money maker. huge drug store chains are popping up on every street corner with multiple locations and list services when reid is writing whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.v.s. competition for mom and pop shops is steeper than ever in places like the big apple where rent alone is sky high and neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stinks of
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the city overflowing the joint chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture in american life that in now as the big chains move then not only do the prices tend to go up but they squeeze the little guys out the pharmacists however small pharmacies have more issues than just the increase of big box shops health insurance companies have been merging with drug stores taking away americans choice of where they can get their medicine if they fell at my location they would have to pass a fifty percent of the cost of their medication if they feel that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of the cost of the medication sarah fraud who has had her shop in a small community in upstate new york for about six months offering personal attention and a more intimate approach she's built a good reputation with the locals fast i'll do it right now but the pharmacist says an increasing number of her patients have been learning they have no choice but to
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do business elsewhere at a joint pharmacy across the street but they do is we just had one this week a woman came in she wanted to fill her prescriptions out our pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s. the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took a prescription check her insurance card bill bittorrent charan's found out she cannot fill anywhere besides c.b.s. moseyed hosey and runs a pharmacy new jersey and is faced with the same obstacle he says he has lost a fifth of his. patience because of these deals the big stores are able to make negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that they get they get paid more than what we do and then. they when they purchase their medications they purchase them at a lower rate than what we purchased them. even though there have been pushes from small pharmacy lobbying groups to get in the way of the tricks used by big chains huge corporations simply have more money to lobby their interests even if sued they
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pay the fine and move on meanwhile the small businesses fight on to stay afloat allow us to compete freely with each other as businesses and we go out of our way to give the best customer service and be as friendly as we can despite the pleas and obvious economic benefits of money staying in a community instead of corporate giants bank accounts this sort of general and of the middle class story which sadly has been the macroeconomic story of the last really forty years here in the united states thanks actually angela friendly neighborhood shops that used to be what made the american dream possible could soon be a thing of the past and if they see churkin or party new york. now in our state of calm for you right now a new clear on the mess in germany it's revealed that one of the nation's biggest cities was on the brink of radiation disaster earlier this month but we have the details online. plus the so-called syrian electronic army turns up the hate in cyberspace targeting a string of western media outlets find out who the latest hacking victim is on our
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website. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations rule the day. dozens of neo nazi activists have gathered in berlin with extra police drafted in to cope the growing popularity of far right movements is raising concerns across the european union here all over investigates what's fuelling it from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups and making their voices heard the.
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financial crisis affected everyone and it has allowed the right wing organizations to give people someone to blame for their problems it's those people's fault that is how they were cruet. greece has seen a marked increase in support for far right to the nazi groups golden dawn an organization derived by the critics says hooligans and studs all hurled it by their supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and their systematic. breach and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants at the present golden dawn have made it further than most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias confetti ottis it's not only in politics that extreme right views a permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is because cut the d.s.
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so the midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what the salute meant and here in germany a country which experienced firsthand the horrors of naziism right wing extremist groups springing up right now attention in germany is focused on the murder trial of betty shopper know as the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell and claimed to have murdered nine immigrants in one policewoman in the early two thousand after nine hundred forty five are told about what happened in the war on the holocaust of course but some held on to those ideas when the wall came down we saw last rise in right wing groups that grew into today's neo nazis as well as n t fascist organizations members of germany's mainstream right wing party the n.p. d. sis that their policies are the only way to tackle the current problems facing the
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country then view as if we is german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go broke we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can't yet. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking and says with the right teacher all over our city. now the cyber currency big cohen has suffered and the other setback after u.s. authorities seized the accounts of its major operator and now hamper the. process of exchanging bit koreans which now stand at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit so why is the u.s. government so worried about the currency and is a bit coin able to be traditional currencies to take part users must first down a lot of virtual wallets on a computer or mobile device and they'll then get an address for this wad and can
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transfer bitcoins from one account to another or one user to another for a small charge and without banking mediators so that's a plus now from a distance may resample web money or the pay pal systems that existed before but a key difference is anonymity of course all transactions are encrypted and untraceable so it's this feature that's ringing alarm bells creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent kids so this isn't putting off some big name investors though and this week alone a big coin related start up one five million dollars and backing it out as professor a little rock will says it's the lack of governability and control of the currency that's alarming the authorities i think the fear is that conventional methods of finance are so corrupted and so looked upon with a negative mentality that masses of people are examined in ways and there are
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dozens of them to get around to alleviate to avoid some of them are of course criminals they want to avoid for those reasons but the majority of people involved are really expressing a sense of economics out of control of an economic system that is working that is making inequality unbearable and everyone is looking for something that will allow them to escape the rules as they are. all right we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency so we're conducting a poll now on our web site called let's now take a look at the results of this poll so so far the most popular vote is that the federal reserve is trying to exert as much control as i can over finances that's thirty five percent of the voters now over a quarter believe the u.s. wants to retain its control over people's freedoms slightly fewer than half think
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that the american government generally wants to stamp out big coin facilitated crime while the minority supports the view that it's washington's attempt to make the point users pay taxes so you also let us know what are you saying by taking part in this online poll here on our dot com now we're all being expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us but not everyone is coughing up the big firm we spent the big firms we spent a fortune with are getting away with paying a pittance and duties and it's countries like britain which are being cold to sort it out especially boy reports there are one hundred of the u.k.'s biggest companies but new research shows that they're still cutting corners by saving money on tax ninety eight of the c. one hundred companies in the u.k. run holding all subsidiary companies offshore these include high street giants such
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as barclays bank and tesco it's unlikely to make easy reading for the british government which is about the possible promising to close down on corporate tax avoidance no action aid is the charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm here to talk to text policy expert mike lewis who authored the report where these findings come from. mike thank you very much for joining us the british government's been promising to clamp down on tax avoidance for a while now we've seen a number of stories and scrutiny towards companies such as starbucks and amazon and google so it looked like progress had been made but what did you find when you looked at the bigger picture a new research found that tax haven operations and companies are almost universal amongst the world's largest companies the u.k. has a particular responsibility here one in five of the world's tax havens are under the
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u.k. jurisdiction what's the link between overseas tax havens and the developing world. the link quite simply is that the developing world in developing countries are suffering from tax avoidance further and faster than the u.k. and other countries so the o.e.c.d. estimates that developing countries lose up to three times more money to tax havens every year than they receive in international aid this is g eight provides a real opportunity particularly to tackle the problem of tax havens and tax avoidance what we need from the g eight is a global deal that forces tax havens to disclose assets and wealth. and forces them to share that information with countries from day one thank you very much for joining us they have as you've just heard david cameron has promised to tackle the issue of global tax avoidance at next month's g eight summit which britain will be chairing but so far it's unclear how firmly britain is prepared to act in order to
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stamp out the culture of corporate tax avoidance. r.t. . and i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world north korea has a fired three short range guided missiles into eastern waters with part of a routine test saturday's launches triggered on the rest in the neighboring south which has now strengthened its patrols tension on the korean peninsula had plateaued recently after spiking in march after the north launched two missiles and conducted and the other nuclear test. francis president alond has signed into law the legislation of gay marriage and was the flagship social reformer of his election campaign in a year ago spybot to worry public support it stirred months of mass nationwide protests involving hundreds of thousands of people right now francois line is suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any recent french president. and next our financial show prime interest and away.
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a fairly dickinson university study has revealed the twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative and that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is at an all time low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun
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video game battle where freedom fighters topple the statue of the dictator and then democracy just instantly comes about and life is good and happy i don't ask you to ignore movies like v. for vendetta and look at history revolutions cause horrible destruction that could take decades to repair i guess what when your economy collapses because a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and a foreign powers would of say fundamental can revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha and goodbye alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and is truly the last resort but still is a resort but that's just my opinion.
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good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm hearing i'm boring here and washington d c and here's the headlines that i've been tracking all day. development than what we've coined the bloomberg eight can ten use of the pie even our expectations our favorite shadow regulator promissory freemium so a group will now be assisting bloomberg and revamping its privacy and data standards promissory with the same firm that was part of the botched independent foreclosure if you there's no word yet on who are prominent tory will be spearheading the bloomberg you have heard the bloomberg broker dealer operations are regulated by that do you see this is the very agency mary shapiro just left when she joined promissory last month. and speaking of the as you see it we're now targeting exchanges the broker dealer regulators for alleged violations.

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