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sectarian rifts deep in iraq with one hundred thirty people killed since wednesday with some of the worst bloodshed in years sparking fears of a return to savage civil war. turkish police clash with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over turkey support for the armed rebels. but u.s. security swore to ghana with a year rest of us suspected terrorists who got into the country lawfully just like the boston bombers. it is expanding moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshie. turkish police
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have fired tear gas at protests are in a town near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago the unrest follows similar clashes in a sample and ankara demonstrators are angry over turkish support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks and the firing line world affairs journalist and broadcaster neil clark says anger is aggravating the conflict. they stared has made a. lot of blood and blood to it because in august two thousand lebanese took a leading role in trying to topple syrian government allowed to be based in the country's government arms to them an equipment and now it's sort of blowback targets and terrible goings in turkey this week and this will only continue until turkey changes course in relations to syria will be absolutely suicidal pretty sad to order to knowing that a very powerful countries in the west are just itching for any and any excuse to military attack the country to bomb the country so the last thing they would get
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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 our advance done is it is actually neutral to turkey in this war he bought the war to turkey and understandably turkish citizens not just those on the border with syria but throughout the country are getting increasingly angry and the arm the changes course to show restraint here because we haven't heard any evidence as to who responsible for these bombings and i think early on or to the series a great because it is entire policy because all he's doing is increasing the tensions here are he's backing the rebels he took a gamble in august two thousand and marina that the syrian government will very shortly and that there be a nice islamist government in power in damascus to be very friendly to turkey it's backfired hasn't happened and i think that earth you know the position to it in europe worse and worse i. hope i'm wrong i'm going to see more bombings i'm afraid because there was be more to turkey and of course the rebels themselves are fighting amongst themselves between the radical islamists the not so bright that it is mr and and it will happen in turkey now. iraq's again finding itself to our
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part by bombs in sectarian strife gunmen have killed a family of anti-terrorism police officer in his own home and baghdad while eight of these colleagues were abducted on a desert road west of the capital on friday at least seventy six people died in a series of blasts iraq's deadliest day in over a month the worst attack came when two bombs exploded outside a sunni mosque in bakuba showing more than four dozen people iraqi sunnis camp complained air being marginalized by the shiite led government ever since u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein he's also been is a u.s. congressman who believes america must clean up the mess read. up 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 meaningful improvement to the supposed me some point our role in iraq
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militarily need to come to him and even if there is horrible military 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'll create these conditions and we have an ongoing 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 to par. well stocked up more on this with an expert on post-war iraq dirt every ensigns who joins me now from belgium thanks very much for joining us sir now we don't know that the current prime minister nouri al maliki is dealing with a lot of problems both political and economic so how much of the recent spike in violence as a result in fact of these problems well it's not clear to
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him. or to the beginning in. the neighborhood of imperial parts that they. i don't know if. you remember. in ninety eight. the form for israeli foreign ministry official. order you know the road to follow. me the road and i have to find the exact. door to this integration of the. regional local government is the crucial forty eight out of world iraq it will be divided on religion no and sectarian lines just like syria in the. euro there will be three states in the treat major cities
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now this is very clear so. how much of what is happening now is. just because of. circumstances or it is this engineer it's not clear but i think and many people who. hold that this whole situation is it engineered and it's to break up the entire legally including iraq and syria well they're trying to six here in conflict let's not talk more about it now could it lead to a new civil war other one that we saw in two thousand and six when a two to three thousand people were killed every month in other words how serious is the current. situation there well. we don't know exactly the only thing we know is that it is not the girl westerners
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who bombed them so you know the reason. it's a sunni mosque and. the attacks on. targets you know who does it is the protestors know because it's not in deep interest of the protestors that. we think it's as i said before it's it's more of a foreign power to have their issues there. it's you know it's to the. you know if they see. us as one big. issue to break up. the whole region into. politically. and feeble ultimately it will and that the who cannot be i mean it will be french against foreign intervention in the region while you mention the foreign
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powers there but since the us got rid of saddam hussein and instituted iraq's shia government shouldn't take a role in sorting out the sectarian violence that's growing by the day what do you think. should. you know you ask the arsonist do the fire i mean the united states created all these times and it's a big lie that they. don't bring down drawing their troops but they they did not go off they have security forces they have they have drainage who trained the swat teams who were still accompanying. the operations forces and so on so i don't know what's there and of the united states but i think the sentence of the. israeli foreign ministry official that says it all i mean they should be and that you should leave the iraqis alone and they
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should when they're old as you called from out of mali who in the words he said for unity of iraq but he does everything in his flower to undermine the human being so . what's his game i don't know but he's not for helping the situation in iraq right now and all i could protest there's that he should go ok. unfortunately we're running out of time sir but thank you so much for your side shared with us here on our expert on poll. war iraq there are advances joining me from belgium. right. now moving on and it's back to stand national has been arrested on federal terrorism charges in the us he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihad is movement the man answered america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident stove fresh fears that washington's failing to screen
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potential terrorists as more important now explains. a thirty year old was specs and national has been arrested on federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily admitted to the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged us latine corben off with conspiring to provide material support to the islamic movement of uzbekistan an american designated terrorist organization. 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 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
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u.s. homeland security system expensive doesn't necessarily equate to a fact that according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s. justice department temporarily lost track of 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 the u.s. that of these use to track suspected terrorists has reportedly reached eight hundred seventy five thousand me yes that's more people than the entire population
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of cyprus clearly washington does not count but our resources to monitor each and every name. on that list and as recent developments have to tell the u.s. government has also failed that terrorists are entering or leaving the country according to new york bring up or not part. of 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 and was considered to have polls no threat just months before the marathon atrocity while libertarian news editor told us the massive list of suspects may be too big for the u.s. to handle the great irony is that the more information you get how there and we do press or security organizations together more and more and to know more and more but somebody has to process that information as the more information it gather chances are the less you have nothing to do with any data and data that's in that database so you can have it as many names and as you will want to know this hundreds of thousands of civilian names in there at this point the chance of
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actually doing anything with any one of those names if he useful diminishes the larger the data based on the more information we scoop up the less people in 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 a critical condition and that's because patients are being forced to use the impersonal big chain pharmacies and we'll tell you why. plus why europe simmering me a nazi movements are becoming an increasing cost of concern. they're ready to come here to work and not get paid for it. people from all over the world are eager to help. what does it take to become a volunteer at russia's premier museum why did the son of louvers director come
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welcome back here are with our team 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 as i see it now reports. pharmaceuticals in the us a major moneymaker. 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 small neighborhood pharmacies are all but it
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stands for the city overflowing the joint chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture and american life it and now as the big chains move then not only that 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 for auto 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 giant pharmacy across the street but they do is we just had one this week a woman came in she wanted to fill her prescriptions are pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s. the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took a prescription for her insurance card bill ditto for insurance found out she cannot fill anywhere. aside c.b.s. measured hosey and runs a pharmacy new jersey and is faced with the same obstacle he says he has lost a fifth of his patients because of these deals the big stores are able to make that negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that they get paid more than what we do and then. they when they purchase their medications or 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 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 united states great thanks our financial friendly neighborhood shops that used to be what made the american dream possible could soon be a thing of the past as they see jurgen our party you know. now on our t.v. dot com for you right now a nuclear and near miss in germany it's revealed that one of the nation's biggest cities was on the brink of a radiation disaster earlier this month we have the details online. plus the so-called syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace targeting
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a string of western media outlets to find out who the latest hacking victim is on our website. dozens of neo nazi activists have gathered in berlin with extra police drafted in to call the growing popularity of far right movements is raising concerns across the european union p all over investigates what's fuelling it. from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups are making their voices heard in you know. it's mid-afternoon screens this financial crisis affected everyone and that 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 nazi groups golden dawn had organization divided by their critics as hooligans and studs heralded by their
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supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they systematic and not only breeds hate and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants at the present golden dawn of a distant third with the most they have elected officials on their books including the current greek m.p. elias can see ottis it's not only in politics that extreme right views a permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is just cut the b.s. so the field of sound for life the national team despite his claims that he know what this 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 their fish out there know as the nazi right she's accused of being part of
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a national socialist terrorist cell claimed to have murdered by immigrants and one policewoman and the two thousands 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 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 country. if we as german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go to broke we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can. 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
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teacher all of a job outside our currency at this point has suffered and no other setback after u.s. authorities seized account of its a major operator while it now hampers. the process of exchanging big koreans which now stand at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit so the question is why is the u.s. government so worried about the currency and is a big point in fact able to beat traditional currencies well to take part users must first download the so-called virtual wallet on the computer or a mobile device and then they'll get an address for this wallet and can transfer big coins to the wallet of another user for a small charge of course and without banking mediators from a distance it seems like the web money or the pay pal systems but a key difference is adam amitie all transactions are encrypted and untraceable and it's this feature in fact that's ringing alarm bells creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent kids so
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this isn't putting off some big name investors and this week alone a big coin related start up one five million dollars in backing economics professor early rockwell 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 inventing ways and there are 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 isn't working that is making the inequality unbearable and everyone is looking for something that will allow them to escape the rules as they are. well right now on our com we want to
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find out what do you think is behind america's at hands to clamp down on the digital currency let's take a look how the voters voted so far and as we see almost half of you which is forty five percent say the federal reserve is trying to exert as much control as a can over finances over a third of those who participate in our online poll one believe the u.s. wants to retain its control over people's freedoms only tamper sand thing that the american government generally wants to stand by. while the minority which is about eight percent and supports the view that it's washington's attempt to make recording users pay taxes to us know what you think on this issue by going on to our website r t dot com. all right we're all being expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us but not everyone scoffing up the big
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firms we spent a fortune with her dancing away with paying a pittance in duties as countries like britain which are being called on to sort it out now 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 and ninety eight of the c. one hundred companies in the u.k. run the holding all subsidiary companies offshore these include high street giants such as barclays bank and tesco it's unlikely to make easy reading for the british government which has been the post-war years promising to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance now action aid is the charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm here to talk to tax 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
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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 but the u.k. has a particular responsibility here one in five of the world's tax havens are under the 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
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avoidance what we need from the g eight is a global deal that forces tax havens to disclose assets and wealth hidden on their shores 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 stamp out the culture of corporate tax avoidance. r.t. . and you have today here on our team now one of the best kept secrets i've seen pitt has various legendary hermitage museum is revealed we come back.
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the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and 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 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 simple well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more
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