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turkish police clash with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over turkey's support for the armed rebels. sectarian rifts deep in iraq with one hundred thirty people killed since wednesday with some of the worst bloodshed in years marking fears a return to savage civil war. plus u.s. security sward again it was the arrest of a suspected terrorists who got into the country lawfully just like the boston bombers. this r.t.
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coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program how turkish police half fired tear gas at protest hours 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 istanbul and ankara demonstrators are angry over turkish support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks and a firing line world affairs journalist and broadcaster neil clark says anchors 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 talk with the syrian government allowed to be based in the country as 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 relation to syria will be absolutely suicidal pretty sad to order one turkey knowing that very powerful countries in the west are just itching for any and any excuse to military attack the country to bomb the country
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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 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 of the change course to is going to show restraint here because we haven't heard any evidence as to who is 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 the war's been bought to turkey and of course the rebels themselves are fighting amongst themselves between the radical islamists the not so bright that it is mischief and and it will happen in turkey now. iraq's again finding itself torn
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apart by bombs and sectarian strife gunmen have killed the family of an anti-terrorism police officer and his own home in baghdad while eight of his 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 eight months the worst attack came when two bombs exploded outside a sunni mosque in baquba killing more than four dozen people the government is dead last with iraq the sunni's who insist they've been marginalized ever since u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein he's also known as 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 not convinced that we can meaningful improvement to the situation with some point our role in iraq
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militarily needs to come to it. and even if there is horrible military violence going on there i mean the question needs to be raised is are 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 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. why x. period of post-war iraq told us how he believes some nations are trying to use iraq sectarian rifts to break up the entire region. and you know you're. also going through the fire i mean the stage made it all the it's you know it's. you know they see this. as one big. issue to critique of the
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whole region into. all the really gay people and that. i mean. against foreign intervention in the region that this whole situation is engineered and it's great that our little. iraq. has pakistan national has been arrested on several terrorism charges in the u.s. he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihad his movement the mad and toward america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stoked fresh the years that washington's failing to screen potential terrorists as maria now explains. a thirty year old was pakistan national has been arrested on a federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily admitted to the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged cross lehmkuhl but often with conspiring to
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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 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 a fact it 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
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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 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 tell the u.s. government has also failed that terrorists from entering or leaving the country
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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 host no threat just months before the marathon atrocity one of our tarion news editor told us that a massive list of suspects may be too big for the u.s. to handle. the great irony is that the more information you get heather and we do press or security organizations together more and more into know more and more but somebody has to process that or the more information together chances are the less you know to do it and he did it and he data it's in that database so you can have it as many names and as you would want to in this hundreds of thousands of civilians in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with any one of those names and if he useful diminishes or do the database comes the more information we scoop up the less people. so we get we can talk about security measures all day long but if we're going to open society people are going to come
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and go and someone will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects now dozens of neo nazi activists have gathered ember land with extra police drafted in to cope the growing popularity of far right movements as raising concerns across the european union pay all over investigates what's fueling at. from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups are making their voices heard in news. it's midafternoon screens this 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 nazi groups golden door and organization divided by their critics as hooligans and studs heralded by their supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they
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systematic and the brits hate and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants present golden dawn have made it to the most they have elected officials on their books including greek m.p. elias can see ya this is not only in politics that extreme right view is a permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is the order to stop the b.s. so the field is down for like 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 with tension in germany is focused on the murder trial of that to shout but no it's the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell that claimed to have murdered by immigrants in
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one policewoman the two thousands after nine hundred forty five are told about what happened in the war on the holocaust course but some held on to those ideas when the wall came down we saw last rise a right wing groups that grew into today's neo nazis as well as fascist organizations members of germany's mainstream right wing party the a d. sis that their policies the only way to tackle the current problems facing the country is in view. if we as german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go to throw us we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can then via tide this is part of 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 of a job america's family drug stores are in
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a critical condition and that's because patients are being forced to use the impersonal big chain pharmacies will tell you why very shortly. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a total destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here. we're. in the in the open in all the wars and so forth. why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system.
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what about you watching are they coming to you live from moscow in america this miller face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct a personal trait from small community drugstores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains at its heart are the pharmaceutical majors and insurance firms who teamed up to stifle the competition as a society and in our 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 aid whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option we're from new jersey so we go to c.v.s.
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. one in new york doing read but mostly c.b.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 stands for the city overflowing the joint chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture in american life it in now as the big chains move in only 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 merican 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 the medication if they fill that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of a cost that the medication sarah for audio has had her shop in a small community enough to get new york for about six months offering personal
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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 do business elsewhere at a giant pharmacy across the street what 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 ditto for insurance 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 patients because of these deals the big stores are able to make that negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that they get they get paid more than what we do and then. when they purchase their medications they purchase them at a lower rate than what we purchased them out. even though there have been pushes
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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 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. but the macro economic 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 or party you know. now an artsy dot com for you right now and they'll clear the air of this in germany it's revealed that one of the nation's biggest cities was on the brink of earlier this month and we have
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the details online. plus the so-called syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace targeting a string of western media outlets find out who the latest hacking victim is on our website. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks to feel like p. interview intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit or a big. call. now the cyber currency bitcoin has suffered and the other setback after u.s. authorities seized the accounts of its major operator it's now hampers the process of exchanging big horns which stand at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit so
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the question now is why is the u.s. government so worried about the currency and is the big coin able to actually beat the traditional currencies to take part users must first download what's cold a virtual wallet on to a computer or immobile device and they will then gets an address for this wallet and can transfer vickery's to the wall of another user for a small charge without banking mediators so that's a plus from a distance it may resemble web money or pay pal system but a key difference is year. and amity of course all transactions on corrupted and untraceable and it's the feature that's running alarm bell screening a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent goods however this isn't putting off some big name investors this week alone because i relate a start up one five million dollars in backing american economist richard wolfe
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says a lack of trust and vengeful currencies is pushing many to the digital alternative i think the fear is that conventional methods of finance are so corrupted and soul looked upon with a negative mentality that masses of people are inventing ways and then 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 though the rules as they are and they are called want to find out what do you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency let's now take a look at the votes that we've got so far as you can see over
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a half of you say the federal reserve is in fact trying to exert as much control as a can over finances out more than a third believe that u.s. wants to retain its control over people's freedoms and this hour there is a tie actually between who saying that the american government generally wants to stamp out because facilities crime and those who suspect it's washington's attempt to make big coins users pay taxes so let us know what you think by logging on to our website. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. during corporations rule the day.
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and we're all being expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us not everyone's coughing up the big firms we spent a fortune where they were getting away with paying a pittance and duties and as countries like britain which are being called on to sort out work on our reports they're 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 footsie one hundred companies in the u.k. run the holding all subsidiary companies off shore 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 a charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm here to talk to tax policy expert michael lewis who also the report where these findings come from. mike thank
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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 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
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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 wealth hidden on their shores and forces them to share that information with all 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. london. with some other stories from around the world and rose thousands of workers have rallied against the country's a security policy is calling for urgent labor reforms italy is going through its longest recession in your prime minister enrico letta is facing a tough challenge to sort out the punishing measures introduced by the previous
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government. another urgent issue is youth unemployment which has soared to almost forty forcing. friends this president has signed into law the legislation of gay marriage and it was the flagship social reform of his election campaign a year ago majority public support. stirred months of mass nationwide protest involving hundreds of thousands of people right now front lawn is suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any recent president. north korea has fired three short range guided missiles into eastern waters reportedly as part of a routine test saturday's launches triggered unrest in the neighboring south which is now strengthening its patrols tension on the korean peninsula have plateaued recently after spiking in march after the north launched two missiles and conducted another nuclear test. violence hit spain's capital in the
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early hours of saturday when police and athletico madrid fans class during the victory celebrations fighting erupted when police in tampa to disperse thousands of fans who have blocked streets in the capital the trouble followed an intense derby with city arch rivals real madrid which let it go beat for the first time in fourteen years. allan the way here in our teens thirty minutes of ruthless reporting with abby martin and breaking the sad missing. a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of
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americans think that a revolution will just happen in america but it needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than 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 an all 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 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 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
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a foreign powers would have say fundamentally revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha and good by alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and it's truly the last resort but still is a resort but that's just my opinion. we speak your language as. some of the will not advance. the music program some documentaries some spanish more matters to you breaking news a little too negative angles the stories. you hear. in troy all teach spanish to find out more visit. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i
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mean the town i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally apologize and. worse cheaper to locate the white house to give it to the radio guy and put up a minister of a click cause they all want to watch closely or about to do good you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's good folks i'm at all rob long this is breaking the set the world is police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the mother's day parade shooting in new orleans seventh ward last weekend doesn't ring a bell maybe it's because the corporate media is largely ignored the event a man was caught on camera shooting indiscriminately into a crowded parade.
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