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turkish police are the first with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over turkey's support for the armed rebels. sectarian ribs are deep in iraq with one hundred thirty people killed and since a winter day with some of the worst bloodshed in yet sparking fears of a return to seven civil. laws the u.s. security for wanted again with the arrest of a suspected terrorist who got into the country norfleet just like the boston bomb. it's ten pm here in moscow you live with us on our d.
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with me to bang with a turkish police have fired tear gas at protesters in a town near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago. similar clashes in istanbul and ankara demonstrators are angry over turkey support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks in the firing line journalist manual often writer who's covered this syrian crisis extensively says was aggravating the conflict. the turkish demonstrators the turkish people is upset because of what was happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a fire starter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder that the fire starter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey
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doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing the border from turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorist training camps. turkey is giving supply a lot of means and turkey is right now acting like a hostile power towards the moscow's if it's a the so-called. more moderate rebels claimed a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the front. the troops as they call raids in the fight against them i suppose so if the winds helps us now or in turkey says we support the moderate rebel it's it's not true because nobody can assure a god comes from the hand of a so-called moderate rebel in the hand office or call to extremist rebel i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. iraq's again finding itself torn and strife today bringing sixteen new
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deaths across the country gunmen have killed a family of and terrorist police officer in 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 losses rather the deadliest day in over eight months worth attacked him when two bombs exploded outside a sunni mosque in baquba killing more than four dozen people the government is deadlocked with iraq as soon as he says they've been marginalized ever since u.s. troops topple saddam hussein. is a u.s. congressman who believes america must clean up the mess they 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 an. end even if there is horrible military violence going on there i mean the questions being raised is are reengagement going to help i don't i doubt it seriously but i think we do need to do is to remember that we 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. one expert on praise for iraq and told us how he believes us some nations are trying to use iraq's sectarian rifts to break up the entire region. you know you're. the arsonist after the fire i mean the stage created it's you know it's you rewrite them you know they see this as one big sectarian issue to break up the whole entire
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region into. all the really capable and it. cannot be i mean truly the french against foreign intervention in the region all this this whole situation. engineer and if you break up and start. including iraq. and is back to start national has been arrested on federal terrorism charges in the us he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihadist movement the man had ended america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stalled of yes' that washington's failing to screen potential terrorists as marina expects. 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 what prosecutors have charged for but often with conspiring to provide material
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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 nice but 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 affect it 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
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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 of cyprus clearly washington does not have enough resources to monitor each and every name on the list and as. recent developments tell the u.s. government has also failed that terrorists from entering or leaving the country morning from new york bring up or not march. but he was keeps
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a database of know no suspected terrorists the with iran seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was the dead boston bomber he was considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon atrocity wonder terry a news editor told us the massive list of suspects may be too big for the u.s. to handle the great ironies is that the more information together and we do press or security organizations together more and more and to know more and more but somebody has to process that information is the more information you 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 china's hundreds of thousands of us a million names in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with any one of those names anything useful diminishes the larger the database comes 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. the
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cyber currency big coin has suffered another setback after u.s. authorities are seize the accounts of its major operator and now hampers the process of exchanging bitcoins which now stands at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit so why is the u.s. government so worried about the currency and is the big coin able to beat traditional currencies now to take part they use as much for as download a virtual wall it onto a computer or mobile device will then get an address for this while it can transfer a big point to the wallet of another user for small charge and or without banking mediators now from a distance it may resemble web money all the pay pal system but i keep differences anonymity all transactions are encrypted and untraceable if this feature that's ringing alarm bells creating a space where arms and drugs can be brought and sold alongside more innocent goods this isn't putting all of us some big investors and this week alone
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a big related startup one five million dollars in backing big software developer and me to use theirs or the lack of middlemen is what makes the use of digital currency so appealing to the public. the big system i feel is really simple system because it's based of this concept of open source so i can download the source code for a pic or in a new can read for it and you know like how someone can speak french or spanish or english i can read source code and i can read the source code and see that it does exactly what it says it does it's not really powerful where i have because it's not on my computer and i send it over the internet direct to someone without any middleman whatsoever using software that i wrote myself completely when i have a bank account i don't know what happens in that bank account i don't know who is dealing with are all the middlemen and institutions that we pick winners none of it's total control over your money it's proper free trade not the not the fake kind
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where you need to register corporations or special companies and then your share of the market because of regulations it's kind of money where anybody in the world can participate paper lauren is blocking access from over sixty different countries worldwide because it doesn't have any of these restrictions or limitations and the payment system is used as a political tool to shut down speech on the internet and that's why the big quantify important. we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency let's take a look at what you've been saying so far all the half of you say the federal reserve is trying to exert as much control as it can over the finances not more than a third now at thirty four percent of you believe that the u.s. wants to retain its control over people's freedoms only seven percent consider washington's attempt to make big coin users pay taxes and the final few this hour at only six cent think that the american government generally wants to stamp out
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a big point facilitated crime i had to r.t. dot com and have your say. right america's family drug store in a critical condition that's because patients are being forced to use the impersonal big chain pharmacies but tell you why. why europe's a simmering neo nazi movements are becoming an increasing concern will have more of that off of this.
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killing spree killer though in. some of the. treatments that the consensus. to the opinions that you have a great tool. to use to stories get in the. truth. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have these healthy guinea pigs in the regular society and i label be used prisoners i mean
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more they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. to pop the deadly pills he didn't pass away he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him get. his pharmacy really about helping people. welcome back to society dozens of neo nazi activists have rallied in berlin with the extra police drafted in to cope the growing popularity of far right movements is raising concerns across the european union of investigates what's fuelling it from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups and making their voices heard in you that. it's meant to
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finance crees in 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 don't see groups golden dawn and her organization divided by the critics says hooligans and thirds of hurlburt by their supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they systematic and not going to preach hate and cultivate. but they attack systematically immigrants at the present golden dawn of the most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias can see artists it's not only in politics that extreme right views are
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permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is because cut the d.s. so the midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what this meant and here in germany a country which experienced firsthand the horrors of naziism right wing extremist groups are springing up right now attention in germany is focused on the murder trial of their to know as the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell claimed to have murdered immigrants in one policewoman in 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 a right wing groups that grew into today's neo nazis as well as on 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. as 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 the goals like am. part of it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking answers with the right teacher all over. there's more news up from germany at our dot com including a new kidney am is in had burke it's revealed that one of the bases biggest cities . was on the brink of the radiation disaster earlier this month we have the details online. the so-called the syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace targeting a string of western media outlets one of the latest hacking victim is on a website. the
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news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. during corporations rule the day. well being expected to pay our way as a few more. of us but not everyone is coughing up the big firms spend a fortune without getting away with paying a pittance in duties and as countries like britain which are being called on to sort it out of quality boyko 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 loyalty eight of the footsie one hundred companies in the u.k.
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run the holding or 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 is about the possible years promising to climb 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 mike lewis who also 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 one in five of the world's tax havens are under the u.k.
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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 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
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prepared to act in order to stamp out the culture of corporate tax avoidance. r.t. . now to some other news making headlines around the world of the boy seventy seven. after its landing via collapsed when it touched down at one of moscow's international was luckily all a hundred thirty five on board the jetway that he waited safely on the runway with no reported injuries seven planes on the route of the knuckles international had to be diverted but they're back in operation an investigation is now underway. in rome with thousands of workers have rallied against the country's austerity policies calling for urgent labor forms italy's going through its longest recession decades the new prime minister enrico letta is facing a tough challenge to sort out the punishing measures introduced by the previous gun issue is youth unemployment which has sold to almost forty percent.
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france's president or longer has signed into law the release allies ation of gay marriage it was the flagship social reform of his election campaign a year ago despite majority public supported months of mass nationwide protests involving hundreds of thousands of people right now francois longer suffering the lowest popular ratings of any recent french president. scuffles have broken out in korea during a thousands of strong ready demonstrating the release of from the ukrainian premier yulia timoshenko at least ten people have been injured tomasz uncle was sentenced to seven years in prison in twenty seven years of office while signing gas deals with russia two years earlier. that american the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is really rapidly becoming extinct personal treatment of from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains
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at thought are the pharmaceutical majors and insurance firms teamed up to stifle the competition as an associate 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 we're from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.b.s. competition from mom and pop shops and steeper than ever in places like the big apple where rent alone is sky high small neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stands for the city overflowing to join chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture in american life that in
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now as the big chains move then not only do the prices tend to go up but they squeeze the little guys out 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 the medication if they feel that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of the cost of the medication sarah for audio 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 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 at our pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s.
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the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took a prescription to her insurance card bill ditto for insurance found out she cannot fill any. 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 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 that. 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 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
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pleas and obvious economic benefits of money staying in a community instead of corporate giants bank accounts the sort of general end 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. right on the way ruthless reporting beyond that what you usually see on t.v. and breaking the set with the station for that. the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme
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of post nine eleven america i noticed pushing the keep you safe at any cost more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg originally 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 to occur and 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 sam paul 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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what's good folks i'm an all right this is breaking the set the will is police 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 nineteen people were shot including two ten year olds and the shooter was at large for a week so where was the media's round the clock coverage from the scene of the crime where was the police state where was homeland security in the f.b.i. where were the tanks and swat teams keeping people in their homes until they caught the guy oh wait i forgot we're talking about the inner city they don't have terrorism they have gang violence so yes this is where the disconnect lies when people are shot in the middle class suburbia it's national headlines but when it comes to violence in new orleans or the south side of chicago well.

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