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we've. media drug free media gogarty dot com. turkish police clashed with demonstrators in a town near the syrian border in the latest protest over turkey support for the armed rebels. and sectarian groups the deep in any rock with one hundred thirty people killed since wednesday with some of the worst bloodshed in yes' sparking fears of a return to savage civil war. the u.s. security for water again with the arrest of a suspected terrorist would go into the country just like the boston bombing. a warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v.
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with three to one with a turkish police have five guest said protestors in a town near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago the unrest upon a similar clashes in is some. demonstrators are angry over turkey support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks in the firing line journalism money well off some writer who's covered the syrian crisis extensively says the anger 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 doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing the border from
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turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorists training camps. in turkey it's giving supply a lot of means and turkey is right now acting like a hostile power towards moscow's if it's aid the so-called. more moderate rebels claimed a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the fraud and. the troops as their comrades in the fight against hamas this so if the west 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. extremist revolution i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. meanwhile the u.s. state department has dismissed to media reports of that russia recently delivered
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advance of cruise missiles to syria officials say the armaments were in fact shipped to more than a year ago with no violations of international law russia has long stressed its supplies to damascus in accordance with contracts signed before the syrian crisis broke out more than two years ago moscow says it's not supplying any weapons that could be used against civilians and is not striking any new arms or shipment deals with damascus the u.s. and its allies some of whom i directly arming the rebels have criticized russia's ties with syria a muslim untamed that's not supporting any side of the conflict and has been trying to mediate peace or through diplomacy. iran so again finding itself torn apart by bombs and sectarian strife today bringing sixteen new deaths across the country gunmen have killed an antiterrorism police officer and his family in his own home in baghdad while eight of his colleagues were abducted at road west of the capital
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on friday at least seventy six people died in a series of blasts in iraq's deadliest day in eight months the worst attack came when two bombs exploded outside a sunni mosque in killing more than four dozen people the government is deadlocked with iraqi sunis who insist they've been marginalized ever since u.s. troops topple saddam hussein keith ellison is a u.s. congressman you believe that america must clean up the mess they created. we. have an obligation to stay engaged with iraq. diplomatically and developmentally. militarily. i don't i i am not convinced that we can meaningful improvement to the situation with some point our role in iraq militarily needs to come to him and even if there is horrible military violence going on there i mean the question is be raised is our reengagement going
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to help i doubt that seriously but what i think we do need to do is to remember that we'll 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 if we can certainly help rebuild this country i think we have a moral obligation to do so because we are apart. one expert on price war in iraq told us how he believes as some nations are trying to use iraq's sectarian rifts to break up the entire region. you know you. also missed. the fire i mean the station created all this you know it's. you know they see this. as one big. issue to break up the whole entire region into. all the really. and it. cannot be i mean the french
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against foreign intervention in the region all that this whole situation is engineer and it's you break up and current including iraq. coming up in the program cutting corners despite promising to tackle tax avoidance one in five also havens are british jurisdictions and the billions of dollars being listened in to profits are starving developing countries. and is 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 his movement the man had entered america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stoked a fresh fears that washington is facing to screen potential terrorists as marion about my experience. a thirty year old was specs and national has been arrested on
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a federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily admitted to the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged as leadin corben off 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. the house of ninety four 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 according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s.
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justice department temporarily lost track of two 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 that's more people than the entire population of cyprus clearly washington does not have enough resources to monitor each and every name. on that list and as recent developments have challenged the u.s.
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government has also failed its back to terrorists from entering or leaving the country according to new york bring up or not r t. the us keeps a database of know now suspected terrorists with iran a seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was the day boston bomber he was considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon trost a team one libertarian news editor told us the mess of 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 more and more but somebody has to process that information as the more information it gather chances are the less you'll be doing any good if he datum it's in that database so you can have it as many names in there as you will on china's 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 in a few useful diminishes the larger the database the more information we scoop up the less people in that so we get we can talk about security measures all day long
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but if we're gonna have an open society people are going to come and go and someone will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects. the cyber currency because one has suffered another setback after u.s. authorities are seize the accounts of its major operator it now hampers the process of exchanging big coins 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 a big point able to beat a traditional currency is not to take part users must first download a virtual wall it onto a computer or mobile design advice the learner then get an address for this while legend can transfer big points to the wallet of another user for small charge and without banking mediators not from a distance it may resemble web or the pay pal system but difference is imo no multi all transactions are encrypted and untraceable it's this feature
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that's a ringing alarm bells creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent good now this isn't putting up some big names investors though and this week alone a big point related start up one five million dollars in backing bricklin software developer he says the lack of middlemen is what makes the use of digital currency so appealing to the public. the big system i think is really simple system because it's based of this concept of open source so i can download the source code for a new can read for it and you know like. someone who speaks 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 what i have because it's sort 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 iraq thank you card i don't know who is
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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 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 what 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 now we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency here's what you're saying so far over half of you at fifty three percent say the stats are all reserve is trying to exit as much control as it can the finances more than a third now at thirty four percent believe the u.s. wants to retain its control over people's freedoms only seven percent consider it
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washington's attempt to make big queen users pay taxes and finally a six percent of you all say this our american government generally once a to stamp out big corps and the silage say to cry but i had to argue dot com and have your say. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the i p interview intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. write some news adjust in here and see a pulse full bloss has reportedly rocked of the syrian capital according to state t.v. residents in one neighborhood say they heard a logic splosion but there are no immediate reports of any casualties we'll bring
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you all updates on this story as we get more information. now america's family drug stores are in critical condition that's because patients up being forced to use a personal big chain pharmacies will tell you why plus. why europe simmering near nazi movement saw becoming an increasing forceful concern will have more of that off to the. wealthy british soil. from time to time on. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kinds
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a report on our. thanks for staying with us you're watching our team dozens of neo nazi activists have rallied in berlin with actual police drafted into the growing popularity of
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far right movements is raising concerns across the european union but all of investigates what's fueling it. from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups are making their voices heard in new york. it's modafinil crees in 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 door of her organization divided by their critics says who gives a thirds of heralded by their supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they systematic and the brits hate and cultivate.
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but they attack systematically immigrants at the present golden dawn of the most they have elected officials on their books including greek m.p. so long as the artists it's not only in politics that extreme right views are permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is geared to just cut the b.s. so the midfielder found 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 better 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 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
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when the wall came down we saw last rise in 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 country. if we as 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. 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 our city. those monies are from germany at r.t. dot com including a nuclear. and hamburg israel that one of the nation's biggest. was on the brink of a radiation disaster radia this month we have the details online. plus the
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so-called syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace at targeting a string of western media outlets find out who the latest hacking victim is on a website. today vorlon game. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. during operations throughout the day. in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains at the top of the pharmaceutical majors and shores firms who's teamed up to stifle the competition as. reports.
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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 read right 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 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 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
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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 put a fifty percent of the cost of the medication if they feel that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of the cough the medication sarah fronto 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 joint 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 to her insurance card bill bittorrent charan's found out she could
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not fill any. aside c.b.s. measured hosey and runs a pharmacy in 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 meet that negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that 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. 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 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 the sort of general and of
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the middle class story which sadly has been the macroeconomic story of the last really forty years here in united states great thanks actually enjoy our friendly neighborhood shops that used to be what made the american dream possible could soon be a thing of the past and they see churkin our party new york. now to some other news making headlines around the world now there's a boeing seven hundred seven called fire its landing gear collapsed when it touched down at one of moscow's international abel's luckily all one hundred thirty five on board the you to add a jet way vacuity to safety on to the runway with no reported injuries seven planes on duty of new global international had to be diverted but the airport's now back in operation an investigation is now underway. scuffles of broken out in kiev a during a thousand strong rally demanding the release of former ukrainian premier you may have to miss shanker these ten people have been indicted too much sankoh was
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sentenced to seven years in prison and twenty left. this was lining dusty with russia tree years. in rhymes all those of workers have rallied against the country's austerity policies calling for urgent labor only forms it is going through the longest recession in decades the new prime minister enrico letta is facing a tough challenge to sort out the punishing measures introduced by the previous government and other urgent the issue is youth unemployment which has soared to almost forty percent. france's president has signed into law the legislation of gay marriage it was the flagship social form of his election campaign a year ago this by majority public support its third month of mass a nationwide protest involving hundreds of thousands of people right now and is suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any recent french president.
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now well being expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us but not everyone's coughing up the big firms who spend a fortune without getting away with paying a pittance. and it's countries like britain which are being called on to sort out political 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 c. one hundred companies in the u.k. royal 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 is about the possible years promising to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance now actually is a charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm here to talk to turks policy expert mike lewis who authored the report where these findings come from. mike
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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 universally 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 developing countries lose up to three times more money to tax havens every year than they receive in international aid thank you very much for joining us david cameron has promised to tackle the issue of global tax avoidance
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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 stacey explain how logical capitalizing on and suspecting. a fairly dickinson university study has revealed the twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution was just happened in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if responded to consider themselves conservative and that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news. found out that
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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 is 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 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 were to say fund american 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
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a resort but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here. reporting from the world talks about six of your people interviews intriguing stories are you. sleeping. arabic to find out visit arabic. welcome to the kaiser report i max kaiser you live in the real world and one of the inflation declining wages right.

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