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but it did. there are global projects against you as jam through giant accused of dominating the world's food markets so much that could view his health as a tourist and spotless upon taking down. a suicide bomber targets police in the capital of russia's republic of dagestan entering a fifteen people if the latest in a string of deadly terrorist strikes in the region. armed militants and they say show french owned during a mine a new shot in return asians will france's move through forays in north africa so i'm not worried the mahdi intervention is fine extremism.
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news horatia the while this is all to see with me thanks for joining it's. a wave of ronnie's as running across the globe in protest over by its head trying to monsanto campaigners and environmentalist in more than forty countries accused the multinational corporation of aggressively expanding into the food market and spreading causes us products some of the largest demonstrations are expected in the u.s. where the company will setup more than a century ago on she's a sissy churkin explains. two hundred thousand participants in the united states alone in about forty eight states a different action is going to be taking place so all of these people planning to flood out onto the streets to speak out against this biotech giant accused of producing genetically genetically engineered food and agriculture accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences that the food that they produce can have on
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people throughout the world because this is a fact a global corporation also accused of the enormous lobbying power that this corporation has in washington for one where the amount of money pumped into lobbying allows the passage of certain acts such as the months and protection act very controversial extremely criticized but also block any acts that would allow our labeling g m o's in the united states so certainly all of these issues but just more generally also people want to bring more attention to what it is that they're putting into themselves what they're eating and how they can prevent huge corporations such as monsanto from creating health consequences for people throughout the world we're definitely expecting to see plenty of occupy wall street activists at the monsanto anti monsanto protest throughout the weekend because many of the issues that are going to be addressed are certainly similar we're still
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talking about the ninety nine percent versus the one percent we're talking about corporations having great influence on politicians as well as wealth inequality that continues to remain in countries throughout the world in the united states but also when it comes to the situation with monsanto all of these issues continue to apply whereas the march against monsanto is against a specific corporation that continues to refuse to listen to the voice of the people existing for over a century yet continuing to do these things that hundreds of thousands of people don't necessarily agree with the occupy wall street movement is certainly expected to be part of this. the global move against genetically modified group started off in new zealand hundreds of people gathered to send a message to the biotech manufacturer is australians have been protesting there that muslims to demand a dram presided ronnie's have also taken place in japan's capital tokyo demonstrators have marched through the streets of europe's key cities as well
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carrying stop monsanto post its activists and make bad of a big corporation is forcing small phone is out of business pushing them into such despair that some commit suicide. if you look at what happened in india i mean there's an epidemic of suicides of the farmers because you know monsanto sold them or cotton here because they promised would do a certain thing and then those seeds didn't perform how they were supposed to know and it drove a lot of these indian farmers into sheer poverty and they ended up committing suicide by the hundreds and thousands more some sort of effect farming communities everywhere i mean in the united states they're known for suing small farmers there's a lot of small farmers at the putting out of business because of the genetic migration into into crops that weren't supposed to be g.m.o. but they're getting cross-pollinate it and then monsanto comes in they use their government cronies to go in and shut down small farmers because. their genetics
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from their seeds that they did have have slowly crept into the into the genetics of non g.m.o. seeds as well despite global the u.s. senate has shot down a bill which would have given american states go thora to decide whether to label genetically modified products the majority of legislators believe people don't need to know whether bad foods also has meghan lopez explains why. for years now americans have been concerned about the food in their refrigerators and more importantly the ingredients in those foods the debate over genetically modified crops isn't only playing out in the fields it's being harvested in the courtrooms as well as within the walls of capitol hill and it turns out the u.s. government might have a bigger stake in the biotech industry than anyone could have imagined a report released by the food and water watch group shows that the u.s. state department played a major role in promoting g.m. foods and crops around the world the report examined diplomatic cables from two
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thousand to two thousand and nine revised the first comprehensive analysis of u.s. policy when it comes to the biotech industry now here are the four stated goals that food and water watch discovered in these cables the first one is to promote biotech interests abroad they try to facilitate trade and encourage cultivation of g.m. crops second up lobby foreign governments to weaken biotech rules you can't after all profit for off these countries if you can't get your products in some of them along with lobbying the need to protect biotech exports by stopping trade barriers like tariffs all this to promote and protect an estimated twenty five billion dollar industry and biotech crop exports and in particular one property monsanto which was the biggest biotech seed company in two thousand and eleven and finally reach out to new markets by pressuring the developing countries to adopt
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a biotech crops the main argument here is that these crops are stronger and can end in security around the world with a growing global population the state department also lobbied against the labeling of these crops and genetically modified foods they don't want any type of labels on them countries from egypt to hungary argentina to mozambique were targeted in these efforts and many of them were very receptive some of them. actually change their regulations as a result now this lobbying started happening around the same time that monsanto admitted to bribing indonesian officials and in attempt to weaken and veyron mental oversight of g.e. crops now in the wake of these cable releases it appears that monsanto and other biotech firms don't need to bribe country officials anymore they have the government to do that using taxpayer money nonetheless it is the latest chapter in a dispute over your dinner plate in washington meghan lopez r.t.
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check out our live updates on the global day of action at our website coleman stay with us throughout the day for the latest on the protest against monsanto as demonstrations go global. with the backing of the government so we see. the world bracing the sea change the march against the sun joe. on our t.v. . fifteen people have been injured after a female suicide bomber blew herself up close to the police headquarters in russia's republic of biggest on at least two children are reportedly among the wounded is the latest in a string or tonks that have shaken the republic recently. hospital. the explosion happened around midday very close to the regions in tara ministry building and according to the locals the blast was so powerful that it could be heard in different parts of the city it was a female suicide bomber she was in
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a car police stopped her to check the documents and at that time she detonated her device currently the area is blocked off by police as there are fears that this blast may actually be followed by another one to increase the number of casualties now this tactic is really well used by terrorists around the globe in particular by the al qaida terrorists in their terror operations in various areas now this blast is just one in a string of latest terror attacks that hit this region just five days ago there was another deadly blast and we are four people were killed and forty others severely injured the region of dagestan remains one of the most volatile areas in russia's north caucasus with reports on terror attacks coming in almost in a regular basis. london police make a new arrest in connection with the which. may be growing discontent against that
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was that community in london also moves whether islamophobia that's gained a foothold in british society. has admitted its troops took part in an assault on a military base in news or have been overrun by islamic militants and followed a twin bomb attack on the base and an outline french own geranium mine a prominent islamist group took responsibility saying the operation was revenge for flounces intervention a personal violence has begun to emerge across former french colonies in africa in january france launched a military intervention in mali to stop an islamist takeover of the country near days later more than eight hundred people were taken hostage by extremists in algeria demanding. and then to francis machine for a dozens of the hostages what are the executed or caught in the crossfire in the ensued the man behind the raid and also african al qaeda leader was believed to have been killed but has now claimed responsibility for thursday's bombings in new
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shed and the act which he says is a retired ational france's actions in north africa this all shows a trend over islam is spreading from mali across the region raising the risk of more widespread time she's maria is in mali. those behind the two three side lost that killed over twenty people in niger on thursday have described this as an attack against braun's in revenge for its offensive against islamic militants in neighboring mali one of the two groups claiming responsibility for almost simultaneous explosions at an army base and a french run your reign in mind in nigeria is the movement for owners and you hard in west africa last year the coddling group seized control over the northern part of mali and brutally ruled the area for months people being driven out of mali by french troops runs as president then failed the operation at success here in the capital the macro the french military we've spoken to have also expressed to us
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that option is confirming they destroyed all the major bases of the militants in mali north but leave this recent attack in niger it's clear that the ground remains serious can it shows that the militants are not defeated and the fight against them is far from over although the battlefield has really hated when the recent loss was what would all be said france would not interfere in niger however the next day french troops took part in operation to free hostages that image and captured off of that attack in a further to half for those who want the french intervention to get a chain reaction that will give paris more travel and will bring in more violence to the entire region. notion altie from mali. also a contributor to how french military action will suppress extremism in the region especially given the natural riches that. there's no doubt that the french
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intervention will lot of changed anything in particular. the idea that streams are all qaeda linked groups are just going to go away friend special forces are left for money into these yeah which usually we knew about because of course the yellowcake uranium saddam hussein deals this is where all the world's uranium you know there's a big fight for whatever is happening in these areas there is a scramble for this uranium french company this uranium mine how strange that its revenues are twenty eleven or about the g.d.p. of the entire country of the what fertile ground to have extremism in any cost. for sure go aims to convince the you it needs more time to deal with its economic crisis as we're reporting the facts on the cellar stairs he's already pushing the middle class towards the red line as people struggle for
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a way out of debt. and quite a scene in children on the margins of society scramble among the pasta no later on tonight it's home it's up to the brain. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. 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 ip interviews intriguing stories
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for you. in trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called. this is all c welcome back we're just going to have arrested a man who claimed on t.v. to be a friend of the main suspect in the day lines do. compensation of a soldier in london wednesday the grease a machete might have motivated by radical islam has already led to a number of attacks and muslims and then my colleague bill don't discount the extent to which muslims and immigrants have been blamed with that eye and and have
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punks had started to call you u.k. and callous cosima from the right wing british national policy this acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p. is a right wing party idea they're not right wing the far right there are a fascist party and the acts of violence that they perpetrate against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors for political means well i got to learn from and i thought it was something to do with my how to help like all those people are all exaggeration here is done by right wing fanatics and i have to come out to the person. the other person who is talking to the signori in completely the fog but i personally have an open dialogue with most in communities that recently i had a debate with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these
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very issues. for employees. will be on the order. to me about the. issue of these racist you should learn about what are you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunne now please we know that we don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from east. people from from they. let me really join their members it also implies meeting our website and some other lunatics who also agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is the mission of the world she is the use or are you not yet if you just awful. it all you know i just ask you shorted the british people died there a poll by what's happened they would stroll response from government they don't want a reaction is going to be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely political correctness
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really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services for intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible i doubt that you take to prevent violence and what about the maintenance as well because a lot of fives you. misunderstand that it is something to do with an intrinsic nature of islam ok mr did mention the fact that you can't have the manpower to track all these people down but surely there has been a lack of surveillance of many people who say we need to step up that now so it was so cold snooping on people because clearly they were on the five radar but they got through i mean is that do you think that people be able to make something very clear. where we don't really know what is how does it let me say this i mean there's a lot of people talking without any access to the information required to make a coherent judgment we know yes that they're one of my partner let me think it was
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a free country and they're even say it isn't all that my own intelligence list and not be tracked at all times i'm afraid that these things do sometimes happen terrible as they get mr critical or they have over my five they hate over my five talking in the car so called ones say that. thousand and five the security services in the united kingdom of a mom or neither. every single. day suspect would be involved you know not the reason that they gave obama a five talking no eat fewer a few carry on. bathing out of countries killing muslims in the duck funny stuff and even he would. you don't you wouldn't have. enough security services to come to the unger of these people. portugal could ask for more time to cut its debt at once
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a year and i'm of course says to revise their demand the targets for the third time despite lisbon seventy billion euro bailout and harsh budget the nation are still in crisis as all of us found out the middle class is being hit hard. europe's politicians insist that all star team is essential but what effect does that austerity have upon the everyday people to whom it's inflicted upon. i went to meet a family just outside of lisbon who are feeling the pressure of portugal's financial failings and. we used to take certain things for granted hard water lights now have to watch everything we use families in financial straits like this want to becoming a common occurrence is the gap between the middle class and the breadline narrows in one of europe's purchased countries. my husband lost his job now will live on
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see the names and whatever work he can get as a day laborer the savings are running out with two daughters and one grandson the effects of portugal's financial plight is being felt through generations of this family and it's leaving its mark i'm twenty years old people my age should be planning for the future but there's no work the way things are now i have no prospects no hope. this family a lucky there are many in portugal and a far worse situation as the country's debt grows and the unemployment levels rise charity organizations are seeing an increase in those needing help push. the we have children passing out of school because parents can't afford to feed them properly how can they learn if they're focused on hunger children from bad parents just parents that can't feel them and there's another worrying trend
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appearing bill sunburn them all too often we see the same thing there are many lose their income they're too proud to ask for help the bells start piling up the mortgage to food before you know it's the family on the street but future is that with the children the problem for portugal is that it has debts around one hundred eighty billion euro one hundred twenty percent of production couple that with twenty percent unemployment and it leads to a very difficult situation for its people the country needs money but it doesn't have the economic output to pay off its bills. however what's of more concern is that the country could see another generation. under the shadow of national debt. my son what i hope you're a good reader is that he can get a job somewhere abroad i can see anything for him here peter all of our team
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portugal. at least thirty author of protesters and gay rights campaigners have been arrested during a haze of the rally in moscow homosexual acts of us were protesting before the lower house of russian parliament when they were charged by christian vigilantes loading icons and crosses police were forced to intervene in driving away doesn't follow science the initial dust ration was intended to protest what has anti gay propaganda laws which activists and rights groups do now it's as oppressive homosexuality was decriminalized in russia in their late ninety's but homophobia remains right. education is the most powerful weapon nelson mandela once said and in a small palestinian community families are taking that advice to heart it's a two hour trek to the nearest school for some young students who are determined to learn against the odds of his policy ever port's now on the daily challenge of grabbing a education. each morning the steep hills of this inhospitable call of the day does
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it come alive with children scrambling down lucky slopes to get to class before the bell rings. some children walk seven kilometers each way they are very keen to learn. it takes a certain kind of dedication to be a student at the school peoples or the coming stream obstacles just to get here. in the winter when it rains a lot of children for their arrival at school with clothes in the summer the snakes are the main problem. then there are others like judge brinn coercion who come by donkey he wakes up at four each morning so he has enough time to ride the two hours it takes to get to class sometimes i fall from the donkey and i get injured one time i cross the street and my friend who was in another donkey got hit by a car but god saved him and he did not die riding on this is not secure especially in harsh weather conditions and up a rocky mountain passes the chances of falling are pretty high it would be
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a lot easier if the community could build a road to the school but they're not allowed to israeli or thirty's say they are here illegally. we always live with the feeling that they are going to kick us out from the camps and we're afraid for our children's future. we just want to live our ordinary lives without fear we have no electricity or water we have no roads. luckily the school is built in line with strict israeli orders but even though the belew mad and straw was cannot be bulldozed neither can they be expanded but for the children and their literate parents it's worth the effort these people realize the importance of education. thriving to feed their kids and also maybe look at the trying to learn. and they realize this importance because they know a very. big cannot for the better it's for the one hundred thirty students it's
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a few hours for spite from the harsh reality awaiting them outside these gates the chance for a future which their parents never had driving them to make sure they get to class whichever way they can pull asli r t y d abu hindi in the west bank. coming up theo announce he is breaking the sats with. paranoia and zero tolerance policies strike yet again the latest in a string of children being punished for making gun noises or playing with toy guns involves the son of a u.s. marine who had the audacity as a child to use his imagination and p.
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pretended his pencil was a gun bang children imitate what they see and on every t.v. channel and in many video games kids are going to see a lot of guns in fact the boy at that moment was admirably pretending to be just like his father a u.s. marine you know guns kind of come with that job description rather than complain you all again about the obvious idiocy of zero tolerance policies against children playing let me give one suggestion to actually help fix the problem there are so many teachers and school administrators across america that i bet many of you know one of them try talking them about the madness of zero tolerance a lot of people do things just because they were told to or they never thought about it before so please dear friends try to get teachers you know to actually think about it i can complain on t.v. all day long but one conversation from a friend or relative really could change many people's minds maybe but that's just my opinion.
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if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got. i mean. i know that i've seen the team really messed up. in the very so closely. it's. worse you're going to see the white house through the. radio and for a minute. they all want to close for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm told. hey guys welcome to break in the said i'm abby martin and environment where real investigative journalism is in serious decline it's important to recognize those
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who go to great lengths to uncover the uncomfortable truths and that's why jeremy scahill is in work is so crucial is the same journalist who blew open blackwater's criminal. and now he's delving into even more dangerous territory to expose the scope of u.s. covert wars with his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. it's hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror with some name of the military but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the shadows. and i great. to see the two men in the guest house for the first people because. you can. because even though those on the you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body. three. were these men that stormed into the woods home and why would they go to such horrifying likes to cover up their actions so to talk about the evolution of the u.s. .
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