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thousands of protesters descend on europe's a main banking hob frankford body in the pressure on financial institutions which they say are defending the wealthy while pushing millions of people into poverty also. riots of panic and tear gas in turkey turmoils brads as a protest against the destruction of a park in islam boy as he lays into a nationwide display of banga against the government. the us confirms an american woman has been killed in syria reportedly while fighting alongside the rebel forces they have an incident that illustrates of the growing international impact of the civil war.
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and hunger striking guantanamo bay detainees demands new doctors accusing the military medics of breaching ethics by performing in if the main force feeding procedures. line from moscow this is our t. ime to bomb once a. year of the banking capital is gearing up for another day of street blockades with angry crowds protesting against the way the ease financial woes are being handled. the main financial institutions on friday voicing their anger against the european central bank over the painful austerity measures that are affecting millions across the continent to all of our reports. front but is close to many
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large banks one of the world's largest banking sectors not thousands have come out to voice their anger against the banking sector the way that europe's financial institutions are in their eyes being mismanaged also. showing people's anger has been the latest big is coming out because the unemployment in the euro so now we're hearing all of a staggering nearly two. out soup work inside the countries that make up the monetary union just twelve just over twelve percent of the population now to find out just why people are here in front good to demonstrate i'm joined by contadina put in space from the left policy in germany the student wing of the left thank you very much for talking to me. why are people coming out in such numbers to to vent their anger i think what is happening here in frankfurt today if there are twenty million people out employed in the eurozone especially young people we understand
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that there are no solution no national solutions to this crisis we understand that there has to be international solidarity and international strabo if we are told the banking crisis and there are seventy politics that have been completely destroying the social states around the around europe do you think it's a concern amongst the young at those levels of unemployment that we sitting in the southern european countries like your own could eventually migrate to the north to be a problem yet so it's already happening it's i mean germany is not a paradise in europe anymore that. the wages in germany are extremely low compared to that for the t.v. level and at the young people i'm most two thirds of students have to work hard to finance their studies people have very very bad working conditions they were thinking can stop and then very very few. of the social state in time still exists it will not last forever if we don't do anything today in a fence before the students waiting on the left body in germany thank you very much
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for talking to me to put some of those figures into a little bit more context twenty million we're talking about the population of a large european nation a whole house of work and that's being coupled with just recent news of a rise in inflation around the eurozone most most notably when it comes to food and just last month alone the price of the food rising by three point three percent so whole of these problems seem to be increasing and that's why we're seeing more and more people coming out to show just how unhappy they are with the current situation . michael emeralds are from the european financial bloc. we're seeing in frankfurt is just the beginning of a global uprising against financial tyranny and i think this is one step more twats in the euro zone the eurozone and you has nothing to do with democracy anymore and what i fear most is that all this crisis is this leads to structures which are far
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far away from democracy i mean i don't want to use on boss i want somebody whom i can believe whom i can trust and who i'm also able to elect but what's going on at the moment is people in front of us like in the former university of politicians and their political decide what's going on i think that's not good for the future will take also the japanese take america united states of america fifty million food stamps there this is not a no sorry so we are we have all of the same problem and maybe the occupy and these protests that we see are only the beginning of a vast protest and demonstration all over the europe all over europe but also all over the world in jan and united states as well. while this contender grows on the streets of europe there widening cracks on the political level and the latest raul brussels has been accused of a land grab that come played coming from the u.k.
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to the european commission to the country to court to defend the rights of e.u. citizens living in the country it came to britain as discriminating against people from other e.u. countries while london says it will fight every step of the way to protect its own laws. still your reports. the european commission is once again looking more closely at the affairs of its member states now one that's making particular noise especially among the citizens of that country is the commission's decision to launch a case against the u.k. if the european court of justice because the commission says that the u.k. has the discriminatory against nationals of other e.u. countries in receiving welfare now there's already been reaction from the u.k. particularly angry ones from the government i want to from the work and pensions secretary who says that he will not cave in he says a brussels is once again launching a land grab and over reaching into its areas of responsibilities and meddling into the affairs of national governments now we have spoken to a legal expert to explain to us why the commission has done what it has. a case
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where the commission. for filling the treaty obligations we. know that he wants to have a referendum in two thousand and seventeen you want to renegotiate the treaty. i mean. this latest move by brussels has once again brought to the forefront issues like sovereignty of member states immigration or the pressure put on social welfare systems the very issues that really have led to would increase and support for your skeptic parties and countries like the u.k. now can the commission is looking also at another country and it says that it has received complaints of the e.u. insurance health card which is supposed to entitle e.u. citizens to free health care in public hospitals while they're traveling to other countries within the block and it has been refused by some spanish hospitals so one the one hand you have the commission maintaining that it's simply implementing the rules on the other you have accusations that brussels is once again dipping into
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the affairs of national governments. crisis and very public displays of social dissatisfaction this is yet another stress test for the e.u. as it tries to move forward reporting from brussels i'm tester cilia. later this hour makes kaiser and stacy herbert a look at some of the un unconventional ways in which greeks are hoping to dig their way out of their debt crisis. restrains labor camps for poor taxpayers so if you owe back taxes and you don't have any money to pay it well the government is looking for an army camp in the attic or region two people who have debts to the tax authorities serving their sentence confirm the deputy minister for justice in the greek parliament now he's saying this is a more humane solution because they're building these unique death camps. at a former army base but there won't be any rapists murderers and other sorts in there so we'll just be these bad but sure go in that this is compare and contrast
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here's a country iceland maintain its sovereignty number one and then recapitalized. sterling toward growth period with their currency intact unemployment is looking good greece unfortunately is locked into the euro and they're just they've been taken over they become a vassal state from the i.m.f. and the from the troika and these global institutions so they unfortunately lost their sovereignty. street protest sign doll thing turkey one started a few days ago as a peaceful environmental rally has snowballed into the largest outpouring of public anger the country has seen in the dozens were injured when put it was violently disperse a thousand strong crowd from a park in istanbul and that heavy handed response that triggered the rallies in several other cities there are the latest the pictures from the morning you can see
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the streets of instill a symbol still clouded with tear gas the initial protest was prompted by government backed plans to demolish a park in the center of istanbul to build a shopping mall since that is going into an all to applies to all rally against islamist government in the capital ankara police also used tear gas to push back protesters who were trying to reach the headquarters of the ruling. just as and development poteen collaborate mopin an occupy movement activist told r.t. that public anger in turkey has reached a boiling point. i would say that the people of turkey have a long struggle of struggling against their domestic pressers as well as the bankers and the corporations in the western countries pulled long oppressed and exploited down their revolutionary people who have long opposed and fought against exploitation and it's not a surprise to me that they continued to fight back and continue to fight for the
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rights of the people the current government of turkey is largely a puppet of the western banks of turkey is actually a member of nato and the policies carrying out by the government of turkey are seen as largely being policies that serve the the bankers and the corporations on wall street and in london and also go to aid israel and they don't directly the people of turkey and they don't practice solidarity and ultimately the people of turkey see that it's not in their interest that the policies coming out of the turkish government at this time are not in america that it's in the interest of the rich and they're fighting against them it's a very you know economically desperate situation for millions of turkish people there's high unemployment there's poverty and that's causing the people to go out into the streets and demonstrate you know that's that's the that's that's the powder keg that has been lit and we're seeing the explosion now. on our website r t dot com you can find a live updates on the turkey including footage some photos of the of a night class just and what does a come from all across the country but international peace talks on
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syria that were originally set for early this month have been thrown into doubt syria's main opposition factions says they'd want to enter negotiations until the lebanese a group hezbollah stops wanting alongside syrian government troops meanwhile it's been confirmed that several foreign nationals including an american woman and a u.k. citizen have been killed in fighting on the side of the rebels are teaming up on my as the details. the american woman that killed fighting alongside opposition forces in syria has been identified as thirty three year old nicole lynn mansfield her driver license photo in which she's pictured wearing a headscarf was broadcast by a syrian television station mansfield reportedly converted to islam after falling in love and marrying an arab immigrants according to her family mansfield of forced that man three years ago now the u.s. is reportedly working in the czech republic mission in syria to obtain more
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information about mansfield small but this is not the first case of an american fighting in syria earlier this year erik roun a former u.s. soldier made headlines when he posted videos of himself online in which he appeared to be fighting with rebel groups holding weapons and driving with fighters through contested parts of syria shirl's your days are numbered you're going down in flames you should just quit now while you can and leave. you're going to die no matter what where you go we will find you and kill you ironically the u.s. state department recently demanded that has below immediately withdraw its fighters from syria saying that their involvement on the side of president assad signaled want me out of the war but in the meantime the u.s. state department it seems can't keep track of its own citizens involvement in the
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civil war reporting from new york bring up or not r.t. . the names of the westerners killed fighting for the syrian rebels backs up a recent study that showed hundreds of europeans have traveled to syria since the start of the civil war to find against present assad's regime of those of the largest number believed to have come from the u.k. and the latest incident involving an american woman shows that the conflict is getting more internationalized this is according to stephen zunes us professor of politics at the university of san francisco. well there have been armed fighters coming in know more and more the majority of people the armed resistance of course are syrians but increasingly we are seeing some washers and as well. you know this is it is fairly unusual though to actually have americans coming in in fact ironically just as there are some elements within u.s. government pushing for greater u.s. involvement support the rebels we have other branches the government that have
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actually been no intercepting in prosecuting americans that have sought to join some of the more extreme elements of the opposition with a lifting of the e.u. embargo with a lot of domestic pressure against the obama administration which up to this point is when some are reluctant to get more involved i'm afraid we are going to indeed see more and more western intervention in a greater and greater internationalization of this. coming up later in the program easy access to pirated music and movies could soon be a thing of the boss in russia as a government bails its plans to slap fines on the legal file sarah small and that just off to the soft very. wealthy british style. time to explain.
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markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. they all told you my language as well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports so unlike the push of a no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say. to carry out a call is all you're talking delgado. thank you no more weasel words. when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you run should be ready for a. critical speech and a little down to freedom to question. my
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. thanks for staying with us here on our team a group of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay have written an open letter to their military doctors condemning the force feeding procedures they've been subjected to and demanding independent humane medical treatment thirty six are of the more than one hundred detainees who have been starving themselves for almost four months now being force fed let's now take a look at how the inmates describe a procedure that the u.n. and international medical organizations have rendered as torture now in the open let the prisoners insist that they would prefer death or to indefinite detention without trial and a treatment that they call in humane and degrading and they also go on to talk about the force feeding situation saying that the fact that they being the process of being having achieved repeatedly force up the noses and down their
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throat in order to keep them in a state of a semi starvation is extremely painful and the conditions under which it is done is abuse the letter finishes off by accusing medics of performing an african experiment and putting the duty to the military above the duty as a doctor's earlier we talked to and richardson and attorney for a guantanamo detainee who described what her client is being subjected to. if you ginny's are really attempting to have treatment be restored as human beings and rather than being punished and treated like animals i have had my client tell me many times they treat animals better than they are treating the detainees my client has been kept in solitary confinement many of his items were taken away from him including attorney client mail he was not allowed to have a tooth brush toothpaste or so in his cell for many many weeks i don't know yet
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even if he's got nothing to this day. they have made the conditions a dime's very reason cold for them in the cells they are requiring that they submit to very humiliating searches of their genital area in order to meet with their attorneys or talk with them on the telephone. it is just humiliating it's been difficult for them to sleep at night they are sometimes taken for their showers in the middle of the night so they have to decide between sleep and getting a little bit of cleanliness it's just that. back to your job now where the financial crisis has led to some of those in charge having to cut back on luxuries as french a president of france all along makes his own contribution at an auction selling vintage wine from his collection the with the earnings going towards helping to keep the country's budgets afloat for more details and are to dot com. while you may also learn about supporters of private bradley manning accused of passing off
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classified materials to the whistle blowing web site week reeks of such a rally over the weekend just days before his court martial more on that story at r.t.e. dot com. or maybe this is hard to follow through if. you were. there. protesters besieging a gold mine in north character stan have promised to restore electricity at the facility and that's according to the country's prime minister a state of emergency and a curfew were declared of friday after the angry mob clash with police leaving fifty five people injured details now from tom bottom. around two thousand protesters attempted to storm the mine in eastern kurdistan resulting in violent clashes with riot police at the site dozens were wounded including protesters and
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police exchanges of rubber bullets stun grenades and stones one police bus was set on fire another was completely destroyed a state of emergency has been declared by the government in kurdistan these follow earlier protests where protesters came to try and blockade the mine and cut the power to it earlier the canadian company centerra gold which owns the mine say's these actions are illegal but the protesters have a variety of demands of their own ranging from the redistribution of some of the wealth from the mine to the state's budget increase social benefits nationalisation and concerns about the local ecology and lack of infrastructure the mind itself which brings about twelve percent into the money has been the subject of heated debate in may two thousand and twelve a similar protest your creations of a mind that was just one of a number of similar kinds of protests and the government very nervous about these
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kind of situations because of political unrest in the country in recent years ethnic uzbeks and clashed in the south of the country in two thousand and ten and those clashes followed the overthrow of the president also in two thousand and ten in a short but violent revolution. and the other world the news and now a new barrage of time media's has had the oklahoma city damaging buildings including at least five people is a strike during their rush hour cutting off a major highway and leaving drivers stranded and storm systems spread from nearby. twisters and flooding three lives two weeks ago a series of tornadoes hit the same area in fifteen widespread devastation. nigeria's military has released fifty eight people suspected of having links to the islamist group boko haram in a bid to move towards peace talks and the military claims to have destroyed boko haram as major camps during
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a blow to the insurgency in the country's north east but the leader of the movements that the army is solved is failing many civilians were reported killed in the latest military raid including women and. russians who enjoy unrestricted music and movie downloads and could be in for a shock the country's ministry of culture has threatened to punish online pirates with fines of up to thirty thousand dollars are going up explains why the government is ready to take such drastic measures. everyone likes music but far from everyone likes to pay for it and why bother if so many different online file swappers and torrent websites can offer your favorite tunes for free online poignancy has become so widespread in russia even experienced and internationally playing bands have long stopped counting on any serious profit from the seals their album well for russian people it's kind of obvious to download
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music for free now on the internet and they don't have. such thing in their mentality as if you're a support. artist you like you. records online buy c.d.'s vinyls stuff like that so. this is not happening here how do you end up making money. concerts according to official statistics the shocking ninety nine percent of online media content in russia is counterfeit and nearly seven out of ten citizens openly admit they download for free when the social model movement the financial losses that just as big as the black market itself and not only for cinema but music literature everything connected with intellectual property it's simply impossible to calculate how much we will lose until it's legalized the illegal media market doesn't just sap the entertainment industry's profits but it's
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also affecting the way theatre projects are financed it's no secret a big blockbuster movie needs a big budget the decorations alone need sufficient investment of both craft and cash to completely transport the audience to a whole other reality but right now in russia this cinema magic is a largely possible due to state funding since private investors are mostly scared away by piracy last year alone the russian government invested over two hundred million dollars in the film industry but even that level of investment struggles to tempt audiences back into theaters and away from the pirates now the president is getting involved looking for ways to legalize the content without harming internet users personal freedoms for media bosses a lots at stake. we believe that without piracy films will be able to return twice more investment state and private will say one month or three movie premieres in cinemas it could be released onto the web for free but with adverts and legally.
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parliament is set to review a new anti-piracy draft a bill aimed at punishing. all internet users and not only those uploading illegal content but downloading it as well the best not the end of the story a lot more is in the frame to ensure the pirates don't get the happy ending you go to school of moscow. as promised max and stacy i'm here with the intake on the eurozone crisis and the guys are reports coming out. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will love the u.s. to put
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a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels the seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel factions al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organization with links to al-qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the us government itself has it started something like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra well the free syrian army isn't much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian minorities with great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the tele band and those mujahideen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average
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americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion. you've said i'll teach you to channel rocketing to a billion views from the will spirit of funny disasters to events to continue to change old lawyers join me kevin zero in for more on how you helped make the first global news channel to reach you chub billion. welcome to the kaiser report guys are you know there are more ways to skin
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a cat than choking with butter and there are more ways to kill a dog then hang it let's face it some ways are all lot better than others. rags the cat we're going to skin in this episode is the debt cat and that is iceland gets tough with foreign creditors a failed banks iceland is a nordic free market democracy with glacier cover volcanoes and hyperactive geysers if you're into mind bendingly complex own lyrics there's bjork and sigur ros in the rarefied world of global finance iceland is also where local palms and central bankers trample on the interests of bond holders like a herd of marauding reindeer at least that's the perspective of foreign bondholders and distressed asset hedge funds hoping to recoup their investments the three icelandic lenders lender spankie geitner bank and coutts and banks had defaulted on eighty five billion dollars of debts and two thousand and eight so they have elections and.

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