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e.u. flags but after they believe in the president's agenda is diverted grounded and such and iraq to death by latin american leaders a kidnapping and humiliation for the entire continent. changing of the guards they have celebrated as befitting the egyptian leaders fall from grace and face arrest while islamists lick their wounds before many projects will be new clashes. prominent players on the financial stage given itas cyber currency beat coin and search for an alternative to mainstream count.
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hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news life from moscow my name is you. story not latin american countries or c they are the e.u.'s decision to ground and reportedly such a jet carrying the believe and president over rumors a whistleblower edward snowden was on board or was the entire continent some riling to believe is cause he's an expression of ski has the details things are not looking so good for the diplomats european diplomats accredited in latin america countries some of them may actually be expelled in particular those working in believe the that will be more clear after the emergency summit of they want us to organization which unites most of the american countries which will be held on thursday some statements will be produced following this nightmare flight of ever more all is through europe last night we've seen an unprecedented solidarity from all the american countries on the matter they've all been very critical of what
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happened with the believe in president now the president of argentina kristie that the christmas. this was the humiliation of the entire south american continent president of venezuela nicolas maduro said this was a dangerous disproportionate and unacceptable aggression a joint statement coming from the colombian government stated that the airspace denial is an act of aggression and last but not least the venezuelan foreign minister described it this. is denial as fascist well this kind of criticism has been coming from all levels in lebanon latin america even from a terrorist organization the fark which describe it as that and that of infamy but clearly the most offended side here were the bolivians with the foreign minister describing this as equating in this to. a kidnapping attempt. this is an unprecedented situation this goes against international conventions and treaties this goes against international law and all the rules that have been
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established over a long period of time this shows disrespect of the country's independence by. the countries involved in hijacking president morales his plane and making a mistake they think that others steal attack invade territories wage wars impose embargoes and go back on their own word just like they do the current policy of the usa and their allies in nato aims at ensuring their role in security at the expense of somebody else's. we've also received a reaction coming from the russian foreign ministry which was also far from have happy about how things pan out for the bolivian president says you suck or somebody out there you are at peace with that is the issue due to the failure of european states to give permission to the aircraft of the bolivian president to fly through their airspace and its forced landing of this special flight in vienna the following should be noted the activities of france spain and portugal could hardly
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be regarded as friendly towards we live here as well as russia from where president mirrors was traveling after his visit to moscow moreover the refusal to grant the right to fly the aircraft could have endangered the safety of the passengers including the head of a sovereign state or europe received the lion's share of criticism for their actions in regards to the bolivian president where some latin american officials saying that despite europe is criticizing what edward snowden has actually revealed still that acted as a colony of washington but of course the united states have also been criticized on this matter because of reports that they may have had a hand in this particular incident in fact the united states never made secret that they contacted countries in europe about snowden possibly traveling through their territory and that she should be handed over to the united states authorities for charges and later trial so this story is definitely far from over we are
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anticipating this summit and believe the emergency summit of all of us who are and what steps will be taking next and as long as edward snowden reportedly remains at moscow's sheremetyevo airport will be definitely seeing more crazy twists and turns to this saga and commenting on europe's role in this candle robert oulds channel the bridge group policy think tank says e.u. states how abandoned their colonial past when it comes to their relations with the . it's an infringement of sovereignty and an abuse and of course you need to respect the independence of other nations and there via the european union does seem to do the bidding of the united states of america which chose to use not really independent in terms of its own foreign policy european union follows what america does it really does seem to accept american foreign policy goals rightly or wrongly but that's not an independent voice any winds are other countries within the european union under the common foreign and security policy so really it does
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mean that the cherished principle of a nation state having its own foreign policy is undermined and that then does leave the country to be be a colony of greater political power which of course contrary to democratic legitimacy the french interior minister has said if edward snowden applied for diplomatic shall take his country there's almost no chance he'd get it all this after the whistleblowers revelations the he was a major target of american surveillance caused furious reaction in the block and ignited a wave of outrage against washington and that maria is here with us in the studio with the details hello there maria thank you very much for joining us now from paris says so the french government was among the loudest voices against us pipe tactics but it's reluctance to help out the very man who actually revealed it all why. well indeed the french minister's comments have come as
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a surprise here after what we've been hearing from french leader francois all around several days ago he has that it is intolerable that u.s. has been spying over french and european union officials and francois hollande has demanded to us to top spy in immediately and has also threatened to stop negotiations over a very ambitious project billion dollars worth project free trade zone supposed to be the largest in the world that u.s. and france and european countries have been working on for years and of course after that people have started saying that. the reason right now. big problem big misunderstanding big between france and america and here is what exactly french leader has said. the world.
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we cannot accept this kind of behavior between partners and allies we are this immediately stop they can be no negotiations or transactions in all areas until we have obtained these guarantees for from also all of the european union. just days after that we're here in france is interior ministry saying that even if former america's national security and agency contract snowden applies for asylum france would rather not to support they say dia and interesting detail here and i want to emphasize that is that france has confirmed it has not received any request for asylum and that means that it hasn't been france's reaction of france's respond to a request but france's own desire initiative to make it clear before maybe edward snowden
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applies for asylum and to emphasize its position in a strong position and it's surprising position. because right now because what especially after what we've heard from french leader as for the trade agreement we know that just the european countries including france have agreed to continue talks over this project with america which means that. francois coleman's over america's fallen activity has been nothing but an act of diplomacy and also an act of populism like ordinary people we have been able to speak to here in the capital paris and political experts are thinking because this is exactly what french alex right and not very people expected and wanted to hear from the leader of their country they want to be strong and independent and they
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don't want to be violated or humiliated but i'm afraid that the opinion we've been hearing here that these are not just but just words and france will not go further but will stop will not go of far from awards accusations. right now comes true actually rights are days where if you nationalize. from paris maria thank you very much indeed as always thank you. and we're now joined live by carroll of on amongst his a member of the belgian. policy mr on amounts thank you very much indeed for joining us here at sa see if i have you with us thank you how do you explain this decision to ground and search they believe in president's plane sure it goes against any understanding of presidents and presidential immunity. well the shameful situation is due to the fact that european governments and european
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politicians european leaders are slavish. to american policy they all are and that's why they they handle this matter in this way. and just days after europe was expressing very vocal actually anger with the u.s. thrashing repercussions of the snowden spying revelations all of those threats just populism. well of course this is a there is a paradox between the fact that during the last twenty years europe your population has been submerged by political silence from all over the world which mostly are very political asylum where is now there is a matter of a clear political asylum that should be hosted instead of. all over europe so in the debate between security and. privacy it is clear that the united states government went way too far in the direction of security and privacy that was
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put on the table by mr snowden should be should include the license to conclude that this is because this is a political matter and that he should be hosted as it was silent so why would france on the view risk a continental scandal just for the chance to catch a my. on wanted by someone else by another country was the logic here. well i think that the logic is the logic of the geneva convention. a political asylum seeks a silent to be defended against the violence eventually violence or prosecution in his country in this case the united states europe should be hosting this person because he is a political silent in the in the sense of the word and in the sense of the convention of geneva that's why there is no other reason he should be safe guardians in europe instead of being chased all over the world because the world
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has. to confront the united states and mr animals very quickly if you can what kind of response are you expecting from latin america on their threats and outrage also going to rain. i can perfectly understand the anger in the south southern america because what happened to their president is unprecedented and i think that european excuse this would be the only thing that could come from europe to the american states. get off on amongst the belgian. party mr animals thank you very much i think you. and consultant adrian salvucci believes the forced landing of the believe in president sends out a clear message that anyone can be washington's next stop it. i think that they
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have made a serious mistake because this is just one more example of the way things are going to be not only throughout latin america but throughout the world already where you have powerful hegemonic totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries bolivia has already the support of other countries that are also modeling to united states like venezuela in a way argentina probably brazil and definitely ecuador ecuador venezuela were about to consider giving asylum to mr snowden and then you have the other countries that are traditionally are aligned to the united states and britain that will definitely try to keep a very low profile on this chilly colombia and even mexico however they are all very much aware of the fact that this is a very serious event and there would probably be some sort of combined action or at least a combined declaration saying that this event has been deplorable because you never know who's next so even a country that is friendly to the united states might find out overnight that it is
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no longer friendly to it. by the hijacker its president also. what they believe in plain ground as part of the u.s. hunt for snowden will washington be held tarr count in breaking the sad abby martin looks like where the unfounded suspicion could be neat. i guess my question is who that whole those obama thing is only after a week of declaring that he wouldn't scramble jets for a twenty nine year old hacker obama forces down the plane of a foreign head of state that's ludicrous and humiliating just imagine if another country demanded air force one to land mid flight based on an on founded suspicion as centrally the u.s. is saying we can do whatever the hell we want even if that means outright disrespecting leaders of nations there will be consequences for this kind of disregard for the world stage and if you think that it's completely insane to join me and let's break the said. look you want to never seen
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anything like that. coming up after the break as egypt celebrates the end of president morsy as a rule except what this with china of power could bring to the country and its people to stay with us. this is not a surprise to me that we've got problems and one time during a time of budget cuts we spend one hundred and fifty billion dollars each year to imprison one hundred sixty six people get more it's become a symbol around the world for america that the evil. free. education free storage free. free.
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free. free. free both video for your media. free media our t.v. dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry is a big. this is all c. welcome bach a day off for a military career toppled the egyptian president the country's new leader is showing the full message to mohamed morsi on those close to him with told john abdi
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having been sworn in as interim anita they trail prosecutor has ordered the detention of the islamist muslim brotherhood supreme guide and his deputy but the swift change of power has infuriated the ex-president supporters who fit further persecution and will be joined later live by our correspondent in the region paul it's he is so stay with us for that and meanwhile former u.s. diplomat john graham believes this is just the beginning of the design order as those kind aside in the change of power well wait for that chance to retaliate. the question now is whether it works he's supporters even though the army seems to have cast their hand. will start a civil war that would mean in many ways going up against the army so fewer hours a few more days it should be clear but right now it's a total chaos and there's more players as well you see all the mubarak supporters
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no regime there is sort of in the background but they're waiting opportunistically for for a moment perhaps then to to gain something of a say you've got the christians the cops who are not anti muslim but nonetheless they're not muslim as either so you've got a lot of different players. on the on the on the secular side you have not one party or two or perhaps a dozen or maybe fifteen different parties none of whom agree totally with each other so you that's where the chaos comes from. on the one of her as has an advisor to the u.s. house of representatives and believe is the deep divisions currently seen in egypt will continue to even to even greater violence in the future you know i published a book the coming revolution and twenty ten in which we've projected that first of all civil society as a whole will rise against the haters that was what happened and generally when you
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have been in egypt then they're going to depart the seculars on the one hand and the more organized islamist on the other hand the islamist won the day in that election then the seculars are going to realize that the it's not just i'm not going to drive egypt into what they wanted initially counter-revolution this is what happened now and i do anticipate that the islamists and i go back to the opposition organize themselves all of this will be ok short of having violence if you harness are going to take advantage of what's happening with these divisions and conduct violence then we may have a scenario closer either to algeria in the ninety's or unfortunately it would be to syria today. and right now we are able to bring our correspondent in cairo paula sneer oh no more the unrest in egypt and what's going on in the country paula nice to see you so can we say this is it for the former president and his team as well as his supporters. well it certainly does seem as if this is it for the
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former president and his supporters or those you see behind me there are celebrations ongoing here in toughness where there are huge numbers of probe morsy supporters who understand and fear that a full army crackdown is on the cards they are living in fear of being arrested already there are warrants of a race that has been issued to the muslim brotherhood supreme guide and his deputy we know in that the former president morsi and his entire presidential office are currently under house arrest they're being held in a military intelligence facility there also at least some we hundreds of waste woman said have been issued for the leaders of the muslim brotherhood the military has already begun rounding up these needed and arresting them now earlier today when we pull mare head of the constitutional court was sworn in as the interim president of egypt he took an oath in which he stated he swears to uphold the constitution he swears to uphold the republican system and respect the constitution
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and law he also said that it was his mandate to safeguard the people and protect the nation those words coming from him and stewart he says that these mass protests are something that should be praised and have managed to you not to gyptian but certainly that's not the witnessing on the ground with the sinking growing divisions within the egyptian society. send was the crisis chile had a fall or. this is a deeply divided society and since sunday when these mass demonstrations started at least fifty people have been killed would. just received reports right now that they are teaching offices in cairo are witnessing behind into trash is not far from them so this is an indication that the violence is far from abated to me also hearing statements from overseas meant to be going to conduct some kind of jihad some kind of whole you will find that they came to my t.v. end because they are not willing to accept this this this this taking away of the
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president having said that though there are statements coming out from the muslim brotherhood leadership they say that they won't be an armed struggle even though they do not accept what they are forming a military to the question of course is whether or not the leadership can control the people on the streets there is likely to be content to be some kind of showdown between state and the army just how this plays out of course will only learn in the coming hours the army has laid out a road map in terms of how it sounds to govern the country moving forward it has of course suspended the constitution it has dissolved the parliament. parliamentary and presidential elections and it is establishing an interim council that is being lead by the film a hit of the constitutional court. right selfies correspondent paula say live from cairo paula thank you very much indeed.
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report the prospects for the alternative cyber currency known as big coin have brightened with some seacrest financial players preparing to open it to investment they win cold twins best known for suing facebook's founder mark zuckerberg over claims he stole the social network idea of planning to float a big clue and trust his case if he'll be him has the details. big coin the peer to peer electronic cash system and an alternative to traditional currencies has had its fair share of controversies as his introduction four years ago and it's now being backed by the infamous facebook suing twins tyler and cameron winklevoss if the proposal for a big coin trust fund is given the go ahead by the securities and exchange commission the twins will contribute their own ten million dollars worth of big coins into the trust in exchange for shares in the virtual currency because it was created in two thousand and nine by an anonymous web developer and can be exchanged
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for other currencies and used to pay for goods and services but it doesn't exist in physical form now the big coin is seen by its users as an alternative to traditional currencies especially during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis as more people began distrusting the central banks but leverage a coin has been linked to money laundering and accusations of drug smuggling which has made the value of the big quite extremely volatile since the start of the year rising from thirteen dollars in january to a peak of two hundred sixty six dollars in april and right now it's at around ninety dollars now their release is also tightly controlled mimicking a central banking systems control over the minting of money which means there can only ever be twenty one million create it right now there's around eleven million is. this factor has led to some to speculate that there may rise. the facebook feud between the wing cost twins and mars are protected in the twenty
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to movie the social network and eventually resulted in a sixty five million dollars settlement so i wonder if they'll be updating their faces with their new venture i think not. multi million us of a cash injection to make placing money into big even easier opening up to more mainstream investors possibly but as artie's maria port meyer found in new york the rebel currency still has a strong grasp over those drawn to its anti establishment charm. it's happy hour in midtown manhattan dozens of bars are filled with after work crowds but here at ever. is where you'll find the big apple's expanding community of because investors think it seems like it's the first new york city establishment to accept the digital currency
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a monetary system free from government and bank control as well as credit card processing fees i would rather everyone pay with a coin than i would with a credit card twenty three year old charlie shrem is co owner of ever and founder of bit instant one of the first big queen payment processing companies when i first came into the space. i was the only person new york city had heard even heard of the coin i was last out of a very v.c. firm in the city and now fast forward to two years there are so many startups i started meet ups we're all friends of the each other there's kind of like a culture there's more credit or if you're good are you built a culture of young financially savvy new yorkers determined to build an unregulated financial system i'll buy a big corner and hold on i'm going to big josh rossi hosts a weekly bitcoin meeting in union square where people can buy and sell the digital coins a gathering data tracks even hedge fund and high frequency traders you can finally
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opt out of a system that you don't agree with like bernanke you can keep printing as much money as he wants to corn users are in effect here holding declines it only makes our big points worth more dollars it's a natural hedge against inflation in a city that serves as the global headquarters for most of the world's largest banks the big quite economy is slowly being embraced by respectable businesses domino's pizza the howard johnson hotel chain and a new york based limo service now accept the digital currency fair to say that new yorkers are able to eat sleep and commute. without spending a dollar online popular sites like reddit and ok cupid accept to be queen cars furniture and tech gadgets have been put up for sale on the trading website craigslist with dollars or digital coins equally accepted and for the anti prism privacy defenders the big b. will soon have purchased power with these burner phones which feature disposable numbers many economists remain skeptical of the long term stability of
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a currency that lacks backing from a single government but not a problem for big question believers if they were complete with the monetary system if they felt it was fair then they wouldn't be looking for an option like bitcoin so you see already the loss of confidence the loss of commitment it's a sign of where this society is going the u.s. government though isn't too happy with the coins popularity it recently shut down our virtual exchange system for the currency claiming it was a money laundering platform i think we've had one hundred years now of what the u.s. government can do when it gets to manipulate a currency and a lot of people are kind of tired of that and they want to expose experiment in a space where you can't manipulate a currency just what would that even mean for money and i think that's why a lot of people are really interested in the space growing enthusiasm for an invisible currency presented to rival the printed greenback marina porton i.r.t. .
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