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president's jet diverted and searched an act of american leaders kidnapping humiliation for the entire continent the european union does seem to do the bidding of the united states of america which infringes on national t.v. and does leave the country to be a colony of oh great if. the alarm is raised over europe being nothing short of washington's puppet. also the changing of the guard celebrates as the former egyptian leader from grace and are arrested. between the islamists and the results in new clashes. we can see live pictures there from talking square in the egyptian capital where the opponents of mohammed morsi have gathered to celebrate the
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islamist president's ousting. international news and comment on line on the screen twenty four hours a day this is. that's an american country to see the over the e.u.'s decision to ground and reportedly search a jet carrying the bolivian president over rumors that whistleblower edward snowden was on board almost the entire continent is rallying to believe is cause well he's alexian a chef he has the details things are not looking so good for the diplomats european diplomats accredited in latin american 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 latin american countries which will be held on thursday some statements will be produced
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there but following this nightmare flight of ever more dollars through europe last night we've seen an unprecedented solidarity from all that american countries on the matter they've all been very critical of what happened with the believing president now the president of argentina kristie that the commissioner said that this was the humiliation of the entire south american continent a joint statement coming from the colombian government stated that the airspace denial is an act of aggression and last but not least the president of venezuela nicolas maduro said this was a dangerous disproportionate and unacceptable aggression. europe is the main victim of america's economic policies europe is the main victim of america's espionage and yet it's precisely europe that's insulted one of the presidents of south america it's unprecedented what the spanish government is done we latin american citizens your slaves the slaves of that elite that kneels down before the c.i.
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a before the u.s. and you know it's ridiculous 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 so you subclass somebody out there you are at peace with the resolution and you to the failure of european states to give permission to the aircraft of the bolivian president. flying through their airspace and is forced landing of this special flight in vienna the following should be noted the activities of france spain and portugal could hardly be regarded as friendly towards we live near as well as russia from where president morales 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
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still it 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 to trial so this story is definitely far from over we are anticipating this summit and believe me the emergency summit of almost four and what steps will be taking the 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 i spoke a little earlier to international affairs analyst pepe escobar and he believes south america's anger at the u.s. and e.u. means snowden's chances for asylum are rising all sort yet what twenty four wow four hours before what happened. there were outraged in
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serious it were being spied on in a big sort and over the nato headquarters in more outside of belt twenty four hours later he did what the. leader of a small cell. american nations and now the united south america i guessed you were asked and i guess this ridiculous but tactic role of the european puppets so dystopian source lower than a possible alternative asylum here in south america. the french interior minister said if edward snowden applied for diplomatic shelter in his country there's almost no chance he would get it this following the whistle blows revelations of the blatant u.s. spying on its european allies which sparked a wave of fury in the bloc including paris. explains what we see is actually
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a curious evolution of france's position over america's spying activity from an extreme outrage to an even more extreme tolerance and even support we all remember that france has become furious after it was revealed that america's intelligence services had been more natori in high ranking french and european union officials even abroad and also at home and then the angry at france's president has demanded washington to stop spine immediately and has even threatened to reconsider economic partnership with america and delay the talks over an ambitious project with america over the world's largest free trade zone america france and european countries have been working on for years to work. we cannot fix this kind of behavior between partners and allies but we ask that this immediately stop because they can be no negotiations or transactions in all areas until we have obtained these guarantees for from. all of the european union but what we saw
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next has actually indicated a radical change in the country's position the european union countries including france have a first agreed that the talks over the free trade zone should go on then later france has not allowed believe this president's jad to enter its aspirates because an undesirable person adverse norden could also be on board the same plane and that allegedly following america's request to do so so why we see this change in the position of france people here on the ground are saying that that's been an act of populism for from french president francois hollande his reign. things are among the lawyers in the history of his presidency and of course he could plan to gain some points by saying exactly what his people what his electorate wanted him to say that only proves that france has not been able to go beyond words in its accusations of america's behavior and will not actually dare to openly spoil its
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relations with washington and actually instead of gaining some popularity here on the ground a french president has in the opposite end or at the public people say the at shamed with this pop received from their leader commenting on europe's role in the scandal robert oulds he's chair of the group policy think tank he thinks that ease states haven't abandoned their colonial past so when it comes to their relations with the us 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 but i and other countries within the european union under the common foreign and security policy so really it does 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
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a colony of greater political power which of course country to democratic legitimacy. the leaks about the n.s.a.'s surveillance sparked massive outrage towards the a-bomb administration not only in its major target of europe but among the people of the us too and american citizens have taken to the streets all across the country in a nationwide protest against the snooping an event was organized by a new online movement called restore the fourth and it calls on the government to respect the fourth amendment in the bill of rights which protect citizens from reasonable searches and seizures well protests are taking place as i say in all major cities across the states and for details kelli bike a coordinator of the rally in los angeles joins me now kelli a lot of anger clearly and a lot of protests throughout the states but according to latest reports not exactly a huge turnout so are the american people really that bothered about this. i mean i
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think it is definitely something that people are angry about and i think people feel helpless to make change and what we're trying to do is just we're a grassroots movement we're nonpartisan so we embrace everyone from the difference political spectrum different beliefs we're trying to provide a way for people to challenge channel their voices and to be able to be heard we're reaching out to our representatives who are trying to sign an addition and get legislation and we want to mock christie to be heard and we're acting upon that today by coming out we already have double our numbers the last twenty four hours we have almost five hundred people planning on coming out today in just l.a. and there are dozens of these rallies being organized across the u.s. so there is a lot of anger i think it's just finding a way for us to actually express and finding a way to actually engage and in democracy see to make this show you were angry about being snooped on by the intelligence agency but of course every time you go on social networks you'll do a lot of shopping you're being snooped anyway aren't you so what's the difference
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and if you going to worry about if you've got nothing to hide from the intelligence agencies. i don't believe i have anything to hide but i believe that my privacy is a basic right is is a basic right for everyone united states i don't think that terrorism program should be snooping on americans widely i mean there's billions of data of my private data and my private data even that you do even to your there's a lot of privacy being infringed upon and i think that's a basic right for everyone in america and beyond and you're worried that the privacy of that information will be contained in a secure way you worry that it's going to get into the wrong hands of such. we don't know these analysts they're operating without warrants and they're able to access our information listen to our phone calls read our emails i don't know who these people are there's thousands of analysts they're doing this without warrants without an actual open court it's a private secret government going on and a secret government i'm sorry that does not equal democracy so that's not america
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let's go back to the point where you just touched on shorty all this is about keeping the country the nation safe preventing terrorist atrocities so when somebody said look what's more important your personal security you'll previously what do you say well i mean i think about you know giving up liberty for the sake of safety you know there's a great quote by benjamin franklin that hits on that and that's one of the main things that we are focusing on how we want just an actual democratic judicial review of these programs it's important for americans to permit and allow these programs why are we why are these programs being enacted without the voice of the people committing this to happen we just want an open debate we want to know what exactly is going on how these programs are being implemented and we know we want to know what our government is doing and either approve of it or disapprove we just want to be democratic if you disapprove of it though do you think that your movement will be able to change the government's policy the way it does that sort of business behind closed doors just briefly how effective do you think you'll movement could be i think it can be very effective the more that people learn about
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what's going on reach out to their legislators the legislators in our country are supposed to be the voice of the people so we want to encourage them to stand up against these programs against what the n.s.a. is doing and actually be our voice so the more of us that come out sign petitions encourage our representatives to create legislation to scale back how wide and unregulated our government is surveilling us and we can actually and act change good to talk to kelly thank you very much indeed. the restore the forefront in los angeles there are military flexible. thank you well all t. is keeping an eye on those demonstrations as people gather on the streets in the fells and there throughout the states and of course one of the report is at the scene right now and you can log on to her twitter feed for the latest updates and pictures from the event she is i believe in new york at the moment well this is all t. live in moscow coming up after the break as egypt celebrates the end of president morsy
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as rule we look at what this swift change of power could bring to the country and its people. so basically when the saudis or the iraqis or the or the turks or the companies when they provide the syrian best providing for their own said that the same d.n.a. their cousins if you share a language to share of a faith who share a culture and tradition now what you're saying is that because you are an arab because you are a muslim you for some reason have the same right to protecting the syrian people but to me it sounds just as you know congress sounding as the bushes claim. you know supposedly kyra responsibility is. to kill right on the street. first street.
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and i think you're. on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. news continues here on r.t. a day a military coup toppled the egyptian president the country's new leader showing loose. see two hundred will see and those close to him top judge adly mansour having been sworn in as interim leader today the general prosecutor has had this is a list muslim brotherhood supremum guide and his deputy arrested the swift change of power has triggered new clashes on the streets r.t. paula smith has this report but we saw yesterday i have i have had them
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twenty four hours after the president mohamed morsi of the road in what has muslim brotherhood which is forming a military coup now as we zoom into the crowd to see that they are you sorry they constantly you walk in cheers they're waving the egyptian flag they sing in patriotic songs every so often a little fireworks in the sky and they keep aiming these green and laser beams at all the buildings around it how much have they want to have the massive must have government that they're washed and washed for good but these things are not being repeated throughout egypt you need to realize that this is a very divided society and bearing the brunt of this new interim military is first and foremost the muslim brotherhood there have been some three hundred everest warrants issued today for brotherhood members and amongst those who have been arrested on the government the death of the muslim brotherhood and the current supreme guide and his deputy we understand that many of them have to have gathered
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up these detainees the general prosecuted what if these are it is interesting enough to have offered by president morsi after the revolution back in two thousand and eleven he was part of mubarak's team now only on thursday an interim president was sworn in as the man stood he is the head of the country's constitutional court it's just a position that he had for only two days and in that swearing in ceremony he said that he was going to pay homage to him and the chance to host it to pass the constitution and to have the know in terms of who will be the new. i am minister of this interim government it does seem as if i have it all fired up is the favorite candidate who is the former head of the international atomic energy agency has indicated that it is the position he is willing to take half of the nothing with the tariff as well as the army but there are critics who do say that if indeed he because he did next time has to have one of the it not the puppet for the united states but thomas where is randy to put to what is going on in the west of egypt
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we've heard again this is a very very divided society and there are real concerns that they could be clashes and violence between the army and probe morsi supporters of the muslim brotherhood leaders have issued a statement saying that they are calling for nonviolence they don't want to see any kind of armed struggle but they were having statements coming from the cross with muslim brotherhood supporters have mourning for jihad or holy war and the question is whether or not the leadership will be able to control the aggro and the frustration on the street the army is talking about implementing a road map it has dissolved the parliament it has abandoned the constitution it's going to be calling for only presidential the parliamentary elections so there is some kind of timeframe and some kind of system that has been put in place but there is again a real fear fear of clashes they were clashes afghanistan to cairo university they were also clashes not far from our power office and this is something that people
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will be watching for up as live there live in cairo while many of morsi supporters claim the military coup was a lawful as the islamist leader was the legitimate choice of millions just a year ago a journalist well that's got that explains why his opponents wanted him to get people are just too very tired of the muslim brotherhood rule and the law not lies ational power and it's true that people say that morsi is democratically elected but even if we can see to that people have not seen a single democratic step from morsi so in a. way morsi is democratic elected but undemocratic the one thing that we fear is that the military does crack down on the muslim brotherhood and needless what they need to do is to contain the violence they need to make sure that it's not an outright military coup where they take power they need need to make sure that they don't crack down on all the parties and innocent people are arrested and put in
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jail for no reason it's a very sensitive time right now i think for each. one of that egypt's gone full circle back to the outset of the revolution two years ago we're asking how you think it will all end of this time or go to parties online voting section to have your say let's see how your opinions have divided so this hour we're asking you this on our online poll well do you believe the army will do its best to administer the country until fresh elections can be held fifty five percent say yes just over a quarter say that a consensus is unlikely and egypt will be dragged into the chaos because the nation is divided fourteen percent of you so far think that the army will keep hold of power despite its promises to organize fresh elections and the remaining three percent claim that morsi and the muslim brotherhood all battered but not necessarily broken and could still return that's three percent of you say from the south of course you can come up with your own options on what is next for the
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country in the comment section there at r.t. dot com. when egypt crisis may have a tough impact on its neighbors which have already been through destructive civil wars. a correspondent for the jerusalem post told us that countries like israel can't make long term plans in such a hazardous environment again it's we just have to have a little patience now and wait and see how things play out i think will take some time i think in general you can say a couple things about how israel looks at these types of events israel is adverse to chaos is the verse to unpick debility. and i think what this does is this the sends the whole region into a certain degree of chaos in a certain degree of predictability which is uncomfortable for israel israel like stability it likes predictability even if those it's dealing with are not necessarily favorable toward it however like to know how they're going to take syrian president bashar assad for instance very tough relationship with israel over the years but israel kind of knew what he would do knew how he would react now in
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syria there's complete chaos in egypt also now a character choice and it's tough it's tough for israeli policymakers to look at this and define what to do well to catch up with the rapidly evolving revolution in egypt and follow its events online you can go to our website on the dot com there you'll find a full time non along with the analysis and images from the very heart of cairo. i. the prospects for the alternative cyber currency known as bitcoin have brightened with some serious financial plans prepared to open it to investment the when called boss twins best known for suing facebook's founder mark zuckerberg claims that he stole their social network idea and planning to float a bitcoin trust but even though the multi-millionaires are now going along with bitcoin the rebel currency still has
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a strong grasp over those drawn to its anti establishment charm and. explains. its happy hour in midtown manhattan dozens of bars are filled with after work crowds but here at ever. which. is where you'll find the big apple's expanding community of because investors think it seems to you it's the first new york city establishment to accept the digital currency a monetary system free from government and bank control as well as credit card processing fees i'd rather everyone pay with the coin than i would with a credit card twenty three year old charlie shrem is co owner of ever and founder of big 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 every d.c.
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firm in the city and now fast forward to two years there are so many startups that 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 know a culture of young financially savvy new yorkers determined to build an unregulated financial system i'll buy a big corner or hold a moment a big josh rossi hosts a weekly but queen 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 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 white economy is slowly being embraced by respectable businesses domino's pizza the howard johnson hotel chain and
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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 except to be queen cars furniture and tech gadgets have been put up for sale. on the trading web site 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 a currency that lacks backing from a single government but not a problem for big queen believers if they were complete with the monetary system if they felt it was. then they wouldn't be looking for an option like the point so you see already the loss of confidence the loss of commitment it's a sign of where the society is going the u.s. government though isn't too happy with the coins popularity it recently shut down
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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 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 this space growing enthusiasm for an invisible currency presented to rival the printed greenback marina porton i.r.t. new york more news just have a home enough now in the mean time it is worlds apart with host books and a boycott that's off to a short break here then on to. as a person who lives in russia i get asked very often why automated console fare at
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well are americans actually fat or is this just a myth from some hater countries the centers for disease control have declared obesity to be a disease as a twenty point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you're. all day at work and then all evening after driving home and sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eight foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lowers carol worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought native flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as
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much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically slim but that's just my opinion. and us in this case is the u.s. and its fines on just about everyone in the world including its so-called friends and allies washington seeks total global information dominance and this is being done we're told to find care with new people better if the u.s. monitored its intelligence community rather than snoop on the rest of us. hello and welcome to well the part i'd take it off to the war in iraq it is
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difficult to find a single analyst in the middle east who would argue that it was what while i'm taking most commentators are much more blunt calling it a war of oppression or even a genocide of the iraqi people the same community that condemned big use of force for political goals in the case of bush. and clear appears quite accepting of violence aftermath. on both all in basad the west for ruling iraq ultimately advocating a similar approach in syria want to discuss that i'm now joined by our last hour to critique president of the code of a foundation mr altikriti i really appreciate your being here now my first question may sound provocative but i find much of the pro-democracy and anti aside rhetoric really similar to what we heard from george w. bush about a decade ago people like yourself who at least at some point for in support of armed rebellion argue that since assad is a dictator syria would be
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a better place without him and therefore all the measures to get rid of him are somehow justified even if it is a war and to me that is the very asons of the bush's case to launch a war in iraq there are some stark differences to start off with between iraq and between syria and iraq there was no revolution in iraq there was a war that was instigated by the push of interest strategic financial. whatever it may be at the time the lead tony blair and george w. bush to launch a war which i felt the time was one of the leaders of the end to a movement ok what's the difference. well syria was. was a revolution in the in the in the same way that egypt saw its revolution which toppled hosni mubarak in the same way that tunisia so revolution that toppled the and in the same way that.
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