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deadly divisions in egypt at least forty two people are killed in cairo at a muslim brotherhood rally with army denying it fired shots and blaming terrorists and my fear is doubt the country could slide into violence and chaos. in baghdad with the germans anis a whistleblower and word snowden claims american intelligence has been working hand in glove with berlin and its secret surveillance program. and mali gears up for its post-war presidential election and it fears that the fragile security situation could collapse back into chaos we report from inside the west african nation struggling to return to the normality.
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it watching r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital with me marina joshie welcome to the program now it defines itself on the brink of chaos at least forty people have died during a mass sit in in support of the ousted president mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood claims security forces used live rounds and tear gas against a crowd during dawn prayers outside the republican guard headquarters the military blames the gunfire on terrorists archies lucic often talks about monday's developments with our middle east correspondent paula sleazier. the situation here in egypt is deteriorating and deteriorating fast the entire mass a city where these clashes happened is in lockdown the military has closed off the
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whole area and as a result ambulances are unable to reach the injured inside we are hearing that a makeshift hospital has been say attack eyewitnesses there saying that bodies are literally being laid out on the ground doctors also telling us that many of the people have been shot in either the chest all the haid and many of them have actually been fired at from behind now among the date is at least one woman and five children including a six month old baby these reports to correlate with what we're hearing from the muslim brotherhood who says that it was holding peaceful dawn pray as it was holding a peaceful sitting in front of the military barracks where to believe that president morsy is being held when the group was suddenly fired on by the army and as a result the brotherhood is calling for an uprising it says that this is a massacre it is calling for international intervention to prevent the situation here in egypt from descending to quote in another syria the army has a different version of events they say that protesters stormed the barracks and
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that armed gunmen and to quote the military terrorists took aim either way certainly live ammunition was used a lot of tear gas and a deadly fatality list that just keeps climbing rough is that the situation were escalating either into martial law into some kind of civil war or possibly both both sides now are calling for the protesters to come to the streets we're keeping an eye on this we are concerned that they will be mass demonstrations again today we're hearing from the al-noor party which is the second largest islamised party they have withdrawn from negotiations in light of these killings and this is this is posed a huge setback for the interim president who's been struggling for days to try and create some kind of interim government to manage this country so against this growing violence and this growing anger on the street you have an interim government that's simply unable to even establish itself and. certainly the politics are critical here it's an important situation but the problems facing egypt are more than just political aren't they forty percent of this country lives below the bread line which is some three dollars
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a day one of the biggest criticisms against morsi is that he spent his first year in office consolidating his own power while the been trying to address the economy and improve the daily lives of people living here and so he this is going to have to be one of the issues that this new interim government if it's if it created addresses those who can have long since lift trading cairo for quite a sure it's lived this real estate broker panicked job is finding homes for those with cash to pay up front but now she's thinking of closing up shop because business has never been this bad this sort of when you want to launch a new project in real estate everything is put on the whole it stops foreign buyers don't want to come and invest in egypt lack of security lack of parliament lack of unstable governments so. we do nothing but just help the way economists say it's no surprise president morsi was overthrown he spent his first year in office tightening his grip on power rather than trying to rescue the country's floundering
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economy food prices have rocketed the country cannot pay off its debts to major oil companies and forty percent of egyptians live below the poverty line on less than three dollars a day on top of that major international investors have pulled out and sold their assets the safest decision in a repartee deteriorating environment for the foreseeable future it looks like egypt will have a government that again is unable to as to policy and as a result unable to provide investors with the confidence that they were going to begin to sing it but here in tokyo square protesters are not sawing the western giants on leaving just not strong enough i don't want go to war i don't know if this car leasing business men tells us he's fed up. before morsi was ousted in. we're begging for the i.m.f. loan of about four point seven billion dollars a year now we don't want it we're all as business men collectively decided to support the egyptian economy and one day we collected over fifteen billion dollars
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in donations were a large economy we can rely on ourselves but the facts tell a different story for each day these demonstrations continue the egyptian economy is forced to cough up another one billion dollars the ripple effect is more insecurity in an already unstable region if there's anyone benefiting from these revolutions it's people right here in tahrir square you can pick up whatever souvenirs ok mix you want from slats to posters to key rings and even a coin code. maggy mohamed used to work as a sales agent but his company was forced to shut down after mubarak was all stood for two years this has been his office the same spot on to his square business isn't brilliant but at least he can put food on the table. i couldn't find a job but after the revolution i came here so i could make a living i have children and i just want to move. the egyptian flag is waved to
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both the pro and. it's about the only thing common between the two camps threatening to take egypt apart but if things don't improve soon the financial lifeblood of the country will be completely drained and whichever flag waving group eventually prevails may find very little to celebrate policy r.t. cairo. and his belt through also in egypt found out exactly what's motivating morsi supporters to stand up to the army. a lot of people are saying that it was the popular whale that pushed the comet mostly out of space what is your reaction to that actually. first of all i want to say that i am one of the people who went out and just feel and generate going to google through mubarak and to be a vet and what is happening right now is to get moved out of again and. i hope at speed that in five elections among the last thirty months and we want to
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proceed with the democratic way over there doing this. and now we are being isolated by the military the military coup is throwing toys live a big portion of the egyptian population there they don't want to get out of voice they are closing t.v. the t.v. stations and they are arresting people without anything we don't have one suffusion that most of the people has approved only six months ago. now bell true also made her way to protest her sit in in nasr city district of conroe and you can follow bell on twitter for the latest updates from there well she managed to speak to some eyewitnesses of the events who described how they were targeted with live ammunition and how they skate egypt's muslim brotherhood has called for a revolt against the army in the wake of deadly clashes cairo based political
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activist ahmed the camp says there is now real danger of civil war and that both sides are to blame. leadership of the muslim brotherhood and the military leadership must take responsibility for the continued escalation and not for reaching a resolution and also we have to understand that. even if the muslim brotherhood were trying to attack the military compound the military personnel should only deal with those who were attacking them there were forty two killed people among which women and children and three hundred twenty two casualties i do not understand why did the military open fire to randomly at people just like that that is a very critical quest lifted into a crisis and this is a very serious issue because that m.f. occasions are extremely dire if this continues to be the case and more incidents like this i hope egypt does not become another syria. where essentially covering
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the events in egypt on our website to go online to our com for the latest updates pictures and analysis. the u.s. national security agency isn't bad with germany and other western states when it comes to cooperating and worldwide surveillance and that's the latest bombshell in the german media for a whistleblower on the run and word snowden emerged during an interview he gave before fleeing to hong kong. well snowden said as agencies work together a with no questions asked concealing their sources to protect top level politicians from public backlash these statements appeared to contradict what the german chancellor said about u.s. snooping practices. earlier slammed the n.s.a. as cold war tactics adding that spying on friends is unacceptable germany's intelligence chief also insisted he knew nothing about the widespread surveillance
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carried out by the ana say well we have now i'm gonna libertarian activist and filmmaker aaron panic joining us from berlin to talk more about this good afternoon good afternoon thanks so much for joining us or so. given the situation the question here is are german politicians entirely honest about being outraged about american spying activities what's your take well honesty and politician i mean that's an oxymoron that's a contradiction you have we all know what it is they have to lie to get where they are they have to lie to stay there and i think the the one thing that we can learn from this event is that we have to mistrust the government any government also angle amuck. well could it be that angle of merkel was just not enough informed about these activities i don't believe that i mean she's she's running that business i don't believe what she says and i think i mean she's in germany we call
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her mother and we call that of the state of shabda and i think that's a very naive thing and one thing i hope is that the germans china learned that the state is not a children we have to grown up we have to take that business into our own hands you know in a country was a house we have to understand we have the owner and the government is nothing more than facility management genya magine the management that you pay in that you're hired by on yourself on the onus i think you should. i think they have done that very badly off and they don't deserve to be our management any more well off the politicians justify surveillance surveillance by saying that it helps prevail and terrorist attacks and helps save people's lives so isn't that so you know the price to pay. no that's a pretext that's a make believe politicians always come with terrorism on you know all these bad
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things that nobody wants but i mean there have been ways to detect terrorism before we could tap the internet i mean you should go to the roots i mean we all know who those terrorists are and on the one hand they give weapons to those people and they allow them to you know broadcast their really weird bad political ideologies and then we use the wiretap on our citizens i mean that makes sense and i can you know i kind of stopped. benjamin franklin and said if you think you can gain some gain security by giving away. this would never work and you will. i think that's very right so what is the way to go about it then i mean should citizens in your opinion take privacy issues in their own hands applicant would rather absolutely privacy it's belongs into our own hands and our way some methods for instance you
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should encrypt e-mails that great programs you can use and nobody could read your e-mails anymore it's very simple to do that not enough people do that yet but they should you can use a service like saw to make sure that nobody can see where they use and very important you should use government money such as it is also encrypted and secure to run your own business you shouldn't be declare your independence from the government because governments in their very own nature i mean that they use force it's much better to use voluntary the force of the market not the force of why then it was. interesting you mention bitcoin there is a american government is now actually looking at it very closely but that's beside the point now i like to ask you another question here about the close ties between you and america so why is it that americans spied on their closest ally.
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well the been not really the closest ally we kind of policy you know that it's not that close and by. the nature of this by business you don't trust anyone not even your allies your old spy on the alleys business of you know governments and was and i think this whole cold war thing i mean it should be over i think we should really be beyond that point all right libertarian actors and filmmaker and her nic thank you so much for a times there thank you very much good afternoon. and those revelations of american spying on european citizens have cast a shadow over an ambitious deal to revitalize transatlantic trade. washington brussels or ion the world's biggest free trade path seen as an effort to seize the momentum from emerging economies which continue to show one president of growth for that just ahead here in our team.
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welcome back this is our team at presidential election campaign has kicked off in post-war mali the west african nation is struggling to return to constitutional order after an islamist occupation and a political crisis the transitional government has the lifted the state of emergency employees since january that gave sweeping powers to the army during a french intervention to drive militant forces out of the country's north thousands of un peacekeepers will be helping to maintain security during the vote set for july the twenty eighth france will be it was during most of its troops by the end of the year but many fear a mali is not ready for an election at
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a time when around half a million people are displaced and peace is still very fragile artist marie ivanovna met some of the people trying to get their wives back on track after being uprooted by the war. these people from a small village to the west of mali's capital may be muslim. but the also have the a very traditional beliefs stretching back to the relations using nuns to help predict the future and influence that whether you know you are looking to. it's people like these who helped form africa's unique and diverse cultures but it's exactly these times who would have been a trieste of an l.a. ssion had the militants who took control of mali's north in the name of radical islam also swept aside authorities here. have a lot bar they say they are not muslims i don't like these people and other spiritual groups they think the same way if they find us they'll kill us. french
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troops intervened in northern mali in january as the insurgency made a push towards the capital two months later paris proclaimed the north for the rate hit but for some followers of traditional islam that was already too late. twenty three year old sulaiman from the gal region claims al qaeda linked fighters chopped off his right hand and left food after he a father of three and a muslim who prays several times a day refused to join their ranks and. they brought the chair to a squirrel in the center of the gower they tied me up they gave me an injection and put a bandage here brought a knife like this and cut it. however some people from solomon's village claim has a speech in which the radicals punish him for wonder surreal all the imposed more do so against their opinion that they don't consider the muslim they have their own interests counted or want that travelling to was the north we met no one who
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sympathizes with the insurgents and their rigid religious themes and that even goes for the next generation you want to fight against and why are they bad bad all of them lot of man yes they are bad bad for our country. but when those ringers of shari'a law to call to the north a significant number of mali ends either join them or help them. some suggest by they while it's militant. have capitalized on widespread poverty while others have been drawn in by these slogans. now many people who join the radicals on the stoop they were mistaken and they've joined the soldiers in mali and to fight against those people are you guys afraid that these people will come back. they may not come back. ok or why they will never come back to me.
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because mommy and fries now years. that's fronts is drawing much of its bigotry and the very people paris claims to have driven out still and p. to be very much around the same group said to his nose claimed responsibility for a terror attack on a french strong uranium facility in neighboring new share while the very factors that allowed to their rise in the north over to a feeling of injustice and general frustration us to very much evident. care and. that. makes them. wish to. research it and only. one can restart. it is the missing link. richard otieno from mali.
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now let's take a glimpse at what our online team of god for you today laundering dirty money using clean our energy the italian mafia is ramping up its investments and wind farms to greenwash its illicit cash and benefit from subsidies had to come to find out more . and of billions of fans dollars down the drain as u.s. missile interceptor show they are not up to the task of stopping ballistic rockets find out why it's been a frustrating fight. years for american missile fans project over on our website r.t. dot com. the united states and the european union are set to hammer out a major economic pact which could create the world's largest free trade zone economist estimate that the ambitious deal could boost growth on both sides of the atlantic by around one hundred billion dollars annually the pact will certainly have global
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implications and comes at a time when western economic leadership is facing a tough challenge from emerging markets financial analyst patrick young earlier spoke to my colleague kevin no one on the subject. the big free trade agreement between two huge trading superpowers will be good for the world it will help create jobs through white the planet earth and how it's going to tip the balance in recent years we've seen it's the emerging economies that have been doing best and coming out is that going to change and is going to tip the balance in any shape or form it's not going to fundamentally the wonderful benefit of free trading emerging nations that have been coming up throughout the world however it is an incredible opportunity for the frankly currently all full european union predicament canonically to manage to fight back it gives these to a stablished park blocks an opportunity to continue their own growth path but obviously the whole point about these sorts of free trade agreements is their grip
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on the idea of creating a global free trade and a faster growth rate for everybody in the emerging nations of the world they're the benchmarks and hard to do exports right now if they're going to continue to grow whether this free trade agreement happens or not the problem is for usa and particularly for europe they are looking at going backwards in the world if they don't manage to come together and do a free trade agreement there are obviously a lot of vested interests here which is going to make it very difficult to deliver a deal but ultimately the president of the united states of america and the european union cannot afford in the current economic circumstance where their lunch is being eaten by the emerging east not to come up with a do. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and southeast india a two story building has collapsed killing eleven people fourteen more injured and manny are believed to be trapped under the rubble of the city live hotel local
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authorities had recently warned that several buildings in the area were on safe by it's the hotel itself have been given the all clear deadly building collapses are not uncommon in india just three months ago seventy four people were killed in the similar incident in mumbai. protesters have gathered once again only b.s. capital tripoli voicing anger against the growing influence of mercenary groups paid by the state he wants the government to disband militias and create a legitimate army and police force is out through more deadly clashes last week between two armed groups in the south of the capital. u.s. officials say the buoying triple seven which crashed at san francisco airport on saturday was flying too slow to land at the also said the crew then tried to abort the landing just seconds before the jet came down short of the wrong way and hit a sea wall killing two passengers five people are still in critical condition now
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it doesn't get to regain consciousness. well and on its way here in our team a look at the extraordinary experiences of children growing up in conditions of russia's markets will. remember how all the sudden of one card protest group became world famous and in were completely forgotten by next month yeah i'm talking about the feminist punk rock group pussy riot that performed a vulgar anti prayer and one of moscow's most famous orthodox cathedrals one possible reason for their explosive popularity in the media's eyes was revealed recently by german actress on a tall buck the actress claims a german t.v. channels e.d.f. paid her a large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activist band show
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said on a t.v. discussion that she doesn't even remember what she said except for wishing them well with dealing with their incarceration it would be very odd for an actress to just make up a bribery scandal especially one she was complicit in but it makes you wonder just how many other people's e.d.f. may have been given a little extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of what her public revelation is that she said that you know what it's a bit dumb when actors talk about politics and i couldn't agree with her more but that's just my opinion. mission. critical free school which is free range from three. three. three. three books to feel for your media projects free video done to our t.v.
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