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deadly divisions in egypt fifty one people are killed in cairo at a muslim brotherhood rally sparking fears that the country could slide into chaos we bring you and reports from a hospital on the front line of the violence. in baghdad with a german's anis a whistleblower edward snowden claims american intelligence has been working hand in glove with berlin and its secret surveillance program. and of mali gears up for its post-war presidential election in the grip of a political crisis and a fragile security situation we report from inside the west african nation struggling to return to normality.
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this is already coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing welcome to the program. edge of finds itself on the brink of chaos more than fifty 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 the crowd during dawn prayers outside the republican guard headquarters but the military blames the gunfire on terrorists are as useful as leader has the details from cairo the situation here in egypt is deteriorating and deteriorating phosgene time at nasa city with these clashes happened is enough don the military has proposed the whole area and as a result and even says on unable to reach the injured inside we are hearing that a makeshift hospital has been say to eyewitnesses they saying that bodies on the tribute being laid out on the ground doctors also telling us that many of the
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people have been shot. in either the chased all the hate 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 craze it was holding a peaceful sitting in front of the military barracks where it is believed that president morsi 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 that armed gunmen and to quote the military terrorists took aim either way the live ammunition was used a lot of tear gas and a deadly fatality this that just keeps climbing graph is that the situation where escalate either into martial law or into some kind of civil war or possibly both
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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 simply unable to even establish itself forty percent of this country lives below the breadline which is some three dollars a day one of the biggest criticisms against morsi is that he spent his first year in office consolidating his own power rather than 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 ever created addresses those who can have long since lift trading cairo for quite a sure has. it's
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a lift this real estate broker panicked her 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 in stable government 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 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
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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 would need to begin to sing it but here in tokyo square protesters are not sawing the western giants on leaving just how much i owe i think i already have made you this car leasing businessmen tells us he's fed up. before morsi was ousted and we're begging for the i.m.f. loan of about four point seven billion dollars a year now we don't want it when all is businessmen collectively decided to support the egyptian economy and one day we collected over fifteen billion dollars 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
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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 muslim id used to work as a sales agent but his company was forced to shut down after mubarak was ousted 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 again here so i can make a living i have children and i just want to move. the egyptian flag is waved to 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.
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now egyptian muslim brotherhood has called for a revolt against the army in the wake of deadly clashes are a baseball little activist ahmed mccabe says there is now real danger of civil war and that both sides are to blame both the leadership of the muslim brotherhood and the military leadership must take responsibility for the continuous 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 are 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 opened fire randomly at people just like that that is a very key critical question that will pull the military into a crisis and this is a very serious issue because that m.f.
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occasions. extremely dire if this continues to be the case and more into this like this i hope egypt does not become another of judea or c.d.'s. aren't his bill true is a makeshift hospital in the us or a city just outside cairo talking to eyewitnesses and doctors and we'll bring you her report a little later well you can also check out the latest updates and pictures from egypt on our website r.t. dot com. now they go wrong on and to see moscow has confirmed that it's received an asylum request from whistleblower on the run at the world snowden and now been forwarded to the country's president meanwhile a new bombshell from the x.e. i employ he has appeared in the german media the us national security agency has allegedly been working closely with berlin and gathering secret surveillance data snowden says agencies share information was no questions asked concealing their sources to protect top level politicians from any public backlash these statements
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appear to contradict what the german chancellor angela merkel said about u.s. snooping practices earlier she slammed the n.s.a.'s cold war tactics adding that spying on france is unacceptable german intelligence chief also insisted he knew nothing about the widespread surveillance carried out by the n.s.a. libertarian activist erin. have lied to their citizens and need to be held accountable. titian's and honesty that's an oxymoron that's a contradiction in terms we all know that from a distance law it's part of the edge off they lie you fall the elections and they don't keep their promises off of us i think that's not a big surprise one thing i hope is that the germans finally learned that the state is not a shop that children we have to grown up we have to take that business it's all one own hands you know it country was us it was
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a house we have to understand we have the own nose and the government is nothing more than to sit at the management can you imagine the management that hey and if you hire a spy on yourself i'm the oldest eisegesis starts out i think they have done the very bad off and they don't deserve to be on management any more. and more stories i had for you including a you k. policy drift away from the ease the british government is planning to opt out of around one hundred european regulations on justice and the police force will have more details and expert opinion on that after a short break. i'm used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear.
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back you're watching our team and let's go back now to our top story more than fifty people have died during a mass sit in in cairo in support of the ousted president mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood claims security forces used live rounds and tear gas against the crowd . is at a makeshift hospital for the wounded but we want to warn that the witness accounts featured in this report can be in apparently very fine. i'm here as a field hospital inside the city and it was a scene of bloody clashes between security forces and those still supporting our president mohamed morsy in the early hours of this morning speaking to the doctors here who were treating wounded they told me that the first injuries that came in were from live ammunition they believed was the but it winds came in from the back and through the abdomen later they said they had superficial wounds that were just skin deep from possibly what's called him cartouche which is birdshot in addition people are being treated at the moment the suffocation off the tear gas bombs.
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women. young seem right to the patients of right to the injuries most of the injuries into some back on those ones that i have seen part of sea level mission that we have. seen before maybe three point six speaking to eyewitnesses they tell me they were praying and early in the morning when they had people chanting which means praise to god after that they saw armed groups they couldn't identify who they were he started firing on them and then the security forces apparently also started firing on them this is are unable to verify this is just speaking to eyewitnesses they say they've been attacked with live ammunition with bad shots and gas bombs as well the gates all been from our backs even before our prayers and they started fighting the bullets and with the problem that there were many children and men women children couldn't breathe five of them died hundreds of bullets coming from the backs many people who
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fell to the ground and even when they fell to the ground the thought that even fighting the and this is this is where they are being treated first of all before that meets the main hospitals behind me an old woman who's in her late sixty's she said her husband was arrested she was injured in addition to an old man who is in his late fifty's early sixty's he has a gunshot wound to his back it's very chaotic a went on able to verify any of these accounts but the people here who are dealing with the injured say they've been overwhelmed. by the amount of people coming in with rings meanwhile the greatest they're determined to stay put they say that even though they feel they're under fire from the military they want the president to be reinstated and they will stay here into. the army for their part say they were attacks on the republican guard headquarters is just in front of me here by the city and they say the armed groups supports them or see how to attack them meanwhile the military helicopters continue to circle the area and their army deployed in all the streets surrounding this in. britain as government is moving to
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distance itself from brussels with m.p.'s flying to ditch roughly two thirds of e.u. impose regulations on the police force and the justice system but home secretary theresa may says the u.k. will have to opt back into some of those rules later on r.t. says there are still you know try to find out what britain actually ones from its relations with the e.u. . over arching the theme here is that they want to repatriate powers back from brussels to the u.k. and specifically the home secretary theresa may had says that it's a what will propel present proposals for britain to exercise its opt out option which is enshrined in the lisbon treaty on the e.u. regulations relating to just as crime and policing now one of the most contentious parts of. these regulations is the european arrest warrant which when issued by a certain country would require another country to arrest and send that person to the country that requires that person to face justice and all of this happening on
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the back of that recent vote to pass through the house of commons three hundred and four votes to none in favor of that in or out referendum case membership in the let's get more insight on all of this from a rory broomfield is director of better off out campaign and deputy director of the freedom association all right let's get right to it for first on what have you were fighting for freedom your euro skeptic but on the other hand you have the police the chief of police department dealing with your white cases saying well this is going to make crime attacking quite inefficient wouldn't it be better for the u.k. to simply remain and be a part of these e.u. regulations we look before the. european because we are concerned for the future government whether it be labor conservative or any other color will actually go into these protests and expose british nationals to experiences that they do not want and would not be ok ultimately this is something that would not turn.
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to many of these regulations if we were outside of the european union completely but there is that still up for debate for vote if and if it indeed does happen wouldn't this be very shortsighted on the part of the u.k. i don't think it would be sure so it's because the u.k. like any other country in the world will be able to. meet. and the. member states the extradition treaties go through you know to kingdom and the european union. well let's now take a glimpse out what our online team have got for you today wondering dirty money using clean and argy the talian mafia is ramping up its investments and wind farms to find out what sparked their sudden interest in green energy so how to our team dot com for more. and billion to fans dollars down the drain as u.s. missile interceptors show they're not up to the task of stopping ballistic rockets find out why it's been a frustrating five years for american missile defense projects over on our website
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r t v dot com. now presidential election campaign ass kicked off in post-war mali the west african nation is struggling to return to constitutional order after an islamist occupation at a political crisis the transitional government has lifted the state of emergency in place since january and gave sweeping powers to the army during the 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 eight france will be was drawing most of its troops by the end of the year but many fear a mali is not ready for an election at a time when around half a million people are displaced and peace is still very fragile are just where you met some of the people trying to get their lives back on track after being uprooted by the war. and these people from a small village to the west of mali's capital may be muslim. but the also have the
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a very traditional beliefs stretching back generations using notes to help predict the future and influence the weather you know looking at the. it's people like these who helped form africa's unique and diverse cultures but it's exactly these types who would have been a trieste of an isolation had the militants who took control of mali's north in the name of radical islam also swept aside the authorities here. have a lot bar they say they're 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 troops intervened in northern mali in january as the insurgency made a push towards the capital two months later paris proclaimed the north liberated but for some followers of traditional islam that was already too late. twenty three
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year old silly man from the gal region claims al qaeda linked fighters chopped off his right hand and left food after he a father 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 which the radicals punish him for one to sharia law they imposed or do will so we're against their opinion that they don't consider the muslim they have their own interests and that there are a lot that travelling to was the north we make no one who sympathizes with the insurgents and their rigid religious themes and that even goes for the next generation you want to fight against then why are they bad bad all of them lot of yes they are bad bad for our country. but when those ringers of shari'a
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law to call to the north a significant number of mali is either join them help them. some suggest by their wallets militant. have capitalized on widespread poverty while others have been joining by these slogans the disc is incomplete now many people who join the radicals on the stoop they were mistaken and they've joined the songs of the mali an army to fight against those people are you guys are afraid that these people will come back. they will not come back. ok oh why they will never come back to me. because mommy and fries now years. that's fronts is drawing much of its bigotry and the very people perish claims to have driven out still and p. to be very much around the same group said to his nose claimed responsibility for
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a terror attack on a french strong iranian facility in neighboring new share while the very factors that allowed to their rise in the north proved to be a feeling of injustice and general frustration just to very much evident. care and that it. is not a legal matter it makes them. wish to. research it and. no one can restart deep sounding is the missing link to fate written off now from mali. and on to other news from around the world now in southeast india a two story building has collapsed killing two people one eighteen are injured and more are believed to be trapped under the rubble of the citywide hotel local authorities have recently warned that several buildings in the area were unsafe but
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the hotel itself have been given the all clear. protesters have gathered once again on the vias capital tripoli voicing anger against the growing influence of mercenary groups paid by the state they want the. to disband the militias and create a legitimate army and police force this comes after a more deadly clashes last week between two armed groups in the south of the capital. and u.s. officials say the buoying triple seven which crashed at san francisco airport on saturday was flying too slow the crew tried to board a landing just seconds before the jet slammed into a seawall just short of the runway killing two passengers five people are still in a critical condition at a dozen have yet to regain consciousness. now was britain in the grip of harsh stary cuts plans to raise politicians salaries could be coming at a worse time the move has angered taxpayers and looks set to further erode public
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trust and m.p.'s as artie's sarah firth has been finding out. my theme a top three turvy world when in tough economic times and peace can be in line for ten thousand pound pay rise in the body the first salaries will be things that who are you sure but as with so many things like this oh inflation here and there's more to this story and. that was politicians from the prime minister down make bluster and prick claim that the over the any pay rise it's not actually a choice the decision is down to independent body he decide how pay should be set and it says chairman has criticised the party leaders for voicing their opposition prior to it and peace at their own pay and well we all know how that ended up as members of parliament with. you know. them different independent body so they were
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. as well that m.p.'s salaries are already now far more than double the u.k. average so what do the british public have to say about it will their responses when quite what you might think anyone should be you know should be paid for. if it stops are kind of things where. anything will. work and the job should be. all of you know extracurricular activities which make a lot. of things in the current climate. that yeah well you said if you're. going on the fire and there's more people using food banks and. british peacetime history is. quite understandably then there mention of a pay rise the politicians has provoked anger and confusion amongst many in the public
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but in the wake of members expenses scandals this pay rise could also be linked to an end to outside earnings which many. say will be a chance for real with old and that's this debate hot stuff even in the coming days but certainly going to be something to reflect that. london and artie's look at the extraordinary life of children who have to adapt to russia's arctic tundra is coming up next after a short break. remember how all the sudden and often card protest group became world famous and in were completely forgotten by the 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
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possible reason for their explosive popularity in the media's eyes was revealed recently by a german actress on a book 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 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 the 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. but if china were a military superpower on par with the united states what kind of world would we live in with china put in to check washington's appetite for unilateral military
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action and manipulation of the global economy or would we witness another cold war where both beijing and washington maintained a chilly the relatively peaceful world. we're. a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age she knows that life is perpetual motion . for nine months every year and its children are taken from their homes in the tundra to special boarding schools and each time all they want is to go home again as soon as they can. some can't wait for the holidays and head for the tundra a load.
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that at the represents the third generation of a new nets deliberating family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found a wife and now has three children he's taking his eldest son daniel and his nephew from the boarding school to visit their grandfather for a short summer break before his day the main annual festival. as.
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