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back in. the egyptian army shows it's in no mood to compromise breaking up mass rallies of pro islamists calling for the reinstatement of the ousted leader mohamed morsi and warning of a wider crackdown. around six million surveillance cameras are keeping watch in u.k. citizens twenty four seven that's according to a new report that's alarmed privacy campaigners and prompted calls for greater transparency. as financial movers and shakers from the world's leading economies meet a moscow would have the g twenty summit in st petersburg we look at how nd the upcoming event is being overshadowed by the russian u.s. dispute over edward snowden.
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as a.t.m. in moscow you're watching r t i'm reading josh welcome to the program now in an age of at least three people have been killed in overnight clashes as backers and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi held rallies across the country that's after the military warned supporters of morsi is muslim brotherhood again stoking further unrest and disrupting the transition to a new government troops in cairo fire tear gas to force back thousands of protesters on their way to the presidential palace to demand morsi is reinstatement meanwhile on tough green square in the city center crowds gathered to voice their support for what they see as a revolution and to rally behind the new interim government but as a political activist sara they told us they are feeling a victory may be short lived. there are millions and millions of people in this.
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since you do not want this army more to come back again along with the barks say along with the barks corruption right now you see it's pretty dark stakes come back bubbling to the surface and the military will do just as it has done before whatever it can do to subdue and to you know qual these protests that are in the streets right now as they have been for sooner or later it's only a matter of time that this government is going to go and already they're shuffling signs of weakness they are turning to killing peaceful protesters as you seem. to be or maybe you haven't because they cracked out of them here that shows those more supporting morsi and those who are in the streets protesting you should have repeatedly said they will not go home until they see democracy until morsi is reinstated as the first freely elected president. and word winning journalist and author hugh miles believes the only way to break the political deadlock in egypt is
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to form a coalition government. country is more divided than it's ever been and the future is hardly have to try and form a government that includes the islamists and the secular as. liberals but so far. they haven't managed to do this atoll and so what we're likely to see is a swinging between these two poles in egyptian politics going forward between brotherhood has very deep roots in egyptian society it has millions of supporters it's been around for many years and still have a stake. in power they need to reconcile these two sides because otherwise it's going to be too easy for the islamists to make problems for example by using peaceful protests they can bring the country to its knees the country is already on its knees privacy campaigners in britain are sounding the alarm over the dramatic rise of surveillance according to the latest estimates the u.k. now has at least one c.c.t.v.
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camera for every fourteen citizens the majority of surveillance systems are operated privately now by the state but activists say that only adds to the lack of transparency and oversight r.t. says our psyllium explains if you ever feel like you're being watched perhaps even feel singled out no matter how huge the crowd. chances are it may not just be paranoia. the british security industry association estimates that there are between four point one and five point nine million a close circuit television or c.c.t.v. cameras in the u.k. that's one in every fifteen or one in every eleven people whether you're with the tube and the shopping mall and what are called sensitive locations like schools and hospitals there are likely to be electronic eyes on you know in recent years much criticism have been thrown at what is seen as the u.k. government's growing surveillance state but in the b.s.i. is most recent report it shows that in fact majority of c.c.t.v. cameras are not government funded but rather privately owned of most. for security
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reasons and stress the c.c.t.v. schemes are invaluable for crime detection and evidence for the police however one of the main problems highlighted by watchdogs is the fact that there are not still not enough regulations governing public c.c.t.v. surveillance much less those that are privately owned we discussed this issue with the big brother watch price of private c.c.t.v. cameras far outnumber those installed by the police and local authorities so it does challenge the idea that it is the government that's acting as big brother doesn't it i think it's big for there was a hole in the u.k. at the moment i think the private sector seen the ration of c.c.t.v. cameras the public sector and this kind of attention that c.c.t.v. prevents crime from happening and so it's only a matter of time for the private sector. private c.c.t.v. footage but we're seeing some incredibly sophisticated pieces of technology
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appearing via the internet things to do with facial recognition and things that can send people for miles away so i think it's only correct the law catches up with the technology and states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the day the sophisticated they can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much for the. information of the vast number of privately owned surveillance cameras will add to the debate of the so-called surveillance society you know this is just coming on the back after one year of the protection of freedoms act was passed in the u.k. where the government was forced to trim down its database of d.n.a. and fingerprints records and it's just coming days after that code of regulation is imposed on public surveillance cameras of course the debate created by the revelations of edward snowden already ongoing reporting from london. meanwhile across the atlantic the us government's appetite for its citizens drive
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a date. seems to be stronger than ever with the obama administration approving yet another extension to the infamous n.s.a. snooping program the full story. last london's about to provide a boost to companies engaged in the highly controversial practice of drug fracking whether government pledging record low tax rates for shale gas producers why it would tell you what's behind the move. finance ministers and bankers from the world's most powerful economies are meeting in moscow to shape a path for global canonic recovery in the talks are a precursor to september's g twenty summit in st petersburg but aside from finance there are complex political issues at stake are just one in a caution that joins us now live for more on this but i think it's much for joining us so as we know a good g.
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twenty grouping was set up as primarily a group of deals with economic issues but right now is taking on an increasingly political role so talk us through some of the key issues on the political agenda. right well exactly occurring g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors meeting which is taking place here in moscow out the moment is really a period of some major proper aeration as for the are coming g twenty summit that will take place in st petersburg the end of this september and now actually it is the be allows the official meetings a meeting of those of members of the g. twenty stays before the summit kicks off and on but it really seems that it is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip in international politics now according to the latest reports the u.s. president barack obama may not may not have time on the g twenty summit which is going to take place here in russia if russia grounds the. former n.s.a.
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contractor adverse noted asylum now if things go even further now the there are reports that two u.s. republican lawmakers have suggested to change the location of the upcoming g. twenty summit a not so whole distant russia a basically in order to press russia to actually dies adverse noton now meanwhile there is still of course time until the summit kicks off in st petersburg iran a month and a half and a redo seems that those economists who have gathered here in moscow house put politic aside and really are discussing some major quite challenging economic issues now in particular the g. twenty back quite a fundamental rethink of the rules on top saying multinational companies basically to fight those loopholes so will we at times those companies are using to avoid billions of dollars and taxes now is
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a group of leading economists sad that the current system does not work especially for those companies which trade online now companies in the spotlight for using this legal but at times quite controversial practice is so fucking profits and low tax countries are us a giants really you google amazon and apple and now this issue has become quite a hot shop gypped especially for of those countries which are quite badly heads by the un going a recession and the porch from taxation transparency there are many other issues on the agenda of this g twenty finance ministers meeting which is taking place here in moscow including sources of private investments into economic growth business policy ways how to recover from the economic recession so again as i sat as a major proper a chanst for the g twenty summit which is going to take place in st petersburg are taking place here and the russian capital. are certainly. there is
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a lot on the plate of the g twenty finance ministers meeting summit but for now thank you so much for bringing us this update with you know caution over there. as coming up after the break here on our t.v. the biggest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history art he looks at what's emptied the pockets of the city of detroit once an industrial powerhouse. and a shoeshine store proves surprisingly popular among the banking sac cats on wall street find out why shortly after the break. one of the greats stayed blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with gardens are. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowns fighting against.
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heist who stole the american dream. apple for example much of its manufacturing is done on in the united states so i don't see why the american senators would be so concerned about it paying or not paying taxes because ultimately it's not going to get any share of that and that's happening already and of course we're drunk in here about how do you share the taxes provided there are taxes the problem today there's nothing to share because we approve of these rigi where these companies don't break tax. i've seen the perception of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail storms for people keep on going i don't expect anything and just one i told myself i keep on going as. my heart told me to fix that so i wanted
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that the moment that he i have sinned so you see i'm carrying these sayings on my shoulders. do you want me to put a bandage here you know that's fine a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted google great evacuee three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. welcome back this is our team us army witnesses are being called forward in the trial of whistleblower bradley manning who faces life in prison on a charge of aiding the enemy manning is accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks our lives while has been following the proceedings. the testimony was really aimed at trying to get out what manning says character at the
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time the heli troves of of classified information to the anti secrecy website wiki leaks all of this gets back to this aiding the enemy charge the defense is saying that bradley manning is a whistleblower that he did what he did in order to expose government wrongdoing and in order to spark a national debate the prosecution however is saying bradley manning aided the enemy when he leaked this information that when he leaked this information he did it knowing that al qaeda osama bin laden or al qaeda affiliates get hold of this information so all of this goes back to bradley manning his intent at the time also today discussed where the charges of theft of government property that bradley manning faces the defense is trying to get that charge dismissed the prosecution is saying that these documents these trove of information classified information was government property and has some kind of
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a monetary value but there are struggling to prove what what if anything this is worth we are expected to hear more testimony in this phase before we hear a verdict in this trial expected to be delivered sometime next week. yes hatter senate anti-war activist who was in the courtroom says bradley manning never intended to harm his country and he's not one piece of evidence anywhere in writing that bradley manning did. leak disinformation for any other reason than to benefit the american democracy real democracy that we know what our government's doing we get older i get government accountable the defense is trying very hard to present the facts bradley has had admitted that he is the person who gave the information and wiki leaks he did this he wants to be found he wants the judge to give him a punishment that's reasonable in that regard but he's fighting tooth and nail for
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life again these over charges that would simply set tremendously bad precedent for all future with the lawyers. on our website r.t. dot com today we're asking whether you think bradley manning did really the anime let's take a look at how you've been voting so far. well at this point as you can see the majority of our viewers think it actually did help america by revealing the government's crimes just over a third of you at this point thing that. the charge against him only makes sense if truth itself is now washington's anomie and a small minority who believe further investigation is needed just three percent think his revelations were actually god santa or al qaida so let us know what you think on this issue by logging onto our t dot com. a judge in the u.s. state of michigan has ruled that detroit's filing for bankruptcy violates the state
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constitution has refused to allow the liquidation of the city's assets to pay off creditors the city's dat has now reached around eighteen point five billion dollars and there's no cash to repay it with social and municipal services already caught to the bone. it has been a fall winning the biggest municipal bankruptcy case in national history. it's something that i think a lot of people in detroit aren't incredibly surprised to hear the city has been in decline for many many years all of my life since i've been born at least but i think what you're seeing really is just this sort of vicious cycle that the city has not really been able to get out of you know you have high unemployment because you have high unemployment you have thousands of people that are just leaving the city in droves to find economic opportunities elsewhere when you have people leaving the city you're obviously producing less tax revenue you have to tighten the budget and not to mention that when you have more unemployment you have more issues like crime and then that's just one inevitability of having high
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unemployment so that puts a further strain on resources from the police department the fire department etc so it's not all that surprising that a system like that that's frankly unsustainable would would a collapse aside from that i would say that the traders are pretty optimistic detroiters and metro detroit are pretty optimistic about this they're not looking at as hitting rock bottom they feel like we hit rock bottom a long long time ago and this is the thing that had to happen to move forward to turn the page and really sort of you know kind of the beginning of the end of the pain. there is crisis there is also a window of opportunity aspiring entrepreneurs have found a way to earn a quick cash on wall street by setting up a shoeshine store and as our reports of why it's proving so successful. wall street it's not just a location it is a culture synonymous with big bonuses bailouts risk and the one percent following the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight most americans criticize bankers
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right now shining their shoes has turned into a high end business. welcome to starshine and why see it's just different from everything else there's sure there's times at the back. they don't offer the same things that we are or the store offers large leather chairs flat screen t.v.'s and oh a women only staff uniformed in teeny black shorts and fitted tank tops for the first week we had about one hundred people a day no coincidence that nearly all of those people happen to be financier's bankers or other wall street employees when you start a business like this it makes sense to fish with official if you're going to put in a business where you're going to shine people's shoes you're in the heart of the financial district you have to make it somewhat resonate with the type of people in
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the type of demographic that you're actually pertaining to. while the so-called wall street demographic has bounced back exceptionally well following the great recession economic recovery has been extremely difficult for young americans latest figures suggest ten million u.s. workers under the age of twenty five can't find full time work i did this to help out with the bells and everything for a goodly part time while in school and i start learning how much extra we're not sure twenty five year old college graduate leah prefers not to specify the. very cup the summer special on five minute shoe shines is four dollars down from seven love the service. by a very walling a comfortable. income much again with. for you ladies to where there's class cream to be lovely ladies as well it's you it's a hobby it's a magnet it's a you know a track that attention star shine also offers services at corporate events and
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treats shows the store meanwhile will soon be serving beer and wine. the business is owned by kevin white jr and his father who both work in finance neither were available for an on camera interview but tell our t.v. that business is booming so maybe those who argue that wall street creates jobs were right marina port ny r.t. new york and while some are working hard to earn an honest living others are raking in a.z. cash artie's mexico either and stays a herbert have been looking at the shady dealings on wall street and that's in kaiser report which will be running at seven thirty g.m.t. . and to another highly controversial case stateside the justice department is considering launching a federal prosecution over the killing of an armed black teenager trayvon martin in
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florida last year that shortly after record ruled that george zimmerman was acting in self-defense when he shot martin dad sparking protests across the country on friday president obama came forward with a long awaited statement on the case he said that african-americans in the u.s. are growing accustomed to racial profiling and that he has experienced it in self earlier my colleague talked to burn his cane the daughter of martin luther king and she told us that the case only shows the fight for civil rights needs to continue. when you think about. the fact that had this been a white american a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted so so swiftly in this situation i think he probably would have thought about it twice because the fact of the matter is america we all you know i mean it's almost like
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a secret code that there are certain people that you have to be careful with and there are other people there them the value of their life is not the same. so you know i believe that it could have been racial profiling a situation just by some of the language that george zimmerman was using on the nine one one calls and things and then make sure how do you think a case like this would have been dealt with when your fall of martin luther king jr was a law if you think much has changed since then a lot of things have changed in america so we can't say nothing has changed i just think we are still contending with just laws and more importantly laws that disproportionately affect african-americans and african-american males. more than any other. group of people in america and so you know these kind of issues were very prevalent in my father's time oftentimes you would have all white juries in
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most times when there's a black victim in this case and what i mean by victim is the one who did. nine times out of ten back in the sixty's or should i say ten times out of ten. that person would have walked just as george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation. take a quick look at some other stories from around the world and bahrain's consuls between anti-government activists and police have left dozens of people injured one officer was also wounded after being shot by a homemade gun police allegedly fired guns to disperse the crowds who. were marching against the ruling sunni dynasty the protests erupted a day after the government banned opposition demonstrations in several she had villages following a car blast near a mosque. and sectarian violence is deepening in iraq where a bomb explosion in a sunni mosque and a series of other attacks have killed at least twenty six people the blast came
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during friday prayers during the islamic holy month of ramadan and rampant violence throughout the country claimed over three hundred lives in july alone for the first week of the fasting month having been the deadliest since two thousand and seven. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry says israel and palestine could be ready for relaunch of peace talks with negotiations planned to take place in washington that follows his meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier the palestinian leadership demand a guarantees that further and go on territorial disputes would be based on the cease fire line held before nine hundred sixty seven when israel captured the west bank and gaza that condition was rejected outright by tel aviv. well as politicians try to revive the peace process israel's settlement policies are continuing to outrage palestinians and it's getting tough for manny local youngsters who protest against settlement expansion often adding up on the i.d.f.
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swotted list or do you suppose leader has a story. armed to the teeth that's one of the most sophisticated armies in the world state of the art weapons high tech defense and world class combat training but when it comes to dealing with an unconventional enemy children it resorts to this post is threatening to find them wherever they are like a sheriff in a small town with a bounty on outlaws hid every night in the only victim and drop the other guy's bombs and sound bombs the words the houses before i've been with the children live in very bad so critical situation and it's working a suffer as one of the children whose faces was plastered around village in the northern west bank the warning reads we are the army be careful we will catch you if we see you. we were very afraid when they put our pictures of their threatening us that they will arrest us and they will come and take us from our home the
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posters went up one afternoon after another demonstration ended in tear gas and rubber coated bullets every friday villagers take to the streets to protest against the wall israel is building between them and a nearby city home and on the frontline and in the line of fire children the idea to publish these posters was probably the initiative of the local army commander they were placed on the walls of a mosque and nearby houses as off says he wasn't throwing stones but the army and settlers have a different version but still is the head of a nearby city home and each day he drives on this road which connects his settlement in the thirty five thousand jews who live in the area with the rest of his role. of this what would usually happen is they would come and stand on the road to pick up a brick or a large stone and throw it directly and from a short range because many of our residents were hurt three months ago a baby got hit and she's now in a vegetative state stones kill and that's why we expect the military to do what it
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takes in order for it to stop. but the military is helpless and doesn't know what to do while soldiers are clearly prohibited from targeting noncombatants it becomes murky when they feel threatened sure that there's a chain which begins with soldiers being afraid to act because they're not backed up by us it continues with the palestinians understanding that the soldiers will not act these really deterrence is weakening the terrorists growing israelis get hurt and israel is not protecting its citizens it's really figures say rock throwing incidents are up by a hundred and ten percent in the last few months but the army's track record for dealing with palestinian children is dismal at best a recent un report found that the i.d.f. we teenie abuses and tortures youngsters in the occupied west bank the community has hit back by putting up posters of its own the message is that the. art of it is
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