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egyptian army shows it's in no mood to compromise breaking up mass rallies of pro islam this calling for their reinstatement of the ousted leader mohamed morsi and warning of a wider crackdown. around six million surveillance cameras are keeping watch on u.k. citizens twenty four seven and that's according to a new report that's alarmed privacy campaigners unprompted coals for greater transparency. and us financial movers and shakers from the world's leading economies me to moscow ahead of the g. twenty summit in st petersburg we'll look at how the upcoming event is being overshadowed by the russia u.s. dispute over at once noted.
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what you are taking to you live from the russian capital it's eleven am here. now in egypt 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 against stoking further on rest and disrupting the transition to a new government troops in cairo fired tear gas to force back thousands of protesters on their way to the presidential palace to demand more of his reinstatement meanwhile on tom grier 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 asked political activists sara outside told us their feeling of victory may be short lived. there are millions and millions of people in this case you do not want this army wall to
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come back again along with all barks they are with mubarak through ups and right now you see is beginning to bark state from the back bubbling to the surface and of 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 showing signs of weakness they are turning to killing just the protesters as you seem. or maybe you have been because they cracked open here that shows those forces guarding morsy and those who are in the street protesters have repeatedly said they will not go home until they see democracy until morsy is reinstated as the first freely elected president that award winning journalist and author of hugh miles believes the only way to break the political deadlock in age it is to form a coalition government. country is more divided than it's ever been and the future
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is hardly uncertain 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 at all and so what we're likely to see is a swinging between these two poles in the direction politics going forward but when brotherhood has very deep roots in egyptian society it has millions of supporters it's been around for many years and has to 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. meanwhile in the united states 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
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documents to wiki leaks abby martin discussed the case with r.t. producer and like in breaking a sweat. what happened was so you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long been saying ok manning you aided the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see for the rest of life and you left because a lot of people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you know really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this it's a bit preposterous and when you know the styles been going on it actually only happening for a couple of weeks now when the prosecution actually had to present their case and they had to call witnesses and they actually had to try to make an effort to say bradley manning you aided the enemy afterwards to defend said we don't think so we don't think you even you we don't think you even gave enough evidence that the
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judge can actually make this decision so they filed a couple of motions a few weeks back and just today colonel denise lind the military judge presiding over the case she finally responded and said no there's enough evidence that i can actually go ahead and i can make a decision should not to make the decision now the court case is going to wrap up sometime next month most likely but she is not dismissing the charges by not dismissing the charge bradley manning will now face a maximum of life plus one hundred fifty four years in prison i believe life plus one hundred fifty four years and it's been a hell of a guy you might live to or yeah you know you know i mean bolstering up your life span how is the prosecution going to prove this i mean i guess we don't know but based on what they've already said it seems pretty flimsy elder we already know that manning did all this stuff aid the enemy but we know he's played with the leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified documents that sets that's out there he admitted that the prosecutions tried saying that these documents caused harm to national security and they had people come in and testify about all of these documents separately released iraq war logs afghan war logs collateral murder video
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that went on will be a detainee assessment briefs all these information and that's what the last couple of weeks of bend witnesses being called by the prosecution and by the defense trying to say well either you know he did it knowing that this could happen or you know he was a naive twenty something guy who wanted to help the world but that's going to be ultimately up to the judge to decide. well the chair was available in full on our web site r t v dot com also there were asking whether you think bradley manning did really a the enemy well let's go take a look at how some of you have already put it participated in our society vote answered as you can see the majority of the viewers at this point think that actually helped america by revealing the government's crimes a surge say that the change against him only makes sense if truth itself is now in washington's anime and the small minority of this point believe further investigation is needed just three percent of our viewers think these revelations
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were actually godsend for al qaeda so do let us know what you think by logging onto our t dot com and having your say there. finance ministers and bankers from the world's most powerful economies are meeting in moscow to shape the path for a global economic recovery the talks are precursor to september's g twenty summit in st petersburg but aside from finance there are complex political issues at stake as a question of now explains. via current g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors meeting which is taking place here in moscow at the moment is really a period of some major proper aeration as for the outcome a g. twenty summit that will take place and st petersburg the end of the september and 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
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a bargaining chip in international politics first their war rumors that said the u.s. president barack obama may not a town the g. twenty summit in st petersburg if russia grants the former n.s.a. contractor adverse note an asylum but than there were even reports that two u.s. or republican lawmakers hops adjusted to change the location of the upcoming g. twenty summit and not so hold it in russia basically in order to crush russia or to oxford ice adverse notice now meanwhile there is still of course time until these 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 rethinking of the rules on top saying multinational companies basically to fight those loopholes so will we at times those companies are using to
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avoid billions of dollars and the taxes now as a group of leading economies are 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 processes so fucking profits and low tax countries are you as a giants relieved google amazon and apple and now this issue. it has become quite a hot stop gypped especially for those countries which are quite badly heads by the un going make 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 private investment into economic growth business policy ways how to recall her from the economic recession so again as a sad some major proper
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a sense for the g twenty summit which is going to take place in st petersburg are taking place here in the russian capital. and coming up after the break the biggest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history art he looks at what the pockets of the city of detroit once an industrial powerhouse. and a shoeshine store approve surprisingly popular among the banking fact cats of wall street find out why later in the program here in r.t. . wealthy british soil the sun. spot on the right. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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now has at least one is c.c.t.v. camera for every fourteen citizens the majority of surveillance systems are operated privately not by the state but activists say that only adds to the lack of transparency and oversight r.t. says our cilia 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. one in every fifteen or one in every eleven people whether you're going to the shopping mall or 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 out what is seen as the u.k. government's growing surveillance state but in the most recent report it shows that in fact majority of c.c.t.v.
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cameras are not government funded but rather privately owned and mostly used for security reasons another b s are you stressed 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 a 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. it is the government that's acting as big brother doesn't it i think it's big for there is a hole in the u.k. at the moment i think the private sector seen 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 in the private sector. private c.c.t.v. . but we're seeing some incredibly sophisticated pieces of technology appearing via
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the internet things to do with facial recognition and things that can send people miles away so i think it's only the law catches up with the technology and states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the the day. sophisticated they can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much i am a car 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 of 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 the code of regulation was imposed on the public surveillance cameras of course the debate created by the revelations of edward snowden already ongoing reporting from london. meanwhile
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across the atlantic the u.s. government's appetite for its citizens' private data seems to be stronger than ever was the obama administration approving yet another extension to the infamous n.s.a. snooping program to get the full story at r.t. dot com. lots london's about to provide a boost to companies and gauged in the highly controversial practice of hydraulic fracking the government is pledging to record low tax rates for shale gas producers online we'll tell you what's behind the move. a judge in the u.s. state of michigan has ruled that detroit's filing for bankruptcy violates the state constitution and has refused to allow the liquidation of the city's assets to pay off creditors the city's dad has now reached around eighteen point five billion dollars and there's no cash to repay it with public services already cut to the bone marrow david has been following the biggest municipal bankruptcy in national history. it's something that i think
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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 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 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
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bottom they feel like we hit rock bottom a long long time ago 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. when there is a crisis there's also a window of opportunity aspiring entrepreneurs have found a way to earn quick cash on wall street by setting up a shoe shine store artie's marina board now reports on 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 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. their sheer size up the block and they don't offer the same things that we are or the store offers
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large leather chairs flat screen t.v.'s and oh a women only staff uniformed in teeny black shorts and did it take tops for the first week we had about one hundred people a day no coincidence that nearly all of those people happen to be finance years 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 a business where you're going to shine people. you're in the heart of the financial district you have to make it somewhat resonate with the type of people in 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 idea this to help out with the bells and everything to get
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a part time while in school and still learning how much extra we're not sure twenty five year old college graduate leah prefers not to specify. it was very tough this summer special on five minute shoe shiners is four dollars down from seven i love the service and was just there by a very walling it comfortable like a good lesson come watch a game with two or three layers to where there's class korean t.v. and lovely ladies as well it's a hard it's a magnet so you know attract that attention star shine also offers services at corporate events and trade 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
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were right marina port ny r.t. new york that while some are working hard to earn a living others are raking in easy cash artie's max kaiser and stays heard have been looking at the shady dealings on wall street and that's in gaza report which will be a coming your way about ten minutes time here on r.t. . and to another highly controversial case now stateside the justice department is considering launching a federal prosecution over the killing of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year that's 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 have long grown accustomed to racial profiling and that he has experienced it himself bernas king
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who is the daughter of martin luther king told us the case demonstrates that the battle for civil rights is far from over. the lot of groups in america feel oppressed i think for those of us in the african-american community because we've had such a long history of oppression since we've been in this country it makes it a little bit more intense and to look at the statistics in a lot of the different categories in america where the we're talking about the justice system education health care wealth there are great disparities still as it relates to the african-american community and so you know this particular case i think to me is a sign and a wake up call that we have to finish or continue the unfinished work of martin luther king jr i think perhaps that's why ironically we have the name trayvon martin not that he is martin luther king jr but i think it's kind of
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a sign that hey we've got to reconnect with and continue this unfinished work of martin luther king jr particularly in the racial and economic areas. and thousands of orthodox christians have gathered outside christ the savior cathedral in moscow where an ancient holy relic has been brought from greece the line stretches back several kilometers and church volunteers have been brought in to try to keep the lion under control st andrew's cross which dates back to the first century arrived in the capital on friday to mark the anniversary of russia's conversion to christianity warrant that a millennium ago it will be on display at the cathedral for five more days and up to four hundred thousand believers expected to pay their respects right now you are looking at live pictures coming out of christ the savior.
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well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and it rains calls between the government activist and police have left dozens of people injured one officer was also wounded after being shot by a homemade firearm at least allegedly fired shotguns 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 villages following a car blast near a mosque. and here in violence is deepening in iraq where a bomb explosion is sunni mosque in a series of other attacks have killed at least twenty six people the blast came during friday prayers during the islamic holy month of ramadan rampant violence throughout the country claimed over three hundred lives and alone with the first week of the fasting month having been the deadliest since two thousand and seven.
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u.s. secretary of state john kerry says israel and palestine could be ready for we launch of these 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 leader. ship demanded guarantees that further and go fish and 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 out dried 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 mary local youngsters who protest against settlement expansion often and the up on the i.d.f. swanage list our disposal here has a story armed to the teeth it'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
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it comes to dealing with an unconventional enemy children it resorts to those posters threatening to find them wherever they are like a sheriff in a small town with a bounty on an outlaws hid every night nearly the truth. 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 sufis one of the children whose faces was plastered around village in the more than we spank 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 up there threatening us that they will arrest us and they will come and take us from our home. the posters went up one afternoon after another demonstration ended in tear gas and rubber coated bullets every friday villages take to the streets to protest against the wall israel is building between them and a nearby city home and on the front line and in the line of fire children the idea
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to publish these posters was probably the initiative of a local army commander they were placed on the walls of a mosque and nearby houses. assaf 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 and 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 takes in order for it to stop. israeli 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.
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would timi 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 me. as for south he has exams but can't concentrate way we have soldiers that are on the prowl looking for him and his classmates pointlessly r.t. for could doom spend. and now as promised it's maximizer with his unique take on the behind the scenes dealings on wall street. if you want to hear something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions to their products only the original branded creators of the drugs can the court's
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decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after winning the case mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from the medicine they made themselves remember this is not just a ruling about one drug but a ruling about all generic drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of them will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of a product and granting immunity to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a colt forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat call made in mexico to blow your neighbors off well that's ok because it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow generic drug producers to have no liability
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for their product but that's just my opinion. one of the greats spade 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 that are fighting against. heis still be in are green. welcome to the kaiser report. max kaiser w t f where is the food.
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