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the egyptian army shows it's in no mood to compromise the breaking up mass rallies of pro islamists calling for the reinstatement of mohamed morsi and warning of a wider crackdown. around six million surveillance cameras are keeping watch on u.k. citizens around the clock now this is according to a new report that has alarmed privacy campaigners. and as financial movers and shakers from the world's largest economies meet in moscow ahead of the g. twenty summit in st petersburg we look at how the upcoming event is being overshadowed by the snowden saga.
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thanks for tuning in to our team this hour i'm lucy and that's great to have you. well in egypt at least three people have been killed in overnight clashes as backers and opponents of the ousted president mohamed morsi held rallies across the country this is after the military had warned supporters of morsi as muslim brotherhood against stoking further on rest and disrupting the transition to a new government troops in cairo have fired tear gas to force back thousands of protesters on their way to the presidential palace to demand more seize reinstatement meanwhile on to where square crowds gathered to voice their support for what they see as a revolution and to rally behind the interim government and its political activist sara told us their feeling of victory may be short lived. there are millions and millions of people in this streets you do not want this army will come back again along with barak's state along with barak's corruption right now you see it's putting two marks they come back bubbling to the surface and the military will do
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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 he's been protesting his as you seem . maybe you have been because they cracked out of him here that shows those forces guarding morsy and those who are in the streets protesting and have repeatedly said they will not go home until they see democracy until morsy is reinstated as the first freely elected president. journalist and author hugh miles believes that the only way to break the political deadlock in egypt is to form a coalition government. country is more divided than it's ever been and the future is hardly on have to try and form a government that includes the islamists and the secular as. liberals but so far.
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they haven't managed to do this at all and so what we're likely to see is the 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 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 the charge of aiding the enemy he's accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents abby martin discussed the details of that case with r.t. producer and her break blake pardon me and breaking the sets. what happened was so
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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 on 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 it 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 actually been proven to cause any harm not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on 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 give way to the enemy and afterwards the defense said we don't think so we don't think you even you we don't think you even gave enough evidence that the judge can actually make this decision so they filed a couple of motions a few weeks back and just today colonel denise lynn the military judge presiding
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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 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 leaves a hell of a guy you might live to and yeah you know you know aiding the enemy or not 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 set's that's out there he admitted that the prosecutions tried saying that these documents caused harm to national security and we had people come in and testify about all of these documents released to iraq war logs afghan war logs collateral murder video if i toddled bay detainee assessment briefs all these information that's what the last couple of weeks of the end witnesses being called by the prosecution and by the
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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. of course the full show is available for you on our website at our two dot com also there were ask you whether you believe that bradley manning really truly did the enemy let's take a look at how those of you who have voted have voted so far so here's the result as you can see the majority of our viewers in the blue sixty percent believe that bradley manning actually helped the united states by revealing the government's crimes now a third of you believe that the charge against him only makes sense if truth itself is now washington's enemy but a small minority of you and four percent right there believe that a further investigation is needed for this and just three percent in the green believe that his revelations were in fact helpful to groups like al qaeda not to late to votes log on to r.t. dot com and cast your ballot. finance ministers and bankers from the world's
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most powerful economies are meeting in moscow this to shape the path for a global economic recovery and 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 as argentina coach nova explains via current g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors meeting which is taking place here in moscow out the moment is really a part of some major proper aeration for the coming g. twenty summit that will take place and it's in petersburg and of the september and actually it is the deal last 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 first there were rumors that said the u.s. president barack obama may not a town the g. twenty summit in st petersburg if russia runs the former n.s.a. contractor adverse note on asylum but than there were even reports that to us
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a 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 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 politics 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 as a group of leading economies a sad sad. the current system does not work especially for those companies which
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trade online now companies in the spotlight for using this legal but i try and quite controversial practices so fucking profits and low tax countries are our us so giants relieve 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 make the recession and the porch from taxation transparency there are many other issues on the agenda of this g twenty finance ministers meeting reach is taking place here in moscow including source dissolve private investments into economic growth business policy ways how to recall her from the economic recession so again as a sad some major proper ration is for the g twenty summit which is going to take place in st petersburg are taking place here in the russian capital. to stay with us coming up after the break it's the biggest miscible bankruptcy in american history r.t.
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looks at what's on the pockets of the city of detroit once an industrial powerhouse also coming up a shoeshine story proved surprisingly popular among wall street bankers and find out why and later in the program. some of these traditional chili lines they've been grid and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a total struction of the culture of new mexico i tell everyone i mean this this is not going to impact just a little bit in mexico whatever happens here we're going to have the whole world now we're eating at the products in the in the open skin all the organs that were. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy. kreutz is. killing
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me that we don't forget you from. the great. welcome back alexander of all made the russian anti-corruption blogger who was jailed on thursday for embezzlement but unexpectedly bail the following day has returned to moscow crowds of some of supporters greeted him as he got off the train from kiro for his court hearing had taken place upon the arrival of all day a vocal critic of the russian government and promised to continue his campaign to become moscow mayor was registered as
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a candidate for the september election just one day before his sentencing not only still faces five years behind bars for defrauding a state owned timber company of half a million dollars he was set free pending his appeal following a surprise request from prosecutors and is subject to a travel ban. of course all the details of that of only trial are available for you on our website r.t. dot com also there you can find lots of photographs from the protests that his sentencing have sparked in moscow and elsewhere. privacy campaigners in britain are sounding the alarm over the dramatic rise of surveillance there according to the latest estimates the u.k. now has at least one c.c.t.v. camera for almost every fourteen citizens in the majority of the surveillance systems are privately operated by the state but activists say that this only adds to the lack of transparency and oversight arced artie's tesser cilia explains. if you ever feel like you're being watched perhaps even feel singled out no matter how
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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. cameras are not government funded but rather privately owned and mostly used for security reasons another 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.
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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 those installed by the police and local authorities so it does. 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 proliferation 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 in the private sector. private c.c.t.v. footage but we're seeing some incredibly sophisticated pieces of technology appearing via the internet things to do with facial recognition and things that can send people full miles away so i think it's only correct that the technology and states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the day. very sophisticated we can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much i'm
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a car for the. information of the vast number of privately owned a surveillance cameras were out 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 fingerprint records and it's just coming. out of regulation was imposed on the public surveillance cameras and the debate created by the revelations of edward snowden already ongoing reporting from london. meanwhile across the atlantic the u.s. government's appetite for its citizens private data seems to be stronger than ever for the obama administration approving yet another extension to the n.s.a. spying program the full story for you at our calm also there london is about to provide a boost to companies and gauges in the highly controversial practice of hydraulic fracking the government is pledging record low tax rates for shale gas producers on
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our web site will explain what's behind the move. a judge in the u.s. state of michigan how does rules that detroit's filing for bankruptcy violates the state's constitution he's refused to allow the liquidation of the city's assets to pay off creditors detroit's debt has now reached around eighteen point five billion dollars and there's no cash to repay it with public services already drastically cut our david has been following the biggest miscible bankruptcy 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
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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 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. tough times for detroit about over on wall street in new york the bankers are making more money than ever and some aspiring entrepreneurs who are have found a way of tapping into that wealth by revamping a senior lay out data trade artie's marina park in iowa reports now wall street it's not just a location it is
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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 are signs that the book. they don't offer are the same things that we are for the store offers large leather chairs flat screen t.v.'s and oh a women only staff uniformed in teeny black shorts and didn't 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 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. you're in the heart of the financial
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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 i did this to help out with the bells and everything a 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. very cup this summer special on five minute shoe shines is four dollars down from seven i love the service was just there by a very walling a comfortable like a good lesson come watch a game with the pretty lady where there's class korean t.v.
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and lovely ladies as well. it's a hard it's a magnet so you know attract that attention starshine 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 were right marina port ny r.t. new york well some are working hard to earn earn a living others are raking in easy cash max kaiser will be giving his take on the murky world of financial insiders that's in just over an hour right here on r.t. . thousands of orthodox christians have gathered outside the crisis labor cathedral here in moscow where the ancient holy relic has been brought in from greece now the
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queue stretches back several kilometers and church volunteers have been brought in to try to keep the line under control the st andrew's cross had arrived in the capital on friday to mark the anniversary of russia's conversion to christianity more than a millennium ago will be on display at the cathedral for five more days and up to four hundred thousand believers are expected to pay their respects. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the globe now we begin in bahrain where struggles between anti-government activists and the police have left dozens of people injured police reportedly fired live rounds to disperse the crowd marching against the ruling sunni monarchy the protest erupted a day after the government had banned opposition demonstrations in several shia 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 that killed at least twenty six people the blast came
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during friday prayers during the islamic holy month of ramadan rampant violence throughout the country claimed over three hundred lives in july alone with the first week of the fasting month having been the deadliest since two thousand and seven. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has said that israel and palestine could be ready for a relaunch of peace talks this follows his meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tel aviv has meanwhile said it will release several long term palestinian prisoners this is part of an agreement to resume peace talks negotiations are expected to begin within weeks in washington. well as politicians try to revive the peace process israel's settlement policies are continuing to outrage palestinians many local youngsters who protest against settlement expansions are now ending up on the i.d.f. wanted list archies policy or takes up that story. armed to the teeth it's one of the most sophisticated armies in the world state of the art weapons high tech
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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 nearly the drop 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 suffers 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 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
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a nearby statement on the frontline and in the line of fire children the idea 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 and stuff says he wasn't throwing stones but the army and settlers have a different version. 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 takes in order for it to stop. israeli figures say rock throwing incidents are up by a hundred ten percent in the last few months but the army's track record for dealing
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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 that their year long the art of. the descendants of the. as for his sons he has exams but can't concentrate way we have soldiers that are on the prowl looking for him and his classmates policial khufu could doom spend. coming up shortly in racial profiling and the hunt for whistleblowers in our start breaking the set to stay with us.
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or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are empty and this piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans a sense of the government is out there to buy likes or what a fantastic use tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps at work to really help spread the message of the u.s. state department effectively wellness victor general's report says that since the advertising campaign started twenty eleven there has been a dramatic increase in users liking state department sites but the problem is that only two percent of them actually use the sites so you get what you pay for a big bag of likes but if you hard core fans probably the most shocking example is
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a vision of america group in farsi made for a rainy us which has gotten over four hundred twenty thousand members but only one percent of them is actually in iran where facebook advertising doesn't even exist that's effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not. you know we get the next free bar by providing interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting our tax dollars but that's just what happens. if you. couldn't take three. or three. arrangements free. free. free. download free broadcast live video for your media projects
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you guys i'm having martin and this is breaking up the set so in light of the leaks from edward snowden developments and it's a spine it's inspired many current former government officials to come out and say that their piece about why they think so. as a traitor a law breaker and the like amidst all the insane rhetoric a former us president has come out and shattered the regurgitated talking points shedding some sanity on the issue finally few weeks ago former president jimmy carter told c.n.n. that while snowden didn't break the law a real crime here is the actions of the n.s.a. . i think the invasion of human. rights in american privacy has gone to fall and i think that the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive.

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