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ten pm clashes between supporters of the ousted egyptian president is a potent sleep three as the army put show of force during a night of mass nationwide protests. britain's top police agency refuses to name the blue chip companies that ordered a frenzy of hacking. for commercial gain misconduct which the agency knew about for years live comment on that coming up this half hour. plus he smoked too much and drank strong coffee bradley manning's army boss testifies hoshi suspected he was a spy from the start after a judge ruled aiding the enemy remains among the whistleblowers charges. and business is buzzing in moscow top financial ministers and leading bankers agreed to fight global unemployment and increase growth in
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a key meeting ahead of the g twenty summit in russia. just after ten pm in moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin now in our top story first off let's go to egypt there at least three people were killed overnight in the north of cairo in clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted president it's after the military war those backing morsi is muslim brotherhood again stoking further unrest and destructing the transition to a new government thousands of probe morsi demonstrators broke off from a mass sitting outside a mosque in eastern karo to march on the republican guard barracks there but then there were blocked by the army meantime on tahrir square crowds gathered to voice their support for what they see as a revolution it comes as the new interim president sort of a group of experts now to start. working on
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a monday becomes comes to chew should it's needed before new elections at the start of next year catherine off spoke to a journalist and carter who says the muslim brotherhood doesn't want to see the middle ground. the real problem that we're facing right now is from the time of president morsi taking over it's been a as are some politics game it's all or none and that is mainly the reason he's been pushed out of power because he would not share it with it with anyone else who would not succumb to opposition and now that he's been pushed out of power at the same attitude prevails that they're not willing to take a compromise at all and i and the reason is because this or the organization is bent on dominating and pushing their way of of politics and so it's actually quite difficult to see a way out of this without. any side to compromising at the moment it's up to the brotherhood who rejected most of the talks and negotiations so it's
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a standoff that continues unfortunately and of course you're very on the ground you sort of have a much better perspective of how high the emotions are running how do you see this playing out i mean could these tensions escalate into a civil war perhaps or do you think that some sort of political political solution is possible here right now the military has taken matters into their hands in a way from a security perspective at least so the idea of a civil war is far fetched because it's unlikely that the military will split over the muslim brotherhood because they face a lot of rejection from the people on the ground and from within the military institution due to the way they've handled things but political activists serial saya told us that those pushing for mahmoud morsi is reinstatement feel they're being denied democracy. my family is just one family that you know for many families in egypt to the streets to demand that the first really elect the president first with him it president reinstated because what happened was
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a military coup i think the military knows that. there are millions and millions of people on the streets and do not want this army people to come back again along with mubarak's option right now to bark back bubbling to the surface and on the military will do just as it has done before whatever it can do to you and you know qual these protests that are in the streets right now as they have before. just ahead orange order refuses to take no for an illicit protest of the police on the parade of nationalists this time avoiding bloody skirmishes with officers got the latest just ahead also two armed to the teeth and perfectly trade's now israel's military is resorting to using wanted posters to intimidate palestinian children who throw stones and protest the settlement.
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british leaders are demanding to know why one of the country's premier law enforcement bureaus ignored massive corruption of misconduct by private investigators the serious and organized crime agency saka allegedly knew about the blind eye to activities including illegal wiretapping and hacking one of the agencies refusing to name which people or firms ordered the bugging for fear of damaging their reputation let's talk about this with investigative journalist tony goes to use in london what possible reason could have to have turned a sort of blind eye to this for what appears to be six years. well it's an incredible story is kevin isn't it back in the one nine hundred seventy s. we heard the the flying squad as they were at the time from scotland yard were rather too friendly with london's criminal gangs from the stand and used to spend rather too much time down the pub drinking with them i get the feeling that's what's going on here with the serious organized crime agency now because this is a very serious inquiry they've done actually two inquiries one from saka project
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riverside and another one from the information commission which is called project baird but what's essentially going on is it's quite clear that the hacking inquiry which lord leveson conducted is just the tip of the iceberg there's a massive industry and out there of criminals actually what they're doing is proposing is private investigators hacking into lots of databases mostly government databases where people have given information to government agencies obviously in confidence and these are the this information is now coming out talking about the national health service the police tax authorities banks councils and utility companies so a lot some of these have been privatized but most of them are still within the government now when we give as citizens these agencies private details we expect them to stay private it's quite clear now that's not been happening both hacking and what's called blagging which is where these private investigators will phone up or phone you as an individual pretending to be one of these big agencies and try
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and get that information and if they do get it then they get a financial reward now quite clearly this is criminal but going back just about a year and a half there was a bit of a revelation about the project riverside just to give you an idea of just how serious this is but what was happening was that criminals organized gangs were getting private investigators and insiders to actually go into the police national computer and delete intelligence files and so detective want to be working on a case for say six or seven months come in one monday morning and find oh my goodness all the files have disappeared this kind of thing as well as go. information private information about specific addresses phone numbers and private details of individual detectives and police that's how serious this is and so i wonder whether this serious organized crime agency is actually somehow part of organized crime itself if it's not doing anything about this keith vaz at home affairs select committee is trying to get to get something moving but if it's not doing anything about it why are they being paid public money to only the relevant
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to this is well it's the words of one of the people burglars a former british army intelligence officer sure that constitutes a direct threat to national security when you know all the fuss that's going on about bradley manning and snowden potentially something's going on here yeah it's extremely worrying and i think this is actually something that really is about the rule of law and it indicates the fact that serious organized crime agency have done nothing about this actually looks like all they've been doing is being counting and collecting this information but they're not actually prosecuting why is this i mean the previous boss of serious organized crime agency syrian andrews said the reason that they don't want to do this is that it could taint big companies names and the names of powerful people well didn't think surely these were people are above the law didn't seem to. have that. well that's that's because there was a focus at the time on the news let's not forget nick davis and others did
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a hell of a lot to actually persuade and push the police into starting to do prosecutions against the news of the world i think that's what we need now right now and that's right from the top from the prime minister and from the leader of the opposition to force a serious organized crime agency to take this evidence that they've got and to use it to prosecute people otherwise britain is a joke if there's no rule of law in this country if these people can continue to get away with it creating a massive industry what they're doing is they're actually giving a green light to organized crime that's a very serious thing to be happening in london and we need to stop it right now as keith vaz from the home affairs select committee is trying to do one final thought some of these companies allegedly involved blue chip companies very important companies for the british economy i guess it's also not a good thing to be coming out when the british economy is not great great health anyway is it well the british economy is going to be even worse health if this is allowed to continue if criminal companies are allowed to get away with it that means that legitimate companies honest firms are actually being overtaken by those
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companies if they're able to make profits and get an advantage over honest law abiding companies that's why this is so important kevin is because it really means that we start to go down the road of a criminal state that is to say the criminals win out while the honest people go down and we seriously do not want that to go any further here in britain which is why it must go to the top level now that the top people that is this a prime minister a leader opposition have got to act about on this subject right now we cannot have police doing investigations and then coming back and finding their files deleted that means there's no rule of law we can't have that here in britain kevin turley goes in bristol fly a very good journalist as you are thank you for your thoughts. in parallel britain's addiction to surveillance is shattering records with estimates there now that there is one camera for every eleven people privacy groups are furious saying george orwell's one thousand nine hundred four book was never intended to be an instruction manual tester of siller reports. if you ever feel like you're being
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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. 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
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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 that it is the government that's acting as big brother doesn't it i think it's 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 the internet things to do with facial recognition and things that can send people full 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. very
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sophisticated they can form a very intricate picture of everybody's daily lives all right thank you very much i am a car for that. new information on 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. fingerprint 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. while britain looks to rein in its surveillance addiction washington it seems there's no such qualms about it so all the websites we find out through a secret court from the snow renewed the n.s.a.'s power to harvest the phone records of millions of americans. to. al-qaeda incorporated having
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the strongest force of any rebel groups. funded emirate stretching from the mediterranean to the persian gulf in front of. me witnesses are being called to testify against whistleblower bradley manning his former boss says she always suspected he was a spy among her arguments manning's heavy smoking and the fact that he drank strong coffee while he faces life in prison for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks after the judge confirmed the most serious charge of aiding the enemy breaking was set program martin discusses developments with producer that program here's a quick snapshot of. 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
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you see it for the rest of life and you left because a lot 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 the enemy 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 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
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one hundred fifty four years and he's been well he's 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 really 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 to testify about all of these documents separately released iraq war logs afghan war logs collateral murder video that went on will be a detainee assessment briefs all these information and that's what the last couple of weeks have been witness is 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. more of that online and we report of a new orange protest in belfast business the g twenty finance ministers meeting in
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moscow just come off this quick break. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports. but no i will leave the state park comment on your. secure yellow cards are you talking no. thank you no more weasel words. when you need a direct question he prepared for a change when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech. down the freedom to. kick right see. first strike. and i think your.
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reporters twitter. and instagram. could be in the. thousands of british loyalist today staged a parade in support of an earlier rally that was stopped by authorities police intervention spot five nights of rioting for the stoking sectarian emotions that. reports from today's gathering. include a great chunk of the. shockingly stuff you need only owing to the marching you are doing shut. down the crazy mob stuff see. the issues on not excluded everything the fleet
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relate. to me that will continue. the gathering. twenty summit in russia. the leading economists have agreed that strengthening growth and create change jobs remain the top priorities for the g twenty member states now the global economy remains too weak at its recovery as still fly jolly an uneven and the recession in the euro area continues ways how to recover from various were largely discussed at this meeting the g twenty financial leaders vowed to prevent currency worse although the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde believes that the danger of currency manipulation is pretty
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much exaggerated now what is really remarkable about this meeting is that the brics countries are also taking part in already trying to combat some world financial problems now this meeting is also a part of some major preparations for the upcoming g. twenty summit that will take place ensign peters birth this september boom really seems at the same time that it is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip an international politics now there war some rumors and speculations that's the u.s. president barack obama will would not be able to meet with the president lies even if we can in moscow if russia grants asylum to the former anas a contract or adverse notion though early as such a meeting was announced to take place around the time of the a neology twenty summit now white house press secretary jay carney he later outlined that the president in turn to travel to russia for the g twenty summit but refused to
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comment further and he also acknowledged that he was being deliberately vague on that issue now there were other reports that two u.s. republican lawmakers as adjusted to even change the location of the g twenty summit but still it really seems that those economists who have gathered here are for this a g twenty finance ministers meeting not put politics aside and we're really discussing some challenging economic issues. members of the far right english defense league clash violently with police in the city of birmingham has left several people injured thirty three protesters were arrested after bottles and stones were hold offices the a.d.l. said it was taking to the streets to call for the reintroduction of video cameras into the city center called crime as that was hardly a left wing counter protest was held not far from where the clashes erupted. the world news headlines protests and way across the united states a week after a florida court acquitted george zimmerman of murder organizers expect more than
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one hundred cities to take part in the rallies zimmerman shot dead on our black teenager trayvon martin claim it was self-defense his acquittal sparked days of rage with civil rights activists accusing the court of racial bias. time palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to start peace talks brokered by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he said the two sides are ready for negotiations which will start in washington within two weeks kerry met the leaders of both states on the sixth visit to the region in this many months. but while the politicians try to revive the peace process the outrage over israel's settlements refuses to die down among palestinians what's more the military crackdown some protestors is seeing children end up on the i.d.f. wanted list of at least correspondent paul asli reports. 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 it comes to dealing with an
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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 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 as sufis 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 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 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
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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 fifty five thousand jews who live in the area with the rest of israel. 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 with palestinian children is dismal at best a recent un report found that the i.d.f.
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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 very along the art of not. as far south he has exams but can't concentrate way we have soldiers that are on the prowl looking for him and his classmates policy r.t. for could do him spend. coming up after the break just a couple of minutes time i'll be martin looks into who's behind the real crime is that for snowden or america's national security agency's latest breaking the set on every suv.
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you want is 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 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 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
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a copycat 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 for their product but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i've got so many i mean the town i believe that i'm sitting seems really nice. and we're all very sort of sleepy at. worst you are going to go lie
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down sick of a. radio guy and for a minute. what the whereabouts of did you never seen anything like that i'm telling. you guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set so in light of the leaks from edward snowden and developments around and it's a spine it's inspired many current former government officials to come out and save their pizza why they think snowden is a traitor a law breaker and the like amidst all the insane rhetoric a former u.s. president has come out and shattered the regurgitated talking points shedding some sanity on the issue by late 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.
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