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ninety two people have been killed in overnight clashes in egypt as the muslim brotherhood claims supporters of the ousted president are being targeted by the military with a shoot to kill policy. is concerned a diplomatic push in syria could go down the drain as rebels mol arms shipments from backers and call for regime change despite agreeing to join a peace meeting. and america's largest cyber fraud case that's had washington on the run for years five are charged with swiping hundreds of millions of dollars from people's credit cards.
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as five phantom oscar watching are. welcome to the program how it has endured a night of deadly clashes between the military and supporters of the deposed president officially there are ninety two casualties but muslim brotherhood activists say over one hundred have been killed and more than a sow's an injured they say their supporters were deliberately targeted with shots to the head and chest well true has a story in cairo it was a very bloody night here in egypt as clashes erupted in many parts of the country and continue into saturday morning off to these nationwide going through protests broken supports and against the ousted leader mohamed morsy what eyewitnesses are saying although we haven't completely reports is it protests that have tempted to extend this city in past the area that they had been staying in for the last few weeks towards to go to that bridge at this point security for. says then attempted
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to push them back with tea gas butte hospital doctors are reporting people have died and there are a number of injured as well and what we're seeing now is apparently eyewitnesses saying that some people have been coming in with gunshot wounds although we can't confirm whether come by a voice nice as well as people having problems with take ash inhalation and it was very chaotic with the injured coming in every five minutes in ambulances that people were on the back of motorcycles of bringing the wounded into the city and now this is also happened in other parts of the country they were violent clashes in the coastal city of alexandria between rival protest groups when supporters and opponents of the ousted leader met in the main running point also you leaving people dead this is been very very bloody civilian on civilian crashes we have of course seen massive amounts of tanks here and the military joining the police in attacking people saying or attacking these citizens of course this comes off the announcement on friday that said mohamed morsi would be kept in detention following
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investigations into charges that he's been conspiring against the country with a palestinian organization hamas in addition to possibly being responsible for the deaths of the prison guards and offices when he broke out of prison during the eighteen the uprising in two thousand and eleven so this is a very serious serious allegation against the former president they could see him so jail time they said has of course few the fire and the anger by his opponents is and of course in islam is group them is the brotherhood who is saying this is a very much a politically driven charge and that this is part of a wider crackdown against the group by the military no side is backing down many people are dying the violence is continuing leading many to feed that this will only get worse all doesn't mohammed abdul aziz from the salaam islamic center in california believes the army's crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to
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the radicalization of its young members. the military is now doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president this is basically reminiscent of the of the nasir era and the crackdown on the muslim brotherhood that took place in the one nine hundred fifty s. what we be sickly see a repetition of that same scenario where the military of egypt cracking down on an islamist group we may or may not agree with their policies but they have renounced violence a long time ago they put him in prison the torture of their members the the shooting dead a group of those members will eventually break off of the muslim brotherhood and adopt a more violent perspectives and this is exactly what happened in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's and those developments basically to the creation of the international phenomenon of terrorism that we still suffer the ramifications of until the present day with with extremely concerns me right now is those young members of the
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brotherhood saying the same exact thing feeling that democracy can never bring them to power that their voices will never be heard that they will eventually resort to violence and then when we have waves and waves of violence this is not going to be good for anybody and time morsi activists abstain believes the muslim brotherhood is exaggerating the casualty figures to convince their foreign allies they need help against the military. what do you expect people who were in. the government and. all the egyptian people did not accept that. we did not accept the terrorism we did not accept the fascism we did not accept what do you expect from losers of course they're trying to justify trying to pull of to the well the two of course there that support those united states for how. we will never ever let anyone in defeat in our country if they accept that the
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americans accept that people will go and shoot soldiers into the pentagon we will accept there was a number as it was to shoot our soldiers in military establishment. upsetting images on the violence in egypt have been posted on twitter and can see that some of those injured are children and there are claims that a thirteen year old boy was killed in alexandria there are also pictures show we civilians allegedly firing live rounds at pro war see protesters at r.t. dot com we have a timeline of the turmoil in egypt has suffered since president morsi was deposed we've gathered some of the most dramatic pictures and accounts they are. you.
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kidding. i want to go irene to the use of chemical weapons in syria has got off the ground as investigators and damascus officials finally reach an agreement the probe was stalled as the u.n. demanded full access to syrian facilities which the is the word is denied and another breakthrough has been reached in newark a key rebel gloop has agreed to take part in a peace conference aimed at resolving the two year war in syria after a meeting with security council members but as more in a fortnight explains there are conditions attached to. what those preconditions are it's hard to detect it seems as though they want to make sure the syrian president bashar al assad has no authority following the key to
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a meeting and another precondition possibly once a transitional government is established that that transitional government would have full authority over the security of the military in syria there's a lot of back and forth with the wording with the russian ambassador to the u.n. really underscored here is that all this talk of prevent the geneva two meeting from actually moving forward and taking place they were mentioning about other things that they needed more weapons etc etc so some other remarks they were making sort of leading in the direction of for the for the conflict for the conflict which . with no obvious end in sight there's no secret that the syrian opposition would like to receive the weapons in arms in military aid that the obama administration recently promised to provide to the rebels fighting against syrian president bashar al assad it is clearly soon that the delegation representing the syrian opposition
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is here in new york discussed that issue with u.s. secretary of state john kerry now before they begin their bilateral meeting on thursday secretary kerry said that there could be no military solution to the syrian crisis only a political solution but if that is the case many ask why would washington the shipping more well. ends in arms to a country that is in the midst of a civil war that is now reaching two and a half years so we have this meeting taking place and a lot of talk but it seems as though that positions still remain and there has been no date yet set for this geneva two meeting that coworker nies co-sponsored by russia and the us. anti-war campaign are huge and very air told us that western backed attempts to topple the assad regime only stir up a hornet's nest in syria rendering peace efforts useless the united states and the united kingdom france other western nations have really made clear that they will only accept the fall of assad and despite the fact that they continually try to say
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that they're for peace negotiations it seems at every turn whether it's sending arms to the rebels whether it's in the quote unquote non-lethal aid money in general supporting the gulf countries that are also supporting them that really all of the talk about peace is disingenuous and unlike russia and other countries they seem very. determined to push forward the syrian rebels as the new leadership of the country regardless of the situation on the ground when the russian in the united states were originally trying to promote the geneva two conference we saw that the syrian rebels essentially said that they had no intention of negotiating until the situation on the ground changed that is until they gained the military upper hand so from their perspective they seem only willing to negotiate if the military situation allows them to have the upper hand in negotiations but if they seem to be losing the war if it seems that support for them inside of the country is dropping all of a sudden they have no desire to negotiate and they only want to continue to push war which is the subtext of this entire meeting where on the sidelines they have
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been pushing for more and more military aid from the united states and for it to come significantly quicker. and on the ground the syrian army reportedly backed by has squads has been advancing in rebel held neighborhoods in the central city of homs media reports suggest that opposition groups there are also infiltrated by mercenaries political strategy analyst chris libertine assess the involvement of foreigners is making a bad situation even worse there are so many factions that have so much influence with this coalition and even the assad government has brought in others outsiders if you will to sort of prop up their government that there doesn't seem to be any particular group that can claim to be in charge or one side or the other the whole situation is become balkanized the last thing people in america want is to get into another situation or rock which is very confusing we never really picked the side. to be on that seemed to be the right side and ten years after our invasion there
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there doesn't seem to be any kind of coalition there around a governing body that all iraqis can agree on. now the u.s. is going all out to stop the ongoing hunger strike at one time of day that's how some experts describe the pentagon's decision to transfer two inmates back home a little the government insists it's part of a camp's closure process the details are just ahead. and crime sandro the people of venezuela's inner city slums are forming vigilante groups to fly crime and corruption but there are fears they could be doing more harm than good that's coming up. on the money with the business of russia.
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the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry for the big picture.
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welcome back to your was arty and what's thought to be america's largest fraud scheme in year is five people have been charged with stealing more than three hundred million dollars by siphoning people's credit cards they now face trial and could spend decades in jail if convicted are does enter blake has a story. we had five guys four russian nationals and one ukrainian man who over the course of around seven years were able to penetrate a number of the networks of leading financial institutions banks all sorts of systems where very important information was being stored and over the course of several years those men broke into the databases allegedly took a sensitive information and in the end u.s. prosecutors now say that those five men were able to compromise roughly one hundred sixty million credit cards causing upwards of three hundred million dollars of
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damage they were able to elude authorities for around seven or eight years now actually masterminding this operation itself took a lot of very careful planning now of the five men that are believed involved in this each one kind of had a separate little niche that they would specialize in for instance were experts when it came to penetrating computer networks others were would go into these networks after they were compromised in mind for even more would build up very very sophisticated internet networks to be able to communicate anonymously so by having different specialists in different sectors they were all able to put the pieces together and cause millions of dollars hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage and affect people around the globe two of them were arrested one of them has since been extradited from the netherlands the other one is awaiting extradition and three of them are at large so once they are brought to the u.s. and tried to see could be looking at likely decades in prison. that was unsealed thursday this week it all stems from a previous investigation that began
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a few years ago and did with the conviction of an american computer hacker who is currently serving several decades behind prison for a similar crime. riderless have rocked two major cities in brazil with the goal set alight and banks ransacked in anger at political corruption and government spending on next year's football world cup and we have some striking photos on our website r.t. dot com also russia's largest airline sets its sights high with plans for a low cost carrier to connect with your major cities get the details at r.t. dot com.
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now the pentagon says it all repatriated to guantanamo inmates back to old geria claiming it's the first step on towards closing the infamous facility prisoners at the camp sparked international condemnation of the obama administration by starting the or continuing hunger strike back in february against their views and indefinite detention social studies scholar dr alan singer says the transfer is just throwing a bone to inmates to make them stop protesting. in many ways it's an act of desperation but hunger strike has embarrassed the united states all over the world so they're trying to break the hunger strike by pushing out a couple the people but these are people that are being detained without any legal justification one of the things i find so curious is that trying to get out curiously jake to the people algeria is not well noted for the due process of its
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courts countries with stablish legal proceedings do not want to touch this yes saying states and is saying to obama you made this mess you're stuck with it i am an expert on the other jury in prison system but i had to go to jail i think i'd much rather go to sweden or denmark the conditions in general in algeria are very very harsh i mean i think they're looking to send people to a. hunt is fate i don't see this as any kind of due process of any kind of outcome i just think they're trying to get out of something they created warlord the next church delegations have arrived in ukraine following an historical hole we rally at the st andrews cross that unites nations of ancient russia but the symbolic event in kiev comes during politically hard times foreign crain where the country at a crossroads between russia and the e.u. ridiculous ko explains. well it's really the center of one of the most religious
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festivities you have seen in the last several years that hundreds of thousands of people have flocked here and the reason why the festivities are taking part place and because one thousand and twenty five years ago it was here and it was adopted as official religion. and then spread its way across the country and there have been several you can see conflicts that russia and ukraine have participated in over the past several decades the orange revolution which increasingly saw ukraine pushing its way. away from rushing towards europe ukraine is just and destroying. thousands of reasons to say that. i was living in russia and half of the country. moving in the opposite direction. because. of course there are people in ukraine who a look at who are looking west they're looking at europe and they're thinking. it's in the european union that they are their attention and their priorities lie they
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want to adopt. european lifestyle they want to see some of their values at the same time of course russia and ukraine share a lot of cultural historic and of course the economic ties and a lot of critics. of ukraine warned that should the country's turn westward risking basically diluting its national identity. well let's check now some other stories from around the world broadcasters have ransacked the offices of the muslim brotherhood in the leading capital after a leading critic of islam is in the country was killed in a drive by shooting. had recently campaigned strongly for a new law that prevents officials under the deposed regime from the elected a security official said an investigation have been launched into the murder of. privacy rights activist have sanibel into frankfurt to protest against u.s.
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worldwide surveillance and berlin's role in it demonstrations have also been organized in at least thirty cities across germany demanding the government reveals the full scope of its cooperation with washington according to whistleblower edward snowden german intelligence has been helping america's national security agency to gather the personal data of citizens around the globe. presidential candidates in mali have finished campaigning a half of sunday's poll the electoral commission's has its concern the ballot could be marred by a low turnout in a country that's about twice the size of france the e.u. insists the election must go ahead for billions of dollars worth of aid to start flowing to mali it's money that's sorely needed after a rebellion in the north unseated government and led to more than a year of conflict. police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters outside the parliament building in the capital this comes just hours after tanzer thousands of
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people flooded the streets of tunis for the funeral of a key secular opposition figure who was shot dead outside his house on thursday a bomb blast ripped through a police vehicle just hours before the funeral was held nobody was hurt in the explosion. now but as well as president has ordered thousands of soldiers into the streets of the capital caracas to stand down on crime but with murder rates some of the highest worldwide people there are arming themselves and taking security into their own hands just as are silly now reports. election campaign may have been based on the lead this is legacy but if there's one the major issue as well as a new president can be credited for bringing to the forefront it's the country's lack of security you can be abducted even from your own home there's no safety in our country government figures show more than sixteen thousand people were killed and it is well into thousand and twelve an increase of fourteen percent from the
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year before and a murder rate of fifty five point two per hundred thousand inhabitants one of the highest in the world making the high crime rate public enemy number one. they're wrong and beat my father was killed near his home four years ago. entered. collectives organizations that initially emerged as left as revolutionary groups driven by ideology determined to confront society's ills today they're known either as protectors of the community or violent vigilante groups depending on whom you ask we. also known as now a senior member of the evil. for some time ago american imperialism that infiltrated latin america in venezuela in particular cause massive spread of drugs across our territory we have to combat this disease that's when the movement of
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power or kiddie venti press and narrow started we also start of a model of urban groups that fight drug trafficking and violence we clean up the streets so to speak. where here and there. are a lot of shanty towns here it's very rural who go chavez and also pro but it's also home to a very strong leftist activism and people here tell me that they don't welcome the police they don't want to see it here because they say that the police here are corrupt instead they have groups armed groups called the collective us who maintain security in this area made. going after drug traffickers but it's widely believed that at times they also resort to lethal means some locals say however that there's no alternative for now police corruption has been so rampant that in two thousand and nine the government even admitted that twenty percent of crimes were committed by crooked cops but the. role is protector may be challenged as nicholas pushes his secure fatherland plan deploying some three thousand troops into the streets of
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caracas let's take the example of the colored people they might help the government one day they might become allied with local mafias on the next day mr nikola of the new president chavez out of the scene is certainly going to have much greater difficulty in bringing them under the sway of government policies and government orders he's definitely getting into very very difficult waters because if he sends at least forces trying to control them that will definitely create scenes of violence of those scenes of violence can turn very ugly and now of those in the hot seat having pledged to make tackling climate a personal priority a promise will be held to by a politically divided population united by a desperate desire for peace of mind to answer syria r.t. us. and coming up. tough talking finance show on the money.
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boy oh boy there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there from mysterious extra planets dripped. but there also may conspiracy theories that are very plausible and some that are well actually true one that i've heard for a long time is that they are specifically trying to fill the police with dimwits to abuse the american people which is silly right right according to a.b.c. news a discrimination lawsuit revealed that robert jordan was denied the chance to become a new london police officer because he was too smart his entrance exam score was a thirty three which is an i.q. of one hundred twenty five and it was just too high to allow him to defend the
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public good that police department only accepts candidates who have scores from twenty to twenty seven the logic is that people who are too smart get bored as policemen and they're more likely to quit after years of costly training. yeah this is proof of a conspiracy theory well the lowest score they accept is still around an average i.q. so that doesn't mean they're specifically trying to fill the place with subpar people but it does seem really weird to fear people with high i.q.'s entering the police force this case to have a confirms nor denies the conspiracy theory but is definitely food for thought and does a kind of not make sense to discriminate against anyone ever for having a high i.q. i don't know but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to on the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter
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lavelle what will define the rest his presidency of the g twenty with the most important global economies work in unison to solve the world's most demanding economic challenges or will it be an exercise in kicking the can down the road with each country guarding national interest and one should be emerging market world really take notice of the g seven. to discuss this and. i'm joined by chris weaver he's a senior partner with macro advisory we also have jacob now he is the chief economist with morgan stanley and we're also joined by moritz oh partner now lo he is the c.e.o. of nestle russia and eurasia all right gentlemen let's start out with the can as we usually do with this program the condition of the russian economy chris where do we stand right now we are. standing still or we paddle in water or. standing still there will actually be a pick up in the economic indicators for the second half of this year we had
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a weak first half and you're looking across the board macro numbers. pick up in the second half because of the base effect of a weaker second half of last year but come next spring it could be fairly clear to the economy is stable but essentially moving sideways somewhere between two and a half maybe three percent growth that's not enough for an economy like russia all of the legislators the politicians are all well aware that russia needs more like five to five and a half percent so the whole discussion right now even though we've got a relatively good number compared to other countries is about how to boost up to the next level to five percent and sustain it so we're moving five sideways government makes a big. issue i guess of merit of the fact is that we're stable but no the word stagnation is beginning to creep in behind that stability doing well relative to others that's not good enough well look we do have a very resilient consumer in russia backed by a tight labor market that's going to keep growth ticking along with two percent now you know i think it's also some upside.
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