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egyptian army who launches an anti-terrorist operation in sinai works tribus now legibly joined by military force the supporters have been stepping up attacks on the military. ninety two people have been killed in overnight clashes and injured as the muslim brotherhood claims supporters of the ousted president are being targeted by the military with a shoot to kill policy. and there is concern the diplomatic push in syria could go down the drain as rebels mall arms shipments from backers and call for regime change despite agreeing to join a peace meeting. germans are showing their true wallets the n.s.a. spying program on their support tool is whistleblowers edward snowden and bradley manning with demonstrations across the country and over forty cities join me peter
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all of the for more on this in a few moments. this is are you coming to live from the russian capital on marina josh welcome to the program now leadership ssion army has started then to a terrorist operation in the sinai peninsula bordering israel and has been the scene of an increasing number of attacks on military checkpoints and personnel in recent months the operation is scheduled to last forty eight hours and use air forces and having weapons the army as to mates there are five hundred armed militants hiding in the area and they are have only armed and possibly using civilians as a human shield some of the supporters of the ousted president morsy are believed to have taken up weapons and joined the militants and around fifteen minutes we'll
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talk to our middle east correspondent paula sneer was following the military campaign unfolding in the sinai peninsula. meanwhile egypt 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 thousand injured they say their supporters were deliberately targeted with shots to the head and chest belcher has a story from 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 the summation wind trying to protest both in support and against the old city to mohamed morsi what eyewitnesses are saying although we haven't completely reports that protested had attempted to extend the city and past the area that they had been staying in for the last few weeks toward
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security breach at this point security forces then attempted to push them back with t. a gas field 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 acid inhalation but it was very chaotic with the injured coming in every five minutes in ambulances and people were on the back of motorcycles 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 meeting people dead this is been very very bloody civilian on civilian marshes 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 after the
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announcement on friday that mohamed morsi would be kept in detention following investigations into charges that he's been conspiring against the country with the 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 it could see him serve jail time this of has of course if you. the fire and anger by his supporters and of course his islamist group them is the brotherhood who is saying this is a very much a politically driven charge and this is part of why the 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 now let's get the opinion of on abdullah who's an egyptian supporter of mohamed morsy thank you so
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much for joining us here on r.g.p. to talk about this so the army has given the muslim brotherhood. the weekend as a deadline to and for talks so how likely is a day the two sides will reconcile their their positions and start talking ok i'm not i am i will start i want his merriment or he might want to start just my word that i am not following the day slum of brotherhood i'm not following any any any political party or islamic parties i'm just i am i am a norman egyptian civilian i am talking to the free men all over the mercy of their heart and they have mind to think about this happening in egypt we are now only after the military equal which was just a. bull in a peaceful open and it seemed. to express this disapproval to the military court and also it was disapproved by many of the current men in countries all over the world and by the community especially in africa which ways which was stuff
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a lot from the movie that equal pool of ok what can be done now to reconcile those positions i mean we see clashes in egypt and protesters on to her square what can be done for the sides to sit down and start talking. we can do the little either that they will respond to our obedience they talk to us and they know and they know that we are refusing this we were refusing that. because of that because of just we are protesting not because we are just the protesters so we we must be killed so these are some of the focus ok you are a supporter of mohammad morsi we know that mohamed morsi was in a crowd going elected last year but then again sounds of people came to to her square to protest his policies and wanted him out dia saying there is something he could still do to regain trust or is a to wait they must even be doing the election but still there are a lot of people even in the disk where they are they are opposing how minority but
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still a lot of people also they are with him so we they must prove that they must. respect our our voices also but not to get to. the president off and then these said that we are the leader and we and we are the only people that. this country there is still another another voices. they must respect now the u.s. says morsi must be set free do you expect washington to intervene at any point in this conflict. actually i don't know but they must respect their words and obedience. to protesters not the solution to be killed this is what we want to see all right ahmed awa gyptian support of morsi thank you so much for being with us here on the program. anti morsi activists abstain.
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believes the muslim brotherhood is exaggerating casualty figures to convince their foreign allies they need to help against a military. when did. people who were in. the government and. all the egyptian people did not accept that. we did not accept that it is them we did not accept the fascism we did not accept what do you expect from losers of course they're trying to justify their trying to pull over to the well to of course. support those united states for how. we will never ever let anyone into future in our country if they accept that the americans accept that people will go and shoot soldiers in the pentagon we will accept there was a number as it was to shoot our soldiers. now upsetting images of the
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violence in egypt have been posted on twitter and we can see that some of those injured are children and there are claims that a thirteen year old boy was killed in alexandria and also pictures showing civilians allegedly firing a live rounds at pro morsi protesters at r.t.l. com we have a timeline of the turmoil in egypt has suffered since president morsi was deposed and we've gathered some of the most dramatic pictures and accounts there. hey you want to inquiry into a 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 use the words denied and another breakthrough has been reached in new york to keep the rebel group has agreed to take part in the peace conference aimed at resolving the two year war in syria
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after meeting with security council members but as marina board now explains there are conditions attached. 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 to the to the meeting and another precondition possibly is that once the 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 of the things that they needed more weapons etc etc so some other remarks that were making sort of leading in the direction of further further conflict for the conflict which . with no obvious sound in sight there's no secret that the syrian opposition would
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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 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. why would washington be shipping more weapons and 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 is co organized co-sponsored by russia and the us anti-war campaigner in error told us there and western backed attempts to topple the assad regime only stir up
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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 the side and despite the fact that they continually try to say 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 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
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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 been pushing for more and more military aid from the united states and for it to come significantly quicker how they want to say it is going all out to stop them going hunger strike and one time of day that's how some experts describe the pentagon's decision to transfer to the inmates back home although the government instead. it's part of the camp's closure process the details just ahead. and america's largest cyber fraud case that's had washington on the run for fun for years viber charged with swiping hundreds of millions of dollars on people's credit cards.
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welcome back this is r.t. a privacy rights activists have demonstrated across germany against u.s. worldwide surveillance and role in it the revelations by edward snowden have ignited public anger among germans who say that they are government. slap them down as artist they are all over now reports demonstrators are gathering in over forty cities around germany to show their support for both edward snowden and bradley manning the largest of those demonstrations is taking place in the financial german financial capital of frank first but as here in berlin as well as many other cities around the country marches are taking place to show their support for the the two whistleblowers and to show their anger at the way that not only the united states
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government has been spying into the private lives they're in mails their phone calls their social networking sites and allies but the way in which the german government appears to have been not just complicit but an active partner in taking part in spying it's turned out that germany being one of the the most watched countries by the n.s.a. prism operation over five hundred million data connections were intercepted from germany every month and that's according to some of the the leaked memos that were put forward by edward snowden well holding banners saying yes we scan a parody of the obama's election speech for his first term of yes we can they're angry at what they see as being let down by not only their own government but the infringements by the united states as government into their privacy they want to be left alone they say and they're saying as well today that they're all edward
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snowden's they're all bradley manning's and that's why they're standing together across germany and what's not to be america's largest fraud scheme in years five people have been charged with stealing more than three hundred million dollars by siphoning people's credit cards and now face trial and could spend decades in jail if convicted artist and her 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 over the course for 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 damage they were able to elude authorities for around seven or eight years now but actually masterminding this operation itself took a lot of very careful planning now of the five men that are believed involved in
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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 the could be looking at likely decades in prison. that was unsealed thursday this week it all stems from a previous investigation that began a few years ago and did with the conviction of an american computer hacker who is
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currently serving several decades behind prison for a similar crime. and back now to our breaking news story the egyptian army has launched a large scale offensive against extremists in the sinai peninsula for more on this we're now joined by our middle east correspondent policy or so all the tell us a bit more about who is involved in this operate. well what we do know is that the egyptian military has closed all internet says in and out of the sinai it's launched a forty eight hour operation to deal with a sudden increase in the number of islamist operating there the information that we have is that there have been violent clashes in the area of share not only santa there but also in areas like elevation of the villages in the surrounding area these clashes between the army and extremists that have been operating there for quite some time now let me remind you that the situation in sinai has been on if
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a since the overthrow of the form egypt's president hosni mubarak and since then we've witnessed an increase in these kind of attacks these kind of violent acts happening in the sinai not the clashes as i say are between the army between these islamist groups what we're hearing from the army as that there are at least five hundred extremist militants operating in an area of four square kilometers now the army says that they are heavily armed it says that they could use civilians in those areas as human shields and at the same time the army has deployed both its if force and on the ground troops who are heavily armed in the last sixty now with the figures we have are at least two people who have been killed but of course we do expect that those numbers are much higher we're just waiting for confirmation or apollo how does this specific operation tie in with what's happening in egypt at the moment i mean the standoff between the army and the muslim brotherhood.
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well it's all linked what we have seen in egypt in the last twenty four hours is violent clashes between the ousted president mohamed morsi supporters who are predominantly muslim brotherhood and the military what we're hearing from the military is that allegedly some of these muslim brotherhood supporters are taking up arms and are going to the sinai where there are joining these islamist groups from the army we're hearing that they are being fired on that they are being attacked by these extremist elements the entire situation is just come to continuously descending into chaos we have for some time been following the situation in the sinai we know that the tunnels through which weapons are being smuggled into gaza and out of gaza have now developed and been opened much further we know that the egyptian army is struggling to deal with the situation in sinai we also know that there are groups such as al qaida who are not freely operating there
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not only has tourism been affected in the sinai but you hear almost daily reports of kidnappings of ransoms having to be paid most of a situation for example of black africans who are trying to to move from northern africa and seek refuge and they have been taken captive so you have these horrifying stories that are coming out of the sinai that really point to a picture of complete chaos and alkie now and only a development today was that more than sixty bed when troops sorry more than sixty bedwyn tribes signed a memorandum that they support the egyptian army and that this is a support for the egyptian people they're trying to put some kind of order there but the situation is merely continuing to descend into chaos or paul thanks very much for bringing us this update our middle east correspondent policy are there. they want to learn to live from moscow and rioters have rocked major cities in brazil. with vehicles satellites and banks ransacked and anger at political
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corruption and government spending on next year's football world cup we have some striking photos on our website. russia's largest airline sets aside its high with plans for a low cost carrier to connect with you woops major cities get the details ahead r.t. dot com. palin says old repatriate to guantanamo inmates back till jury a claiming it's the first step on towards closing the infamous facility for his nurse at the camp sparked international condemnation of the obama administration by starting their continuing hunger strike back in february against their views and indefinite detention social studies color dr alan singer says the transfer is just throwing a bone to the inmates to make them stop protesting. in many ways it's an act of desperation the hunger strike has embarrassed the united states all over the world
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so they're trying to break the hunger strike by pushing out a couple of the people but these are people that are being detained without any legal justification what if things i find so curious is that trying to get out curious to take two of the people algeria is not well noted for the due process of its courts countries with stablish legal proceedings do not want to touch this just saying that states it is saying to obama you make 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 traditions in general in algeria very very harsh i mean i think they're looking to send people to a of her his fate i don't see this is any kind of due process of any kind of outcome i just think they're trying to get out of something they created. and alice
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check out some other international news from around the world police are reportedly arresting protesters outside the parliament building in the capital after dispersing them with tear gas earlier on this saturday tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of tunis for the funeral of a key secular opposition figure who was shot dead outside his home on thursday a few hours before the procession a bomb blast ripped through a police week old and nobody was hurt in the explosion. presidential candidates in mali have finished campaigning it had of sunday's poll the electoral commission says it's concerned the ballots could be marred by a low turnout in countries 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 sorely needed after a billion in the north unseated the government and lead to more than a year of conflict. well world orthodox church delegations
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have arrived in the ukraine following in historical holy relic the singlet andrews cross that unites the nations of ancient russia by the symbolic event and key of comes during politically hard times for ukraine where the country at the crossroads between russia and the e.u. explains. well it's really the center of one of the most religious festivities you have seen in the last several years that hundreds of thousands of people have flocked. taking part. because one thousand and twenty five years ago it was here in. russia and then spread its way across the country and there have been several conflicts that russia and ukraine participated in over the past several decades the orange revolution which increasingly saw ukraine. away from russia ukraine is destroying. reasons.
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living in russia and the country. moving in the opposite direction. because. of course there are people in ukraine who a look who are looking west they're looking at europe and they're thinking. it's in the european union. tension and their priorities lie. at the same time of course russia and ukraine share a lot of cultural historic and of course. a lot of critics. should. basically diluting its national identity. and we'll get to grips with the latest gadgets next energies technology updates stay with us.
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i've talked with many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had a gun that shoots bubbles or various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or played a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy oh yeah i'm real messed up in the head i'm going to go shoot a bunch of kids at school l.o.l. j.k. and for this bit of sarcasm he spent quite some time awaiting trial in a texas prison not only that according to his father he was being attacked brutally on many occasions leading to both to pull concussions and black eyes and in the end he had to be thrown into solitary confinement for his own good you see this is the ugly reality of those who fall in the bad side of political correctness you know i don't talk about these stories just for fun the main thing that i'd like to say is
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that it wasn't for some anonymous coward in canada turning him into the authorities for doing absolutely nothing this young man would not have to live with the memory and possible injuries from numerous assaults to the anonymous canadian who turned him in i sarcastically wish you a horrible fate but you probably get me arrested for it so just say that it's people like you who allow tyranny to exist but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to technology update my name's peter and i'll be presenting the show in today's episode we learn about blunders changing career. participants of the foreman tom sawyer.

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