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with greece about to get its next bailout tranche and the cost of thousands of more jobs we report on the deadly addictive nemesis that's thriving among those who have suffered years of raging unemployment. explosions jailbreaks and intransigents over just this post could obviously be a enjoys more deadly chaos while tripoli refuses to hand over the dead leader's son to the hague for trial. and britain considers revealing over one hundred companies accused of paying private investigators to illegally obtain klein's personal data as pressure from furious m.p.'s mounds.
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this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program now greece has got its next desperately need a bailout as tilman approved by the skin of its tees the money comes at the expense of thousands of public sector jobs even though prime ministers to mars says he stop objective jury a country's upcoming presidency is an economy free from the scourge of unemployment the rescue loan of four billion euros will come from the euro zone and the european central bank the i.m.f. is also expected to hand out a further one point eight billion to get the money athens has to fire four thousand civil servants by the end of the year while twenty five thousand more must be redeployed rescue funds have been crucial for keeping greece afloat for over three years now but as financial expert patrick young points out it's not curing the country's flawed economy. well unfortunately i've always argued that greece was
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never going to survive as long as it was in daylight mode because the difficulty is that you know through involved at alcoholics just tends to make them more alcoholic and it doesn't affect them and improve their overall condition really what greece has always needed to do was to leave the euro and declare bankruptcy it's the only way that it can feasibly restructure what's going on instead what we have is this absolutely maybe akhil situation where in order to manage to stay in the euro we have a series of political forces in western europe who are desperate not to see their lawyers the political experiment failed and therefore greece has been left just like cyprus just like other countries that have received bailouts like ireland they have been sacrificed the altar of a ludicrous national political statement or supra national political statement. more money coming in the government's way it's cold comfort for the many thousands
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of greeks left sleeping rough having lost their jobs homes and families in the past few years increasing numbers have sought solace in what's called the cocaine of the poor are going up has been finding out more in athens. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed but also on heroin is homeless and has aids he's already tiny chances of getting a job have vanished completely. alone that some start using because they are angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs and up using the needle themselves. every day drugs rock the lives of new people with just one many thought they'd hit rock bottom it's very true he can find them. and as far as i'm concerned is the worst thing of than. the leaders hit on the greek drug market is making even the most experienced junkies shiver and
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with a price tag starting from just two year old produce it's becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit me it's. from or from bacteria for cars. very dangerous because they can sleep she's a can either be smoked inhaled or injected together with heroin they are now among the key engines behind the spread of hiv infections there is a good. percentage. of their health issues. more suze every day n.g.o.s go into the field to trying to stop the virus spreading so drugs are spots in one of the poorest districts of athens were asked not to film outside in order not to frustrate anyone since it's morning now and apparently many users still haven't taken the first dose of the day
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but here the procedure is quite simple the social workers collect used syringes and distribute these alcohol wipes some fresh water and syringes for the users to inject but just as we thought being on these. streets is as low as a drug addict can get we want to investigate this the greek government is a radical approach to tackle what's seen as a scourge on society by forcing addicts off the streets and holding them along with prostitutes and illegal immigrants and special detention centers like this facility where up to five thousand people are believed to be kept hidden from the eyes of the public or to one of these camps outside of athens to the amount of security here is a really impressive several lines of gates wired to wire and lots of security guards in fact one of them has already asked us to leave so we don't we have that much time to film not much time at all we have to stop filming since our local producer told us we were risking our documents and footage to be taken away i did
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manage to grab a couple of more shots from my phone looks familiar. disappoint a few screws and from human rights organizations greek officials see the populations of these guantanamo. double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you've got just one of them's weeks. and moving on to libya now the city of benghazi which was earlier rocked by to explosions has also been in the grip of violent clashes between armed rebels and the military at least one soldier has died in the fighting but security forces are now said to be in control explosions targeting judicially buildings injuring thirteen people and causing massive damage this is more than a thousand prisoners remain on the run after a massive jailbreak in the same city the prime minister of the transitional government said people living in the area stormed a prison because they didn't want the facility in their neighborhood the country
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has struggled to return to stability since twenty eleven nato says a twenty seven nato backed intervention which toppled colonel gadhafi. meanwhile the son of the deposed leader saif al islam is said to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed during the two thousand and eleven uprising and he set for a hearing in libya in august despite the international criminal court's demand that he be handed over to the hague. well let's take a closer look now at the man and his story educated in london saif al islam was seen as a crucial figure in building relations between libya and the west but that changed in early two thousand and eleven when protests broke out against the forty two year rule of law more khadafi saif al islam and his father were accused of crimes against humanity in the ensuing crackdown and the i.c.c. issued arrest warrants just a few months later the libyan leader muammar qadhafi was brutally killed by the rebels and the chief i.c.c.
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prosecutor confirmed informal talks about the surrender of the younger khadafi while he was eventually captured by rebel group and apparently have parts of his fingers amputated being authorities one of the trial in tripoli by the i.c.c. to manage he be handed over to the hague every quest which was rejected for delegates from the court were detained in libya for a month after attempting to get documents to him get out his son has made two appearances in a leading court and the i.c.c. has again ruled against the b s efforts to hold a trial by themselves for the latest on the situation here is our policy or. although the international criminal court has ruled that libya must extradite safe islam to the hague so that he can face charges of crimes against humanity the libyans won't allow it they want to try him at home nick kaufman who is a former israeli lawyer hired by gadhafi is altec a set says he needs to be handed to the i.c.c.
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on the basis of the real security council decision and security council gave the international criminal court the mandate to investigate crimes are committed in libya after the revolution international criminal court carrying out the will and the wish of the international community investigated the matter and issued two warrants for arrest one for safely. if the libyans wish to try these two people that is their right but they have to request. permission to do so from the international criminal court the libyan government has challenged the white of the international criminal court to try safe it argues that the hague based court has no jurisdiction because it only intervenes if the local justice system is not functioning and those ruling libya say that they justice system is operating well but professor who did one man who is an expert on the disagreements he says the country is in a state of collapse. i am not sure that it will be right to assume that there is
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a government in libya today there is no army no police aren't militants are in control even if they give safe a trial the libyans always surprise us so i can't really see how the trial will go i'm not even sure if it will begin and how just an objective it will be the question needs to be asked why has safes trial not here begun he's been held captive since november two thousand and eleven and it's not even clear exactly where he's being held when the libyan rebels who are fighting against gadhafi they proclaimed invalidly that he and his family should be court marshaled. now they are quiet it does seem as if one thing got into power they believe that the only ones they need to listen to them selves want to see on t.v. television. john jones the lawyer appointed to saif al islam by the i.c.c. describe the conditions his quietus being held in to my colleague. he's being held
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in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because of confinement thing any period of time and for a few weeks of has been shown by scientific studies to be strictly damaging and he said in that condition for twenty months impossible for for those to see him and if they do see him comes in many circumstances where you can speak freely the last time you visited by now if you see delegation meeting this covertly in the cool kids and say he knows he knows it's become a complaint anyone can visit about these conditions you can see in the meaningful but his defense because it's being used against him is now being prosecuted in addition to the war crimes trials are being prosecuted for basically saying that he wanted to be tried in the hay and exercise his right to photo but if indeed saif al islam is actually tried back at home may not be what exactly what do you think he's facing. what he's facing in a show trial it's a very entirely unfair trial kind of a trial in which he's not going to be able to get any defense witnesses to testify
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on his behalf is going to be too terrified to testify and they were expandability going to be executed because the penalties carry the death penalty and it's quite clear from pronounced inspired officials and if you know that they want to carry out the death penalty if it's imposed despite constant demands from the war crimes tribunal saif al islam is unlikely to ever leave his native country as we've been hearing from a former british ambassador to libya. the fact is that the libyans will not time to move a lot of good reasons for that. so if we. could face two different soldiers of he could face charges relating to what happened in the revolution in two thousand and eleven and that's what he would face if he would extradited and handed over to the international criminal court but in addition to that he may well be charged with for example stealing vost amounts of money very large assets of beautiful regime by both by the security council and by the libyan authorities i think that it's quite possible that will be some some arrangements but he should be tried in libya and
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those charges which are of interest to the international criminal court the international criminal court would have some kind of role they would have play some policy in the proceedings in libya what i think is politically most unlikely in fact i would say impossible is that he would actually be handed over to be tried in the hague now millions of a way to find out a whole be of their next president we've been finding out the ballot has any chance of bringing stability to the war torn west african state details are just ahead. this is a media lead us so we need to maybe. buy the same bush and see your. party there's a bill that says that no one is as good with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team.
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mission. critical three. for three. three. three. three. old free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. you know 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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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welcome back this is our team britain is considering exposing a list of a one hundred two major companies and individuals cause paying private investigators to illegally obtain clients personal data although the case a serious crime agency knew it it was happening and it did nothing to stop it m.p.'s are furious artist are still you know reports. banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other private firms are on a secret list of clients that had hired private investigators or p i's who break the law and that these companies had not face any consequences or prosecution now the information of this a list had been passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crime agency or so they said that they submitted their findings to the home office of illegal practices by two thousand and eight and they had called for government regulation of such practices having said that though there are three successive home secretaries with access to
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this information and it's been reported that they had failed to act on this now this is caused outrage among m.p.'s in particular who question first of all why this list is being kept secret and second of all why nothing has been donald to stop the practice some of the information that the p.r.i. is had managed to get their hands on include mobile phone records bank statements and details of witnesses under police protection let's get more insight on this from professor charlie beckett thank you very much for joining us today so the biggest problem that you see in this issue what would be i think there are two main problems one is around transparency why. these companies have been part of a criminal investigation if the reason is simply because it might impact you know the share price that seems to me to set a rather dangerous precedent and then from the second concern would be that we've
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seen in the newspapers in germany. this investigation has been so there seems to be an inconsistency. the vote count is underway in mali after its presidential election the first since a cool last year is saw separatist and jihad as groups take control of the north millions turned out to cast their ballots whether you like to promise of stability and assurance of peace. took a tour of the war torn country. here and then over the country the walls and billboards tell the story of the conflict when i am in no way took over this part of the country on every road sign they wrote welcome to free as i was somewhere you can still read it then the mugello painted their symbols there is no god except in arabic like letters in a white circle the modern flag appeared after the governmental forces together with the french army liberated this area the fragile peace is now being carefully protected checkpoints cover the region's main route to filter all those passing
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through waterways are also patrolled. we have to verify whether there are cheat hardass among them who want to cross the river. how to decide who is who and jihadists don't have papers and we send to police all those with no documents. the stakes are high memories are still fresh in people's minds from the days when religious radicals took over the country's north spreading the extremist laws so your market if you come to the really like this do you had this bit you stick at least sixty times if you are married they take you to your husband and make him buy and they throw you extremists would impose strict rules of modesty on these women without cross the niger river to go to college or the first to be let in mali is north to openly supports the islamists when they first came and provided them with fighters try to find a family whose children joint. and kind of affiliated group appeared in mali's
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north last year and began coordinating with the rebellion of the indigenous african tribal to our regs who sought independence but they soon began infighting after ready cause started imposing sharia law why did they come here in the first place people in this area are very poor this is why we bring in some soap for women some sweets for kids we visited the chief of the village for. the one hundred fifteen year old man says one part of the village strongly supports al qaeda and al qaida divisions are very close hold interprete qur'an to reach them we cross a dried river the soil in mali's north is far from fertile the land is not generous to people farming here we get to a female part of the village and the first house we come across what looks like a women's club the ladies here differ from those swimming naked on the other side of the river when we cover ourselves because this is our tradition our religious
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tradition we protect our whole bodies to talk with men we go to a male part of the village we see to the most influential of them to hear their story if they brought weapons and we didn't have a choice but to be one man confesses he's teenage son was inspired by outsiders before he was brought to mali in jail longer they behaved in a dignified manner were never involved in looting but they showed respect to the koran but also they had money that looks very attractive to poor people like us. if the government provides local people with jobs are they less vulnerable and more immune to the islamists when speeches or would you please explain who are these people and from where they come they're not from here but we don't know their nationalities we repeat the question to the mayor of gal one of the biggest cities in mali is north and the percent of deadly clashes during the crisis who are now.
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we've been married ten years will be spent eleven months here and they recruited a little bit more speed. is the conflict now over the. historic city but it's far from over. when i wave back a sense to be games clouds of dust cover villages and cities peace in this region seems to be as trends and as blue skies on a sunny day you may think it will remain the way ts for some time but you can never be sure. from mali. terrorist violence continues to plague towns and cities across iraq a wave of over a dozen bombings has left at least sixty people dead and scores more injured baghdad took the brunt of the violence with over twenty people killed in mainly shia areas most of the assaults involve car bombs but there's been a recent spike in activity from terrorist groups including al qaida in the ongoing
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insurgency against iraq's shia led government and why has become the deadliest month so far this year with over eight hundred and ten fatalities. in egypt two muslim brotherhood leaders have been arrested this fall the interim president's decision to grant soldiers the right to arrest civilians after more than eighty people died in clashes over the weekend in cairo it's fear of the authorities who declare a state of emergency giving the army almost absolute power more than two hundred sixty people have been killed in violent street riots since the july third military coup that forest islam as president mohamed morsy from power. syrian army has seized control over a key rebel held this year in the sea of homes after a month long offensive a lebanese t.v. channel has released footage showing the area lying in ruins after fierce clashes between insurgents and government forces backed by as militants homes have been
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dubbed the capital of the revolution against president bashar asad the recapture of the district represents a landmark victory for us its forces in the civil war that's been raging for over two years and s. claimed over one hundred thousand lives. ukraine is mulling whether to align itself with russia's regional trade walk or push for closer ties with the e.u. the former soviet republic once cheap or russian gas but also craves greater cooperation with its western partners are his business present a way to feel patience. as you can see just here it really is stuck in the middle ukraine faces a choice either go for the option of a customs union with russia shop or go for the european free trade zone now if you crane chooses to go westward it will become part of the world's biggest trading block but the question is whether it will be what the country would be expected to
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spend money in order to meet european standards for infrastructure the environment and the quality of their good past ukraine enjoys oil and gas discounts due to their close relationship with russia if the country enters the e.u. then they would be expected to pay the same price as the rest of the e.u. countries now trade with russia is expected to decrease by up to two billion dollars annually as a result on the other hand is the option of joining the customs union now this will leave trade with the e.u. at the same level that it is now at the same time boosting exports to russia up to an estimated ten billion dollars annually so economically the situation seems pretty clear however on the political side of things if ukraine is ready to pay the price they get the e.u. stamp of approval for better or for worse. and r.t.
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dot com with more indications of how good old data privacy is becoming a thing of the past across the atlantic but journalism broke the story on america's prisons are beyond system once again sound the alarm over how easily washington can snoop on its citizens also online the bahrain ban on campaigning in the capital online we investigate whether that will be enough to stop the angry and dissatisfied making a state. well that brings us up to date here on our team member there for more you can always log on to our website r t dot com up next that we bring you the latest sports so with kate partridge. police in full scope becoming independent schools a nation a nation should be self-governing to govern the feels better than allowing someone else to do it for.
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hello welcome to another arty sports show hall for an hour of the week's top sporting action from russia and around the world with me kate partridge and here's just some of what's to come. lightning strikes you say in both runs his season's best one hundred meters to win the other verse three games at the jamaican prepares to regain his world title in moscow next month. while for northern irishman michael holmes he wins the russian open by four strikes as the european tour returns to the country for the first time in five years. and mighty wings the fruit on event was back in moscow treating the packed crowd to another entertaining display of homemade aircrafts and human endeavor. but let's start with athletics after sprinting you saying bolt ran his fastest one
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hundred meters of the season at the last major tournament in london before the world championships in moscow the jamaican superstar made another spectacular entrance at the anniversary games as bolt returned to be limping stadium on a rocket but the twenty six year old wasn't the fastest out of the blocks though eventually out of class the field in the closing stages of the race the six time olympic champion clocked nine point eight five seconds doesn't rule out another world record in moscow. he did much better reading better maybe i did say are we going to do with former bieber it's going to be hard but i do want to go it's a good way there must always be a hole but you do have to get out there don't go with the. wall russia's fast rising alexander men call posted eight meters thirty one centimeters to take his third win of the season in the men's long jump. while back in moscow hi joe but
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you've been all called added another accolade to his gold medal from the london olympics after the twenty seven year old won the russian championships absolutely cyrena book or played two meters and thirty centimeters at his first attempt to claim the title while there was also success of course as the two thousand and four olympic champion again prevailed in the men's eight hundred meters and even more stars battled it out for a spot on the national scene with the world championships here in the capital less than a fortnight away were given portland has more. it's been a busy some of the rushes are fleet since about to get even busier a number of the country's athletes recently competed at the university aid in khazan and with less than a week's rance it was banks of a tranq to compete at the national championships the finishing touches something major to the stadium where the world championships in moscow is less than two weeks away the number of russian stars have so.

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