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live from moscow it's r t with me rory sushi mali has held its first elections since last year's coup the opening round of the presidential vote produced no winner so the race now goes to a runoff and whoever heads the west african country next will certainly face a tough task of returning peace to a nation that seen an islamist uprising and french military intervention in the past year. traveled across the country to see what the people there actually feel if indeed the fighting is really over. here and then all over the country the walls and billboards tell the story of the conflict when m.l.a. 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
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protected checkpoints cover the region's main routes to filter all those passing through waterways are also patrolled. we have to verify whether there are jihadists among them who want to cross the river. how to decide who is who. 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 if you come to the real like this do you had this bit you at least sixty times if you are married they take you to your husband and make him by are they the three are extremists would impose strict rules of modesty on these women without cross the niger river to go to college or the first to be large and molly's north to openly supports the islamists when they first came and provided them with fighters try to
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find a family whose children joint. and unkind or affiliated group appeared in mali's north last year and began coordinating with the rebellion of the indigenous african tribe to our regs who sought independence but they soon began infighting after rediculus 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 serve for women and 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 interpret 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 farm and 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 who make it on the other side of
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the river front we cover ourselves because this is our tradition our religious 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 his teenage son was inspired by outsiders before he was brought to mali in jail longer they behaved in a dignified manner they 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 we'd 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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new moon. came from afghanistan. mauritania but these spent eleven months here and they recruited a lot of them. as is the conflict now over the conflict madam historic . but it's far from over when i wave back a sense to games clouds of dust cover villages and cities peace in this region seems to be as trendy 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. iran's president elect ruini is due to take the oath as the country's parliament leader later today he has already promised to lead the country out of isolation and take steps to remove international sanctions that washington doesn't seem to see warney as a man to trigger a turnaround in the country's relations with the west but
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a purple analyst professor saeed mohammad marandi he says the importance of the presidential post in iran should not be underestimated. well what's interesting is often when the western media when it's convenient they say he's powerless but when it's not they say he's a thread like the former president ahmadinejad but he is a very powerful figure he is the second most important person in iran and he has the vote of over half of iranians and they're not election that had a very high turnout over seventy two percent almost seventy three percent if the united states is willing to take this opportunity to really evaluate its policies towards iran and take a serious step forward the iranians and president rouhani will definitely be willing to make a positive move themselves and to move towards a rapprochement or at all to world of its own most treat its double we go where police have been using tear gas against the government the protesters in taksim
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square the demonstration part of a two and a half million strong move across eighty five cities demanding the resignation of the prime minister the wave of unrest in turkey kicked off in late may with a similar police break up of a rally against the demolition of istanbul's gezi park. twenty two u.s. embassies across the middle east and north africa closed today and may remain shut for the next few days due to an unspecified threat by al qaeda and washington's issued a travel alert for u.s. citizens there with a very specific timetable the u.k. france and germany have also announced they will close their missions in yemen the u.s. embassy there was attacked last year while a deadly assault was also carried out on the ambassador in libya. and the president of honduras has ordered the army to take control of the country's main prison following riots between rival gangs that left at least three inmates dead and the unrest came amid a report the government's completely failed to provide security at all detention
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facilities in the country leaving jails at the hands of prisoners themselves and the inter-american commission on human rights said the prisons are overcrowded with some holding twice as many inmates as they are designed to do. now the economic crisis in greece has left a major dent in the country's health care system coupled that with more people forced to live on the streets and turning to drugs in desperation it's up to be a major problem but instead of rehabilitating the addicts the government simply keeping them locked away from view as artesia got pissed off reports. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed were also on heroin is homeless and has aids he's already turning chances of getting a job have vanished completely. some start using because they are angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decided to start selling drugs and using
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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 cheap he can find them. and as far as i'm going. the worse thing than so far. the leaders hit on the greek drug market is making even the most experienced junkies shiver and with a price tag starting from just two year old produce it's becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit nation together with heroin they're now among the key engines behind the spread of hiv infections every day n.g.o.s go into the field trying to stop the virus spreading so a drug user 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 but here the procedure is quite simple these social workers collecting syringes and distribute these alcohol wipes
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of fresh water and syringes for the users to inject but just as we thought being on the street is as low as a drug addict can get we want to investigate this the greed government's 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 at 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 had to stop filming since our local producer told us we were risking our documents and footage to be taken away i did manage to grab a couple of more shots from my phone looks familiar. disappoint
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fierce criticism from human rights organizations greek officials say the populations of these guantanamo lookalikes me soon double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of athens greece. in just a moment here and r.t. will open up the next day with the week's top headlines of course the weekly live from moscow itself. that judges a sense of son. killed in the streets. that women are kidnapped and converted to islam by force will be another layer of mussels from the culture christians of egypt to the cross touches muslims future victims. the way of the cross.
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u.s. private bradley manning faces. charges . of classified data. the fugitive. much. also the last british resident in the guantanamo bay detention describes. our own investigation into the claims of torture. for a presidential run off we travel to the country to see how the islamists managed to make.
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