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another spike in violence in egypt. supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi. ministry in cairo. police again used to break up the crowd. a face execution may have ended a young life as he was being questioned by the f.b.i. his father tells. us diplomat who's picking his words. brazil coming face to face with the very government revealed as one of the key. and between a. hard place. over the disputed territory in.
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the border. the same time. with the world's top headlines live from moscow this is. a very well. the storm is arriving after a. capital cairo clashes have broken out yet again between supporters on the opponents of the ousted president mohamed morsy police as usual using tear gas to disperse the crowds. true. well the latest reports are this a march of muslim scholars is with the muslim brotherhood's. manning these protests
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in support of ousted leader mohamed morsy were marching towards the ministry even down moments when they came in and also cation with local residents of the area rocks were thrown which then led to the police having to intervene with tear gas now these clashes. in support of the ousted leader mohamed morsy reportedly continued in the area causing problems in the residents themselves became more violence this comes after another day of marches by those who support morsi across the capital and also their cause they're keeping their two sittings here in cairo and across different parts of the country they are very much acting that pressure against the new interim government by having these different marches that going to government buildings and also security buildings where these kinds of clashes are continuing they've also been quite bloody old occasions between residents of the areas that the most brotherhood and their supporters are currently residing in these sit ins there's been a lot of leaked sources reports through sources speaking to international media and
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local media outlets that the security forces are gearing up to do a sort of course removal of these two main cities in the capital now everyone was here sunday night they were very much protesters and journalists were camped out soon enough to see certain expecting this dramatic dispersal which never happens going reports have said that there's actually a division within the government on one hand the army chief of that but they sisi and the security forces in the form of the minister of interior who really want to get rid of the sit ins on the other hand the more liberal and secular forces in the government like the vice president and better day who are pushing for more democratic reconciliation however the situation is still tense the protesters themselves are building barricades around there since they have early warning systems they have a system whereby people can can leave the city now should they be attacked but they are remaining defiant determined to stay put i spoke to protesters yesterday who showed me their new bathrooms they build generators they got in in case there's
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a seize a seizure on the sit ins they go to have kitchens and they're building homes so they're really settling in for the long term so this deadlock continues and as the violence is escalating. many stories told. russia responds to activists in the winter olympics into a protest against a law on homosexuality propaganda the mind of the interior ministry says no this is . the result of the legislation. just a few minutes. also celebrating its ten year anniversary. all around the world. just about five pm here in moscow. a young chap who was killed while being questioned by the f.b.i.
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he may have been shot in the back of the head while laying face down on the ground according to private investigator studying the case. where he says he'll pursue legal action to see his son's killer punished. went to meet the father. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son a brother games tragic death this is the entrance into the condo where twenty seven year old greg lived minutes away from disney world it was here that on may twenty second after reportedly being questioned by officials for hours he was shot and
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killed by the f.b.i. under circumstances most of which remain murky. from reminiscing about ibrahim as a child who was very much into sports. to looking through graphic images that a parent should never get to see images that will haunt him for the rest of his life. four or five shots right into the heart i've never seen things like this even in the movies not in the u.s. not in russia nowhere. such violence from law enforcement nowhere have i seen anything like this in. the morning fathers on a mission to uncover the truth behind the f.b.i.'s killing of his son and he's even willing to. this but i want justice honestly because an unprecedented intentional murder of my son took place. ibrahim came to the u.s. in two thousand and eight to study english and ended up staying to pursue
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a career in martial arts this spring he was questioned in connection with a triple homicide in massachusetts as well as the boston marathon bombings as officials believe the chechen young man had been friends with the deceased suspect to milan certain. the father says the only connection his son had to the tsar knives was a chechen background that had once prompt a. them to exchange phone numbers were given received multiple fatal gunshots to the heart and head during the night of the questioning the f.b.i. claimed a violent confrontation took place but has been blocking autopsy results from going public some reports suggested breggin was armed with a knife others a broomstick but there are also claims that he was not armed at all demands from the american civil liberties union and the council on american islamic relations for florida authorities to hold an investigation were declined while the f.b.i. claims to be conducting an inquiry of its own as with now they would never be able to prove his guilt in anything but because they killed him if they kept him alive
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tried him that would be a whole different story. showing us the postcards from american sending condolences to his family by key hopes those behind his son's killing would show some heart as well. maybe the f.b.i. will have some kind of guilt resurface and it meant that they committed this fatal mistake for several years prior to his death ibrahim was not able to leave the u.s. while waiting to be granted a green card he eventually received permanent residence status and had plans to visit home on may twenty fourth but he died two days earlier. i'll never get tired do what i can i'm just not able to leave this. field and r.t. orlando florida. analyses coming to you live from moscow it seems dark clouds are gathering over relations between the u.k. and spain london is considering unprecedented legal action over madrid's lengthy checks at the border into the british territory of gibraltar and downing street
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claims their politically motivated and royal navy ships are also expected to drop by the strait although is claimed to be just on shuttled exercises but is prompting one spanish general to call for their access to the rock to be blocked. investigates the story. it all started with really wants to protect its interests mainly fishing interests as this whole spat this whole story was sparked by gibraltar is building an artificial reef which spain claims is destroying fishing in the area and therefore it had imposed a border checks on those going to one from a gibraltar a british held territory and therefore causing a lot of delays and right now the rhetoric is escalating between britain and spain over the matter britain is threatening e.u. legal action over spain say what it says it's a politically motivated move and london mayor boris johnson actually said that it is quote unquote tantamount to a blockade even used particularly harsh words saying quote i hope one way or
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another we will shortly prize spanish hands off the throat of our colony end quote and also like and be actions of the spanish government to the franco the time of military dictatorship favorite sport as reported by the spanish press is a considering escalating this to the level of the united nations even floating around the idea of spain and argentina presenting a united front over gibraltar and the falkland islands are clearly as britain boris johnson in particular is criticizing spade by raising the a franco era you have spain you're highlighting what critics without a doubt will be see as britain's colonial behavior or habits and now all of this is happening as thousands of royal navy personnel have already set sail for the mediterranean in what the ministry of defense has insisted it is a long scheduled a training exercise well long scheduled or not it seems the timing is not lost on
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the london mayor boris johnson as he said that quote the deployment should send a clear signal to the spanish it seems that the spot is continuing to go on and r.t. contributor afshin rattansi thinks the scandal is actually supposed to distract spanish people from the real problems they face at home. thousands of companies register their fake registrations in effect to avoid taxes it's like and some people come into this like some sort of gangster island which britain wants to protect for itself of course other people are saying that both of mariano rajoy. and his government ministers they want to avoid they want to create a distraction from the disastrous economy that now exists in spain as he continues policies a bit like britain's extreme austerity sixty percent youth unemployment of course in spain and the i.m.f. even saying that's going to last some time so this is a kind of diversion well the absurdity i suppose is that david cameron wants to
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take it to the european court of justice and it was only a couple of weeks ago that david cameron here in his home minister were trying to pull out of european court of justice trying to avoid the obligations. it's twelve minutes past ten in the evening here in moscow this is the. world war. reporting the pleistocene minority has found itself in the way of al qaida groups aiming to set up an islamic state. i would rather questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on
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secretary of state is currently on up perhaps on comfortable trip to latin america seems to. think the strain created by the spy revelations of edward snowden was a tough task for john kerry defending was. intern's far reaching surveillance during talks in colombia but now his walk of shame is continuing to brazil which is apparently thinking twice before proceeding with a hefty four billion dollars deal to buy american fighter jets and more details now from rome it could have zero. a quarter to the day from a should really. blow were it were told and brazil was the top original target for the n.s.a. surveillance program washington was a brinkley's being on b.b. and solved brazilians telephone records as well as private e-mails for about a day kate brazil's foreign minister talking about all the has said this can't be left out of the conversation between the two countries the problem is that right
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after the brazilian paper published an article in july you and the n.s.a. collecting data on been solved telephone e-mail conversations in the country the foreign minister suppressed deep concern and asks for a spot nations in father will brazil once the matter addressed at the united nations to find a legal way to protect the rights of citizens and preserve the servant of the countries we why it looks like the most provocative relations are you still to come deem agree world america generally so be published as gold and legal documents claimed that what has seen so far just these slice of a much bigger cake he promised to release thousands of files in the upcoming weeks or so relate to what he say is the secret united states surveillance of global internet. that has reportedly told frizzy and sophie shows
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that disclosures we'll unveil more each a gate the table solve the americas the spy world a white in brazil in particular so it looks like washington has some issues to iron out why the n.s.a. scandal seems to be taking on a broader dimensions running her fellow to r t brazil. and gregory will put an expert on latin america our spoke to him just a bit earlier he explained to us why brazil is among the top targets of the n.s.a.'s ongoing surveillance program. well of course the united states fears any economic rivals in the brics are certainly the biggest and most important potential rivals to the united states in the world economy and so on trying to undermine them by spying on them by actually giving even the trade secrets from there is going to be a way to try to or even get an upper hand this was another important revelation that
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the spy on trade negotiations to find out what the opposing partners. what's their strategies are those kinds of things can get given economic or gravitas to the united states and so it's focusing on the brics countries would be and of course the number one priority and so secretary kerry justify surveillance in latin america and the pirate bay is once again sticking it to the copyright in forces in celebration of its tenth anniversary the flagship pirate web site has released a modified browser intended to circumvent censorship well speaking to r.t. fabby a reinhart a member of the pirate group of the berlin parliament he told me earlier that he believed his online colleagues were some of the pioneers of the digital marketplace . the idea are to reform the way that information and knowledge and culture is distributed among the world. was something that had to be had to be
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asked that had to be intimate implemented and there were some guys from sweden that said let's try to wake up the dogs that tried to show them how it's going to work and they actually did quite a good job on this fabulous bring in the issue of the n.s.a. spying program and we're seeing constant anti surveillance protests where you are cheating truthfully anything's going to come of the protests. while we have to see . the german citizens are quite aware of the problem and more than in some other countries we had the. we have the history of severed dictatorships in germany that tried to put a complete surveillance of the population so we are quite aware of how this situation can lead and i would see the power party is trying to give people the information of how to predict their data or trying to give people the information of how to encrypt the emails how to communicate privately what can come
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of this situation and i'd say that already makes quite a difference but people have to be more weight of the situation and every hour we're loading up the best stories that are to dot com including contagious mists shrouding parts of japan radioactive has been detected over the crippled fukushima nuclear plant you can find out how many people have been exposed via our website. and the controversial colossus of so-called frankenfood at the g.m. giant monsanto now expected to bring its so-called super farms straight into the. troubling details also what r.t. dot com right now. for the meantime on the program visitors and participants of the sochi winter olympics will not be discriminated against as part of russia's new law against homosexual propaganda to minors the country's interior ministry has dismissed any claim to the contrary as far fetched and baseless this
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follows a wave of protests against the new law by western l g b t communities catherine off now looks at what's causing all the reaction. the international reaction as well as domestic here reaction here in russia has really been on what the law does and doesn't do and there's been a lot of misconceptions about it so let's really break it down now the bill criminalizes the public expression of support for so-called nontraditional relationships russian lawmakers say that it doesn't outlaw homosexuality it merely discourages the discussion of it among people younger than eighteen now the law doesn't outlaw gay sex which was actually legalized in russia back in one thousand nine hundred three it also doesn't explicitly ban the participation in gay pride parades the problem however is that the defendant of propaganda is rather vague and it's based on intent so anyone who distributes information for example with the intention of persuading minors that nontraditional sexual relationships are
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attractive could be accused of breaking this law any individuals or organizations who are accused convicted of violating it face fines foreign citizens could potentially face up to fifteen days in prison deportation and denial of the entry into russia now will most activists believe that this law will not to be widely enforced there is concern that it effectively gives some local governments carte blanche to say to ban gay pride parades and to discourage people from discussing lesbian gay bisexual issues on the internet so that's the worry the thing to keep in mind however is that russian society is very traditional and conservative and there is in fact a lot of support for this legislation here domestically the independent center a polling center here in russia has actually found that seventy three percent of respondents support any government efforts to curb homosexual propaganda in fact at least the texas haven't really changed over the years it also found that four out
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of five russians say that they don't have a single lesbian or gay acquaintance so that is why there's been such a difference in for example the western and. national reaction versus the reaction right here in russia that's a perfect opportunity to sort of make political statements for whatever issue that comes up this is the the main sort of social hot button issue that's been raised internationally originally the laws have sparked a boycott of russian vodka and gave them bars across north america and elsewhere with people dumping a box and front of russian embassy as eventually the calls moved on to boycott the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi one of the prominent british actor stephen fry of course raised intense controversy when he wrote an open letter to the prime minister david cameron as well as the international olympic committee suggesting calling for a boycott suggesting fact that there should be a boycott of the canes even comparing them to the games held in berlin in one
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thousand and thirty six of course that was in nazi germany but we should also states that most officials including u.s. president barack obama had said that the boycott is unnecessary and that these games should continue to be attended by the athletes now here in russia the russians forced minister said that foreign athletes will be expected to respect the laws of the country but the head of russia's the olympic committee alexander also spoke out on this issue he said that russia will do its best to effectively keep the guests and the participants safe and comfortable that very mixed reaction internationally but russian officials are trying to encourage athletes to feel comfortable and to of course participate in these upcoming sochi winter olympic games many times i mean often spoken with but for now initially on the outskirts of syria's civil war codes now find themselves caught right in the middle the reports suggest the. store had more than four hundred fifty kodesh civilians including
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women and children and the believed to be holding many more hostage if this is confirmed kodesh leaders in iraq now say they are ready to grab their guns and vien human rights activist they want to says the militants actually want access to the natural resources. these groups so you can start going to islamic states they supposed to in gulf oil rich areas of kurds and they said they are supported very well by turkey so there are two factors one of them is that these groups want to establish their own islamic state mini islamic state which is a project established and a huge islamic state in. syria and iraq now they see that kurds are facing all occurs as a challenge to them the other factor is that turkey is pushing this groups against kurds because turkey is not happy that. are willing go to try to establish their
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own internal me in that region and because of issues in northern syria into the r.t. world out there now and some of the global headlines for you in brief to iraq another two car bombings of the country killing at least seven people one of the explosions targeting a shia mosque just south of baghdad more than three hundred people were killed in the country last week alone in a string of terror bombings about july set a record with a monthly death toll on a level not seen in about five years. a massive gas pipeline explosion has rocked the state of illinois a one mile radius including part of the village has been evacuated with families among those taken to safety of the flames are expected to be active for hours at despite the fire crews managing to seal off the pipeline. and hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro on monday night as security forces resorted to tear gas to disperse them
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a people have been demanding answers over the disappearance of a bricklayer who was last seen in police custody in june this is use aggravated current tensions with the local authorities who also accused of corruption with activists calling for the city's mayor to pack as bags and leave. well as promised here and i'll see abby martin now i'll step aside for her she's a looking at the plans not to shrink but to expand the surveillance state that's taken hold in america live from moscow. the u.s. government project aero marti has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s.
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government propaganda on t.v. screens this injection of american t.v. works with a blimp and a c one thirty military plane working in tandem you know this would actually be a major achievement in the history of technology if it actually worked this program which over the years has built up a billion taxpayer dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocking the transmission the official logic of continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and action but the big question is who gives the u.s. government the right to propagandize cuba just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the u.s. government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington but that's just my opinion.
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to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous. i mean. i guess i just really messed up. in the. or is. it. worse cheaper to live a long life out of a. radio guy or. what. have you never seen anything like this. let up guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set you know you'd think that with all the uproar over the n.s.a. leaks we would be hearing at least some type of reassurance that one of the spine would be scaled back you know obama has told the public that he wants more
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oversight me agency's data collection program very few people are taking him at his word and one of those skeptics is former n.s.a. and cia director michael hayden who had this to say on face the nation. president is trying to take some steps to make the american people more comfortable about what it is we're doing that's going to be hard because frankly some steps to make americans more comfortable well actually make americans less safe great so not only is and mean unwarranted surveillance unlikely but the scope of secret spying is only expected to grow the hayden argues that another terrorist attack on the u.s. is likely to happen and when it does we should expect the n.s.a.'s data collection tools to be used even more aggressively as if it isn't aggressive enough already guys i really don't know what more power the n.s.a. can really grant itself at this point so the prospect of those bugs you out to join me and let's break the set.
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