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breaking news on r.t. fifteen people are dead in cairo as police move to disperse prime morsy protest barring tear gas and cutting off side streets. all rains braced for more mass protests as it marks independence from the u.k. with the opposition preparing to take to the streets in a push for more democracy and the government ready to respond in force. and spying recycling bins are used to track people on the streets of london collecting data from their mobile phones as well as.
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i welcome you watching r.t. with me andrew farmer now our breaking news this hour security forces in egypt have moved in on protest camps in cairo set up by supporters of president mohamed morsi these are actually live pictures from cairo at least fifteen people are reported dead in the ensuing clashes and artie's peltry can bring us the latest from the egyptian capital. well what further details can you bring to us now. well i'm not sure why the name of the great mosque enough which was being attacked by security forces now what i mean. cloud selves. in the sense that the.
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security forces have completely surrounded the. military committee. proposed to me from indifference and said it was surrounded by a priest and the military he then proceeded to. find. security holes in preventing anyone from the site there are women and children inside them and they've been staying there now months. at the most. they would be. at the moment now but it. should be inside. to get in because the security forces have got a. lot of cancer here inside the second. not that i cannot not have already been a number of policies into. saying
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that they were at the time so. it's a gradual get spread so. how can. the government to decide to go hardline with these people. ok thank you bell that surely reporting live from cairo. anti-government demonstrations are planned in bahrain as well and the government has promised a strong response today marks the country's forty second anniversary of independence from britain and exactly two and a half years since the current wave of unrest started police confronting protesters and foreign clouds of tear gas these scenes have become common in the go for nation ever since the uprising began despite constant talks between the ruling sunni family and the opposition the shia majority in the country want a constitutional monarchy with a government which is chosen in
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a democratically elected parliament. details the key events of the unrest over the past two and a half years a majority shiite country ruled by the sunni all khalifa family in bahrain has been a rocked by political unrest since twenty eleven and for the past two years the majority shiite opposition has been pushing for democratic reforms and more say in their government but those demands have been met with an iron fist let's take a look at how these events actually unfolded in february of twenty eleven a day of rage thousands of bahraini is gathered in unprecedented demonstrations against the country's rulers several people were killed some three hundred injured when security forces raided the protesters who were camped out in the country's capital the foreign minister dismissed the violence as accidental but there would be no resolution as the unrest continued troops from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. entered rain in order to help suppress the uprising the king declared martial law
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the following day operating forces moved to clear hundreds of demonstrators from attempting to become the symbol of the uprising arresting more than one thousand protesters including leading opposition figures. now over the summer eight shiite pro-democracy activists were sentenced to life in prison for their role in the uprising that fall government inquiry had found the six. the forces used excessive force to suppress the protests even torturing detainees in order to get confessions now marched on one of the biggest demonstrations in bahrain's history that same month the u.n. commissioner for human rights criticized for disproportionate use of force in the tear gas we had left to more than thirty deaths. now in february twenty thirty into demonstrators and a policeman were killed in clashes that took place the following month on the second anniversary of that uprising. and ahead of today's protests the king toughens penalties and anti terror laws are proving proposals that have alarmed
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human rights groups which fear quacked out on the demonstrations it's an arab spring revolution that has been forsaken by the arabs abandoned by the west and largely ignored by the international community but without meaningful reforms reins uprising is not likely to quiet down anytime soon so bahrain toughened up and the protest laws last month during condemnation from the u.n. and other human rights groups who is a former brownie and pay for the country's largest opposition party and had his citizenship revoked for allegedly threatening national security he told us why the western world isn't doing anything about the harsh crackdown by bahraini authorities. there have been. lots of violations and behind but unfortunately there is rarely anything in the will certain media regarding all the violations torture is really an act and. little group or tour of the united
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nation of on torture has been stopped from going to lottery but that has not made the shameful way of supporting legal and. of course over the past week clear of the major human rights groups and this is the internet human rights watch and redress they have issued very strong urging for the for the u.k. government was singleness to stop supporting the dictator and try to enforce respect of the human rights but of unfortunately the money and the patrol dollar talks higher than the principles and the worst that is very unfortunate. we've plenty more stories ahead for you including big been is watching you rubbish can spying on houses by on the streets of london it's not science fiction but science bags and we'll tell you more in a few minutes. also ahead
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a stereotype history says children r.t. explores the human cost the parents whose kids are caught in the crosshairs of government attempts to save money. right see. first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters. i. am. on i. my middle east peace talks are already under pressure after israel approved over two thousand new settlement homes in the west bank and east jerusalem negotiations between israel and the palestinians are set to resume for a second round in jerusalem but expectations are low the two sides have been
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brought together for the first time since twenty ten but the settlements issue has been around for decades the battle over ten thousand square miles of territory between the jewish community and the palestinian started back in nineteen seventeen when these when the establishment of a jewish homeland was approved decades later the arab israeli war ended with israel in control of most of the territory the gaza strip was controlled by e g eight and the west bank was occupied by jordan while jerusalem was divided following the six day war nine hundred sixty seven israel captured the sinai peninsula from egypt and the golan heights from syria and although the israeli army didn't annex. the west bank from jordan it started to occupy the area after decades of fighting israel share of the land has grown from three percent to almost eighty and israel's plans for more settlements may derail the peace talks as artie's paula slayer reports.
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today for the first time in three years israelis and palestinians will be resuming direct talks in jerusalem this follows preparatory talks that will hold a fortnight ago in washington but both sides are skeptical and no one is expecting a breakthrough the problem is that these talks are resuming against the backdrop of an announcement by israel that it is expanding its system and the european union has warned that this is the palestinians also warning that this will cause the negotiations to collapse before they even begin they accuse the israeli government of trying to sabotage these talks and they also complain that current israeli settlement growth is at president of levels israel has rejected this criticism it says that every peace initiative so far has proposed that the settlements affected become part of the israeli territory the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has officially said that he wants these talks to succeed but the problem is that
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both his government and the israeli public all spiffed over them earlier twenty six of one hundred and four palestinians prisoners that israel is releasing as a confidence measure to bolster these talks we'll see if we convicted by israel of carrying out attacks against israelis before he also holds all of the nineteen ninety three israeli government said that this was a difficult but necessary stiff but there has been demonstrations in this role by both the wife from protesters and this with friends and family of israelis who were killed in attacks carried out by at least some of these prisoners you should know that the jury to help to keep the peace out eighty five point nine percent are gangs deal many people here and he's now you know to the point you and i greet you know prime minister and government we feel betrayed because we are we trusted them as for the palestinians and selves hamas which is the leadership in gaza is not
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part of these negotiations and refuses to be the palestinian. president mahmoud abbas as he comes to these talks is definitely not talking with a united palestinian voice as is neither israeli prime minister. but while palestinians in gaza and the west bank were celebrating the return of twenty six prisoners released from israeli jails hamas which rules gaza slam the peace talks is futile and urged palestinians to unite and confront them this negotiation want to succeed like the negotiations we tried the negotiations for more than twenty years before what we got there is only losing our learns losing our people will continue for the killing by the israelis for our people when what the israelis are going to continue in the certain settlement and doing whatever they want. them and all the palestinian cities there is no faction.
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to go to the negotiation even some parties who belongs to the p.l.o. they refused to go into the negotiations mr mahmoud abbas doesn't represent the policy and people he only represent themselves he doesn't have the right to negotiate the name of the palestinian people. but let's get back to what's happening in egypt now where security forces have swooped on protest camps these are live pictures from one of the camps in cairo brotherhood spokesman says thirty people have now been killed during raids on two locations we'll bring you more on this story as we get it but we're going to take a quick break now but i'll be back in a couple of. sometimes
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you with thanks for being with us this morning now on top of revelations of intelligence services tracking your phone calls and watching your online activity so that pays even the rubbish is watching in a recycling bin make it is apparently using them to track passing mobile phones in the city of london. has the story. just a been think again these nifty looking little bins are connected so why five and that means that they can track the movements of each and every person walking down this street as long as they've got a smartphone that's connected to wise by now the digital stalking is all in the name of advertising simply by knowing who you are and where you're going they can alter the images on the screen here to tailor the advertisement to whoever is walking down the street in the city of london corporation have said that they also
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use the sun by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bins to switch them off the local authority here say that schemes like this require the backing of an informed public but just how aware are the british public of the erosion of the so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. standoff it's been revealed that it's not just commercial companies but entire governments that are spying on messages and just last week we found out that just telecom on the boat a phone had been secretly processing on details of their customers conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q like coming to work. on those issues without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of lorries a breach of confidentiality i just wouldn't have nothing to hide so i don't really care but still i don't think that. that's fair from them not telling us that to me because information to governments who are true in your twenty's citizens private
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information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter. if you go along all that stuff is very much the other side is there anything in the final things they shouldn't do. and it to be honest with you must surveillance is now a reality of our everyday lives c.c.h. cuchulainn say so hoover and according to experts they screwed up as much information as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so for those that there'd be paying him money. make the many of you that even. when the boy. while the role of america's intelligence boss on the panel reviewing government surveillance programs is causing controversy james clapper was expected to lead the quarry which was promised to be independent but it now looks like a lonely have a limited parts of play and all the scrutiny of spying methods is costing big tech companies big money. explains it's very difficult to put
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a price on trust but in business customer trust consumer confidence is money according to the information technology and innovation foundation the n.s.a. leaks will cost us tech companies up to thirty five billion dollars in the next three years according to the cloud security alliance after the leaks ten percent of two hundred seven non us companies canceled contracts with the u.s. providers also fifty six percent of non-u.s. respondents are now hesitant to work with u.s. based cloud operators this is bad news for us tech companies because cloud computing and storage is a huge expanding market a market based on trust but do companies have a choice other than to share their users private information most recently the highly encrypted e-mail service called lavabit has gone off line among its users was edward snowden lavabit claims the company is legally barred from explaining why
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it shut down but its owner wrote this i've been forced to make a difficult decision to become complicit in crimes against the american people or. years of hard work by shutting down lavabit after significant source searching i've decided to suspend operations i wish that i could legally share with you the vents that led to my decision i cannot all other u.s. internet services that cooperate with the n.s.a. are also legally required to keep their mouth shut but tech companies are of course not the only ones grappling with a costly trust issue the white house is doing its own damage control the president has announced that a group of quote unquote independent outside experts will review the government surveillance and intelligence gathering programs department cia directors do not expect that this so-called outside review could actually result in changes in the
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programs but one change that we can expect is more measures to stop future leaks and one of them could be this the director of the n.s.a. said the agency is going to cut the number of its system administrators by ninety percent less people knowing about the details of the programs less chances to have only six and those who do know something are strictly required to keep their mouth shut like the founder of that e-mail service level bit in washington i'm going to check out and as the n.s.a. spy scandal rumbles on artie's abby martin until to a former presidential hopeful howard dean about his view on america's or seeing eye . but if a law is being broken does it matter who is at the helm of the. laws being broken by the government you know it's not clear to me the government's breaking the law that the problem is the law itself which was passed under bush and cheney pfizer that pfizer core doesn't work one side is presented as like it functions more like a grand jury than to does
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a court that's wrong it shouldn't be that way there needs to be checks and balances on the pfizer court there needs to be the opportunity for people to even if it can't be the obviously the targets of the investigations that ought to be. an advocacy group or i have even paid by the government a defender general as it were which most of the states have that would make the case that was why these people shouldn't be spied on. you if you're going to have a secret court system which i understand the need for and when you're protecting us against terrorism it's got to be fair and right now for the course not fair. well legal advice from. this warning and should never expect their communications to be kept secret so they can go home right now for more on that also on our website badly behaved and held head doesn't care an american teenager was refused
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a dime saving heart transplant because doctors decided his history of all grades suggested he was unlikely to attend appointments following his treatment. and r.t. . channeling will find a massive sinkhole. to see swallowing a whole highness and leaving it buried and not put each is online. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images world world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. giant corporations rule the day. some more international news in brief eighteen say the media's nabi have been
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trapped by flames aboard a half sunken submarine this afternoon explosion ripped through the vessel docked off the coast of mumbai rescue operations are underway to retrieve the man according to a navy spokesman the incident was most likely an accident. twenty four inmates were injured in a prison blaze in central chile the fire was set off by burning mattresses lit by prisoners brawling with guards firefighters battle for hours before eventually getting control of the flames it's believed the inmates had been on hunger strike over changes to visiting rooms of though officials have denied this allegation. london is planning to take madrid to the e.u. court of justice over prolonged queues that you're brought is border control this after motorists heading to the british rock were hit with strict checks leaving traffic at a standstill for up to five hours politicians from spain's catalonia have even stepped into the disputed queues in madrid bullying local gibraltarians however
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prime minister mariano hall he says his country hasn't done anything illegal. or stare at the measures aimed at easing economic unresting greece are back firing on the country's children more than one hundred state funded elementary schools in kindergartens are due to close this summer bringing the total number of education facilities since twenty eleven to over a thousand pieces of spoke to those on the front line. another employed single mother agree saul has been dealing with what any loving parent would class as a nightmare for five days of the week her child has to live elsewhere because she can't afford to look after her i didn't have anything. to feed my child. only god knows how.
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she says she's going to looking for a job for three years but now aged forty knows the chances of her succeeding are slim she tries to shield her four year old daughter as much as she can from the grim reality until she's old enough to understand and in the meanwhile the girl lives in this kindergarten along with other children from needy and problem families how do you explain to your child you're not able to take care of them full time because of problems with the economy and perhaps to completely understand what these people go through every day you have to be in their shoes but what's clear for many kindergartens like this one are the only chance for their children to have more or less decent lives but since they're financed by the greek state they're now under threat of being shut down. open since one thousand one hundred this garden has helped thousands of families throughout the years but because of a lack of financing for the past twelve months its staff have been working for free and it won't be long before what little funds they have dry up completely. we're
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facing severe and multiple problems and are now in danger of been closed down we're using every means possible to continue working and are open to any help when i'm sure how long we could last due to various austerity measures by greece's creditors the government has been cutting jobs and reducing financing in the public sector teachers and schools included the situation is terrible is getting was. nothing gives this. we hope that this will change soon the next. two three four years this seems that this economy our economy in greece in general is going down to hell. despite grim for gas from economists and a downgrade of the greek economy from developed to emerging market officials are promising an economic miracle promises which if you were greeks are finding the strength to believe in each passing day you go to school of athens.
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before i go a quick update from egypt where the police and army have moved in to clear to protest camps the muslim brotherhood spokesperson says at least thirty people have been killed during those raids on prime morsy demonstrators these are live pictures you're looking at security forces are using armored cars and crushing the protesters tents with bulldozers and helicopters are hovering above i'll be back in about half an hour's time with the headlines and more details on this story as we get it coming up next though it's prime interest. luk right on the street. first street. and i were being put.
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on our reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on. more 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 are all today. look. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm terry and boring good alex good to see these headlines doing. well the feds are making the college try cracking down
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on the big banks both an energy manipulation and a surprise surprise the. first must see have to use if he has formally subpoenaed the aluminum industry which of course means j.p. morgan morgan stanley is also in the commodities regulator cites the issue as we've been discussing and vaas the shuffling pallets of metals into a warehouse to technically comply with exchange regulation the problem is that it's been taking up to eighteen months for end users such as coca-cola to get the stuff the last time the see you have to see investigated metals market manipulation of the silver let's just say it will as well as it do you know good luck with that one whitewash so you have to see and then there were bitcoins and as we discussed yesterday the state of new york launched an angry and a crypto currency now the senate is involved it seems a touchy issue ironic when the first wrongness of these.

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