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with the opposition preparing to take to the streets in a push for more democracy and the government ready to respond in force. and rubbish spying recycling bins are used to track people on the streets of london collecting data from their mobile phones as well as that. i welcome you watching r.t. with me andrey. now our breaking news this hour security forces in egypt have unleashed a wave of violence to crush protest camps in cairo set up by supporters of the as did president mohammed morsi these are actually live pictures of one of the protest camps the muslim brotherhood claim at least one hundred twenty people have been
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killed in the ensuing clashes and this sense true this would be the single bloodiest day since the removal of morsy in a coup last month let's get more details live now from marty's belt through he's in the egyptian capital bell we're hearing the muslim brotherhood say dozens have died if you've seen or heard any evidence to confirm that. one party just outside about the way it came in the streets i think we're going to call it gunfire it's always continuous start being shot that we just shot live are being sent back to people trying to enter but you do not know what's happening to people right now we just spoke to from within that five minutes ago told us that the gunfire has not stopped it's been continuous and that many people are in fact how many confirmations of break because it's so far no one can reach the side of the six and as i mentioned are you going to almost every single point where there are broken
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military police guarding the right road and firing on anyone who comes close very very tense and that could be a very hard get just from this that they are firing so much. of course you can. recall accent. confirmation all not but certainly. for the coming out or inside. a very high. ok thank you. true with the latest there live from cairo and you can follow belts through twitter to roll the developments from the scene or also how you keep track of the developments on our web site at r.t. dot com we've got a live feed there of the camp raids and all the pictures and reaction from social media as well. mass anti government demonstrations are planned in bahrain as well and the government has promised
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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 in foreign clouds of tear gas the scenes have become common in the gulf nation ever since the uprising began that's 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 a democratically elected parliament artes you see careful of details the key events of the unrest over the past two and a half years it's. 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
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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 are 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. enter the rain in order to help suppress the. prizing the king declared martial law the following day off when the forces moved to clear hundreds of demonstrators from a camp that have become the symbol of the uprising arresting more than a thousand protesters including leading opposition figures. now over the summer eight shiite pro-democracy activists were sentenced to life in prison for the role in the uprising later that fall a government inquiry had found the security forces used excessive force to suppress the protests even torturing detainees in order to get confessions now marched on
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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 in two demonstrators in a policemen 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 toughened penalties and anti terror laws approving proposals that have alarmed human rights groups which fear a quack down 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 offerings uprising is not likely to quiet down anytime soon so bahrain toughened up its anti protest laws last month during condemnation from the u.n. and other human rights groups. a former bahraini m.p.
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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 by hurricane but unfortunately there is rarely anything in the list certain media regarding all the violations torture is a daily act and all slowly little ripper tour of the united nation of on torture has been stopped from going to behind but that has not made this shameful way of supporting the government by mailing list and of course over the past week three 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 tried to enforce
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respect of the human rights but unfortunately the money and the patrol dollar talks higher than the principles and the worst that is very unfortunate you with r.t. this morning the still plenty more to come including big ben is watching the rubbish can spying on houses by on the streets of london it's not science fiction but science fact we will tell you more in a few minutes time. also ahead a stereotype hits greece's children are to expose the human cost to parents whose kids are caught in the crosshairs of government attempts to save money. right on the scene. first for you and i think you're. on our recorders but i can see.
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i. am. on my. that 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 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 one nine hundred seventeen 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 garza strip was controlled by egypt and the west bank was occupied by jordan while jerusalem was divided and following the six
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day war in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israel captured the sinai peninsula from egypt and the golan heights from syria and although the israeli army didn't spank from jordan it started to occupy the area after decades of fighting israel share of the land has grown from three percent up to almost eight c. in israel's plans for more settlements may derail the peace talks artie's pour slayer has this report. 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 in the eagle palestinians also warning that this will cause the negotiations to collapse before they even begin they accuse the israeli
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government of trying to sabotage these talks and they also complain that the 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 both his government and the israeli public split over them earlier twenty six of one hundred and four palestinian 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 the also accords of nine hundred ninety three the israeli government said that this was a difficult but necessary stick but there have been demonstrations in this role by both whites when protesters and also friends and family of israelis who were killed in attacks carried out by at least some of these prisoners you should know that
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it's majority oh it didn't help he's out eighty four point nine percent are against the deal many people here and he's now you know disappointed and angry you know prime minister and government we feel betrayed because we have we trusted them as for the palestinians themselves hamas which is the leadership in gaza is not part of these negotiations and refuses to be now 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 those twenty six prisoners released from israeli jails hamas which rules gaza slammed the peace talks is futile and urged palestinians to unite and confront. this negotiation want to succeed like the others negotiations we've tried the
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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 actually continue and that's. doing whatever they want and. tell them and all the palestinians it is there is no faction is agree 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 that but a syrian people he only represent themselves he doesn't have the right to negotiate the name of the palestinian people now in india it's been reported eighteen people have been killed in a huge explosion which rocked a doctor submarine we've got the details coming up shortly just after this break.
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again welcome but on top of revelations of intelligence services tracking your phone calls i'm watching your online activity see the pay is even the rubbish is what changing a recycling bin is apparently using them to track passing mobile phones in the city of london boycott reports. just to ben think again these nifty looking les abend is all 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 small phone that's connected to wife i now the digital stalking. it's 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
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walking down the street in the city of london corporation have said that they also use the sun by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bends to switch them off to 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 best so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that it's not just the marshal companies but entire governments that are spying on their citizens 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 coming into our privacy. without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of law is 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 we
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present information to governments who are true in your twenty's citizens private information should stay private or got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter. if you get along all that stuff is very much the other side is this leaking into finding out things they shouldn't do. 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 screw up as much information as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so for those that there may be paying them much more information than many of its uses even for back when a boy i see run. meanwhile the road of america's intelligence boss on the panel reviewing government surveillance programs is causing controversy james clapper was it. specter to lead the inquiry which was promised to be independent but now it looks like he'll only have
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a limited part to play and all this scrutiny of spying methods is costing big tech companies big money artie's gani chickie and explains. it's very difficult to put 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 and 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
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highly encrypted email service called level bit has gone off line among its users was edward snowden lavabit claims the company is legally barred from explaining why 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 walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down love a bit after significant source searching i've decided to suspend operations i wish that i could legally share with you the events 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 the privacy advocates do not
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expect that this so-called outside review could actually result in changes in the programs but one change that we can expect the. 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 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 talks to former presidential hopeful i would dean about his view on america's all seeing eye. but if a law has been 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
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that pfizer core doesn't work one side is presented as like it functions more like a grand jury going to does 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 get 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 google has a warning mail users they should never expect their communications to be kept secret there's more only this a dot com right now also on a web site badly behaved then health care doesn't care an american teenager was refused a lifesaving heart transplant because doctors decided his history of all great
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suggested he was unlikely to attend appointments following his treatment. and that artie's channel you'll find a massive sinkhole hey we know. swallowing a whole hanks and leaving it buried on them this footage is available online. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. a giant corporations rule the day . well let's just recap now what's happening in egypt at the moment where over two hundred people have been killed according to the muslim brotherhood two policemen are also said to
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be dead or in clashes with supporters of the ousted president morsy security forces are saying they've cleared out one of two protest camps these are live pictures we're looking at with reports of snipers on the roof bulldozers clearing out the camp and helicopters flying above there are social media reports that molotov cocktails are being thrown into tents without warning but the authorities have insisted today they did give safe passage to those who wanted to leave this site we've seen footage there with ammunition found at the camp so a wide array of reports from a chaotic scene at the moment and of course we'll bring you more as we get it. quickly now some other international news in brief it's been confirmed at least some of the eighteen sale is trapped aboard an indian navy submarine after it exploded have died the blast ripped through the vessel setting it alighted then sunk meaning rescuers have been unable to get to those still inside according to
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a navy spokesman the incident was in all likelihood 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 battled for hours before eventually getting control of the flames it's believed the inmates had been on hunger strike over changes to visiting rules of officials have denied this allegation. and london is planning to take madrid to the e.u. court of justice over a prolonged brought is border control this after motorists heading to the british rock were hit with strict checks leaving traffic that is leaving traffic at a standstill for up to five hours politicians from spain's catalonia have even stepped into the disputed using of bullying locals you brought ariens however prime minister. says his country hasn't done anything illegal.
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or seventy measures aimed at easing economic unresting greece are back firing on the country's children more than one hundred state funded elementary schools and 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 saw 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. she says she's going to looking for a job for three years but now aged forty knows the chances of her succeeding are
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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 facing severe and multiple problems and i now and then you've been closed down and
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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. situation is terrible is getting was. nothing gives this. and you hope that this will change soon the next. two three four years he seems that this economy our economy and greece in general is going down to hell. despite grim forecasts from economists and a downgrade of the greek economy from develops to emerging markets officials are promising an economic miracle promises which few were greeks are finding the strength to believe in with each passing day it's going off athens. will be bringing more in our breaking news from egypt as we see it throughout the day up
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next eyepiece lavelle and his guest in cost told discuss the problems christians face in the modern day middle east that's coming up in a company. exactly what happened that day i don't know but i killed. piers leaders when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking
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they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. he'd. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lobo modern day exit as christian communities in the greater middle east have been on the decline for the past century particularly over the last.
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