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arabic to find out me visit arabic don't call. six hundred dead according to the muslim brotherhood as police and snipers combined to remove pro morsi protest camps in cairo but the government says it's just said t.v. . is real and is palestinians by announcing new plans for the house and small settlement homes in occupied areas between a restart of french all middle east peace talks under threat. and rubbish spined recycling bins are used to track people in the streets of london collecting data from that mobile phones as well as the little.
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breaking news this hour this is the security forces in egypt unleashed a wave of violence to crush protest camps in cairo sets howbeit supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi we're getting live pictures from cairo right now for you the muslim brotherhood claims over six hundred people have been killed in the syrian clashes but the government says only before have been confirmed to have lost their lives and right now we're able to bring you about truth is in cairo and she is joining us live on the phone hi there so there's huge variation there reported number of casualties coming from all sides also later as you're getting. well the latest think they keep people in trying to figure profit to morgues to get to trial that quote these are the very thing that comes to going on for several hours or not or each computer in central cairo be running from some quiet all morning attempting
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to get into the thick. sorry we do last about true but of course we'll bring it. as soon as we can and you can follow our correspondent in cairo about true tweets several alternate history dates the scene and we're also helping keep track on the developments on our website www dot com or go along my feed of the account grades and all the pictures and reaction from social media as well. right. first street. and i think you're.
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and hugh miles has written extensively about cairo and the revolutions in the middle east and let's now get some analysis from him right now mr hugh miles welcome to ask he's good to have you with us so why do you think militaries launched what is basically a full on assault on two of the protesters locations that. you repeat the question why have them of course so why do you think the military has launched what is a full on assault and why are they doing it now. well the
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military have been preparing for this for some time there have been leaks about this for several days we were expecting it right after the holiday which was a couple of days ago but i think the square was just too full of people then for it to be safe and they thought that maybe they could frighten some people off by leaking about the attacks in advance but now the military felt it had to make this move because this protest is blocking off a major thoroughfare in the center of cairo it's causing serious disruption they've been there for many many days so this is why they've gone ahead and taken this this move it's you know that's that's. that's why they've done it but so there's a large number in islam it's in the country and they're not planning to give up so could we see the country slip into a lengthy civil war that. well it seems that anything is possible egypt is obviously sliding into
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a very desperate condition and the future is highly uncertain and all the predictions so far about what's going to happen in egypt volta end up to be wrong it is. very difficult to say what's going to happen but there's various historical precedents the algerian model the syrian model the iranian model none of them particularly attractive what's clear is that egypt is a very divided society the islamists having won the last four democratic elections or elections. very popular they can't just be swept under the table it's not possible to turn the clock back to the mubarak era and that seems to be the plan at the moment for general sisi and his backers to try and go back to the kind of status quo ante before the two thousand and eleven revolution but i think if that is their plan they are dreaming because islamists in egypt are now used to being free and being able to practice their religion the way they want and it's not going
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to be easy to deny these people what they've become accustomed to you mentioned history here how come that your chin people are letting the on the back the government do all day dear now despite decades penned in the military type rule under mubarak. well the egyptian people are very divided and not behind this move at all i mean this is a move which is being orchestrated as far as we can tell by by general sisi and the army of course the army have spent decades ruling egypt and have long been opposed to the muslim brotherhood and very separate from the muslim brotherhood the army tries to keep the muslim brotherhood out of the ranks. and the security services generally in egypt a very used to dealing with this enemy so this is kind of back to the old school it's back to the old rule book in masses time or mubarak's time the islamists are a threat to the state and that they can be locked up repressed shut down and that's
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what we're seeing now but it just seems like times have changed since these tactics worked and it seems that the military is out of touch with the makeup of the church in society today where islam is and has become extremely popular and what we're really seeing now in egypt is a clash between people who want islam as their frame of reference against people who want a more secular kind of european style frame of reference and that's a very fundamental divide it divides families and it divides egypt probably roughly half and half i mean it is the best guess so egypt has to find a way of squaring the circle and the obvious ways to have some kind of political reconciliation some kind of power sharing government where for example president morsi is allowed back but he has no other muslim brotherhood ministers and mohamed el baradei. and maybe have been else about he can run this ministry and can run another ministry so everyone shares power like. as happened in south africa after
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the end of apartheid but unfortunately there's been no indication of any kind of broad inclusive reconciliatory gesture and what we're seeing instead is that the army and its supporters seem. i think that they can go this alone without having any islamists cutting on. power sharing at all and certainly the army has got powerful backers they've got allies or many people who support them and would like very much to turn the clock back to the mubarak era because this model suited many other countries in the region egypt was predictable it was manageable yes it had problems but it was easy to deal with the alternative which is an islamist style government is a huge on known quantity which frightens just about every country in the region and many countries in the west. journalist and author hugh miles thank you very much indeed for your insights thank you. you and right now we are able to bring back
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truly live from cairo about if you can hear is so what is the interim government doing to resolve the situation right now. well we have been far as i know we haven't had any reports from them i believe the cabinet would do to give an announcement but as i can see they're. continuing to. mohamed morsi here in the capital being a child gunfire almost continuous all morning because the automatic. guns as well as gas also jumped the gun fire was coming from above implying that there are she chains on buildings that are in cancun not speaking in the sit in they say that being spied on continuously. the injuries are to. the had been neck and the chest and flying and kind of shoot to kill at
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a cheat from the security people just. really inside the makeshift morgue inside a makeshift but in this in there are a lot of dead who are piled up as well as injuries still coming in so we want the. claim that it's in the hundreds the official death count as much no it's not but it does kind of situations where it's going to take and there is continuous gunfire people are dying from their injuries are continuing to be through the day to expect that number to rise particularly as the bodies are not able to make it to the. whole hospital because they're trapped in the city two relatives of protesters trapped in the second he said but their loved ones have told them the injured brought in come their way from to hospitals again i can't confirm not clearly i mean i've been crying for hours nonstop since being fired at by security forces he
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was defending the entrances not allowing anyone in shooting at. night run to to. take the. smoke coming out of this if in the area. gunfire across all different streets he did you you walk into these boxes accidentally absolutely chaotic in these photos all raging on. in this situation is escalating what can we expect next. well i'm looking into the other which is and he's not on the square legibly managed to clear the entire section but. to move people on. they going to be in rather good shape to then i made it not just. to get through the protests it's. like it's going to end any time soon as they are planning on moving everyone from the area that's going to be quite an operation which is clearly already underway and not just with several weeks as
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a hearing in construction it's not just talking about what the show. in boston the chandra it's a crime it's such a nice to see so if they are if they are planning on removing it that's going to take choir not so much in the security council. has promised they would do ventured a peaceful manner and then it would be a grandchild aggression including you know siege to these. countries from what i've seen and witnessed it's been quite a brutal crackdown on these protests possibly implying it's the government because the difficult because then this interim government had said they want a peaceful reconciliation democratic way through talks to me not more than a clock. or that another report. card sense of the trying to sort of another to another positive people behind the scenes like this clash of these protesters even though they've been moved to prison fire that are attempting to set up more
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encampment so they're not backing down on to really this could be descendants quite serious will they progress. right off he's live from cairo bow thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to speed and of course we'll bring you live pictures from egypt just to let you know what's going on in the country you can see it by yourself. now. so middle east peace talks are already under pressure after israel approved over two thousand new settlement homes in the west bank and east jerusalem to go to asians between israel and the palestinians are said to resume for a second round interest in them but expectations are low the two sides have been brought together for the first time since twenty ten of the settlements issue has been around for decades the battle over ten thousand square miles of territory between the jewish community and the palestinians started back in one thousand nine
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hundred seventeen one this stablish meant 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 egypt and the west bank was occupied by jordan while drucilla was divided sonar following the six 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 and the west bank from jordan it started to occupy their area after decades of fighting israel's schild the land has grown from three percent to almost eighty percent and israel's plans to form more settlements may derail the peace talks. reports. 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
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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 the current israeli settlement growth is at president to 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
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carrying out attacks against israelis before he also accords of nine hundred ninety three israeli government said that this was a difficult but necessary step but there have been demonstrations in this role by both why from 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 exactly what giorgio it all petered out eighty five point nine percent are gangs deal many people here and he's now you know to the point you and i agree 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 part of these negotiations and refuses to be another protestant. president mahmoud abbas as he comes to these talks is definitely not talking with the united palestinian voice as is neither the israeli prime minister. r.t. television. and more on the middle east peace process let's go live to run upon
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doug he's heading the palestinian israeli peace and geo forum mr pandit welcome to artes good to have you with us this two sides are finally agreed hello to meet face to face later today do you think that peace between israelis and palestinians any closer. well. i have my doubts i must admit mainly because the two sides were coming or coming through this negotiations not by sheer will and wish but by the pressure of the move and now comes the question while they were sitting on one table and that we stopped to discuss the issues the finest status issues that you put to. the issues of borders the issue of security and you was a live petition the issues very delicate like sensitive like refugees but it's in refugees as i know the situation and i'm following and participating both in
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negotiations and outside following it the gaps between the current israeli government led by binyamin a ten yo and the palestinian side led by mahmoud abbas of all muslim the gaps are too big too huge too deep to be believed on final status issues and now comes the question whether the americans will try to pursue it push what john kerry was talking about six to nine months and i'd months of negotiations towards final stuff was my humble opinion is that there be a key to come to day into a final status agreement between the two cities to start its is impossible mainly because i would say hesitantly but i would say that we have a palestinian partner for final status negotiations but we don't have a it really is only partly covering plea for finest office negotiates we had in the past in two thousand and eight it is a really courageous prime minister ehud olmert who was ready to do it but unfortunately since he had legal problems that he stopped the current government
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led by the ten yo is not the will not to be able to move forward and then comes the question what can the americans do and i believe that they can pursue a different process which will bring us one step forward towards peace not towards a solution but towards peace within a very complex but very a i believe possible a big city. elaborates on a vision i do it very very i do it very quickly just to finish the sentence to create a vision for final status through a security council resolution to speak about two states to speak about with toward the sixty seven borders to speak about partition of jubal's a live event properly to go towards and into the mcclim in which we create to put a city state with into the borders and then later to move on towards implementing the vision or find a start those things are announced just recently it's plans for more settlements and so how will that affect the process and why now. briefly the
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settlement issue obviously is a problem and also the settlement issue is a problem and obviously currently the israeli government is also tied within itself with the with the coalition and within the coalition elements which if the government would free settlements that would leave the coalition and the prime minister's afraid of the total breaking of the coalition so i believe that there will be a very small. process of continuation of activity in the settlements but i believe that we'll be able to contain it as long as there will be negotiations instapundit sorry to interrupt mr ron pundak head of the palestinian israeli peace for and thank you very much indeed for sharing your. and of course small stories ahead for you including big ben is watching a rubbish spying on you guys on the street from london it's not science fiction but
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science funks will tell you more interesting few moments. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging bloggers a big picture. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the sea motions to cure. all your
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polity there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the gas that you deserve answers from . politics. this is coming to life from moscow welcome back on top of revelations of intelligence services trucking get phone calls and watching you online activities it appears even the rubbish is watching they are cycling ban make is apparently using them to track passing robot follows in the city of london he's going to boycott reports. just a ben think again these nifty looking lesser 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
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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'll go and 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 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 all the british public of the erosion of the so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that it's not just commercial 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 to. my
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knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of. 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 present for mission to governments who are true in your twenty's citizens private information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter. all that stuff is very much the other side is there anything in the final things i shouldn't do. to be honest with you must surveillance is now a reality of our everyday lives c.c.h. to call it day 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 there's that there'd be paying him money. more information than many of it used to even back when the boy was the money. well legal advice from google has surfaced warning mail users they should never
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expect bad communications to be kept secret as more of this at all so you don't we . don't know what side for you badly behaved than health care doesn't care and american teenager was refused a lifesaving transplant because doctors decided his history of poor grades suggested he was unlikely to attend appointments for knowing his treatment. she's you tube channel four you'll find a massive sink hole which knows what she knows now swallowing a whole house and leaving it to burn buried up to a month buried under a mother i should say that food is online. today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the
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streets of canada. trying to cope ration through the day. and some news just in congo plane has crashed on approach to the city of birmingham in the u.s. state of alabama the accident happened outside the funds of the international airport it is still unclear whether anyone was injured when the three hundred aircraft came down and of course we'll keep you updated on this story as we get more. in greece a story see mergers aimed at easing economic unrest by firing on the country's children more than one hundred state funded elementary schools and kindergartners are due to close this summer summer bringing the total number of education facilities shot since twenty eleven to over a thousand. of those on the front line. another employed single
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mother agrees all 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 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
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more or less decent lives but since they're financed by the greek state they're now under threat of being shut down. and. 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 we're using every means possible to continue working and are open to any help we're not 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. yes and you hope that this will change
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soon the next. two three four years it seems that this economy our economy immigration general is going down to hell. despite grim forecast from economists and a downgrade of the greek economy from developed 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. stay with us and more updates i'll break in news from egypt will bring you more as we get it and coming up next it's course talk with. science technology innovation all the latest developments.
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