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a day of bloody ryan says a month long state of emergency declared in egypt over five hundred people were killed nationwide after security forces deployed tear gas flight crews and to get a clear purpose. and expected apology a military whistleblower bradley manning says he's sorry for the biggest leak in u.s. history sparking speculation he's being pressured to stop when he's down. and sitting on a goldmine no more the u.s. federal reserve loses trust i mean mounting concerns that it no longer holds their mound of precious metals that would play.
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hello and welcome to. news live from moscow. our straight to our top story now egypt is locked in a state of emergency after a nationwide street battles which will tear gas and gunfire five hundred twenty five deaths and as many as three and a half thousand injured security forces swept through two protest camps full of supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy who have to warn you some of the images you are about to see now are disturbing and they're these are just some of the victims of the deadly clashes between protesters and security forces of the muslim brotherhood claims the real number of casualties is much higher than officially admitted authorities are now in forcing a curfew in cairo and several other provinces across the country the interim prime minister defended the military operation insisting his government is committed to
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democracy but vice president mohamed el baradei resigned saying there should have been a peaceful solution on his belcher is and kyra. this morning egyptians seem to be getting on with their daily lives despite the fact that so yesterday so probably one of the most bloodiest days in egyptian modern history however we are expecting more protests as the day goes on and in particular funerals for the people who were killed yesterday across the nation in these very bloody clashes between supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy and security forces now the muslim brotherhood who are largely spearheading these these protests are saying they are not going to back down the bloodshed is really just adding to their defiance as they will push for morsy to be reinstated and the constitution many people are saying this is going to intensify the protests in the coming days as protesters have now lost several friends and family members in these extremely bloody clashes now i was there
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yesterday on the scene in the way another city sit in the main encampment for boise and it really was continuous gunfire from security forces firing on protesters both in starting to come up with the news or anyone attempting to access them that night on the mission and gunshots automatic weapons as well as tear gas it's also sectarian violence across the country which exploded yesterday as it is impossible to mohamed morsy attack the christians accusing them of basically being responsible for the ouster so you've got a lot of bubbling tensions here in the capital with a very fractured government we expect a lot of violence on the horizon. to follow but on twitter she is keeping track of everything that's happening in cairo. so these images apparently you show the authorities confiscating guns and ammunition from one of the problem also say ten counts but morning hours has a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k. told is that security forces all to blame for all the violence signaling every ten
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ten minutes the state. the violence is on the union not to and it's coming from the part of minutes he forces the violence and the killing has only been from one side trying or not trying to frame some of the peaceful protesters would not help because the number of casualties is actually striking the international community is all coked one of the worst massacre in the multiplicity of egypt hundreds were killed in cold most innocent peaceful egyptians who went out there calling for the democracy back where shall you protest has spread all over egypt what's happening now is much bigger than the muslim brotherhood is much bigger than the president morsi it's about egypt it's about free egypt it's about the democracy it's about the human rights in egypt where saying better turn of a military state or turn of. emergency law which which has only been used to violate our human rights as free egyptians. because the president said this
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iteration of egypt could worsen becoming similar to what's happening in syria our goal doesn't think the country will return to democracy any time soon either and let's now take a look at how egypt has been trying to achieve that elusive democratic change for the past two and a half years so president mubarak was forced to step down an early twenty eleven ending his nearly thirty year trying to hold on power the country voted in a parliament in year later but the results of that election were an old and declared unconstitutional the muslim brotherhoods marmot morsi than achieved a slim electoral victory to become a new president he granted himself sweeping new powers and try to push through an islamist time constitution last december and that caused huge public outrage which continued until morsi was finally alstad by the military last month so the country is. has come full circle back to military control and ian black is middle east
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editor for the london based guardian newspaper and he says the muslim brotherhood defeat sends a bad message about the prospects of peaceful change to the region to the rest of the region. i think that would be the striking fact about the state of emergency as a cause that takes us back to the thirty's or three in the course of barak's presidency with the man who was overthrown in the revolution of two thousand and eleven so all these these laws are of an indicator of how serious the crisis is in new chips and how polarized the country is as in many situations of confrontation internationally there's no security solution to a problem which in a fundamental sense is political you look around the region know the pictures very grim egypt and syria of course. the hopes for
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peaceful change have largely been disappointed. i think in egypt matters that happen it matters too because egypt's muslim brotherhood is the director and until all of the original muslim brotherhood which began the wave of political is being important across the middle east in recent years and especially during the period of spring so defeat of this kind for the muslim brotherhood and of course with the removal of president morsi. sends a very negative signal about the prospects for peaceful change carried out by islamised parties and that doesn't auger well for egypt or indeed if the rest of the arab world. is that's much more what's happening in egypt now website address how timeline of events and a fast how the counts from people in all of that go to your cabinet as well say dot
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com. and while you're browsing our web site let's show you choke out al egypt photo gallery take we're going to have all the best pictures speak for the country's capital or just a click away. u.s. private bradley manning has apologized at a court hearing their whistleblower responsible for the biggest legal classified data in american history said he never meant to cause harm to his country mining faces ninety years in jail and is awaiting his sentence. has more now. bradley manning talk of the stand he remained silent throughout the trial but he did give a very brief statement and i think what he said during that statement shocked a lot of people he started off by apologizing he said quote sorry that i hurt the
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united states he has suffers from issues and there's no excuse for he said i can't go back and change things i want to go forward i want to be a better person and it got to the point where it seemed like he was just leading to the judge pleading for his life he said to the judge i hope you can give me an opportunity to be a productive person and i say that these statements come as a shock because it was a very different bradley manning than the one we heard during the pretrial hearings where he said that he did what he did because he was trying to do the right thing and that he was a whistleblower. bradley manning is perhaps most famous for exposing this it shows civilians being killed by u.s. troops in iraq on he also a positive amount of cables and war logs which were published by weekend leagues so his apology in court came as a surprise to many just several months ago the whistle blows attitude was different
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he said quote i felt i had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what i had seen and what i had read about and knew was happening in both iraq and afghanistan every day we could that manning's apology was extracted by extreme fools that has simply run out of options and earlier we spoke to norman solomon who is spearheading a petition for bradley manning to be awarded this year's nobel peace prize and more than one hundred thousand people have already signed it. well the prize has been tarnished in recent years for instance to give the nobel peace prize to president barack obama obama when he was in the midst of escalating the war in afghanistan the nobel peace prize needs bradley manning at this point much more than bradley manning needs the nobel peace prize and by that i mean no one can doubt the advocacy and the risk for peace that bradley manning has undertaken but there is
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serious doubt about the commitment by the norwegian nobel committee to peace on an independent basis in the form of awarding the nobel peace prize and they had figured this out he would tell you how china may make its currency and major world player by putting the financial breathing can too cold to. stop and such a nice in britain are accused of racial bias and abuse of power over the targeting of black people will run into chunks despite no evidence of wrongdoing that's coming up in just a few months. old . technology innovation all the developments around
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you're watching all save good to have you with us let's move on now they wild is losing trust in the dollar as a safe haven a major blow came after germany has been disbanded demanded the patrick ration of a big chunk of its gold being held in the us because as else he's going there to check our ports some are concerned the assets of foreign nation nations in the federal reserve are not secure or even that. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve whether to try to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for body we years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nations well as the countries whether it's different waves of economic crises around the instability the federal reserve seems to them like a more or less secure place to keep their funds but are the funds really secure or
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are they even being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much gold that has either sold it all lent it out or used it as collateral for borrowings either way there are many claims that the gold that is being stored on behalf of many nations doesn't actually exist germany has recently decided to bring home all these gold but the federal reserve said that it's not possible that it would need until two thousand and twenty to be able to accomplish such a transfer germany then asked to visit the fed vaults to make sure that the gold is actually there but the fed first refused to permit germany to exempt examine its own gold then the germans apparently assisted in the fed did open only one of nine rules but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its schools supply with the u.s. federal reserve so there are understandably nervous this makes not only germans nervous of course u.s. financial institutions have a history of selling things that don't exist one example last year goldman sachs
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were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying that they were backed by real gold in their vaults but the story leaked out that they'd fact held no gold at all and were doing the so-called fractional reserve gold banking on the basis that few people would want to claim their gold at any one time and looking further back in history during world war two when the fed came to many countries in asia latin america and africa. and told them their gold holdings might not be safe because of the war and that they should permit the fed to take all of it to the u.s. for safekeeping many countries have done that receiving said gold certificates in exchange but when they later tried to cash in those depicted and reclaim their gold they were told the certificates were fake that they contain spelling another mistakes the so on and so forth and the fed still has all that gold the power of the u.s. federal reserve has grown dramatically especially since the one nine hundred
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seventy when the us cut the link between dollar and and gold that allowed the u.s. dollar to be bought and sold freely on the market today and with the u.s. dollar being the main reserve currency the us has basically been able to tax the whole world in just the value of the country holdings by printing more money now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the u.s. dollar is the main reserve currency and we see many central banks increasing their own gold reserves and he seems after all these years the world decided they put too much power in this one building. china's gold consumption have skyrocketed by more than hope this year and it's been buying up gold and not fueling full conses preparing a revolution in the world's financial system the wildest speculation suggests beijing could be holding up to ten thousand tons of yellow metal and preparing every ten to the gold standard and that's lighting up the whole moloch it as
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aussies venture capital show host katie peel them explains. savvy chinese buyers have been snapping it up because it is cheaper price means they currently consider a bar good also a feeling demand is a desire for a physical assets instead of bombs or betting on foreign exchanges so here we go then these other countries are the world's largest gold reserves although it's actually suspected that china has far more than these official figures suggest it may even have more than that of the us china is also the world's largest producer of gold and could soon become the biggest consumer pushing india off the top spot in that department. so despite a rather dull year for gold china's recent surge of interest demonstrates the precious metals lost none of its sign. of the dollar the world could change one of the golden standard and if that happens china is most likely to be
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the big winner that's what james school with corporate report news website told my colleague and reform. if we start to see that u.s. dollar being chipped away as a global reserve the question is what will be around to replace it and one of the answers one of the possible answers could be a system like we used we saw in the wake of world war two we saw the bretton woods system of fixed exchange rates so it was a system that in some way you could say was backed up in some form by gold mostly gold that was held by the us at the time and i think we could see a similar type of system take take the place of the current us dollar fear reserve system ok so let's assume that does happen what impact on the world economy will have. well it would certainly put. a central bank like china which presumably has been adding furiously to its stockpile in recent years although we don't know the exact numbers on that but it would put a country like that in a relatively stronger position than other countries which have either not been
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adding quite as much or even been undermining some of their their their gold supplies so it would create a very different economic landscape the chinese owned state owned companies have been buying up so much of the mining infrastructure around the world for gold mining i think they are definitely had an upper hand be nancy in that game if it ever did come to that. taste of what's waiting for you on our c dot com today. you know curating climb a u.s. hospital technician has killed dozens of people by infecting done with it but scientists see it with tainted needles so you tales of dante and on the web site. and keep surfing to go underwater with our online team on our teed off called the rescue operation will be way over accidentally got caught in nets enjoy the life saving footage of the gentle giant and all in motion right.
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today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying for asians to rule the day. for some other world news from around the globe this hour five bombs are going off across the bow killing up to thirty three people and injuring many more one at a time it was near the green zone a highly fortified area housing the u.s. diplomatic mission according to reports two of the last are said to have targeted a shia neighborhoods while another route through an area home to both the shia and sunni and so i'm clear who is responsible for the tocs or whether they were ordinary should. the u.s.
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says its chemical weapons are exposed ready for an imminent departure to syria this comes after assad's government gave its formal approval for the team to conduct an inquiry into the possible use of toxic weapons led by this what if scientists. they will conduct investigations of three sides one of them is. aleppo where the rebels are accused of using. chemicals and lodge. in the german city have shown again starts. widescale and go on to the market protests on wednesday demonstrators came out of their droves the transfer launched a new election campaign moguls reputation has been through is damaged by the recent revelations of her government. in citizens while foreign agencies like the and the say. militant harasses gathered in pakistan's eastern lahore amid rising tensions in the kashmir province supporters of the militant group demanded their new prime minister open
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a dialogue with india to prevent further violence. trot along the volatile border just as peace talks over the disputed land were set to reopen. racial justice is still an issue in britain figures show that black people are seven times more likely to be searched by police on the street and white people and most of the time without any evidence also the stress on the ceiling investigates accusations of intrusive stop and such discrimination. one morning while driving to work nathan was stopped by the police and asked to step out of his car. and use. a piece lady was walking. you know to do anything. nathan says they grabbed his wrists at which point he started getting angry is
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anyone to go back to the police station and what he told me is when he told me. that in fifteen or forty speeding yeah so what do. you know nathan's experience is just one of numerous other stories of black and minority ethnic youths who feel they've been unfairly targeted or treated by police a sentiment that's fueled riots in the past. home secretary theresa may order the police watchdog to conduct its first ever study into the use of stop and searches and deemed wanted for were unlawful warning that black and minority ethnic groups were stopped more than white people janet hill's a detective at the metropolitan police service says she's been stopped herself and more times than she's personally use the power on other people i've been stopped and searched in my time and again the way i view it is that whenever i've used that power it's always been about the intelligence around stopping an individual not
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just because they just happen to be hanging on the street corner and of more than one million stop and searches recorded each year only about nine percent result in an arrest which the home secretary described as quote far too low for comfort many of the people we've spoken to don't have a problem in theory with the stop and search powers of the police but the problem arises in individual cases where people walk away feeling like they've been on the receiving end of injustice and the repercussions these experiences may have. it can have a very negative impact of it's done in the wrong way and it can make people feel really hated it can make them feel to me and they can leave very serious mental emotional trauma if it's if they feel they've been abused which then creates resentment and then the trust and confidence that you know the police will destroy the community should hide in the place is lost in response to a report by the independent police complaints commission which found that scotland yard is failing in the way it handles complaints of racism and discrimination the
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metropolitan police sent us this statement we determined to be less defensive in except when we're not performing as well as we should be it's powerful showing the way we deal with complaints involving racism is letting down the public we need to understand more about what we're doing wrong as well as taking the best out of where we get it right i do realize that the police have a job to do but in winning it poured over about nine times and in one year you know it gets a bit does get frustrating are you so angry where when i when i think back on it i do i do i do get angry but i try to keep i just try to get on with it really from you know treated unfairly again i can make sure i do take it well and to put my complaint. tester cilia r.t. london. and coming up next here it's breaking the set way that i'm going to stay with us.
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the video game company of heroes two is facing a lot of heat from gamers inside the former soviet union in fact fourteen thousand people thus far have taken the time to sign a change dot org petition to get the game removed from former communist shelves across the land why are people so mad this looks like some sort of world war two game i mean and this type of game there's going to be a murdering of honkers or virtual rampaging through cities with rocket launchers so why did they start a petition for you to blogger called the bad comedian made a detailed twenty five minute video depicting all the gross historical inaccuracies and exaggerations throughout the game but he prefers the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than
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to shoot his own soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits rare moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting rifle is infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. illo.
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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 bad luck i've got so many i mean. i know that i'm sitting seems really really messed up. in the very soul especially. the. worst we're going to. find out superman the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what's going on guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sets the summary rock sides to the deadliest month since the height of u.s. occupation that the country seems more unstable now than ever before.
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