tv News Weekly RT August 18, 2013 8:00am-8:30am EDT
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i mean. i just finished. fifth. egyptian violence spirals with more than eight hundred people killed in clashes between pro and morsy protesters and security forces it's been the country's deadliest week since the revolution. and while the u.s. government who leads global condemnation of egypt's crackdown it stopped short of spanning military aid worth over a billion dollars a year. also in this week's headlines a saudi prince who has defected from there while family slams a model for widespread human rights abuses and violently correcting down on the opposition and he has exclusive interview with r.t. . in london spying trash cans these wife i waste units are causing a heap of trouble by scanning for destiny in smartphones without permission we ask
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is it the future of advertising or more sneaky surveillance. and nearly twenty thousand people flee their delusion homes in russia's far east after having a range of bring the worst devastation and more than a century. watching r.t. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news well age of seeing its deadliest violence since the twenty you haven't revolution with more than eight hundred people killed across the country over the past week supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and the authorities blame each other for provoking the carnage the situation escalated after security forces broke up and said government sit ins and islamist riders retail you know by setting fire to official
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buildings and attacking christian churches are just beltran has been witnessing the mayhem in cairo at first hand. well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is that we could long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle yesterday afternoon as hundreds of protesters had basically been trapped in a central cairo mosque. with the injured which had been turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protesters there most of them being arrested now since wednesday when the security forces violently cleared that two encampments in cairo they have used a lot of force against any more protests already including on friday we saw live
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ammunition being fired at protesters who attempted to set up another sit in on wednesday morning i got a panicked phone call from a protester rushed to the to rub out the way it in which is now no longer an encampment at that point i saw security forces opening fire with live ammunition an automatic weapon any anyone who was approaching the encampment meanwhile after four hours of gunfire i managed to get inside where i saw protesters women and children huddled in the corner behind sandbanks there were the injured you've been shot in the head the chest the stomach being taken to field hospitals and then the next day of course they had their makeshift morgues in a mosque two hundred bodies just laid out there with extremely bloody someone people missing their heads some people too beyond recognition the security forces say that their officers have been killed meanwhile we've had some major deaths from the muslim brotherhood's leadership the supreme guide to the eyes which could lead to lost his son my colleague paula has also been on the ground here in cairo she
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brings you this report the tears are the same as is the heartache. tragedy to families for ever changed by the violence engulfing egypt. some said he died from two bullets one was in his heart the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and they burned some people alive while the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going on this taught it to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church in fire and threw molotov cocktails at it sophia sun up till belong to the muslim brotherhood he was just twenty three when he was killed by police on wednesday iman is a christian he was protecting them on a street when he says muslim brotherhood leaders stormed it bashing him on the head with heavy sticks they were on opposite sides of the political divide but both
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families will forever carry the scars of this week's deadly violence. the violence started on wednesday when police moved in to break up protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy hundreds were killed. dozens more died two days later when security forces laid siege to a mosque where protesters had taken refuge by sunday morning they'd cleared it out but the confusion remains the government has announced plans to outlaw the brotherhood it's arrested and detained hundreds of its leaders and supporters among them romney's brother has some whom he hasn't heard from for days now being worried i called him yesterday was the last call between. between me and him and he was in the house of the national security hospital and he told me that he's alone and he's worried that the policy which they can. plan to do to do this plan to kill this this people but the same charge is leveled at the brotherhood critics say that
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they as much as the police planned to kill this is one of the churches that was destroyed. this week more than fifty churches were burned and looted around the country what was valuable was taken what remains fear and uncertainty for egypt's future but szymon hair shows me around what remains of his church he's placing his faith firmly in the police just the numbers of the battle i feel that they're rested and pursuing brotherhood leaders and starting an investigation and prosecution is a good sign in the street the muslim brotherhood is starting to have major losses announced in the state of emergency a lot of the police do have a chance. but a chance at wash many are asking as each hour brings with it more violence and uncertainty to a country seemingly on the path to civil war policy r t five city egypt and we've been getting opinions and inside from those involved in the political
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standoff ahmed hawaii from egypt constitution party believes that. it has borne the brunt of the casualties the movement is so willing to blame. we had protesters that were in a sit in and accused of criminal acts and accuse of harboring a fugitive and whoring militants and using kids and children as human shields and there's no political justification that can be put to put there is a political demand that you put children as human shields and you use militants and you put children beside militants as human shields this incident continually. spread out marches through the neighborhoods and to the surrounding neighborhoods where a lot of militants were shooting at page at any crowd or any civilians in the streets that were anti more to see what anti the muslim brotherhood i've been shot for about i've been caught in the crossfire between the muslim brotherhood they were shooting at civilians in this square for three hours during the past month all the
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chaos involving egypt is forcing its western allies to rethink their relations with a country that easy you which is a major source of aid to egypt has said the killings over the last few days cannot be justified and it's the government's responsibility to and violence this comes after a similar strongly worded statements from the u.s. which has canceled joint military exercises with egypt well aside from those drills america's aid to the egyptian military looks set to continue as planned their aides worth one point three billion dollars a year and includes fighter jets apache helicopters and surface to air missiles as well as high tech surveillance hardware while condemning the ongoing violence in age of the white house has refused to call the ousting of president morsi a coup something that would require to freeze military support a spokeswoman from the british egyptians for democracy group says washington's position runs counter to its pro-democracy rhetoric. well it's actually quite shameful to see countries and leaders of western governments who hail themselves
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because of democracy supporting the slaughter of democracy and its supporters in into it what obama came out and said simply not enough this is what the obama's one point five million of subsidies to the army buys the slaughter of innocent men women and children the army may have pulled the trigger yes but it was the west that loaded the gun and the west must take an active stance against this it's not too late to side with democracy in egypt they must come out they must reject what is happening in egypt these cosmetic diplomatic maneuvers of free calling. in the tepid statements again they are not enough. people dying and revolution this is a revolution and they must side the west the world must come together and side with those who have been oppressed in egypt well keep across the latest developments in
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egypt any time at r.t. dot com there we have firsthand accounts of the dramatic events as well as a video and images ride from the heart of the unrest also on our web site r.t. dot com we are asking for your view on whether violent crackdown on protesters and state of emergency in egypt signal let's now take a look well here's how the web site voting looks so far the majority as you can see fear it's a precursor to egypt sliding further into conflict almost equal numbers believe it's an essential measure amid signs of return to the mubarak era and the smallest number of you see the crackdown rooted in the army's inability to deal with protesters so do let us know what you thing by going to our tea dot com and casting your vote there. people in saudi arabia who oppose the regime are barely getting a chance to make their voices heard some are jailed simply for posting
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a message on twitter while the total number of political prisoners in the gulf kingdom is believed to be more than thirty thousand the intensifying crackdown on dissent has even caused a royal family member to defect parties are big challenge spoke exclusively to the saudi prince who accuses the model of silencing all voices discord. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrest but the easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your salary or fire you altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they
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fabricate evidence don't allow people to have attorneys things like that happen all over the place they even put people under arrest for an indefinite amount of time even if a court rules to release such a criminal the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him and there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces by means people abroad there is no safety inside or outside the country could you describe these people who oppose the royal family and what are their goals opposition used to demand wider peoples representation in governing bodies more rights and freedom but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue and now the opposition wants this regime gone but we both know that despite numerous human rights violations and saudi arabia your country seldom faces criticism from the west and from the united states in particular when senior u.s.
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officials meet with their saudi counterparts basically can be any critical comments from washington d.c. i mean. what the white house certainly does maintain a longstanding alliance with the leaders of saudi arabia cemented by common interests in the middle east to that end there are classified contacts between area the. the u.s. administration in recent time they've been employed to step up the government administered reforms but those reforms are not driven by the elites desire to empower the people of the kingdom that instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might fall unless it reforms itself oppression is widespread in saudi arabia there's no free speech no freedom of expression corruption is rampant in all areas from the level bureaucrats to high ranking officials every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. world affairs journalist pepe escobar from the asia times explain to us what's behind the saudi authorities way of dealing with those demanding reform. there is equally it's
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carrot and stick carrots in the form of a sixty billion dollar handout program by king abdullah at the beginning of the arab spring in two thousand and one there's were horrified by the beginning of the arab spring in neighboring bahrain soul they bribed their own subjects number one number two this stick is against the shiite minority of roughly ten percent of saudi arabia who lives in the eastern province that's where most of the oil is by the way so it's an enormously popular see these through the americas and they tell the world that they are intervening in syria for a more democratic syria opposed and inside so there's still an issue i defy them to go against ten percent of their own population britain so once again at the center of a new surveillance this time though over at streetside rubbish receptacles high tech trash cans have been is sold in london capable of identifying tasker's by through
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their cell phones the stance ability to target advertisement or just believe or go take a look at the devious dustbins. just a been think again these nifty looking listed bins are connected to wife i 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'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 uses 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 all the british public of the a version of the so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that it's not just camacho companies but entire
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governments that are spying on messages and just last week we found out that it just had a bomb 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 on those issues without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of law as a breach of confidentiality i just would 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 information 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. if you go along all that stuff it's very much the other side is there anything in the final 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
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as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so there is that there is married these paying him money. in may and in many of it you said even the bad boy i see. one former am i six agent told us he's certain it won't be long before the data collected by such surveillance bins and in big brother's hands. this is always the danger that personal data. that it will be passed on and we already know that a lot of the major companies google and so forth that get shared far more widely than one would expect and i think it's just another reminder to everybody to draw and guard your data privacy as best you can reveal but there are many programs in fact prying on people's digital security and the lesson is that although he exposed the role of the n.s.a. and britain they should also be aware that other countries are also spying on their
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privacy i went to a conference just recently. brought and in particular circuit boards in this case someone come from china and when they were examined closely it was found that they had extra circuits on that nobody could explain and when the chinese was asked why these circuits on this particular board would go into these computers the chinese simply said we can't tell you it's commercial confidence please send them straight back so i think we've got to be careful of everybody our own governments and foreign governments as well also have for this hour here on r t berliner once washington to put the money a word its mouth is. sitting on piles of german gold but is being more than a little obstructive in letting the owner have access to its billion details and more in just a few minutes. old
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would. go back this is our team now germany said to spend nearly a decade collecting hundreds of tons of its gold which is kept in u.s. vault the boreen withdrawal comes at a time of growing pressure from seized up eurozone economies and an additional push from those who believe america has already scattered berlin's wealth are just going to count has the details. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve websites to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for a lot of 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 weathered 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 off 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 rooms but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its school supply with the us federal reserve so they are understandably nervous this makes not only germans nervous of course u.s. financial institutions have
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a history of selling things that don't exist one example last year goldman sachs 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 in 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 now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the u.s. dollar is the main reserve currency and we see many central. increasing their own gold reserves and he seems that after all these years the world decided they put too much power in this one building. berlin's been left somewhat frustrated after several failed attempts to examine their own assets was in the us federal reserve the founder and chairman of the german precious metal association believes america's on a willingness to give back the gold to its owner undermines its financial leaders status. we have pressured by his bank a lot we have sent
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a lot of questions there and other people parties have as well we have to know why they're not doing a proper audit and they're pressuring them partners central banks especially the feds to do proper audit if that's not possible for whatever reason whether or not repatriating that gold so there's a lot of reasons and questions an answer to the us all the fed is nowadays monetizing between sixty and eighty percent of newly admitted federal to federal treasury treasury bonds there's basically no. foreign free market buying for the u.s. dollar treasury debt and that is bad news it says something wrong both the quality of the u.s. dollar currency of china and india will probably consume two thousand three hundred tons together of gold this year which is almost one hundred percent of world mining production while on line we're report on a last resort against iraq seemingly never ending bloodshed baghdad welcome america
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isn't or use drones to target al qaida out of syria tori method widely condemned for civilian deaths in other countries. also there any wrong moves in the fukushima nuclear clean up could and then disaster on an adequate take scale according to one researcher for an in-depth look at that head to our website r.t. dot com. catastrophic flooding in russia's far east has put more than one hundred thousand people at the risk of losing their homes in the worst such disaster in more than a century nearly twenty thousand people have already been evacuated to safety but that number is expected to rise with having a raise likely to last until september the floods hit more than one hundred twenty villages with locales being moved with locals being moved to shelters for food and medical care much of the surrounding countryside is submerged where the damage
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currently has. made it a round sixty million dollars scott report from the scene of the delusion. that the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on saturday alive in the evacuations are continuing the worst case estimates suggest that one hundred thousand people may be forced to leave their home however it is hoped that that final number will be substantially lower now the worst hit areas of the remote rural villages such as this one damage to infrastructure such as communication and transport networks in places like this are particularly isolated but help is that hard on saturday provided fifty tons of humanitarian aid including food but it's life jackets and eleven thousand military personnel are also aiding local services now the biggest industry in this region is the farming industry people grow things like tomatoes and potatoes and sell them locally they also produce oil which is sold in may by china thoughts with four
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hundred thousand hectares currently underwater it's clear to see that it's not just people's homes that are being damaged but also potentially their livelihoods. and our team is still in the one of the worst hit areas and we'll continue to bring you the very latest as it develops. now let's take a look at some of today's world news heavy seas in the philippines are still holding back rescuers from returning to the sunken ferry where one hundred seventy people are still missing efforts were suspended late on saturday after most of the eight hundred people on board were rescued thirty one are known to have died when their vessel collided with a cargo ship on friday the philippines is a poor maritime safety record and accidents claim hundreds of lives every year. thousands of syrian kurds are fleeing to iraq according to the u.n.
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refugee agency kurdish areas in a war torn syria are caught in the ongoing raids by al-qaeda linked militants with reports suggesting thousands have lost their lives jihad is serve thought to be trying to establish an islamic state in the north which is known for vast natural resources. members and supporters of germany's far right national democratic party have rallied outside a mosque in leipsic chanting maria not sure. the government to stop what they call the foreign infiltration of german society a counter demonstration saw more than one hundred fifty last just after the stage and protest police have cordoned off both sides to avoid clashes. severe flooding in china's northeast and typhoon in the south have now claimed at least thirty seven lives over one hundred forty thousand people have meanwhile been evacuated to safety disasters have already destroyed thousands of homes and left
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vast territories of farmland underwater more downpours are expected in the coming week. while the gay rights lobby has been gunning for russia this week later this hour we hear how athletes moscow world championships got caught up in the. gay propaganda law which is also driving calls to return the sochi winter olympics into a political protest. well before that all the furor over the size of u.s. debt earlier this year what happened to that find out in venture capital after the short break.
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