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egypt's violence dozens of muslim brotherhood supporters are reportedly killed in a bid to escape custody during a prison transfer it's been the deadliest week since the revolution when eight hundred died in clashes between us you know listens to the forces from. russia says the law banning the promotion of homosexuality to mine is going to infringe the rights of those attending the sochi winter olympics amid growing calls in the west to boycott the games. house divided a member of the saudi royal family leaves the country outraged at treatment of the opposition and its human rights record the prince speaks exclusively. on germany demands the return of gold stored in the american press trust in the
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federal reserve and fears the fed is not securing as much interest metals as a claims. this is all a tease weekly news review and the very latest international developments. or egyptian state media says thirty six muslim brotherhood prisoners have been killed in apparent bid to escape detention during a prison transfer officials claim that those who died suffocated on tear gas fired by police after an officer was taken hostage by other detainees that says the death toll of the ongoing fighting between supporters of the ousted president and security forces rises to more than eight hundred since wednesday or riots erupted after the army broke up home mercy sit ins in the capital with the former
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president's backers responding by torching government buildings or to build true in cairo has been witnessing firsthand the deadliest violence since the twenty eleven revolution. 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
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that two encampments in cairo they have used a lot of force against any protest or rally including on friday we saw live i mean 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 do about the ways in which is now no longer an encampment at that point i saw security forces opening fire with live ammunition an automatic weapon and 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 they 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 of the security forces say that their officers have been killed meanwhile we've had some major
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deaths from the mizzen 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 brings you this report from the makeshift morgues after every battle there is a reckoning. this is where the tally for this week's deadly clashes is taking place here i mean that human must where the bodies of that date and burnt up being false and it was here finally with the fia helmi mohammed found her son she learnt on facebook the twenty three year old had been killed she tried in vain to get through sniper fire to reach the robber a dummy a mosque where he'd been camping for weeks and asked what would happen died from two bullets one was in his heart there are many claims the protesters had weapons but it was a peaceful sit in the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and burned some people alive it was egypt's most bloody day of violence since the revolution two and a half years ago this old man managed to save his koran but not his wife she was
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among the hundreds killed many of them burnt beyond recognition tears of anguish against a backdrop of angry demonstrations i think that's why you're marsha c.c.l. bay the the people when we go to the district in the jones here it is i think he said that i listen and i am obeying the will of the egyptian be able went to the streets how about this we will watch they in the street are forty seven days then they will rise and their gift is to kill them dr mohammad mahmoud was on duty when the first casualty started coming in within hours he treated several dozen patients the wounds were worse than anything he'd seen before marking a turning point he says from which there is no return the egyptian army usually defend people but what we know of a gyptian army even in our religion we have some prophecies said these are the best army and over the world but not to kill his own people his the egyptians all is
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we're our history with the egyptian army to defend us not to kill us because that's why i'm saying this is a very bad and black chapter of the accusations and contact his. patients are heating up each side blames the other for unprovoked excessive violence the army stands accused of firing at an armed protesters while the brotherhood is feared for spreading violence anything is possible now unfortunately in every single step that we've been witnessing from since january twenty five. we don't think the next step is going to happen it's so far away and then it happens so anything is possible now the interior ministry has given police a green light to use live ammunition against anyone who attacks government buildings the muslim brotherhood is vowing nothing will stop its glorious revolution in a country many fear is now teetering on the brink of civil war policy r.t. . well chaos on the streets egypt's western allies have come out with strong
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statements against the violence but as yet little action while the u.s. has issued statements condemning the violence it doesn't stem the flow of military aid to the country to show you how to continue as usual a car receives one point three billion dollars a year in hardware and services and includes fighter jets actually helicopters and surface to air missiles as well as high tech surveillance equipment mr ations also been reluctant to avoid calling the ousting of president morsi a coup because doing so would legally require it to cut military support a spokesperson from the british egyptians for democracy group says that exposes washington's double standards. well it's actually quite shameful to see countries and leaders of western governments who held themselves beacons 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
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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 ambassadors and the tepid statements again they are not enough we are talking about 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 or you can stay on top of the latest developments on the egypt anytime at r.t. dot com we have the dramatic pictures from the heart of the unrest firsthand accounts of the troubles as well as a timeline and analysis of events. of
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the news now russian authorities have reiterated go until he's at the civil rights of both gay athletes and spectators will not be infringed at next year's winter olympics or so after european and u.s. activists called for a boycott of the games over a law banning giving information about homosexuality to under eighteen's ortiz and . down with a panel of guests to discuss the media frenzy surrounding the legislation. we are it international community bonded by the homophobia that affects all of us and what we have to do is take a stand against the fact that the government is actually preventing education rather than propaganda that is desperately needed feel people who are growing up lesbian and gay growing up with prejudice this causes death it causes distress anti
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gay bullying is terrific but it also is deep deep in issues because of the huge fines it imposes on organizations and individuals who even mention gay rights but i'm going i just you know i think i can easily answer journalists here in suicide but you know i constantly as a journalist here go on about gay rights in russia on this channel i've spoken various networks around the world about this i've not been penalized or find out or i'm just trying to keep people at home the reality of the situation here i posted on facebook or something i say no problem but you don't face for obviously the protests and as as a basic scouse journalist here i know the reality of life and i just wanted to put to stop the styria you know it doesn't snow all year around there's a simmering active thriving gay community in russia and indeed in sochi when i was filming the last week there was one that i just wanted to actually get my car on humble mature opinion regarding gay life in russia and i was nothing short of i was
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assassinated without rain water for having possibly you know you know pro you know thoughts on russia which is seen as evil russia want to talk about it's a political commentator. there london as well as the recent levada poll recently saying that more than half of russian support the law and conservative traditions alexander your thoughts on that well i think first of all i've been asking some people here what is it the exactly the british athletes are planing to do and sort your other going to. get lifestyles or are they going to compete they're actually in the games themselves look at me tell you something you're both believe the. the lord be here and the game will be as well we've. none none the existing debate about gay marriage same sex marriage the debate was suppressed by the liberal elite nobody was allowed to say anything the moment you questioned you know whether it's a wise thing to do you were immediately accused of being called before i think it's
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stunning for the gay community to realize you cannot prevent the people for having their own views and in london you know of what was there one can hear that feel i think it's. both dolenz by the by the liberal elites that note a lot of this political correctness has turned into censorship all of the countries and i think this gets forgotten have signed in a lympics charter which states that there is no kind of demonstration or political religious or racial propaganda allowed to any olympic sites venues or other areas is the l g b t community going to allow this olympics to become about gay rights and not about the olympics and also what about other minorities that feel like they need to have their say at the olympics how many protests are we going to see we're going to have a gay pride protest and then a protest about western countries that what russia to intervene in syria and then another protest from the environmentalists they don't think the olympics should be held there at all everyone is going to want to have their say. well russia's
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leading gay activist has been infuriated by the response of international media on his twitter page. route he won't be giving any interviews to western journalists so nearly slow the country's name is anger was sparked by an article in britain's guardian newspaper suggesting the russian government could eventually remove children from same sex couples. in saudi arabia those opposing the ruling families policies have now been joined by a member of the royal family itself a prince of the house of saudi has left the country citing his increasing anger over the kingdom's human rights record or to the arabic spoke exclusively to the defector who accuses the regime of violence and oppression. 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
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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 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 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
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representation in governing bodies more rights and freedoms 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 in saudi arabia your country seldom faces straight decision from the west and from the united states in particular when senior u.s. officials meet with their saudi counterparts basically economy any critical comments from washington visibly riyadh 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 areas. 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 instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might fall unless it reforms itself oppression is widespread in saudi arabia there is no free
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speech no freedom of expression corruption is rampant in or areas from the level bureaucrats to hiring officials every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. well the first half of these are times accuses saudi arabia's rulers of ultimately perkasie. these equally it's carrot and stick carrots in the form of a sixty billion dollar handout program by the dollar at the beginning of the arab spring in two thousand and one style those were horrified by the beginning of the arab spring in neighboring bahrain soul they bribed their own subjects number one number two this dick 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 a normal sleepwalker see this to the americas and they tell the world that they are intervening in syria for
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a more democratic syria and inside saudi arabia it's the sunni shiite divide and they go against ten percent of their own population. coming up on r t a seeking refuge tens of thousands flee the homes in the most devastating floods in a century it's russia's far east. take care while passing rubbish bins on the streets of london it's emerged the u.k.'s using small it's been used to track the small but also bought for enough off the break.
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choose your language. make it with zero if you're going to. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose me access to alt. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. around one hundred thousand people may have to be evacuated to safety in russia's
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far east is a devastating floods their age has already forced nearly twenty thousand people to abandon their homes water levels the highest ever century according to officials were caused by heavy rains in july that meteorologists predict that the worst is yet to come with a high watermark and expected later this week the floods have affected three of russia's largest regions leaving much of the surrounding countryside submerged by the damage to farm that is currently estimated around sixty million dollars. scott reports from the scene of the dangers. with the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on saturday the evacuations are continuing the worst case estimates suggest that one hundred thousand people may be forced to leave their homes however it is hard to. be substantially now the worst hit areas of the remote rural villages such as this one damage to infrastructure
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such as communication and transport networks in places like this particularly isolated but how is it on saturday provided fifty tons of humanitarian aid including food and life jackets and eleven thousand military personnel are also aiding local services now the biggest industry in this region is the farming industry people great things like tomatoes and potatoes and sell them locally they also produce oil which is sold by china with four 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. on our website now a french. bothered whether store radioactive materials it appears that it was in a pressure cooker place while holding. the hope of
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a new virus which creates the hype to sensationalize products in social media and to a website called people can be corrected by likes and followers. if you're walking down a london street there's a high probability of being spied on it's not about c.c.t.v. it's been revealed that some seemingly harmless street side. capable of tracking passers by. found out exactly how the high tech trash cans work.
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just a ben think again these nifty looking listed bins are connected so why five and that means that they can track the movements of each and every person walking down this street as long as they've got a smartphone that's connected to why fine now the digital stalking is all in the name of advertising simply by knowing who you are and where you're going they can alter the images on the screen here to tailor the advertisement to whoever is walking down the street in the city of london corporation have said that they also use the sun by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bins to switch them off the local authority here say that schemes like this require the backing of an informed public but just how aware are the british public of the erosion of best 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 nest citizens and just last week we found out that just telecom on devoted
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a phone had been secretly processing on details of their customer's conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q coming into. my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of it's 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 to me because 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. 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. cuchulainn day to 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 there is that there'd be paying him much. in the making in many of it is that even
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. while the boy. is now have a look at some other international news making headlines you carry hundreds of environmentalist to stage an anti fracking protest e.g. for started drilling in west sussex earlier this month that was suspended following demonstrations opponents fear the company would resort to fracking to access gas held in shamrock the technique is controversial because it's said to cause environmental damage and even sure that small earthquakes. north and south korea to resume reunions for families separated since the war nineteen fifties program was suspended three years ago after staged military attacks that killed fifty in a cell number sort of tension easing between the two countries which comes after the recent agreement to reopen
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a joint industrial park. the u.s. says it will merely be a decade to return hundreds of tons of gold to germany it's stored in american vaults but after burley in the us the federal reserve to return its bullion instant has fears the fed no longer possesses the gold it's been holding for germany and other countries what is going to church of cannibals. 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 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 economic 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 are they being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much good that he has either sold it
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all lent out or used it as collateral for borrowing 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 says 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 dormancy 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 us federal reserve so they 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 were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying that they
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were backed by real gold in their balls but the story leaked out as if 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 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. well to the break we continue to explore the plight of hope a million people in the shadow of a toxic dump unbundled this and say that special. you know people in moscow say they're like whoa websites and facebook groups about
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the childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yes childfree is no real thing sadly basically these are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop because they are part of the new kids trend the sickening part about this trend or should i see mentality is that these people glow in adore themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe
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is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion. as area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites its tanneries are an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into to eling penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery ganger river that flows through the slum is paying the highest price. the town.
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