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egypt's violent spiral says dozens of muslim brotherhood supporters are reportedly killed in a bid to escape custody during a prison transfer in the deadliest week since the revolution that's more than eight hundred die in clashes between the loyalists and security forces. russia says the law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors won't infringe the rights of those attending this winter olympics that's amid growing calls in the west to boycott the games. house divided a member of the saudi royal family leave the country outraged at the kingdom's treatment of the opposition and its human rights record the prince speaks exclusively to r.t. arabic. and trust in the u.s.
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federal reserve plummets amid fears it no longer holds as much gold as it claims including the bullion it's meant to secure other countries. this is artie's weekly news review and the very latest international developments. there egyptian state media says thirty six muslim brotherhood prisoners have been killed in an apparent bid to escape detention during a prison transfer and officials claim that those who died suffocated on tear gas fired by police after an officer was taken hostage by the detainees and that's the death toll of the ongoing fighting between supporters of the ousted president and security forces rises to more than eight hundred since wednesday riots erupted after the army broke up pro musi citizens in the capital the former president's
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backers responding by torching government buildings ortiz 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 would be turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished as saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protest is that most of them being arrested now since wednesday when the security forces violently cleared that two encampments in cairo they have used
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a lot of force against any protest all 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 get to about the way in which is now no longer an encampment at that point i saw the security forces opening fire with live ammunition an automatic weapon me 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 there were the injured you've been shot in the head the chest the stomach being taken to the field hospitals and then the next day of course they had their makeshift morgues in a mosque two hundred bodies just laid out 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 missing brotherhood's leadership the supreme guide to the eyes which could lead to
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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 days of 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 are being false and it was here finally we sophia 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 baba a dummy a mosque where he'd been camping for weeks and asked of us who died from two bullets one was an historic their army 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 but 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 march a city obey the. people when they go to the district in the jones here it is i think you said that i listen and i am obeying the will of the egyptian be able went to the streets how about this people watched day in the street for forty seven days then they will rise and their gift is to kill them and dr mohamed mahmoud was on duty when the first casualty started coming in within hours he treated several dozen patients they 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 are they gyptian army even in our religion we have some proof they said that these are the best army and over the world but not to kill his own people is the egyptians always we our history with the egyptian
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army to defend us not to kill us is 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 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 cairo. or chaos on the streets egypt's western allies are come out with strong
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statements against the violence but as yet little action the u.s. has refused to stem the flow of military aid to the country which is sure to continue as usual kyra sees one point three billion dollars a year in hardware and services and that includes fighter jets apache helicopters and surface to air missiles as well as high tech surveillance equipment with ministration has also been reluctant to avoid calling the ousting of present mercy of coup because doing so would legally require it to cut military support a spokesman 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 interrupt what obama came out and said simply not enough this is what the obama's one point five million
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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 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 although you can stay on top of latest developments in egypt any type of r.t. dot com we have dramatic pictures from the heart of the on the rest as well as a timeline and first hand accounts of the troubles.
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russian authorities have reiterated going to ease the civil rights of both fleets and spectators will not be infringed at next year's saatchi winter olympics softer european and u.s. activists called for a boycott of the games over a law banning giving information about homosexuality to underage teens parties and it's on our way and down with a panel of guests to discuss the media frenzy surrounding the legislation. we are an 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 gay bullying is terrific but it also is deep in issues because of the huge fines it
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imposes a little denies ations and individuals who even mention gay rights but i'm going right i just you know i constantly as the journalists here in suicide put you know i constantly as a journalist here go on about gay rights in russia and i 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 on saturday probably about face for obviously the protests and as as a basic 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 give my calm humble mature opinion regarding gay life in russia and i was nothing short of i was assassinated for a for having possibly you know you know pro you know thoughts on russia which is
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seen as as evil russia want to talk about 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 exactly that british athletes are playing to do in sort of other going to. gay lifestyles are they going to compete they're actually in the games themselves but let me tell you something about the libor. the lord be here and the game will be as well witchcraft that none none exist in 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 would immediately accused of being called before i think could start in for the gay community to realize you cannot prevent the people for
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having their own views and in london you know of one of those. photons by the good 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 limp dick 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 or 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 leading gay activist has been infuriated by others sponsor the international media
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on his twitter page nicholai alex wrote he won't be giving any interviews to western journalists so merely slur the country's name because and there was an article in britain's guardian newspaper suggesting the russian government would eventually remove children from same sex couples. to saudi arabia where those opposing the ruling families policies now have been joined by a member of the royal family itself a prince of the house of saud has left the country citing his increasing anger of the kingdom's human rights record all the arabic spoke exclusively to the defector who accuses the regime of violence under pressure. 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 that the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is
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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 find these 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
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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 criticism from the west and from the united states in particular when senior u.s. officials meet with their saudi counterparts basically can't be any critical comments from washington d.c. i mean riyadh well 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 speech no freedom of expression corruption is rampant in or areas
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from the level bureaucrats to hiring officials every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. one of the first. times accuses saudi arabia's with this of blatant sequencing. basically it's a carrot and stick carrots in the form of a sixty billion dollar handout program by king abdulla 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 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 we can see normal sleepwalker see this to the americans then they tell the world that they are intervening in syria for a more democratic syria and inside saudi arabia it's the sunni shiite the five and
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they go against ten percent of their own population. coming up on a rubbish piece of espionage in the u.k. the smart business to track a smartphone is a process by a new without their knowledge thoughts. on employed greek nevertheless still choose to work for free look at those who offer this service in schools and kindergartens rather than sitting at home doing nothing all that still to come on out. around one hundred thousand people may have to be evacuated to safety russia's far east due to devastating floods deluge has already forced many twenty thousand to abandon their. water levels the highest number a century according to officials because by heavy rains in july that says winter on it is predict that the worst is yet to come in the high water mark only expected
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later this week the floods have affected three of russia's largest regions leaving much of the surrounding countryside submerged by the damage to farmland is currently estimated around sixty million dollars all these balls got reports now from the scene. with the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on saturday a line 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 the 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 operative the isolated but help is that 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
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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 and made 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. well over an hour website now french nuclear scientists have come up with an unusual place to store radio where. it appears that pressure cooker. plutonium you have the food. plus. you don't with the help of a new virus with internet sensation products social media websites. to learn people can be. and followers.
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if you're walking down a london street there's a high probability your being spied on but it's not about c.c.t.v. it's been revealed that some seemingly harmless street rubbish bins are capable of tracking passers by. exactly how the high tech trash cans work. just a ben think again these nifty looking lists of 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
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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 the spy 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 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 devoted a phone had been secretly processing on details of their customer's conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q coming into my privacy on those issues without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of law is
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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 truly in your twenty's citizens private information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter. if you get along all that stuff is 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 hoovering according to experts they scoop up as much information as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so if there is that there'd be paying their money. in many of you even look back. on the u.s. says it will take nearly a decade to return hundreds of tons of gold that germany had stored in american
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vaults. the federal reserve to return its billion instant is the fed no longer possesses the gold it's been holding for germany and other countries what is going to report. 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 three years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nation's wealth as the country's weathered different waves of economic crises money is the military 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 the reason being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much good that he has either sold it 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
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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 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 us 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 were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying that they were backed by real gold in their balls but the story leaked out that they'd fact held no gold at all and were doing so called fractional reserve gold banking on the
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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 now at some other international news making headlines and you carry hundreds of campaigners of state an anti fracking protest energy firm called drilling started drilling in west sussex earlier this month was suspended for an demonstrations opponents fear the company will resort to fracking to access gas held in shamrock but that's to say the technique causes environmental damage can even trigger small scale quakes. north and south korea planned to resume reunions for families separated since the war nineteen fifties the program was spending three years ago after pyongyang
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staged two we're going to attack that fifty in the south it's not a sign of tension these twenty two trees which comes after the recent agreement to reopen a joint industrial park. all reports recently leaked to the newspaper der spiegel ever feel that greece may soon need a third bailout german opposition parties immediately accuse chancellor angela merkel of not telling the truth about the real situation in the southern european country where political disputes are as nothing compared to the day to day problems faced by brics themselves as artie's reports it's not only adults who are suffering from the country's ravaged economy. another employed single 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.
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only god knows how. sorry. she says she's gone 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 more or less decent lives but since they're financed by the greek state they're now under threat of being shut down. open since one thousand twenty this garden has helped thousands of families throughout the years but
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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 are now in danger of being closed down so we're using every means possible to continue working and are open to any how when i'm sure how long we could last due to various austerity measures by greece's creditors the government has been cutting jobs and we do see financing in the public sector teachers and schools included the situation is terrible is getting was. nothing gives. this any hope. in the next. two three four years seems that this economy. in general is going. to hell. despite grim forecasts from economists and a downgrade of the greek economy from developed to emerging markets officials are
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