tv News Weekly RT October 27, 2013 12:45am-1:01am EDT
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two years after the force ouster of gadhafi by nato forces libya stands at the abyss the lack of a strong central government weak rule of law and endless violence in a country awash with weapons has resulted in libya facing failed state status activists the presence of islamic militants can things get any worse in libya. you're back with us here on our chief news on the weekly outrage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality spilled onto the streets of dozens of american cities this week demonstrators went to their fury at a leisure racial profiling and excessive use of force others who claim to uphold the law but as our ages were in a boat now reports of some police officers i even cashing in on the controversies they spoke to. the next u.s.
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law enforcement official to face off against unarmed peaceful protesters may easily get away with brutalizing them and even be rewarded afterwards remember that horrifying video of a university police officers spraying pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground will that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars in workman's compensation john pike sued the university of california davis claiming he suffered from depression and anxiety was brought on by death threats against him and his family following the two thousand and eleven incident last week a judge approved the thirty eight thousand and fifty nine dollar worker's compensation award settlement between pike and u.c. davis now initially pike was placed on paid administrative leave after pepper spraying u.c. davis students during a protest in support of occupy wall street he was fired eight months later however
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an internal university investigation concluded that he acted appropriately a u.c. davis student we spoke with expressed shock over the lucrative board doled out for police brutality. what the pepper spray led to was not following orders and they wanted us to be an example for what you shouldn't do as a student and they wanted to put fear into people and it pretty much worked i remember after the pepper spray happened i went home and was deeply afraid of ever protesting again the police a slap on the wrist maybe for a moment awarded later if people are like we got money like that was a good thing when really he would still putting like trauma and fear and weapon on other incidents of police brutality extend from the west all the way to the east coast of the united states last. a month here in new york city police officers
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attacks students who are protesting visiting professor position given to director david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were punched slammed on the ground and six students were arrested jailed and arraigned on charges of obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct however there's been no reports of the officers involved being penalized or charged with misconduct according to the latest confirmed figures there are close to one thousand four hundred federal civil rights cases pending against the new york city police department reporting from new york. r.t. british m.p.'s already tell the truth and unlikely to make a mistake recent u.k. poll yet again politicians on top of the most mistrust of professions list. the
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streets of london to find out more. cash for questions selling access to the prime minister and of course m.p.'s abusing their expense accounts the story that just keeps on giving all of these scandals and more have come together to undermine the moral capital of politicians and the amount of trust the able to command with the public a poll done earlier this year said britons think politicians tell the truth less than buying because it's all real estate agents don't to nicholas allen co-author of a new book on ethics and politics says this creeping loss of trust goes right to the heart of the legitimacy of all governments and there is a perception i think that politicians have. become less and less onerous less ethical in the way they conduct they say politics if people perceive politicians to be generally immoral and dishonest the politicians are going to lose
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a certain amount of moral authority politicians governments need a moral authority if they're going to lead the public lead society down quite difficult policy parts the times we live in demona difficult policy pods raising the pension age of paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with austerity they all require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over there in port house politicians. i mean the girls are the wiser would be there with you for the more i think maybe it's a group of people away from the barman rebuild frostiness the. pain is pain and suffering on how i come across or how i say i suspect in general i know very much the government is trying to do something about it focusing on the greatest transparency with money how politicians spend misspend cash but dr allen
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spa. findings show those efforts are falling on stony ground rather touchingly all people in the u.k. really want is to know that when a politician says he or she will do something they'll do it and that could be the hardest thing of all for the political class. a brief look at some other new world news now opposing demonstration groups have questioned germany's capital to arrest the trouble started when a right when three turned out to protest against a new refugee shelter in berlin but a counter rally from left wing activists will rival used to keep them apart shuttles generated mush local under a since it opened in august. crowds of supporters of greece's extreme right golden dawn party took to the streets of athens to demand the release of senior party members all unborn is under an investigation over its alleged connection to last month's fatal stabbing of
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a greek rap singer the party's leader and two m.p.'s are being held in pretrial custody accused of even members of a criminal organization protesters are dismissing the prosecution as politically motivated. the controversial air of president assad gushingly is coming to an end as georgians take to the polls on sunday to choose their next head of state with twenty three names on the ballot analysts expect a runoff vote between three candidates but the winner will essentially take up a second reposed as key strings of power are being handed over to the prime minister's office at his maria for national on suck us from his legacy. they are among the maze determined detractors of georgia's how the president. they follow me how selfish really everywhere to leave him in no doubt of where they stand. circus really was the once popular leader of the rose revolution the
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first color revolution which saw power change in post soviet republics. in the last days of his near ten year presidency even former allies are on the attack. after his successes start of building an authoritarian regime the media was attacked one million people fled one quarter of the population went through the penal system they were either arrested or interrogated in two thousand and seven police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters wanting saakashvili is government to resign. in two thousand and eleven they did it again. boudin him ugly people were afraid to express or even have their opinion if they faced injustice they failed to report it as it could affect their families. told me his brother used to run the state audit office and claims he was tortured in jail
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when he took his case to the human rights cauldron strasberg told nikki says he too was arrested over fabricated case becoming another recognised political prisoner. i got it. the half years if it wasn't for new premier ivanishvili i wouldn't have got out in just one week i saw they took out four dead bodies from jail they said those young men died from diseases but that's nonsense days before last october's parliamentary election we do is showing yun inmates being humiliated and beaten became the last straw for the georgian people. party last but these georgian media veteran says the public euphoria is defeat is tempered by how much the people had already lost. nice acushla promoted georgian people are still ended and the nation with history and we started to live in it we started moving away from our soviet past p.r. he was a p.r.
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genius he managed to convince then tile world and under the flag of democracy we got fascists as george's electoral votes for many here it's less about welcome in the future but saying goodbye to their past the law prevents macao circa shrilly from running for president again now has a mission is life far away from politics in the wine business but the public seems in no mood to simply let him fade into the background there is a strong desire georgia for circus really to be broad justice and it seems his detractors won't stop until that thirst is quite changed. now r.t. tbilisi georgia. points national news updates in just a few minutes and to stay with us i'll be right back. for the.
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great hopes for freedom and democracy. substituted by great disenchantment. what was expected to be a blessing to the country. turned out to be its curse. georgia the story of a disappointment. choose your language. because without any financial literacy still some of. us choose to use the consensus hit to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office.
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one hundred days remaining. days of flame. wealthy british style. time to. go. to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our. most of the missions that are that soldiers are sent to under the
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pretext of terrorism prevention are in many ways targeting the civilians that have nothing to do. with the actual attacks against israeli targets. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. something. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to be coming back. at our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny
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a female suicide bomber kills the six people on a bus you know russia's city of volgograd will report from the scene of monday's bombing plus. more revelations from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden with a report claiming germany's chancellor has been spied on for over a decade that's a silence of protesters gather in washington united in their anger at the country's global surveillance program and. syrian journalists find themselves on the rebels' hit list of all pro our coverage of the spiraling conflict. with police in some cases they've clearly killed civilians in some of these cases. and amnesty international research talk show our bodies new.
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