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i. did end for the muslim brotherhood in the gyptian court confirms almost two hundred members of the group will be executed their top leader among them. russian border checkpoint comes under ukrainian army shelling even as a cease fire is declared. that peace plan looks more like an ultimatum to. the price of the world's most expensive jet just went off years behind schedule and billions over budget the f. thirty five is rushed by the designer of one of america's most iconic fighter planes.
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fly from a new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're tuned into r.t. international i mean you know neal our top story in egyptian court has upheld death sentences for almost two hundred members of the muslim brotherhood including their top leader they will be executed for inciting violence during protests in support of mohamed morsi who was i stood as president and sent to prison last july true reports for us from egypt. well egypt is bracing itself for possible further violence and the very least mass street demonstrations by the families of visit hundred eighty defendants and of course the mizzen brotherhood is the most senior member of the spiritual guide mohamed bindiya now faces the gallows now this case has sparked a local and international uproar after the judge reportedly only had one session before he sentenced dozens to death and he refused to listen to eyewitnesses if you look at any evidence so certainly there has been some questions raised about the legality of the trial and that's what the french know is it going for they say they
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will appeal the verdict and hope that it will be overturned on the grounds that the judge behaved illegally however this is coming in the background of a crackdown against them is about to hit the state blames think group which they found for a lot of the violence across the country they say it's a terrorist organization the mission brotherhood for their part say they are remaining peaceful and will hold demonstrations against this verdict without any violence now egypt's new president i don't think that sisi has promised peace and unity in the country however is yet to be seen how that's going to happen when we have very controversial court cases and death sentences like this so we'll have to see in the coming few weeks where the egypt will be able to get through this. ok let's discuss the situation further live with hugh miles an award winning journalist and author hued good for joining us today thank you do you believe all these executions will actually be carried out we've heard so much about the legality except for all of the court cases and the sentencing. we heard being
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a member of the muslim brotherhood to be. quite likely to go you don't go. throughout the history. and. why even have the supporters of the deposed president morsi been put under so much pressure. well of you know. every day. local and national egyptian reason and the like which is the addiction to the jury and a longstanding feud with the looking brotherhood president morsi with the egyptian history law but many of them were appointed a new era of hosni mubarak and in the end for them mostly just. one of the. traditional so now he's likely to say the egyptian history of revenge on all of us rather the little regional context switches. and other countries in the region.
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cracking down on political islam because they see as the next front for that kind of. do you expect no new protests from muslim brotherhood supporters over the sentences or is it the case that maybe they're just simply too scared not. well i really need the protests continue and see very tough environment where the many people are being arrested for protesting they committed but they continue to be in my various countries but i think the real effect is to push young people into the omes all the extremist groups. that a lot of. proof of the muslim brotherhood is an experience. not given much political science and i've seen young people to one demographically but then somehow taken away from them this is the result is the people drawing joined by jesus which they see as. getting results if you like. that's
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domestically but what about side the country can we expect any kind of major international reaction to the ruling do you think. i'm sure we well are you know shocking really and. i think i'm going to be average around the world and the way it is going to be pushed in common don't criticize egypt but it is very embarrassing. and it has. been corrected. because. you can write a. great. we'll continue to place the i continue he dies i think that he. is relating i mean it is interesting because. he could be both of you to sure you get it in the presidency. you miles of war winning journalist and author thanks today for your
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input are you. coming up we had to iraq where a million people have been displaced by insurgency sweeping through the country according to the q then. it's also fear that number will continue to grow as is the miss militants on iraq security forces battle for control later in the program we'll be bringing you the latest developments and also a russian soldier has been injured after a border checkpoint with ukraine was shelled the incident took place as government forces clash with kiev's forces in eastern ukraine it's reported that mortar fire came from the military as refugees crossed the border r.t. spoke to a witness you want to help people who are crossing from ukraine so i went to the border to offer my assistance there were lots of children in the refugee camp and i brought them sweets to cheer them up i heard the gun far as i was coming up to the
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border people were screaming and running once you know it was several gunshots it was very scary to see women and children crying for some time and when i came back the checkpoint was on fire. a bus carrying ukrainian refugees most of them children also came under fire of another crossing. has more in the growing tension along the russia ukraine border. moscow has demanded an explanation and investigation from the authorities in kiev over the shelling of the russian border point overnight meanwhile the key of defense ministry denies any such thing has ever taken place but we have the russian border guard their representative who gave us this information because of the deal we were inside the building when these horrific shelling began we started moving everyone at the checkpoint to safety one of the officers suffered a head injury at the time of the incident around two hundred refugees were crossing the border also russian border control service says that's
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a bus carrying thirty six ukrainian children was also shot at while it was crossing the russian border thankfully the kids are safe and sound there already in their role stall for a region in one of their refugee camps also on friday night in a separate incident a ukrainian border control points was also was shot and to soldiers who were there they sought refuge and shelter on the russian territory where they crossed meanwhile moscow is now strengthening its borders along with ukraine. russian president vladimir putin has a troops stationed in central russia on alert with the aim of checking their readiness sixty five thousand troops are taking part in the drills that will last a week. ses it's worried about the military action in eastern ukraine continuing despite a ceasefire put forward by the country's president on the ground the army and government activists have accused each other of breaking the truce the ceasefire is part of a fifteen point peace plan which includes an amnesty for those who agree to lay
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down on their arms and haven't committed previous crimes the creation of a ten kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia changes to the constitution to guarantee the free and safe use of the russian language that he centralization of power to the eastern regions early local and parliamentary elections and one of the plan's top pledges is to guarantee safety for all negotiating science although saying all violent and selfish refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self proclaimed republics. locals in eastern ukraine say shelling by the ukrainian army continued overnight the spike the ceasefire weeks of attacks have left civilian homes in ruins but they would. do we have you tried to do what i wanted to do you think it was selfish to. not have to do just that but.
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a mortar shell hit this family's backyard a young mother was killed on the spot her five year old son was taken to hospital with multiple head wounds doctors fought for his life but for five hours after that he died on the operating table marks the bullet a senior lecturer in international relations and security studies at moscow state university believes president poroshenko is peace plan is simply an ultimatum. peace by definition is negotiated and poor shango has already declared that there will be no negotiation with the political and militant leaders on the ground in the eastern ukraine so this is not a peace plan this is an ultimatum a demand for the unconditional surrender under promise of extermination as well this decentralization is not clearly defined but what we have seen so far is that only includes a local executive committees that governors would still have the right to be overruled and appointed by kiev this declaration of a cease fire is merely a p.r.
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move by the poor janko regime in the run up it's not a surprise that the declared ceasefire ends on the very day that poroshenko was supposed to sign the association agreement. months of military action has forced tens of thousands the fate of neighboring russia under its queue at the border seeking shelter in refugee camps you can hear more of their stories on our t. dot com. meet the world's most expensive weapon. they four hundred billion dollars f. thirty five saying here is an aircraft price tag just went even higher thanks to additional funding played by delays must've cost overruns and building bureaucracy the jets left even its top boxes somewhat underwhelmed to cover the price the planes not being tied to foreign buyers are marina porton i think it's one of the worst airplanes we've ever designed. for
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a lot of reasons but the most important reason is that it was compromised by having to do three different jobs you can never make a good airplane if you don't focus on a single draw a single mission and then they made it even worse place saying that we'd save money by giving it up among three services so now you have three missions pulling the airplane in different directions and now you have three services three bureaucracies adding their parochial point of view of the airplane is a complete mess and mind you this is the most expensive single project that the that the defense department has ever undertaken. no the f. thirty five house suffered one setback after another in the most recent case the entire fleet was granted on testing suspended after one off the plane suffered an oil leak but the engines well they are not the only area this earth craft is
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experiencing problems in in fact as you're about to see the plane has been suffering well documented crocks from head to tail the pentagon even stopped it from flying within forty kilometers of a thunderstorm out of fears its fuel tank could explode if struck by lightning now we spoke to the man who helped design the a comic at its in fact we don't have his at the moment he was the man who did the f. sixteen and a ten we're going to try and get more not but the planes not being targeted to foreign buyers as artie's marina explains the f. thirty five stealth fighter jet is the crime to look ram of military planes. and the pentagon's most expensive conventional weapons program it's a game changer the f. thirty five fighter jet is manufactured by lockheed martin combining state of the art technology with highly advanced avionics and maneuverability the pentagon plans to buy nearly twenty five hundred f.
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thirty five but delays and cost increases have left u.s. lawmakers frustrated over the three hundred eighty five the billion dollar price tag and that's where america's allies come in. lockheed martin has turned to international partners including britain australia and canada collectively the countries have invested more than twenty billion dollars buying up the war craft a weapon that many experts view as a global gamble there's never been anything anywhere near as expensive and the entire process is one in which the costs can only go. the other problem is that the more they spend in the more the united states. and the manufacturer and now a whole bunch of other countries become invested in the more they have to go ahead in any of these countries that want to become good feel that they have no choice boosting demand from foreign investors is believed to be essential for the pentagon
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and lockheed martin why because the more f. thirty five are produced the cheaper each jet is to build and maintain marina port naya r.t. . distain for a promo campaign coming up the u.s. offers hard cash for ideas and hard to gain support for its trade agreement with europe but gets only a stream of sarcasm and condemnation. of the side of the beautiful game later we sort fact from fiction surrounding the infamous hooligan on ticks of russia's football field. there's no volume in bonds because there is no market in bonds because bonds are trading at three hundred year highs here in the u.k. at two hundred forty your eyes in the u.s. they are wealth confiscation certificates for sure they represent no value whatsoever the only people buying these bonds are the computers buying amongst
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themselves for other computers and this is part of the takeover of civilization by the machines. there's a media lead also we need to be. part of the scene motions to the play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are today.
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welcome back if you can't convince them just buy them off that's what the u.s. government is doing offering large cash rewards to anyone who can come up with ways of promoting an unpopular trade pact with europe but the campaign hasn't worked out as planned as peter all over explains. the united states has been accused of a cynical propaganda campaign after a tweet originated from its embassy just behind me here. this tweet was with regard to the transatlantic trade and investment partnership between europe and the united states now the tweet was offering up to twenty thousand u.s. dollars for any projects people could come up that would protect the treat deal in a good light snow it has come in for some scathing criticism from people here in europe mostly because of worries over a decrease in standards the standards for products in europe are far higher than they are in the united states also on workers' rights as well now this is seen
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environmentalist environmentalists trade unions and health campaign is all railing against this trade deal to put that into perspective of the public opinion here in europe when it comes to the environment ninety six percent of germans say they have faith in european environmental regulation well only two percent believe in regulations inforced in the united states has also been controversy surrounding genetically modified foods not liked here in europe people have demonstrated against them however there is concern that because of u.s. labeling laws they could inadvertently become into the european markets so all of these things the same criticism of this tweet and well it's kind of backfired they have come in for far more criticism online because of this. the investment partnership deal comes with plenty of bold promises trade barriers would disappear along with any regulatory differences between the us the e.u.
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i predicted boost of around two hundred fifty billion dollars to america is under europe's collective g.d.p. would expand both economies but critics say all this comes to too high a price the fia corporations would use the agreement to gain well too much power over governments and the taxpayers would end up footing the bill for anything that goes wrong the sheer size of the new trade zone on the lack of transparency would make it much harder to hold companies to a conference breaching regulations michael shank of the washington based friends committee on national legislation believes it's a step backwards while it's good for investors it's bad for health it's bad for the environment it's bad for labor and it's bad for regulations that countries and states have worked for decades to institute so those are some of the biggest concerns and what it says to russia what it says to china with the t.p. is that we don't want you a part of this conversation and in this very globalized interconnected world particular on trade because we don't have many barriers between us and e.u.
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already so when we're doing teach hip it's not really about removing trade barriers because the tariffs are quite low it's about saying to the rest of the world we have this partnership it's exclusive and you're not going to be a part of it over in our tea dot com we're looking at how environmental groups have been responding to surprising allegation from the head of nato greenpeace didn't mince its words when react and claim that it's taking orders from the kremlin as part of a plot to subvert governments and what exactly was said on a website. i also there in japan may have failed to score during their latest world cup match but they're fans of left a lasting impression on brazil by keeping the stadiums spotlessly clean up the full story it's over at r t dot com. i. welcome purred to the japanese fans the reputation of russian supporters. could not be lower they reportedly this played nazi bombers during their side's opening world cup match in brazil some of speculated this could lead to the national team even being deducted
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points by feet or shifty investigates the origins of russian football hooliganism and what it's like now. showing support for your team in russia could mean this this. or this. your first in one thousand nine hundred eighty when spacek was playing cisco in moscow we had a huge fight red blue warriors came up against us there was more than eight hundred people involved in a brawl but you know and that is just one of the fights i see described now a retired hooligan he says fan culture has changed massively russia did it you a stereotype of an english football hooligan or an italian ultras is no longer applied to us we went our own way now there are no loud criminal cases against you look at them compared to the ninety's back in the soviet days football was
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considered one of the nation's prides history's best goalkeeper left us and the team which won the first ever european championship and the police of revolutionary managers with the break up of the soviet union football just as many other spheres of life suffered a major setback it may be a coincidence but along with these problems came whole organism it's still unclear what caused the surge in violence but in recent years russian hooligans have remained visible from violent pitch invasions to mass three grannies and racist incidents involving swastikas in the stands near nazi views and seen a phobia are among the most debated issues back in twenty ten when a fan was to arguing fighting in moscow that escalated into ethnic violence thousands of ultras made themselves heard right outside the walls of the kremlin. look at all politically motivated people have always been close to find groups not only have they propagandize the culture of violence but they explained why this violence was needed that's why nazi views of popular there because force and
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violence are the basis of naziism and fascism but former hooligan and founder of russia's largest fan movement to market than i ever believes the. she was often blown up in the press and problems are usually solved even before they appear. to spearhead events at the my down in ukraine some of them are on the national guard now so potentially this is a very dangerous part of society but are all thor it is a pursuing a very clever strategy but who live in communities so there's no danger from now in russia these fights happen every weekend but no one knows if they happen out of town in forests and strictly upon agreement on. the twenty thirteen movie tells the story of a firm of call against consistent bochy of white collar workers where death and destruction rubbed shoulders with love and friendship one of its characters keeps asking the question why do you fight they seem to base but with all of.
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the movies slogan is we can not change real life has proven they can insist of a cd it's just a matter of whether the rest of the world will be happy with this evolution or the russian fan culture when the country host the next world cup in twenty eight. let's see moscow. moving on seventeen militants have been killed in iraq in fighting to an anti-government sunni groups over one million people have been displaced by the insurgency since the start of the year that's according to the u.n. and that number is only expected to rise as armies tries to push back the advance of an al qaeda offshoot isis which wants to establish an islamic state spawning several countries is already in trouble over large parts of iraq including the second largest city mosul and it's now closing in on baghdad meanwhile the first of three hundred u.s. military advisers promised by washington to aid the iraqi security forces are due to arrive later today but international studies professor just in london police tell us is reluctant to push this too far in view of the catastrophic results of
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the two thousand and three invasion you can watch the full interview in the worlds apart tomorrow here in our team but for now here's a taster. this entire crisis episode shows the incredible strategic blunder of president george w. bush in attacking iraq and casting down the signals from the top of society to the bottom destroying the state of iraq which kindled this sectarian struggle the united states is debating today about how much support to give to maliki many people believe that he is too sectarian that if america supports him it will offend sudanese turn send the world against the united states and alienate our support in the gulf therefore they're very reluctant to get in with direct military support they would like to get diplomats on the ground to begin negotiating as they did during the occupation.
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let's move on to more international headlines now at least twelve people have been killed by flash floods and mudslides in the areas black sea coast and many others are missing this illusion swept through the resort city varna turning roads into rivers and taking card. with it the done pour is part of a storm system that's been churning across southern europe causing turn natives in italy an increase. six protesters have been arrested in rio de janeiro and turning a local journalist during an anti fee for a rally in the center of the city more than two hundred people marched against overspending and corruption surrounding the world cup the demonstration marks the one year anniversary since mosse protests against the mishandling of the tournament ship brazil. report is coming up here on r t international but for viewers in the united kingdom it's time for some but.
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recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were summoned for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about state of the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldiers in the army aware of the patriotic attitudes of those who can order them off to fight in theory this is a good idea but the reality is this kind of sweet stench of an empty p.r. stunt this is not nearly enough to convince the average grunt that the guys in power care about him as far as i understand it in the military they want to push people to break down their psychology and boot camp so they can make new better tougher more patriotic people and obedient ones as well this sort of cutesy to weaken camp will not have any psychological effect these politicians and to be honest i think bureaucrats the world over have it too easy their lives are too
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comfortable heck all the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think that if the duma deputies had to suffer through a military health for one month out of the year the corrupt comfort obsessed weaklings might get squeezed out of the system this training for the elite is a good idea but it needs to be done. right and brutal but that's just my opinion. you'd be looking for a plug into what you meant. to be paid to be used to try to make me really global which comito me right. just because to. stay cold. we have been forced to respond to. what you see what's taken control of brazil you will. receive
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