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i don't see your face. for the muslim brotherhood court confirms almost two hundred members of the group will be executed their top leader among them. a russian border checkpoint comes under ukrainian army shelling even as a ceasefire is the player. looks more like an ultimatum. the price of the world's most expensive job just one years behind schedule and billions over the f. thirty five crashed by the designer of one of america's most iconic fighter planes . between the rich and the poor is now larger in this country but it was what queen victoria was on the throne thousands of parliament demanding an end to the cuts they believe have brought the country's poor and middle classes to their any.
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good evening it's eight pm and there are capital on your watch an artsy international with me nearing a cost of all welcome to the program. now in the direction court has upheld that sentences for almost two hundred members of the muslim brotherhood including their top leader they will be executed for having attacked a police station and killed police officers there in protest and support of a homage morsi he was surprised and sent to prison last july belcher of reports from egypt's. well egypt is bracing itself for possible further violence in the very least mass street demonstrations by the families now this case has sparked local and international uproar after the judge reportedly only had one session before he sentenced dozens to death. witnesses. any evidence so certainly there has
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been some questions raised about the legality of the trial and that's what the french know is that going forward they say they will appeal the verdict but 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 a brotherhood the state blames the group which they for a lot of the violence across the country they say it's a terrorist organization the miss brotherhood for their part say they are remaining peaceful and will hold demonstrations against this verdict without any violence now egypt's new president sisi has promised peace and unity in the country however is yet to be seen how that's going to happen when we have a 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. huge pressure was put on the muslim brotherhood after a military coup in two thousand and thirteen the new government resorted to death sentences for those accused of extremism as a matter of instrumentation now human rights groups say almost twenty one thousand
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people have been imprisoned since july and in april nearly seven hundred people were convicted to death in a preliminary hearing although less than a third of those sentences were actually appellate a month earlier a court ordered the execution of more than five hundred prisoners but the same judge later confirmed only around forty of those done since the sun's and says he miles in the ward winning journalist and author thinks the latest ruling will provoke more violence. the protests continue. the very tough environment here that many people are being arrested but they say they think the minute they continue to take the remote areas the country i think the real effect of this ruling it is to push young people into the arms of the extremist groups. that. criticize the muslim brotherhood is an experience. not given much political spite i've seen all young people to one demographically but they can away from the result
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is the people she's going to join my wife is. getting getting results like. i'm coming up here on our c international we had to iraq where a million people have been displaced by an insurgency sweeping for the country according to big one and it's fear that number will continue to grow and that's one of militants and iraq is security forces for control and play battle later in the program we'll bring you the very latest developments. also soldier has been injured after a border checkpoint for the crime was shelled the incidents a quiet designed to government forces clashed with ukrainian troops in the country's east it's reports of the mortar fire came from the military as refugees cross the border r.t. spoke so what. you want to help people who are fleeing from ukraine so i went to the border to offer my sister and even the children in the refugee camp and i brought them sweets to cheer them up i had the guns are as i was coming up to the
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border people were screaming and running was shooting it was several gunshots it was very scary to see women and children crying look for some time and when i came back again i saw that kick point was on the far. russian president vladimir putin has put troops. on alert will be aim of checking their readiness around sixty five thousand troops are taking part. moscow says it's worried about the military action in eastern ukraine continuing despite to cease fire put forward by the country's president on the ground the army and answer government activists have accused each other or breaking the truce now the ceasefire is part of a fifteen point peace plan which includes an amnesty for those who agreed to lay down their arms and haven't committed grevious crime 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 but the centralization of power to the sunni regions early local and parliamentary
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elections and one of the plan's top pledges is to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides although saying all that push and pull himself is refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self-proclaimed republics coal miners and workers in eastern ukraine are taking up arms and swearing allegiance to the self-proclaimed annette's republic they say they don't trust president poroshenko peace plan and i . was at the ceremony which saw the new members sworn in and so the ranks. only a matter of weeks ago these men were digging for their country today they're taking up arms against it these miners are the latest recruits for the uniformed fishel army of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk. so just yesterday we were all wearing mine is uniforms and mining calls today we joined the ranks of the militia to protect our motherland and i loved ones and to stop the killings of
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children women and the elderly the defense force has been quickly drawn together in a bid to counter the government's crackdown on the eastern provinces even before the troubles began these men had made repeated complaints to kiev about were conditioned low wages and the money from the wealthy industrial region going straight to the central authorities. but now those very authorities are firing shells at them the miners say they have no choice but to defend their families. were given ultimatum to the key of june to offer its punitive actions which gave them a day to stop the crackdown two days to withdraw troops and it appears the word coal miners doesn't mean anything to them but unlike them we miners and are making good in our words then you to create it armed forces have only the most basic of equipment and. sport but when it comes to defending their loved ones they're ready to use whatever it takes the coal miners have made good on their promise to leave
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work and pick up arms in case present a partial go does not stop the operation within twenty four hours today here on then a square in donetsk. soldiers gave an oath of allegiance to the people's republic of donetsk ramon coffer r.t. ukraine. months of military action has forced tens of thousands to flee to neighbor and russia hundreds queue at the border seeking shelter in a campaign you can see and hear some of their stories on our t.v. dot com. now meet the world's most expensive weapon the four hundred billion dollar f. thirty five an aircraft whose price tag just one are even higher thanks to additional funding plagued by delays massive cost overruns and bloating bureaucracy the jets the even its top backers somewhat underwhelmed and sick over the price the planes now been suited to foreign buyers as artie's marina portnoy explains. the f.
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thirty five stealth fighter jet is the crime to look kramm 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. thirty five but delays and cost increases have left u.s. lawmakers frustrated over the three hundred eighty five billion dollar price tag and that's where america's allies come in. lockheed martin has turned to international partners at least eight foreign contracts are on the table but none have a final price tag so far canada's latest calculations have only proved that the cost will be at least ten billion dollars higher than expected experts suggest f. thirty five are something of a gamble for everyone involved there's never been anything anywhere near as
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expensive and the entire process is one in which the costs can only go up. 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 a bit more they have to go ahead any of these countries that want to become a good deal that they have no choice boosting demand from foreign investors is believed to be essential for the pentagon and lockheed martin why because the more f. thirty five are produced the cheaper each jet is to build and maintain her in accord naya r.t. . the f. thirty five has suffered one side bike out there another in the most recent case the entire fleet was grounded and testing suspended after one of the planes suffered an oil leak but the engines are not the only area where this aircraft is actually having difficulties in fact as we're about to see here the plane has been
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suffering well documented cracks from head sail the pensacola even stopped it from flying within forty kilometers over thunderstorm out of fears a fuel tank could explode if struck by lightning well we spoke to the man who helped design the iconic f. sixteen and eighteen aircraft and he had little good to say about the f. thirty five. it's one of the worst airplanes we've ever designed. for 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 a single mission and then they made it even worse place saying that we saved money by giving it up among three services so now you have three missions pulling the airplane in different directions now you have three services three bureaucracies adding their parochial point of view the airplane is a complete mess and mind you this is the most expensive single project that the
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that the defense department has ever undertaken. this thing for a problem campaign is coming up that you are software is hard cash for ideas on how to gain support for its trade agreements with your dad saw me a string of sarcasm and condemnation. also the ultimate side of the beautiful game later we sort fact from fiction surrounding the infamous. football fans. forced thousands of britons are marching on parliament demanding the government's right and then that's wave of cots among the protesters are politicians celebrities and union leaders all upset well the blanket austerity imposed by london are sistar for us from all reports in fact from among the crowd. well the until thirty protesters are making their way to central london at the moment if you take a look behind me you can see the crowds that it turns out i love you so full it tell you for a bit of
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a very serious message from those who take came to london please now the people who gathered today protesting against government cars and if you take a look at some of the signs there's a whole range of this cheese everything from education good job to the i don't know what they really are asking for china to have to start a real terms of the party in the u.k. has been doing that and that people here say that they see that resulted in their living standards and that's what they want to see say you know while you're on our take or stop in the crowd with i in james he's a member but he doesn't i'm going to try to make sense of exactly what the hot seat today is all about too long just for a living son this is green choice i'm afraid in the eighty seven seas over a million workers driven into poverty since the claim that come and live in where you have an army of zero contract workers people strictly job security is also to finish the fight for a living wage fight for housing fight for workers' rights fight for public
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ownership of the banks to tax justice against tax avoidance and so on and that's really at the heart of this was the government will say the economy has been only up that has been improving but a lot of people here say that they've seen as a result of the cuts that have been voted to boost the economy their living standards so for all of the so goes the stories you're going to hear today as people are taking to the streets essential lines to protest against austerity. you're watching or to international back with more news after a short break so stay with us. 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 well confiscation certificates for sure they represent no value whatsoever
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the only people buying these bonds are the computers buying amongst themselves for other computers and this is part of the takeover of civilization by the machines. the media leave us so we leave the people. of the sea motions to the plate for the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics.
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welcome back to artsy answer national now if you can convince them just offer a cold hard cash well that's what the u.s. government's is doing promise and large 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 peed 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 trade deal in a good light though 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 though this is seen
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and vajra mentalist 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 well it's kind of backfired they have come in for far more criticism online because of this. investment partnership deal comes with plenty of bold promises trade barriers would disappear along with any
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regulatory differences between the u.s. and the e.u. a predicted boost of around two hundred fifty billion dollars to america and europe's collective g.d.p. which would expand both economies but critics say all this comes at a high price they fear corporations would use the agreements again too much power over governments and that's hack's players would end up footing the bill for anything that goes wrong the sheer size of the new trade zone and the lack of transparency would make it much harder to hold companies to account for breaching regulations michael shank of the washington based friends committee on national legislation believes it's a step backwards. well that'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 or what it says to china with the t p p is that we don't want you a part of this conversation and in this very globalized interconnected world
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particular and trade because we don't have many barriers between us and you already so when we're doing teach if 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 and that artsy dot com we're looking at how environmental groups have been responding to surprising allegations that has made bringing peace to the mince its words when reacting to chief ross nuisance claim that it's taking orders from the kremlin that's part of a plan to subvert the e.u. governments find out what exactly was said on the websites. also their japan may have failed to score during their latest world cup match spot their finds have left almost an impression of brazil by keeping the stadiums the spotlessly clean get the full story on artsy. well compared to the japanese fans there put sation of russian supporters couldn't be lower they reportedly the splayed neo nazi banners during the side's opening
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world cup match in brazil some have speculated this could lead to the national scene being deducted points by fee for artie's alexei it 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. when you call your first mobile called up in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. when spotlight was playing cisco in moscow we had a huge fight right 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 is today if 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
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hulett guns compared to the ninety's back in the soviet days football was considered one of the nation's sprites histories best goalkeeper left yosh 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 hooliganism. it's still unclear what caused the surge in violence but in recent years russian hooligans have remained visible from violent bijan of agents to mass treat rallies and racist incidents involving swastikas in the stands near nazi views and phobia are among the most debated issues back in twenty ten when a fan was killed during fighting in moscow that escalated into ethnic violence thousands of ultras made themselves heard right outside the walls of the kremlin. politically motivated people have always been close to find groups not only have a propagandized the culture of violence but they explained why this violence was
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needed that's why i know c.v.s. are popular there because force and violence are the bases of naziism and fascism but for more and found over russia's largest planned movement developed at the nih of believes the issue is often blown up in the press and problems are usually solved even before they appear. who spearheaded events at the my down in ukraine some of them are in the national guard now so potentially this is a very dangerous part of society but our oath origins are pursuing a very clever strategy with who live in communities so there's no danger from them in russia these fights happen every weekend but no one knows if they happen out of town in forests and strictly upon agreement. the twenty thirteen movie tells the story of a firm of consistent party of white collar workers where death and destruction rub shoulders with love and friendship one of its characters keeps asking the question why do you fight is your meetings. with all of. the
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movies slogan is we can not change real life has proven they can insist of a sealy it's just a matter of whether the rest of the world will be happy with this evolution of the russian fan culture when the country hosts the next world cup in twenty eighteen let's see moscow. seventeen militants have been killed in iraq there and fighting between once a government sunni groups over one million people have been displaced by the insurgency since the start of this year according to the u.n. and that number is only expected surprised as the army tries to push back the advance of an al qaeda offshoot now isis which ones to establish an islamic state spanning several functions is already in control of large parts of iraq including the second largest city in a civil and it's now closing in on baghdad meanwhile the force the three hundred u.s. military advisers promised by washington to aid the iraqi security forces are due to arrive later today but none of these sticks were just well on these believes the
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u.s. is reluctant to push this too far in view of the catastrophic results of that seems thousand and three invasion you can watch the full interview on worlds apart tomorrow here on our d.c. but here's the taster. this entire isis episode shows the incredible strategic blunder of president george w. bush in attacking iraq and casting down the cities 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
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during the occupation. moving on now to another war torn in the ghana stands a presidential election was supposed to bring about the country's first ever they want to take transfer of power however the withdrawal of one of the two remaining canon. it south of the second round of voting has from the capital and. votes are still being counted but former foreign minister abdullah abdullah who many had expected so when has pulled out accused in the governments of rigging the ballots hundreds of his supporters took to the streets of kabul blocking roads and denouncing the viable candidate riots police were deployed to force the crowd back the disputes has reignited ethnic tensions across afghanistan. elsewhere at least twelve people have been killed by a flash floods and mudslides of all gary is black sea coast and many others are missing. through the resort city of fargo i mean by towns turning roads and rivers
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and bringing down power lines down poorest parts of a storm system that's been churning across sound in europe calls and tornadoes and it's really angry. six people have been arrested them rio de janeiro including a local journalist there and on sci fi for a rally a banner was unfurled with a strongly worded message for the football governing body more than two hundred people took part in the march against overspending and corruption surrounding the world cup it marks the one year anniversary of the protest movement began and brazil. that's it from us for this hour up next though find out why government bonds might not be worth the paper they're written on in the kaiser report next here on r.g.p. international.
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recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were someone for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about steve the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldier in the army aware of the patriotic had to do of those who could order them off to fight it. theory this is a good idea but the reality is this kind of reeks that 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 the sort of cute super weekend 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 comfortable heck all the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think they have to do my deputies had to suffer
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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 will be even more for playing into what you meant. to be a good musician trying to play to the local ritual committee to write a suitable human security just because you see the. state. of the sports and restore. doing what you see. taking control of brazil you will. receive the.
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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser i am become death the destroyer of markets said any central bank are today. to get it to get the reference stacy yes max the central planning central bankers have literally destroyed markets and turned them into a giant weapon of mass financial destruction headline reads bons liquidity threat is revealed in derivatives explosion the boom in fixed income derivatives trading is exposing a hidden risk in debt markets around the world the inability of investors to buy and sell on there is no volume in bonds.

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