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that is for the muslim brotherhood and their direction of course confirms almost two hundred members of the group will be executed their top leader among them. a russian border checkpoint comes on the ukrainian army shelling even as the cease fire is the player of. the peace plan looks more like an ultimatum. the price of the world's most expensive jab just one years behind schedule and billions over at the f. thirty five trashed by the designer of one of america's most likely fighter planes . the guy with the rich and the poor is now larger in this country but it was like queen victoria it was almost thousands of britons to march on parliament demanding
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and so the cuts they believe have brought the country's poor and middle classes through their means. of life from the hearts of the russian capital you're watching artsy international with me marina call survivable come to the program now the direction court has upheld death sentences for almost two hundred members of the muslim brotherhood including their top leader they will be executed for haven't attacked the police station and killed police officers in support of mohamed morsi who was ousted as president and sons prison last july we have bell true reports in from egypt. international opera judge reportedly only had one session before he sentenced
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dozens to death. when you see. any evidence so certainly that has been some questions raised about the legality of the trial and that's all the difference that we see going. on the grounds that the judge for the legal cover this is coming in the fight. against them is about to hit 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's resorted to death sentences for those accused of extremism has so much that often. human rights
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groups say almost twenty one thousand people have been imprisoned since july and in april nearly seven hundred people were convicted so that in the preliminary hearing although less than a third of those substances were upheld now 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 death sentences here miles in the war the women journalist and author thinks that this latest ruling will provoke more violence. the protests continue. to be very tough environment here many people have been arrested for theft and they think the minute they can take me in my very very good i think the real effect of this really is to push young people into the arms of the free great. brotherhood and illustrates. not given much political. scene for young people but one democratically but then from my pocket and away from the.
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result is the people throwing. the. results if you like and coming up we had to iraq or a million people have been displaced by an insurgency sweeping through the country according to the u.n. and this fear that number will can say it's a crawl as as long as militants and iraqi security forces battle for control later in the program we're bringing you the very latest developments. in russia where the guard has been enjoyed after francais are checkpoints. then students of places and say government forces clashed with ukrainian troops and the country's east as reports said the mortar fire came from the military as refugees crossed the border and r.t. spoke to one of the witnesses you want to help people who are fleeing from ukraine so i went to the buddhist of my systems if you look so children in the refuse. to
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cheer them up i have become far as i was coming up to the border people were screaming and running machine there was several gunshots it was very scary to see women and children growing look for some time when i came back to the checkpoint was a. so in the fighting around eighty cranium border guards fell back into russian territory where they asked for shelter six of them were wounded but all have now been safely handed back to ukraine according to the country's border officials want to answer government leader has said there will be allowed to return to duty at the front ear meanwhile russia's prize then has called the fighting during the cease fire on acceptable lattimer putin has put troops stationed in central russia on alerts will be a model tracking never in this around sixty five thousand troops are taking part in the drills that will last. moscow says it's worried about the military action in certain ukraine continue and this spied sea have accused each other of breaking their troops now the ceasefire is part of
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a fifteen point peace plan which includes an amnesty for those who agree to lay down their arms and haven't committed grievous 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 the centralize ation of power to the eastern regions early local and parliamentary elections and one of the plans top pledges is to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides although saying no that's poroshenko himself is refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self-proclaimed republics russia's foreign minister has been highly critical of the peace plan in the video published on the ministry's facebook page says it lacks a key elements. of the peace plan has a number of automating like demands it lacks the most important thing in the negotiations and that's a radical step away from the geneva agreement which is supported in there it's all
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work at least simple as including the u.s. the e.u. and the ukrainian authorities. coal miners and workers in eastern ukraine are taking up arms and swearing allegiance to the self-proclaimed republic they say they don't want. peace plan artie's from the ceremony which saw the new members sworn into 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 new uniform the fischel army of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk. so just yesterday we were all wearing mine is uniforms and mining called today we joined the ranks of the militia to protect our motherland and i loved ones and to stop the killings of 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
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the troubles began these men had made repeated complaints to kiev about were conditions 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. as it were given ultimatum to the key of june to offer its punitive actions will give them a day to stop the crackdown two days to withdraw troops it appears the word coal miners doesn't mean anything to them but unlike them we miners and are making good and. then you get created 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 work and pick up arms in case present a partial go does not stop the operation within twenty four hours today here on their lenin square in donetsk. soldiers gave an oath of allegiance to the people's
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republic of donetsk ramon coffer at r.t. that's ukraine. oneself a military action has forced tens of thousands to flee to neighboring russia hundred skill at the border seeking shelter and refugee camps you can hear some of their stories on our. well mate the world's most expensive weapon the four hundred billion dollar after thirty five and their craft his price tag just one even higher thanks to the tional funding plagued by the latest massive cost overruns and bloats and bureaucracy the jets left even its tall backers some also underwhelmed and sick over the price of the planes now being suited to foreign buyers as artie's marina portnoy 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
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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 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
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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 a port naya r.t. . the f. thirty five has suffered back after another in the most recent case the entire fleets was grounded and testing suspended after one of the planes suffered an oil leak but the engines aren't the only area this aircraft is have been problems and issues and in fact as you as you're about to see here the plane has been suffering well documented cracks from head to tail the pentagon even stopped it from flying within forty kilometers of a thunderstorm fears its fuel could explode if struck by lightning we spoke to the
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man who helped design the iconic f. sixteen and a ten aircraft and he had little 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 drop single mission and then they made it even worse 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 points of view 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. for a promo campaign coming up for his hard cash for ideas on how to gain support for
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its trade agreements with europe but gets only a stream of sarcasm and condemnation. plus the ugly side of the beautiful game later which sort fact from fiction surrounding the infamous hole again and six of russia's football fans. but for us thousands of brits and so they marched on the parliament demanding the government's rein in its wave of cots among the protesters were politicians celebrities and union leaders all up sides with a blanket austerity imposed by london artsy sorry for us this report from among the crowd. will be until stirred see protesters making their way to central london the moment you take a look behind me you can see the crowds that at times out i love you so full it tell you for a bit of a very serious message from the you see taken to london please now the people who gathered today protesting against government cars and if you take
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a look at some of the signs there's a whole range of this cheese everything from education because of the i don't know what they really are asking for. a real terms is according to you k. has being to do that people here say that they see no real bad seeds in their living standards for what they want to see say well you're on our take or stop in the crowd we're going james he's a member but he wasn't going to try to make sense of exactly what the horses a day is all about the longest running having some issues. in the eighty seven seas over a million workers driven into poverty since the claim that cameron. where you have an army of. people strictly jokes you would see this also to finish the fight for a living wage fight for housing fight voices rights fight for the kind of ship 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 on the up that has
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been improving but a lot of people here say that they've seen as a result of the cuts that have been voted to piece the economy the living standards of for the so those are the stories you're going to hear today as people have taken to the street the central lines of the protests against austerity. and we have more news coming your way including infighting among sunni islamist extremists as they march on the iraqi capital that's after a short break here on r.t. . genetics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was so there are things to learn to believe innately feebleminded still today for the future i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi
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ideology they don't stop at just sterilising the groups and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. or. choose your language. calling a kid with zero in federal custody still some of. the concerns get to. choose to defend against the degrade to. choose the stories get him to. choose access to. welcome back now if you can't convince them just offer a cold hard cash and that's exactly what the u.s.
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government says they're one promising large for awards 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 this paid all over now 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 tree 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 environmentalist environmentalists trade unions and health campaign is all railing
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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 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 with disappear along with any regulatory differences between the u.s. and the e.u. and predict the boost of around two hundred fifty billion dollars and europe's
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collective g.d.p. which would expand both economies but critics say all this comes at too high a price they fear corporations would use the agreements again too much. power over governments and that's hacks 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 it's all companies to account for breach of regulations michael shanks of the washington based friends committee on national legislation believes that this is 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 p is it we don't want you a part of this conversation and in this very globalized interconnected world particular and trade because we don't have many barriers between us and you already so when we're doing to tip it's not really about removing trade barriers because
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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 on our t. dot com we're looking at how environmental groups have been responding to surprising allegation from the head of nato greenpeace didn't mince words when reacting to chief ross mrs claim that it's taking orders from the kremlin as part of a plot to support the e.u. governments find out exactly what was said on our websites. also there japan may have failed to score during their latest world cup match but their friends have left a lasting impression on brazil by keeping the stadiums spotlessly clean get the full story on artsy dot com. well compared to the japanese fans the reputation of russian supporters couldn't be lower there are reports of the displayed neo nazi banners during their side's opening world cup match in brazil and some have speculated this could lead to the national scene being the ducted points by fee for our season exodus of skin investigates the origins of
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russian football hooliganism and what it's like now. showing support for your team in russia could mean this this. or this. when it was your first mobile call them in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. when spotlight 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 in russia you know 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 hulett guns compared to the ninety's back in the soviet days football was considered one of the nation's prides history's best goalkeeper left us and the team which won the first
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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 this surge in violence but in recent years russian hooligans have remained visible from violent pitch invasions to mass street rallies and racist incidents involving swastikas in the stands near nazi views and as you know phobia are among the most debate that issues back in twenty to one 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 propaganda is the culture of violence but they explained why this violence was needed that's why i know c.v.s. a popular there because force and violence are the basis of naziism and fascism but
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former hooligan and founder of russia's largest fan 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 are all for it is a pursuing a very clever strategy with hooligan communities so there's no danger from them in russia these fights happen every weekend but no one knows of them if they happen out of town in forests and strictly upon agreement of the twenty thirteen movie tells the story of a firm of hooligans consisting partially 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 this in the days when the pull of. the movie slogan is we cannot change real life has proven they can insist of
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a cd 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. in other news seventeen militants have been killed in iraq during infighting between governments and the 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 to rise as the army tries to push back the advance of an al qaeda offshoot isis which wants to establish an islamic state spanning several functions is already in control of large parts of iraq including the second largest city in mosul and it's now closing in on baghdad meanwhile the first of three hundred u.s. military advisers promised by washington to ape iraqi security forces are due to arrive later today but movies that expire joshua landis believes the u.s. is reluctant to push this too far in view of the catastrophic results of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq but i can watch the full interview in the worlds apart here on r t so morrow but here's
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a little preview. this entire crisis episode shows the incredible strategic blunder of president george w. bush in attacking iraq and casting down the sunnis 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 sidney's turn some new world against the united states and alienate our support in the gulf therefore they are 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. to another war torn nation now afghanistan's presidential election was supposed to
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bring about the conference first ever democratic transfer of power however the withdrawal of one of the two remaining candidates after the second round of voting as from the. it's formal both are still being counted but the foreign minister abdullah abdullah who many had expected to win has pulled out so accusing the governments of breaking the ballots hundreds of his supporters took to the streets of kabul blocking roads and denouncing the rival candidates riot police were deployed to force the crowd back the dispute has reignited ethnic tensions across afghanistan. elsewhere at least twelve people have been killed by flash floods and mudslides of all garry's black sea coast and many others are missing water swept through the resort city of barno and nearby towns are on the roads into rivers and bringing down power lines down poor as parts of a storm system that's been turning across south of europe tornados in italy and greece. that's it from us coming up next on our documentary about the horrific
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history of genetic experiments on humans they team back to the nazis but if you're to learn them from london find out why government bonds might not be worth the paper they're written on in the kaiser report to stay with us. 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 soldier 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 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
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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 cutesy who we can 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 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.
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