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be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for. freedom of speech. and the freedom to watch. libya heads to the polls to choose a new parliament against a backdrop of bloodshed and chaos three years since the overthrow of the gadhafi regime promised to bring paste and democracy. in europe security watchdog call for the troops in eastern ukraine to be extended is renewed battles between the army and local militias rattle the temporary ceasefire. and this orbiting junk threatens to cut us off from vital communications satellites we speak to a man on a mission to say.
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hello welcome you watching r.t. international with me andrey farmer. libyans go to the polls on wednesday to elect a new parliament this is the country's going through the worst violence since the revolution there three years ago since the toppling of moammar gadhafi libya has been on a leadership round about swapping one head of state for another and in fact whoever is chosen the head of the new parliament is going to be the country's six leader in the last two and a half years well aside from the politicians this popular support for this man who they for have a rogue general who launched a war on militias last month his artie's poor sleep. it was a time when david cameron and his allies paraded the libyan revolution as a win for western democracy here in britain and salute your courage and well we are proud of the role that we play doubt we know this was your revolution from your
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bravery a time when tony blair's handshake with colonel gadhafi was conveniently forgotten and maybe now the british prime minister might want to forget that the libyan democratic project did not turn out quite as planned the nothing libya is. odds and state. political stability zation our internal security for its people always out in security in its wardle's the point of entry election is underway but the hand of the rule seems very far away two months ago parliament was overrun by gunmen jihadists militias and gangsters have taken over the streets as the climate of fear intensifies a growing number of libyans look to general belief or have tar as their savior his supporters see him as the only man capable of crushing radical armed groups and building a national army the us excel has promised to rid the country of foreign fighters
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and with strong links to egypt's new president washington considers him a cia asset but not contained with meddling from a far the united states has sparked outrage by seizing a libyan citizen from benghazi but i think that america came in and kidnapped a person we might have different opinions about him but of this is illegal and citizen no matter who he is they came in and kidnapped someone from ghazi. but america's saying nothing america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it responsible for what's happening in iraq today western powers were quick to praise themselves for they were initially if it's in libya and just as fast to disavow all this. once ability in being gone see the bombed out ruins from general have towers last offensive are still smoldering libyans office treated but feel powerless even with voting slips in the hand the last time they had a revolution that did not turn out so well honestly i can't see. the twenty eleven
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term or broad economic instability to libya oil production has dropped sharply in the so far failed to reach pretty uprising levels the g.d.p. balance back a little following the revolution but started falling again as public debt steadily rose while the election is now being hailed by many as a way out of the crisis but the director of libya's first policy think tank believes there are still many challenges ahead. the difficulty is whether or not those that are chosen through the elections are respected by the collective will of the people whether militias or the wrong groups respect the outcomes of of the national electoral process or the effort of symptoms in libya that could. be a result in civil conflict and conflict among stroy been called to the works various militias member amongst various cities. though i would say that's a very very nuanced conflict it's mainly
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a conflict over financial i wouldn't say it's a people versus people who are tired versus town all out on sloat but i would say that there are some dangerous storms the moment still to come in the program playing with al qaida the cia once considered using a sum of enlargement dolls with a law face this big kids in pakistan and afghanistan we've got this story in a few minutes time. a temporary truce in eastern ukraine should be extended that is the call coming from russia supported by the european security watchdog while the current cease fire ends on friday morning and it's proving to be very fragile so far it was broken again by renewed fighting if the city is surveillance with kiev accusing local militia of shooting down an army helicopter artie's their own cause threat is in eastern ukraine for us. months of deadly violence have taken their toll on the citizens in the east of ukraine but there are
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signs a political solution could be in the offing cease fire is now in place and moscow's also taking steps to defuse the situation with president putin calling for russian troops to be disallowed from potentially going into ukraine but this could all be for nothing if the truth fails to hold. you shouldn't demand disarmament especially in eastern ukraine while radical groups like the right sector are still carrying weapons although it's often been promised that these basically illegal units will lay down their arms they didn't do that they haven't even left my done yet i believe there's no sense in demanding anti-government activists lay down arms under such circumstances anger continues to simmer in the east and west of the country as fighters from both sides continue to die. our goal is the complete withdrawal fighters and their placement by people from the general staff and i mean to understand their government as well as general
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for let them fight now you know the good it's a real mess it's those in power who have to foist one of the ordinary people. what's going to put it when you have deputies there or their children or people from the general staff the ministry of defense then it will all come to an end very quickly. shellshocked slowdowns can speed without electricity food and water supplies for weeks with most of the residents forced to seek shelter in russia where dozens of refugees camps have sprung up those who chose to stay behind however still hold out hope for a political settlement. still it has to be solved by political means not guns. the most important thing is live on would give life to our children and what they see now is a war i don't want my kids to leave like this to cut the world that we need to have hope we need to have peace with this friday the last day of the ceasefire may prove
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it turning point showing whether the shaky truce will hold or simply break down from our culture of art see donetsk ukraine. meanwhile the u.s. and u.k. are threatening russia with further sanctions that you had party dot com to find out why and to follow our live updates on the crisis in ukraine. now a game of real life space invaders is being played out over a costly satellite risk being hit by a rising a man. like you to stop stop collisions like this one stepped up being taken my colleague mattresses spoke to noble a carter who claims his start up business can bring sweeping changes in space. our daily lives depend totally depended on the satellite on the latest technologies like communications with or broadcasting g.p.s.
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so we should keep this as it to be very sustainable summarize for me if you can't exactly the plan that your company has for reducing the danger of space debris we let you be moved to top two hundred space the agree the largest degree so that we guess to be lies the destiny of a in a space object the space and to do that we are now designing the catch a satellite which seeks to notice there were any big them down to their atmosphere and then in also the mothership which paint. just like the lights the other for example if your something like he's lost by hitting by debris it would have taken more than five years to precede and more than one hundred millions to cover it so that's huge. still to come high green is green pace and executive from the organization has been caught flying back and forth to work despite their antiwar
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breaking news a little turn a tip angle is key to the stories. you hear. that all teach spanish find out more visit. tito's comb. again now as if trains satellites and tracking devices to thwart al qaeda in pakistan were not enough the cia was also once considering using children's. in american media that if. by the spy agency. has got the details the toy market is a lucrative industry generating a reported eighty four billion dollars in global revenue and it makes sense everywhere around the world toys generally make kids happy except when the cia gets
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involved according to the washington post the spy agency concocted a plan in two thousand and five to develop osama bin ladin demon dolls aimed at scaring children and their parents to instill fear in families that would cause them to turn away from the real terrorists the twelve inch figurines world painted with heat dissolving material designed to peel off and reveal a red faced demon like creature with pure c. and black facial markings the code name for the project was devil eyes the plan was to distribute the toys to children in afghanistan and pakistan where the cia was trying to win hearts and minds the cia claims only three prototypes were developed before the project was canceled however a source tells the washington post that hundreds of bin ladin demon action figures were developed and sent to karate in two thousand and six although the cia did not
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move forward with the covert operation one of the creepy demon figures reportedly remains the agency's headquarters reporting from washington d.c. marina point r.t. . the so-called complex psychological operation once cost american taxpayers dollars to design the dole middle east analyst things there must be better ways to spend money on fighting terrorism than frightening children with choice. psychological war or fear is. a weapon in any struggle in modern day warfare but it's not the only. factor that defines these kinds of. measures that the usually the secret service or intelligence community fakes in fighting terrorism however since these action figure toys were directed to children to try to create subliminally in the
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subconscious that bin laden is a devil or mana devil or what he represents and search for i believe maybe a different approach like investing in education of these children would yield much higher results not a bad luck the spanish national football team didn't end with being booted out of the world cup competition their trip home was eliminated by lightning struck the plane carrying the pace back to madrid head to our web site r.t. dot com to get the details on that and while you're there check out have british doctors are trying to shield the younger generation from smoking by not allowing them to buy cigarettes ever the tales of the controversial initiative i just a click away. right on the scene. search for you and i think that you're.
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on a reformer's twitter. and instagram. am . on. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others list fused into. faces changing the world lights now. so picture of today's leaves no longer from around the globe. up to. fifty.
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six. players will come to the. show thirty full control spend over fifteen billion euros on faulty head says to each one hundred fifty million degrees with uncle mike still to sell from same piece go to france the trouble in such a song. known we've got the future covered. welcome back with r.t. . may be campaigning for us to cut down on air travel because of carbon emissions but when it comes to their chiefs they seem to have a different attitude to one of the group's top executives has flown from luxembourg
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to amsterdam and back on a daily basis at the charity's expand since twenty twelve not counting the huge cost of the organization his travel has amounted to over seven tons of carbon dioxide that's the equivalent of almost three tons of recycled waste the same as one household annual electricity consumption and consuming seventeen barrels of oil has the same carbon footprint according to the u.s. environmental protection agency ryan holiday wrote a book about greenpeace and policies and he believes their words very often do not match their actions. most observers are prone to say it's hypocritical as especially when you hear executives defending it as as a compromise between you know the needs of a business and impacting the environment which is basically exactly what greenpeace others not to do what people are upset about is greenpeace is very public about condemning other people for their decisions and their you know sort of
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environmental impact and then in private or behind closed doors is sort of doing whatever they personally is best or personally benefits now and that's where you see charges that obviously of hypocrisy you know greenpeace because it has a noble mission or because they think they have a noble mission they are somehow. you know above the rules or can do whatever they think is right and that kind of relativity creates the problems that we're talking about now. in other news thick clouds of smoke have covered parts of the russian city of novosibirsk after a half constructed shopping center caught fire at least two people have been taken to hospital with burns residents of several nearby buildings have been evacuated because of the heavy smoke because the fire which damaged several stories of the building is still unknown. now let's have a look at some international news in brief starting with paris where police have cracked down on striking rail workers over five hundred people gathered in the
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center of the capital angry plans to reform the national rail service the demonstrators also demanded unemployment insurance for part time workers scuffles erupted when riot police tried to push protesters off the main roads where workers and parents have been on strike for over two weeks now continuing from a national strike. in the northern pakistani city of peshawar gunmen have opened fire on a passenger plane while it was landing a woman was killed in the incident and two crew members wounded pakistani authorities are still looking for the attack is low no group says it's carried out but militants are currently active in the tribal northwest regions of the country. and at least thirty two people have been killed as iraqi security forces try to regain control of the country's largest oil refinery and the strategic town of baiji officials say many of the dead and wounded were civilians these lamis group
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isis had early claimed recap claim to have captured the refinery meanwhile unconfirmed reports say syria shelled an area across its border with iraq killing dozens. and nine people have confirmed dead after tea fishing boats collided off the west coast of peru rescuers say three people remain unaccounted for grieving relatives rush to the port to see the bodies of their loved ones being brought in an investigation is underway to determine the course of the incident. i don't like . that politicians in the u.k. have been sounding the alarm over the influx of immigrants from romania and bulgaria after brussels lifted the employment restrictions for them they share it's estimated britain could see a rise of fifty thousand people a year coming from the eastern european country meanwhile some brits a choosing to reverse the trend and settle down and remain yet instead as r.t. enough reports that michael is british but spent most of his life outside the u.k.
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his father works in the military and the family has done its fair share of globetrotting but it's in romania where mike decided to settle down and open a board he's been running for five years now i love the opportunity to say i love my life and my chest still the nightlife you know i like to party and that's one of the reasons why i went into this business i love the people climates the culture itself you know and the media you see more than welcome me since the beginning of this year they've been able to travel and work all over the e.u. some british deputies worried immigrants could start flooding in even suggested running a scare campaign to put them off coming to the u.k. there are many undress saw the letter side of the situation and started campaigning for british citizens to move here and work instead since romania's accession to the e.u. one thousand and seven brits no longer have to register when they move here so it's hard to say the exact number of them living here but according to the british
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embassy it's somewhere between three and four thousand and so have you would mean a business out of helping other newcomers get started in this country. another british ex-pat who left the u.k. eight years ago after his eighty company went bankrupt he makes a living here by helping other ex-pats register firms find staff buy property and offers other help of foreign businessmen may need when setting up shop rumania has a long long way to go before it could be perceived. let's say a western european type country but for a guy like myself yes i would recommend anyone to come here romania is far from the wealthiest of the e.u. states in fact with the average salary of less than four hundred euros per month it's one of the poorest but to the surprise of many word of a mass exodus of romanians to the rest of the e.u. this country has actually given thousands of westerners opportunities they couldn't find at home you got this going off r g arrest. i'm back with more news for you in
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about half an hour's time next that you can see for yourselves how news is made here or not international the latest that the sight of news today is coming your way. well into the future. show thirty five can just spend over fifteen billion euros on all she says to each one hundred fifty million degrees with some talk among north to sell from st petersburg to france we travel in search of the song. knowledge we've got the future coverage. his name was because he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the midst that he created exists to this day.
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gerbils propaganda was actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german self-esteem would. keep its use of goebbels knew precisely what the masses needed to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the pied paper from the fairy tale who made the rats follow the chain of his plight. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tal saw in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who was in the second world war. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't afford college different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens
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tear jerking poetry keep. ignore it. post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. the interview. a feel good. you know general macarthur once said americans never quit that was when there was something worth fighting for before fraud was the only way of life post gold
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standard abandonment and bankruptcy before the population grew morbidly obese down in bargain cans of processed food bought at the company's store wal-mart where their food stamps what the furthest before the arrows were filled with patriotic scoundrels demanding perpetual war which can remember be funded by a low wage high food stamp economy. i marinate join me. in debt impartial and financial commentary contribute and much much. only on bombast and. nice today and signs of mantra progress in secret peace to. many many.
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