i. was a trade unionist at peoria when he started publicly condemning his own company's practices that cost him his job and led to a long legal battle that resulted in his dismissal and then rehiring by veolia. going to give us a board that mack deaver do daily mail for she did you know a man few notes yeah extraordinary something to me only all very dumb all i did a field. going to get any. april ask on that. it all gloom do know uncle does the law i feel so badly like top. of it all the very power woman in ma all that it puts out it will harm or is truly

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this evil nish to really. carry in their shermer a social democrats member of the brain state parliament asked to see the contracts between the state and the 2 companies and was granted permission. she was led to a windowless room and not allowed to take a pen make notes or copy anything they have heard a lot of the local market does any good. in public private partnership or traffic. passes in my p.p.p. is all. i wouldn't read. on bellina nish the new class at lincoln newsgroup was half of how it's come this didn't work then given the 1st woman had.

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negotiations. with me put out on the office to quell sparing cornwall where are the bullet bugger going to present a story of the loss of. bystanders . this is a beautiful medieval city with a population of 120000 in northern portugal. in the mid 2000 the city signed a concession contract for its water supply services with a group of companies whose main shareholder is a spanish multinational called sethi here. luis best can say north represents its shareholders. the goals you and that. the game waged

to build is no way. to leave the bush. so with books but articles you're not it's only 2 books. and using evian to move. the goal so the vent sealed but of course you're not getting the date of the leader . you should go into new orleans. you move into nucleons the video goes mute. near the scene they needed to be glued yes they go into your. only means must. myrtle's if. you. don't see a square if the ship of his a plea. the goals that the municipality had guaranteed in the contracts

like the definite increase in population and consumption remains only on paper so when the newly elected mayor miguel kosta gomez started protesting in 2010 the company took the matter to a court of arbitration to demand compensation. the brain simply said. but. since the deal. says i was the king even thought i don't go. near bar steve is passionate to defend a city with a population of $50000.00 which find a similar contract with the same company. the consequences were tragic that people took to the streets. it's funny.

that the place. was long. past the ferrero suddenly had the most expensive watch her in portugal india ok's like you did just. get us to believe it is all going by you did it without looking at then look up and it will get nothing again i have almost got to go there so brito became mayor of passions to fit in after putting the issue of water privatized ation at the center of his election campaign the situation was even worse than he did madge and severe give you the the link in the written. the maze simulators in some it was a food is it. is a pretty. good i with good going is exposed it is look

it is there that. should be there a place where they live whether one to listen to most and yes student this is typically. part of lebanon. which is one of the wrong. perhaps no yes no. pun on events like i'm going to guess from now on city prize tice's puts and hoot on dammit. i'm tired as i know it and i'm tired because i'm in court how to get better you know i said not sign and given i'm tight for teached it and what's important is the result. do the people have good quality or whatever. by the sense these environment protected these men will be performed.

for those who knew what was in the contract of the sale for berlin's water company which had been kept secret there was only one course of action to make them public then german citizens would know that they themselves had guaranteed profits to 2 private companies for 30 years. you would sign. the contracts could only be made public through a state referendum which all political parties try to stop. that's what you do would want once have i got up a who ringback then be in the flood who do have them 1st. leaps on the shifts guy i'm. going to school since that was how they are getting it done for just

barely enough to fasten skittishness me or don't that's not either shot only it will fire go on piece of old autistic you will become well. done and i don't know who. did all their lives. as a result of the referendum the berlin state government was forced to take back the berlin water company into public ownership in 2014. yeah. however it paid an enormous price $1300000000.00 euros.

the holocaust so when a spot of fishing. were mainly due to the fact that water had been privatized 1st this i still believe it's not mine. but the. really. the stuff of you. know me supposing this official. piece. making. the party more i could. be a better left. me. almost never of the. new heart or mind of the european. is behind water products. i think that the european commission would be very

very good to impose water privatisation on anybody if they only could. we. were going to in the way that the think it's more efficient. boards public and private ownership are possible so that we have an official says the that distribute high quality safe efficient for the boards of the world the truth is. in the community but if you're not going to be in the patient. getting an opportunity that came to happen i really think if you. want to put out everything. i mean whatever the trick if you know what we have nobody of us really very much in the common talking about 3. i could see that it is the best ever present.

it. it's really a historic nationwide referendum was held concerning the privatisation of water services. during the berlusconi government's plans to privatized the water supply was voted down by a massive 95 percent of its value voters. the reason why we had this referendum is because the. government 2 years before before passed a law that was forcing. anybody that management of the police about it. make it compulsory for anybody to sell out at least 50 percent of the state's become pennies for all the public service is not only were there. a few weeks after the italian referendum. and mario draghi the departing and incoming directors of the european central bank sent

a secret letter to berlusconi the letter was made public by the career adela sara newspaper and reminds berlusconi of certain key measures the e.c.b. was expecting from. these were structural reforms in favor of complete liberalization of local public services through large scale privatization. this secret letterhead major consequences as the european central bank has no power to enforce specific policy on any member states. it was a judgment the judgment of the. what was necessary in this absolutely dramatic circumstances where 40 percent of the g.d.p. of the. attack one of. the berlusconi government did in fact implements many of the measures proposed in the letter it also tried

covertly to reintroduce. provisions for the privatization of water which the italian people had voted down in the referendum the constitutional court intervened and said no you cannot remain should use. legal provisions to obey repeal as a result of or for. this prompted european commissioner all the rand to write another letter to berlusconi seeking clarification. you know let's examine what we bob austin just. really hasn't done you have found a really doesn't tell you that. education is struggling to keep pace often failing to prepare children for today's world. and

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a way that is considered robust and we are absolutely clear that if this situation is not resolved quickly there will be serious consequences to iran's as the ship was involved in the accident with a fishing boat before being detained. reports. the british vessel came in contact with a small fishing boat and there was a minor accident and when the local authorities in the province tried to contact the crewmembers on board this vessel there was no response this is when they called the revolutionary guard patrolling the area to come to their aid and when the revolutionary guard got there they decided to take this vessel to about their of us which is the closest port city to them and they say that the incident took place because this vessel violated any number of maritime laws one being that they were travelling in the wrong a maritime direction 2nd that they had turned off all their g.p.s.

and tracking devices and 3rd that they were not responding to any of the calls or any attempts ever made to contact them thousands of pro-government protesters held a rally in hong kong organizers say it was to condone violence during demonstrations against the now suspended extradition bill. police say they've seized what's thought to be the largest amount of explosives uncovered in the city of sunday's pro-democracy rally on the 1st regional elections are being held and back in stones a northern tribal region the territory bordering afghanistan was merged with khyber pass through hoare province last year that until now has been ruled by councils of tribal elders so big explosions across yemen's capital of sana'a after extreme of sanity led strikes saudi media says coalition jet fighters targeted hooty military comes across the city destroying their defenses and missile storage sites those were the headlines and back with more news in the news in half an hour but we

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play. watcher is the driving force of life and natural resource that to scare us and to which 110th of people on earth have no access. the question of its management has become a major factor it's becoming more and more becoming quietly profitable hardly tradeable those people who see everything as something to invest the profit of they want. they want our war. says it this summer you have to get is it that this runs the love. so yes you know

what that means in an area it's got us give us what you see that their own borders . and there are who are not mixes. of their your. reply i mean is the party that we're going to prevent this will see that this is the exact city in a mall. in a local. dildo up it then there's an obvious one says it. all is up in. large scale privatizing mission features heavily in the known agreements that the troika imposes on every creek government the athens and thessaloniki water companies are always on their list. yannis maha like east is

a journalist but in 2011 was spokesman for the greek new democracy party he then became minister of interior for the rightwing government formed by at the nice time i asked him 2012. in the same year the government's minimum holding percentage in the 2 largest water companies was abolished by law paving the way for their complete privatization. thought if you tickle bees. but. that of them will not be your at it. for most of it made perfect but it was butt out. let me i'm going to have everybody here isn't. but i mean they're. just getting of that and they can yell portier. after nikolay the school no me of a security you can it was that it was because of the people and i'm still awake enough to curiously look at him of this i'm going to go as an analytical baucus and go to the board of making all the measures these says it is you know to develop

into superman as a political. vessel an e keys water supplier is a profitable public company that provides cheap watchers to over half a 1000000 households 5.46 percent of it already belongs to the french multinational the west. or the liberals like you my goodness where is bastion of the banks and i guess of course understand your do you support the massively bad santa clause government doesn't it because a lot of those only get out of the mill not as an. aid to help is greece's largest water company supplying water to 5500000 people. we know by the look at the awful or hear kids say that thing in the car all

hallow's by noise and in those they're not lies it's a look at a cup does that mean above us usually the helmet on a rebel cell in addition of us you know i'm almost in my system of a.t.m. machine is the bottom up about that just tell me how much more efficient girlishly became i've got. something. wrong us them all so they better not start the field your boss your. reste so the bulk of them saw fit to that author she. said this is your particular. increases that are dead.

there's a particular. collective democratic schill this. if you know putin is a city. and on water privatization officially it's not the commission's policy as mississippi is stating however it's true if you don't look at the troika it's and if you look at the memorandum of understanding between for example the troika and portugal the commission as part of the troika is asking to further privatized across the portugal so in the troika the commission is still pushing for privatization so if it is really human right and if you really are serious to the citizens and to this initiative we should start acting on policies instead of the celebration. because i'm not.

seeing it but if it is on our wish will soon include. the slow. people variant of your. simply. putting c diva properly. the program of that i like. the european water movement believes that water is the fundamental universal rights. it's ruutu all the ran at the european commission highlighting that the main institutions wrongly apply pressure to the southern european countries to privatized water and that this has to stop. a few months later the commission replied saying that it believes the privatization of public utilities including quater supply firms can deliver benefits to the society when carefully made.

today half. in bunches was as they wanted a duffer to cosign. such never. accepted although see best able to locate it was not known. norma secure comic every year in the database of about it there are diggers a little the only senior but i shift the bureau. and up by day. sure. this is your bridge you know that. is. prim divorce you claim you could feel secretly. leave the assume the us for another look at. yourself is the result was there is a very serious while. when

the troika came to ireland they wanted to privatized the water utility. but there was no water utility. the water was sprayed into of the 7 local authorities so today we're told our government by the troika to build on the i was government set up a company called irish water. which began installing meters. aside to people's homes. on divorce protests took place told her and scouts of the city of cork loreal woman went out in the morning and said you are not putting up be the inside my house. i told them they were coming to this trash we didn't want the water meters and that was us.

what didn't and there were 2 there was a mass of supportive people here to stop them. and this was the 1st time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since austerity had begun says to troika write to towson and not. because. i thought it was a cover. i think for some people it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. i know all of the sudden moves in the street together. you're sure. you know this is to work well when a little bit of power you can't go and fuck the troika but you can stand to thank your folks there's a polar and it like it might be true years and we're still not finished but people are still resisting this because it is the one thing that they have power and they're never going to get it.

and we knew that this is being something different it's not it's about water forced to foremost but it's also about much more than war it's about to hurt to be trailed the surrender of sovereignty. and the redistribution of our west upwards and their debt downwards. there is a problem with the leaks and we couldn't find them until we have brought in some measures so if i see my solution suddenly it's as good as a 1000000 liters a month for a couple of people in my house i call ducktown patrol so that's the reason for the new series in ireland there were no meters to because it's uses

a completely different system of watcher billing paid through general taxation. over a 1000000000 euros were set aside for water maintenance and operation so people think those paper water through taxation is a little bit crazy we really only country in the o.e.c.d. that has 0 war poverty and we're the only one with the a lot of poverty because we're the only one that pays for to progressive general taxation that's the one thing we got right we'll keep it that. we really need to modernize our water structure so now we really have to invest. so we need a structure to invest we need to wage borrowed money and then we need a way to pay for us paying our general type stations people who work would probably end up paying more tax. and we're losing 47 percent of our treated water into the ground in leaks before it gets to the top. no 5

a 1000000000 euro to spend do i choose to spend it on meters or do i choose to spend not 1000000000 euro in fixing the leaks i'm building a new water obstruction. despite water being paid for through general taxation no tax exemption was planned for the irish as a counterpoint for the new charges by satisfied. the forces who are the major. abel's worst as many irish people feared they would end up paying for watch her twice they saw the proposed introduction of meters in charges as yet another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water as a 1st step towards water privatisation. starts real. centers of the 6 office and i have it says of course we all know

privatisation is ultimately envisaged. and then there was a letter from the central statistics office in your start you can say that would you please take these words out of the report. so then the report came back that we were stuck towards god. following the examples of berlin and it's really a popular vote was planting greece in 24000 the people of this in an e. key were asked to take part in a non-binding referendum on whether they were in favor of the government's proposed privatisation of the water company but they were faced with

a last minute problem. what about if you. come out of it there's a little that is likely to pick somebody and i think there's a they say that there's the end of the scene that got it they always make note of the ends needlessly and the people who are making their lives are going to hear this is the minister of the interior here yeah like east sent out a letter to the minister politics to declare the referendum illegal then the mic at the top you can make an image or not our deficit in the christmas numbers a lot of the couples are cheaper we're going to save his muffed or after going to the victim i believe you speak money because i'm making fun of physicalism but i'm some of it as well apparently because when they get to the jelly the guy who is likely to kind of you're hitting you in the middle of what is was a little ahead of me hello kelly what you know what am i going to latch on to the same man that he.

might make me feel. but uppal so that to cope with as much about this if you tickle base is to say off of a saddle nicky butt up in a prophecy to somebody it's a bit of this gimmick none of us unsteady supportive of the convinced of this feels like a baby to stay next year but is the host easy if it is serious even if she's got a man in the city to call b.c. to put them on order so all of them on a push to build up some of the body for the. thank the french president's emmanuelle mccall is on an official trip to athens he is

accompanied by. the french businessmen who are interested in the greek privatized program. they will have the opportunity to receive answers directly from the prime minister of greece alexis tsipras. amongst them is sean luis assad's c.e.o. office aware. of any particle of problems. because he got very violent to become a because. this is. the goddamn outlook you know but it abroad robert how the more you know and the left bell brought up. the. profile of most focused don't give up over the beautiful piece of the stock of the washington there was a message that said there is should be

a stock up. here from years ago and already they have. killed the good will you tell you never give up on their plate or the lot of it did not make it middle of the apple she looked that's very difficult. after getting in touch with beast. in portugal trial fernandez became minister of the environment in the newly formed left wing government in the 2015 elections water policy would soon change. oculus latest movie deal 1st there was the vs what the believe it is a corporate image that yeah it is in this movie c.b.s. could cause. the bash.

no but it is a sort of either. this is that we will see them. unfortunately the government washes its hands of privatization cases according to portugal's constitution municipalities are autonomous and the state is forbidden from intervening by syllables and passions defended our have to get high on their own. the mayor of bar stalest has been left to deal with a compensation charge of 172000000 euros to the group of private water companies the municipality also realise it had lost all technical know how regarding water was released on my return started all garbled up as i was born. in fact no wife but yes if that's where. the mayor of passions defense.

brito witnessed the troubles in barstow and tried to negotiate with the company new good muslims began to sing no seems to me as well look mr the americans and good are pretty uses of. course. the past freedom at the leaf of the world by ship wasn't going to send. yes. oh you know me. activists against water charges often patrol this neighborhood of cork when they find an irish water crew installing meters they do what they can to stop the. you know what we need when we know. nothing has been set in stone yet but the

commission keeps pushing ireland to comply with the community directive in order to impose meters and water charges on its citizens there is this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be so there should be a direct responsibility in this cannot be done with a general taxation obviously faced with unprecedented public disobedience the government is trying to maneuver through public discontent and the demands to impose water charges from brussels what are trying to do you know in a small way they would say has to happen because the european union told us it has to happen because detroit at all us that's what it has become torn logic on its head very very quickly because when the european commission offers a different opinion something else for example the apple corporation older citizens

of this country talked to bill talked in 1000000000 euro. suddenly the ideology walks in there. and suddenly the new liberal say the european commission it's only an opinion we're part of europe but it doesn't that doesn't take away our ability to make our own decisions in relation to how we tax how can the european commission take away our ability to make our own decisions in relation to water. for an opinion of the very same body and the very same people allows this to be her own decisions in relation to give an apple a 13000000000 year old gift well all you have to do is look at who profits to explain those contradictions so we're asking people to stick with the comp to the company over the $5.00 a gallon the demonstration is adopted it's a family friendly demonstration here it's about money money is the bottom line you're going to be date without water it's not just not an option and it's to part and it's much too important to everybody everything left in the hands of for profit

companies. i was cuttin. how. he was i was how you do cause i was you was going to situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each other i think like to go to see. russia europe people are saying you know. enough is enough. or we have by. the. mess was

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welcome to the news the u.k. is telling british ships to avoid the strait of hormuz for an interim period the warning comes after iran sees a british flag to oil tanker in the strait on friday britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt says he's worried to iran is going down a dangerous path. we will respond in a way that is considered robust and we are absolutely clear that if this situation is not resolved quickly there will be serious consequences france and germany have condemned the seizure and the u.s. central command has stepped up patrols over the strait is also deploying troops to saudi arabia for the 1st time since 2003 iran's opened an investigation into alleged violations of maritime laws by the british flagged tanker which it says was involved in an accident with a fishing boat before being detained well we'll be talking to dawson jabari in the

iranian capital in just a few moments the 1st let's cross over to neve barker in london with the reaction from there and need a really britain's foreign minister of course condemning that seizure and warning tehran of sort of walking a dangerous path but they've done more than that in the last few minutes. you know they have indeed the u.k. authorities of all the iranian charged arm sir questions on the seizure of this a british vessel jeremy hunt britain's foreign secretary. are on said that britain's response would be considered and rip us but if the ship was not released any time soon that there would be in his words serious consequences as well so we wait to see exactly what the iranian envoy has to say about the seizure of this vessel as you said there iran has so far focused on what they say was a person purely procedural reason for stopping this vessel that it had in some way

breached maritime rules and that was the reason why it was diverted to the port of banda a bus in the region the closest iranian port to where the vessel was stopped so what next well we know that the british authorities have advised british vessels for an interim period to avoid the strait of homo's we know also that the british ships have been told that the security threat level to them had been raised to the maximum critical so this could only be assumed to be the next step what would be potentially the next step after that will clear as yet but we do know that britain has at least one military vessel in the area that had earlier on in july had to intervene to prevent another british tanker from being diverted into iranian waters at the moment know what the british authorities are saying is the very much comes 1st although it will have to be very nimble diplomacy indeed and indeed because on

the surface it seems the iranians really a putting pressure on the u.k. in directly to deal with the issue of grace one in the mediterranean. yes that's right and jeremy hunt addressed grace one in a tweet this morning he said that he hopes to defuse the situation the tensions around grace one without in any way affecting british shipping going forward so although neither country have explicitly said that this is a tit for tat situation that's the subtext very much so but the question is what will simply really be the releasing grace one mean the release of this british tanker was much more complicated than that because the tunker is being held off the coast of gibraltar accused of busting essentials by trying to ship. to syria there are legal processes that the grace one is under at the moment and only on friday the decision to detain it for 30 further 30 days was made

clearly many here say that this isn't any concerts any a coincidence a tour that there was clearly an aim by the iranian authorities to try and send a signal to the british authorities that it is very unhappy with what's happening with its tanker currently the mediterranean indeed to leave it there neve and cross over to a colleague or such a bar use in tehran and a door so a really serious development really that's obviously upset the u.k. and sparked also reaction from washington d.c. but ron is talking what are they saying. well we've heard from the head the spokesperson rather of the guardian council now this is a body in iran's complicated system of government where they deal with issues that arise between the parliament and the government they also are in charge of the country's electoral system and the candidates that are approved go through this 12

member body now the spokesperson for this guardian council has commented on this and he has said that the rule of reciprocal action is a well known fact in international law the right decision of iran's government to confront the legal economic war and seizure of oil tanker is an example of this rule and it is according to international law this is the 1st time we've heard such commentary from this body of governments that usually doesn't really speak on these issues but this is just an indication of how widespread this idea that iran is confronting really strong western power and this specific seizure on friday by the revolutionary guards is an. example of following the maritime rules in the strait of hormuz something that is up to the revolutionary guards in that area to protect the waters of the strait of hormuz and we've also heard from iranian foreign minister zarif we tweeted saying the unlike the piracy of the strait of gibraltar

referring to of course the grace one tanker we just mentioned that's been seized by the british government he says that our action in the persian gulf is to uphold international maritime rules so there's really the sense that the arrangements have upheld the rules and regulations of the waters that they protect in the strait of hormuz unlike the british government who chose to seize the grace one super size oil tanker that was carrying 2 millions of rain in 2000000 barrels of iranian crude oil on july 4th in the strait of gibraltar because of where it was heading. well of course we the politics of what's going on is very intense and complicated and yet i suppose at the end of the day one wonders why this ship that has been seized by the iranians where is it right now though there was talk that it was in the port of any clarity about. yes we've heard the latest from

the authorities in switches and who was gone province they said that the next step in this process will be to interview the $23.00 crew members that are on board this vessel the rainy and revolutionary guard said that the reason this ship was seized is because there was a minor accidents with a small fishing boat on friday and this vessel had turned off the transponder so it had gone dark and they were concerned because any they were attempting to make contact with the crew members and there was no response this is when the sorority's asked the revolutionary guards who were patrolling the area in the strait of hormuz to assist them in trying to bring this vessel in to about their us that is what took place the iranians say there was a number of violations one that this vessel was traveling in the wrong maritime direction 2nd that it had turned off its transponder and 3rd that it was not responding to any of the warnings that were being issued so this other reasons that they've said they seized and they were going to conduct interviews with the crew

members have more information about what happens. when they get the thank you does the entire. let's take a closer look at the route that the take it was taking other swedish owners of the stolen imperial say the british flag vessel was traveling through the strait of hormuz to the saudi port of jubail they say the tanker it was approached by and they dug and identified small naval craft and a helicopter another vessel and suddenly changed course and moved towards iran the ship signal was lost near the island of luck which is in iranian territorial waters on saturday iran's semi official news agency reported the ship has been taken to the port under a bus as doors are just mentioned with the 23 crewmembers still. filled is a maritime security analyst he says the seizure of the british flagged vessel seems like a planned move from iran. there is nothing to suggest that anything that any rules were broken would justify a detention of

a vessel and its crew so at the moment it's very difficult to pin a legitimate reason as to why these vessels are that you know that 2 methods were approached and while most retain there was detained or so at the moment the idea that the fishing vessel was involved in an incident that might be the case had been one vessel approach but with 2 best of approach with what appears to be quite a deliberate intent i don't think that's that's up as a story but the narrative that's been put out. iran's overall story i've just been patrolling it waters don't forget we also have this build up during the week or beginning of the week where we had another british vessel approached that was a british heritage which could be seen as maybe a practice or a 1st attempt before what was yesterday a coordinated attempt of 2 vessels within an hour of each other being approached and forced to change direction towards iran and that must mean quite a compelling action on behalf of the small vessels on the helicopter to force a vessel to change course and move towards iran no captain vessel would do that

unless they felt threatened so whether one shot fired or something similar we have no evidence for yet but it would suggest that was quite a compelling reason why they moved north. as head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and joins me now here on set good to have you with us again marwan the message that seems to be said from tehran is that if iran can't have its way or if iran consulate's oil no one else going to get in either absolutely iran has already lost some more than half of its oil exports by since the imposition of the u.s. sanctions and the messages here by the iranians is that we were not the to do anything and attempt to stop for the remaining. bit of our or oil exports by other nations or other countries so this is why if you if you sees one of our ships we will seize our.