tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera October 29, 2019 2:00am-3:01am +03
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overwhelming military force against any group that threatens the safety of our forces there these oil fields also provide a critical source of funding to the s.d.f. which enables their ability to secure isis prison camps and conduct operations against isis among other things last week i was in brussels for the nato defense minister oh and i spoke with our allies about the situation in syria i reiterated our commitment to the feet of isis and called on other nations who have much at stake to offer their support to help mitigate the ongoing security crisis turkey continues to bear responsibility for the consequences of their unwarranted incursion which has brought further instability to the region a number of allies have expressed their desire to help with the implementation of a safe zone along the syria turkey border. the united states remain focused on our core mission and continue to work closely with the defeat isis coalition as we implement the next phase of the campaign baghdad his death will not read the world
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of terrorism or and the ongoing conflict in syria but it will certainly send a message to those who would question america's resolve and provide a warning to terrorists who think they can hide the united states more than any other nation in the world possesses the power and the will to hunt to the ends of the earth those who wish to bring harm upon the american people saturday's operation is just one example of the incredible determination and great skill of the united states military and now asked general milley to provide you with some additional details on the operation thank you. so good afternoon everyone as secretary as for stated the united states special operations forces under the command of control of united states central command general franks mackenzie conducted a count of terrorism operations which resulted in the death of the founder and leader of isis bacher baghdadi intelligence from numerous organizations throughout the department of defense and across the entire interagency identify the target
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location approximately 4 miles from the turkish border and it led province of syria in order to reduce the risk to u.s. forces and prevent miscalculation and escalation and action consistent with operations in the past we coordinated with appropriate militaries and other organizations in the region through established de confliction mechanisms during the mission u.s. forces were infiltrated by helicopter and once on the objective secure the target compound itself force was engaged with small arms fire and the threats were quickly eliminated our forces us isolated the compound protected all the noncombatants well clearing the objective u.s. forces discovered al baghdadi hiding in a tunnel itself or is closed in on baghdad and ended when he detonated a suicide vest baghdad his remains were then transported to a secure facility to confirm his identity with forensic d.n.a. testing and the disposal of his remains is been done is complete and was handled
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appropriately the success of this complex operation is an incredible testament to the professionalism of the men and women of the joint force in our interactions the partners in the courage and the bravery they put themselves in harm's way time and time again to protect our great country the secretary and i will now take your questions. thank you mr secretary you mentioned the out of the oil fields and securing oil fields in the east of syria. has the deployment of reinforcements that you announced last week begun and can you describe more fully what that what you intend to do that we have begun deploying repositioning additional assets into the send key of doris although as i said the other day includes mechanized forces and other types of forces that will continue until we believe we have sufficient capability to ensure isis and other destabilizing actors are denied access to that oil facility as a quick follow up if you have any indications with any challenges to your presence
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there or not of this time. certain time video of baghdad his final moments and also are you partnering with the kurds again on the ground can you explain how difficult this operation would have been if you didn't have troops or bases on the ground in syria and in iraq all that good we do have video photos we're not prepared at this time to release those they're gone through declassification process i think what you'll see here in the coming days will set up some operational tactical level briefings by central command and you'll be provided some video and photos etc of that we have. to carry out this operation if you don't have troops on the ground. from an operational standpoint the united states military can strike any target anywhere any time yeah i was going to say the same thing we have incredible reach we can strike anybody anytime anywhere the terrorist should be aware of that they should have seen that now after us doing this multiple times and with regard your question regarding the c.f.
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we stay in continuous contact with them. 1st of all you can destroy the compound what kind of order to use to strike a compound also you mentioned that you had video and you have video from inside the tunnel itself and if so were you able to get that because they came out and placed layering on video or did you have something else. and the name of this but i'm just it was a gift ok how about one of the having the name of the catering please and. it was modeled after the people very very so or didn't use as multiple types of ordinance used to include the jazz i'm so the g.b. is hell fires as well as many guns. you know small arms fire etc so we use a variety of munitions and those the bombs were used at the tail end in order to destroy the compound which you saw on various videos etc your 2nd question about
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the video i'm not going to classify the video what we do have and don't have at this time i've seen a lot and wait until everything's properly declassified here in the coming days and we'll make sure that you're provided that we're not releasing the name of the dog right now the dog is still in fear the dog of the canine the military working dog performed a tremendous service as they all do in a variety of situations slightly wounded and fully recovering but the dog is still in theater return to duty with a tantalus so when i'm going to release just yet photos or names of dogs or anything else for testing i did it protecting the dogs identity. and the that's 4 questions now. that's paid i was just his remains were disposed of appropriately in accordance with the recipes in accordance with the lore one conflict. bag at his headquarters this compound where was he just passing through and it was his headquarters from which material. you took away. there was material taken away i
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don't want to characterize exactly what or how much yet until it gets exploited properly but as a matter of course we always do sensitive site exploitation any objective anywhere to do that as to whether it's his headquarters it was an area in which he was staying on a consistent basis and what about prison time you took some how many and whose custody over the and now they're in our custody and they're in a secure facility. on the toes how many there were 2 adult males taken off the objective alive there in our custody. there and i thank you for your time today i wanted to look at the what's next aspect the president alluded to material being collected from from the site itself can you in any way elaborate on what's been collected what's being looked through now and what
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that would mean if that's not true for operational reasons because that information and needs to be exploited properly for any follow on missions that we may choose to do and i think the the what next is we will continue the mission and the mission is to ensure the enduring defeat of isis in the region and that's our mission at least . we've seen reporting that. this raid was launched from al assad from or below can you clarify and where it came from operationally we're not going to discuss the location from which the raid took place it took place obviously in summer in the region. oh can i take you back to the question on the oil fields and the military of gold and that they will feel as if i may so you're going to protect them again and keep control of the kid sites is another potential potential adversaries to do your does it include the possibility in your view that u.s. troops are prepared to deny access to the oil fields to either russian and or
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syrian forces is that in fact part of your business into specifically to die that you actually extend my follow on to that is how do you know when you what do you need to see to know you're done with the oil field mission presumably you're keeping troops there absolutely forever how do you know when your time would you need to say but russia and syria please yes so the questioner asked barbara's about purpose and state and then the ways would be the military question so i'm going to punt over to the secretary specifically for that but your milage the military task that we've been given is to secure continue to secure tanf which is down along that you know what that is down on the tri border area will continue to do that and to secure the conoco oil fields in around here that is in the vicinity of the mill euphrates river valley that you're familiar with in the fundamental purpose of
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securing those oil fields is to deny those oil fields access to isis in order to prevent isis from resurgence because we are still committed to the counter isis campaign and we don't want them to resurge they get a lot of the revenues from that but all of the secretary talk about in states where it is within. the u.s. will retain control of the oil fields in syria it will partner with the u.s. the f. some of the details emerging here in this press conference between the u.s. secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff detailing some of the incidents related to the operation to kill the leader of i so i will buckle baghdad the or we've heard both officials hell and praise the efficiency and capability of the united states military let's bring in kimberly halkett she joins us now live from washington d.c. so as i said kimberly few details coming out to confirm the u.s.
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will continue to stay on the ground in syria controlling oil fields and a commitment to continue to partner with the s.d.f. right. yeah that's exactly what we're hearing and i think what's important to note in all of this is that. you know one day after the u.s. president was kind of doing a victory lap with regard to the killing of the isolator now we're seeing more of a substantial update from the pentagon the joint chiefs of staff the secretary of defense important to note there that what they're saying essentially is very different from what the president was saying a few weeks ago in terms of the withdrawal of u.s. troops that's not what's happening in syria you're hearing very clearly there the plan now is as we've heard from the u.s. president to to hang on to those oil fields and control them and this is notable given the fact that this is this is not the united states territory the united states's has said on the one hand we heard for in that press conference we're not
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the world's policeman at the same time they're acting as policeman over that oil field so somewhat of a contradiction there i think it's important to note too that the u.s. president said earlier as he was speaking in chicago that there's a lot of revenue coming from those oil fields 45000000 a month according to donald trump's figures we've not fact checked that but obviously there's a monetary value there that is enormous and no worthy the argument being made by the secretary of defense is that they don't want that funding to get into the wrong hands namely eisel because this can fund so-called terrorist activities at the same time you know the question becomes making sure where that revenue is going which are certainly questions that will be follow up i think it's also important to note from this that we're getting a little bit more information about that raid in terms of how it went down we know that there was a dog that was very active in that that the u.s.
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media seems very interested in what many of the world is interested in sami is the video that might be released from that the u.s. president saying it's likely that will be released for hearing there from the military leaders in fact that that is going through a process of declassified kitchen declassification so it seems that it may not be imminent as the president suggested but may take some time or leave it there kimberly how could find so much on function now is being known who may replace the move from osama bin jeffery fulton from the homily on that so if you syrian border. that's the $1000000.00 question that everybody's asking about this radical group that now that the head has been severed from its organization who is going to replace it there are several names under consideration including the shoe was announced in august by the propaganda wing of eisel but again we don't know yet of how much of the inner circle the shura remains if still alive
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whether there is any infighting and if there is going to be a leader who will be known to many of these radical circles because much of isis leadership has already been wiped out from iraq and syria so this is something that a lot of analysts have looked into and they're saying that this is it is going to be a very different kind of succession that but that he had probably envisioned because by that he created an organization which had large swathes of line in iraq and syria used to have millions of people under their control but i would exist as an ideology a. tactic building pockets of fighters which exist in some cities as well as the deserts between iraq and syria so in the next coming hours and days we will find out if i sing the praises its leader the threats from this group the threat from the ideology and the underlying conditions because of which it was it was able to recruit people still remains also hearing from the turkish government
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as we heard from the u.s. president to turkey was informed about this raid the turkish government now wants an investigation into the movement of abu bakar al baghdadi how was he able to move from iraq and to syria how did he move from place to place in syria how much did other partners know and how did he end up so close to the turkish border after this attack we've heard from kurdish fighters that another isolator allegedly has been killed abu mazen. was killed near the turkish border as well this is according to the kurdish fighters syrian democratic forces and we've also held heard from turkish authorities that there have been raids in ankara and northern parts of turkey and 32 and fighters have been arrested in turkey. u.s. house democrats are threatening to hold a witness in the impeachment probe into president donald trump in contempt former security advisor charles couple had been ordered to appear before house
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investigators on monday however he's now filed a lawsuit the judge to decide whether he's obliged to testify key officials in the house have sent the less it's government saying his lawsuit lacks merits and is a tactic by the president to obstruct congress. joins us now from capitol hill in washington d.c. so how does this impact the impeachment process. welcome and not appearing today is a roadblock in the momentum of these impeachment inquiry hearings over the last couple of weeks we saw a steady flow of u.s. diplomats and others close to the president who were rather cooperative sharing with investigators what democrats say is a compelling and damning case that trump abuse the power of his office to get dirt on a political rival now copperman says he's caught between 2 orders the white house says
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that he cannot appear because of executive privilege congress has issued a subpoena compelling him to appear today in a letter explaining his reasoning why he didn't come he said that he wants and shug should decide what to do that an ordinary citizen shouldn't be asked to decide which branch of the u.s. government to comply with now cupper man was on the phone call in july between trump and the president of ukraine during which trying made that infamous ask we'd like you to do a favor though to get dirt on joe biden his political adversary in the u.s. the house intelligence chairman adam schiff said that cupper men not appearing today was deeply regrettable and that he may hold him in contempt of congress. i think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr cupper mintz testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of the president. it is also i think very plain additional and powerful evidence of obstruction of congress
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and its lawful function by the president that yet again and even after a court decision affirming the right of congress to proceed with this impeachment inquiry the white house has obstructed the work of a co-equal branch here sammy for international audiences that there is a growing number of americans who have said in polls that they believe trump should be impeached and removed from office that number a near even split now among the general american public but democrats still face the challenge that most republicans are still strongly on the side of the president and they're hoping to continue building the case into his impeachment all right thanks so much hi joe castro. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just the other now u.s.
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defense secretary says this by the death of vice a leader will be on sunday the security situation in serbia remains complex he was speaking at a news conference at the pentagon as spoke confirmed again that u.s. troops will remain in syria to secure oil fields in the north and repel any future isolette attack. fotis in argentina have elected a new leader amid a worsening economic crisis president morrissey a micro conceded defeat to center left can the little bit of nando's who won more than 47 percent of the vote the european union has agreed to give britain until the end of january to approve prime minister barak johnson's briggs's deal with and was due to leave in 3 days time but m.p.'s forced johnson to request another delay to give them more time to scrutinizes deal in britain the truck driver has made his 1st court appearance following the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container last week morris robinson was seen via video link from
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prison and was not required to enter a plea the 25 year old is charged with manslaughter and people trafficking us house democrats are threatening to hold the witness in contempt in the impeachment probe against the president former security advisor charles cupp moment they've been ordered to appear before house investigators on monday however days now filed a lawsuit asking a judge to decide whether he's obliged to testify key officials in the house of center that is the government saying his lawsuit lacks merit the u.n. special envoy for syria is due to have talks with the turkish raney and russian foreign ministers before a major meeting on a new syrian constitution a $150.00 member constitutional committee finalized after 2 years of negotiations is due to be officially launched in geneva on wednesday. it's inside story now
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stay with us on al-jazeera. can they lead anjan tina from financial ruin voters elect a new president and the familiar face as his deputy but can they succeed when many others have failed and sold decades of economic crisis this is inside story. a welcome to the program and has a secret arjan tines have voted overwhelmingly for change and are looking to
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alberta often and is to steer them out of a critical ng economic crisis the presidential election result their marks a shift back to left wing politics in south america following right wing victories in brazil colombia and shelley argent tines rejected the austerity measures of president. his conservative policies fail to stop the slide towards another massive bailout from the international monetary fund with former leader cristina fernandez de kirchner running alongside him as vice president the new leader also seems to offer a return to the pos we'll hear more about the challenges ahead but 1st said i sub 0 reports from when a sars. a party went to celebrate the victory of 5 at the bottom and this and the defeat of precedent. on the simply on says she's proud of the results. of the c.s.s.
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yes all. my life i've been fighting for social justice and the past 4 years have been torture for me seeing how the economic situation deteriorated because of mccrery now i can be proud of being argentinian again. people here are celebrating the comeback of their parents ok they. already know who they hope will help argentina cope with what coming next to that difficult economic situation with a 55 percent inflation rate and the possibility of the folks in the foreign debt. a lot of the fundamentalists was chief of staff to former president. he's running mate to time pressing cristina fernandez de kirchner a lot of a man this went from being a staunch critic of christina kirshner to joining forces with her in order to unite the peronist party to defeat marketing. until december 10th the president
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is mockery and of course we will collaborate on everything we can because the only thing we care about is that argentinians stop suffering. when elected in 2015. promised to solve argentina's endemic economic problems but his plan did not work out well as his government was forced to request an emergency loan from the i.m.f. and inflation and poverty increased while in office. i want to congratulate president elect our birds are fernandez i just told him for the great choice the people have made i'm voted him tomorrow to breakfast because he has to start a transition period please this is for argentina the orderly transition the brings tranquility to all arjun times because here the only important thing is the future and well being of argentines the big question in argentina is what's coming next the question then becomes of the what next are we going to see an economic plan are
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we going to see a cabinet and who will be in charge of that crucial renegotiation with argentine creditors. the new president takes office in december but argentina needs an urgent plan to stabilize the economy this people want to believe the best is yet to come. when a site is. argentina is the 3rd largest economy in latin america but it is in deep foreign debt including a record $55000000000.00 bailout from the i.m.f. last year argentina's public debt to g.d. . the ratio rose to 86 percent last year mostly because of currency depreciation the argentine peso lost more than half of its value last year and the steep fall it's continued this year the central bank has just announced stricter controls on buying dollars the inflation rate is one of the highest in the world and around 55 percent around
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a 3rd of argentina's $45000000.00 people are classed as poor the official unemployment rate is 10 percent but the unofficial rate is thought to be much higher. well let's bring in our guest now to talk more about this alan civil list is chairman of the political economy department at the university nasional the center sunny until he joins us via skype now from where scientists in london we have bruno been at the nonresident fellow at the inter-american dialogue that's a think tank based in the u.s. capital and you saw her a little bit earlier into races report there he managed blanco head of the latin america research at the global risk consultancy various ski maple craft you also joins us via skype from the arjun tiny capital good to have you all with us so.
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alan sipress let me start with you then is this a rejection of machree or a vote for for 9 days. i would say it's both it's a rejection of 4 years economic decline drops in the real wage of economic recession high inflation growing unemployment is growing poverty and hunger so it is definitely a rejection of that and it is also a vote for federal mandates. in a way remembering some of the policies implemented during the 12 years of the kitchenette administrations that focus mostly on the internal markets on economic growth on reducing unemployment and increasing consumption through real wage gains humana blanco what's your what's your view on this and what does what does mr fernandez bring to this now i mean there isn't too much of this known about him at
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least outside of argentina. yes i would largely agree with that analysis of what people voted for and against i think that the birth of fernandez himself also brings people back to the beginning of the kitchener administrations chris rice to power was in a way also a rejection to the kitchener's that ministrations so it's in a way very confusing for external viewers to understand that you know rejecting the care centers brought mockery to power and then mockeries rejection brings christina kitchener s b p back to the executive without the fernandez heading it but i think what people are looking for is the heydays of care scenary smart the beginning of the administration with the the economy was growing quickly coming out of the 2002 to fault when commodity prices were high internationally when domestic consumption
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picked up pace quite quickly but the context that fernandes is coming into. globally is very different from the world that nester kiersten or came into in 2003 . when ability why did marquis' policies not work then. that's what everyone is trying to to understand it was a combination of things there was. exceedingly confidence and the fact that mike lee had won would immediately bring foreign investment to the country that didn't happen and the capitals that didn't or were mostly short term capitals that fled as soon as conditions changed. on the other hand they're wearing consistency among the fiscal and monetary policy. some would say that a real plan to tame the public deficit didn't start until they were forced to turn to the international monetary fund there were also talk about how the market
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ministry ssion interfered with the central bank. so they were now i think many possible theories about why that mike rieves market reforms ended up failing alan simmons what about the christina factor in this election if i if i could put it that that way cristina fernandez the question is on the running as he's vice president on that ticket former president herself a lot of argent times when you when you talk to them they said they were voting essentially for her i mean how much was she a boost to alberto fernandez in his victory. yes i'll answer that question. but i just wanted to say on your previous question. that the policy set that mockery tried to implement and indeed implemented hasn't really worked anywhere in
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the world it's the typical i.m.f. austerity type measures which you can do more quickly or less quickly or more in depth or less in depth but the truth is they haven't worked anywhere now to get to the good you know. he's good enough factor. to get i think you're going to see you know basically. on the one hand garrett was the opposition leader that had the greatest percentage of votes basically she had at between 30 and 35 percent according to most homes so that if you know his presence on the ticket guarantees that those voters are was a move to guarantee that those photos would vote for the freedom nondestructive it . and so i decide i think that's important i also think that for a non this is
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a politician in his own rights and he was able to we. front a political front that included many sectors that would not have voted focus dina had she be the candidate so i think it was in a way a win win situation in that you had the core going to vote plus many of the votes that were added to the front thanks to this is the time on this is very able political negotiations and the other things yeah he meant to blanco i want to talk more liberal the personality issues in all of this because christina fernandez for all of her popularity she was also a very divisive figure wasn't she i mean she was she was a popular president at least initially but she left under a cloud of questions about corruption. and so on and and perhaps
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was that the reason why she didn't she didn't run for president. well i think you know you're touching on a very interesting point which is the various factions and political movements that are included in the friend dollars per nist coalition because some of christina's biggest attractors and critics are today her electoral allies and fellow victors in last night's election and that brings the question of what happens when we remove the union factor that was defeating mockery so my creep brought unity in the sense that it was a common objective of defeating his government and returning to power but of course as we start seeing now the new administration take shape the appointment of cabinet members the composition of congressional leadership negotiations with peronist governors who are not in all cases aligned with christina kitchener then i think
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we're going to start seeing tensions emerge within the future ruling coalition and the question will be how will the front end this balance all these tensions i think you know christina care she. chose to to run with him on the ticket and effectively nominated him presidential candidate because he recognized his ability to talk and dialogue across the variety of peronist factions the question will be how moderate will he be when he reaches government or how much will he depend on the support of the more left leaning faction of the party room to bonaire to you joining us from london of course big financial capital what how are our foreign investors going to be looking at this and this seemingly new year in argentina in. i think markets were expecting back in august when the primary elections took place
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they were expecting a bigger turnout for markey that didn't happen they entered panic mode and i think where they're looking for are signs that furman this which you've been seeing is a relative moderate within this coalition will in effect be the one making the decisions and not his vice president i think they're going to be looking at who is starting on this appointing as ministry of the treasury of course what his approach is going to be like regarding the renegotiation of the 4 in that. whether he accepts that the conditions of the economy will largely dictate policies that might not be that different from those market he has been implementing so i think they will start looking for signs of moderation in
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fernandez and signs that he has an effect. well thought economic plan to tackle this crisis well let's talk a little more about those economic plans then and as much as we know about them and since we haven't heard much in the way of specific proposals from alberta fernandez about what he would do differently what what does he need to do in your view to to get argentina out of this economic crisis. yes he has made some sort of very broad proposals during the campaign for example to help retired people who's retired pensions have really dropped very substantially during the marketeers. both juhu to very high inflation an increase in costs and also due to 'd. pension refreshen if you will through state policies so i think there would be policies aimed at boosting both
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pensions and all show access to medicine as being another retired people as being another another factor also to go to the poorest of the poor who receive sort of basic income type subsidy i believe those would be increasing as well on the one of the main restrictions probably to the magnet ministration is is the huge public debt that machiavelli is he basically doubled it in 4 years part of that debt is with the i.m.f. that of course always imposes these restrictions that we all know about we've seen it in greece we've seen it in argentina before we've seen it and but all right cetera so those negotiations i think are going to be key to maybe be able to push out into the future to restructure with
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a longer payment schedule i don't anticipate too many problems with private creditors even though i think that will be a complicated negotiation i think the most difficult negotiation will be with the i.m.f. and then there are policies that need to happen to get the domestic market functioning again argentina is in a deep recession with high unemployment very high poverty rates on hunger and so what needs to happen is the economy needs to start working again. and finally what also needs to happen is argentina needs to gauge in long term at least medium to long term policy structural changes to promote exports sectors 'd that generate exports of higher value added and that is another thing that that might get is economists have been talking about so i think it is a multi-pronged approach that has hunger and economic recession domestic
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recession and the external debt as probably the main immediate aspects but of course there are also sort of long medium and long term aspects as well that they have talked about and been looking at him in a blanket what's your perspective then on what the new government needs to do to try to steer. out of out of this economic crisis. well i think you know the 1st part is obviously the renegotiation of the debt largely because a large chunk of argentina's foreign debt is due to you that the service payments are due in 2020 so we take roughly a ballpark figure of $100000000000.00 of debt $29000000000.00 of that falls to next year and there's a crunch point coming up in march so the clock is ticking the good news for markets and for investors is that having a result in the 1st round makes the transition longer and so it already you know it
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ends the electoral period it gives the new administration the chance to start working right away so we'll we'll have to wait and see you know what the economic team proposes and how it tackles this negotiation i think the you know voters have really voted him against austerity and in favor of policies that do you address a poverty reduction and and the support of as we were mentioning before pensioners and and the low income households the quick the big question is how do you bankroll this without external financing or without expanding your monetary base significantly and pushing up inflation even further i think it's really important maybe to compare and contrast what argentina and chile are going through at the moment because we've seen you know major protests in chile over the past couple of
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weeks talking about wealth distribution and inequality in the country the difference the key difference i see is that in chile it's a debate about how to distribute effectively wealth that has been generated and in argentina where having a discussion about how to distribute wealth that yes yet to be generated because the country is in a deep recession and it hasn't really. grown in real terms for many decades it's always recovering from a crisis so i think we you know the key question is how will i'll bet at the front and generate that growth and that wealth in order to distribute it amongst the poorest if i come back then to prune a b. net obviously each each country in south america has its has its own issues to deal with but we mention of that of the top there how. did the victory of the peronne as in argentina largely a left wing movements kind of goes against the political winds in south america
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with the. right wing governments in brazil colombia and chile what do you what do you make of that what you make of that contrast i think we're experiencing great political diversity in south america which of course is the find by polarization by citizens being angry towards incumbents of all political stripes. i think we have of course a tendency of extremes in some countries to rise which is the case of brazil but i don't think we are perceiving or seeing a new wave towards the left i think each country has particular its particular political systems of course the common thread is the end of the commodity boom. around 2013 and the fact that governments whether from the rape or from the left
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have been incapable of rekindling economic growth and returning to the amazing roath rates south america enjoyed of in the early to thousands and uncivil so how do you view what's happened in argentina in terms of the larger regional context then. well i differ slightly for from the. description i do think there is perhaps irony. expression of anti and neo liberalism happening in latin america you have noticed all the teller in mexico 'd you have the sort of massive protests and it was you have the very massive protests and you have even more on this victory. in bolivia and now in argentina people voting against neoliberal economics so i don't know if this is
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a new pink tide as it was called the early 2000 or not but it is surprising that the neo liberal cycle in argentina only lasted 4 yes it's true that mockery destroyed everything in 4 years so there isn't much more to destroy but but it does seem that the shift to the right that had happened 4 to 6 years ago seems to be reversing some thought if course it remains to be seen what's going to happen in the future and how these shifts whether volved and manifest themselves politically and economically but i do think that. basically there is a certain exhaustion of the populations with the neoliberal policies and they're saying enough of this we need to focus again on redistribution on growth on
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now argentinian serve voted for a clear change in leadership the country's outgoing president sumac reis meeting with incoming leader alberto found nando's as the transition begins fernandez and his deputy cristina kirchner defeated mccoy in sunday's general election they face a major challenge though to solve argentina's latest financial crisis and potential bankruptcy there is a bow is live in oneness iris so this is quite a comeback is it not. it's definitely a comeback especially of former president cristina fernandez the kershner who in the past for year. came a senator or she's been accused of corruption among many other things but. earlier this year when she announced that she was not going to be running for the presidency she has around 3035 percent of the votes as she announced that i would
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write a book for men this was going to be the precedent she started building. from apparently support uniting all sectors of the peronist party many of those sectors have been extremely critical with her so most definitely this has been a comeback of the peronist party and on sunday night we were out there were thousands and thousands of people were celebrating on the streets on the other hand are also those who are afraid of about what these come back means and many of those who are afraid that there's going to be impunity in many cases of corruption that happened during the administration of former president cristina fernandez de kirchner there's also those who are fearing an increase in taxes because of argentina is it going to make situation but in spite of that as you just said some it was definitely a comeback a comeback that did not come as a surprise but it's definitely going to change lot so arjan time politics in the next months. i think of the. party when
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a site is to celebrate the victory of hell but at the foot of man this and the defeat of precedent. for us and leonsis she's proud of the result to get out here but i think this year so she actually does all my life i've been fighting for social justice in the past 4 years have been torture for me seeing how the economic situation deteriorated because of mccray now i can be proud of being argentinian again. people here are celebrating the comeback of that there are nice body could very fit that people are already who they hope will help argentina cope with what's coming next to that difficult economic situation with a 55 percent inflation rate and the possibility of the folks in the fore in that. a lot of the fundamentalists was chief of staff to former president. he's running mate to time pressing cristina fernandez de kirchner a lot of this went from being
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a staunch critic of christina kirshner to joining forces with her in order to unite the peronist party to defeat marketing. until december 10th the president is mockery and of course we will collaborate on everything we can because the only thing we care about is that argentinians stop suffering. when elected in 2015. promised to solve argentina's endemic economic problems but his plan did not work out well as his government was forced to request an emergency loan from the i.m.f. and inflation and poverty increased while in office. i want to congratulate president elect or fernandez i just told for the great choice the people have made are invited him to morrow to breakfast because he has to start a transition period please this is for argentina the orderly transition the brings tranquility to all arjun signs because here the only important thing is the future
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and well being of argentines the big question in argentina is what's coming next the question then becomes of the what next are we going to see an economic plan are we going to see a cabinet and who will be in charge of that crucial renegotiation with argentine creditors. the new president takes office in december but argentina needs an urgent plan to stabilize the economy this people want to believe the best is yet to come. well and the meeting that the we were talking about already happened very early in the morning when i read about visited the presidential palace and met with for about an hour and what came out of information we have is not. much there's not lots of discussion about what was talked about during the meeting between fatah members and mccabe but what came out is a picture and it's
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a very symbolic picture that people here are talking about mostly because most of them shaking hands this is something that we haven't been seeing in argentina in the past years in the last presidential election when make money was elected former president cristina fernandez secure center did not attend the handover ceremony so definitely there's lots of expectation in that picture but it wants to send a strong message a message of quality about what's going to be happening the next month and a half until the new president takeoff is that in order to calm the situation down to calm the markets the government has imposed new currency controls are going times were able to buy have to $10000.00 a month now it's only $100.00 in cash and $200.00 in a bank account and this is mostly has been done mostly to control and protect the foreign research people have been going to the banks buying dollars that's the way they preserve their savings in a stable economy and many of the people we spoke to outside exchange houses are in
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shock because they're saying that the government is preventing them from saving in the currency that they trust or to rise above their thanks for that update from one messiah to us. or victory for fernandez is a return to power for the populist proneness party it's governed latin america's 3rd largest economy for all but 6 of the past 30 years defeated president maurice who machree represented a conservative pro market and more capitalist approach which failed to stop the economic decline and fall in value of the peso ferdinand represent a populist style of politics inspired by the former president one to mingle peron and his more socialist approach to government divisions are deep within society arjen tie ins are looking now and how the new leadership will tackle the economic crisis robert valencia is a latin america analyst he's also the former deputy global editor at newsweek joins
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us on skype from new york good to have you with us so why did the market reforms of money so my cream fail i mean he did most things that i think. the market would have expected from him cutting the budget and so on. but i think there are a couple of reasons 1st of all i think he took too long to accept the a long from the international monetary fund that would have helped boost the economy also when he tried to open you know now i'm sorry the argentine economy to international markets the argentinean pittsford crude not withstand the facts of the of the u.s. dollar hence we see this kind of for devaluation of the potential i think i have to say there's unfortunately might creep over promise thank you deliver so little i think it's unfair to be place the blame on him entirely but the problem is that argentina's place their trust on him to reduce property our property to reach to
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boost the economy and unfortunately in 4 years it is it's such a short time to deliver such big promises. can fend than bulls solve this crisis you think well that remains to be seen what he is true though is that while the kitchen mizzen current all that occurring in argentina won the presidency and also the province of when the sirens which is the most important to perhaps the most important the richest one in argentina they do not have the majority in the chamber of deputies and i think that's important to point out which means that the that the new president will have to adopt the centrist approach very different from cristina fernandez de kirchner which means also that he's going to have a major intervention governmental intervention to boost the economy is not going to be an easy task but he will certainly be
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a complete detour from popularly spotless east that the very bitter news and politics are known for. now we've seen this cycle hit in tina repeatedly haven't we. yes why. it's again because of protectionism and what we've seen in the past 10 years nestore cures and his wife adopted those policies and we have to remember to argentina was writing but what we called the pain tide in south america was emboldened by venezuela by brazil by other countries in south america that the site had to turn left however the reality here is the french people are fed up with inflation and that's we know inflation will likely hit a high mark in argentina and it will be the world's 3rd largest hyperinflation only behind venezuela and zimbabwe what i think it's important here and what we heard in
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the passenger intervention is that at least there seems to be a smooth transition from the macro administration to the from then this administration building confidence within argentinians that aren't completely weary of the hyperinflation that is reducing their perch seem power and that capital flight that has affected the country is not going to be an easy task but at least is the beginning of a new era in argentina so although many think the country is heading towards bankruptcy. well the looming worry here is default and they think that's what matter will seem tempting to do is just to maintain a healthy economy or keep that reducing argentina but i think what this important here is to attract foreign investment and that is going to be the challenge of the president is i mean estrangement and he has to be intend them with the new chambre of deputies are in start opposition.
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