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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com battling to stem the crisis. the greek prime minister shapes up his cabinet as he tries to get his austerity plan back on track, but the fear of a default lingers. they meet in berlin to discuss a rescue. hello. it is 11:00 a.m. in berlin. 1 the noon in athens. i e e-mail monita rajpal.
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you're watching "world one" live from london. women get behind the wheel to protest a ban on driving. >> washington says it is making contact with opponent's president. he wants to support the forces calling for change. and we were told not to film security forces and later asked to leave. come with us to the chinese town where rioters confront police just a few days ago. we begin with a defining moment for greece. the debt-plagued country is making new moves to try to avoid a financial meltdown. greek prime minister george papandreou is replacing his finance chief and forming a new government. the new cabinet is to be sworn in at this hour. the reshuffle is an attempt. they need more money, billions
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of dollars. the country won't get its next round of international bailout money unless its embattled leader can push deeper spending cuts through parliament and the deadlines are looming. if they can't get their act together soon, they will start defaulting and that makes a lot of people nervous about potential ripple effects. some european banks could be vulnerable because of their big invest nnlts in greece. french banks are involved for about $52 billion. for german lenders, about $34 billion. he tells cnn it's not just a debt problem. if it fails in reforms it could result in, quote, headwinds for the eyes of the economy. let's go right now to as than and my colleague diana standing
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by. we receive seen the reshuffle taking place. is it the same people or are there new faces that can help with the problem that this country is facing? >> reporter: this is very much a reshuffle of existing members of the ruling party. but what the prime minister was trying to achieve is quash the rebellion which has been troubling any chance of pushing that meanian term package through parliament. he's a seasoned poll tish shann, he's known to be focused on internal affairs rather than as george constantine know was
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seeing. this is something who may be seen within the past as being a unifying influence. so george pap pa con stan tee noe hoping to get the support to push through this austerity package, but he needs to get the next chance of funds from te mu and imf, monita. >> and this thinking austerity package is certainly not going to make the greeks any happier. they've been arriving on the streets. they're deeply frustrated that they've, in fact, ended the day. they're the ones affect fwid austerity measures. they're going to have to live with the austerity measures. >> reporter: they are, yes. and over the past year since the first round of austerity measures were implemented, we've seen unemployment rise by 40%. it's currently at 16%. it may be higher than that. you've got 20% wage loss in the
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public sector. people are really feeling the pain. the question is whether it can go into effect, whether the prime minister will be able to push those through despite the fight that he's going to get from the trade union. you have to follow up on what you promised and that's why we're where we are at this stage, monita. >> diana magnay. thank you. keep in mind it's germany who funded much of greece's bailout so far. that's why it's made life at home tough for chancellor angela merkel. we go live now in paris. thank you very much for beings with us. i guess to help the people
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around the world understand how deeply worrying this is, not just for greece but for countries and economies around the world are huge and people don't want to hear default and contagi contagion. yes, that is the main problem. this is today on the verge of collapse. there are lots of reasons to worry. the austerity proms have not been working so far, and i'm not so sure they would work in the future because there are two things. the other aspect is growth and so far, the whole aid packages to grease have been phased on
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it. it has happened only a few times in the past and they're very particular conditions that have not been met in greece. so i think we have a lot of reasons to worry about today. >> the imf is saying that they are standing by, willinging to help greece once greece gets its austerity measures in place and has its own house in order. everyone's got an opinion about this, and, of course, there's no real solution, easy solution, but you're an economist. how would you fix this problem? well, there are four questions we can ask. how can we fix it one year ago and how can we fix it now. one year ago i think we could have fixed it by spetanding mor behind greece as a european union. what lack as lot in the euro-zone was a sense of solidarity. the greek were left alone for a
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few months, from november 2009 to the anyway 2010 and that was a very long period that made the problems much wired. so i think there is a muni shah problem we had. it's a much more difficult questi question. there are three scenarios actually. one of them, the less plausible, rather positive, and two, at least, which are much less positive. the first was greece managed to solve its problem. of course, they'll never be able to get out by themselves, so we'll need some help. it's impossible to ask for 20 or the size of aid that is 10%. that will not happen. if greece defaults, then
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anything can go. anything can happen. if there is something, we don't know what they'll do. greece bonds, for example, they shouldn't accept them as collateral which means the default of greece will carry with it lots of problems and problems for all of greece and the euro-zone. from there you don't know where to go. as we say before, greece is like a lehman. lehman came over. there's good advantages. it has been used. there is no much room. there's not much room for expansions by the ecb or the fed. so it's a really worrisome situation.
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yes, sorry. >> sorry, sorry. you add add third word that nobody wants to hear in addition to contagion and default. it's lehman. i'm sorry, sir. thank you so much for your time. worries of greece are hammering the stock markets again. european shares sank to their lowest point in three months on thursday and they're heading even lower right now. the effects we're hearing also sent shot waves through the asian markets. you're watching "world one," live from london. we look at saudi arabia and the campaign that aims to put women in the driving seat. and later, flexing muscles. how the chinese government's trying to contain a way of social unrest. -why? -why? -why?
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hello. this is "world one" live from london. our top stories. greece's embattled prime minister has chosen his new cab nate. george papandreou announced a new support for austerity measure. observers from the ecb to the white house say the potential impact from greece's financial woes goes far beyond athens and the euro-zone. emergency workers in israel are searching for people who could be trapped in a building after gas canister exploded in a restaurant. four people were killed and at least 50 injured in the blast. the top floor of the four-story building collapsed. thedy aster has been raised to the highest level after more heavy rains have caused floods.
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troops have been immobilize and more than 120 thousand people have been evacuated from the area. women in saudi arabia are being urged to get behind the wheel of their cars at a protest to not drive. it's long been unacceptable to drive because of religious codes. today many women look to challenge the status quo. we're joined now. mohammed, tell us how this protest came about. >> reporter: monita, in the last few moment, women were tired of not being allowed to drive. the idea was to get women in saudi arabia to challenge the status quo and the law. even though there's nothing on the books that says women can't drive, it's an accepted norm. cultural norm. some say religious norm that women are not the allowed to drive. it is illegal for them to drive. so they put out this campaign.
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it was through social media, facebook. you saw women in saudi arabia start to post videos of themselves driving. then the campaign kicked into high gear because one of the organizers was arrested. she was arrested. she was detained for about 10 days than got a lot of international attention. they drew a lot of condemnation from rights groups after that. after that there was a campaign issued saying that on june 17 women should drive, they should get in their cars in saudi arabia and drive as much as they could to try to challenge that law, tell the powers that be that women should, in fact, have the right to drive. today we'll see if they will get to drive cars in saudi arabia and if they'll be driving the streets. monita? >> you've mentioned there's been a lot of interest online and protest online.
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what about seeing women on the ground behind cars on the streets. >> this is one of the key questions today. will this trawl actually translate into action. i spoke to a woman last night who went into a car with her mother and three sisters. they drove around. she told me she was very proud of what they did. she hopes that more women will do this today. she hopes more women will be inspired to do so. she said because of this campaign, she was inspired to go out. she was a little bit afraid, reluctant, but they made it through the streets, everyone was okay and they were not harassed. they felt it was a small step and hopefully encure couraging more women to do so through their activisactivism. today i spoke with a man who supported his wife gets behind the weechlt they made it through the streets. they believe they're checking
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cars to make sure women aren't driving. they were able to make it through and hecht back home. he says he believes more women will be coming out driving. but there is some fear in saudi arabia and there are activists i spoke with in the past few days are afraid there will be a crackdown. they think you should wait until there's less attention being paid. nenls a lot of attention being paid to saudi arabia, if we will see women driving around in that country today. monita? >> mohammed jamjoom, thank you so much. experts don't seem to think so. that's just ahead on "world one."
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charl schwartzel. and yang are tied for second place. that one off his two birdies. they started well. the south african is tied for fourth after two under 69 here. he had an interesting round. but superb shots like that means he ended the day with six birdies. it's been a good year for south african golf. he's well in contention thanks to a run of four birdies. he also signed for 68, three off the pace. it's a cause osmopolitancos. his 16th hole. he's tied for four. two under par. two korean golfers in the top
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four. yang knows what it takes to win a major. he's tied with schwartzel trying to hang onto macelroy's coattails. he set up an easy birdie. six players tied for fourth and they're all chasing mcelroy. he's taking chancht three birdies on the side of it means he'll well on his way. the big question is congressional. can he keep his head this time to win his first major. >> i don't know if it says i've on got a very short memory or -- i don't know. you know, i -- you know, i took the experience from augusta and, you know, i learned a lot from it, but i feel like these good starts in the majors are very much signed to my preparation
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hello. this is "world one" live from
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london. i'm monita rajpal. greece's embattled prime minister has chosen his new cab nate. george papandreou has announced his shuffle a short time ago as greece inches closer to diet default. observers ranging from the ecb to the white house say the potential impact from greece's financial woes goes far beyond athens and the euro-zone. in berlin, german chancellor angela merkel is holding crisis talks with nicholas scar joorks sarkozy eric are. it's considered acceptable for women to krierchlt it's aimed at challenging the long-standing ta boo. well, to russia now where worries over the greek debt
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crisis are very much on everyone's mind at the international economic forum. john defterios joins us live from st. petersburg with more on that. john. >> reporter: it's interesting, monita, the historic contrast if you take a step back here. you had hu jintao and president dimitri medvedev meeting. the reason i say it this way. you take it back to growth. it's coming from the east. china, 10%. russia struggling to come up to 8% it had new 206. it's still 4% less. these two leaders have two different agendas. let's start with president medvedev. you can almost call it a political manifesto. he talked about the stagflation and stagnation in the russian
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economy. he's trying to step himself from the prime minister of vladimir putin. the two may be vying for the presidential seat in march of 2012. we're told by sources on the ground we'll probably get a better indication of that in autumn of this year and hu jintao takes to the stage. now, he's quite availed in his comments. you see china going from 3.6%, up to 6%. it's still far behind the u stace and the collective states of the european union. discussions about the world order from hu jintao and from medvedev. >> it makes you wonder about the money. making deals with each other,
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billions of dollars of deals and countries in europe barely staying alive. >> yes, indeed. now, a couple of things on the deal here, monita, they were trying to sell a gas pipeline deal here. ten years ago they signed a friendship agreement. they're not big traders. they hope to sign this gas line deal. they did not sign because of the disagreement on price, number one. they did agree to sign regarding technology and coal facilities. they twoont work on the technology affront as well. so they're looking to take frad, believe it or not. $55 billion a day to $250 billion by 20/20. new partnerships, emerging markets forced here in st. petersburg.
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>> very interesting indeed. john defterios in russia. thank you so much. we take your to syria where the u.s. is increasing its contact with opposition leaders inside and outside. the state department says it is interesting in sum porting the struggle. the department spokeswoman stopped short on calling him to leave office bus she told reporters that the government's repression of the peep is, quote, revolting. ban ki-moon is asking them to end the violence. he spoke to them personally, asking them to stop killing and engage in dialogue. many syrians flee across the turkish board to escape the violence. there are now almost 9,000
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syrian refugees inside turkey. they're expected a high-profile visitor in the next few hours. >> reporter: that's right. he's expected to make a visit. she does come in her capacity as a good will u.n. ambassador. perhaps more importantly, she'll have other groups like embassy international. she's going to get a first-hand look of what life was like. we're being told she's expected to make some sort of statement. just to update you quickly on the numbers, we do know there are more than 9,600. this is a number we have been seeing regularly growing by the date derk spite the fact that the syrian government has been asking them to return.
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>> have you been told, arwa, explained by the thoerts as to why jolie has been graptd access and ork nations. a few rights organizations have not been granted access? >> no, we have not been able to receive an adequate answer. not only are we not granted access, but a lot of these camps have been arrested around them which prevents us from looking in, trying to speak with people, and prevents those from inside to be able to speak with us. it's going be incredibly frustrating. especially difficult too because we and other organizations have been barred from reporting
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inside sear yarks but most assuredly fiengts to provide her with perspective for what is happening. >> ar wash thank you very much for that. stay with us on "world one." more more still to come. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier.
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win but issued a ban for using the whip. it's not a new issue but it's one we debate the world over. we begin in the uk where the toaster race course in england is proposing a hands and heels rule. a tougher stance has been taken by norway and is the only country in the world that we know of to effectively ban the whip. the exception to the rule is when the horse needs to be controlled in a dangerous situation. it has been high by key baited in australia where we see this. whipping does not increase a horse's chances of finishing first, second, or third. now, if this is isn't something that just interests europe. australia, kentucky, dubai, hong kong, these are some of the places that hold world-famous
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race meetings making the sportworth billions. we invited them to participate but with the royal as scott in place, it was impossible. they told cnn, we appreciate the use of the whip in racing can be a concern to public and the perception some of that, it is cruel bespite the emotive language used by animal rights and is due to our rules and only allowing a cushioned whip that was specifically designed not to cause pain, it is fundamentally. the bha will not tolerate abuse of the horse and consider its welfare and the safety of the rider to be paramount. the whip should be kwlused for safety, correction, and
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encouragement only. what do you thing of being used for safety only? >> not good enough thach're using the whip to encourage animals to do things they don't want to do. they're mindful of their own safety. they don't want to go beyond a point that's dangerous for thechlt people are hitting them to try to force them to do more than they're inclined to do. >> this has been around for centuries. why is it coming out now. >> it's an increasing public awareness. if you hit an animal, that is cruelty. >> these are sports that have been watched by millions. where is this concern coming from now? >> i think the concern now is if you look at it, there's a general acceptance. even in the racing authorities that the use of the whip is bad so they've got to soft whip. but still now yesterday you've got this case where excessive use of the whip took place.
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the jockey was penalized but the prize wasn't withdrawn. it was still paid out. so i think thistry is paying lip service to its concern about cruelty but not taking any real measures to stop it. >> what are you hearing for arguments? is it to make the horse go faster, discipline the horse and what are you saying it does or doesn't do? >> i think the argument is that they can get something more out of the horse by using the whip. >> and the study finds? >> and the study finds that's not the kay. and i think the argument is in doing that, what the study says it doesn't work. the perception is somehow if you beat an animal, however gently you beat it. you're moving from sport to coercion and these sports are not supposed to be coercion of animals. >> are you saying that the study
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has found that actually doesn't make the horse go faster? >> that's what he says, that it doesn't actually work in practical terms. i think it's almost common sense heechlt you don't beat children and get more out of them. that isn't the way it works. i would cover its head and say i don't want to play anymore. horses are no different. if you abuse them, they don't give you their best. >> the bha is saying the use of the whip is also for safety. what about the safety of the jockey when it comes time that perhaps a horse does go errant and it doesn't -- and needs to be disciplined? >> that's the nor wee shann situation. using a women to get its attention back and say this is not the way we're going. taken into account. that would be reasonable. but to use it to encourage it to go faster and further or jump higher, that is not right.
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>> we'll leave it there. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> we take you to china now where over the last couple of weeks the government has been faced with a wave of social unrest. where pictures of demonstrations have found their way out of the country showing the extent of the trouble there. is this is what we've been see where police tried to contain migrant workers after two days of protests over the way security guards handles a pregnant street vendor and these were the scenes in beijing when military veterans took too the streets outside the railway's ministry demanding jobs. well, cnn's reporter visited one of the towns, seen violent confrontations to find out more and this is what she found out. >> reporter: here are scenes they want you to see. residentings walking, shopping open fors by. but this is what we saw before they were stopped by the authorities.
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check points. riot police keeping vigilant watch as we drove through the streets where thousands of migrant worker had rioted weeks ago. this is where it all began outside of this supermarket. a pregnant migrant worker and her husband set up a stand to celgenes, they got into a scuffle with city officials and she ended up on the ground. a dispute ended up hitting raw nerves. for decades they've been making journey looking for factory jobs to chase the chinese dream. this town is known as a jeans capital. about half of the jeans sold in america are made here. halves versus half nots. many feel left behind. at this job center, migrant workers we spoke to said they em pa sized with the street venn
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doors. selling things on the streets to make a few bucks shouldn't be such a big deal, he said. local officials are corrupt and don't treat us fairly. nor do they want foreign reporters investigating migrant workers' grievances. >> that car ahead of us probably has officials in it. they're leading us to the propaganda department because they say we need special permission to be shooting in this area. we haven't done anything illegal. we were in public space. they want to make sure we have the right credentials to be shooting at this time in this area. after an hour of questioning they agree to escort us to visit a few places around town but asked us not to film the security forces. we were ordered to leave the city just as night was falling, at the time when my grants told us the risk of looting and rioting is highest. >> you're watching "world one" live from london.
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it's a riot with a twist, and if you look cleesly at this picture, you'll notice something that shouldn't be there. we'll explain just ahead.
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welcome back. this is "world one" live from london. we are coming up at almost 6:00 a.m. in new york, 1:00 p.m. in athens, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. now, it's a photo that seems out of place in the middle of the
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vancouver riots, yet it's pro proving to be the most popular topic online and some say it could be a fake. take a look at the whole sequence. it starts with a typical riot scene, smoke, police, rioters being chased. in the next scene, we see rioters in the distance and the police in the forground apart from this couple kissing. why are they lying on the ground? this woman with shopping bags is also wondering that and now the man in the picture realizes he is attracting some attention. if you know who the famous couple is, do tell us. they're now infamous, i guess. interesting photography. there's more widespread flooding out of asia. this time it's coming out of australia. jen delgado is live. >> that photo do, you think that
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gentleman didn't know he might be attracting a little attention lying out in the middle of the street just spread eagle out there, but whatever. >> so true. >> let's talk more about weather. for today, things have been a lot better through parts of australia. we're talking about south wales, over the last several days rainfall totals have been incredible. let's go to the video showing widespread flooding coming out of australia. a city is actually buried in water in some locations. you can see the roadways cut off by water in some areas. we're talking about this area. look how high it is. in some locations we're talking about the water roughly 6 feet. it's going to take days, weeks before we start to see improvement. of course, they talk so much about australia and how they've been dealing with bad weather.
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as i show you, things have really quieted down but weather is going to deteriorate for the north island of new zealand as well as through saturday. now, a look across the uk and as well the western parts of europe. more heavy rain sweeping in from the west. you're going see from paris dealing with heavy rainfall and rain on the western edge of england. this area of low pressure escapes. it's going to be kicking up some very strong storms, friday into saturday. you can see that includes the southern part of the uk. i point that out for you. i know a lot of people have been heading out there for the races but the problem is the rain is going to be coming down. that's going to start to wear out the track. i know there are races planned for this afternoon. temperatures are going to be cool. high of 18 degrees. much warmer toward the south and southeast with temperatures s
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the 20s. do you have a date planned like that one? >> of course, of course, don't we all. >> don't we all. we wish we all did, right? >> yeah. >> take care. >> you have a good weekend. >> you too. >> behalf we go, we want to update you on our top stories here on cnn. greece has a new look as prime minister george papandreou battles to stave off a debt detault. concern is growing from the european central bank to the white house that the impact to grease's financial crisis could go far beyond athens. a campaign to get saudi arabian women behind the wheels of cars is under way. strict religious codes in the gulf kingdom mean it's not considered acceptable for women to drive cars. those are the headlines from me and the team here on "world one." thank you for watching cnn.
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ahead on "american morning," the waiting game is own. congressman anthony weener is gone. now he says he was creating too much of a distraction to continue. we're also getting one very good example this morning of just how big a distraction he was. defense lawyers for casey anthony trying to shoot down the prosecution's witnesses one by one, claiming there's no evidence linking their client to her daughter's death. and some observers say they're making a pretty good case. also mitt romney. we're going to let you hear it andy side for yourself. plus, why angelina jolie is in turkey on the "american morning." [ female announcer ] dermatologist recommended aveeno has an oat formula, now proven to build a moisture reserve, so skin can replenish itself. that's healthy skin for life. only from aveeno.
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