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it's make or break for greece, and the eurozone in the next few years, can the economy be saved? >> the greek prime minister faces a confidence vote in parliament and protests on the street. >> hello, it is noon in athens, 10:00 a.m. in belle fest, i'm monita rajpal. >> and i'm zain verjee. also ahead -- >> masked men ransack catholic
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homes, protestant businesses are tacked, claim and counterclaim, sectarian rioting breaks out in northern ireland. the ash cloud is back and it's brought sydney airport to a standstill. thousands are stranded. and what lies beneath all this beauty is under threat, a stark warning that should worry every one of us. in the next few hours, greece could take a big step toward resolving its debt crisis or shove the world closer to an economic slump. prime minister george papandreou and his cabinet are calling for lawmakers to back them in a vote of confidence, being debated in parliament right now. you're looking at live pictures of that. a win for the government and financial stability will be within reach, a vital cash injection and a fresh bailout from the european union and the imf should follow but defeat
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would make a debt default by greece an immediate possibility, one that would have dire consequences for the eu and financial markets worldwide. for more we speak to john pseropolous. what do you expect? >> reporter: i expect he will because his party is aware if enough nps effect because if he's not approved in parliament they will go directly to elections, the polls show that if the socialists were approach the greek people through elections they would not get the majority they have now. we'd probably have neither of the two major parties, the conservatives now in opposition and the socialists forming enough of the majority in parliament in order to create a government on their own and we would therefore have what's called a hung parliament where one of the parties, which ever one ends up in front will have
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to go to the other and ask for a coalition government, and obviously with the two current party leaders, that has already been proved impossible so you could very well have a protected political crisis in which greece cannot form a government and has to go back to the people with renewed elections until something changes. prime minister george papandreou has said rather cunningly on sunday should the government win approval tonight he will put the major issues of political reform particularly in the area of transparency and accountability and meritocracy, those areas in which the greek government is so lacking to a public referendum in september and that will enable the greek people to speak directly to the government and bypass the party system and the parliament. >> what can we expect with anticipated demonstrations today? >> reporter: well, these demonstrations i think will
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simply be of a symbolic nature in order to coincide with the vote tonight and remind lawmakers that at the moment, when they're about to confirm a new government, they should also bear in mind that the popular resistance to more austerity is still there. i don't expect violence tonight. i don't expect tremendously large numbers of people although the numbers ought to be respectable. i think that it's simply a greek tradition to sometimes to time rallies to coincide with legislative or political events. the rally tonight is being organized by the civil servants union so they are a body of 600,000 workers and even if a fraction of those shows up you'll have a good sized crowd around parliament so it will be symbolic but fairly decent in size. >> john pseropolous in thaenz, thank you. is greece defaulting on its
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international debt, a serious possibility. the financial markets say it is. the private sector buys government bonds but only if the price, in other words, the interest rate is right. when lenders think there's a risk they won't get repaid they insist on a high interest rate on yield. the yield on greek bonds has soared to 17% right now, compare that to with germany seen as having a virtually zero risk of default, its bonds a risk of less than 3%. analysts say the consequences of a greek default could set the world economy, that's right, the world economy back to the early days of the credit crunch back in 2008. >> what happened at lehman brothers was that the financial markets froze completely as a result of the fact that no one really knew who was exposed to whom by how much, and that's essentially the same thing that would happen if you had a greek default of government bonds. >> let's see what newspapers
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around the world are saying about this. in the uk look at "the guardian" "the eurozone has dug itself a hole all the with a i to haitis." the opinion piece says "there is no mechanism for leaving the euro club, and nobody would pretend the process would be straightforward but the eurozone strategy of leaving ever greater sums to greece while demanding more austerity has run out of road." "gulf news" has this headline, "grooekz must swallow bitter pill." it says "greece's government not only needs a plan but it's got to find a way to persuade the greeks to cooperate in its implementati implementation. greeks may not be as malliable as brits or germans but they are overwhelmingly patriots. today their patriotism is put to the test." the "international herald tribune" the headline "the great greek illusion." it says "greece was not ready for the euro. its classical past was of less
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relevance than its recent past. a lie is like a snowball. the longer it rolls, the bigger is gets. no salvage operation can hide that." > in northern ireland tensions in the capital belfast erupted into riots. sectarian violence broke out in east of the city. shots were fired, police say, fireworks, bricks and petrol bombs were thrown and there are reports of homes being attacked by masked men. dan rivers is following events for us, joins us live from belfast. a total of 500 people were involved in this unrest? >> reporter: yes, that's right. a significant amount of people involved in a major disturbance last night here in the short area of east belfast. i'm on brighton street, a
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predominantly catholic area, which was the scene of considerable violence last night, rocks thrown and as you mentioned shots being fired by both sides according to the police. the police also saying there was an attempted hijacking of a bus and that laser pens were used to try and blind police officers. they're not going into the details of exactly what started this or which side as it were sparked this off, but this road that i'm on, brison street is right on the fault line between the two communities. there's a big fen separating the two communities as you might be able to see behind me, there's graffiti with slogans and stuff on here. this is going into the time here when there are normally heightened tensions here in northern ireland, the marching season about to get under way and the buildup to july the 12th
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commemoration of the battle of the boyne. that's always a sensitive time. the question is here, there's been a battle worst in this area right now, will it continue in the nights ahead? >> this is the question, why now? would this be seen as the lead-up toward this intense time in this part? >> reporter: yes, definitely. i think most people here are saying, you know, there is trouble here across the city in the buildup to these marches. that's not unusual. what is unusual perhaps is that firearms were again on the streets, something that hasn't been seen for a while. people were hoping with the advent of the good friday agreement in 1998 that northern ireland was moving into a new phase where this thing has becoming more of a distant
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memory. this rekindled some of those dark memories and dark days of the troubles. now i think it's important to keep this in intperspective. this was one evening here and no one was killed. a couple of men were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs but no one was killed, thank goodness, and this was just one incident, but clearly now everyone's watching to see what happens next as we move further towards the 12th of july. >> dan rivers in belfast northern ireland, thank you so much. you're watching "world war one" from london. >> a deadly harvest in afghanistan and deadly fight to stop the growers. [ female announcer ] imagine skin so healthy, it never gets dry again. can your moisturizer do that?
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former president ben ali and his wife for corruption. they were tried in their absence and remain in saudi arabia where they fled in january during the revolt that ended their reign. 44 people died when a russian jetliner crashed 1,000 kilometers north of moscow monday night. emergency officials say the plane took off with 43 passengers and nine crew members. the survivors include a child. president barack obama is expected to announce a reduction in the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan beginning in july. about 100,000 are stationed there right now. the drawdown comes amid doubts from some military commanders about the readiness of afghan authorities to take charge of security. there are other doubts about afghanistan's future zmurt large parts of the country, law enforcement is difficult at best. joining us now from kabul is nick paton-walsh, recently returned from the northern portion of afghanistan where
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he's looked at how the northerners cultivate a controversial crop. >> reporter: for awhile opium was off nato's radar as it focused on tackling the insurgentry. the blight for the last harvest caused the price to triple for this particular harvest causing warnings perhaps of record profits giving money to the insurgency, but also causing many form farmers who for years have grown the wheat, the alternative crops nato is keen to promote to turn back to opium as we saw in bal asham. we're heading north into the remote hills for a glimpse of afghanistan's future. the war here in balakshan is against a business so profitable and growing so fast many fear it's the only thing left when
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the u.s. pulls out. opium. here, it's expanding faster than anywhere in the country, and risks getting out of control. stopping this harvest is particularly important because the price of opium has risen dramatically threatening to flood a record amount of cash into afghanistan and also into the insurgency. in one year, the price has tripled, that's because uncertainty about afghanistan's future means traders are hoarding the drug. the united nation's drug control chief revealed to cnn -- >> we can see a record profit, those who benefit most, the traders not necessarily always the insurgents will have a big incentive to continue the conflict to make sure the opium business as well can continue to
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provide the huge profits we witness today. >> reporter: eradication is the simplest way of breaking the chain that puts heroin on city streets. here it wipes out the livelihoods of people who have nothing, creating enemies where before life was simple. theville annualers huddle on a roof, mourning their lost crop. it's not safe to approach. we've come prepared in case the overlords behind this $1.5 billion business take issue. mohammed who lost his leg in a blast in kabul and $1,000 opium crop to these police still has six children to feed. >> translator: we grow poppy because of poverty. without it we grow hungry. we didn't grow it for four years here but the government gave us no help so we started again. >> reporter: mohammed won't discuss who he would have sold his crop to but those cartels are the big worry here.
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the war funds about two-thirds of the economy and when nato's money dries up, it will have to be replaced with something. opium is the easy answer and along with it comes fears of a narco state. >> and nick, joining us again live from kabul, we understand that president obama is expected to speak on washington. what do we expect for him to say about this? >> reporter: well this is going to be a quite titanic speech. this is the first time the american commander in chief is talking about pulling troops out of the country. he'll talk from 3,000 up to some timetable for pulling the entire 33,000 surge troops out of the country. one option being leaked to the
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media, he may turn to his generals and say i want the 33,000 surge troops out by sometime next year. you military on the ground you decide the timetable. this is the beginning of the obama administration selling their narrative of the withdrawal from afghanistan, the symbolic message here the americans are leaving. they'll be here in some form for years to come but this is where they begin to set that timetable, changing the political landscape here in afghanistan. >> nick paton-walsh here in kabul, thank you so much. looking for ways to kill the time at the airport? >> shopping. >> some people took wheelchairs out for a spin and even tried out the public address system. just ahead the viral video that's raising eyebrows and raising a lot of questions about security. the wimbledon championships are under way, the tennis, the weather and the fashion. stay close. i don't know, i reserve the right to not speak about that.
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moves in response to the user's high movements and in the car the same system is being tested to give you eye control of certain functions like the temperature and the stereo. if you travel, you know how boring it gets when you're stuck at the airport. what do you do? two men found a way to make the best of it, stranded at dallas ft. worth international and they did this, they filmed themselves holding wheelchair races in an empty terminal, tried out the public address system at an airline gate and went into this closed restaurant and as you can see that guy he just helped himself to a beer and chugged it like that. and then they decided to post this video, completely nuts, online just to show us all their escapades so it all went quickly viral and what it's done is raised a lot of questions about the security at the airport. finally everyone's talking about wimbledon's fashion and
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the fashion police are out and calling fault on venus williams. the tennis star cruised there her first round match. it was her play suit rather than the quality of play. the jump suit was so short you can see her gold underpants, hot pants. the british tabloids were quick to criticize which comes from her own clothing line. venus williams at wimbledon. i don't think it was that bad. i've seen uglier. monita you've seen bad. >> they were saying it would make a nice summer dress. look the whole idea of fashion is -- >> she's worn worse stuff. >> it gets you noticed and the whole idea of the gold hot pants that was the idea. >> pedro?
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>> both sisters like to design their own outfits. some go right, most go wrong. >> you can say that for a lot of designers. sometimes you pick a few pieces here and there. they're brave enough to try it, go for it. >> can i actually get to what matters at wimbledon which is not who was wearing what. >> the rain. >> i will start with that, that was the story on monday. i was out there and the rain ended up causing play to be suspended in the afternoon. the only matches that survived were the ones on center court. both of you were mentioning venus, she breezed past her first round opponent before the rain, 6-3, 6-1. next up a japanese veteran crum. el elsewhere zvonareva defeated riske. the first match on center
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court rafael had his win at wom wimbledon nadal defeated rusele. murray defeated gimeno. last year's berdych last four games in his match. wimbledon organizers have a heavy backlog of play to start clearing after rain wiped out many hours of tennis. roger federer begins his quest on tuesday and djokovic and serena williams will be playing tuesday. football, fifa vice president jack warner resigned
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his position. he was suspended last week pending prib bribery allegation. it was reported they made bribes in the election earlier this month, and he's saying he's resigning because he lost enthusiasm to continue and he also said giving of gifts has been around throughout fifa's history and this statement is hypocritical. "as a consequence of mr. warner's self-determined resignati resignation, all ethics proceedings against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained." what's what fifa is saying. people are saying fifa had a whole in jack warner's resignation. wiping out all the publicity
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that has been hanging around the head of the football association. >> who needs "days of our lives" and "young and the restless"? we have fifa. >> correct. >> pedro, thank you very much for that. stick around to look at the images, pretty amazinamazing, n you're traveling but pretty to look at. >> this is the kohl vannic plume from chile causing travel mayhem. they don't care how it looks, they just care that they're stuck. [ female announcer ] imagine skin so healthy, it never gets dry again.
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hello, this is "world one" live from london. i'm monita rajpal. >> and i'm zain verjee. if parliament spormz prime minister george papandreou and its parliament, a fresh bailout deal should follow but defeat would make a bailout an immediate possibility. shots were fired and petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were thrown in ireland and reports of masked men attacking catholic owned homes following claims of attacks on sunday of protestant homes. two central attacks in iraq left 22 people dead, 23 were
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dead outside the president's house. they included police officers and citizens. chile's ash cloud is back. oh, no, and it's grounded flights in ten australian cities. meteorologist pedram jabhiri is here with the latest at the weather center. >> it's similar to what we saw some 17 days ago. june 4th the initial eruption. on the 14th is circumnavigated the globe and ten days at it again. it was well south of australia in the past 48 or so hours, the ash plume was out toward areas within the antarctic sea. this was a doozy of a storm system. gusty conditions and caused substantial areas with power houtages across southeastern australia. it brought in the ash plume to
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new zealand air space and that's what's causing the concern going to remain in place. the question is how long is it going to last? the storm system is guaranteed to move out of here. we think by thursday things begin improving. i want to show you what it looks like right now. this image is updated in the last couple of seconds, courtesy of our friends from the volcano observation in the south andes, the chileangieologist survey of mining and the eruptions are taking place as we speak, up to two kilometers the latest observations show, up to four, five, six kilometers, upper atmosphere where the jeemz and winds are strongest and can carry this across the globe and you can see the color as the explosions within the volcano begin lighting up the early morning sky across south america and the concern is if this lasts this could get up through the atmosphere and again cause concerns across that part of the
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world. two volcanic quakes per hour, minimal compared to what we've seen, explosion height up to two kilometers. 'a dense white plume and zain that's important because if it's a white sort of color plume there, we know that's supposed a lot more of steam and less ash. darker brown/black color a lot more sulfur diox dioxide. our top story the debt crisis in greece and we want to consider what's hanging on today's vote in the greek parliament. we go to kenneth, the chief eurozone xleist from central london, thank you for being with us. there are two issues here when it comes to greece, the economic issue and also the political issue. how much of the politics is going to effect success when it comes to greece? >> well i think the two issues are intrinsically linked. we're talking about a confidence
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vote today to confirm whether the government has a mandate to press on with its austerity program. we're assuming that vote will go in favor of the government, albeit with some risk it doesn't. hopefully the government approve the next round of measures, trigger the financial assistance from the eu and the imf to allow greece to meet its obligations in the period ahead so obviously if the political situation is vulnerable and the government falls then that provision of financial assistance is open to question and obviously the consequences of that in terms of confidence could be potentially very large. >> greece needs to raise some $70 billion by 2015 in order to pay back its loans. they want to do that or hoping to do that through privatization. that seems to be the only way forward out there. the question is, who could the potential buyers be? looking at foreign investment to help save them? >> i guess that depends on the specifics of the issues, depending on the companies which
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are part of the program and considered to be relatively attractive or not. the proceeds are part of financing the funding gap which greece has until 2014-2015 and talking about the provision of loans within the euro area so we're asking other countries to again provide financial assistance to greece to weather the storm, i think there are understandable concerns in markets still about the sustainability of the public sector debt in greece, they're not going to go away and what's increasingly obvious in recent weeks, there are doubts about the coherence of the political system as well in the euro where we're to continue to provide the financial support. until the uncertainties are clarified this is going to be a rolling crisis and rolling period of uncertainty. >> when people listen to this and read about greece, sometimes it can seem quite the inside bible type discussion that it's really difficult to understand
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how massive of a problem this is, that it just does not affect greece and it just does not affect the eurozone. can you explain how big of a deal this is? >> well i guess the obvious thing to talk about is the transition of a problem in greece through various different channels. the obvious one being the banking sector. if you cast your mind towards 2008 and the problems we had in the global economy then related to problems in the financial system, that's an obvious illustration of the potential difficulties we could have if the problems in greece don't go away, if there is a default on the greek sovereign debt that would have a big impact on greek banks, some banks may fail, there may be speculation other banks may end up in the same situation and confidence in the banking system starts to fail and that has big spillover effects on the financial system globally and also on economic developments so the idea here is to try and buy some time to provide greece with some temporary financial assistance to allow the problems in the
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banking system to be dealt with and allow some of the other countries in the euro area to prove they're different to greece to limit the effects >> we knew there would be a ripple effect talking about ireland, portugal, iceland. this is bigger now. kenneth, thank you so much. we want to take a moment to alert you to a really special event on cnn on sunday, viewers around the world can see the premiere of a compelling new documentary, actress demi moore, an outspoken and passionate advocate for human trafficking put a face on the victims and survivors in nepal in her search for answers she travels with the 2010 cnn hero of the year to a place where young people are smuggled into the sex trade. watch. >> reporter: today i'm with anarata at the kathmandu airport. it's across that border that thousands of nepalese girls are
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trafficked each year into brothels of mumbai, delhi,ical tut ta and other indian cities. in just four hours at the border i saw several thousand people crossing over. anarata introduces me to border guards, their slight appearance belies an intense determination born from their own experience. all of the guards were themselves trafficked into brothels. there are 50 guards working for her across ten checkpoints. every day at the border they will intercept on average 20 girls at risk of being trafficked. can you explain to me how it exactly works? >> translator: what she says is every girl they watch and they watch the men also. they watch and as soon as they catch the suspect, they she
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pollution, overfishing and climate change, a panel of international scientists says if we don't tack willing the big environmental issues now, ocean life, including fish, sharks, whales and even dolphins could all become extinct. the experts are presenting their findings to the u.n. in new york today. they are going to say that the oceans are under a huge amount of stress, the effects of which are comparable to the mass extinctions of pre-history. what's more as well is the speed of decline is faster than anyone has ever predicted, and the impact is much greater than first thought. now some of the other factors that threaten sea life are a rise in ocean temperature, a reduction in oxygen levels as well as an increase in acidity. scientists are also saying this, they say that there are world waters under constant attack and they may not be able to recover.
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the panel of scientists were brought together by the organization ipso, the international program on the state of the ocean. it says vital changes are needed in the way the world's oceans are looked after. let's go to new york and talk to scientific director professor alex rogers, he joins us live on skype. hi, professor. gosh, these are pretty shocking findings. how soon could any of this happen? >> well, the simple fact is it is happening now and has been happening for the last 20 or 30 years. certainly we've seen the effects of climate change in the form of mass coral bleaching for example start as far back at the late 1970s >> what about dolphins, whales and fish. we have them now but they're under threat as your report describes. how long could they be gone? you compare them to pre-history and even what happened to the
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dinosaurs. >> yes. we talk in quite general terms about the extinction threat and this threat we believe is real. now the problem is that the rate of change that we're seeing at the moment in the quantities of carbon dioxide flown into the atmosphere and then being absorbed in the oceans are so high that it's very difficult to actually compare what's going on now what has happened in the past, but we do know that disturbances in the carbon cycle, if you like, have been a feature of past mass extinction events. >> what are some of the say top three or four things that are needed to be done in order to reverse what this report says is likely to happen? >> well, first of all, actually we have to get carbon emissions
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reduced and reduced very, very quickly. we also have to get control of many of the activities that are impacting the oceans so this means better management of fisheries, really a much more cautious approach about what we throw into the oceans, and this is also linked with land use, better management of the high seas, these are the parts of the ocean that belong to everybody on the planet, it's their common heritage of mankind if you like. >> ipso scientific director professor alex rogers, thank you so much for talking to us. congratulations on the report. >> you're watching "world one." still to come, china from one natural disaster to the next. drought turns to flooding in the east.
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welcome back. this is "world one" live from london. coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, noon in berlin and 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. look at what's trending on social media. number three, inspiring africa's youth. michelle obama touching down in south africa monday night to talk education, health and democracy with youngsters there. young people across all of south africa are tweeting and blogging
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about her trip, using the hash tag young africa. number two, disruptive travel, oh, no, long lines and misery again, this is the scene at one airport, because the ash cloud from a volcano in chile has made its way around the world again, causing flight chaos in australia, thousands of passengers are stranded, it's a really big talking point online. some people are venting their frustrations and others are giving voice to people that are stuck. and at number one, the shock death of ryan dunne, one of the stars of "jackass" killed in a car crash in pennsylvania. a passenger traveling with him also died. the tributes are pouring in online, he was best known for his famous pranks and stars on the mtv show. parts of eastern china are facing the worst floods on record. at least 175 people have been killed and 1.5 million have had to get out of their homes to
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head for safer ground, hard on the heels of the worst drought in 50 years in the south of the country. cnn's eunice yoon is in zhijiang. >> reporter: this looks like a canal and people are traveling around by boat. the only way you can tell what looks like a lake is actually avilleage is that there are light poles sticking out of the water. we managed to get into the village and spoke to people there. the people are all farmers, they raise cash crops like grapes, cotton, as well as other types of, like peanuts and raise ducks and they said that they were just troubled by what had happened, they were very emotional when they were speaking to us and one woman actually said you invest so much
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time, so much effort into your work and then suddenly everything's gone. monita? >> how is the government dealing with this? how are they helping the villagers? >> reporter: one way in which the government is helping the villagers, they've evacuated over half of the people here. they also sponsored the boat service. on camera a lot of the people who we spoke to said they were thankful for the government and were feeling upbeat. off camera it was a completely different story. people were much more pessimistic and they were feeling that the government really hadn't done enough to offer up compensation and also to try to drain the waters. a lot of people here think the waters probably won't subside for another week. >> eunice i'm curious, how did you and your crew get to this part of the country dealing with the worst floods on record.
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>> reporter: well, we were concerned in the fwing the roads could be cut off, however, when we were getting here the highway was open. we did see some damage, some flooded fields i should say as well as some submerged underpasses. however, for the most part getting here was relatively clear. the government has been doing a pretty good job of trying to keep things neat and under control. monita? >> eunice yoon reporting from zhe jiang, south of shanghai. live pictures from athens, the greek parliament is debating whether to support the government in a confidence vote. if lawmakers back the prime minister and his cabinet, it means more bailout money from the european union will follow. if a vote returns a result of no confidence, a debt default by greece will become an immediate
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possibility. sectarian clashes erupted late monday in bell fast, northern ireland. the violence was centered on an area where catholic and protestant areas meet. police say shots were fired and petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were front. there were reports of masked men attacking catholic homes, following attacks on protestant homes sunday. for now that's it for us here on "world one." >> thank you so much for watching us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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