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ordaedo theenhoh ey hbud ut accepted the re's recommendation tt it should payomnsion and the archbishop of utrechtzed the victims. >> we regrethe >> victims' groups spokeeifeelgs >> the magnitude of the cases is hoifng the victims feel betrayed by the church, it denied an covered everything up fofor so long. >> the report some 800 sesexual predators, about 100 ae still alive, b ty are unlikely to face jusce asatut os ter 20 years. >he u.s. soldier responsible for america's biggestof u. docus
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appeared before a military court for the very first time. ecd providing over halfings a million diplomatic cables to wilesthwhtleblowing website to publish them online, emrr a anchoring official in washinington he faces multiple charges, inud aiding the enemy. his supporters hd ptes id the base in maryland where he is being tried and he. activists in a serious s a let peoeeee killed by securityorces to open fire on protesters during a day of mass demonstrations. this internet fta rordl shsor than two hundred thousand people rallying after fridayrars in opposition stronghold homs. e protesters want president assad to step down,n, ay are any atheraleag has delayed inpposing sanctions. there also protests in deraa, another opposition city. it was the worstst nuclear accidents since chernobylyl, and
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it has taken nine mohso g but japan says it has not finally achieved whais called a cold shutdown at the fukushima nucle perla. at i n the end of the story. tens of thousands of stories - - he peoe from the local area are still homeless, and many will never be ableo tu. > the first winter snow has fall oside, and inside the container that serves as their teory me fukushima evacuees a are watchinghe pme minister, nine months up to the nuclear disaster, he tells than the emergency is over >> the temperaturen the reactor is constantly under 100 degrees celsius. eyavno rched cold shutdown. the situation has stabilized >> the term cold shutdown is mieang it usually refers to a controlled procecess in an intat retor. after the meltdowns experienced in fukhimath beces impossible. critics of his eyes that the
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considered safe. there is still the possibility the meltedarcoulhe up in control believe again and league more radioacvity. -- and le more radioactivity. >> this situation is just as dangerous as yesterday and last week. that will n not change in the mi wks hazmat suits are now is thee javo out of work in the exclusion zone aroround fukushi. coamatn teams are removing radioactive particles from houses and streets. over 80,000 evacuees areaiting to return to the homes, but experts warn the cleanup could take up to 40 years. >> lab unrest in clarkstown has left at least 10 people tt llin clash between striking oil workers and police in the west of the country -- in kazakhstan. town set fire to municipalene buildings, hotels, and the office of the state oil company. the tv station to the protesters
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atckg t stage in the city center for an independence day celebration. witnesses s say that the clashes started after policice trd to clear theque, which has been occupied for months now by oil workers petitioningor better wages. inusacust officials say they have seized a bag containg radioactive material from a passenger on route to tehran. a warning systemleed aport officials in moscow after in measure radiation levels 20 timess above normal. the iranian man'sga contained the sodium isotope. it iss generally used for mededl research. the iranian embassy inosw s apologized, calling the incident a misunderstanding at that the universrsity was carrying the acid helps the dedesignated forental procedures. to steve now, and russia finally has something that it has lg worked for. >> it looksik a win-win situation. russia said its membership in the world trade o organation
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should allow it to recoup billions in lost export rngs which the country's economy minister sayss russia has, until now, been long as a result of trade barriers. early on friday, rsibeme the 154th member ofhe world trade organization. >> one final start of the aia'sav, ahe deal was sealed. 80 years is the longest a untry has ever negotiated exception to the wto, b t marathon is finally over. delegates said russia had filly come of age as a trading nation. >> after almost 100 yrs, after the bolshevik revolution,fter e democratic revolution in 1991, ss i cinack from the civil rights war and in a y that is recognized by the world community.y. >> many in russia hope this ll improveoronditions for doing business within the country. >> russia will import certain rules and regulations, but it wimprove t theirverall business climate.
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it will improve corruption. >> bos congratulated moscow, but at the same time, it and felt the cold war c colosses it cannot treat russia equally as other w members stakes in the said obtbtaineapproval from the u.s. cgress -- u.s. congratulateted moow. russia's that it would not a legally apply wto rules with its dealings with america. >> somome go news for france. ratings agencies have been on a downade spree, but fitch says france willeep its aaa status for the time being, but they did downgrade the outlook from stable too negative. the agencies as france remains a wealalthy endeavors side econony improve its finances. there has been speculation that france was about to lose its top rating, which would jack up the level of the eozone's debt crisis. figures unveiled in ireland show the countrtry' economy is in
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worse shape tn feared. the central statistics office says the ecoconomyhrank by 1.9% in the third quarter,, a much bigger drop than forecast. it ishe worst quarterly results in the eurozone. ireland is mimidway through a seven-year deficit-fighting program that has continued to fight economic growth to meet its tatargets. economists say ireland is unlike to meet the vernment's modest target of 1%% the italian prime minister, mamario nti, has won about of confidence in parliament, clearing the way for the senate to approve his austerity budget next week. it should be rolled out in 2012 andd got easy approvoval. if it had been defeated, mario monti and his technocrat gornment would have bebeen month after being sworn in. let's take a look at the friday market numbers, starting off in frankfurt. germany's d dax eed down by 0.5%. euro stoxx 50 down by 1%.
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across the atlantic in new york, slightly, 11,858. down justst the euro showing a little bit of strengthth, trading at a value f $1.30233. the head of the imf, christine lagarde, has issued a stark warning. ying the world could plummet into the 1930-style depression unless all nations joined together to fix's in europope spiraling debt crisis. e said no economy in the world will be immune to the crisis that is, in herer words, not ony unfolding but escalating. >> this was the first time imf managing director christine lagarde had issued such a stark warng about the state of the global economy. >> at it is down, downside risk,
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revision downward, slow-growth than expected, higher deficit th predicted. and public finances thaare not in particular good condition. anthat is pretty much true the world overer. to be considering its responsnse to save the euro. they agreed to the brussels accord at the summit. eu members, but non-eurozone countries, the czechepublic and hungary, appeared to rock the boat summit, backtracking on, and tax popolicy at least. >> we do not want to give up the results of independent hungarian tax policy that has made t the hungarian e econo competitive. when we negotiatate wh the years on countries, we willl make it veryry clear that this will be a key issue for t hon. that the talks.
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in hungary, the parliament has to agree to the eu's plans. the conservatives have a comfortable majority there. > back over to bri. >> germanany' coalition government has survived a vote that couldave spelled its end. chancellor merkel's junior partners, the free democrats, have bacacked the coalition's yr crisis policy in a corporate ballot of f grasoots members. a group of euro skeptics party rebels force that ballot or the permanent bailouout fd for eurozone, which is dudue to come into force next year. >> he is survived the vote, but philipp roesler was clearly showowing the strain of the last few daysys. crisis now has the backing o of party members. the r rebe's attempt to derail the babailout plan hahas failed. the fdp is and will remain a pro-european party, one with the necessary degree of regulatory
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sense. >> but there were some hitches. more than 2,000 ballots were declared invnvalid. leadship was accused of liberately complicating the voting system to dcourage participation. the th the referendum over, the leader of the rebels offered some conciliatory words. >> i want to do my bibit to make mended. lme this personal note. so glad it is over, and i am oking forward to christmas. >> philipp roesler arkansas will also be looking forward to the seasonal break -- will also be lookining fward to the seasonal rate, before his next test at the annual conference in early january. >> a are political corresponden, and d young, has bn following the story. we asked how important this vote was for the fdp and the german government as a wholole. because a dififferent result cod
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have triggered a split in the government over this key question of how to rescue the euro. of crse, philipp roesler has got the best result i think that it means he does not have to choose betetween his own policy and the opinions ofof his party membership. he has got a relatively clear vote in favor of his position. thateans that the fdp''s support for the esn bailout mechanism that was agreed at their party congress earlier this year stays in place, and that of course, in turn, is good news for angela merkel. in the intergovernment stays intact. >> some good news at last for philipp roesler. he needs it after the last few months. will this strengthen his position? >> well, he is not out of the woods yet. there has been a lot of criticism over this whole ballot procedure, particularly over the
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fact that philipp roesler himself said the intent to change the party's policy had failed even a few days ago while this ballot was still going on. it seemed he was prepared to ignore the opinion of his party membership. there have been criticisms of his leadership of the party more widely. he has yet to find an issue that really galvanizes the fdp itself, let alone the country more generally. there have been calls for him to go, particularly in recent days. if poll numbers and election results do not get a lot better quite soon, i think those calls for philipp roesler to go will continue. >> thank you so very much. some soccer now. in the draw for the champions league roundup 16, a former germany defender big and easy opponent from his old team, munich, pairing them with fc basil. but another team will be facing fc barcelona. here is a look.
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moscow-based the spanish giants. milan battles that out against arsenal. and this team will battle is chances against the outsiders. st.. petersburg faces this team. the first leg of the knockouts. hanover will host the team at home. people here in germany are battening down the hatches as a major storm sweeps in from the west with winds reaching 130 kilometers per hour. the system has brought traffic to a standstill on roads in the mountains. authorities are warning residents across central germany to prepare for more strong winds, heavy snowfall, and some flooding. earlier the storm battered france, causing a cargo ship to run aground off the coast of brittany. i will be right back in one
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mother to child transmissionn of hiv. the is supporting the project in mozambique. give the baby a future, make a donation, save a life. ♪ >> welcome back. it was one year ago that a young tahitian street vendor, at the end of his rope, after abuse of police in and confiscated his license and his wares, set himself on fire in protest. he cannot have known that his suicide in the desert town would spark a revolution that would sweep not only across his own country, but across much of the arab world as well. within a month, the dictator of tunisia fled into exile in saudi arabia. within two months, hosni mubarak was ousted by egyptians. within nine months, libya's muammar gaddafi reached a bloody end. now, 1-year on, president saleh of yemen is set to leave office.
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and did not forget syria, a sock's power appears to be weakening. the arab spring is far from over, even in tunisia. we went back to where it all began and found that life there is still not easy. >> the day begins in a typically tunisia and way, with demonstrators blocking a road. the demonstrators are taxi drivers, protesting agains corruption among civil servants at their local authority. they say is impossible to get a taxi license without paying bribes to officials, and they are furious. >> my son is unemployed, and my wife is seriously ill. i have been through so much, and the one has to pay bribes to more bribes, to get our licenses. -- if they want us to pay bribes. >> the police arrive and end the blockade, for now.
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and we can continue our journey. this is our first impression of the public mood at the moment in tunisia. some 250 kilometers south of the capital tunsi, it was here exactly one year ago that a young educated man, mohammed bouazizi, set fire to himself to protest against local corruption and the lack of jobs aspects -- prospects. that happened on december 17, 2010, it triggered the jazzman revolution and the pro-democracy movements of the arab spring. -- richard the jasmin revolution. he still offered at this market to help support his family. but the traders here suffered constant police harassment.
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therefore it was confiscated and only released in exchange for bribes. when that happened to mohammed a year ago, it was the last straw for the young man. >> they confiscated his fruit. he went to the town hall and asked tuesday to the mayor, but they did not let him in. nobody would speak to them. >> he then doused himself in petrol. he said he only wanted to make a gesture, but suddenly he was engulfed in flames. hamami was there when it happened. he has a computer science degree, but he has been unemployed for years. >> we protests -- we protested. we demanded the rights bouazizi demanded. we demanded jobs, freedom, and national honor. >> market traders say things have gotten little better.
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they cannot sell their fruit here without fear of police harassment. but it's a little else is changed in tunisia since the revolution, and their lives have not gotasier. there are demonstrations here every day. demanding jojobs. flierss there are simply no opportunities for young people. these five young men are desperate. there on a hunger strike. his condition is serious. his kidneys had failed. the engineering graduate has been unemployed for six years now. >> my family is very poor. none of us has a job. we tried tuesday to the people in charge in the region but did not get an answer -- we tried to speak to the people in charge. we do not know what to do. our only hope is this strike. >> the protesters have been ignod for 16 days. th media has not reported on their hunger strike. no local authority representatives of start -- have turned up tuesday to them.
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>> they spend their time arguing about things that have nothing to do the ordinary tunisians, the ones who went out to prorott against hunger, injustice, corruption, and unemployment. they want as to forget about those important problems and spend their time discussing it irrelevant things, like religious dress codes. >> the reactionary interim government has deliberately ignored this area. they have not done anything to help develop sis bouzid codis surrounding area. they only care about the cities. they're not interested in the protests taking place here. during the whole 10 months, the interim government has been in charge, nothing has happened, nothing has changed. >> they believe that is because the old officials have kept their posts at local authorities. the young man said the
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poticians in the capital have not replacedd the officials and have no interest i in dog so. they do not believe anything will change under the newly elected president. he and his companions said it will continue their hunger strike until something is done, and they are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. unemployment in this region is over 60%. the situation has not improved since the revolution. the land is a baron. it supports nothing more than a few olive trees and sheep. all engines to settle industry urs services here have failed because of corruption and cronyism at the local authorities. that,oo, has not changed sinince tunisia is stuck somewhere between its past and its future.
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the new constitutional assembly has not even begun rewriting the country's basic law, although it was elected in october. but the change needs time. we traveled to tunis, to meet the mother of bouazizi, the man his death became a symbol of the revolution. she moved to the capital after the death of her son. in sidi bouzid, e received insults and threats. people accused her of profiting and probably from her son's actions. he said that is not true. since her son died, she has relied on a family member to provide for her and family. she also says she misses her home in sidi bouzid. >> my region, my home, was the torch of the revolution. i am proud of that. i am proud of the people. everyone is proud of sidi bouzid. >> it has been a difficult year
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for her. she has hardly had timeo grieve for her son, but she wants to make sure that no one forgets what muhammed died, and she of the revolution will take a positive turn. >> i hope the newly elected politicians will do their best and respect their duties. and i hope the tunisian people will b be mo patient and calm down. >> for us,s, the day ends as it began, witith ptesters blocking our way. it is that taxi drivevers ain, and it looks like we're in f foa long night. but they say however longdgd the ghthoweverawn will break, and perhaps the new dawn will bring a bright new future for tunisia. >> and that is our "in depth"
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