tv [untitled] October 20, 2010 9:00am-9:30am EDT
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the man believed to be behind the attack on the parliament regional militant leader keen to demonstrate his strength to al qaeda. just for the chance to fill twenty four hours of programming here so what happened somewhere today not facts this american t.v. channels break the rules to break the news in a desperate scramble for ratings. and weak human trafficking laws in india lead to thousands of shattered lives believed girls come to the big city by promises of a better life and end up. live from the heart of moscow. welcome to the program again split could have been behind tuesday strike on the chechen parliament the russian republics interior
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ministry has said and thought to be behind the terror attack may have been trying to assert his authority in the region to al qaeda. we're standing in front of the church and parliament that has been attacked by the militants three people were killed and seventeen injured as the chechen terror and minister reports the man behind this attack could be who is same kind of a new leader of the church and militants and this is the way he's showing al qaeda what he's capable off before her same kind of force operating under draw kumar of the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia draco maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been forced on the most wanted terrorist list by they do or see just to remind you that the militants drove into the parliament parking zone killed a security guard opened fire and stormed the parliament the federal forces blocked
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the militants inside the building and the operation was success all militants were killed and this is how ramzan kadyrov commented on the situation. the police did a very good job we sent two teams of six people in there it took them fifteen minutes to kill all the militants also very curated all members of parliament from the building the whole area right now is been cleaned and today the church and parliament resumes its normal working hours and victims as far as we know will be receiving compensations from the state. reporting that well coming up one of the world's most polluted towns. to pay for the economic. and environmental. day we investigate if there is any hope. for a place with a legacy of pollution. sweeps through europe. extreme a social and economic policy. india is working to combat
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a sex trafficking problem which campaigners say is the most rampant in the world thousands of girls from neighboring nepal being brought to major cities like mumbai with the promise of good jobs instead many become victims of human traffickers into a life of a virtual slave. investigates. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age to leave her village for the bright lights of mumbai only to find she was heading for life in a brothel she said he wants to reach my why did you go with them then. i didn't want to you force me to india is the epicenter of this extra freaking industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic. and joins it's taught more than a quarter of a million been trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and come
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from the rural areas of neighboring heading for mumbai. either their parents nor they have any idea of what the real world is like the parents meanwhile little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them it would represent a life state rather than a broad. it's easy to cross the border between india and if there are well established routes for trafficking in the northern state of bihar rescue groups keep an eye on the trains passing through they have identified who they believe are being trafficked an order them from the train but. when we ask youngsters where they are going they say they're going to study it for girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related to the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work why. we have no work in our village i have two
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young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer but. girls are misled by people offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters there are also girls who are convinced they can be part of a dance group and are conned into coming to india. it's easy to convince young girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big here in mumbai but once you're sort of brothers there condemned. now campaigners want to see villagers and given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers gotten saying r.t. . the town often. once been a center of economic activity well first centuries in russia but it has fallen into disrepair today years of industrial activity and pollution have choked this once charming city so if earth reports from the toxic town nicknamed the black point of
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the planet. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you're right in the small russian town of caravan a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's going to a large copper and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases just of system uses are common in the world of oncological diseases here is rather high under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that accompany of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the
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snails was found it takes split the region's rich copper the poses and has contributed to the economic progress in russia if the last twenty years the price of pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence a caravan and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. to do the wind is blowing in a different way usually you can see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's lifeblood as when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster zone the town fell into poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to
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provide for their families. well this industry is really dangerous it's a rule everything the units often feel and all impurities come to tyrone on the other hand things did used to be much worse so there have been some improvements despite millions in investment to modernize the plant when we visited the working conditions still seemed wafl inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with neighboring equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the company say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about now hope for a cleaner future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of care that the mistakes of the past the
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time being remain ever present so if i see care about. over one million people are protesting throughout france demanding the government backs down from raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two after months of largely peaceful action. many protests erupted into violence this week all of this off the president nicolas sarkozy vowed that his conservative party would press ahead with the reforms the strikes have brought much of the country to a standstill with long queues of petrol stations and many flights canceled in the southern city of leone police clashed after the interior minister sent in officers to stop rioting police used force and tear gas to push back the protesters. the u.k. government has announced slashing public spending of eighty three billion pounds a cut of around half a million public sector jobs thousands of taken to the streets to oppose the
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measures it follows cuts announced yesterday to the country's defense budget worth almost five billion dollars that means renewing its nuclear deterrent system will be delayed and its army will be reduced it follows similar calls from germany and france and its course washington to worry about future capabilities. by let's get some more analysis on this story right now more analysis on the britain's national security we're joined by david kirk a security analyst from jane's strategic advisory services live from london hello to you so the u.k. together with france and germany are the main european contributors to nato and the just announced austerity plans raise concerns in the u.s. that nato allies are cutting the defense budget too deeply is washington right to be worried do you think. well i think the first thing to point out is that the cuts to the defense budget in the u.k. are still going to meet the nato two percent minimum the second thing is that while
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this is a cut of eight percent it is two percent less than originally anticipated and in terms of capability the army is in fact not being reduced very much in terms of the operational realities and the capability to undertake those operations that it currently does so i think the u.s. is concerned about the long term. capabilities within nato but i i don't think it needs to worry too much about the u.k. so you're mentioning the british army will be ok but with the slashes are there will be the warships on fighter jets i mean how ought to be how could this affect britain's national security could the decision leave many parts of the country exposed no i don't think so the concerns around the air force are more to do with. getting rid of the harriers which are as we know an older platform that was used more to do short range attack they're
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still very well served by the euro fighters the surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft procurement is still going ahead and while the maritime reconnaissance is being canceled that will be taken up by a procurement of american three d.s. so as far as the air force is concerned i think they still have the ability to maintain britain's security absolutely ok now with these cuts taking place so how do you think this could affect the companies in iraq and afghanistan. well i think the campaign in iraq is as far as the british are concerned is largely complete. as far as afghanistan the army. will i think be able to maintain operations certainly for the next five years let's not forget that the reduction in personnel isn't going to happen until twenty fifteen at which point the i think the m.l.g. hopes to be finishing up in afghanistan the cuts to equipment such as the challenger
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main battle tanks and the ninety artillery pieces are largely those forces based in germany in any case and we're not really talking about a capability that's deployed to afghanistan now so if we if we shift our focus back to be issue of nato and washington being concerned about some of his nato allies cutting some of the budgets in the military arena do you think it could cause a shift in the balance within that alliance. no i don't think so i think the u.s. has always been the major partner in nato and i think they will continue to do so by. default of the number of them or personnel that they have and the amount of money they spend the u.k. has and continues to be a major part of nato and a major part of operations with the americans so i think in that case we're probably quite safe and the u.s. isn't concerned about that france and germany you know france has only recently started participating in nato operations again and as far as germany is concerned
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it's a recent development as well so those cuts shouldn't adversely affect the alliance as a whole all right david book security analyst from jane's teacher advisory services from london thank you. the russian president's proposal for a new pan european security treaty could work if agreed that's according to what wolfgang ischinger chairman of the munich security conference the former trucks politicians media and scientists from around forty countries this time it's taking place here in moscow the european security system which we have had for the most decade or two has not worked very well. that was probably the reason why president medvedev. made fundamental proposals regarding. the able and the evolution of this european security system i think he is right in
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addressing these issues. well the comments echoed the reaction of the french and german leaders who met president he had there been below launching today with the aim of bringing moscow and the e.u. closer it's been confirmed that europe is considering russia's proposals for a new security system in the region in response the russian president said he would attend a key nato summit next month in lisbon. but talking to a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped the full interview is coming up next hour but here's a preview. you know what we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time that i think that nato has a new strategic concept should be free from such
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a vista concepts perceiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. the european commission has lifted its human rights complaint against france for its expulsions over roma gypsies and comes after paris promised to change immigration law in recent months the government forcibly expelled over one thousand roma the issue was discussed in the latest edition of our debate show cross talk. the french government is clearly breaking every new legislation it's even ignoring warnings from human rights organizations like amnesty international which stresses very strongly that room up as european citizens are free to move within the e.u. so there's no such thing as being deported back home how does the european community the issue of immigration has leapt to the top of the agenda throughout
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europe and the united states german chancellor angela merkel says attempts to build a multicultural society in germany have utterly failed is multiculturalism illusion or is it merely the stuff of cheap populist politics and elections coming. and you can watch the full program at four thirty g.m.t. right here on now let's get to some other world news stories right now and afghanistan's election officials have canceled nearly a quarter of the ballots from september's election but accounts for most one point three million votes the decision follows numerous reports of fraud although the official still insists that the election was a success. emergency workers are scrambling to get aid to flood victims in central
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vietnam raging currents of killed at least forty people and of some two hundred thousand homes have been swamped officials warn the death toll could rise as the search continues police say a bus swept away two days ago by heavy waters over the main highway has been found on the bottom of a river but divers have not been able to determine how many of the missing twenty passengers are stuck inside. in pakistan parts of corruption has been locked down day after attacks by gunmen left at least twenty five people dead the specter of killings was in response to a contentious election which some say was rigged the spike in violence and economic center of pakistan has killed more than fifty over the last three days. what you switch on some u.s. news channels and you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a hollywood blockbuster fear conflict and sex are common ploys to play on people's emotions in the scramble for ratings desperate to break
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a story first they often err news without knowing all the details forcing them to backtrack. mainstream cable stations to favorite words we're following some breaking news important breaking news that is it really news we're seeing or could it be something. what is this they are worth what we call the killer could it be the end of the world. ok maybe a slight exaggeration but what the cable news channels do. when it comes to breaking stories is it much better you have to engage people and the way to engage them is with six conflict and fear remember when the brooklyn bridge was shut down because of a suspicious package i would also point out that this news comes as we've also reported this other story today we don't know if there's any connection here but you know the news that the pakistani taliban wants to carry out an attack because the times square attack failed a potential terrorist attack oh wait five minutes later fox had this to say.
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moments ago we told you about the brooklyn bridge shut down in both directions because of a suspicious package well we have just now learned and why peavy has declared all clear apparently a false alarm oops no big deal what could have been the pakistani taliban turn out to be a suspicious flashlight we asked a media expert christopher chambers to have a look they could basically create their own experts who can back up whatever since threat of corroboration it is and then they link it to this story journalistically even to the twenty four hour news cycle that look it should probably be the last thing that they say and that isn't the first time mainstream news channels have used flashy graphics and dramatic music to convince us of imminent doom and danger remember the failed christmas day bombing attempt last year while as the situation unfolded fox claimed that there could be a second incident on the same plane and just as quickly as the story became
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a multi-pronged terrorist attack with multiple scary players fox had this to say this was not a big deal the second source saying it's a sick passenger i think with fox it's about the balls it's about the hits on their website it's about the ratings the evolution of the breaking news story is so ridiculous and over dramatize that it's become a laughingstock for popular comedic news sources that just sort of tend to fill twenty four hours of programming here so that happen. somewhere today even members of the mainstream media have to laugh at themselves about the high news broke of a disturbance on board an airplane bound from washington d.c. to denver for that first hour or so after the news broke the story had a lot of worry in components early reporting was that a man from qatar a diplomat from qatar its embassy in washington had reportedly tried to light an explosive device from inside the plane's bathroom while it was in the air and of
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course after further clarification turned out the story went more like this the diplomat from qatar had not been trying to light an explosive device he didn't have an explosive device there was no explosive device on the plane he was however apparently smoking in the plane's bathroom with a twenty four seven cable news cycle and channels competing for a dying viewership it looks like just about anything flies when it comes to a story. there are t. washington d.c. and in just a moment sean will be here with all the latest business news. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we hope you understand how we'll get there and.
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the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join knowledge on r.g.p. . and i welcome to the business program here on our tail with michelle i was folly shares an aeroflot of enjoyed a strong wrong the final. said the government should sell a minority stake in the airline but over. things it's unlikely the government would be willing to lose control of the flagship to the private sector. but then. of course there's of. course and so they will do so as to its source of all. our all of. their all showboat national champions in different industries or it was lost here. on an airline industry you can go to.
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so it isn't the change nor are there in private companies. holding european shares of laptops against the drug makers all set for. financials among the worst forms of concerns that other banks may be forced to take back billions of dollars in mortgages the russian markets are lower rating the r.t.s. is down more than a percent this hour. in lower dragged by energy majors problem lou paula down in both courses banking stocks are those bad bank would be to be a trading over a half a percent higher. so gold is close to significant drop in price since its record breaking level of one thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars last week the price fell two point one percent in july levels amid a strengthening dollar and china's central bank decision to raise interest rates. and staying with the pressure of several styles gold mining unit is seeking
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regulatory approval for a woman billion dollar initial public offering in london the i.p.o. may start as early as this month that's according to sources close to the deal the sale would be the largest of overseas shell spring by russian company says you know into a fellow raised two point two four billion dollars in hong kong in china. and the russian road and bridge build trust has set an indicative price range of six point two five to eight dollars per share for its upcoming i.p.o. the company would raise up to half a billion dollars if it manages to sell the twenty five percent of shares allocated to the initial public offering the very start on wednesday and is expected to be concluded in the event of a european investors a lobbying for a visa free regime between russia and the e.u. they're also calling on russia to make it easier for foreigners to move around the country without having to register if they go to a different city. we have discussed this for example with the foreign minister
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about a month ago russian foreign minister. current discussions or continues discussions with european union officials your people mission but also member state governments about it we are clearly in favor of visa free regime but what is also being said from the side of the state of florida is is that on the other side then russia has to also ease the regime for foreigners here in the country which means that the registration and the limitations on free movement in russia should be removed. so of perjuring situation calls jumped ten percent in the third quarter beating forecasts the french manufacturer has also raised its full year earnings outlook the company benefited from stronger sells in europe and emerging markets in particular sells in russia soared seventy one percent of persia increasing its market share to more than three percent carmakers expanding operations in russia china brazil argentina with the ambition of generating half of its sales outside
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europe by two thousand and fifteen. and finally this hour yahoo's net profit went up one hundred thirteen percent in the third quarter of two thousand and ten the world's second largest internet search engine earned nearly four hundred million dollars up from one hundred eighty six million in the same period in two thousand and nine. four months will supplant as it continues to climb out of financial stocks nation recently who were subject to a possible takeover by a well and a group of private investors but no official good stuff yet the make. and the shop take this you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.
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