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and russia says the world wide web should be governed globally to protect us all from cyber threats. around the world and around the clock this is r.t. broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital our top story now two israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian child as a human shield during the gaza war israel reinforced a ban or involving civilians five years ago but as paula slayer reports palestinians believe troops continue to risk innocent lives in war maneuvers measured robber was just nine years old when soldiers grabbed him and made him check for bombs. i was just sitting here is really soldiers took me over there there were two bags and he told me to open them but i didn't know how to do it. he
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was terrified of the abandoned briefcases which the soldiers thought could be booby trapped and his fighting family forced to watch whatever civilian one of them put his hands on my son shoulder and made him go into the toilet cubicle i heard a few shots fired soon afterwards i felt like i was dying my little daughter he was with me kept saying they killed him. and yet it was five years ago that israel's supreme court made the law crystal clear human shielding is an absolute absolute no no endangered civilians deliberately is absolutely prohibited but the reality on the ground is still very different you had a show spent his army years in the palestinian territories he knew the supreme court's ruling but watched his sergeant ignore it so did he and the soldiers serving under him so what we did is we just bumped into a house nearby house we grabbed one of the kids we took him with us put him in the
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front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then no one for a start one hundred sixty complaints were filed about the way soldiers behaved in the gaza war two years ago but only forty seven criminal investigations were ever carried out most of them have since been closed i think that to ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories or use palestinians as human shield is like to ask you to drink coffee in the morning but israeli lawyers say convicting the two soldiers is to the i.d.f. scripts there are always soldiers who step out of line that's that's part and parcel unfortunately of running a military operation to say that as a general phenomenon i.d.f. soldiers you use human shields that's absurd. for much of the family they take comfort they find to be getting justice even if it's only against ranking soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind the laws back here jerusalem fears that the countries could use their currencies as
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a weapon to drag themselves out of recession have been allayed finance ministers for the wells twenty biggest economies have agreed they won't be voting to drive up their competitive edge they spent two days in south korea tackling global financial imbalances of agreement saying it would given the international monetary fund because the road supervising exchange rates growing economic tension between china and the us also came up beijing accused of holding its currency down while the us was criticised for having a noose on a tree policy on balance the south korean meeting is considered a temporary truce so far in this to report some suspect us of lining up its economic tillery. the united states has waged a well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle. that's just as costly and much larger scale the united
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states leading financial world war two train foreign reserves. especially to make other economies pay tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us dollars are the bullets and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy better reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and have shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two. to years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy called quantitative easing is supposed to stimulate the economy lowering interest rates and enabling banks to lend more but it hasn't exactly helped the average american for households in trouble has been very difficult and
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remains very very difficult to get any access to any money so the quoted prices are low but if nobody will make a loan to you it doesn't really matter very much here's where it does matter the united states sets interest rates very low and tries to open up large routes to landing that american corporations in america investors take money borrow money and then they go all over the world and buy things and buy they are businesses and investors from the world's largest economy are firing off rounds whether it's on real estate in china or farmland in australia the money leaves the u.s. because low interest rates mean investors aren't getting much return on assets at home. so why does this matter for you why should you care well let's talk about the things becky later as our investors like to buy things like soft commodities wheat sugar soybeans those affect your food prices i'll take these so if investors who are lots of money in a soft commodities that means global food prices your food prices go up like
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happened in two thousand and seven in two thousand and eight. but if they all put their money into oil the price of energy for most of the world that consumes it goes up too. and when you do us are acting like an a.t.m. for the world pumping cash into the economy trillions of dollars this is a scenario you're helping to create. and pushing down the value of the u.s. dollar of the international reserve currency while pushing up the value of other currencies and we're hearing an outcry from the developing countries because those are the hottest markets for foreign investment now countries like brazil feeling the effect are deeply concerned. that you are. using beggar thy neighbor policy is. dealing. from our making our economy. but as the us appears poised to fire
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off a new round of quantitative easing the rest of the world is fighting back instead of having this multipolar world led by the i.m.f. and the world trade organization with a very heavy influence for the u.s. government and the united states treasury we're seeing lots of governments going around the world coming to party deals cutting deals to trade not in the reserve currency but in local currencies led by china brazil russia but stretching through asia latin america and eastern europe they're fighting back against the declining reserve currency which some are even calling the pariah currency and biting back against the u.s. is financial world war that in the end may prove a losing battle lauren mr r t new york. well coming up soon we look at a problem which barry for much longer will hear why environmental thieves pushing the russian capital to the brink of ecological disaster.
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and a nine billion dollars deal rejected the backing for a stake in one of the world's top producers of business news in ten minutes time. internet access is no longer a luxury it's rapidly become a vital tool for its nearly two billion users it's calling for a global body to govern the web and protect us from some of the crime rather than responsibility being dominated by the united states and its hit reports. the world wide web all knowing all conquering it crosses borders and breaks down barriers but can something that we've allowed to become so vast ever be properly managed currently it's the united states that's tasked with attempting to regulate the web boss the united nations international telecommunications union or id you think they could do a better job at this conference earlier this month in mexico its members announce
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that proper management of the internet requires global corporation russia's representative agrees. we have a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web are too big a necessity to an international response and he wants countries a united c'mere fate to be tackled terrorist extremist and child pornography networks but the complex debate playing out on the other side of the atlanta probably won't be playing on the mind of your average web user these game is enjoying a saturday night in the russian capital internet cafes or clubs as this one calls itself a springing up all over the city at an increasingly alarming rate and that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off the likes of all ages and backgrounds to get together socially this is just surf the web or is this close to doing compete against each other playing very latest interactive computer games and that's largely thanks to
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russia's burgeoning telecommunications industry bringing high speed wireless networks to the masses with russia's new wave of scarily technologically savvy tweezers and bloggers paving the way youngsters like these now this may look like an internet cafe complete with state of the art matlab tops but this is actually school russia style for thirteen year old alexander and his classmates keypad a mouse in our house much of a lot of learning is the textbook and pen. it's more interesting with computers even if you have to do boring research or crown facts without it you're only told things but with a computer you're shown things that these students and teachers i see features in almost every subject lesson and every aspect of the school's functioning skype and online messaging have replaced the notice board overheads hanoi and school report counts but it's headmaster insists that all this is used alongside more traditional
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means of educating he also believes his school is not a rarity in russia. i think it's part of a growing trend but what's important is to use this technology properly to hold the learning process i think computers in schools will become more widespread but it's crucial to understand that no computer could ever substitute a teacher. as the question of who should regulate how use of the internet rumbles on its reach in our dependence on it continues to grow saturday nights in the sky may never be the same again i say that. i will have more russias plans on getting more global governance for the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister just over an hour's time here l.t. . for more stories and analysis head to r.t. dot com has some of what where covering a few online right now the only war in cosmodrome fall silent for
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a day as baikonur more than seventy victims of a missile explosion of a century ago. and kazakhstan's comeback for comedy that made its people a worldwide laughing stock because that direct a film of his revenge against borat that's at all to. iraq's prime minister says the latest wiki leaks revelations are moved to deal rail his charges of forming governments by linking him to death squads the latest wiki leaks files alleged abuse by iraqi security forces some of which proved often very manic he became prime minister in two thousand and six the premier's office denies he had death squads under his command and suspect the timing of the nature of leak it to shake his fragile control he's still yet to form a cabinet despite it being seven months since the election. there's a wider power play action. the real political players are the regional forces which
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are trying to put disagreements out of the way and while they exist we can even talk about forming a new government he would have been forced to represent the interests of a certain size either pro-american but independent from its decision standpoint or probably rainy and we know that these two parties are the real players but there's also a third way out of balance between the american iranian pressure and that's what we're seeing now. well checking around the world about some of today's other main news haiti's cholera outbreak has now claimed more than two hundred fifty lives and the disease is spreading over three thousand dollars on cross the country there's concern it could spread to the camps where over a million people have been living since january powerful earthquake part of that is down to the ongoing effects all the disaster that three hundred thousand people and . francis' fuel shortages could get worse as oil workers continue to protest against the government's decision to raise the
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retirement age in the country riot police broke through the blockade of one of the country's fundraise for the few supplies needed towels the transport minister says a petrol station is well stocked in the holidays for you having to recruit. somali pirates have seized a german ship off the coast of kenya it's not yet known how many people are on board the fortune at least two german citizens becomes a day off to a simple gas tank of seventeen crew was hijacked in the same area a piece of the union naval force says pirates are now holding nineteen vessels with four hundred twenty eight hostages. hundreds of people have gathered in rio de janeiro in a show of support for the candidates vying to win sunday's presidential election but in the polls at the moment is that currently the hand-picked successor. the ten
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point lead if she wins she would become first female leader. well. lags behind many other capitals when it comes to taking out the trash but lack of recycling infrastructure is forcing environmental protection up the priority list especially since for many residents the problem is now staring them in the face of experience. when ileum bought a flat in a new apartment block right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was an old we secured covered with sewer when he began seem fresh piles of rubbish appearing and disposal trucks coming and going it meant that he became suspicious and then furious like you we're all shocked officially the worst yard is closed but i can assure you it isn't our apartment buildings are just around twenty meters away it's a direct violation of the law if i get to go through i could get rid of my trash right out of the window under the law dumps can not be closer than five hundred
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meters from a residential area but unfortunately this and many other rules on the disposal are often trashed like here in the town of not much further away from the capital this is quite a typical picture of this area is used for garages but since some of them were built illegally they had to be dismantled but instead in their places these piles of rubbish have grown all around the area deeper into the area the picture becomes even worse another closed waist york or is it the area is disputed between the town and a local forestry and don't want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors see there hopeless even fining the officials didn't help since the biggest penalty is only around two hundred dollars each the environmental consciousness is very low people just don't care for meaning it's much easier to come and just down there trash it here and bureaucracy is making it even worse
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there is simply no one to clean this up but specialists say there's still a way to fix things. we have to get people interested and the best way to do it is by giving the money each bottle has to have a good return price who is ever going to throw out an empty bottle if they could get at least one third of their money back for it. perhaps a law increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but that me lead to new rule building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles moscow alone produces at least five and a half million tons of waste very year and less than fifteen percent is recycled a picture hard to believe in many western countries where from a young age people are taught how to recycle you what is going to already moscow. how we carry them further on the ground like this hour as we explore a much more subterranean world.
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there is not enough space for them on the ground. systems under the sun. the camp of adrenalin. discovers a deeply hidden secrets. they are seeking. and even. talking to go. underground. yes more about the hidden life on the ground in less than ten minutes start over first it's the business with career so we hear there's some further developments between you saw an interest regarding the stakes in the west now that's right kerry also has rejected and nine billion dollar bet from interests for its twenty five percent stake in north and
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north make up more later in a program but first we go to our top story we start with an exclusive to business r.t. of us as a giant lender of michigan on bag warns it's not ready to take part in the government's vast privatization program top officials unveiled a sell off of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential aide arkady the college has said it could be one of the first to become a joint stock company but deputy chairman only bollocks says it's too early. china development bank. owns a village to be prepared but. it could present two of wholly owned by the state this is a period of more than two decades to be period times. saying that it is gender for. crunching only in this capacity only with those three years but also has rejected
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a nine billion dollars bid from interests owner of a part time in for its twenty five percent stake in norris mikko the world's largest island medium company on friday claimed that the offer was there was a raid and that their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price comes up to shareholders voted thursday against an effort to oust the current board of directors and interests who both own twenty five percent majority stakes have been locked in battle over control of. several months. aviation is ushering it to a new era of eco friendly technology first test of buy fuel for planes have proved a success global manufacturers such as boeing and airbus say green planes also make economic sense. cleaner sky higher profits global every nation giants are investing in eco friendly planes they say
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the best technology will not only help save the planet but also money we're just moving inventing implementing integrity new technologies on board off the top. and the price of the aircraft remains quite stable if you take into account by a strict also such inflation and so the fact that the aircraft. and robert differently that means more fuel efficient because fuel means c o two and the mental dimension to some extent. improve profitability for the airlines with more people flying every day the market in russian c.i.s. is growing and demand for new aircraft is high u.s. manufacturer boeing is expecting to do booming business with plans to supply around a thousand new planes over the next twenty years worth ninety billion dollars that certainly aren't so new airplanes to service airplanes that are already here. to meet the russian market requirements were closely with already
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your lives concerned so we have good prospects for market growth here we expect the markets will continue to grow a new generation of jets will help russia update its obsolete fleet but little of that technology is being developed here famous for its to pull over and dilution planes in the past groceries legging well behind the global leaders in aircraft construction analysts say it will take a long time and large investments to catch up and believe at least for now russia will have to put up with the role of consumer rather than producer. but the liquor business r.t. . markets now is a start this hour after global finance leaders abound at the g. twenty meeting to avoid tense leads in the. taking currency devaluations bank tsang is up point nine percent the nikkei is also turned positive with japanese exports increasing. and russian stock markets entered friday mixed after
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a choppy day country's top gold producer of oil said two and a half cents on the fears of rising dollar world metals prices. the positive trends which drove the russian markets higher last week are expected to continue in the coming days truckin dialogues vice president eager press gives us his outlook for the trading week after the correction on friday i think this week who will be also very positive still the markets will be expecting to have the third of november the markets will be leaving in the environment when they expect the announcement of this quarter to prison in policy and from that it states the reporting season is almost all work and but still those who'll be reporting that is that it will report still decent results we can see some small inflows into russia did a good phones because russia became a beach more interesting for international markets and i think the sentiment towards russia is changing indeed it will it will be very gradual but still i think
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russia will start experiencing more and more inflows soon the coming few weeks and russia's fourth largest steelmaker m.k. has launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey our correspondent regular quarter of a spoke to the chairman and president of m.k. they to rustic of about the rationale behind the company's latest. the rebel against his or her body have been our company has been operating here for the past ten years there's a great demand for hot rolled metal we used to supply not less than a million tons of it while a deficit between the supply and demand in two thousand and six two thousand and seven amounted to four five million i've reached an agreement with a port that will allow us to export our product to europe and the middle east if we are unable to sell our old metals here basically we wanted to exported to turkey but the crisis has changed our plans we may exported to the balkans italy tunisia the arab countries in the persian gulf were huge construction projects are underway
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and what is included polymers are needed in syria and iran are also very close so. i'm ok also and i and felt and during the financial downturn the development of the self was postponed so what are your plans now. i think we have an investment program this year we've opened the system of scale my we are now enriching or there so we have an opportunity to increase iron ore production to fifty percent plus we've bought the bike all mine and are extracting some more from there today we need thirty percent of the overall demand and raw materials and in the next three or four years we are planning to meet the internal demand for iron ore by fifty percent so. when do you think you can return to pre-crisis annual production levels are we going up i thought we are planning to produce ten million tons of rolled metal this year we're going to increase the output by some twenty percent by twenty
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eleven and by another twenty percent the year after our aim is to restore the pre-crisis output in two thousand and seven we work to full capacity and produce twelve million tonnes a year this task can be solved. at this hour join me in about thirty minutes from now on why exactly.
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here. the future covered. issues that so much time and which of course he wanted to hear look receiver's is a form of plutocratic capitalism ready to replace democratic capitalism in the us and for the few. it with on t.v. every cat in the top story two israeli soldiers face up to three years behind bars for forcing a palestinian boy to search for the traps during the gaza war five years ago israel reinforced a van though using civilians as human shields the palestinians say it's constantly breached. the world's twenty fastest growing economies on easing fears
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