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yes china here to the point when new york city mayor michael bloomberg said enough is enough i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves but china is not the only scapegoat u.s. politicians used to score points. when it comes to security and defense issues there's a host of other countries actively promoted as boogie man in the u.s. flyers like this are being turned out by a major conservative think tank in washington their designs to form a negative public opinion on the landmark arms control deal with washington that's up for ratification in the senate it would be absolutely wrong for anyone to try to demonize russia at a time when we need russia's cooperation in order to limit the amount of nuclear weapons when it comes to the future of the start treaty the ramifications of
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washington's fear mongering policy can be destructive as far as i'm concerned forget about reset by not ratifying start by not going forward with w t o accession we are just going to bolster that latter group the people who don't want to do business with the west sending mixed signals has become normal business in washington d.c. has the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting walter isaacson has recently included the country's suppose partners china and russia on his list of america's enemies as he put it a statement that he later backtracked on speaking of capitol hill is popular trending demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the cahsee quinces may backfire badly. if you look at the u.s. you look at who were electing to congress to the senate they can't read i'll bet you a bunch of these people don't have passports we're about to start a trade war with china if we're not careful only because nobody knows where china
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is nobody knows what china is. fear mongering thrives where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to bogeyman theories and some us politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer is a fear will be able to ram any of the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure get a second r. t. washington d.c. . republican gains in congress may also stall the ratification of the latest russia u.s. arms reduction agreement the us secretary of state control has urged lawmakers to ratify it before next year that's when the new session of the senate will begin the new start treaty signed by both presidents in april and should cut the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third but it won't come into force until ratified by both sides something moscow says it's ready to do foreign affairs journalist josh rogin gives his explanation
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of what's holding washington back. if they've made this decision that they want to postpone the vote on the agreement come next year or if they just want to go down altogether or not pass at all that's a decision that's going to be made totally absent of the rational substantive arguments for against the treaty how it affects our security this is pure politics it's not really about the merits of the treaty it's about the politics of republicans versus the obama administration you've got the public in leadership who wants to sort of see if they really think this could be a benefit to national security and then you've got this far right group marriage foundation and their friends in some party some members of the tea party caucus who are just going to be against it off together who stands to benefit those who want to put an end to the u.s. russia reset as put forth by the administration the bottom line here is that what they have to benefit is to deliver a huge foreign policy failure to the bomb ministration what we have here is their white house putting all of the credibility of the reset process on this agreement and it's also one of the only few foreign policy successes that they can really
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there is a new thinking about russia both in the administration and in congress but for every action. there is an equal and opposite reaction so those who are skeptical of the u.s. russia relationship are wrapping up their efforts to oppose this new dynamic and that's what we're seeing here and unfortunately the takeover of the house foreign affairs committee by the noted russia skeptic representative roslyn points to increased power for this group within congress minority and small as it may be for resisting further u.s. russia cooperation. that was washington based journalist josh rogin well still ahead for you in the program here on arts he a toxic legacy for soldiers left decades ago and find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering also tired of days and violence on t.v. parents and children are turning into an unexpected savior so if you can't tune. while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of
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palestinians say they're living under apartheid a barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years israel says it's for security but palestinians insist it's segregation paula slee i went to check on what's hiding behind the peace facade. honey a mare lives on a hot piece of real estate but it's not because of his view seven years ago the israeli army bills had sworn in front of his house and behind it and to the sides of it so that now he's completely closed in this gate his only contact with the outside world and he's the only one with the keys but over all just trying different ways to get me to move they tried to force and also by offering me money indirectly they offered me an open show and told me how my life would change for it took the money and left the country construction on the wall began eight years ago
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among the nine hundred forty nine armistice line between israel and the palestinian west bank israel insists it's for security but palestinians complain it's a part hate and the international court of justice has said it breaches international law since the wall was built so ironically as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in businessmen who his son runs what he calls alternative twigs and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but he's highlight the wall of the mill mine mainly the work he was shot i have a lot of people been occurring in the polls you know on the i have like some jewish people come with an office of jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories it's shutting this well we i mean i as a fan of pink floyd that i thought that this world belongs to belong to the past so this is this people here cannot get inside jerusalem nobody some of them there but
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they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the box like. israel insists the was kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is infected feigns with less than four percent. concrete in the entrance to bethlehem you will see a concrete wall because in two thousand and four fifty percent of the suicide bombers that entered israel came from bethlehem so only in those places that has extra security sensitivity that's where the concrete wall was built elsewhere as you can see here we're talking about a regular fence with electronics but there's nothing regular about caging people in say this israeli couple who are taking the wall on to a goal to gussy is leaving for america where she's arranged to give talks and raise money to help palestinians are injured by a wall and that she can't leave without having certain elements. and you live in
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poverty but the war means money for some travel agencies winning business from showcasing or perhaps revealing in israeli security measures. if you're planning a trip to the holy land gone are the days of visiting traditional religious sites now if you go online you'll find two is like the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army territories and a tour that involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come and go he's stuck here him didn't buy ms rady wall paullus fear r t israel. well doctors say a russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in critical condition oleg kashin was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with metal rods on friday night nearly beating him to death russian lawmakers say they'll
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consider a draft that would toughen punishments for attacking journalists questions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years investigators unnamed accountants work for the commissar newspaper and his internet blog is the most likely cause for the incident the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials president dmitri medvedev their fans vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. while the vietnam war may have ended thirty five years ago but the suffering it created remains to this day the u.s. used poisonous herbicide called agent orange to destroy forests and agricultural land but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause horrific birth defects you may find some images and to read us out of those report disturbing. vietnam may be one of only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming hirees offices sprout up everywhere and the people have opportunities to improve their lives but that wasn't
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a vietnamese struggle and not for french all reasons. that saying all is fair in love and war has been used to justify many military decisions but when during the vietnam war the united states began deploying a chemical weapon nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those suffer from that most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even born at the time. who to whom is thirty four years old but you'd never guess by looking at or born blind and with many severe physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers of the hospital in one thousand eight hundred one and the doctors did some blots that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult second care of her because she's
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completely helpless completely dependent. for a decade american jets dispersed eighty million liters of the event brand new herbicide over the territory of vietnam operation ranch ranch did not win the war but did achieve its goal of destroying millions of hectors of agricultural fields and expose nearly five million people to its deadly poison half a million children in vietnam were born with severe physical and mental disability all because of agent orange. no u.s. government nor the chemical companies that made the herbicide have paid a single cent in compensation to those whose lives were destroyed by their work their only relief has come from the vietnamese government and various international organizations like the red cross who have set up so-called peace villages their affected children get their chance to live a life with as much normality as their conditions allow our homes who can treat
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kids and then detain them at the same time we only get fifty cents per child from the government but we need more of course to help the children home they study in a school on site play with friends living in the village and get medical and physical treatment from the doctors but not many of them will ever grow to be fully independent and self-sufficient adults and that is the harshest of all their burdens. even if the united states paid some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain. cash reserves are tea. and there's always much more you can sink your teeth into on our website that's on dot com waiting for you there right now you find out how. bad bush is many iraqis just smuggled alcohol into neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom and life. and. imperfect beauty becomes
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a game of russian roulette with tons of cosmetics flooding the market all the details dot com. let's go to some other world news this hour british prime minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with chinese premier wen jabo who described as fruitful cameron wants to double trade between the countries but is also facing pressure to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has offered to reopen dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with six major powers the islamic republic is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of u.n. sanctions have been imposed on with the latest round issued after talks stalled last year international concern still. is developing a nuclear weapon but tehran insists that this program is only for peaceful purposes
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. military political party has won eighty percent of the seats in the country's first election in twenty years the election caused fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces even forcing fifteen thousand people to flee their homes to neighboring thailand the poll has been widely condemned as being fixed with opposition parties alleging forward but china so far has praised the results. more than five hundred people have been confirmed dead from the outbreak of cholera in haiti there are still fears that the epidemic could spread to the capital port. nearly eight thousand people are being treated in hospitals across the country with dozens diagnosed with the disease in the capital or thirty is also fear the outbreak could worsen after last week's hurricanes. well made in the u.s.s.r. after almost half a century on their soviet cartoons are enjoying a revival renowned for their humor and gentle reality these golden oldies are rated
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by fans as a bigger draw than more modern creations but despite the huge appeal of soviet animation some say today's cartoonists are struggling to continue their legacy. reports. the cartoon time in the mask of each household. on the telly not the latest animation creations rather old soviet classics i mean apart from many other things these cartoons lay the very basics of my concepts about life what's good and bad what's bible and what's to be ignored. whether you like them or not these old cartoons have a huge following throughout eastern europe in the former soviet union and new generations are just as captivated. yes they gave us a very good message. to mental many say they prefer soviet
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cartoons even if they're decades old to western creations in one called hedgehog in the fog the little hero has to find his courage and some friends to help him out of the midst of that of god but mostly it's about good over evil he was lonely and fearful in the fog but able to tell who or what was around him but then he was helped by his friends and was rescued to hear the cartoons creators say is that works like his to live a healthy morals to children as well. work speaking of humaneness pope john paul the second used to say if you want to bring up your children in a humane way show them cartoons day you are. one of the most famous is culture of russia. where the furry little hero learns lessons about life and friendship with his crocodile friend again or another just you wait who can wolf chases a hare but without the violence of some of its western counterparts. when i was
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small i love to watch just to wait as for who is my favorite character i always pitied the world for the wolf was perhaps my favorite more than the hair. and here was one of the homes of modern russian animation the center of national film in moscow has helped create belconnen stroker a new animated feature film about the famous one nine hundred sixty s. . stocks so far is sold well but its critics say it is just a copy of american cartoons. certainly there are some american clichés nonetheless is a unique product a unique russian picture we tried gathering as much information as possible about the fifty's and early sixty's to demonstrate it in our film despite the team's hopes some old russian cartoon makers worry that the innovation of the soviet era is over the reason capitalism in the financial crisis have slashed state funding in half. with state sponsored films one could take a risk the film that didn't go to distribution could be written off the program
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produced it these days would never take risks he just wants to make money from films. which means that for now the mascot children who stick with the characters their parents watched soviet and russian animators have long innovated despite a lack of funding the cartoons they created seen if anything to be growing in popularity with the current funding situation as bad as it is the question is whether you need question animation can survive by children like these tom martin marty. america will be trying to reassert its dominance of global financial affairs of the upcoming g. twenty summit but as financial analyst michael hudson tells us here at r t the era of the u.s. dollar as though global reserve currency is coming to an end. all the countries at the g. twenty meeting that are coming up in korea realize that. over the question is how
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do you bury it in a way that is why you want to do what slowly you don't want to do it suddenly but very politely they'll to us here is over so essential that dollar will be a paper currency that can't be used so the irony of this is that the federal reserve in order to save that got into trouble by or. running crooked dishonest operations to save these banks they're sacrificing america's position in the world . and you can watch the full interview in just over an hour right here on our t.v. but next we have all the latest business news with kareena. hello and welcome to our business program here in our team good to have you with us business leaders across the world are continuing to lash out at the u.s. decision to print an additional six hundred billion dollars in new stimulus money
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central bankers and economists warn of inflation new bubbles and hot money inflows and russia could be on the receiving end of them all as the tentacle reports. teemu loss warrants. the biggest a fanciful on the west strand has washington's decision to print new hundreds of billions on greenbacks japan was first with over sixty billion dollars of financing but the us shot back with a round of stimulus ten times as big huge waves of hot money are expected to hit men in the eastern and southern emerging economies russia's official response so far is surprisingly positive but it could be some additional capital inflows into russia of course you know interest currently foreign capital is very small and we are interested in attracting further capital so in the short term this move can be seen as a plus for us. but to many voices are critical germany calls the u.s.
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policy clueless it will lead to artificial economic growth in the u.s. asset prices bubbles all over the world and eventually in march higher inflation that will erode incomes and savings if you are a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate this inflationary expectations in it's created in the streets which eventually would mean that treats would go up. credit activity as a result would slow. analysts say developing countries inflation is already quite high and they cannot match the u.s. moves by increasing their own money supply so analysts predict the dollar will depreciate against many currency is speculator of capital will do stock markets and keep assets overvalued in been bernanke is word higher stock prices will do to consumer wealth increase confidence and spurs spending analysts say this is simply
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a rerun of the acid bubble before the crisis burst as it must once again that's n.w. over businesses are to. investigators chasing illegal money substitution or long drinks say the main culprits are not banks but other industries like tourism charities part of the federal financial monitoring service says the global crisis has led to an upsurge in money laundering in russia. since the financial crisis broke out we've noticed a lot of new ways to say it's enough illegal money transactions for example charity projects sometimes are used as a screen for money laundering then there is the tourism industry which the state is investigating at the moment quite recently we found out that push two transactions are used for illegal money operations we need to establish a more efficient system of control but to do it in a way that does not harm the financial development of the economy. gold and silver surged to
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a record high fueled by inflation and eurozone sovereign debt woes gold is hovering around peak levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars per ounce mark sobers also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak analysts say these amounts for precious metals could continue amid low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and jitters over the global economic slowdown. time to look at how the markets are performing now russian stocks are climbing here in moscow higher gold prices are lifting shares of precious metals company's shares are only gold and only metal were both up on tuesday noticed nickel leading the gains on the r.t.s. up more than two percent that's up to a solid performance on monday by the mining giant close to four percent higher and european shares have also climbed to their highest level in more than two years on tuesday following better than expected results from adecco and barclays echo third quarter profit surge forty two percent and barclays partner third biggest bank said its capital ratio remains strong all makes gains about eighty seven u.s.
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dollars a barrel in europe supported by rising stock markets and we can dollar. the i.p.o. of internet group mail dot are you raise more than one billion dollars after banks exercise options to buy more shares according to the company banks including goldman sachs and morgan stanley bought three point three million depository receipts at twenty seven point seven dollars each stock has gained strongly sends its london launch last week rising thirty five percent as of monday. calls work has raised its annual profit forecast after its net profit grew by thirty one percent in the third quarter of two thousand and ten the danish brewer expected profit to be equal to the psychological baggage mark of ten billion danish grown which is equal to one point nine billion dollars however improved results supported by cost cutting and strong sales in russia have led to the revised forecast. and finally
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russia is set for a period of rapid growth according to the organization for economic cooperation and development the paris based on national institutions says the prospects for leading economies are diverging basis its forecasts are a series of forward looking economic indicators indicators the u.s. germany and japan will also recover strongly the o.e.c.d. says britain france and india will see a moderate downturn however brazil and china face an extended slowdown. and that's all for now join me next hour we'll hear what analysts think of this gold surge around the world.
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