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financial wagons while others try to cool the shots then there's the problem to the north this year's g. twenty is being billed as the financial coming out of the end of the south korea proof of just how far the country's come in the nearly sixty years since the end of the korean war once poorer than it's a northern communist neighbor it now boasts the thirteenth largest economy in the world north korea may just four kilometers north of this freedom bridge in demilitarized zone but economically the two are worlds apart the threat from the democratic people's republic lives particularly large and solace in taking any chances with security forces on high alert but it's another conflict on the g twenty leaders minds the outbreak of the so-called currency war the us lead the charge accusing china of cheating world trade by also officially weakening its currency it was the one to be pulsed it the united states is going to try and
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saying we want you to commit economic suicide just like japan did we want you to follow the same thing we want you to revalue their currency we want you to squeeze your companies we want you to go bankrupt or you can imagine what the chinese are saying they're laughing thinking here are you guys. countries don't work like that and yet washington stands accused of allowing its own dollar to windle roiling emerging markets whose own currencies are rising strongly and damaging their export competitiveness can plagues intensified after the third reserve announced a second print run of six hundred billion dollars the quantitative easing designed to get cash flowing but with other economies warry will float their market russia's president medvedev wants the summit to agree that when countries like the u.s. take big steps to save themselves they consider the ripples it causes and get permission from the g. twenty first. the russian position is that we need to be more coordinated approach
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we don't want surprises from partners. we want. a more intensive. and central banks. and this can lead to some stability in the markets among other leading critics of germany the world's fourth largest economy its finance minister calling the us helpless i don't think the u.s. is making its case any stronger through the measures that is taking through printing dollars to weaken its own currency because that looks far too much like a competitive devaluations one hundred european countries see it as a dangerous move because what it could do is increase the capital control around the world the western european economy could suffer very severely if we move towards protectionism to something against which mrs merkel at the weekend but
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that's not what barack obama wants to hear the president's call for germany along with china and japan to rely last all bad dominant export markets and spend more and who is pulling all of death is the truth is that no one is happy with today's international monetary system especially the dominance of the dollar as a reserve currency and america's management of it even the head of the world bank suggesting a move for money to metal and letting gold become the currency and cold once again and what business leaders want the g twenty to realize is that nations will have to fight their natural urge to try and protect their own countries trade and should boost foreign investment so it has set the stage now it's time for the key players to live up to their part i listed it r.t. sells south korea economist mark fred wall from the new school university in new york believes it's wrong for the u.s. to inflict its economic disasters on other countries. it's absolutely true that the
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united states of late has made don't mess to clean policy that was shortsighted and that did not consider the rest of the world even though it's a well known fact that if the united states undertakes actions like quantitative easing that decrease the value of the dollar this can have negative and severe rounds occasions in terms of global money supply and the value of other currencies and it could look reasonably in some cases like the united states is trying to get out of its economic trouble by exporting that trouble to someone else in the depths of the sort of disaster of two thousand and eight in early two thousand and nine we did see it coming together with russian and brazilian and german and japanese and american and french leaders and british leaders coming together and trying to do things carefully so that each country could push its own situation up without hurting anyone else as soon as we began to see a recovery very different recovery in different places lagging in the united states we began to see this sort of every man for himself scenario and what these g. twenty meetings do is provide an opportunity for us to all get back on the same
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page or if they don't go well and it looks like they're not a real highlighting of just how different uncoordinated the policy is with the united states going its own way and setting a potentially dangerous example for other nations around the world to follow in the coming weeks and months. so there's a call for north korea to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible it comes from russia and south korea where president bush and the simmering tensions in the region could boil over he was speaking of talks with south korean counter the head of the g twenty summit said progress challenge to international plans he stressed that the problem could only be solved through peaceful diplomacy the russian and south korean leaders also pledged energy and trade deals as well as agreeing to help each other. and for more on the economic summit in seoul and an in-depth analysis of the russian position. do stay tuned for our interview with russia's g.
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twenty to go to. a little later this hour and there's an extended version too of that interview on our website r.t. dot com now in a few minutes here on our team tonight policing the police in russia officers market national day with a major revamp of the way we look at what the men and women in uniform could do to try to regain the trust of those they vowed to protect a report coming. first britain city's biggest protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts tens of thousands of students poured onto the streets against a planned hike in she wish in fees that could see them travel to nine thousand pounds a year artie's london correspondent laura emmott takes up the story. behind me is the head coaches of the conservative party and demonstrators that gathered outside that shouting slogans burning that banners in the middle of the courtyard there is a large fire that they've made that burning exult throwing sticks there's a large police presence inside the courtyard as well and they've managed to break
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one of the windows of the building at this moment to demonstrate the same as to make their way up on to the ring from where they are waving banners at the police to all involved police in riot gear have been told and to twenty twenty five police and right there are also trying to steal the situation out i've been approached by a couple of people as a news crew who've said to me that they want to make it clear this is just a small group of demonstrators who are causing this trouble and that the majority of this demonstration is still a peaceful one and this is the biggest demonstration that london has seen again still stares he matches course we've seen demonstrations all labor europe students and trade unions a large there are around twenty five thousand people are from the streets we think will they obviously it's impossible to give me that number but that protesting an increase in fees for university tuition for around three thousand pounds travelling to around nine thousand pounds and that is jesus happened in two thousand and
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twelve if no one does anything about it i speak to students about why they turned out today i'm assuming since i'm i think it's not right for us to. do maybe a year even though the government claims this is necessary to hold a whole new level we know for a fact there are many other ways you can help with this example that it would be seen in financial terms so we need to think about what education is actually for and who it's forecast for the water just simply. to buy. power the match up with this is that extraordinarily david cameron the prime minister has agreed to increase in the amounts of money that person gives to the european union every. and increased seven hundred million dollars it's also been suggested by an m.e.p. . a she said she said very simple to balance the. needs of the european union and the seven hundred billion will be upwards of one
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billion dollars now this is really the first time resting we've seen a lot of people expecting that it's about. london your of course. there will james prior's the chief executive of the e.u. referendum campaign he told me that pulling out of the bloc will save britain a lot of much needed cash. we're sending forty eight million pounds a day forty eight million pounds a day to the e.u. i mean that's a huge amount of money i mean our cases are going if we pull out. of a referendum and saying i'm pulling out would be saving money we can you know we can look at all sorts of other you know savings and all these vicious cuts that you know that come in and bring in the. rich talk that you know this is an organization that hasn't had these accounts altered for fourteen years i think if i'm right from saying they've just rejected the latest round of. accounts i mean you know this is
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that you know this is an unelected group of people it's all down to interpretation i mean they're saying anything i think cameron's been completely misses rise in this and i think he's also missed the mood of the people i mean the people are really now showing you know that you know we can't stand that it's all down to interpretation of one hundred twenty billion you send over them you get money back and yes actually of course we do. break it down to terms that we can all understand it's the equivalent of sending them two pounds sixty and they say give us a pound back that doesn't make sense to me. next tonight any humane prisons torture and racial discrimination they just some with the damning findings being leveled at the united states by the international community and now the un's human rights body is issuing a list of how the u.s. should improve its record but as artie's report now found out america has a way to go until it reaches international standards. freedom justice and
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peace for the world must begin with freedom justice and peace in the lives of individual human beings america long the self-appointed global leader on human rights pointing out the shortcomings of others for the united states this is a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity but scenes of injustice like these are taking place not in other countries instead happening right here in the u.s. a point being made by the united nations human rights council in its first comprehensive review of washington's record two hundred twenty eight points to be precise recommendations on how the u.s. can do better in practicing what it preaches might want done up. tension centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and execute detainees arbitrarily the u.s. dismisses many of the suggestions calling them political provocations by hostile countries he had even america's allies are highlighting grave flaws friends in
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ireland demand obama follow through on the promise to close gitmo britain belgium and dozens of others calling on the us to abolish the death penalty for many it's the ultimate hypocrisy how a state with roughly three thousand people on death row lectures the world about humanity almost like a case in point mumia abu jamal viewed as america's very own political prisoner the united states the perpetrator of gross human rights violations is using human rights as a political football against its enemies and its enemies are enemies not because they violate human rights necessarily but because the us wants to change the government in their country the country often accusing adversaries like syria iran and north korea of oppressing citizens is now faced with defending domestic practices like indefinite detention for prison conditions and racial profiling don't stand idly by don't be silent when dissidents elsewhere on. in prison america
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is home to the world's largest prison population with two point three million people currently behind bars children can be sentenced to life in prison a place where more than one hundred undocumented immigrants have died while awaiting deportation. increasing discrimination against muslims another blemish on america's human rights record. hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime a practice other countries term entrapment aleesha macwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a living hell we go lives and never kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leading many to ask if u.s.
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exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do sure enough or not artsy. that's one of the stories we've got. also the iraqis calling for justice for claims that british forces sexually humiliated prisoners by forcing them to strip naked and watch soldiers having sex with each other disturbing story it's online on our own page tonight so when summary is the hardest word or you're just too chicken to say it a russian first now is taking the pain from giving an apology by doing it for you to cheat text messages and face to face groveling most of the flowers like these but i don't. so that takes the meaning of it away but if you want to see don't call . russia's police officers mark their professional holiday on wednesday but looming layoffs and reforms are leaving little room for celebration for them right now a string of high profile scandals the same public trust in the force plummet
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prompting the government into action while many agree that an overhaul is overdue not everyone is convinced it's to work pushkov explains. their pictures which shocked and asian and left the image of russia's law enforcers in tatters it's now over a year since this drunken shooting spree by police officer. killed two and wounded seven others but the case remains one of the most alarming in a series of high profile police scandals it also came as a blow to people like former officer alexander we do hear who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he would go. regretfully there are many years ago there i'm a former policeman myself but even i try to avoid police officers they have guns and they can shoot it was also last here that a young officer tried to blow the whistle on police corruption with an internet video and sparked a political storm i have many acquaintances in the police who care about the truth
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he called for a national inquiry and accused police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people the bill planted a wave of similar revelations as other officers came forward the interior ministry itself admits more than one hundred thousand offenses involving police officers were registered in two thousand and nine alone. you know in the one nine hundred seventy s. policemen were motivated by reasons that would be totally on appreciated today we work to solve crimes for the excitement of the job and for justice to prevail. in response to the scandals president dmitry medvedev ordered a multi-billion dollar reform of the interior ministry last december the new measures set out to make clear the rights of the police and those they detain one of the main talking points however became the new name for the force leaving behind the old militia and going back to the internationally more accepted police many
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said crossed rimming the biggest concern and worried about the costs of the name change for the life of me i don't understand why we need to spend so much money what will they be changing the lettering on the cards. it's no use changing the name first we need to take a look at all those villas in the moscow region she which police officers as houses there that's what they need to start with confiscations the proposals will be implemented next year in what will be a crucial stage in the forces history and history which has seen better days as this museum in moscow testifies the museum tells hundreds of stories of bravery courage and heroism this is the list of those who died in the line of duty however the organizers of this exhibition say there are many more out there whose stories remain unknown but the image of law enforcement in russia remains a tarnished one the question now is whether the reforms will be more than just
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a facelift and help put both the police and the policed on the same side of the barricades darya pushed over r.t. school. you bring up the devil's worldview stories in brief british police say the form found on a plane in central england last month was planned to detonate over america's eastern seaboard the powerful device was originally sent by a mail from yemen and hidden in a printer cartridge but was detected following a tip off from saudi intelligence had it gone off detectives say it would have exploded midair at four thirty am on the twenty ninth of october and i thought he's on both sides of it learn to say the only narrowly averted disaster. a series of bombings targeting christians in the iraqi capital have killed at least five left dozens of others injured about forty roadside bombs were detonated in predominantly christian areas of baghdad this comes after more than forty christians were killed when al qaeda militants took over a cathedral ten days ago in the capital more world marty officials have confirmed
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that more than seventy people are being treated for cholera in haiti's capital now there are fears the epidemic will spread more quickly because of problems with the water supply after her can thomas disease is already left almost six hundred people dead outside port au prince huge numbers and considered at risk among women one and a half million made homeless after january's earthquake. one twenty one moscow time knows the leaders of the world's biggest economic powers get ready to sit down in seoul people avails cross-talk guests thrash out whether the group's got any relevance anymore. i used to always think the g.a.a. was a waste of time is the g. twenty a bigger waste of time as it meets and saw no note there g.h. is that the g twenty is the new kid on the block is the real saying but in fact what matters d.g. to it's an official but this is where the action really is the us and china what is the us doing at the moment. q e two it's not the queen elizabeth granted to thieve
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easing that is exporting their dad all over the world causing inflation inside the us it's not it's going to be another bubble it's not going to solve the us problems and you have a valuable don't you want in china so these two hold the financial system all over the world by the balls. much more from cross talking about ten minutes time on this channel. and staying with our top story the g. twenty summit next our interview with the russian president's top economic adviser cutting the record which moscow's chief negotiator in seoul chat coming up next.
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well the time has come for another g. twenty summit would you think which issues will dominate the agenda join the twenty summits is going to do traditional leaders discuss microcosmic and balances. they discuss how to coordinate. crisis and the world. this time. leaders will probably focus on the issue through which to an international mind to the system markets. imbalances that. can be created in streets of can created by the recent decision. to. expand
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mind to the mission of the united states potential. protectionist measures in other countries to make sure as a national markets are stable do you have a feeling that maybe in the recent summits there has been a certain failure to address our long term issues that the world economy needs and the focus is rather on these sort of short term responses to the events that happened to be happening during or around the time that the g twenty summit is taking place. approach is quite natural in the station. just a few months ago the global economy and was hit by the crisis response immediate response was the main concern. for a new leader and for a collective decision making of the world. twenty will gradually move to long term agenda. but it will take time it's still developing situation developing former
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leaders suggest to each other and. i think they will focus on the longer term issues more and more including the soul side do you think a possibility of a trade war between the united states and china is possible as some experts are warning the two countries are so much interconnected in your. actions that may lead to a major trade war. can worsen the situation which. of the congress so most likely they will find a compromise let's speak of europe european countries have had to tighten their belts which has led to massive protests do you think there are measures are adequate and to what extent. is the responsible policy. domestically it's politically. limited perspective it's hard to do in finding the
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right time consistent way to tighten the belts is a huge challenge for any government in europe and across the world right now but couldn't they just do better by printing more money is the united states. inflation is always danger of the situations in europe. many people are more afraid of water pollution so things that we believe the budget deficit street below are. good or we believe that you can always find ways to improve efficiency or for your budgets for a new race you provide public services with less money or more money let's take a step aside from the g twenty for a moment and discuss the dead leaves here what are rush's chances of joining the world trade organization next year and what should russia expect once it's
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a member. joining the region next year because. they were the main reason being. a huge progress chief. in. the united states so this was one of the kiddies all of the recent period from tense appreciations. in the russian to united states and all the fish you're so. used to seeing that work in this respect we're working on concerning the remaining technical issues including issues related to all our. the customs union our customs union just below us and for the strong if you will work. for all of us our membership in the future but that's because it's the political if you're talking about protectionism while many central banks across the world are expanding their presence on the currency market and define the boundaries the russian central bank quite on the contrary has made
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the ruble even more flexible don't you fear that this might make the ruble too vulnerable and open the door to an influx of speculative money and most of the congress to compare also serious. to much more flexible exchange rate systems before our system is much tighter than most of the country so. normal. station. a more flexible exchange rate system. we'll create. much more flexible environment for central bank to. also for. companies and people to plan. so for a. one time. increase and so. reductions in the exchange street which
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is all this. is typical rich thank you very much for the sense of the faulty thank you. this is just a parliament building. sixty five years ago. the final target. drew from some from the army.
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its country became the symbol on the floor of the financial city of. the big three nazi germany. and around the world. for a headline update at one thirty am local time currency wars threaten to overshadow with some of the world's twenty most powerful countries as their leaders gather.
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student protests shaped london tens of thousands demonstrate against government funding to universities and triple sure we should face as part of spending. and the un human rights council tells america it's responsible for abuses including torture inhumane prisons and racial discrimination. as the g twenty summit prepares to tackle vital economic issues a nuclear arms cuts next people avails guests gatherings of the world's richest nations actually ever make a difference cross-talk just half a minute away on.

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