tv [untitled] November 10, 2010 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
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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 and now the thirteenth largest economy in the world north korea may just like some four kilometers north of this freedom bridge and demilitarized zone but economically the two are worlds apart the threat from the democratic people's republic was 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 bolstered united states is going to try and saying we want you to commit economic suicide just like japan did we want you to follow the
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same thing we want you to revalue their currency we want you to squeeze your companies we want you to go bankrupt while you can imagine what the chinese are laughing thinking here are you guys. countries don't work like that and yet washington stands accused of allowing its own dollar to windle wallinger merging 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 flop 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 more cold. needed approach we
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don't want surprises from partners. we want. a more intensive. and central banks. and this can lead to great 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 us 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 devaluation 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 warmed at the weekend but that's not what barack obama wants to hear the president's call for germany
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along with china and japan to rely last all their dominant export markets and spend more at home is calling what 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 from 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 country's trade it 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 seoul south korea. while politicians in the u.s. have been blaming other countries with economist marks for audible from the new school university in new york believes it's wrong for america to try to spread its misfortunes to other nations. it's absolutely true that the united states of late
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has made don't mess to clean self-serving policy that was short sighted 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 the 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 the sort of every man for himself scenario and what these g.
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twenty meetings do is provide an opportunity for us to all get back on the same page or if they don't go well 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. staying in seoul where russia and south korea have called on pyongyang to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible and present that if that simmering tensions in the region could boil he was speaking at the south korean counterpart ahead of the g twenty summit and that it said north korea's atomic program is a challenge to international nonproliferation plans he stressed that the problem can only be solved through peaceful diplomacy the russian and south korean leaders also pledged energy and trade deals as well as agreeing to help the child this organization. and from own they cannot make something so that in depth analysis of the russian positions state chains for i'm going to be
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with russia's g. twenty gave us a call that a little later this hour with the extended version to our website at. come out in just a few moments call the police. as well in offices mall police national day of facing major reforms and also the plans will help restore public trust after a string of notorious scandals. britain's biggest protests yes again the deep counts the country faces a tackle its massive debts turns assassins of students poured into the streets against a planned hike in tuition fees which could see them trouble to nine thousand pounds a day off his london correspondent laura that house. behind me is the headquarters of the conservative party and demonstrators have gathered outside that shouting slogans burning that van is in the middle of the courtyard there is
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a large fire that they've made that burning things on throwing sticks visit blocks police presence inside the courtyard as well and they've managed to break one of the windows of the building at this moment to demonstrate the same as to make that way i want to bring up from where they are waving banners the police are all involved police in riot gear have been holed 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 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 because we've seen demonstrations all labor europe students and trade unions a large they all around twenty five thousand people are from the streets we think will they obviously it's impossible to get make that number but that processing an
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increase in fees for university tuition of around three thousand pounds travelling to around nine thousand pounds and that is just happened in two thousand and twelve if no one does anything about it i speak to students about why they turned out today i'm assuming so i think it's not right to assume. a regular here even though the government claims this is necessary to hold the whole new level we know for a fact there are many other ways you can help with this example that should only be seen in financial terms so we need to think about what education is actually for one who it's forecast for the water just simply. to buy. power backed up with this is that extraordinarily david cameron the prime minister has agreed to increase the amounts of money that person gives to the european union every. if we saw seven hundred million dollars it's already been suggested that. he. said very simple to balance the.
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needs of the european union and the seven hundred million will be upwards of one billion dollars now this is really the first address to be seen in not to stop people expecting that it's about. you. and james pryor his chief executive of the e.u. referendum campaign previously told is 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 you know our cases are going if we pull out or least have a referendum and so on and pulling out would be saving that money we can you know we can look at all sorts of other savings and all these vicious cuts that you know that cameron and clegg are bringing in the. rich talk that you know this is an organization that hasn't had this accounts altered for fourteen years i think if
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i'm right from saying they've just rejected the latest round of. accounts i mean you know this is 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 mis advise on 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 as one hundred twenty billion we send over then we get money back and yes absolutely of course we do go to break it down to term that we can all understand it's the equivalent of sending them two pounds sixty and they give us a pound back that doesn't make sense to me. racial discrimination and inhumane prisons are among the accusations being leveled at the united states by the un human rights council the international body has been telling the how it can clean up its act but is married up or deny explains from new york america has a long way to go until it reaches standards. freedom justice and peace for the
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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 everyone. tension centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and executed janie's arbitrarily the u.s. dismisses many of the suggestions calling them political provocations by hostile
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countries he had even america's allies are highlighting grave flaws friends in 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 oh my 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 poor 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 or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams 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 now we go live as a member kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer. question is when the people speak who is listening the u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several
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other recommendations leaving many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do not party b. or. don't forget that there is much more to our website at all to check out all the latest videos of political blogs and analysis as well as top news that america will step in your life. and develop his call for justice of the claims that british forces sexually humiliated prisoners by forcing them to strip naked and watch soldiers for me to. summary the hottest russian fun comes to the rescue when it's time to beg forgiveness for forgiveness so by doing it thinking. that it was maybe shapes and sizes all the details that. russian police have marks their professional holiday but there's not much to
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celebrate after a plunge in public. just a string of alarming higher profile scandals including tellings have brought far reaching government reforms tried to clean up the force but it's still unclear whether the hole will actually work. investigates. 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 who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he would recall watching regretfully there are many you 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
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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 he called for a national inquiry and accused police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people the term did 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 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 settled 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
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the old militia and going back to the internationally more accepted police many said crossed revealing 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 knew that you could look at all those villains in the moscow region she would police officers house that's what you need to start confiscations. the proposals will be implemented next year in what will be a crucial stage in the force's history and history which has seen better days as this museum in law school 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
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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 a facelift and help put both the police and the police on the same side of the barricades. r.t. school. let's now take a look at some other new stories from around the world this police say found on a plane central england last month was plans to detonate over america's eastern seaboard the powerful device was originally sent by mail from yemen and hidden in a printer cartridge but it was detected following a teapot from saudi intelligence had gone off detectives say it would have exploded made at four thirty am on the twenty ninth of october authorities on both sides of the atlantic say they only merrily averted disaster. series of bombings targeting christians in the iraqi capital have killed at least five and left dozens injured at least eleven roadside bombs were detonated in predominantly christian
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areas of baghdad it comes after nearly sixty christians were killed when al qaeda militants took over a cathedral ten days ago in the capital. another tugboat has begun towing to shore a packed cruise ship which became stranded off mexico's pacific coast the vessel was on a seven day trip to the mexican riviera when a fire began in the. counting of the power emergency food supplies are being to leave it to the four and a half thousand people on board the economy splendor may reach poor by thursday the holiday makers will get their money back. officials have confirmed that more than seventy people are being treated for cholera in haiti's capital there are fears that the demick will spread more quickly because of problems with the water supply after last month's hearkened to march the disease has already left almost six hundred people dead outside court or perhaps huge numbers are now considered a triscuit among them one and a half million made homeless after january's earthquake which killed three hundred
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thousand. and let's go back to our main story now ahead of the g. twenty summit in the south korean capital seoul has been talking to the russian president's top economic adviser did work all that is interview is coming your way interest. well the time has come for another g. twenty summit would you think which issues will dominate the agenda. for.
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all to do traditional leaders discuss microcosm of can balance yes it is cold to cordoning so much crisis so we're all microcosm apologises this time around and saw leaders will probably fall. through is doing the. the system markets. in balances. can be created in the streets of created by the recent decision. to. expand into the mission in the united states potential. protectionist measures in other countries to make sure that the national markets are stable do you have a feeling that maybe in the recent summits there has been a certain failure to address long issues that the world economy needs and the
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focus is rather on these sort of short term responses to the events that happened to be happening. 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. collective decision making of the world. twenty will gradually move to a long term agenda. but it will take time it's still developing situation developing formal neither 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 so much interconnected in your.
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actions that may lead to a major trade war. can worsen the situation in each. 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 their measures are adequate and to what extent. is the responsible policy. domestically it's political or. domestic perspective it's hard to do and finding the right time consistent way to tighten the belt 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 see the danger of situations in europe. many people are
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more afraid of what inflation is about things we believe the budget deficit street below or. below 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 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 considering. in the russian to united states and all the future so this is the things that worked in this respect we are working
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intensively on concerning the remaining technical issues including issues related to all of the customs union our customs union just brought us into the stone if you will work. for our membership in the future but that's technical it's not a 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 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 in our system is much tighter than most of the countries so. normal.
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station. a more flexible trade system. we'll create. much more flexible environment for central bank to conduct. and also for. companies and people to plan. to do with major risk so for a one time. increase. reduction some of the exchange theory which is always. reciprocal rich thank you very much for the sense of the faulty thank you. wouldn't dare to swim so deep. that
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thousands turned to nothingness. it's almost rooms wounded. to such a to do. list the first but probably not the landstuhl military uses of this weapon. will make. sure the obama get on in the future. and again this is aussie coming to life from also the headline. the looming currency wars the threats into the shut us down that's all the world's twenty the most powerful countries that he does gather in seoul the last in china have been accusing each other many of you know using bad currencies to defense domestic
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markets. violence student protests have shaken london as it turns out thousands demonstrate against government plans to chop funding to get a vasectomy and triple tuition fees as part of spending cuts they want a about the biggest in britain since deep cuts were announced i'm told the country is not stepdad. and we do on human rights council accuse america of abuse including torture if you made prisons on the racial discrimination the international bodies says it's to trough guidelines to tell the us how to clean up its on its own. right now in our special report coming out we explore the sequence a world war two hidden under the depths of the black sea. with the banks and supplies loaded the years main event is about to.
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