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all their 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 its northern communist neighbor it now boasts the thirteenth largest economy in the world north korea may just lie 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 lee 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 artificially 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. 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 while you can imagine what the chinese are laughing or thinking you guys choke and countries don't work like that and yet washington stands accused of allowing its own dollar to windle whiling 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 that they consider the ripples it causes and get permission from the g. twenty first. russian position is that we need to be more coordinated 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 all the 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 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 all weekend but that's
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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 gold 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 seoul south korea and while politicians in the u.s. have been blaming other countries for there was economist marks for the wall from the new school university in new york believes it's wrong for america to try to
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spread its misfortunes to other nations. it's absolutely true that the united states of late has made don't mess to clean self-serving 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.
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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 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. starting in software russia and south korea have called on pyongyang to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible president medvedev warned that simmering tensions in the region could boil over he was speaking at the talks with his south korean counterpart ahead of the g twenty summit and event of said north korea's atomic program is a challenge to international law including racial lines distrust of the problem can only be solved through peaceful diplomacy the russian and south korean leaders also clinched and injure and trade deals as well as agreeing to help each other's more nice nation projects. and from all the economic summit in saw an in-depth
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analysis of the russian position stay tuned for our interview with russia's g. twenty to go say to our credit about college a little later this hour with the extended version too on our website at. so this is also here and coming up in a few minutes call the police russian officers police national day will look at zero force facing major reforms and also if the prime minister will help restore public trust after a string of notorious scandals. student protests have turned into violence in the streets of london as turns of thousands of students have demonstrated against a planned hike in tuition fees which could see them trouble to nine thousand pounds a year the reality is that the biggest in britain says the government announces deep cuts to tackle the country's massive debts lauren that has more. social unrest in europe has spread to london what's thought to have been up to
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fifty thousand students from all over the u.k. protesting over having to pay three times as much for their university courses while education spending is slashed it began peacefully but descended into a riot as tempers boiled over outside the headquarters of the ruling coalition's main party the conservatives protesters burnt. banners broke windows and stormed the roof throwing projectiles on to police below witnesses and demonstrators were divided as to whether the violence undermined their cause i think this is a reaction by groups of restraint by government who is acting in an extra constitutional mana stat this once well first i guess that's what we dismantling the whole. situation is to support the rover boys diffuse a process joining previous joycean. rage was also vented at the coalition partners the liberal democrats they'd promise to phase out fees completely in a pre-election pledge for the students it's a u.
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turn too far as they told politicians don't make us pay for your mistakes. services it to us your fees will be increased have just been wiped out you know the government claims this is necessary to tell the whole new whatever we know for a fact there are many other ways you can help including chided have the right to be around zero tried and my generation which is the baby boomer generation benefited from education. which was then perceived as this as a public good and that's. why was it but education cuts are just part of the pain for hard up britain's spendings being slashed by up to a quarter across the board health care defense and benefits for the less well off yet money to pay for the european union will rise next year prime minister david cameron is promising he won't spend more than the extra seven hundred million
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dollars earmarked but an e.u. budget negotiator says that's not true it will be closer to a billion cash which critics say is money down the drain. 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 say when that's all 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 cameron and clegg are bringing in what's likely to make britain's cash strapped taxpayers see red even more is that for the sixteenth year running e.u. auditor's have rejected the books saying over ninety percent of accounts have irregularities from awarding dodgy farming contracts through to rampant inefficiencies when the associate measures were announced last month that didn't seem to be any tangible response from the british people and that may have slowed
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the government into a false sense of security but protesters laying siege to conservative party headquarters. the rabbit party under. torture racial discrimination and inhumane prisons are among the keys ations being levelled at the united states by the un human rights council thinks national borders been telling the us how it can clean up with its act but as marina portnoy explains from new york america has a long way to go until it reaches the last stand that's. freedom justice and 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 through 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.
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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 we want an up close guantanamo and secret detention 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 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 u.s. 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. of mom viewed as america's very own political prisoner the united
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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 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
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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 lee don't wake up because i don't know what and how we go lives of many 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. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do during the fortnight marty we are. don't forget that there is much more at our web site also your home so check out all the latest videos of political blogs and analysis as well as top news outlets have a look at all of that if you live. in iraq it's called for just that is that the claims that british forces sexually can relate prisoners by forcing them to strip
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naked soldiers with boring averted. until when the stories of the hardest to run. to the rescue when it's time to beg forgiveness for doing it we find that's what shapes sizes sort of shades sizes all the details and also you don't. russian police have marks their professional holiday but there's not much to celebrate for a plunge in public trust a string of alarming high profile scandals including killings have brought far reaching government reforms to try to clean up the force but it's still unclear whether the overhaul will actually work aussies darya pushed over 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
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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 him who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work i think 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 he called for a national inquiry and accused police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people. prompted 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
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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 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 they need to take a look at all those villas in the moscow region she which police officers as houses
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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 force's history a 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 with the reforms will be more than just a piece lived and help the police and the police on the same side of the barricades . r t. let's now take a look at some other international news stories. written lease a bomb found on a plane in central england last month was planned to deter made over america's
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eastern seaboard the powerful device was originally sent by mail from yemen and hidden in a printer cartridge but it was detected followed following a tip from saudi intelligence and 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 that line to say they only narraway averted disaster. a series of bombings targeting christians in the rugged capital have killed at least five and left dozens injured at least eleven roadside bombs were detonated in predominantly christian areas of baghdad it comes after nearly fifty christians were killed when al qaeda militants took over the siege will ten days ago when the countless. another tugboat has begun towing to shore a packed cruise ship which became stranded off mexico's pacific coast the vessel was in a seven day trip to the mexican riviera one of fire began in the edge engine room counting of the power emergency and food supplies are being delivered to the four
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and a half thousand people aboard the carnival splendor may reach pulled by thursday or the holiday makers will get them money to. have confirmed that more than seventy people are being treated for color in haiti's capital there are fears the epidemic will spread more quickly because of problems with the water supply after last month's hurricane tomas the disease has already left almost six hundred people dead outside port au prince huge numbers and are considered a tryst among one in the home million made homeless after january's earthquake which killed three hundred thousand. back to one story now ahead of the g. twenty summit in the south korean capital seoul he's been talking to the russian president's top economic advisors are called it. is coming your way. well time has come for another g.
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twenty summit would you think which issues will dominate the agenda. or do traditional leaders discuss. balances discuss how to coordinate. crisis and. this time. leaders will probably. do it to a rational mind to the system markets and imbalances that. can be created seems to be just completed by the recent decision. to. expand into the mission 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 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. in the station. just a few months ago or were on the global economy and was killed by the crisis response immediate response was the main concern. for. collective decision making of the world. twenty will gradually move toward a long term agenda. it's happening. but it will take time and it's still developing situation developing form of the there's a just to each other and. i think they will focus on a longer term issue 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
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warning the two countries so much interconnected in your. 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 there are measures are adequate and to what extent. is responsible policy. domestically it's probably. limited 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 a danger of the situations in europe. many people are more
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afraid of what inflation is about things that we believe the budget deficits to do lower. the view or we believe that you can always find ways to improve efficiency or for your budgets for a new race or you provide public services. less money or more money let's take a step aside from the g twenty for a moment and discuss the deadly what all rushes chances of joining the world trade organization next year. what should russia expect once it's a man bashing since joining the region next year are bigger than. they were the main reason being. a huge progress achieved. in. the united states so this was one of the kiddies all of the recent period different. from the russians united states and all the free sure so if. you think it works in this
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respect re a water content. concerning the remaining technical issues including you should related to. the customs union our custom unit is below us and for the stone of your work. or over our membership in the future but that's technical it's 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 countries that we compare also serious. to much more flexible exchange rate systems before our system is much tighter than most of the countries so
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we're coming to a normal. station. a more flexible exchange rate system. we'll create. a much more flexible environment for central bank to conduct its monetary policy. and also for. companies and people to play a. major risk so for one time. korea's. reductions and the exchange traits. which is almost creased the civil code which thank you very much for this interview for r.t. thank you.
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defend the mexican. violence student protests have shaken in london as tens of thousands demonstrate government plans to funding to universities and triple tuition fees as lot of spending cuts the boundaries of the biggest improvements as deep cuts were announced a time all the country's mindset at. the bottom invites us to look these america never uses including torture from a prisoners and radical racial discrimination the international borders says it's to drop guidelines to tell did you ask them to clean up its own. headlines not only interview shows but what is up next and ahead of the g. twenty summit in seoul also speaks to the fallen to underwrite so the g. twenty eight research groups.

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