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bringing you the latest in science technology from. the future covered. the finance ministers new crossings to consider a big thing the bailout fund but experts. money to help struggling economies will save the euro. and just use your phones a new national unity government pays off a large protests sent the previous president elect so we look at why economic development is seen as cheap in turn making the country once again a beacon of stability in the region. a waste in the water claims of a big area it's close to close by sunken nato weapons spock's concerns over a toxic legacy that is in danger in people's hands. and in our business update we take a closer look at will be the big winners from the huge deal between oil giants and
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the multibillion dollar partnerships controlling its all the russian all takes energy trips. with news from russia and from around the world this is all in moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour european union finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss boosting that bailout fund after the european commission said the current one is too small if more countries such as spain and portugal need emergency funding blue member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party believes nothing will save the euro because the single currency project was flawed from the start. this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people putting serious corners of money into it the germans calls the germans are getting cross because the whole of the bottom
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of the bucket so what's actually happening it doesn't matter how much money you put into this huge bailout bucket it's not going to somebody's seals up the holes at the bottom of the broke the portuguese broke the spanish broke the greeks broke the broke it's plain to see that nothing's actually working the only thing that was working at the moment is the german economy and the dutch economy and some of the coal country is everything else is going badly wrong as i said it would do ten years ago when i was a guest lecturer at cambridge university this whole concept is absolutely absurd you can't have one currency for sixteen or seventeen different economies simply can't work it isn't working it's floating out like a deck the whole thing was ridiculous from the start and it's ridiculous now and moreover the more serious that a lot of very small people are going to be hurt by this and i think the people who drove this euro zone project through should be criminally culpable and i would like to see them when this finally breaks probably next year i'd like to see them go to prison. we've got twenty seven members results twenty seven different cultures
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different languages different economies the whole thing is tough enough to be diverse because a few people have this dream of a political unity and a european union project they've stuffed everything into the same paulson it's going wrong it's been going wrong for years the euro is just a sort of phenomenon getting worse and worse don't forget the new treaty the new constitution we had was voted down by the french down by the job the british have mean given a referendum which they were promised by the main political parties this whole thing is going wrong and it's been an idea of the political class for years and the problem is we have now is the biggest divergence between the political class the bureaucratic clausen the electorate this whole thing has no legitimacy dymo democratically whatsoever and so it's breaking up. so is the global financial recovery in danger well that's the question up for debate in peter bell's cross talk show the full program is coming up later in the program. we've all heard of
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the iowa triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats lobbyists politicians and special interest groups all getting rich at the expense of the american people that should outrage and upset everybody and it happens unfortunately not just in america it happens in europe with the special interest and i worry it is happening in china where you guys they make this evolution a free market system that's been great hundreds of millions of people have a higher living standards any and i just want to comment on if he likes it so much so i would i would really like him to i do think here i mean given the way the united states is going and europe is going i mean seriously i think. maybe one of the options.
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that's crosstalk later here on r.t. . has formed a new national unity government to prepare the country for elections days after the former president was exiled following widespread violent protests the new ministration led by the prime minister marks the first time the opposition has been given a share in power president ben ali was ousted after twenty three years in office and is now in saudi arabia the country remains tense with some protestors a revolution to force radical changes in government. professor of international relations of middle eastern studies at new york university told me earlier what used to be a relatively stable country buffering europe and africa could now bring instability to the whole region. the problem here is not. for freedom and democracy the problem in tunisia and many other arab states is. a lack of economic development a lot. of opportunity. for good education what people need to.
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government to want to prevent. their own government. and various other states to have to focus on economic development in particular sustainable development in order to provide the people with opportunities for jobs. to rethink their situation and begin to reconstruct. government in a manner so that's going to meet the needs of the people but. we should not be starting in the united states. you have to start with democracy democracy an election about to go to provide jobs opportunities well still ahead for you this hour on r.t. breaking the law to help underprivileged a growing rich and poor u.s. is driving some into a new form of civil disobedience. and. let's assassinate president has been uncovered that's coming up later in the program. first
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the coastline of the adriatic sea it tracks tourists and provides income for fishermen but locals say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has dumped toxic chemicals there including depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by eating the fish caught there on the diminishing the real life italian government and the alliance remain tight lipped as matthew stevens reports . on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a military dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks which is present in these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and need a weapons used in the one nine hundred ninety nine war against serbia including depleted uranium i mean asian these weapons often contain toxic substances such as self or mustard gas and phosphorus. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it their secrets johnny landis has received death threats
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and been attacked this footage by landis reveals some can vessels in toxic waste on the seabed of poor u.s. coast fishermen here say the presence of the nato weapons is seriously affecting their lives and posing a threat to the local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in our nets we try and avoid them following the war ninety ninety nine the fish of practically disappeared from our waters with chemicals have affected our health too causing the skin rashes blood vision and so forth fishermen have had to quit their jobs because of the scarcity of fish this fishing co-operative in the seaside town are more fit emporia was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five nato says there are six contaminated areas along the edge or attic coasts but lana's claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean the true nature was lying twenty four areas are affected not six dilatation of these areas have not even be made public the population is being kept in the dark quatro his repeated
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attempts to raise the issue with his defense minister have led to nothing and the legacy of years of military dumping continues to be felt to this day with a local fisherman of still awaiting answers from nato we do everything we will. when. and. following. that will. we will. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities should be economic conversation for those affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the beautiful water of the coastline where stretches from the gulf of venice to the sea are magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for fisherman but lurking beneath the waves more than just fish.
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in the southeast of italy. the russian nuclear agency denies that iran's bushehr reactor could be damaged by computer virus this fall as western newspaper reports of the plant was subject to a sophisticated joint u.s. israeli cyber attack with something called from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations told r.t. that such an attack is completely unrealistic this is just a media western media report hype actually because of course all the nuclear installations throughout the world have for the so called double systems which actually prevent any. harsh or serious nuclear disaster even if there is a computer warm being in the system so i don't think that there is a major threat to. build atomic power plant. having in mind these computer war western media believe that this is
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a joint effort taken by israeli america because asians this is fairly dubious that this a joint effort could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program. called editor in chief of nuclear energy publication says although the potential threat should be started a chernobyl style scenario nowadays is in the realm of fiction. since the. reactors have been significant safety. by another one so i'm not so much concerned that such a scenario could be. just terrorist damage. but they're the same time for sure. we should be quiet. sponsible for
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security not the nuclear. facilities. where you can always check out our website. news stories and many more here's a quick look for you right now on the political process or way to get around you might want to check out the winter hop across a few more than a slow friendly sailing through. the website of. the freedom for charges to be pressed against. time used to spying in the u.k. as the russian woman is forced to wait months for a deportation hearing. civil
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disobedience has for decades been used in the united states as a means of resistance now instead of taking to the streets people caught in the center of america's financial crisis are choosing a rather different tactic. to reports it's a more quiet protest that has gone underground quite literally. the only language. in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we drove on here supposing what to say i was just getting somewhere with signs of the civil disobedience but these days with rising inequality and low wages in the us being a pressing issue many researchers and activists are documented wages are falling cutting benefits for people taking away their pensions there is evidence of a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country may not be quite paid to the papers there are no state making a right this is left with
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a razor heard call it economic difference they don't see it because it's going on underground. and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organized to raise a little money to buy subway cards offering unlimited rides they swipe as many people in his they can to give them a free ride a very resistant ferrites were resisting the cost of living is going up and so many ways for all the one of the activists who organizes this form of disobedience most importantly it's in response to an economic system he sees as unfair taxes are being cut for wealthy people in their bailouts for banks from all. over the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's wrong an american sociologist found the subversion of the system going on all over the country but she found these acts among business managers in the middle class helping out their employees
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and they really were about the fact that wages for some or all of these were managers who felt as though the people working for them during a jobs being responsible were still unable to take care of their families she found grocery store managers sending bags of food home with were. that's food managers padding paychecks with overtime wages she also found most of these managers believe breaking the rules is wrong but these people were saying that there are much bigger problems and ignoring the fact that people who are working very hard for you are i'm able to feed their children here is in the minds of some people at least that has become a bigger wrong in their eyes it's a bigger wrong people are breaking the rules to make right whether it's in all these low income new york neighborhood neighborhood people who don't really have much of a powerful voice or whether it's behind the closed office doors of the middle class breaking the rules because the economic imbalance in the country and what seems in
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america to be the rising disobedience of modern day that are going to bail us out this is what will do to ourselves or lauren lyster r.t. new york has to have real money for fake purposes in just we discovered money donated from abroad the people in need in india ends up in the pockets of conmen. story still to come of first nine people being detained in western ukraine for reportedly plotting the assassination of the country's president the police have descended on the village where the presidential plane was to take off on the flight route was subsequently changed your action came as a result of the police discovery of alms in the village charles maltese and actually going to ask you has more now from camp. nine men were detained in the western ukrainian city of havana from calls for an alleged assassination attempt of the korean president. which these men identified themselves as members of the
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radical nationalist organization called the local police reports that in the house which these men were renting just ten kilometers from the airport they managed to find a whole stockpile of weaponry including explosives grenades kalashnikov assault rifles guns and never gave systems and even make up for disguise this according to the local authorities makes them believe that these men were plotting an assassination attempt of the korean president viktor yanukovych who is now on visit in the west of ukraine along with the parliament speaker of the libyan who was also threatened to be assassinated according to the local authorities experts are now speculating as to whether it was possible for the man to gun down the airplane from the ground because they had no rocket launchers in the stockpile of weaponry only sniper rifles and this is now being discussed whether it was possible to gun
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a plane down but obviously these threats were taken seriously by the presidential administration and he had to reschedule the flight in the west of ukraine not to suffer this attack. now a brief look at other major headlines from around the world filled with banker we can beat the bank account details of over two thousand rich and famous individuals and corporations the banker announced that he wanted to expose massive tax evasion schemes in the name of justice set to fly back to switzerland to stand trial for stealing information from a bank and is currently on bail in the waiting an extradition hearing stated that the files will be released to newspapers and fraud investigations. but in poland has been hit by widespread france's thawing snow and ice overflow rivers many communities were cut off when water covered interstate roads firefighters work to prevent water levels from rising emergency services are also working to repair broken flood barriers and break down ice buildup on the rivers authorities believe
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that situation will stabilize and do not expect further flooding. israel's defense minister and labor party head says he's resigning to form his own political faction his new party which he says will be called independence will be based on zionist and democratic principles its organization increasingly leftist views and lack of political cohesion was cited as the reasons for the split critics however accused iraq of corruption and of being one of the main factors for the downfall of the wants all powerful labor party. to india now here on r.t. and some charities are accused of being simply a front for con artists only open during the tourist season many so-called schools run by these organizations pocket the cash from well meaning foreigners a since they leave his current thing investigates. welcome to this school in board in eastern india the building in classrooms may look functional but classes are rarely held here. that's because it exists only to attract foreign tourists to donate
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money to the school trustees. so if you think we're running a business here you're quite right this is how i see myself by the way there are other n.g.o.s here who take money and don't even have any facilities. so. i'm sure there's good work. and this is a bit. of a start you can make. money. with india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many foreign tourists try to donate their time and money to a good cause when they visit. marie from france wanted to work with children and contacted a local ngo luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. have made some donations and. easy. money to make your son to be
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a. teacher but you can never be sure that the money you don't need here is put to good use there are four million names you hear and this huge number is compounded by the highly on organized nature of the nonprofit sector there is no uniform accounting policy order porting framework. there are many n.g.o.s that run schools and government manufacturing but the only run during the tourist season when the season ends and their activities also wind down children start going to school and then in winter when the tourist season starts again these n.g.o.s drag the children from the surrounding villages back to the schools but some groups are working towards increasing ngo called to belittle the true annual reviews and accreditation oxfam is a leading international donor and works with two hundred fifty local partners across india it conducts regular order to ensure its programs are implemented professionally we need to push our partners really and see that you know unless you
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meet some minimum standards we will not fund you anymore because we are the only thing and you also have if you don't look at global surveys we have the public's trust without i think many times i mean it they don't give it to us because they think we are doing good work we have it we need to not only men pin it we need to grow it and if we don't move fast enough then a few scandals in the sector could really bad very fast with n.g.o.s in india raising over eight billion dollars in funding every year the stakes are very high the government has banned forty one in jewels from receiving foreign funds in the past few years and recently revised nine hundred seventy six law that overseas and yours but do we see a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt more stay need god and seeing r t. be back with headlines right after the business update with sharon stay with us
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live. welcome to our business program. b.p.'s proposed a swap with rosneft worth around eight billion dollars has been met with approval by russia's third largest oil company t n k b.p. the partnership will see both the partnership will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's arctic cardinal shelf a lot of pointed analysts b.p. has proposed share swap with the us nafta is primarily beneficial for the russian oil giant giving it access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance analysts say the asset swap alone is very clever move by rosneft. earlier i spoke with jacob now chief economic the chief economist for russia and c.i.s. at morgan stanley who explained who the main beneficiaries of the deal will be each
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partner has to offer the other the opportunity to participate in a free. piece of business. in russia. but i think. that's the russian partners of b.p. into b.p. will be happy to c.p.p. shoulder the expense of course the risk of exploration and i think this is she will royce only if they make a significant discovery so do you see anything threatening the deal no i don't know with the support of mr putin mr search and i think that the deal will continue down the road an attempt. to participate in the event of success. introject mexico's second largest airline has signed a six hundred fifty million dollars deal to buy fifteen sukhoi superjet one hundred planes under the deal introject has the option to purchase five more planes first deliveries are to begin in late two thousand and twelve this is the first delivery
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project for russia's new type of super jet airplane airplanes to a latin american country sequoia international a joint venture between russia as to why a company and italy's alenia aeronautical currently has one hundred seventy orders for its two projects. and the russian stock market opened this week with its highest postings on the r.t.s. in my sack since the summer of two thousand and eight the main engine behind the upswing was shares in ross nast on news of a share swap with b.p. both the r.t.s. and my sex closed trading up on the day. closed nearly one and two third percent and the my sex close just over one and a half percent. and the russian markets are continuing to perform well in the first weeks of two thousand and eleven monday saw ross nast as the biggest winner after it announced plans to swap shares with b.p. but. investment company said the talk of upcoming i.p.o.'s was also driving the
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markets. also we can name a number of i.p.o.'s in the bible and first of all it's. called the worst song which is not a goal is for for serious mining division in the potential. for. also exposed by investors and also we should mention that there is a really strong minute for we saw last two weeks we xerox in equity funds. like three hundred million dollars which is around seven percent of total emerging markets in following the story of the really strong enough. and that's all the business news for this hour but you can always find more stories on the website that started out business stay with us.
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in the little. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean when i says yes you have a real mystery and it also makes it seem all across the globe countries one after another claimed foul play in helping others for value. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to
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seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was a do with deterrents doing what we call making our presence felt you go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner invade another. religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed a few one. thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until a feat you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid we don't need to hear a jew a religious jew calling another job i'm not willing. they wrote that in. repairing a broken ancient. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as
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shady officials look at the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan on the dollar. and up to. her. during. this history still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the heavens.

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