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maiden's regional. particles are moving medicine and it was punished with repercussions from its. fueling of the tensions rise in libya as nasarawa lines plan for the sponsored military team to advise the rebels against the local government says warhol bring the kids. quickly worn out will prolong the conflict more reaction from me here in london in just a moment. as the world bank warns of a new crisis violence experts say it's time for america to step back from its dome and a role in the global economy and focus on reducing its own colossal tax. policy in georgia despite a growing social welfare system with very few actually receiving government money
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and more than half the population of below the poverty line. and a massive rally all around global markets but on two percent oil is up gold breaches the float fifteen hundred per troy ounce mark find out more in our business goes around twenty but it's. a very warm welcome to see this is seen live from moscow france's promise to intensify air strikes in libya at the request of the opposition there it comes as nato allies are getting ready to set the military officers to the war torn country to advise rebels on how to break the stalemate with craig and you forces with tripoli has criticized the plan saying we're promoting the violence on home the peace deal more and it reports from london on how the decision is being justified.
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by the allied they're saying that these are not supports on the ground they are in fact military advisers they are armed. and apparently they're not going to wear uniforms and they are actually what's called what's being called organizing the rebel troops as opposed to training or arming the foreign secretary william hague here in the u.k. saying that they're going to be involving intelligence gathering also in logistics and in teaching the rebels how to improve communications strategy and many people are saying that this is the biggest move yet to ward putting troops on the ground as most of these governments have said they don't want to do now i spoke to john barrett and he who is one of only thirteen m.p.'s voted against the intervention in libya against a total of five hundred fifty seven who voted for he has great worries about how this mission is progressing i think the majority of people in this place voted for
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a new direction and i respect you. assumption about humanitarian aid to the north korean war and that it had the legitimacy of the u.n. resolution to ground troops and i think would clearly go beyond that resolution it seems becoming apparent is that we now know flying in effect becoming the force of the rebel fighters and i question whether that was within the spirit of the real solution as it was originally defined i should say that when i spoke to john baron he said that there would be huge public outcry if ground troops were deployed in libya but nevertheless there's a lot of worry here in the u.k. government so much so that members of parliament from all parties have requested that parliament be recalls from its easter break to discuss what is happening in libya and whether this does constitute mission creep tripoli's very angry about the foreign minister has come out and said that this could indeed worsen the conflict and in fact. peace deal between the rebels and the current governments further into
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the future he said that it would encourage defiance amongst the rebels if they thought that they were getting an ever increasing amount of support from nato and of course the ultimate worry that this is just the first step in the on look along the road to sending in ground troops many say that this situation could turn into a similar situation to the one that we see in afghanistan where of course british forces have been involved there for ten years and counting one prominent politician simming campbell went one step further reminding everyone that in fact the sending of military advisers in exactly this situation was what because the u.s. is first moved when they went into vietnam. here with r.t. coming up on the program does lost hope in the caucuses. i have no time no job no money and no social support all i can do is say not going to church so i can feed my sick child impoverished children so that their periods of
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government which they claim is helping them get by despite promises of a better welfare system. global finance ministers the demand to go to action to avert another devastating economic crisis the world bank and i.m.f. driven primarily by the us and usually the first port of call for the nations looking for financial support for the poor ny reports washington is in a position to advise others struggles to cut its own huge deficit. and you will spring gathering about the world economy produced a dreadful financial forecast we are one shark away from. critics say through the establishment of the international monetary fund and world bank america has positioned itself as an economic dr to the world using the institutions to retain global domination and fulfill the business. interests of
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large corporations craving resources belonging to cash strapped countries what they do very often pressure governments to what we call prosecco the economy is weaker than recession and they want to cut spending or raise taxes that can be very very dangerous slip back into a recession were i tell all too familiar to write in america the middle east. and most recently greece. where tens of thousands storm the streets protesting austerity measures public spending cuts and tax hikes. as the largest financial contributor law shinton also wields the largest voting power at the i.m.f. the furn of the i.m.f. it is run by the us treasury department with some input from the european approach there right there tells you most of the problem this is suppose that you know.
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something countries and it's run by just a handful or maybe just one and american has always served as president of the world bank since its creation in one nine hundred forty four but now with its own backyard in disarray america is hardly in a position to hand out financial advice to others in two thousand and eleven america's financial management is best defined by a nonstop borrowing binge seat up talk over there it's a running ticker of u.s. debt which has surpassed a ceiling of fourteen point three trillion dollars now the u.s. may want to consider investing in a bigger clock with a few more digits on the display a problem so bad the u.s. president can't ignore it and the government can't seem to solve it we have to live within our means we have to reduce our deficit republicans have refused to support measures such as raising taxes on the rich or cutting defense spending. on
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a par with the total g.d.p. of the country this is very serious because most economic research suggests that countries tend to decelerate in their growth and have more and more severe economic problems once the debt to g.d.p. ratio gets above about ninety percent or we're about to go through the rubble all eyes are now on the nation that sets the bar for others to see if it clean up its own dad gets home. archie new york. one of us has to passing thousands of secret government documents to wiki leaks is to be transferred to a prison bradley manning has been held at a marine base in the usa to geneva for the past ten months in conditions that his supporters claim amounts to torture. as david says washington is trying to make an example of money to serve as a warning. u.s. government probably has already achieved its out objectives in this case i mean
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they've treated him so harshly and so severely denying him his basic rights really both legally and in terms of human rights and that the warning is out that the and the message is out there anybody else out there who who wants to do this use a u.s. citizen in wants to to be this kind of informant insulin is going to be treated in the most harsh way his or his or her life will be ruined just like manning's life is the agreement they will keep him and they will deal with him very harshly and it killed he is an example for others not to do this the u.s. government is going out there are many of his supporters of wiki leaks or both the people who work work. and also to people who give them money and so it's a general sort of white neck that they're throwing you don't see much in that in
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the media but they're caught they're caught under constant investigation and surveillance a lot of these people and so they're very nervous many of them in who live in europe are afraid to come back here into the united states. on the way the u.s. looks to improve its economic standing like throwing a new energy we still find out what i think stacks names of sale gas cooking both to the health of the american. pla fifty three s say they come find a decent job at home because they want to work with that in just a team in. georgia says it's do all it can to help people through holiday economic times but not everyone's people because of poor thousands who have been able to publish the line struggling even to afford to put stuff. on the table top of the report from tbilisi. the small sunni country of georgia has long been known
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for its fresh organic praja use recently it seems that fruit of georgia's economy has been rotting away. people come to the market and don't buy anything because they can't afford it out of both the good of your own living i knew them potatoes a local everything else is imported from greece and turkey and iran and it's so overpriced once a year anyway because we have to try and sell something so we can eat. it yvonne knows all about having nothing to eat she hasn't even been able to afford apples for handicapped daughter too expensive the other money i have no home. no money and no social support all i can do is sit outside a church and beg so i can feed my sick child the only money we get is my pension around thirty u.s. dollars a month and miriam's pension altogether comes out to about seventy five dollars a month so that we have to eat pay the bills and buy medicine from the area which
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is impossible where young has cerebral palsy and is in desperate need of surgery it can only be performed in germany but her family has no hope of raising the money i don't really i mean on the work she's already had eight operations needs five more but i've almost lost hope i even went to a charity t.v. show but it turned you down. get one and her family live well below the poverty line and in this they're not telling. you for a. second percent of the population. on the border. you know. the georgian government has a growing social welfare system that includes cash benefits free or low cost health insurance. pensions and found chairs for daycare these social benefits are aimed at the poorest of the poor however actually thousand and nine world bank poverty
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assessment showed that only thirty percent of those citizens actually received cash assistance and it seems qualifications don't help either. in the run as a professional singer and in these tough times music is all she and her daughter have. but the only real music to their ears would be an offer of help something neither has much faith they'll hear any time soon. the government is claiming that it's doing everything possible in the current financial climate to help which people. are georgians clearly no money for even the basics like food medicine and living like this it's clear that the poverty line is very evident in the heart of the georgian capital. r t v georgia. now some other international news this hour and there's renewed violence in yemen separate incidents and some government protester was killed by moves like government and the
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police in the dying to the clashes it comes a day after security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the capital sanaa killing at least five victims died gunshot wounds and nine others are in critical condition meanwhile the u.n. which held a meeting of the crisis in yemen failed to agree diplomatic response. heavy gunfire has arrived in the ivory coast capital is forces loyal to the new government trying to destroy the minister of the deposed president is part of attempts to reestablish security following heavy fighting earlier this month it's our bball he was arrested last week helping me read in french forces during a raid on his residence in abidjan. the european union's executive amazons for a significant increase in the annual budget risky in the round with member states the european commission wants to be the five percent well above inflation last year
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the approval of the twenty eleven budgets or legs downs of britain and several other member states many countries argue they couldn't pay more while also imposing austerity cuts that have. now only as modest reserves of natural gas in the united states is preparing deep underground friendly's source the extraction and use of shale gas has been given top priority but experts warn the risks to health and the environment are not being taken seriously enough the really good reports. it's cheap it's readily available and it's made in the united states washington has healed she'll gas is the next big thing energy development over the top five years the u.s. has invested billions of dollars into the field bringing cheap energy to consumers chil deposits lie deep underground and unlike natural gas she'll is widely available in the u.s. which means the country doesn't have to pay for imports. for. the shell revolution
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stems from high gas prices and setting up a great question right now is how will the shale gas industry survive when other gas prices are one hundred two hundred fifty dollars which is four times less than they were say six years ago. despite that european countries are also looking at potential shale gas resources these here torie these with some hesitation rights now it's more holds then facts and we have really truth being can realistically about this source of energy we don't want to think it did terms of cause in russia like america had thought another potential plus of shale of course is stopping countries dependence on russia which the players most of europe with natural gas many already saying that if shale deposits are found in europe most. of supplying gas to other countries what's been happening for the rebels
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don't seem to be losing any sleep over there supposedly right because here's what. we're watching the situation and within the local it's very viable what it will remain a local gas blight it's impossible to extract gas to last for long and if you look at the shale gas suppliers right now you'll see that most of them are losing money . shale gas may be easily available but its development. does not come cheap but with what you order to get shale gas you must fill horizontally incessantly and that means the profit margin of the process gets lost very fast. and though the above administration has hailed shale as an environmentally friendly out from the natural gas a recent studies have put this under question several scandals have already broken out in the us because of the acts of shale gas development only environment and
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people's health. chill gases extracted by hydro fracking that means special chemicals around into the water to break up the rock formations the components of these chemicals are kept secret by the companies in the united states and claim it's a commercial secret part water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water so shell gas development poses a serious threat to the environment and health care in the united states may have done russian gas production two years ago but like any seeming miracle cure shale gas me move yet another false and dangerous economy. moscow. the first russian a through high three percent one hundred has to deliver to armenia for such a production why the plane makes its first commercial flight on wednesday and just over an hour's time the head of the project makes the aircraft stand out. for example if we consider the so-called super jet one hundred projects it's
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a craft control system is capable of warning the pilots of every possible emergency and so does not let the craft actually get into a situation where it's essentially an active aviation safety system control system capacities can make up for practically any pilot mistake. what do you see with the where the some governmental groups their heads find part of the internet ribbit to say about this video of them causing used to just go. well tough economic times have left two million young italians doing nothing this is to suggest they're not some work all stars being even the highly educated are being forced to rely on the parents cannot for ports a lost generation. for over a year now element has been trying to find a decent job but despite having a degree in linguistics and fluently speaking german french and spanish the only
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words she's been able to find were short term gates elena says hiring interns is simply cheaper for companies well many of those with a higher education are left behind and. if it doesn't improve it i don't see how it can the only way to find a job is to look for it bright and too tired of looking for it here and read it slowly. but while many can't find a job this guy doesn't even want to start looking for work and then he is twenty five but still lives with his parents who cover all his expensive weekend up after me and the then playing his guitar and video games to him illness problems or as unfamiliar as a job application moment pressuring and. work his glorying neither do i care about politics or the economy this is a free country and everyone can do whatever they want bending over stuff. he
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dillies national statistics agency calculates that one in five young people in the country is either unemployed or not studying that's over two million people so many are unable to find a long term work and some not wanting a job at all the statistics are quite grim to such and i've sent today's interview with an elderly has been dubbed the lost generation something totally incomprehensible to her elders. to. spend his whole life working in a post office now in retirement he says that back in his day it was much easier to find a job and thinks the current situation is absurd as a. youth is what life is there for it doesn't matter why they don't want to work what's important is that the government has to do something to provide work and making. interesting. about the. banking system the entire economy is
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in need of a major religious leader. especially since the young. in those eighties and production is in decline in one of the world's eight biggest industrialized mishits the last thing it needs is a future generation that's floundering. flunking out together. or forgets his political ways in the kremlin the way the red there has been called showing off his moves on the dolls floor a video of russia's president shaking his stumps at a reunion with university friends last year has become something of an internet sensation. i almost bet it could be seen here getting down to the russian ninety's hit american employee one with less than overwhelmed by the presidential power estus
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cried to style as dancing like a diode rushes leader said he and his friends were just having a good time to receive his news they'd be a little stuck in the license. i don't know i think it's my kids well if you want to have you all say on any of the stories we're covering simply head to our website r.t. dot com there's plenty more to discover there aside from the president dancing with his recent coverage videos out opinions they level are rounds of the clock is a quick taste of what's on like you at the minute but it's going to be very specially suppressed lives this saturday night and this year it falls on the same day for both conflicts i also don't believe there's a find out how russia is preparing to celebrate its. class but also give out your aims become more tourist friendly with every piece of underground tech set and translated. in seeing less for the details just a click away at our teams are. just
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a few minutes to meet she will have this hour's business headlines. thanks very much alice prime minister putin has been outlining russia's twelve month economic record to the parliament with a clear push to boost the country's output for modernization and by attracting foreign money i think that's how you know that i have been listening to what the prime minister has been saying. well it was all about summing up and setting goals during russia's prime minister's annual address to the country's law makers last year prime minister putin has promised that his government is going to do everything it can just beat up the process over the recovery of russian economy from the global financial crisis and here's some figures for you on that as russia's g.d.p.
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four percent in two thousand and ten that's more than in any order in the g eight countries and the forecast for this year's growth is four point two percent as for the goals the prime minister has said to the russian government and parliament was indeed increasing of foreign capital into the country up to sixteen seventeen billion u.s. dollars a year prime minister putin stressed the need to diversify russian economy from oil and gas sector spots judging by the figures that he's presented today indeed russia has recovered from the global economic crisis with much lesser losses than many experts had predicted for a second look at the markets and there's a rally pretty much every was not we cannot assume this oil continues to recover from earlier losses prices dropped sharply at the beginning of the week as a consequence of news of america's credit rating now being downgraded but now we are seeing hefty gains on bread and butter one hundred twenty three four c. a barrel light sweet has topped one hundred ten and
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a half well this is on increased stockpiles in the u.s. gold futures have advanced to the new all time record topping fifteen hundred dollars for troy ounce silver is also trading above forty five dollars per ounce its highest level in decades worldwide inflation and that concerns of course refresh metals which investors tend to use when they're starving themselves to mccutcheon from a vote of gold says the trend will continue. obviously when you look at the screen you see nominal prices a nominal prices are what we pay in every day basis for tomatoes or apples or hope for the nominal price of gold is going up however the real issue is. if you want to preserve the purchasing power of your money today you want to make sure that that purchasing power you have years out ten years out five years or whatever you want to find absolute store of wealth and that's the traditional function of gold and in the course what we're seeing right now is basically gold telling the world that the dollar devalue the dollar is falling. continue with the stock markets now u.s.
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stocks up because it is on an update forecast from in seoul with higher sales and results the company's stock is up six percent also better than expected home sales data is investor confidence. european stocks are also gaining shortly before closing both the fourth c. and the dax iraq well two and almost three percent respectively chosen carmaker closure jumping more than three percent off the course of the ten percent rise with its first quarter revenue. here in russia the market's always second consecutive positive session on the global positive picture and rising oil prices second it's in the stocks energy mages are among the biggest gainers was snapped up one point seven percent gas is up more than two percent and precious metals producers are also on the rise police call gaining four point three percent of a close as a reported output and revenue up sixteen percent in the first quarter. was really a rebound from a sharp so or four or five years i would look don't agree to off the us from the
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recent beside. and there should be we will seem to continue continuation of the cerebral mostly on the back of good results from the u.s. companies. into or for the first quarter. for what we in the future of the prices of the oil and there should be so short probably in the russian market was taking place to be the major we never swore the oil companies like ross there we sure were supported by the fact that management will be doing the share buyback it wasn't like the reason but it was because for four months all right we will be back next hour with an update of the latest business and sallis is next with the headlines to stay with us.
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