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answer. from. the future. tonight on our teenage so allies agree to send a military team for advice libyan rebels despite warnings and strong opposition from libya's government. tripoli from the action is that britain france and italy will prolong the fighting and destroy any chance of peace in the absence than me in just a moment. as the world bank warns of a new crisis finance experts say it's time for america to step back from its dominant role in the global economy and concentrate instead on reducing its own colossal. cost of more than half the population living below the poverty line many georgians are finding it hard to put food on the table right now claiming
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government money doesn't reach them. and in business news russia will become one of the top five local economies in the next decade he says by the statements and as he outlines the calls for the country's government plans parliaments which a business bulletin for the details in about twenty minutes. very good evening from moscow this is see the international news broadcaster manager kevin zero in it's now eleven pm here in moscow and our top story tonight france has promised to intensify airstrikes in libya at the request of the opposition comes as nato allies are getting ready to send military officers to the water country to advise rebels on how to break the stalemate with progress afghan forces that is more on what's called these latest about. we've obviously heard that the u.k. france and now it's early as well are going to be sending what they're calling military
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advisers senior army officers who are going to libya we understand that there are going to be around advisers from each country numbers not exactly clear that they are going to be a part in order to protect themselves but they are currently not going to wear uniforms and they are there to organize the rebels apparently according to foreign secretary william hague and not to train or to own them hake says that they're going to be performing they're going to be helping the rebels to aids their intelligence gathering also to improve their logistics and to improve their communications facilities i along with this we've heard the foreign ministers obviously armstrong reiterated they've got no intention on the back of this old sending in ground troops but nevertheless this is still significantly off the contributions of only three countries in this intervention in libya and of course what we're hearing from the outside wall of the and from there is members of parliament and the people who were opposed to intervention in the first place is
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that this is a most significant move us towards sending in ground troops into libya which is something that the these governments have said that they are not going to do but this is been a day quite apart from that of really are paying the contribution of various nato members into the intervention in libya sarkozy the president of fronts he promised the rebels that he would increase the intensity of the airstrikes that france is performing and also we've seen the united states pledge twenty five million dollars in aid to the rebels now that they say is not weapons but it's to be spent on vehicles and medical and communications equipment well tripoli obviously is not pleased the libyan foreign minister said that this would worsen the situation as significantly prolong the fighting there by putting any kind of peace deal significant even further into the future he said that it would be encouraged defiance in the rebels that they would perceive themselves to be getting. much more support from nato than they previously been getting which would make him keep on fighting for longer and he says this is a clear violation of the u.n.
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security council resolution that only allowed for the protection of civilians in libya we've also seen to vision inside the u.k. parliament people are calling this mission creep they're saying also that it was outside the bounds of the u.n. security council resolution and that it contributes massively to the ultimate worry that ground troops will be sent into libya there comparing this situation with afghanistan saying it could turn into another afghanistan where of course british forces have been involved there for ten years and counting and also the u.k. has learned nothing from iraq or afghanistan that they're applying to this conflict and in fact a prominent liberal democrat politician has gone one step further in this talking about vietnam he says that the first step that the u.s. took before it went into vietnam and got so in broil there was just this to send in military advisers what is laura. correspondent i spoke to brian becker from the anti war coalition he told me the escalation of force by the coalition as he sees
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it could eventually lead to an invasion. that resolution was designed to authorize the beginning of military operations against libya but the real goal from the beginning has been to topple the regime or they never say we're going in to take oil that would not be a very popular cause they have to give the mission some sort of noble cause in this case protecting civilians in other cases protecting democracy or freedom or stopping terrorism i think a lot of people see through this in the american people by the way they see the war in afghanistan ten years in the war in iraq eight years in another war in a muslim country the american people don't want this they are being told that there's no money for nurses and teachers and firefighters because the country is broke but soon seemingly endless funds for another war in another muslim country can ruin sarkozy and obama say khadafi must go and if the bombing doesn't work doesn't that then mean in order not to feel that there has to be an endless escalation in escalation ultimately leads for a military invasion if they can't stop or oust gadhafi i think that's where this is
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going even though they say it'll never happen. well we want to know what you think about france italy and you case incision to set really true advisers to libya or a facebook opinion poll if you go time leave your comments there's always good to hear from you and also find the latest updates and videos at facebook dot com slash the news. if. this is our two from moscow and add in the program we report on the despair and lost hope in the caucuses. i have no hand and no child and no money and no
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social support and i can deal with finance get church like in feed my sick child impoverished georgians vent their fury at the government which they claim isn't helping them get by despite promises of a better welfare system. next the global finance ministers are demanding urgent action to avert another devastating economic crisis the world bank and i.m.f. driven primarily by the us are usually the first port of call for ailing nations looking for financial support because the result is when a poor liar explains next washington is in no position to advise others while he struggles to cut its own huge deficit. and you will spring gathering about the world economy produced a dreadful financial forecast we are one shock away from a full grown crisis 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
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interests of large corporations craving resources belonging to cash strapped countries do they very often pressure governments to what we call pro-cyclical the economy is weaker than recession and they want them to cut spending or raise taxes that could be very very dangerous could slip back into a recession worse by tale all too familiar to latin america the middle east. and most recently greece. where tens of thousands stormed the streets protesting austerity measures public spending cuts and tax hikes. as the largest financial contributor washington also wields the largest voting power at the i.m.f. the furn of the i.m.f. it is run program lead by the u.s. treasury department with some input from the european project that's right there
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tells you most of the problem this is supposedly you know one hundred eighty 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 bench seat up top over there it's a running ticker of u.s. debt which has surpassed a ceiling of fourteen points. three trillion dollars now the u.s. may want to consider investing in a bigger clock but if you were digits on the display problems so that 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
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measures such as raising taxes on the rich or cutting defense spending we're approaching that on 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 they get the g.d.p. ratio gets above about ninety percent or about to go through that level all eyes are now on the nation that sets the bar for others to see if they could clean up its own bad debts at home. r t new york. the u.s. soldier accused of passing sounds of secret government documents to wiki leaks has to be transferred to a new prison but only manning is being held at a marine base in the u.s. state of virginia for the past ten months though the decision to move him follows growing criticism that he's been held in conditions that amount to torture let's talk more about this with kevin zeese an attorney and a member of the bradley manning support network he's joining us on the line from new york but even to anyone from anywhere in the world's able to make
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a contribution to wiki leaks many of the so so why is bradley manning being singled out for such particularly it seems harsh treatment here is being made a scapegoat in the u.s. government's broader fight against wiki leaks what is the deal you know i mean there's no question they want to make an example of them they don't want people looking documents wiki leaks and they may be trying to pressure him to implicate julius onto order to kill his own peers he's been held for nine months in solitary confinement. in virginia in the u.s. torture investigator legal academics united states and thousands and thousands of people around the world have finally convinced president obama to move. more appropriate place so it's a reason to be cheerful i mean the u.s. defense department saying this is a more suitable place for him to be held is the glass at least half full not half empty here so i think this is a victory for those who care about bradley manning and care about human rights he was never going to be treated properly at the clinic. or incapable of being fair
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and he fort leavenworth prison has been moved to has a pretrial detention area where we much more appropriate will probably be in the in the prison population having mills with people really much more. appropriate place for someone who's never been convicted of any crime in fact we don't believe this prosecution should continue or there's a whistleblower it was exposing work crimes and other missed years by government officials ok well do you believe that manning should have acted differently though i have to say you know as a constructed soldier in the u.s. army i would be right to think i know what you can to say you can say is right i don't even but as i say he was a constructed soldier and leaking secrets about his own government was it really right to do it well you know first off it's not guilty it's not it is guilt and so we don't know these guilty and secondly he tried allegedly when he when he first saw example of torturing of iraqi civilians he brought it to the command in the command ignored it then he started allegedly to see criminal activity going across
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a screen and then what do you what do you do as a as a someone the military do you become complicit in the violations of law or do you try to stop them by exposing the media he did not sell them to a foreign government and not give them to a government that opposes the united states illegibly gave them to the media that's always doing is giving information to the people united states because they control this government are informed and we take appropriate action so full of blame for the leaks has been penned manning and i was so wiki leaks founder julian assange you think anyone else is likely to face legal action over this. well there has been talk in the past when. julia signs that there are other people government is looking at it and so we have to wait and see i don't think they really can successfully prosecute to resign she's much like the new york times or the washington post he's a media outlet and there is protecting states and so there were a very hard time prosecuting him unless they worked a lot and in
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a way that really is unconscionable bradley manning is a more difficult situation you know he is the alleged leaker years and have the same rights as the lead of the president but i think president obama said he believes in a transparent government he believes in protecting was a glorious all braley music use of doing is exposing documents that showed war crimes other cruel behavior and other misdeeds president obama should discourage the prosecution instead of real value in u.s. foreign policy so it's not an abusive use of empire or part of an international community ok kevin zeese attorney member of the bradley manning support network thanks going to live from new york there thank you very much. and still ahead through the program jobless in italy young people seem to say they can't find a decent saw think about home but we ask the question don't even want to work examine that claim so people. toward you says it's doing all it can to help people through hard economic times but not everyone failing the government support
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thousands live below the poverty line struggling to afford to put food on the table i think kathleen reports from tbilisi. the small city country of georgia has long been known for its fresh organic produce recently it seems the 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 goods here only the i knew them potatoes are local everything else isn't corded from greece and turkey and iran and it's so overpriced here anyway because we have to try and sell something so we can eat yet he. yvonne knows all about having nothing to eat she hasn't even been able to afford apples for a handicapped daughter to expensive the other mary and i have no how. no money and no social support so all i can do is sit outside a church and beg my sick child the only money we get is my pension around thirty
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u.s. dollars a month and pensions are together it comes out to about seventy five dollars a month so that we have to pay for bills and buy medicine from the area which is impossible if my young has cerebral palsy and is in desperate need of surgery it can only be performed in germany her family has no hope of raising the money i don't really i mean on the web she's already had eight operations and it's five market but i've almost lost hope i even went to a charity t.v. show but it turned me down. the divine and her family live well below the poverty line and in this they're not telling. you for. you can percent of the population. there was. no. mention of the ports but the georgian government has a growing social welfare system that includes cash benefits free or low cost health
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insurance pensions and souters for day care the social benefits are aimed at the poorest of the poor however a two thousand and nine world bank poverty assessment showed that only thirty percent of those citizens actually received cash assistance and it seems qualifications don't help either. it is run as a professional singer and in these tough times. 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. government is claiming that it's doing everything possible in the current financial climate to help its people. in your church is claiming there's no money for even the basics like food medicine and living like this it's clear that the poverty line is very evident enough part of the children kept. cashiers are the i t v georgia. elsewhere around the world
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tonight clashes have broken out of eastern turkey through the roof preventing a number of kurdish candidates running in national elections riot police fired tear gas and water cannons at mass demonstrators who responded with stones and fireworks several people rejected the violence in the wake of the unrest top electoral body said it will review its decision. there's renewed violence in yemen in separate incidents and anti-government protest was killed by a motorbike gunman a policeman also died in clashes it comes a day after security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the capital sanaa killing at least five victims died of gunshot wounds and nine others were also injured in a critical condition tonight meanwhile the un which held a meeting on the crisis in yemen failed to agree a diplomatic response. heavy gunfire erupted in the ivory coast capital as forces loyal to the new government try to dislodge the militia of the deposed president as part of attempts to reestablish security following heavy fighting earlier this
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month through our strong barbeau he was arrested last week with the help of u.n. and french forces during his residency. and european union's executive arms asked for a significant increase in the annual you budget risking a new round with member states your commission says it wants a rise of nearly five percent well above inflation last year the approval of the twenty eleven budgets will lengthen standoff between britain and several other member states many countries argued they could not pay more though while also imposing austerity cuts back at home. coming up this governmental grooves ahead as. see find out president dmitry. say about this little cutting loose at the discotheque. more serious matters tough economic times of left two million young italians doing nothing city stick suggested not in work or studying and even the highly educated
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are being left at home forced to rely on their parents not easy corpus cannot reports on 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 word she's been able to find short term gates 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 abroad i'm too tired of looking for it here i am ready to leave. but while many can't find a job this guy doesn't even want to start looking for you maybe is twenty five but still lives with his parents who cover all his expensive weekend up after the then playing his guitar and video games to him illness problems are as unfamiliar as
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a job application moment pressuring him. to get work is boring and neither do i care about politics or the economy this is a free country and everyone can do whatever they want better still. italy's national statistics agency can truly study one in five young people in the country is either unemployed or not steady that's over two million people so many on able to file long term work and some not wanting a drop at all the statistics are quite grim to such an extent today's interview with an elderly has been dubbed the lost generation something totally incomprehensible to their 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
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what's important is that the government has to do something to provide work and make a. interesting. be here looking at the essential banking system the entire economy is in need of a major religious leader all before and especially since the young italians who do good work proportionately less than those during the eighties and production output is in decline for one of the world's eight biggest industrialized nations the last thing it needs is a future generation that's floundering while finding a job or flunking out together you've got the. next biggest political moves in the kremlin to be showing off his moves on the dance floor a video of russia's president shaking stuff at a reunion with university friends last years become an internet hit and here's a clip.
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from a veteran can be seen here getting down to be a russian mine he's hit american boy one twitter user lesson overwhelmed by the presidential process they describe his style it's called dancing like it that much as we just said he and his friends were just having a good time but admitted his moves may be a little stuck in the night. going to yourself at our table called along with plenty of others as well tonight these stories for you it's going to be very special easter for christians this saturday night falls on the same day for catholics and orthodox believe it but how russia is preparing to celebrate. but speed moscow metro entry come more tourist friendly with every piece of underground texan been translated into english now they're interested in that story as well just a click away at r.t. dot com.
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coming up a little of our own is get some crosstalk debate the future of cuba tonight that's in a few minutes after the latest business. watching business r.t. prime minister putin has been outlining russia's twelve month economic records of parliament with a clear push to boost the country's output for modernization and by attracting foreign money now he's not that you know who has been listening to what the prime minister had to say. well it was all about the 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 eat up the process while the recovery of russian economy from other global financial crisis and here is some figures for you on that as russia's g.d.p. grew four percent in two thousand pounds and that's more than in any one of the g
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eight countries and the forecast for this year's growth is four point two percent of the as for the bulls the prime minister has said to the russian government and parliament was indeed increasing 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 more than gas sectors but soon 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 contradict it turns to the market with commodities while continues to recover from its losses and on the back of for them gold and an unexpected drop in supplies to united states brant crude is currently trading at just now one hundred twenty four dollars per barrel nights with one of the eleven. gold futures advance to set a new all time record sold paying fifteen hundred dollars an ounce is just too much below that right now it's down
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a bit silver is trading over forty five dollars per hour its highest level yet again and three decades well what inflation and the concerns of all three precious metals which of us is turn to when there's turbulence elsewhere to mccutcheon from the local gold says the offer trend will continue. obviously when you look on the screen you see the nominal prices a nominal prices are what we pay on every day basis for tomatoes or apples or for gold for the nominal price or gold is going up over the real issue is if you want to preserve the purchasing power of your money you want to make sure that purchasing power you have and you. he's out ten years out of five years or whatever you want to find the absolute store of wealth and that's the traditional function of gold and of course what we're seeing right now is basically gold telling the world that the dollar the value of a dollar is falling. moving back to the markets u.s. stocks up positive on an upbeat forecast from intel with high sales and results of the stock is one of the top doing this in the u.s. markets also better than expected home sales data is very strong enough to come
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from. european stocks with gaining at the close of when they session two percent the dax three percent nine is xstrata absolutely guess the up five percent the biggest games chazan can make a job paying four point seven percent offer it was a ten percent rise to revenue and that's on the cac forty here in russia the markets saw a second consecutive positive session on the global positive picture and rising oil prices if we look at the biggest gain as we will see ross snapped up one point seven percent gazprom up two point one percent that's on high oil prices precious metals producers were also on the rise what is called putting on four point three percent as a reported output avenue of sixty percent the first quarter. but yes there is was really a rebound from a sharp so all for off to be. a little don't agree at all for the us that from something you saw. there should be can be. seen to continue the continuation of
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this revolt mostly on the back of good results so for us the company just wait. for the first quarter. for what we in the future of the process or the world and there should be some short covering in the russian market was taken place to be the major winos will be will come from this one across there we cheer was supported by the french to management world opinion the share buyback it wasn't like the reason but it was because for our performance all right that's it from the business desk for today join my colleague melissa probably but. if you can of those cabins next to the headlines things.
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