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as president obama pledges with his british counterpart to increase pressure on the libyan leader there's a growing opinion that defensive time has changed. but only increasing conflict. thousands of georgian protesters pressed harder for president saakashvili to resign as many in the country struggled with abject poverty and corruption. the war in the middle east moves from the front line on life palestinians and israelis a clash over fact longer complete. and then business while russia is starting to recover the world is still struggling with an economic crisis join me for the
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pro-business policy and around twenty minutes time. well why news of live from the center of moscow this is a hot. warm greetings and a royal banquet in the opulent surroundings of buckingham palace britain has well and truly rolled out the red carpet for barack obama designed to affirm the so-called special relationship between the two nations all eyes remain on london for the second day of their high profile visit as the u.s. leader and its british counterpart get down to official business conflicts in the middle east and afghanistan are expected to feature in their talks amid increasing calls for both obama cameron to overcome their addiction to war games. all smiles and handshakes as the u.k. and the u.s.
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take their specs. relationship to the next level washington's preparing to open up its highly secretive national security council to london as the two countries pledged to deal jointly with perceived security and foreign policy challenges but what cost to the rest of the world i don't think it will change foreign policy in any dramatic way i remember that britain already shares a huge amount of intelligence with the united states in fact britain's nuclear deterrent can actually launch a nuclear missile on its own so in fact what is happening today is largely symbolic the special relationship phrase was a deeply tested one when blair was in power and his relationship with bush was seen in britain to be much more one of approval rather than. yes in a sense it will describe these unpopular wars. not everyone welcomes president obama's presence in the u.k.
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a range of groups are using it as an opportunity to demonstrate against what they see as the anglo-saxon machine and islamist fringe organizations linked aggressive foreign policy led by the u.s. and the u.k. supported variously by france and other nato allies with terror attacks there's a real ticket prices since i last until they leave they stop supporting the dictators it was the countries that are torturing us supporting our sort of israel the violence. the u.s. and u.k. have been involved in two major wars in the last ten years in both iraq and afghanistan america persuaded britain to come in with the reinforcing britain's reputation as the us is lap dog. but this time it's different in libya it's britain taking the lead in nato with the us keen to keep its role to a minimum the deepening of cooperation between the two is something this group of
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demonstrators abatement lee objects to these are the cars go to the are starting. to lift. the three major who was the ten yes those got really bad news for those of us who want peace in the world to see those two cars corporate and more closely. outside buckingham palace where obama is staying these protesters are trying to persuade him and british prime minister cameron to stop waging war in foreign lands so far it hasn't worked on cheese day and cameron we united in their intention to increase pressure on colonel gadhafi in libya above those visits and this demonstration come as need to escalate this involvement in the war in libya francis says it will deploy helicopters bringing the fighting closer to the ground the global war machine grumbles with the alliance of london
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and washington in the engine room and this new agreement to cool information and resources may only add fuel to the fire your avatar. since the start of the campaign in libya the u.s. has taken a step back from the military action leaving its allies particularly the u.k. they're in williams of the new york based foreign policy in focus think tank says that america britain has the best servant in its war so obama can prepare for the next presidential elections. it seems to be a pattern of britain acting as a sort of the mercenaries for the united states i mean the u.s. is pulling out not because it's opposed to what nato is doing there it's to limit the domestic fallout for the obama presidency that's why it's it's pulling its forces out and also because i think wisely it realizes that it's standing in the middle east is a bad one can only get worse with this continuing. it is one of the changing signs
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that as america gets weaker commercially a military look relatively speaking europe could exert itself a little more of it ever got its act together one of the reasons it can't get its act together is because of this lavish relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. . meantime in libya nato is keeping up its bombardment of the capital tripoli boarding its heaviest attack there since the start of the military intervention. multiple air strikes including one on colonel gadhafi is compound killed nineteen people injured one hundred fifty others meanwhile the u.s. has invited the rebels transitional council to open an office in washington marking a new step towards recognizing the country's official representatives. well more stories to come for you this hour here on our c n n about ten minutes time we travel to russia's republic of dagestan the way. this path leads to mantle how to walk through three same trees while standing his biography
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and it is possible to develop many other country's history people come to visit and talk to him and his name has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us to. be with artsy now speaking before the us congress the israeli prime minister netanyahu announced that peace with palestine was not an option and as israel keeps the occupied territories interest cost opera about palestinians who decried the speech as propaganda riddled with lines and its artie's color reports its tensions are yet another battleground between the two states. the israeli palestinian conflict has reached an unlikely new field of battle where there are no borders and no generals calling the shots there is no facts. fact checking or a committee or something like that there is no chief editor or anything like that
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which is why we keep pedia and online encyclopedia is one of the world's most popular websites with sixteen million entries open for anyone to edit re white or even raise the most popular of those pages the middle east there is an article i think practically about any village a palestinian village that was destroyed during. the war is really independence war and there are i think articles about any military operation that any side launched during the history of the conflict but both israelis and palestinians complain their side of the story is not properly covered propaganda is putting a label on israel and calling us apartheid still we fight by bringing the actual facts where israel is the most progressive the marker see in the middle east and for that matter the only democracy in the middle east and that's why not yes you can sort that represents the israeli settler movement has been organizing workshops to teach people how to post revise and even rewrite some of the most disputed pages
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online there is disagreement around terminology such as the word occupation and history of what happened in certain conflicts even the names of certain cities and towns what we do is we monitor our various media outlets and what we see for example that a certain media calls israel an apartheid state then we send our people to engage in discussion and to give the facts but the palestinians have people to send in which is why the battlefield is not equal according to abbott are not so who heads the association of palestinian journalists he says he wishes he had the kind of cash the israelis have to train palestine. to brush up on the knowledge of wikipedia and i think the next battle in the israeli palestinian conflict will be forced on the pages of wikipedia the israelis control the online media they control words like terrorist jihad we train is in finance so we can edit and interpret we keep pedia as well. but these wikipedia experts say it has nothing to do with
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training and everything to do with the truth i think people should stick to the truth and not try to learn how to put their point of view in the what could be an article i mean if you have sources just bring them on but in this war if we push of ammunition counts it's no secret that the revolutions sweeping the arab world found their support online hundreds of thousands of people signed up on a facebook page corn inquest heard a palestinian uprising or into florida that page has since been closed down in flames citing violence but the fight online continues the art scene. despite washington's intensified efforts to bring the palestinians and israelis to the negotiating table a few sides find themselves no closer to a presidential battle of elena's guests discuss what it might take to achieve the long awaited and highly elusive peace cross-talk is coming your way into parts for the rest. you have to understand palestinians see all of israel also as part
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of their patrimonial homeland and in one nine hundred forty seven forty eight when israel was created palestinians were at least three quarters majority now when they recognize israel in its sixty seven borders they gave up seventy eight percent of what they regard as their country it is the mother of all compromisers and i think to ignore that and to to look at the occupied territories in isolation from the rest of mandatory problems silencio poor israel's being to give up this is very important territory that so dear to us ignores what palestinians have already agreed to. you with art see now in georgia thousands of opposition supporters have protested against the government for four days straight at
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a mining and two state sanctioned corruption and the resignation of president mikhail saakashvili who they accuse of abusing his position to maintain power itself with us details from tbilisi. and. this. is the station's cooling. down. this is being held by. democrats. the people's is. that what we saw at the beginning of the case. and with thousands of devastating flooding out some people calling it the still of the revolution those in the older generation of people felt that they were really struggling it was in the right. the opposition party. they call it on time because the authoritarian system we saw come together they said was that they were planning the big day of rage but
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they vowed. such but now we see with the demonstration undercurrents of. the opposition parties. back to the time. whether the party again going to come together what we do know is a protest that says that things not being killed by the message that they sense in a speech that. turned out. ahead of the day of independence. taking to the military parade that will be taking place on freedom square. we're coming to you live from the gulf war stories for you want to web site of course that this. is a quick look at some of your friends are waiting for you right now on our web site and the teenage girl thanks ourself because you don't want to see the apocalypse of america preacher.
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provinces of finance minister christine lagarde has thrown her hat into the ring in the race to take over as the head of the international monetary fund it follows last week's first question or thought any stress carried over a sex scandal however the fastest growing economies in the world also known as the brics countries are calling for a nano european not to take over the post but critics say their demand a certainly has grounds this is an important first step we may not see it through the this round we don't and we went through these coaches really we're going to the successful coalition to block the question you know in this round we're going forward this could be a sign of things to come out not just in terms of who normally lead these
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institutions act rather your decisions are often need elsewhere. but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual past russia and brazil are countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. pasties children one thousand nine hundred ninety when they went through crises much like the gracies there greece is going through today and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework it temporarily suffered tremendously but they're. both countries out of restoration of growth so these are countries that ever actually repudiate the equasym international monetary fund and so there are natural leaders for a movement against these. so a quarter past the hour here in moscow three years since the u.s. financial meltdown and nobody in the establishment or banking industry has stood
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trial or even been blamed but he spoke to an investigative journalist to find out if there's a leaves the door open for a new crisis you can watch the whole interview in the next hour. if you could really describe the relationship between wall street and washington in one sentence really what with its completely commingled it's it's. it's a revolving door of interests where people on wall street are either directly affect sponsoring the politicians in washington with campaign contributions and soft money and that sort of thing or else they are actually politicians wall street heavily sponsors both the republican and the democratic parties so automatically no matter who becomes the front running candidate for the presidency is going to be a creature of wall street look at barack obama i personally admired her on his campaign of two thousand and eight but if you look at his his record goldman sachs was his number one private campaign contributor.
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when he was born the world was a different place and that's not surprising when you consider it was the nineteenth century to somebody in a question of when to meet the man who's a staking a claim to being the oldest person on the planet the october revolution the russian civil war the birth of the soviet union even two world wars this man has seen them all because he claims to be one hundred twenty one years old and we're going to have my son of says he's the alders person living in russia and perhaps across the globe people are conservationists and talk to him and he's a madame and has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us too. despite only humble surroundings madame ian says his neighborhood has provided him with a legacy air of life. by eve only what i raise myself i drink milk
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products for my garden all my life i was a foreigner i worked a lot with buffaloes and horses hard work is good for you. while his body may not be as nimble as it once was as soul remains strong and determined all his life he is strictly followed all religious traditions he prays five times a day and does all the preparations himself. the official information that we could find about what got me a dates back to the nine hundred sixty s. when he moved to get this done in these documents it is sad that he was born in eighty nine and there's also a database about hamp and his family however the rest of the archive to prove his stuff and life was destroyed in a fire in the 1930's in change where he was born recently the title the all just
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living person was awarded by the guinness book of records to a brazilian woman most violent him who is one hundred fourteen years old but my grandparents family remains undeterred and wants to see him crowned with the title this is a fourth we have thought a certain applications that are guinness book of records we all are ready really for truly deserves a record of ninety nine percent of claims about people being one hundred fifteen or over are said to be fools and documentable the guinness book of records applicants must have a original proof of birth issued within twenty years of that birth and prove that the person alive today is the same person in their original certificate when the north he average gets official recognition when it comes to tracing your roots name will always stand proud of his family tree. alright see that it's done
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sorry an hour twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you but at least seven people killed and thirty others injured after a car bomb tore through a police station in pakistan's northern city of peshawar many people are believed to be buried in the ruins the incident took place just a half a mile away from the u.s. consulate where a week earlier taliban militants detonated another car bomb targeting a u.s. convoy this is the latest attack in pakistan since the group valve to avenge the killing of osama bin right. the icelandic volcano that's disrupted air travel in parts of europe has stopped erupting for the meantime but a giant ash cloud from it continues to drift towards european cities causing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays last year ash from another icelandic volcano left millions stranded after european air space was closed for a week. at least five people have been killed and those sixty injured after devastating tornadoes tore through the american state of oklahoma the storms are
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cause significant damage to property it comes just days after destructive twisters left the city of joplin in ruins and more than one hundred dead and four hundred injured. well hundreds of somalis are falling ill while barrels of nuclear waste are frequently found on the shores of the country but who's dumping them there and making money from it and watch our special report in about two hours time right here. if a. leg . length.
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of the business. hello and welcome to the business bulletin with r.t. russia's economic growth is exaggerating propped up by strong commodities prices the state expects the economy to recover to its pre-crisis levels by the beginning of next year however financial problems in the eurozone are leading to speculation of a new global crisis patrick not fermenters the business school business school joins me now thank you for taking the time to join us here now firstly what will this debt crisis in the eurozone hurt financial markets in the same way the lehman brothers crisis did indeed but every probably believe that it could be very careful because euro crisis is structured carefully have happened so that if you look at
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the euro in a point it seems markets are a signal right for the for the ruble on friday to the u.s. dollar at another thirty seven pounds sterling so at the moment the crisis is not filtered into the foreign exchange market having said that however we do need to see some resolution sooner rather than later absolutely now that europe is suffering from the economics of insolvency both public and private what should be done one approach is in fact to delist the insolvent banks completely and remove what is the by the sovereign debt many countries including my own country are undoubtedly portugal and greece part of the issue is that the bank that the insolvency of the banks has been wrapped inside but especially public sector to the public that if you can separate the long bond street your solution would be to delist the banks completely and start trading in their shares on the european stock which is quite a dramatic option it's very dramatic but we can do it we do it with private sector companies all the time there are about obligation to place i can't see why we
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cannot do the same for what is effectively sovereign debt but europe is afraid of what it would be a default but the solution to whittle twenty thirteen is to. and in my view absolutely speaking of europe greece pays roughly ten percent of its g.d.p. in interest costs alone and it started staring at a likely straight year of g.d.p. contraction can athens avoid a default without more bailout funds probably not this is a serious concern for the greeks. the bigger concern for europe is that should we allow greece to depart from the euro that would destabilize the euro so therefore greece has to commit to very serious reform there is some political move towards a purpose and a bit better if you think about it even of greece were to restructure their debt by fifty percent or to compete with quite a long time to recover natural growth rates it's got an economy that's the eat out that's nasty you're a big bob dylan fan i hear and read here so what do you think bob dylan would say
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about this financial crisis i think you're probably going to version of his seventieth birthday and stay forever young and look into the future in the future when we look like this is only a blip this one little crisis as i said earlier to you it is not afraid of the foreign exchange markets but it's a serious crisis for us in europe because we are very severe austerity programs but as i say if we can separate the insolvency of the bias that gives growth economies like ireland and portugal and spain and belgium it gives them an opportunity to proceed are going to be there and i would stay forever young it is probably the best wonderful quote thank you very much patrick macnee thank you for that let's take a look at the markets now crude prices are continuing to fluctuate as the u.s. dollar strengthens with investors waiting on the results of the u.s. oil and energy products report expected later on today european stocks are flat there's our on the heels of u.s. and asian session investor sentiment is also backed by concerns of
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a possible greek default and its potential impact on other debt made eurozone companies countries and here in moscow the markets have a race their early losses and i currently trading in the black the r.t.s. is up almost a third of a set. and the my sex has gained more than double that. and here are the market moves on the my six the south energy majors of bounced back from earlier losses both rosneft and lou going to getting more than half a percent and the banking sector is also aging hot p.t.b. has advanced two percent this hour. the currency crisis in belarus is turning into an economic collapse people are emptying supermarket shelves as prices show double digit rises on a weekly basis to keep the economy afloat in the crisis stricken country needs foreign cash russia is ready to bail out greece but this comes under the condition that it carries out market reforms among them is privatized finance minister alex you couldn't say it's better ruth will sell assets for over seven billion dollars
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of the next three years analysts agree market reforms are the only way to overcome the crisis. in the only country which has the ability to be able to help belarus is actually better as they are the ones that have to make the structural changes that they need to get their economy back on line it's not if you can help solve the problem by providing funding in the short term either from the i.m.f. or more likely from russia but it's not going to us over the longer term missions in the medium term when are things actually do turn around about the risks they have to in the markets of force and change now in belarus when they do turn around in is going to be a lot of opportunity for russian companies to move into battle if you use the experience of god use the connections that they have in belarus to help rebuild the economy the. world industrial giants siemens and high on di are offering moscow their services to help expand the city's metro system ironic six years the russian capital is planning to build eighty two kilometers of new lines but experts warn the city's construction capabilities may fall short i am going to say that it can
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build fifteen kilometers of underground railway a year and siemens can provide cast and alec tronics both companies are also offering to manage the operation of the new lines companies are discussing the deal although an agreement has yet not yet been reached that brings you up to date for business for this hour we'll have more for you just under an hour's time stay with us now.
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