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the imam afroz egypt and three billion dollar bailout loan but it's fear it will only line the pockets of former president mubarak's prodigies who continue to run the country. the gradual downhill america's college leavers find that just one in five will land a job leaving the rest to struggle with deep debt and desperation. plus as an international crew of three prepares to blast off in a few hours will meet the man behind the latest mission into orbit.
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it is a day out of the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshing welcome to the program international bankers have agreed to rescue the ailing egyptian economy for months after a black listing for president mubarak's regime cairo is reeling from the revolution that toppled the leader but the military the once propped up his rule is still running the country possibly a reports and fears a cast will be swallowed up by the same old players. as if the international monetary fund doesn't have enough on its plate it's agreed to loan three billion dollars to cairo and move critics say is absurd this is a bribe that the west is trying to give to the regime lest a new one lest it turns against the west but climbers insisting the money will help stabilize the country's finances especially now with more bike on and the country
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going through a transitional period but observers say it's the same skin with only slightly different marketing these agreements are being made with traditional transitional governments and least transitional governments have. become primarily out of some figures of the all regime they composed primarily because from your regime for example samir radwan the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a mubarak a coin team obama's promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion indeed cancelation french president nicolas sarkozy has committed the g eight to providing actually ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to hoping gyptian is get back on the feet united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions really are. considerable financial contributions to the objection economy and the perfect ways through the i.m.f.
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which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an war of american foreign economic policy is this the talk the regime. is unstable. would could be considered is a waste of money on something that is very shaky what's more it comes with particular strings attached. and that the deal could in fact spill trouble over leaders if you did. very. little anybody except in worse trouble or. the country. so we. were equally british. but most egyptians fear is that the money will get used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's
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likely to be only a small elite as well as international banks who benefit from the loans the last time the i.m.f. injected a large amount of money into egypt was twenty years ago but since then the number of egyptians living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. raised the will probably sound fiscal management to egypt as far as libya waned it fit the old for the economy remained stable but just days later mubarak was ousted and tripoli was engulfed in and he doesn't demonstrations so it's no surprise of many say the base of the iron if rates a country the closer the country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization can be. r.t. tell of for more on the impact of the i.m.f. handouts and the strings they are trying to pull in countries economies have forty four palm plenty of else is there for your. finance watchers tell us how using
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money as medicine wall help who are the troubles providing the people of egypt or tunisia the details are on our website right now. the i am asked attention is stretched to struggling economies around the world but also to troubles a whole mess to take over since its former boss had to quit over sex crime claims that everyone's happy that a european will be lined up as has always been the case and there are growing voices that someone from the brics countries of brazil russia india china and south africa should have a go. the u.s. is a failed the economy but the eurozone has failed and the brics nations have been realizing for quite some time now that are failing anglo american british and other euro interests warrant the most support on this global a dictatorship and that is extremely consequential implications on the entire international financial system you know then why should they be continuing to prop
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up the global recovery because if you go to the very bare bones of the global economy the brits are the backbone that's exactly what the i.m.f. is one big booming station but i think in the short run i think even they realize that some of their success some of their economic growth does too and we stood to greet him you know western western interests because as we know there are that some of the largest creditor nations in the world i think eventually it's in their best interest to completely break the chains off of this situation and perhaps start their own i.m.f. type fund which better serves their interests but i think in the short run and i think they simply can't do it things are just too fragile out there. play more on the way polluting the american students going from diploma to the dough. story grieco seriously in the. qualified but with cost hopes as america's rising unemployment rate we students with massive loans and nothing to pay them off with
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plots. to. we track the filed brief life preparations of three space crew and learn what led them to become obsessed with getting into orbit. some take a look at some other stories from around the world this hour and syria's interior minister is promising a strong response after reports that one hundred twenty policeman were killed in a gun battle in the north of the country state t.v. reports the officers came under attack in a town near the turkish border while responding to residents calls for protection from armed groups government forces are trying to quell the long protest against president which has left over twelve hundred people dead. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says yemen's government should use the absence of its president for a peaceful transition of power the opposition there once the vice president to have
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a country president saleh flew to saudi arabia for treatment after he reportedly being wanted in a rocket attack on he is palace yemen's endured on going protests to try and force the president to step down. by the mood has formally put himself forward for his second term in charge of the united nations there's a strong chance he'll secure another five year term since no other candidates have put their names in the hat mr banta has held the post since two thousand and seven and is already being publicly supported by france and china you know what diplomats expect he's reelection by the end of the month. america's recovery still far on the horizon something not held by unemployment creeping back up to over nine percent in may recruitments at its lowest for eight months and that's bad news for those completing college this summer very important i reports of the graduates who forked out for their future but face getting
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a little bad for their investment. america is home to the world's most expensive and prestigious universities and yet paying for them has created a nation where the majority sign on to lifetime payments of loans are probably of like sixty thousand dollars student. over like nine hundred thousand easy. yet i make you nervous yes that makes me terrified every american graduate is launching into a dwindling job market saddled with at least twenty four thousand dollars in student debt the that really led to great sharper start a great company are going to be seriously in the hole according to the economic policy institute the us economy currently has one job for every five applicants meanwhile business for bankruptcy attorney in nineteen whitman is surging half of his clients are unemployed degree holders drowning in debt anyone going to college essentially is gambling once again from an investor's point of view right now the
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way the dollar is the way inflation is going and the way the job market there's a college education just isn't a good investment and not a good return on your money even economics professors on the inside like richard wolfe say enslaving students to banks is a disaster for america's economic viability the future of any country in the world economy because that is the pen's first and foremost on the quality and the quantity of. crane and new young workers are the major institutions that produce that of the colleges and universities you're pricing them out of being able to do that today a diploma no longer serves as a guaranteed passport to prosperity for americans in the meantime a number of foreigners studying at u.s. colleges and universities has reached record highs according to the latest statistics nearly seven hundred thousand international students flown in from all
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over the world to start. you know america and the majority are transplanting from america's economic competitor according to the institute of international education chinese students studying in the states surged thirty percent in two thousand and nine most foreign families reportedly bypassed financial aid and pay full tuition since one nine hundred seventy eight the cost of u.s. colleges and universities has reportedly increased more than nine hundred percent while household income rose just one hundred fifty percent what you're seeing is american universities particularly the elite are happier to have foreigners who tend to a their own way because they come from the very top of those societies. will forgo the americans from care and afford it much in the way anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price
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but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. artsy new york and worrying parallels being drawn between president obama's politics towards iran and those of george bush's moves in iraq award winning writer a same rigorous says has been following rather the balance for years and later and tells our team why it can only lead to a dead end. if the fear is based on the notion that you know that somehow iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb so that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. the people who are probably better go but no there's no weapons there and we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support the sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and so i say right now what you between what they're doing
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what obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the vice president that did to iraq that is they came out of the punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like their politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons. and if you minutes on our see the sarkozy storm that's testing at grandmother. russia dealing with her son's death by raising his children. but now she must cts. wealthy british.
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market. opening to the global economy with. a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. a close up team has been to the golden grand richard thank the turning point of the hour to. his time to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors.
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where the mysterious sit on the dead long welcome country like. russia. the official tea allocation the i pod touch from the. lights on the. video. feeds now in the palm of your. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow the pain of losing a child is something no parent wants to bear now russian woman is keeping her allayed son's legacy alive by using his frozen sperm and so are good mothers but
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she's battling the courts and society's attitude to be recognized as the guardian of her four baby grandchildren artistic son a boy that explains. it was only after fifty seven that the moron just to dig true meaning of having her hands full and accomplished scientists a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles capture as busy as she is now her. tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else because you know the death of my son created a hole in my life that will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy session doctors conserve his sperm but the health of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the march has
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been left her her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar says they're all trifles compared to the reeve men brought about by her son's death. it's love which is five by grief but it's love nonetheless three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs of the little ones pulled me out of this abyss of despair. with her large family support lamar's says she has no financial or parental concerns about raising her grandchildren a main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the model or of these children and her deceased son as their father. amar has taken the issue to court with a ruling expected on wednesday the lord believes the law is in their side. according to russian law there are no limits on who can become a parent through the use of surrogate mother who of course cases like this one are
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still very unusual in russia and that's why some registration offices or court officials may be confused and refuse to greatest to children but the law is definitely in our favor. that maher is the third woman in russia who used the sperm of her deceased son to continue the family's lineage yet whether it is due to her age or the sheer number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning. afaik so of this kind of parenting that you with all these exercises employ a mechanic so to lead to this very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and grandson there are so many orphans in russia so she wanted to be a mother she could have easily realized her maternal instincts i think ultimately it's a very selfish drive to pass your genes no matter what. the plumber couldn't care less about societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of her own with some
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persuaded her that there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has no age cap for people who are willing to adopt children the only cabbage is that a potential caring should be at least sixteen years older than the child a lot of us kids these days the difference is almost sixty years just doesn't sit easily in a country where most people become parents before they turn thirty and we're raising it with two kids is often more than a handful for the boycott artsy moscow. analysts here our three man will be propelled into orbit from the remote baikonur cosmodrome in castle stan a russian american at a job he's astronaut have now completed their intense training artisans in france has been finding out what drives them to the final frontier. it's go time for the crew of expedition twenty eight to the international space station in the final days and hours leading to blastoff it's all come down to one thing for the team
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quarantine a hallmark of any space program. welcome to the. fourteen . questions we had a chance to work out with a chance to. teach it where you could really go fly in space. that's right. shooting pool. working out. and playing with their custom made space suits in a fight to retain muscle mass for the six months in zero gravity physical exercise occupies a surprising amount of time and it's difficult such. a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using outer space. vall called wanted to follow in his father alexander's footsteps as a cosmonauts but it was a secret vault senior only found out by flipping through application files. i saw
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a personal file with the name sergei volkov on it but it didn't even dawn on me and i flipped the cover page and saw his picture that's why i feel completely shocked and dumbfounded i genuinely never expected this to happen i feel very proud but it gave way to worry because i know the spirit struggle is very dangerous i knew i would worry whenever it was on a space trip. for mike fossum as an american boy growing up in texas watching the moon landing paved his way to the stars and i remember you know watching that and just my mind just exploding it was summer a few months later through the schools we had a program where you could buy very simple little paperback books and i got a book on the first moon landing and i remember sitting in my bed reading this book at night just just dreaming about it i was twelve years old at the time and when i pulled out a pen and i wrote inside the cover of this book you know you know i've witnessed all of the things that took place in here and someday i too will reach to the stars
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at that time he never expected it would be ross cosmos the russian space agency would be helping to take him there with the nasa about to wind up its space shuttle program cosmos may offer the only way to space now for astronauts but parts or us it also offers one of the most expensive four day vacations many of them have ever taken it costs thousands of dollars to view a launch in kazakstan but dozens have shown up to do it. alexander preview nischelle left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out look it's almost like a rocket safari just like. the sword diplomacy with israel so it's really good students back in quarantine the crew don't get to see their rocket yet they're separated from loved ones by glass waiting just hours pretty adventure to finally began lindsey france r t baikonur cosmodrome has it's now we have the date now and
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time of for the bizarre day with corinne is next. welcome to the poets and here in r.t. all major b.p. is taking steps to sell its fifty percent stake in russian venture tank a b p two state run ross nets the move could help people save its landmark corp deal with russia's largest oil producer the news comes weeks after b.p. failed to buy out its russian partners who blocked the deal with ross that say tanking b.p. is unlikely to be enthusiastic about being harsh on. the sale could help b.p. improve its financial but they'll also be a blow to the cup but. i cannot recall a sea making in the new russia is very much the same as it was in the old soviet union a study by economy research group at the gaidar institute says in both cases growing state expenses are balanced but extra oil revenues that hours from business news
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europe magazine explains just add profiles the need to reform. in the beginning united states through a big push where you spend heavily on infrastructure you get that with the promise turning you put some money in the system but then once you get this the green shoots. then the state needs to step back and the business and that's not state spending that's about tax credits and maybe some bureaucracy cutting its red tape. is a station i was transitioning out of the state spending and it needs to nurture business and it's not very good at the state that we still thinks in terms of the big push we'll just put more money in the economy as i said all that will lead to will be more information and more imports and we want to be running on a just cause or economic problems. but historically seen as part of the merging brics countries together with india china and south africa that its growth has consumed the blocks of the members but explanation by alice is that russia is
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fundamentally similar to european countries. the rich kid playing to billion dollars for every one dollar increase in the price of oil so this makes for a cash rate cheap means you can subsidize things and that's why the economy is growing at four point five percent or maybe it's not the upwards moving forward russia is not a china fast growth emerging market i call it the european bric it is a brick economy it's far more mature far more developed than it's the middle class brit fifty percent of middle class income families in east central europe region find themselves in russia. take a look at the markets oil prices trading slightly lower as worries over the u.s. recovery underscores expectations of waning demand for energy like sweetest trading at around ninety dollars per barrel and brant is at around one hundred fourteen
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dollars per barrel though some are in asia a lot of the trading makes plans nikkei supported by rebound for tokyo electronic power and gains for to yoda and hong kong is the thing up around after three have weekend investors are catching up to lose the losses inspired by weaker than expected new words jobs stated at the end of last week agricultural bank of china is losing point seven percent and china construction back sitting around. here in moscow the trading session will kick off in around two hours time on monday the north it's finished off lots of positive notes the r.t.s. game to moderate point four percent was it was out just enough. now the economic fallout of friday's jobs report in the u.s. is still weighing heavily on global markets and i was under pisco from our nation's capital says there are no drivers to change the sound. it depends on what will happen in the states because for instance all the key in this is the united states
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with the support levels for it now and if they will not break the support level so we can be stronger and taken into account the shrinking of the we need to be in terms of the activity of trading i think that we will be going with this in the future so they will go with their own not a lot of ideas in the market why why russia should leave their annoyed vs why to suit right now we have such a strong well that's why we will be arranged since the. earthquake and tsunami disaster forced the number of concerts to over say their nuclear plans all reaching as germany that plans to get saddam advantage of by the end of two thousand and twenty two like john rich from the world nuclear power station says. this is. one nine hundred sixty there were three billion people in the world today there are nearly seven billion and we're moving rapidly toward nine billion by the middle of this century as we make that continued growth and population world economies like
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those of japan and india are catching up and we're going to see me seeing a tripling in world energy consumption over the next forty or fifty years at the very time when our climate scientists are telling us that we must curtail carbon emissions by eighty percent triple energy consumption reduce carbon by eighty percent how do you do that there's only one major expandable clean energy technology now available to countries and that's a nuclear power and this is precisely the reasoning that it has is maintaining that commitment to nuclear power and all nations that are engaged and responsible rational debate about it germany is the exception. and you can hear the full interview with john rich and spotlights in about an hour's time here on our team so for now we can always buy most toys just log on to our web site out to dot com class business i'll be back with more and i put it up that's.
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more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is it and charge it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers flight make sense articles so special that detracted from any wildlife in antarctica is the closer you live and the sons of.
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