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expedition to the bottom of your. mass throws each of the three billion dollar bailout bone but it's feared it will only line the pockets of former president mubarak's proteges who continue to run the country. the graduate gamble america's college leavers find a just one of five will land a job leaving the rest to struggle with deep debt and desperation. plus as an international crew three prepares to blast off in a few hours will be the man behind the latest mission into orbit. and a business b.p. made so its fifty percent stake in taking to b.p. to stick around roe snapped in a bid to save its corp deal with russia's largest gold producer burnt out in our
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business bulletin twenty minutes from. here watching r.t. live from moscow eleven am here on marina joshie international bankers have agreed to rescue the ailing egyptian economy for months after blacklisting former president mubarak's regime cairo is reeling from the revolution that toppled the leader but the military that once props up his rule is still running the country post reports and fears the cash 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 i think this is a bribe that the west is trying to give to the regime lest the new one. turns against the us but cairo is insisting the money will help stabilize the
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country's finances especially now with mubarak on and the country going through a transitional period but observers say it's the same spin with only slightly different marketing these ukrainians are being made with traditional transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily out of because of the old regime they composed primarily because from your regime for example samir radwan the finance minister in egypt it really goes during this long and was and barack point keep a promise promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion in debt cancellation of french president nicolas sarkozy is committed to g. eight to providing up to ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help egypt get back on its feet the united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by revolutions v our. considerable financial
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contributions. economy and the perfect way is through the i.m.f. which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an warm of american foreign economic policies this 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 if a deal could in fact spell trouble the leaders of egypt will be a free. anyone even the worst trouble or. a country really loses its sovereignty to western big. story cooperation the regime nowhere. country what most egyptians fear is that the money will get
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used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's 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 rejections of living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. praised the mubarak regime as the sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went it's the outlook for the economy remains stable but just days later mubarak was ousted and tripoli was engulfed in anti gadhafi demonstrations so it's no surprise that many say the better the i am it rates the country the closer the country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization from the policy r.t. of. for more on the impact of the i.m.f. had out and the strings they are trying to pull in countries economies are forty
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dollars plenty of analysis for their. finance watchers tell us how using money as medicine award to help cure the problems blighting the people of egypt or tunisia the details are in our website are now. and i'm s. attention is stretched to struggling economies around the world but also the troubles at home as to who will take over since its former boss had to quit over sex crime claims not everyone is happy that a european will be lined up as has always been the case well 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 economy but the eurozone has failed and the brics nations have been realizing for quite some time now they're failing it will american british and other euro interests a lot of the most support this of global a dictatorship and that is extremely consequential implications and the entire
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international financial system you know then why should they be continuing to prop up the global recovery because if you go to the very bare bones of the global economy other groups are the backbone that's exactly what the i.m.f. is one big looming station but i think in the short run i think you mean they realize that some of their success some of their economic growth just to at least of your greek hinge upon the you know western. western interests because as we know there are some of the largest creditor nations in the world i think of ensuring 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 i think they simply can't do it things are just too fragile there are plenty more on the way including the american students going from diploma to the dell. that really led to great job or start a great company or i'm going to be seriously in the hole qualified but with ross
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holds his america's rising unemployment rate leads to students with massive loans and nothing to pay them off with plus. come to a little bit of that here in the life of an astronaut or cousin i want to saudi by going on we track the final preflight preparations of three space tour and learn what led them to become obsessed with getting into orbit. more international news we're covering this hour and syria's interior minister is promising a strong response after reports that one hundred twenty policemen were killed and a gun battle in the north of the country state t.v. reports the officers came under attack in a talent near the turkish border while responding to residents calls for protection from armed groups donna. forces are trying to quell the month long protest against president asas rule which has left over twelve hundred people dead. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says the heavens government should use the absence of its president for
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a peaceful transition of power president saw the mood to saudi arabia for treatment after being wounded in a rocket attack on his palace u.s. officials say he has forty percent burns and is suffering with a collapsed lung in jordan growing protests to try and force the president to step down. loud explosions have been heard in capitals nato steps up its airstrikes on colonel gadhafi military arsenals it's the latest of several rounds of intensified bombings since the alliance expanded its operations using attack helicopters a few days ago a russian special envoy is due in leave on tuesday to hold talks with opposition leaders parties there and we'll let you know what happens in report on the situation in the talcott all throughout the day. health inspectors are struggling to locate the source of germany's deadly e. coli outbreak weeks after infections began after mistakenly suggesting that spanish
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cucumbers were likely to blame german authorities them focused on bean sprouts but so far labs tests on samples from the organic farm are coming back negative the contamination so far is claimed twenty two lives. america's recovery is still far on the horizon something not helped by unemployment creeping back up to over nine percent in may recruitment sat its lowest for eight months and that's bad news for those completing college the summer reports of the graduates who forked out for their future but face getting little back for their investment. america is home to the world's most expensive and prestigious universities 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 ninety thousand easy. yet
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i make you nervous yes terrified every american graduate is launching into a dwindling job market saddled with at least twenty four thousand dollars in student debt be that really led to a great job or 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 a business for bankruptcy attorney ninety littman 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 way the dollar is the way inflation is going and the way the job market is 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 in sleeving students to banks is a disaster for america's economic viability the future of any country in the world
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economy these days the pens first and foremost on the quality and the quantity of. crane and new young workers and the major institutions that produce that or the colleges and universities you're pricing them out of being able to do that. today i had to pull my no longer serves as a guaranteed passport prosperity for americans in the meantime the 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 have flown in from all over the world to study in america and the majority are transplants 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 financially and pay full tuition
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since 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 who care and afford it much anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. artsy new york. of warring perils being drawn between president obama's politics towards iran of those of george bush's moves in iraq award winning writer seymour hersh has been following developments for years next hour it tells r.t.
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why and only the two of. the theories based on the notion that you know. as a bomber is going to get a bomb so that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence of it from their own intelligence community. the people are the top of the burger but no there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support a 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. now would you between what they're doing obama is doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the vice president that did to iraq that is they they wanted to punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like their politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons.
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says. what you are the pain of losing a child is something no parent wants to bear now a russian woman is keeping her late son's legacy alive by using its frozen sperm and stargate mothers and she's battling the courts in society's attitude to be recognized as the guardian of her four baby grandchildren are she's a son a boy who explains. it was only at fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full and accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles kept her as busy as she is now her tragedy she
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became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else to just 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 them our son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy session doctors conserved his sperm but the help of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the march has been bluffed her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar says they're all trifles compared to the bereaved men brought about by her son's death you should perish. it's love which is fed by grief but it's love nonetheless three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs for the little ones pulled me out of this abyss of despair. but her large family supported
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lamar so 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 moderator of these children and her deceased son as their father. amar has taken the issue to court with a ruling expected on once the lord believes the law is in their side and. according to russian law there are no limits on who can become a parent through the use of surrogates motherhood's of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia and that's why some registration officers reports officials may be confused and refuse to grade sister children but the. differently in our interview for. my mother 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 the affleck's of these kind of parenting. you
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would. employ a mechanics ultimately to lose a very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and a 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 through genes no matter what. but some are couldn't care less about societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of her own with persuaded her that there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has no age cap for people willing to adopt children the only caveat is that a potential parent should be at least sixteen years older than the child a lot muskies these days difference is almost sixty years doesn't sit easily in a country where most people become parents before they turned thirty they were raising even two kids is often seen more than a handful on
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a boycott artsy moscow and here our three man will be propelled into orbit from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan a russian and american air japanese astronaut have now completed their intense training artist linda francis why they are what drives them to the final frontier. well it's go time for the crew of expedition twenty eight to the international space station in the final days and hours leading to blast off it's all come down to one thing for the team quarantine a whole mark of any space program. welcome to a little bit of the year in the life of an astronaut or cause morning. classes where the chance to work out their chance to listen. to great way to get ready to go fly in space. that's right. shooting pool. working out. and playing with their custom made space suits in
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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 seto she flew to kala a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using outer space. ball called wanted to follow in his father alexander's footsteps as a cosmonaut but it was a secret senior only found out by flipping through application files. there were i saw a personal file with the name sergei volkov on it but it didn't even know it would be covered page and saw his pictures that's when 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 space travel is very dangerous and you i would worry whenever you saw space trips. 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
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know watching that and just my mind just exploding it was somehow 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 stronger. all the time one of our program a parent 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 at the time he never expected it would be ross cosmos the russian space agency and be helping to take him there with nasa about to wind up its space shuttle program cosmos may offer the only way to space now for astronauts but for tourists it also offers one of the most expensive for date patients 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
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left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out look it's almost like you can survive it just like. there's a lot of them say you were there so it's really good students back in quarantine the crews don't get to see their rocket yet they're separated from loved ones by glass waiting just hours pretty adventure to finally get lindsey france r t baikonur cosmodrome has its new world our top story shortly the business of data is next with kareena. thanks for joining me b.p. is taking steps to sell its fifty percent stake in russian venture tank a b.p. to state run ross that the move could help the british oil majors say for its corp deal with russia's largest oil producer then use khan's weeks after b.p. failed to buy out its russian partners who blocked the deal with ross and if the
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other was saying he is unlikely to be enthusiastic about being how often own private rival ross that of the scale of the sale could help people the improve its financial may also be a blow to the company's oil output. we can have a policy making in the new russia it's very similar to what it was in the old soviet union i studied by a research group i think it's a chick flick nomic policy says in both cases growing state expenses are balanced extra or revenues and hours from business news your magazine explains it just as the need for reform in the beginning you need the states to push for you spend heavily on infrastructure you get with congress turning you put some money in the system but then once you get the green shoots of free and then the state will step back and the business mattes no state spending that's about tax credits and maybe cuts or europe or c. cutting it. rushes at that station or is transitioning out of the state spending
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and it needs to nurture business and it's not very good at it but the state that we still thinks in terms of the big push you know we'll just put more money in the economy as i said it will that will lead to will be more information imports and i want to give you any just cause or economic problems. russia's. part of the emerging brics countries together with brazil india china and south africa and its growth is considerably slower than the blocs of the one explanation but of the list is that russia is fundamentally similar to european countries. the russian budget obtained two billion dollars for every one dollar increase in the price of oil so this makes russia cash rate cheap means you can subsidize things and that's why you call a common is going to four point five percent in the maybe slightly up which moving forward russia is not a china. growth and noting it might call it the european bric it is
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a brick economy but it's far more mature developed and it's the middle class. fifty percent of middle class income families in east central europe choking region find themselves in russia. look at the markets oil prices slightly lower as worries over the u.s. recovery underscore the expectations of reining is a problem for energy right suites is trading at around ninety eight dollars per barrel branch's around one hundred fourteen dollars probably stronger in asian markets and close makes japan's nuclear supported by games in tepco had to go to a close two point two percent hot up to reports the company will hike output of its prius hybrid by seventy percent due to a strong soak your electric power or tepco rose four point four percent hong kong gave up ground after a three day weekend investors called up two losses inspired by weaker than expected u.s. jobs data at the end of last week here in moscow log is
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a hard morning trading the r.t.s. is up twelve percent raise losses punning point four percent now let's look at some individual moves on the my six shares of energy majors a mixed so promise gaining around half a percent while look or is point two percent in the red meanwhile wells telecom is among the main gain as its point eight percent block. that russia stocks markets hitting a period and the lack of fundamental drivers alexander cook ifco at nation's capital still believes some attractive stocks on off. i would it was infrastructure i would steel makers we should. be cheap fundamentally but through fundamental attractiveness is nor the key point that should be the price of soul for steel they are but i mean aren't. we. cheap where do
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we be of this to a maker of so they could bet. earthquake and tsunami disaster thaws the number of countries to reshape their nuclear plants the most star resort is germany saying oh by the way i live twenty twenty two but done rich from the world nuclear nation says the evidence those accounts it's not the sense in one thousand nine hundred fifty 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 in population world economies like those who trade pan in india are catching up and we're going to see me saying 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
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technology now available to countries and that's a nuclear power and this is precisely the reasoning that has just maintaining that commitment to nuclear power all nations that are engaged in responsible rational debate about it germany is the exception if you hear the full interview with john rich sports like oh god that's a they say but that's not the our business they can always last always on our website. that's what.
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close up team has been to the world the grand reach thank you own the turning point i'm looking forward to. this time the party goes to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transition their ancestors to. come where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come the republic of north of such a russia poses an arche. wealthy british style. sometimes the thais.
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