tv [untitled] June 7, 2011 3:00am-3:19am PDT
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going from diploma to the top. be the only land the grades are for starting great company i'm going to be seriously in the qualifier but with quite as america's rising unemployment rate leaves students with massive loans on nothing to pay them off with plus. too little bit of you know i. want to show you right on track the final preflight preparations of three space crew and learn what led them to become obsessed with getting into that's coming your way soon here on our. are you with us here now back to our breaking news this hour a suspected car bombs exploded in the capital of. his thought at least three people have been killed and many others injured artie's alexy going to ski can now tell us more details about this let's join him life. alexie can you tell us what else do you know at the moment in the wake of this car bomb in the capital city or so far
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we know very little details of what exactly happened in the model on capitol kish now we do know that a car with probably a larger with a russian license plate according to the pyramid of st minister exploded in the very center of the model shot so we do have unconfirmed reports by eyewitnesses that at least three people were killed by following the explosion but the official line the statement by the interior ministry says that he so far hasn't any confirmation of any became he always a tribe or of that car was severely injured and is now taken to hospital also we heard from the authorities that they are now trying to establish whether this was an explosion caused by some romper or a problem probably a terrorist attack or some gas explosion or anything of the sort so we all be waiting for more details coming from the. you know we will be updating you would
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believe that we get. reports of three people killed not confirmed yet after this car bomb in the moldovan capital of sanaa thank you very much for that let's get to some other international news now we're covering this hour here on r.t. and syria's minister is promising a strong response after reports that one hundred twenty policemen 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 month long protest against president assad's rule which has left over twelve hundred people dead. and the violence in two yemeni provinces has left nineteen people dead including three children a tank shell exploded in a residential area during clashes in the country's second largest city but most of the deaths happened at an army post in the south in an attack by gunmen earlier the
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u.s. secretary of state said that president saleh. to move for a transition of power flew to saudi arabia for treatment after being wounded in a rocket attack. japan has more than doubled its calculation of the radiation that leaked from the fukushima nuclear plant in the first few days of the tsunami disaster the country's nuclear safety agency also said that meltdowns took place in three we are because quicker than first the water problems of the plant have been aggravated recently by bad weather with radioactivity still being released. now german scientists have found no traces of eco life at an organic farm they suspected to be the source of the outbreak lab tests on bean sprouts were negative but officials say that's possibly because the contaminated produce has already been distributed meanwhile spain whose cucumbers were wrongly blamed as the source last week has called for a revision of europe's food safety alert system the contamination so far has
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claimed twenty two lives most of them in germany. now america's recovery is still far on the horizon something not helped by unemployment creeping back up to over nine percent in may at its lowest for eight months and that's bad news for those completing college this summer that is more important than our reports on the graduates to fork out for their future but face getting very 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 nine hundred thousand easy. yet 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
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student debt 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 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 there's a college education just isn't that 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 these days the pens first and foremost on the quality and the quantity of skew craned new young workers are the major institutions that produce that or the
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colleges and universities you're pricing them out of being able to do that today i did call my no longer serves as a guaranteed passport to prosperity for i met are happier to have foreigners who tend to a their own way because they come from the very top of those societies and they will forgo the americans who can't afford it much anyway anyway according to the pew research center. if the 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 marina horton i r.t. new york. coming to you live from moscow now a worrying parallels being drawn between president obama's politics towards iran and those of george bush's moves in iraq award winning writer seymour hersh has been following developments for years later he tells us here at r.t.
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why it can only lead to a dead. fear is based on the notion that you know that he has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. the people who probably know 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 we know we know they're not doing for me and they wrote miracle the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and cheney the vice president and then did to iraq there is a lot of the punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like the politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons.
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so i don't i'm just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital in about an hour's time three men will be propelled into orbit by so use a rocket this of course coming from the remote if i can on cosmodrome in kazakhstan russian soyuz rockets are the number one and will soon be the only choice for manned space flight what's more a soyuz to take an oscar winning director on a flight of fancy in a few years and while some celebrities are happy just booking an orbiting trip others are created james cameron is rumored to have secured a one hundred fifty million dollars ticket to take him a towards the moon in two thousand and fifteen for the first time being for the time being it's his reign as it's done a russian an american and a japanese astronaut also for the stars in france when finding out what drives them to head for 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
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blast off it's all come down to one thing for the team quarantine a hallmark of any space program. welcome to the good of the you know why that is not a cause i want to. have questions we have a chance to work out with a chance to explain that. to a 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 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 set toshi for a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using our space. we've all called wanted to follow in his father alexander's footsteps as a cosmonaut but it was
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a secret vault senior only found out by flipping through applicant files. they do i saw a personal file with the name sergei volkov on it but it didn't even dawn on me and you know it would be a cover page and saw his pictures that's when i feel completely shocked and dumbfounded i genuinely never expected this to happen i felt very proud but it gave way to worry because i know that space travel is very dangerous i knew i would worry whenever he's on a space trip and. for mike fossum as an american boy growing up in texas watching the moon landing page 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 a 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 and i was stroking. all the time and when i pulled out a pen i wrote inside the cover of this book you know you know i've witnessed all of
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the things that took place in here and someday i too will reach to the stars 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 in space shuttle program cosmos may offer the only way to space now for astronauts but more tourists and also offer is one of the most expensive forty 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 an issue and left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out on like it's almost like an orchid society just like. there's a lot of people and see you where there's a lot of love so it's really good students back in quarantine the crews don't get to see their bucket yet they're separated from loved ones by glass waiting just hours for the adventure to finally begin lindsey france r t baikonur cosmodrome has
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it's no. more or less to a reminder now of our breaking news here and i'll tell you there's green explosions and moldova's capital city of just an hour a car is thought to have been packed with explosives blew up in the city center i want to since report seeing a bodies in the road and several people with injuries although there are conflicting reports on the number of casualties is europe's poorest republic but it's times like this are extremely rare we will bring you more on this as details emerge here on arts. today now here look at the latest business of korea. welcome to our business report the south thanks for joining me our top story the piece taking steps to sell its fifty percent stake in russian venture tain k b p two state run ross snapped the move could help the british or major save its landmark operation deal with russia's largest or producer b.p.
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recently failed to buy out its russian partners who had blocked the deal with ross and now b.p.'s partners are objecting to the sale saying they will lose control of the company analysts say the deal could help b.p. improve its financial situation but it may also be a blow to the company's output. now economic policy making in the new russia is very similar to what it was in the old soviet union a study by a research group at the gaidar institute for economic policy says it worth cases growing state expenses are pounds extra or revenues but harris from business news europe magazine explains it it just amplifies the need for reform. in the beginning united states through a big push where you spend heavily on infrastructure you get that was promised turning you put some money in the system but then once you get mr green shoots of free and rise in the state needs to step back and nurture business and let's ignore state spending that's about tax credits and maybe code something he wrote or see coming into more. rushes at that station or is transitioning down to the state
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spending and it needs to nurture business and is not very good at it but the state if we still thinks in terms of the big question was you know we just put more money in the economy. that will that will lead to any more inflation or more imports that we want to be rid of just cause your economy seems. let's take a look at the markets. lower as opec members gather in vienna to review their target for all outputs also worries over the u.s. recovery underscore expectations of waning for energy light sweet is trading at around ninety eight dollars a barrel and brant is around one hundred and fourteen dollars but the stock markets in europe a high helped by gains from minus xstrata is up one point two percent for the footsie h m v up six percent in london after the struggling company said i secured new financing agreements from its bonds and utility stocks are also on the rise
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with german electricity producing the all rising leading the dax up one i have to say. here last august the high and often in trading yards this is up nearly one percent in the x. is up over eight percent let's look at some individual several moves on the my six most of the blue chips are high at the half is among the top gainers with she has up more than two percent gas problem is trading even higher with shares gaining over three percent backing stocks are also on the rise would be to be up nearly eight percent. among the seeing a boom in russian i.p.o.'s it's now the turn of course. operated global courts to try to conquer the markets companies going to list at thirty five percent of its shares giving it a preliminary evaluation of around two billion dollars a range of firms have announced initial public offerings of london including god i did it and fertilizer producer. japan's earthquake
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and tsunami disaster forced a number of countries to reshape their nuclear plants the most far reaching is telling me saying it will ditch atomic energy by the end of two thousand and twenty two but john rich from the world nuclear says he says the evidence goes against the traffic decision 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 of japan and india are catching up and we're going to be 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 tell you all 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 has is maintaining the
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commitment to nuclear power in all nations that are engaged in responsible rational debate about it and germany is the exception and you can see the full interview with john rich in our spotlight program later today here on our team that's our business for now stay with headline news was very up still.
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