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again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. corp. we are seeing the latest pictures from a libya where nato forces have launched u.s. strikes on tripoli meantime russia has a special envoy has just arrived in the rebel capital of benghazi to encourage are the rival sides to meet at the top. of. the i.m.f. throws egypt's a three billion dollar bailout but it's only in line the pockets of former president mubarak's protege who continue to run the country. the graduate gamble america's college graduates find that just one in five will land a job with the rest to struggle with. the top story in
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business they may spell it starts in the sense take it to ross here and later. they will lose control of the company join me for that and more than twenty minutes now this is. a very warm welcome to you this is not the line from moscow research now a russian envoy is starting his peace mission in libya and the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table and call an article off is in benghazi for talks with the opposition would like to head to tripoli for discussions with the gadhafi regime the capital is no safe place right now with nato i think it's as strikes on colonel gadhafi military arsenals. is that for us. the russian special presidential envoy make love is today here is
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a lever to try to mediate in the civil war that has lost it for months already and has already claimed many many lives including us and civilians gallup is expected to meet with the opposition figures in the libyan rebel had orders in benghazi he was also expected first to visit the capital tripoli as well but now many say that's unlikely to happen for both political and security reasons better for following the g eight meeting in france has that duffy should step down after that the libyan government here in tripoli has started to see russia aligning with the western powers in its time to unseat two kids after the while before the libyan government has kind of trusted russia because russia initially abstained from voting on the libyan resolution in the un security council authorizing nato
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military operation here the arrival of the russian special envoy to lead it coincides with intensification of nature strikes on these military arsenal here in tripoli when we arrived in the city to be heard gunshots and the sounds of a very very have a bombardment and actually just minutes ago we witnessed like we heard the sounds of the two very happy and saw smoke. like smoke coming out from where it happened so we can say that the situation is very difficult here in tripoli and they turn has indeed intensified its military efforts here just days ago the alliance expanded its war against the gadhafi regime and has started to use an attack helicopters for the first time this intensification could only could also be proven by the statesman's we can hear. air from nato secretary
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general rasmussen sorry he. when he meets with the alliance is defense ministers on wednesday they demanded more countries conceded to the fight against gadhafi and just ahead of a russian special visit to leave there the british foreign secretary has eclairs up to visit him south rebels in benghazi but you know operation here in leave here good last beyond reason is so we can say for sure that the street here in leave it is a very difficult and let's hope that the mission by russian special envoy here will be successful. in reporting right there you would argue a lot from moscow it's an hour five minutes past the hour international bankers have agreed to rescue the ailing egyptian economy for months after blacklisting former president mubarak's regime cairo's reeling from the revolution that toppled the leader but the military that once propped up his rule is still running the country. live reports now on fears that the cash will be swallowed up by the same
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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 a move critics say is absurd this is a bribe that the west is trying to give to the regime lest the new one lest it turns against the west that climber is insisting the money will help stabilize the country's finances especially now with mubarak on and the country going through a transitional period but observers say it's the same skin with only slightly different marketing these agreements are being made with tradition transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily out of some features of the old 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 appointee obama's promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion indeed
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cancellation of french president nicolas sarkozy is committed to g. eight to providing actually ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help each actions get back on the feet united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions v our. considerable financial contributions. and the perfect ways 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 award of american foreign economic policies. to a regime. unstable. would could be considered as a waste of money on something that is very shaky what's more it comes with
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particular strings attached and that the deal could in fact spell trouble by the use of. pleasuring. a lot in the worst trouble or it will get. a country. to start so big. your equilibration regime no way. most egyptians fear is that the money will get 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 in living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. praised the mubarak regime as the sound of fiscal management in egypt as far as libya waned if the offer for the economy remained stable but just days later
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mubarak was ousted and tripoli was engulfed in and he gadhafi demonstrations so it's no surprise of many see the irony if rates a country the closer the country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization can be policy r.t. tel aviv. and up more on the impact of the i.m.f. handouts and the strings that try to pull in country's economy just over to our website it's hard to dot com those are plenty of another sense for example of course finance watchers tell us how using money as a medicine one help cure the troubles of one thing the people of egypt and it is the details on our website right now. the i.m.f. attention is stretched to struggling economies around the world but also to troubles at home as to who will take over since its former boss had to quit a sex crime and claims not everyone's happy that a european will be lined up has always been the case there are growing voices but
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someone from the brics countries of brazil russia india china all south africa should have a go. the us is a failed economy but the eurozone has failed and the brics nations have been realizing for quite some time now better failing anglo american british and other euro interests i want the most support on this global dictatorship and that is extremely consequential implications and the entire 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 the brits are the backbone that's exactly what the i.m.f. is one big willing station but i think in the short run i think you may realize that some of their success some of their economic growth does to at least a degree hinge upon you know western western interests because as we know there are some of the largest creditor nations in the world i think eventual it's in their best interest to completely break the chains off of this situation and perhaps
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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 up there. without the light from moscow it's now at ten minutes past the hour plenty more to come here on the program including the american students going from diploma to the goal to. be the leader the lead the green charger start a great company or i'm going to be seriously normal qualified but with hopes as america's rising unemployment rate leads students with massive loans and nothing to pay them off with plus. work a little bit of the year in the life of an astronaut a constant pointing saudi like that on the track of the final preflight preparations of three space program we learn what led them to become so obsessed with getting in simple. a car has exploded in the capital city of moldova but police are unsure whether it was caused by a bomb blew up outside the republic's tennis federation headquarters interests and
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now seriously wounding the group's chairman as he left the building details of other injured people are still a bit sketchy but the number is thought to be minimal. as europe's poorest republic but terror attacks there are extremely rare. well let's go to some other international news we're covering for you this hour and syria's interior 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 resident calls for protection from armed groups government forces are trying to quell the months long protests against president assad's rule which has left over twelve hundred people to. band of violence into 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 and most of
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the deaths happened at an army post in the south in an attack by government earlier the u.s. each year state said that president saleh is absence should allow yemen to move for a transition of power cell a flute or a 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 meltdowns took place in three reactors quicker than first thought the government admits it wasn't properly prepared for such a severe nuclear accident the problems at the plant have been aggravated recently by bad weather with radioactivity still being released. germany's national disease control center say a one hundred new eco affections have been reported the number of people contaminated with bacteria has now topped over two thousand three hundred meanwhile
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spain wants europe's food safety alert system reviewed after its cucumbers were wrongly blamed by germany for starting the outbreak which has so far claimed twenty two lives. now america's recovery is still far on the horizon something not helped by unemployment creeping back up to nine percent in may recruitment meantime is out its lowest for eight months and that's bad news for those completing college this summer is more important 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 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
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a dwindling job market saddled with at least twenty four thousand dollars in student debt the that really led to 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 in 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 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 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
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quantity of skew craned new young workers and the major institutions that produce that are 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 america 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 stay. everywhere 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 financial aid and pay full tuition since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight the cost of u.s.
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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 pay their own way because they come from the very cops of those societies and they will forego all of the americans who can 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 but with a widening workforce of untrained and an educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth your enough artsy new york the pain of losing a child is something that no parent ever wants to pay now a russian woman is keeping her late son's legacy alive by using his frozen sperm and surrogate mothers and she's battling the courts society's attitude to be
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recognized as the guardian for paving grandchildren takes on a point or explains. it was only after fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full an 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 became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else she was in though the death of my son created a hole in my life that i 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 the grief for his first chemotherapy session doctors conserve his sperm the help of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the march has been left her her scientific career was going hold yet lamar says they're
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all trifles compared to bereavement brought about by her son's death. and flood which is fed by grief but it's love number less three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs for the little ones out of this abyss of despair. but here a large family support lamar says she has no financial up around til concerns about raising her grandchildren the main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the martyr of these children and her deceased son as their father. maher has taken the issue to court with a ruling expected on wednesday the lord believes the law is in their side because. 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 as well as some restriction overseas or courts
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officials may be confused and refuse to gauge just to children of the. law is definitely in our a fever. summer 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 share number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning the affix of this kind of parenting. to sides employing mechanics ultimately lead to this 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 your genes no matter works for kamara couldn't care less about societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of your only son persuaded her there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has no
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age cap for people willing to adopt children the only cabbage is that a potential parent could be at least sixteen years older than the child cannot 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 it's often been more than a handful it's not a boycott artsy moscow. and so now it's on in twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow and in about nine hours three men will be propelled into orbit by a star use a rocket from the remote baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan russian soyuz rockets are the number one and will soon be the only choice for about space travel but small store use it could take an oscar winning director on a flight of fancy in a few years probably i assess crew have to make do with staying in near all of it avatar created james cameron is rumored to have secured a multimillion dollar ticket to the moon and back in two thousand and fifteen
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that's a feat achieved by and no one in nearly forty years for the time being though in kazakhstan by russian and american and japanese astronauts are all set for the start to miss lindsay france has been finding out what drives them to head for the final from here. 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 blastoff it's all come down to one thing for the team quarantine a hallmark of any space program. welcome to little bit of the year in the life of an astronaut or because i want to. be a question we have to chance to work out where the kids just play a very low. key to a great way to get ready to fly in space. that's right. shooting pool. working out. and playing with their custom made space suits
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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 seto she flew to kala a doctor want to defy new advances in medicine using outer space. of all 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 applicant files. i saw a personal file with the name sergei volkov on it but it didn't even dawn on me and so 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 and you i would worry whenever it is 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
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just my mind just exploding it was something a few months later through the schools we had a program where you could buy a very simple little paperback books and i got to work 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 when i pulled out a pen 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 some day i too will reach to the stars at the 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 ford a big 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 an issue and left russia for new jersey seventeen years ago wasn't going to miss out like
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it's almost like going so far to be just like. there's a sword you can see where there's a glow 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 get lindsey france r t baikonur cosmodrome has it's now. time for the latest business update for this hour with current. consumer business with us takes our top story this all b.p. is taking steps to sell its fifty percent stake in russian venture to the two state run rawson after the move could help the british hold wages save its landmark corp deal with process largest oil producer b.p. recently failed to buy out its russian partners would block the deal with ross they have now b.p.'s partners are getting to the sale saying they will lose control of
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the company and those say the deal could help b.p. improve its financial situation but it may also be a blow to the companies or. let's take a look at the markets stock markets in europe are high helped by minus reacting to his gaining one percent on the forty page energy up six percent in london up to study in confidence that it has secured new financing agreements from its banks it's a risky stocks are also high with german electricity producing the own leading over three percent on the docks. here in russia stocks jumped the most in a week on tuesday rose the r.t.s. is up nearly one and a whole percent taxes taking over her soft targets look at some individual moves over my six most of the blue chips are high at cross net climbs on speculation it may quiet state in trouble if you take a quick peek unstained t v p of course second day point nine percent from shares
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gaining over three percent banking stocks are also on the rise we p.t.p. up nearly. london to seeing a boom in russell i.p.o. it's now the turn of port operator global courts to try to conquer the market the company's going to list twenty five percent of which giving it a preliminary evaluation of around two billion dollars a range of firms have announced initial public offering in london including going to different airports fertilizer producer. because of a policy making in the new russia is very similar to what it was in the old soviet union to start a study by a research group at the gaidar institute for economic policy says in both cases growing state expenses are balanced by oil revenues now but arrows from business news your magazine explains it just amplifies the need for reform. from the beginning you need the state to do a big push where you spend heavily on infrastructure you get there with the promise
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turning you put some money in the system and then once you get this green shoots of free and rice then the state needs to step back and nurture business and that's not space spending that's about tax codes and made some europe or c. coming at them or take my view russia's at that station i was transitioning out of the states when they released an urgent business and it's not very good at it but they say that we still thinks in terms of the big push you know we'll just put more money in the economy i said well that will lead to will be more information and more import so we want to give you any growth and just cause your economic problems and that's all from me in the business team here and i wish we might begin cooler we will be with you next hour with more business.
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in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph princeton at university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. on all the main risk issues was that there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the produce aside and only five percent are read again i mean the
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independent. there is not a lot of science that says train genic this is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if a trench genic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish caught relations don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states or our legislatures throughout the world we vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth. is the.

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