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markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our she. thought she had to teach greek out there out of our main stories. hangry protests were the response to the greek government's approval of harsh new cuts in order to secure further financial support from you police fired tear gas and stun grenades or crowds of people trying stones and smashing windows. as the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates but i have to say goodbye to the pentagon as the cia chief who's taking over the critics question whether this appointment or end
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the war is currently thriving and expanding the cheap budget. and the u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers which threatens to supply it disrupt schools and transport around three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants are staging a war tells against government plans to cut back pensions and freeze pay. for the next we'll talk to british media so what could he says public sector workers won't stop until they cheat. today i'm talking to mark so what because he was one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strike in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union he's three hundred thousand members are walking out of a proposed reforms to the pension scheme mr walker thanks for talking to r.t.
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today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be gives an impression of what they might mean for the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. i mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private sector as a direct result we're seeing changes in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to that in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social care services everything that people have taken for granted over years is ultimately. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrongs almost a moral position but isn't there a bottom line that has to be respected for example they didn't reform and soon it looks like they might not be able to afford teachers or nurses. in greece this is
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the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now then we will millions of houses schools hospitals well first recognise and actually economically these cuts will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where actually very depressed the economy and we think americans worse you've said that the government cuts are now just attack working people. but how do you think this strikes will affect the. ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something how this hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish to the government is if they try to ignore we'll come back in the autumn and we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government
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realise that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. i'm not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe that pressure ultimately can force them to change direction the government's bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem excessive a lot of money how do you suggest that they would use it i don't think they should reduce it i'm quite clear that retirement of dignity and old age where you don't have to struggle to make ends meet should be what we aspire for in the fifth richest country in the world and so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important but instead of a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a rising the pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement and that could be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three or four years talking the tax gap where the richest people in britain avoid paying
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over one hundred billion a year without actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and a lot of private sector workers say that actually the public has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing poorly opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important arriving at the right level of study to be higher that's incredible when you think of the propaganda we've had over the last two years from politicians in the media telling everybody the public sector pensions are the cause of people. the problem my masters to private sector workers is they are being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs and not by public sector workers pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up and not cut down to the worst what you simulate what would you accept in terms of pension reform what i personally believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay
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a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they're costing last because that's not about pensions it's about raising taxes to solve the deficit i don't believe people should be forced to work longer i don't believe people should have the levers of their pensions slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment unless the government fundamentally except they have to talk about those things then i believe the industrial action is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to negotiate so what's the point of striking. when the point is to change your mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go see it when there could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another and we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and students all becoming a joint campaign is going to be prolifically very powerful we've already seen in britain amounts of one hundred five hundred thousand people three months ago
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transform the political mood in this country only from march. our view is well what strikes actually how exactly do you think that march changed the political needs is transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people a confidence that however small a community and i have a small of a back seat for example kate in a library i understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from a march to knowledge for unions ballots in numbers of members voting overwhelmingly for a strike so it's. clearly transforming not just people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly are shifting whereas a majority before survey of polls strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to the crisis that we're seeing in the main it was caused certainly in part by a reckless financial services sector do you think there is political will now to create a more responsible banking community. where i would always question whether they
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will exist when the carbon was twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have cabinet members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with taxes although you go clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe that there is a political will of this government to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich caused but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking sector caused and as we're doing this interview members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet don't have holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million as trousering millions more and going to says that's got to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis began britain has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently the air force commander said he needed more money to sustain a campaign in libya and also in afghanistan do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes these kinds of things to happen that the
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government would cut spending and to enjoy another war abroad while i think there isn't any political consistency quite clearly we've been told there were so strapped for cash everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing trident and fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya are all wrong and misjudged what people claim. and we should actually find a way out of those pretty quickly not make the situation in those countries worse as well as at the same time. valuable resources could go into schools and hospitals and finally your office at number eight units and the country's biggest unit is stressing this wave of industrial action that carries orders given to the op said are you prepared to join us oh absolutely we have made it clear that our strike is the start of a process we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike because we want a government to set up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of their
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practice in unison and we want to work very closely with him and all the other trade unions in britain to ensure that when working people are making a protest a protest is as hard hitting as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so welcome thank you very much thank you. to. sum. it. up.
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the. ivory protests were the response to the greek government's approval of hamas new cuts in order to secure further financial support from the e.u. police fired tear gas and stun grenades at the crowds of people throwing stones and smashing windows. u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers instructions to severely disrupt schools and transport around three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants are staging a walkout against government plans to cut the pensions and freeze paid. as the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates but has to say goodbye to the pentagon and the
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cia chief who's taking over from the takes a question of whether this appointment or end the wars currently thriving plenty of responding little change budget. cutting back on the recap of our top stories about fifteen minutes to the touch tone and sports news with rima. hello welcome to the sport on our calls forever and these are the headlines. this for us joel fred song battles from two sets down to a knockout six time champion roger federer while nadal djokovic and murray also progress on a thrilling men's quarter final day at wimbledon. gone with the wind rushes kite surfer breaks the record after crossing the gulf of finland a little over three hours. it's
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a simple russian focal points in three goals fluent in the latest round of action in the russian premier league see them all in goals go to war. first sent a major upset at wimbledon were. staged a magnificent fight back to come from two sides down to knock out six time champion roger federer in the quarterfinals it's the first time the sixteenth major winner has lost a grand slam match after its eight in the first two sets the swiss masters so on to a six three seven six lead with apparent ease so it was a true feed bites on a mountain and the story comes back to win all three remaining sets six or three hour affair now the frenchman now goes into his maiden semifinal wimbledon and only third at a major. points to the court. it was. it was just perfect. i mean it
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was anything like. well next. in the world number two and it bernard so much is sensational wrong with aforesaid wintery she's straight grandstand senate final joke of the first set six two before it's homage brought back to take the second six three and go break off in the third before the surge that six three and then the eighteen year old australian qualifier overturned a break in the fourth but through to take it seven five. i had to work out for my points and in some periods of the match i was not feeling great. meaning i wasn't moving world and you know it's kind of standing a little bit on those rallies. but you know to go through another second final is just important. the latest. meanwhile defending champion rafael nadal stormed
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through his nineteenth straight win at wimbledon with the force it three against american morning fish next nadal will face and murray in a reprise of last year's semifinal match that's all pranked spaniard admit it will be his last tournaments for the next thirty days or so citing his foot injury despite having to play under an anaesthetic nadal is ready to go all the way to the finals taking it a match at a time. and not worried about my foot because i went to the hospital. here. we didn't see nothing really important so if you have something really important you have to out of the tournament. and i think really important. and the local paper and murray had the easiest passage of the day it was never broken as he's passed the envelope is great so that's just two hours make it five out of five against the spanish player the number four seed rushing into his third successive
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semifinal. against trying to pressure a little more say on the. earlier. points with. pretty much. the other a child has become the person rushing to successfully kite surf across the gulf or thin legs in a record sign of just three hours it was going for the twenty four year old world champion as a lacker when hampered his progress but says richard van cortlandt reports he managed to overcome the elements to complete the distance from a study to fill and. after much frustration it's time to see so pete's here might be able to stand his attempt to kite surfer across the gulf of finland but with the
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conditions that hindered him up till now and even now in what is his latest efforts the elements will once again proving to be unfavorable as distinct lack of wind was always going to prove a problem however he made a promising stance and in what seemed no time at all he was already miles away from the astounding coastline and his coach aleksey was pleased with his progress a quarter of a way eighty kilometer journey with the wind is pretty quiet but according to forecast should pick out once we get closer to a lack of wind continue to cause peter problems so much so people into the water as there wasn't enough wind to keep this kind airborne however he was soon back on his board as a finished coastline which was also his finishing line through ever close this whole challenge was a completely new experience for the twenty four year old russian he may be a world champion can't surf but normally he's used to performing tricks over a short period of time in good conditions and not have to serve
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a distance of around eighty kilometers with the elements against him as he who is pete best actually with at the end when dropped so i was barely keeping going in the luckily there was a child on the way so i got it right as you. see that in this oil the pressure on the feet and the way it was up and down was so hard to go up with a bit so. not surprisingly he was shattered after his endeavors as he had to work doubly hard due to the lack of wind however you cannot really. completing this fantastic feats has been a fine efforts well once again the weather conditions haven't been on painter side or lack of wind really hindering his progress but nonetheless he's become the first russians are kind of. an impressive time of just over three hours he may have completed this challenge the peach air has no intention of putting the speeds up he still wants to underline his status as one of the world's best kind surface but also in the future trying to kite certainly revenue in his native simpy just
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richmond pulled fleet on sea in the. aunts of boxing and of live near klitschko says he wants his unification out against david haye to go down to the wire as the rider targets his career knockout on saturday the younger brother turned up to see his work out ahead of the hamburg showdown but the brits and didn't reveal any of his tactics for the match w.b.c. world champion trained in an unusual south pole stance and hardly delivered a punch during the public session nor did he stay to watch the i.d.f. and w b o champion slug it out with his car in puerto hayes in your face attitude was good enough reason for klitschko to wish there meeting will be a long and painful experience for his rival. will not overestimate them and gives them a do they and they will of course you seen in particular they will see that's my wish for last two years now. and that is going to be a long twelve rounds for the hay in the last and final round it will knock him out
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