tv [untitled] June 30, 2011 2:31am-3:01am EDT
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to recap the main stories. protests were the response to the greek government's approval of cuts in order to secure the financial support the police fired tear gas and stun grenades at crowds of people trying stones and smashing windows. defense robert gates to say goodbye to a cia chief who is taking over the critics question whether this appointment will end the war is currently thriving and the ever expanding. on the u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers which threatens to severely disrupt schools and transport around three quarters of a million teachers in sydney. servants are staging
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a walk out against the government that is to cut back pensions and freeze pay. or next we talked to british union leader mark so what could he says public sector workers won't stop until they achieve their goals. today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union three hundred thousand members are walking out of a proposed reforms to the pension scheme thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be give us an impression of what they might mean for the cuts to the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime projected to mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private
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sector as a direct result we're seeing changes in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social services everything that people have taken for granted as. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrongs almost a moral position but isn't there has to be respected for example they didn't see it it looks like they might be able to afford. this is 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. deaths as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now. millions of houses schools hospitals are. recognizing actually economically these cuts will make it worse far better to cut
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the deficit by employing people who pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto wealth where actually they depress the economy and we think my friends with us you've said that the government. just attack working. how do you think this strikes . affects the. ruling class what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that 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 realise that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe. force them to change direction the government's bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem to have a lot of money how do you suggest that they would you say. i don't think they
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should reduce 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 so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and 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 run using the pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement 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. where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and private sector workers say that see the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing the opinion polls seem to tell us already
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a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important and arriving at the right level should even 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're being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector workers pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up not cut down to the worst. what would you accept in terms of pension reform what i personally believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they're costing less 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 and 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 accepts they have to talk about those things and i believe the industrial action is going to
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take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to negotiate say what's the point of striking. when the point is to change their 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 won't negotiate when they 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 a march of one hundred five hundred thousand people three months ago transformed the political mood in this country from march going to our viewers well what could strikes actually do 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 the confidence that however small the community and i have a small they see for example keeping
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a library they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from a march to now for unions balloting members or members voting overwhelmingly for a strike so it's. clearly transforming people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly. whereas a majority before said they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to the crisis that we're seeing in the. financial services sector do you think there is political will now to create a more responsible banking community. or i would always question whether the. twenty three multimillionaires in that when they have members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the go clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe there is a political will. to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that
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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 the holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million as trousering millions more in bonuses to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis began. into a new war in a foreign country and recently. said he needed more money to stay in libya. do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes these kinds of things to happen that the government spending and. what i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we've been told that. everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing on fighting wars overseas irrespective of
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the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya wrong they 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 you opposite number eight you know the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of industrial action that carries. 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 because we want to be on strike because we want the government to set up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of the apprentice as you know 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 the protest is this is possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so welcome thank you very much.
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hangry protests were the response to the greek government's approval of cost new cuts in order to secure further financial support from the e.u. police fired tear gas and stun grenades at crowds of people throwing stones and smashing windows. u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers which threatens to severely disrupt schools and transport around three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants all staging a walkout against government plans to cut their pensions paid. as the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates prepares to say goodbye to the pentagon is the cia chief who's taking over takes questions whether this appointment and the wars currently thriving on the ever expanding military budget. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories about fifteen minutes but it's time for sports news with rima.
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hello welcome to the sport on our calls forever and these are the headlines. this for us joel fred song. 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 her breaks the record after crossing the gulf of finland a little over three hours. say some russian football one two three goals flew in in the latest round of action in the russian premier league see them all in goals go. first tennis center a major upset at wimbledon word jabal fred staged a magnificent fight back to come from two sets down to knock out six time champion
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roger federer in the quarterfinals it's the first time the sixteenth major weather has lost a grand slam match after it's taken the first two sets the swiss masters stormed to a six three seven six lead with apparent ease so it was a true feed bites on god and the story come back to win all three remaining sets six four in a three hour affair now the frenchman now goes into his maiden semifinal wimbledon and only he's third at a major. felt so good in the court. it was quick. it was just perfect. it was. well next. the world number two ended bernard salt which is sensational wrong with the force that went to reshift it straight grand slam semi final djokovic should the first set six two before tom ridge fought back to take the second six three and
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go break up in the third before the serbian that six three then the eighteen year old australian qualifier overturned a break in the fourth but through to take it seventy five. they had to work hard for my points and in some periods of the match i was not feeling great. meaning i wasn't moving well and. kind of spending a lot of on those rallies. but you know to go through another semifinal is the important thing in the latest. meanwhile defending champion rafael nadal stormed to his nineteenth straight win at wimbledon with the force it against american morning next nadal will face and murray in a reprise of last year's semifinal match that brandt spaniard admitted 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
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taking it a match at a time. another word about my foot because i went to the hospital. we didn't see nothing really important so if you have something really important you have to tell the tournament. and i think really important. and the local favorite and mari had the easiest passage of the day and was never broken as he eased past at least the end of lopez and straight sets just under two hours make it five wins out of five against the spanish player the number four seed rushing into his third successive wimbledon semifinal. to go off to start. the. second so on. because he serves well. normally against a big service to try and put pressure on use of force in the once they're able to
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hold. because i. know that i was able to take a lot of the points back to the core and played a good match. the other two she gave each has become the first russian to successfully kitesurfing across the gulf of finland in a record sign of just three hours it was going for the twenty four year old world champion as a lack a wind hampered his progress but as richard van portly reports he managed to overcome the elements to complete the eighty kilometers distance from the stone to finland. after much frustration it finally seemed as though peace here might be able to stand his attempt to kite surfer across the gulf of finland but with the conditions that hindered him up till now and even now in what was his latest efforts the elements were once again proving to be unfavorable as a distinct lack of wind was always going to prove a problem however he made a promising stance and what seem no time at all he was already miles away from a stone in coastline and his coach aleksey was pleased with his progress
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a quarter of the way through eighty kilometer journey was with the wind this pretty quiet now but according to forecasts it should pick up at once we get closer to filling up with a lack of wind continue to cause peter problems so much so he fell into the water as there wasn't enough wind to keep those kinds 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 current surfer but normally he's used to performing tricks over a short period of time in good conditions and not have to serve a distance of around eighty kilometers with the elements against him as he who is actually with a knee and the wind drops so i was barely keeping going in the luckily there was a long the way so i go in tight as you. see when there's quite a lot of pressure on the feet and the way it was up and down laws who had to go up
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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 he could not really. completing this fantastic feats has been a fine efforts well once again the weather conditions haven't been on pages side but the lack of wind really hindering is progress but number less he's become the first russian to across the gulf of finland an impressive time of just over three hours he may have completed this challenge the peacher has no intention of putting the streets up he still wants to underline his status as one of the world's best current surface but also in the future trying to kite served on the river now in his native simpy just richard from pole fleet artsy finland. office of boxing and of large american says he wants his unification bad against david haye to go down to the wire as the fighter targets his fiftieth career knockout on saturday the younger klitschko brother turned up to see his work out ahead of the hamburg
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showdown but the brits and didn't reveal any of his tactics for the match the w.b.c. world champion trained in an unusual sound stance and hardly delivered a plunge during the public session nor did he stay to watch the. champion slug it out with his sparring partner hayes in your face attitude was a good enough reason for klitschko to wish there meeting will be a long and painful experience for his rival. will not overestimate underestimate do they and they will of course you see in your platoon today they will see that's my wish for last two years now. that it's going to be a long twelve rounds for david haye in the last in the final round who will knock him out and he's going to be number fifteen. the russian football premier league is taking a month long summer break and will resume on the twenty first of july but we've compiled all the goals from the latest round of action for you in our traditional segment goals galore.
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