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welcome back here's a recap of the top stories we're covering for you on our team the greek parliament has taken the final step towards receiving crucial your plan bailout funds the government has voted on a detailed plan to the point that the country's second wave of a sturdy pressures it's just that by public assistance of the two days of rioting more than three hundred people injured. the u.k. raises itself for mass disruption as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare for twenty four hours of industrial action all their respondents want changes to pay and headsets thousands of teacher civil servants at a border patrol officers say the plans mean a lot of work for a reduced. moscow points to double standards at the u.n. over the organizations because it. on syria say the crisis warrants
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a peaceful solution foreign minister sergey lavrov says the security council should not be calling for action while ignoring what he describes as a civil war in yemen. well next we talk to british union leader marcus said walker 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 strike 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
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projected to 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 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 services everything that people have taken for granted over you as. you seem to see these cuts in terms of right and wrong almost a moral position but isn't there has to be respected for example they didn't reform and soon it looks like they might not 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 on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now then we've millions of houses schools hospitals and.
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recognizing 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 on to wealth where actually they depress the economy and we think things worse you've said that the government. just. working. but how do you think the strike. affects the. ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that 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 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
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a lot of money do you. think they should reduce i'm quite clear that the 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 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 raw 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 she the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than
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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 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 are 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 you would do except in terms of pension reform well 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 pension slashed so where we
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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 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 won't negotiate when there could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another 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 can do however is about 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
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t.v. station and it gave people the confidence that however small the community and i have a small they have seen for example keeping 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 not just 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 at the may. do you think there is political will to create a. community. where i would always question whether the exists when the. twenty three multi-millionaires in that when they have members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the ego clearly not
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morrow therefore i don't actually believe there is a political will. 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 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. has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently. said he needed more money to sustain in libya and. do you think there is a moral. cause these days kinds of things to happen that the government spending. well 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
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about renewing on fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya wrong misjudged what people claim that. 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. you could go into schools and hospitals and finally you office at number eight you know the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of. are you prepared to join us oh absolutely we we've 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 so i very much welcome the comments of you know we want to work very closely with him and all the other trade unions in britain to ensure that when working people protest the protest is possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds thank you very much.
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top stories on our team greek parliament has taken the final step towards receiving crucial bailout funds the government has voted on a detailed plan to implement the country's second wave of the steady pressures been met by public assistance for two days of rioting leaving more than three hundred people injured and. the u.k. braces itself for mass destruction as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare for twenty four hours of industrial action or they're responding to a lot of changes to pay and pensions thousands to teacher civil servants at border control officers say that the plans mean more work for a reduced headship. moscow points to double standards at the un over the organization's position on syria saying the crisis warrants a peaceful solution foreign minister sergei lavrov says the security council should not be calling for action while ignoring what he describes as a civil war in yemen. all those stories in detail in fifteen minutes time but first
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all the latest in sports. well i thank you for joining me for this course yes but i'm not. the last to reassure up the beach one kotzebue i said skeeter going to have wimbledon final two thousand and four thanks to check the tickets about. what got the women's top surface to scale which becomes the first russia to cross the gulf in just over three hours. up in the air high flying fun with one drive a mob what about exercise tell you to read the pilot. the first to tennis and maria sharapova has avoided an upset by coming from three left down to be wildcard sabine lisicki in straight sets to go through to her first wimbledon final since two
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thousand and four the russian made a woeful start as the in-form german took the first three games but despite a performance mark on her to drop her folks to recover to find her form and power back to take the first set six four she then did a similar job in the second set to a six three seven match in just under an hour and a half up of a has yet to drop a set she goes into post this exam find. one hell of a check at cricket of eight seeded lefthander face victoria azarenka of belarus and he takes solid forty winners to eventually regained the upper hand in this back and forth match as a rank that double pole to go down to the to get a six one three six six two victory both were competing in the maiden ground slumps in the finals doesn't seem so recent we've only been losing traction. i think you can beat anybody. you know because she wrote no she was really good game
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you know she really go for it and she's going to play like this so it should flow today i'm sure she has all the chance to and to in the next march. has finally managed to defy the elements and has become the first russian to successfully kitesurfing eighty kilometers across the gulf of finland in record time of just three hours which of course reports. after much frustration and finally see hope each year might be able to stand his attempt to kite surfer across the gulf of finland what were the conditions that hindered him up till now and even now in what was his latest efforts the elements will once again proving to be unfavorable as a distinct lack of wind was always going to prove a problem however he made a promising start and what seemed no time at all he was already miles away from a stone in coastline and his coach aleksey was pleased with his progress a quarter of the way through eighty kilometer journey was with the wind this pretty
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quiet now but according to forecast it should pick up 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 his kind airborne however he was soon back on his board as a finished coastline which was also his finishing line through ever close this hole challenger is a completely new experience for the twenty four year old russian he may be a world champion kite surfer but normally he's used to performing tricks over a short period of time in good conditions and not having to surf a distance of around eighty kilometers with the elements against him as you see with the knee and the wind drops so i was barely keeping going in the luckily there was a long way so i go in tight as you. see i mean there's quite a lot of pressure on the feet and the way it was up and down laws i had 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 he can now relax after completing this
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fantastic feeds has been a fine efforts where once again the weather conditions haven't been on page a side where the lack of wind really. during his progress but number less he's become the first russian tarkine sub to cross the gulf of finland an impressive time of just over three hours he may have completed this challenge how the preacher has no intention of putting the streets up he still wants to underline his status as one of the world's best current surfers but also in the future trying to kite serve down the river nearby in his native simpy just richer bumpily fleet artsy finland. that's a boxing klitschko says he wants unification badge against david haye to go down to the wire craning fighter targets his fiftieth career knockout on saturday the other kids go brother turned up to see his public workout ahead of the showdown but the briton didn't reveal any of his tactics for the match the w.b.c. world champion trained in an unusual sas for stance and hardly delivered
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a punch during the session nor did he stay to watch the i.p.f. and w b o champions slug it out with his sparring partner in your face attitude was good enough reason for kids go to wish their meeting would be a long and painful experience for his rival. will not doris the maid and there's the mayor daley and there will of course you seen the bridge and you know they will see that's my wish for last two years now. that is going to be a long twelve rounds for duty in the last in the final round it will knock him out and he's going to be number fifty. football now and if relegation and the cross city defection of their manager once enough more misery could be in store for english club city as their own a cause and young has been charged with money laundering in his native hong kong the fifty one year old businessman appeared in course to face five counts of the offense totaling more than one thousand million u.s. dollars however young doesn't think any of the charges were the club he bought two years ago but even claimed their first trophy in forty eight years last season by beating aston to lift the cup but they failed to survive in the premier league and
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lost their manager alex mcleish to arch rivals aston villa earlier this month. how is doing with will and forward another moscow coach under a couple has been named as the new manager of bottom side previous events of in the russian premier league forty two year old has like three year deal after being sacked as did on my boss last year he is expected to drastically restore the fortunes of the some are assigned some think it's pretty to says that its numbers have gone off fail to do and his thought on tuesday counter to me is to know what home to teach to fellow strugglers spotlight now at the weekend that sent the science to the bottom. and while korea were losing to scour one to let them come out to extend their leads to four points at the top overs a need you could only manage a goal destroyed and to turn back altogether twenty three goals were scored in eight games on sunday and as the russian top flight now takes a month long summer break let's recap on all those strikes his goals.
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and finally there may still be a week to go before the next formula one race but best says he's in the right form to once again when the british grand prix it's over stand and as it turns out this is not the australians on the ambition red bull mob is determined to swap his driver's helmet for pilots cap that hopefully he won't be doing it forever the taney a flying license is a top item on his wish list the weather has been given his first lesson at london's heathrow airport however he'll have to stay on the ground if he is to put any pressure on teammate and f one leader sebastian vettel i feel very confident that it was either stop the back of a pretty solid result or saw a couple results actually so feel of one race tribe is very very good it's all about today's. suicide or whether i was last year so trying to defend i suppose i totally feel like it's a very special and prestigious ricer that british gold praise always attracted over a hundred thousand really every every race. and that's what has forced new series
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