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the week's top stories this is all see a closely rescued the three of the twelve began euro bailout package the greek debt crisis as violent demonstrations rocked the country impressionists the high cost to help. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the u.k. take caution a national debt strikes an attempt to deprive the government's plans to change that . your goal is the gadhafi the goal is to control libya. is to me this is the target. and know them to do that. so the fight will continue. and it's nature steps operates at a soldier maybe else he speaks exclusively with his son about why his country is a. bus accidents from a humanitarian flotation led deficit for gaza to monitoring all summer she's explained why that point. i've been banned from leaving greek ports in
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a while the palestinian leader accepts after his offer to deliver days to their place because of the campaign. hello and welcome to the broad run this is all she's weekly review i mean you leisure pilota main story greece is to get its latest payout from the in the next two weeks according to eurozone finance ministers they also plan to focus on discussing a second bailout for the country the release of the twelve billion euros tranche needed to a valid a default came however at a price which has outraged the greek public the greek parliament passed a radical austerity plan demanded by the international monetary fund including myself of state assets and swiss bank accounts to lead almost eighty billion here right and these narrow lead back to the measures despite
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a widespread public opposition with protesters saying because target ordinary people are not responsible for the economic mess three days of demonstrations left hundreds injured and angry crowds clashed with police who responded about tear gas and stun grenades but actual journalist demetri confidence has been with protesters addison talking with square the focal point of the rest. i think the only real option for them right now for the protesters and for the greek people is if some sort of political option for a movement develops out of a society out of the ranks of ordinary people who are intelligent or capable who come from universities who have some idea of what the country needs according to scholars here in greece or constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure complete unconstitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass a sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and the people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here
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right now what you're looking to have happen is you're you're going to see a fall of this government at some point i've said if things go it really of the violence is a really big issue because if if the violence if this results in casualties not just massive injuries then that's going to that's going to lead to a collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in and actually do something productive maybe maybe not but then that governments have to fall too i don't see the people in this country lying down there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national karma soup association here in greece is going to be filing a lawsuit along with other people against the government for use of illegal substances because these weren't just it was just tear gas there were other chemicals and including us fixating agents and that's why you see a lot of people here i saw them myself and a lot of people other people saw them passing out not being able to breathe people inside the metro station not being able to breathe the hospital for that reason people are very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. and the fear that the you cash won't help or is backed by critics. that the money will
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be used to pay off banks now how the people of greece. explain. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour and we're going to pay for this we want to become like a bug is greece continues to fight against economic ruin second day in. an attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous limit payments that the greek people will be seeing a penny. of money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out interest payments and repayments also battles on save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high very see their income going down they see taxis taxis taxis and nothing else their money
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does not go to very early corner me here is struggling against harsher sterett he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout that's been lost and people are asking when the troika the i.m.f. european central bank and the e.u. that provided that initial to the tune of one hundred ten billion euro is going to look past the bad move on to plan b. because the thought the quest to manage another bailout package and pay back that loan for a lot of people is that they are realistic in fact when it comes to the choice many people now in greece simply don't want to help them actions is being born as a self-interest try. to get as much as. they get out there are going to get all this they. i mean. they are going to get almost everything in the bailout would certainly come as
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a high cost for the cuts in public spending raising taxes and an aggressive privatization. program that would mean the sale of many greek public assets one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit on their faulty lending policies result as if there's a whole other holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to lose so r.t. athens. greece is not the only country to be hit by pressures this week as u.k. public sector workers took part in a national day of strikes on thursday hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil service servants voiced their discontent with government plans to change their pensions half of the country's state schools were closed and destruction was course to add traffic during the biggest industrial action decades nor am it has the story
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. down tools up with industrial action an autumn of discontent starts here this time it's the public sector workers walking out on happy with the planned reform of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting a lot less they're going to have to pay more attention. to fight i'm well familiar face having to be back to think tank taking anything that changes that i may consider pensions or very necessary to face a way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in that things are being . tried and tried to teach approaches by sight much as it is to these people do a huge variety of key work from teaches and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief
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ball babble a says his one point three million members already a prolonged industrial action and we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pounds set aside and we've got a strategy work but i must stress that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package nor the ridiculous package of their proposal at the moment that package involves raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty six raising pension contributions by work has and having payouts based on average career earnings rather than final salary the unions admit public support is fundamental the government's very unlikely to change its mind about reforms if the public at large doesn't back the unions but that's by no means a short public sector workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of those pensions is very much under the carpet and the burden falls on to the next
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generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector paint. reform didn't even after their reforms public sector workers will get solved at a pension just by the church of workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to force the government to change its mind and it's no stranger to you turns it was hell bent on reforming the health service too until it decided to take longer to think about it causing friction in the coalition the government is doing this to reduce the current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face that the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension fund to pay for that made public sector work you know don't affect the pensions or what while they may still be a stick to that if that was so widespread with your pension funds would collapse and that would be u.k.p. i would be very short of investment just what it means that more than ever your avatar to be loved at least this is nasty and coming up soon neglected by the state
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she meets a young woman who grew up on an orphan is now fighting local authorities for life she and her two young children desire. and also point out why the demolition of a religious monument in ukraine led to blood and tears. stepping out as strikes on leave it to turn the course of its campaign against his forces leaflets dropped from coalition planes a bombing run can happen any place any time the alliance claims to be hitting only military targets but a growing number of innocent libyans say they fear death from the skies brussels has already apologized for killing civilians by mistake although tripoli claims the number of reported deaths is said to be much higher than natures are willing to admit kendall gadhafi is now threatening to retaliate against europe unless the as strikes stop maria is on the front line. the road. from the capital
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tripoli to brag is lined with the aftermath of war towns of band and as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the city of. home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's only hitting the targets of military value well call say these telecommunications towers so thick to stop. destroying. this is a safe place to air strikes and they've also accidentally burned two cars and killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see phone light has also been disrupted. there is no water and no. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell towards home
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now susan familiar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother who is in such a condition. from the small poor not far from brad gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them and now see they destroy it all this is terrible and ridiculous at the same time the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on a tuesday flare jobs just before the bombers arrive this run so as you can see there is a sign here in arabic that nato is here to leave here too in force and i'll fly zone over the country to protect civilians on the other side there is another sign also in arabic saying that nato can attack any place at any time. this any time happened three times over several hours while we were feeling really good
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neighbors major parties where the front is dividing the country into two parts into two swirling sides is going to put one flashpoint within the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to quote case gets in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a rare target that nato bombs never land on while it looks like the civilian population can hardly. they were like my family not just going to the shop to buy some foods and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it and this used to be a restaurant company staff where friends gathered after work. we were eating with my colleagues then there was a blast we knew what it was we tried to help those who were trapped but then the helicopters came and started to shoot at us. from one street to another the stories are repeated brigham serve our problem along with. the food plain and so
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every man every day every day when being a big killed our civilians but there's been nothing from this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes they drowns them. out t. tripoli bragger. the african union is calling on member states to refuse their arrest warrant issued by the hague this week against colonel gadhafi if their organization doesn't abide the criminal courts request the libyan leader would be able to travel freely across africa has gained exclusive access to the colonel's son was also wanted for war crimes save khadafi says the warrant is a sham after nature's attempts to kill him and his family. this chorus is it is it is a mickey mouse court come on the accuse me of for killing people over the wedding or
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the sentence. against the end of the capital punishment so they decided to kill and the under did kill my brother and destroy the house so this is me to excuse the so now you are to go out arrest me the demands are going to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to to find me and to give me over there my brother so does the world number two just to tell you that it's a freak or a little of what we are trying to negotiate with ours a deal to do if you're out of this deal with the curator of the court what does the middle that we use is is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to port psychological and political pressure pass that it. and you can see our full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son in around
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fifteen minutes time. procrustean activists are determined to sail to gaza to deliver humanitarian aid despite being banned by the government in athens from leaving greek ports the freedom for taylor has been stuck in the country as the greek authorities have refused permission to leave port and arrested an american captain or one of the vessels activists accuse the greek government of acting under pressure from the u.s. and israel which they accuse of damaging to ships docked in turkey and greece tel aviv has dismissed as nonsense claims its special forces sabotaged the ships trying to break its gaza blockade the flotilla is being compared to another last year which ended with nine activists being killed in a tug by israeli commandos on attack a ship is correspondent in a dish that gave all the cover is on one of the boats in greece. activists from the so-called freedom flotilla to have gathered in athens to protest decision to ban their vessels from leaving greek ports
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a few delegates were chosen to engage in talks with authorities and try to release the captain in custody and let the ship sail to gaza greek couper's understand the decision of authorities is unlawful athens have not provided any explanation to why the four two has been detained in the first place members of european parliament who are part of the humanitarian mission are planning to pressure the e.u. and the u.n. to interfere and stop greece from unlawfully keeping the assholes in port. and for more on the freedom flotilla story go to our own website altie dot com. you can follow the latest updates from our correspondent who's on one of the detained bios in athens. and also our lights camera action where the round up of the glitz and glam up from this year's moscow international film festival bringing movie makers and cinema stars from all over the world.
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but the russian police say they've released all of the journalists who'd been detained among protesters during celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the country's independence according to human rights organizations believed to have fired tear gas and a bit of activity rounding out some two hundred people in the capital many protesters have taken to the streets to hold another outside in protest not only by clapping ashleigh similar about it during the week the dependence day celebrations of the government struggles the financial crisis hoping to secure a multi-billion dollar bailout from the i.m.f. the country's currency has been sharply devalued while the budget deficit it's going to go away will protesters has recently emerged outside the established opposition with activists using the internet to organize. egypt's interim
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government has come under pressure as violent protests swept through the country this week police used tear gas just past a crowd of angry protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs nearly two thousand people joined for democracy activists to call for faster reforms and demand justice for all the eight hundred fifty people killed during this spring uprising demonstrators are frustrated with the government for not meeting the demands of the revolution that toppled. the geisha has been launched into clashes which left more than a thousand people injured and journalist actually returned that the current leadership is ignoring people. the government such as it is hasn't responded to the concerns of the people there strikes at the suez canal transportation workers people being killed again on the streets of cairo not a peep out of the corporate media and meanwhile we have william burns in cairo talking with mr tom tally the provisional head at the moment of the government and
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even the trial of the interior minister who is hated so much and the interior minister and also mubarak has been adjourned people are not getting what they thought they were getting when they toppled hosni mubarak we must remember that joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want also mubarak to go as well as mubarak and his cronies so many of them are retaining power and it's a very dangerous situation and we mustn't forget what's crucial here for be as rational. outlook is this is going to hell that's where trade goes through and it is the most populous country arab country in the arab world and we're not hearing anything about it in the corporate news it's as if that revolutions done and dusted in the egyptian people of. hundreds of course scientists have been involved in a mars brawl with ukrainian special forces over the removal of a religious monument in the crimean peninsula the orthodox christian cross was erected in the resort c.t.o. fear dorsey made defying a local authority ban on the moment and
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a result it was demolished earlier this week despite opposition from local residents almost three hundred christian cossacks marched through the city approaches towards the side of the cross but tore soon dispersed by riot police violent confrontations then broke out resulting in fifteen people being seriously injured. and that's not trickle some other international news and brave bangladeshi police have arrested over one hundred people in the capital dhaka demanding the government scrap a gas exploration deal with the us a left leaning citizens' groups as they arrangement could lower the bangladesh of its natural resources and compromises the country's interests as it's facing an acute energy crisis government officials claim the contract will help out as the country's chronic power shortages stores and schools were closed down traffic was disrupted in the capital for a day. five iraqi policemen have been killed after being kidnapped at a checkpoint west of baghdad that type was carried out by insurgents disguised in
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uniforms driving a stolen police car it took place an unbiased province on a major highway that links iraq with the where and jordan. italian police have again clashed with demonstrators west of the city of tearing protesting against the construction of a high speed rail way tunnel through the old stones and petrol bombs were thrown at officers who responded with tear gas to disperse the crowd several arrests were made and at least thirty policemen were injured many residents live between two arena and the fringe of the say a rail link would ruin the landscape and claim the training could damage the region's environment. thailand now where preliminary results of just. the opposition leader has won the runoff vote and could become the first woman to take the country's top ranking position headed by the sister of acid attacks in china what the pew thai party gained over half of the five hundred pound entry seats the results could mean the former leader may return home from self-imposed exile in
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dubai the vote follows five years of political chaos marked by violent protests and a military coup. what also is grow up and leave their childhood homes it can be hard to adjust to independent life while russian authorities are blige to provide state housing to those who need it all too often they fail to see the conditions of their accommodation or he's peter all of a met one young person who's been left to find a home for herself and her two small children. this flap looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home but twenty two year old mother of two lena has been told by social services that she's stuck here. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they keep telling us true parents somehow elite here they showed me a paper on how to build a house i told them that i had no phones i have no job i have to take care of kids
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and i ended up renting a place they said it's not top problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of to bear on the russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution this flat was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told to fix it up but. there's a tradition of absolutely desperate they didn't give me work because i don't have a profession for them i don't exist perhaps hanging myself would be the best thing to do. without even the most basic of a mean ities there's no way that lena family can live here however here is exactly where your thirties of told her that she should bring up children lena's case isn't unusual those who work with oftens in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes that they need the most help the problem is orphans our kids are of smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them with their small
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presents that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger than me but they get bigger and that's really where we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big a need for all things leaving care it's also in short supply and those are stored in that we made certain calculations for one region and found out that if a child is number ten thousand in the queue for housing it would take them some three and a half thousand years to actually get a flat or how can they live like this they're not pharaohs you know. we can't bring them back from the dead and give them an apartment what you currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a lot as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he will have the key much we need to change the law in a way to make sure that someone can be held responsible in court in this case the orphanage this will make sure that there is no way
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a graduating orphan would have to go and live in a rundown home rather than a change in the law might help people in the future but lena needs to find a solution right now they have ripped off i ask them why all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have that it isn't because i don't know the laws or because i'm not allowed to live because it has been for me to have family some people are trying to help me but if other efforts have been in vain. peter all of a r.t. very cheap. and our exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son is coming up right after a recap of the top stories in a few minutes. culture
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