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in india all of these available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the home of the that's the great way to go to the grand imperial truly the torch was the. new cana with little socialism good to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotels as used to retreat. the e.u. commission chief says more money should be available to save the region's crippled economies as italy and spain and slide it towards debt distress and the cost of borrowing so was. the un condemns the use of force against civilians in syria and called on all sides to end hostilities summit continued violence across the country . and the palestinian woman on a mission of for peace after failing in a suicide bombing mission against israel r.t. here's her story. also
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a global sell off on the back of weak economic data in the states and declining more oil prices have caused the russian markets to lose more than two percent at the close of first excess of more in the markets and latest business news and twenty nine. here with r.t. live from moscow i'm real research and welcome to the program the head of the e.u. has joined at the struggles to lift the region out of its financial pit calling on yet more money to be made available to struggling economies jose manuel barroso also wants the bailout funds to be able to buy government bonds as a major eurozone economies of spain and italy face being crushed under that borrowing costs for both countries have searched as investors rush to rid themselves of risky bonds italy avoided the worst of the boring bubble but production there remains a sluggish and uncompetitive. causing the interest to surge to
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a euro prime minister silvio berlusconi attempted to reassure markets saying the country's economy had solid foundations but it's feared if you are spain or italy asks for help the eurozone might not be able to foot the bills are ridiculous reports it's the heart of the e.u. where protesters are taking their anger. step by step activists from the fifteen m. movement hope to make europe a better place the point of it is to inform people that might not be informed about about things that they can do in their local government and to find out what problems they're having in their local government and in their in their small towns and to help them come come up with solutions we have reunions every evening we get to that we meet with the locals and they tell us what's going on in their town. the organization was born from the protest marches in spain where more than twenty percent are jobless and youth unemployment is painfully over forty percent the
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highest in europe it's these numbers the drove thousands on to madrid streets in me now it's financial foot soldiers are beating a path to brussels and some other country is their problems. even. big conscious about them is big. in the supreme. strangely has. over all the whole to change. all together to change that to change the things we we we march like a. symbol for everybody to join us but rachel is one of many non spanish europeans with whom the fifteen m. message resonated knowing that if there is one thing europeans do agree on it's who to blame dodgy politicians promising rescue but delivering recession. there's
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a lot of corruption or there's a lot of injustice and people want to change that and people also in other countries i'm happy with it. in general the way the world is run with a lot of all the money in the hands of a few of the banking system. in the corruption of the new little system and you're convinced people power works if it's loud enough people are realizing that we do have power to change things in a certain way and basically we just have to get on the streets and make our voices heard so the idea is to go to where the. kind of well the central european parliament and all the things that the vassals. particularly to to basically protest that we're not having our human rights respected in the place where this is a decided it will take them two months to march the fifteen hundred plus kilometers to reach brussels where the last thing on their mind will be putting their feet up greece portugal spain people those in their jobs and their homes and while the
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politicians in this country is insist the situation could get better common people believe current economic policies of the euro zone lead down the road to nowhere in the goal of courtsey spain. and the euro zone's a bailout fund which is currently four hundred forty billion euro strong has been criticized for its inefficiency in dealing with the crisis but economics journalist patrick young says it's the banks who have to stop cashing in on the region's troubles. the european union's bailout fund is on the verge of running out of money as soon as one of those major economies such a spirit lead to falter and every day the market is saying it is terrified of the death has been built up in the system and it took hold by the fact that nobody in the euro zone wants to actually leave aside this problem i think the public is being kept in the dark and it's been sent a lot of smooth messages from the political classes that don't really hold up so the stark reality of markets i think the problem is that ultimately banks are going
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to have to lose money as part of this entire play they originally bought a lot of these bonds thinking that would be an endless nirvana of keep interest rates for all of these countries and effectively the gear is up that play is over governments need to step in they need to restructure the market and we actually need to see that demon the word to a fault in other words some of the bonds have to google asked or the dorms have to be restructured and ultimately some here in ma stand up with the banks meantime across the atlantic the world's largest economy has been pulled back from the brink of default by an eleventh hour compromise but the former chief of russia's central bank warns that excessive borrowing and political squabbles could still push the u.s. past the point of no return. living on credit is always difficult as the time may come sooner or later it will have to be paid off right now nobody wants to remember that it was in the early nineties when bush and the republicans
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came to power that the us external states not yet obtained by issuing treasury bonds with different terms anything from one week to twenty years and interest rates grew massively like now it has been increased still further so generally it all happened on the republican rule to a large extent the debt was formed under the bush presidency the war in iraq and their role in the conflict with were huge military expenses my question is then why all the hubbub now it's just political games looking more there is certainly responsibility. in the famous american economists about ten years ago the the us economy considering its domestic and foreign economic policy is balanced to face a crash like the roman empire. and you can watch the full interview with the former chief of russia's central bank in just over an hour's time here outside. the u.n.
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security council has condemned the escalating violence in syria demanding an end to bloodshed and is calling friend channel political it comes amid reports that syrian opposition stronghold of hama has been overrun by government forces with witnesses saying there have been at more casualties parties as following events at the u.n. in new york. all members of the security council adopted the presidential statement which first and foremost calls for an immediate end to all violence and urges both sides of the violence and conflict to strain immediately the security council presidential statement also condemns widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the syrian authority it calls on the syrian authorities to fully respect human rights and to comply with international law the un security council of course is issuing this presidential statement following more than four and a half months of violence in syria that is when anti-government protesters forced
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took to the streets back in mid march to call for the resignation of the syrian president now as a result of this presidential statement russia's position has been and continues to be that there should not be any overextension pressure put on the syrian government such as same sions and the council also believe that it was better to put a statement out rather than a resolution russia has and continues to believe that this issue should be resolved in the form of dialogue trying to get both parties to come together and speak rather than taking sides one way or another version russian ambassador to the united nations to tell the churkin said that the security council is still working under the shadow of its surrounding libya after the security council adopted a resolution allowing for a no fly zone the u.s. and european countries started what is now
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a military intervention russia china and many other council members believe that the text of this resolution was taken advantage of manipulated misinterpreted and that is an offense that russia china brazil india and many other countries do not want to see a repetition of so this is why the security council. i think the way in which it is trying to come to a peaceful solution try to send an international message and of course it will continue the security council to keep its eyes on the if that's taking place in syria. but is more important from the big apple now the syrian opposition has dismissed a to create from president assad allowing for a multi party government system france has also reacted with skepticism but journalist neil clark says to make change happen in syria the western powers need to keep away from the country's internal of. the opposition. to these reforms but also i think the international situation and the fact is that syria has
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been under pressure by the u.s. and its allies with many many years and i think that one of the worries of christmas i've had is that interview should have a graphic before we would actually be exploited by an attempt to get. back in the position part of that set christiane being in the western line on syria very counterproductive what this is all about is the west trying to. come to syria i want to see more democratic syria where people express their opinions freely but the western policies are usually counter productive this is a problem the syrians have to solve and nobody else it's not up for french government british public u.s. government is trying to interfere in this that the syrian soldiers. you without your life in moscow if you have missed anything in the program just go to our web site you can always find out more stories and use updates and eye catching video course and islands dot com here's a taste of some of the items are lined up for you right now and horrific story in central russia find out why a deaf and blind elderly widow were tortured by his own daughter who changed him up
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in the garden like a dog. and a normal friendship between pupils and teachers and law stopping contact with students through online networking sites comes into effect in one american state. and you polish defense minister has dissolved the air force unit responsible for transporting the country's top officials it follows an investigation i was saw which included pilot error was the cause of a plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and much of the political elite investigators who found the crew of the presidential plane was changed at the last minute so the poor pilot training was partly to blame for the accident russian experts also pointed to the psychological pressure placed on the flight crew by polish officials during the landing approach the crash near the russian city of swan events last april killed all ninety six on board. palestinian women are joining the ranks of would be suicide bombers those who
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carried out atrocities say they were waging war against israeli occupiers and seeking revenge but one woman was captured before she detonated her device and now has a very different mission. this thirty seven year old palestinian mother doesn't attract much attention when she walks down the street but she's walked a long and difficult path from would be suicide bomber to peace maker it wasn't so long ago that she felt could see was planning to strap explosives to her body and blow herself up in an israeli supermarket inhabitants up at the bar i called fighter and told them i needed all the equipment but they just laughed and said you're joking i said if you don't give it to me and how much will i said think about it for a month and then they called me later and said ok everything is ready for you there . it was the second intifada or palestinian uprising and already two of chivas teenage cousins had been killed by israeli soldiers while her brother was serving
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eighteen years in prison for his part in a suicide mission well i am a mother and i love my live but i want to do it because the israelis destroyed or is still is i want to destroy their arrogance female suicide bombing is relatively new in the palestinian world life interests the twenty eight year old divorced paramedic from ramallah became the first woman to blow herself up in jerusalem in two thousand and two ten more women have since followed in the footsteps one of them. committed suicide in. restaurant she saw her fiance being killed in front of their eyes so she was really pushed to their. point bad sure want to talk and her life experts agree that the reasons that drive a woman to become a suicide bomber are complex his anger and bitterness towards the israeli occupation forces is also the patriarchal nature of palestinian society according to and not to bercow has written several books on the subject here woman suspected
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of sleeping with a man before marriage can be thrown out or even killed but if families bloomers eleventh that could be true but in such a society that can feel this is the way to get rid of women and poor lead them said the problem with their dignity and honor and without their families but the irony is that while these women are held by some as martyrs many religious leaders are reluctant to send their daughters to the front line as bombers and although islam condemn suicide explains shaikh mohammed it's acceptable when fighting colonise ation and occupation if there are some groups or governments is. we come to occupy our territories that we are where are we have to to fight against these invasions sheaffer says her reasons were both political and personal she was fed up with the bombs falling around her and ashamed that after
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just two years of marriage her husband had run off with another woman life had simply become too much the plan was simple she thought was going to pretend to be pregnant and hide this if we pounds of explosives and to me a maternity dress she was going to come here to natanya and israeli town not far from the home and blow herself out among israelis suicide bombing is the kind of attack that doesn't differ between children or women there is no excuse absolutely no excuse at all but her plan was foiled by a palestinian informant who took off the israeli army schieffer was sentenced and spent six years behind bars now back in. she says she regrets it and devotes her time to telling her story to both israelis and palestinians in the hope that both sides can come to understand the other person as i know how this years later my daughter asked me who i was going to live with and i said with grandma i didn't understand at the time how much she and my parents would have suffered then i
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understand now i know that a blow myself up wouldn't have changed anything the only way to peace is for israelis and palestinians to work together. a strong message from a rather surprising source policy r t two current. writer with r.t. live from moscow let's check out some of other international stories and headlines for you this hour so your french judges have ordered an investigation into the new international monetary fund chief over locations and she abused her power while the finance minister christine legarde intervened in a commercial battle between a french tycoon and a formally state owned bank to approve a payment to a businessman in two thousand and eight legard it denies any misconduct she only took over from dominique strauss kahn the i.m.f. last month after he was charged with attempting to rape in new york hotel maid. three senior nuclear officials have been fired in japan as the country struggles to cope with the consequences of its nuclear crisis the trade minister said they would
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be held responsible for mishandling the fukushima plant and its problems he will also resign because of departmental mistakes and about a major personnel overhaul radiation is still leaking from the fukushima nearly five months after the double earthquake and tsunami with fatal levels detected just earlier this week. china has arrested two thousand people and closed down around five thousand businesses in a major crackdown on illegal food additives after a wave of contamination scares a campaign was started in april when chinese shops were supplied with bread infected with diet and pork glowed in the dark respect. look there are close to six million food related businesses during the months of investigations. a gunman has been spotted on the for junior tech university campus where thirty two people were killed in a two thousand and seven shooting an alert issued on the university's website warn
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of students and staff to stay inside and lock their doors the suspect was described as wearing a blue and white striped shirt and sandals but police found no one matching that description and also no reports of any shorts having been filed. next to a nazi we'll take you to one of russia's a far flung corners where indigenous people enjoy life in the wild. but under today we're in russia's far east and the more richer it's a place of breathtaking natural beauty where or inspiring wilderness meets the long held traditions of invent people the area is also rich in natural resources particularly gold but with industrialization it's getting harder for locals to preserve their culture as a political. base to meet the russia close up scene welcomes you to the far eastern unmoored region like a did some eight thousand kilometers east of moscow
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a little under nine hundred thousand people last spread across this vast. majority of whom are ethnic russians living alongside them is the ancient i think people traditionally hunter gather is used to living off the lands their way of life has changed dramatically for many over the years here in india more region as a russian place up teens been finding out. just. the way of life that stretches back generations he will russia's far east as i think people have survived by living off the land for their numbers and culture are fading. well out here in the depths of the a more tiger if you look hard enough you will find evidence of the traditional hunter gatherer adding lifestyle we were fortunate enough. to families that have been living out here for about a month ploughing to day care loading out
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a reindeer to move themselves on thing another part of the. past there are fewer and fewer places for them so you can move and the elders say they know from sydney to move old won't work and we're dying out and it's all because of the gold miners barbarians they're destroying the tiger which now can't even provide us with enough food they've destroyed taken everything from us and offered nothing in britain to me here. whether a blessing or a. can summer is a region abundant in natural resources and with gold currency trading action or time high the pressure to produce is greater than ever and few places no say in here. russia is third largest coal miner founded in one thousand for the joint russian british venture says it will increase production this year by thirty three percent to some seventeen tons so here we can see the very beginnings of the gold
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extraction process certain small holes are drilled which have been filled with explosives and then blasted and approximately thirty to forty thousand tons of rock will be broken up with. it's a process that generates huge amounts of waste we're mining at this operation all with a grade of three grams for each ton of god of war now or is a million grams so out of that one million grams three of the particles of gold and we have to recover those three it's the proverbial needle in a haystack an equation that just does not have to those who see the tiger as their home others are more pragmatic an inevitable consequence is living in a lucrative landscape. in this area working more than
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a hundred appears they all really need a lot of damage in this case is this new technology it's new technology how topping the gold and how to store waste materials we talk with and has asked people. in this area and not all here but i will say that most people say ok yes it's this gold mine will bring us more than we have before you know improve our lifestyle meaning more job sounds. now unschooling programs who funded by the mine plus it's the price of despair a secret could spell untold environmental damage around the centuries of tradition to extinction. and see this awesome. oratory coming up shortly here on out to your likes and stacy get ringside seats in the battle between the u.s. dollar and the rest of the world that's in the house report coming up after dmitri
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with the best. loan welcomes of the evening a business update on and see russia's extending its most ambitious privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. the government aims to fully sell fourteen major state companies by the year twenty seventeen but it will keep a golden share in six firms on the list including russia as well major ross there into rao the large energy producer and the t.d. bank russia's second largest lender now this will give the stadia to outvote all of the shareholders if needed other companies which will be sold completely. russia's biggest done producer and national airline aeroflot hydro electric power company will start a new privatization plan could rush over two hundred billion dollars by twenty seventeen and while sun and the say that those around the world could possibly reduce demand for russian shares but rather as simone young from morgan stanley
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bank is sure sentiment will be strong under normal circumstances and with that kind of turmoil the demand for emerging markets. should have been decreased but surprisingly enough with turmoil not only in emerging markets but in europe economists investors a bit perplexed verbs and not much to buy and on a comparative basis. from russia which used performing much better than most of the other markets of the economy is pretty healthy consumer demand is growing the budget is healthy. prices are high it is stable i mean both economically and politically it could become attractive attractive proposal but again a lot will depend on the execution. much of the markets now oil is trading at the
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lowest level in a more than a month it's below nineteen dollars per barrel light sweet crude this is on the back of a stronger dollar as concerns of a slowdown u.s. account of price regulation of the federal reserve may start another stimulus program. u.s. markets are falling really hard shortly after the opening of jobless claims declined only one thousand last week demonstrating just a marginal improvement dow jones off more than two percent european stocks have taken an even deeper dip then the footsie down three percent the dax almost four they were actually up at the beginning of the session on the back of gains on wall street wednesday the first winning session in knowing footsie is down three percent it's driven down by bags lloyds banking group is losing more than seven percent more bag of poorly received results and inmarsat is shedding more than twenty percent after the communications provider said customers were switching to form bad
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quicker than they expected this is a closing day session in russia will be obviously going to know how to send my thanks to percent take a look at what's been driving the markets today and mainly these were. energy shares rose step down two point four percent banks were a bit better than the market still off the bank down point nine percent at the close one of the few companies bucking the trend up just point one percent was in toronto the state included the company in the new privatization plant alexander's recover from i've seen a triple wraps up today's. news pretty quietly which is normal for august is slow volatility interest rates to change are usually with us call this was for solved a lot of congressional produce your story goes for much of the future and there was pretty flat so always stores all the same direction it was weak down by the end of the day in general we don't seem strong ideas from the market but i. don't expect
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much snow we are. going to replace. consumer prices in russia for the first time since two thousand and nine cheaper vegetables a forced down inflation rate by twenty one percent in a week i know placement is now running at around nine percent however set against the passion out of russia's water chamber doubts the government will meet its target for the seemingly huge stronger oil prices will help reduce the budget deficit to around one percent however there are concerns about inflation the first of the year was good but money growth especially growth in money supply associated with an increase in gasoline prices create concerns that we will be able to keep inflation at seven point five percent in our business out he will be back in thirty minutes time would not pay for that month.
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