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oh she's available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the i love you that's the great way to go to the grand imperial trilogy of the taj west coast coromandel you can a little. civility to go and. read this and the colonel was a child as a retreat. the e.u. commission chief says more money should be available to save the region's crippled economies as italy and spain slide towards debt distress and the cost of borrowing saws. syria's president legalizes opposition political parties a move dismissed by anti-government protesters and claims of being massacred by bashar assad's forces. and the palestinian woman on a mission for peace after failing a suicide bombing mission against israel party here's her story. in business tsotsi freefall for global markets on the back of disappointing employment data in
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the united states with the dow jones the climbing three percent the russian markets more than two percent on that substance and. international news and comment this is r.t. live in moscow just turned ten pm here in the russian capital good to have you with us this hour the head of the e.u. has joined the struggles to lift the region out of its financial pain calling on yet more money to be made available to struggling economies shows a manual but also also wants the bailout fund to be able to buy government bonds as the major eurozone economies of spain and italy face being crushed under their debt borrowing costs for both countries surged as investors rush to rid themselves of risky forms italy avoided the worst of the boring bubble but production there remained sluggish and uncompetitive causing bond interest to soon. a year of high
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promise to silvio berlusconi attempted to reassure markets saying the country's economy had solid foundations but it's feared if either spain or italy asks for help the eurozone might not be able to foot the bills and that is only in english the reports at the heart of the e.u. where protesters taking their i get. 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 things that they can do in their local government and to find out what problems they're having in their local government in. their small towns and to help them come come up with solutions we have reunions every evening we get to the village 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 views and employment is painfully over forty percent the
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highest in europe it's these numbers that drove thousands of to madrid streets in may now the financial foot soldiers are beating a path to brussels and some other countries their problems are. even bigger. because. strangely america overall the whole change. all together to change that to change the things. we march like a. symbol for everybody to join us rachel is one of many non spanish europeans with whom the fifteen and message present leaders knowing that if there is one thing europeans do agree on it's who to blame the politicians promising rescue but delivering recession there's a lot of corruption there's a lot of injustice people want to change that people also in other countries are
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happy with that. in general the way the world is run with a lot of money in the hands of a few of the ranking system. and the corruption of. school system and there can. people power works if it's large 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. plan of well the central european parliament and all the things that the muscles. particularly people to basically protest that we're not having our human rights respected in the place where this is going to say that it will take them two months to march this fifteen hundred plus kilometers to reach brussels where the last thing on their mind will be putting their feet up in greece portugal spain people those in their jobs and their homes and while the politicians in this country is insist the situation could get better
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common people believe current economic policies are the eurozone lead down the road to nowhere in a golf cart see spain. french judges have ordered an investigation into the new international monetary fund chief over allegations he abused her power while finance minister in two thousand and eight kristina god intervened in a commercial battle between a french tycoon and a formerly state owned bank to approve a payment of around three hundred million euros to the business when they got the misconduct well this discuss this some are joined by peer he's a professor of political science from paris western university in the falls thank you very much indeed for being with us here on our tonight christine legarde only took over from dominique strauss kahn at the i.m.f. last month after he was charged with attempting to rape a new york hotel maid one does wonder if there's a witch hunt against french politicians underway at the moment. well i don't think it's likely you know when she said the drug this case was well known to standing
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and everyone knew that she could be prosecuted. to domestic affairs and in spite of this everyone. the french president you look at least uses in some ways the bulk of it so i don't think it's a witch hunt it's just. you know choosing a person who was under a shadow precisely because of x. so if this case has been going on for some time what about the timing now or the significance of it all being under the spotlight once again and obviously a very sensitive time for the i.m.f. and the european economy but actually the debate to this case was going on in problems before she was actually wanted even before she placed ross can so it's nothing new when she was appointed in spite. of church
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group should she be appointed do you think it was an error of. judgment has anyone a part of it was that the right thing though to appoint somebody who's under investigation. well precisely there's sad clearly a problem there but i think the french president. this former minister of finance and. wanted to find somebody to speak and represent problems. and he's also involved in this and this case you know the reimbursement of public funds. tycoon the business tycoon who is one of his friends. but i think they both felt that the investigation would not go very far so it was safe to point and i read today that it would take you has it for the court could decide whether to prosecute or not so in that case it won't really affect her job as chief of the i.m.f. if this investigation takes such a long time but the time is over she may well have left the home have. precisely
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because the investigation i suppose will be stymied in a case that french president is involved and he cannot be prosecuted ordered law you know if there was a case and it's only been short some aspects of the case could not be discussed as long as sarkozy's present front so from this angle i don't think it's you know stopping her from doing a job at the i.m.f. from a democratic want you. need to see that somebody who is under investigation or could be and invest investigation was appointed for such a high level job very interesting to hear what you have to say we have to leave it there thanks very much indeed for joining us professor of political science from paris western university in atlanta thank you very much for joining us in the south of france on the web have faith. syrian opposition has dismissed a decree from president assad allowing a multi-party government system that all could see the formation of political
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factions other than the ruling baath party comes as the u.n. security council condemned escalating violence in syria demanding an end to bloodshed and calling for internal political dialogue it's reported the syrian opposition stronghold of hama has been overrun by government forces with witnesses saying there have been casualties france says it may seek further action from the security council if the killing continues well let's get more on this from the president of the arab lawyers association so i'll start joining us live in london thanks a lot for being with us here on our team now how significant is this new to creation by president assad and why has the opposition rejected it when in fact i have read the full text of the law the law seems to me question i think it's a step forward the problem is not with the legislation the problem is with the implementation the law has its own problems for instance. it still requires that the party is formed because the fusion where article eight of the constitution
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gives the leadership so effectively it is it is not the legislation itself it's how it's going to be implemented and the restrictions included in there there are quite a lot of restrictions which makes it probably very difficult to implement but i think it's a very welcome step and i think the pressure international pressure on syria is producing some results what is lacking is the action on this you have to make the changes that require. possibly start killing people remove some of the leadership. on the part decide on the government and i'm going to look at it and i think the threat that the u.s. and france and the and britain. buying through syria is very kind. i think the position that has been taken by the security council is quite right in the sense that this is applying pressure it's glory for battle and it is i think it's
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friendly countries like russia like syria i mean turkey and i've developed countries should even more pressure on the syrian regime now the idea of moving into a libyan situation i think is absolutely stupid and i don't think it would work i don't think they can do it even if they want to you said this is a welcome step nevertheless the syrian activists have rejected it why is that after all this is one of the main things they wanted to move away from one party rule why have they rejected it and if it is supposed to be a welcome step in the right direction there are two reasons first of all i think quite honestly their pollution will not accept anything of the government they have reached the point where they don't accept anything they don't believe anything i think they have rejected it because of the various restrictions with the door within the constitution and within the system in syria but i think the idea that you can continue to just reject everything that syria has to move forward and in
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order to move forward it needs to be able to have meaningful dialogue with the people of course the revolution is right and demanding more and more because what is being said so far just pieces of legislation and the problem in syria is not going to station it's how it is being implemented we all remember that they had. emergency you know when the elections was revoked the next thing happened the army and the police went to the streets and began to shoot people they couldn't even do that and the damage is you know so it is the application which is creating problem in syria not the legislation and not the pieces of paper and not the pronouncements of the government and i think it is absolutely right pressure should be borne on syria right just briefly you're talking about external pressure from foreign countries in a negative way. but what about russia's involvement here do you think russia is playing a vital role now in getting some sort of dialogue out of the un has now accepted
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the garnaut as a way forward that's something the russian was calling from for for them from the very beginning so just what is russia's position in all of this just briefly russia's position i think it's a moral one in the sense that if you are a friend you actually give honest advice to your friend you don't just agree with them and you don't threaten them and this is well at least the position on russia seems to have been in the security council and even in the outside trying to get them to know that it is not acceptable what's happening they have to have a dialogue but they're resisting falling into which we have fallen before with iraq when there will be security council said they will not invade iraq are they did they send in libya or you're going to have. as it turned out to be into a war an invasion of libya. thank you so much for your time president of the arab lawyers association joining us live in london thank you can you tell me a bit of his side she told that has told syria's president assad that he needs to
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carry out reforms and talk to the opposition this is news that we're just getting here on r.t. the russian leader has said that he believes if both sides can't find common ground then future awaits syrians. ne thought success really ok unfortunately the situation in syria has taken a dramatic turn we real politicians should follow developments with gadhafi libya gave oil and orders to destroy the opposition and the syrian president gave no such orders and unfortunately a lot of people are dying in syria this is our biggest concern in my private conversation with the president and in private letters i've sent him as i discuss the same ideas the reforms need to be carried out he should establish peace with the opposition establish peace in the country create a modern slate if he fails to do that in a sound future a way saleable in the end of the day we'll have to make our decision what we're watching the situation is changing are going on is not so you can use as the what's
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going on russian president has given an interview to r.t. and other media organizations on the eve of the third anniversary of the pattern war speaking about those events in the caucasus the nuclear event have said that georgian president mikheil saakashvili could face an international court for starting the war and two thousand and eight and you can watch president that it's interview in full. at six am g.m.t. on friday. that aggressive war that threw a tiny nation into the global spotlight. three years after georgia attacked satisfaction yet. could anything how stop the bloodshed. differ russia have any choice but to step in. president medvedev gives r.t. the straight answers. well if you missed anything in the program go to our web
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site see it's online all the time you can always find more stories news updates and eye catching video r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's lined up for you right now at the moment should you log on to the horrific story from central russia you can find out why a deaf and blind elderly widow was tortured by his own daughter and chained him up in the garden like a dog. and all friendship between peoples and teachers and all stalking contact with students with online networking sites comes into play in one american states with those stories on our web site. palestinian women are joining the ranks of would be suicide bombers those who carried out atrocities say they were waging war against israeli occupies and seeking vengeance but one woman was captured before she decimated her device and now has a very different mission as paula slip now reports. this thirty seven year old palestinian mother doesn't attract much attention when she walks down the street
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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 it was planning to strap explosives to her body and blow herself up in an israeli supermarket maddock in front of the bar i hold fatah 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 nod and then they called me a month later and said ok everything is ready for you. it was the second intifada palestinian uprising and already two of chivas teenage cousins had been killed by israeli soldiers while her brother was serving eighteen years in prison for his part in a suicide mission well i am a mother and i love my life but i wanted to do it because the israelis destroyed a receipt is i wanted to destroy their arrogance female suicide bombing is relatively new in the palestinian world roughage was a twenty eight year old divorced paramedic from ramallah became the first woman to
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blow herself up in jerusalem in two thousand and two ten more women have since followed in a footsteps one of them. and their committed suicide and. maksim restaurant she saw her fiance being killed in front of their eyes so she was really pushed for that. point that she wanted to end her life experts agree that the reasons they drive a woman to become a suicide bomber are complex there's anger and bitterness towards these radio cation forces is also the patriarchal nature of palestinian society according to you and not a burka has written several books on the subject here woman suspected of sleeping with a man before marriage can be thrown out or even killed by the family's numers it doesn't have to be true that in such fair society the hill this is the way to get rid of women and to lead them serve a problem with a big meaty and order and without
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a million 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 explained shaikh mohammed it's acceptable when fighting colonise ation and occupation if there are some groups or governments. will come to occupy our territories that we are. we have to do 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 and after just two years of marriage her husband had run off with another woman knife and some people come to match the plan was simple she thought was going to pretend to be pregnant and high fifty feet pounds of explosives and only a maternity dress she was going to come here to natanya and israeli town not far from a home and blew herself out among israelis suicide bombing due to
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a 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 chief or 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 better understand the other players only one hundred years later my daughter asked me who i was going to live where we are and i said with grandma i didn't understand of the time how much she and my parents would have suffered and then i understand now i know that blowing myself up wouldn't have changed anything the only way to peace is for israelis and palestinians to work together and rock a strong message from a rather surprising source policy r.t. to call on. when next we take you to one of russia's far flung corners where
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indigenous people enjoy life in the wild. they were russia's far east and beyond the region is a place of breathtaking natural beauty where or inspire wilderness meets a molehill provisions of the thinking people the air is also rich in natural resources namely gold but in the industrialization it's getting harder for locals preserve their culture and other stuff it's now a holes that. just. it's a way of life that stretches back generations here when russia's fall really stand and people have survived by living off the land but the numbers and culture all faded. well out here in the depths of the amours tiger if you look hard enough you will find out that all the traditional hunter gather at bank lifestyle we were
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fortunate enough. to that family that have been living out here for about a month now into day they're loading up a reindeer to move themselves on thing another part of the. past there are fewer and fewer places for them to go in and the elders say they know i'm settling to move or your way in which we are dying around and it's all because of the gold miners and the barbarians they're destroying the tiger which now can't even provide us with enough food they've destroyed our home taken everything from us and offered nothing in return for me here i whether a blessing or a cause i'm sure is a region abundant in natural resources and with gold currently trading on the all time high the pressure to produce is greater than ever and few places more say than here i russia's third largest coal miner founded in one thousand people a joint russian british venture says it will increase production this year by
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thirty three percent to some seven. seen tons so here we can see the very beginnings of the gold extraction place that several small holes are drilled which have been filled with explosives and then the last states and approximately thirty to forty thousand tons of rock will be broken off with each. it's a process that generates huge amounts of point sed we're mining this operation all with a grade of three grams for each tug of guilt of all well i tell the four is a million grams so i'll take that one million grabs 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 the things to see it's like it is their home others are more pragmatic an inevitable consequence of living in
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a lucrative landscape. mining in this area working more than a hundred appears and they all really do need a lot of damage in this case this new technology it's new technology how topping the gold and how to store waste materials we talk with and there's also people. in this area and not all happy but i will say that more people say ok yes it's this gold mine will bring to us more than we have before and improve our lifestyle meaning more job sounds cultural school she announced schooling programs all funded by the mining bust it's the price of perspire a seat that could spell on told environmental damage around the centuries of everything tradition through them to extinction. on this impulse aussie humor.
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well next is the business news with dimitri and i'll be back where with a look at our main news stories in about six minutes from now that's after a short break stay with us live here in moscow. for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in moscow all she's available in hotels for course them want to know all those are all toto people publish it is congress photo east west never told the sco center nobody will show image of an air force general sky rather cinesias sloviansk i insulter historical hotels of escape culture in the city slits in the sky called smalls melancon mid-air as a good up until close is struck for leicester tropicana her toe.
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rosie washing business salty with me the mission transnet says it's ready to cancel the contract with the chinese partners over the under payment for the reasons not resolved russia's pipeline monopoly is also ready to pay back ten billion dollars a forward from chinese banks ahead of schedule if the deal goes through in the fall the company says the chinese firms are not sticking to the prices of contracts signed two years ago meanwhile beijing says it's primarily concerned with the transparency of pricing trends nests chinese partners pay to thoughts of the existing that already happens here. russia is extending its most ambitious privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. the government aims to fully sell fourteen major state companies by twenty seven c. but it will keep a golden share in six on the list including russia's oil major ross snapped and surround the energy producer and russia's second largest bank the t. b.
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this will give the state the ability to outpost through other shareholders if other companies which will be sold completely the police are also russia's biggest done international airline aeroflot and hydroelectric power company hydro. oil is trading near of five a week low and sets a new record lows pretty much every minutes it's now down more than five dollars worth of light sweet and brant crude this is on the back of a high dollar and worries about the global economy as the united states has issued disappointing unemployment results jobless claims declining only one thousand last week demonstrating only marginal improvements this is why we are seeing a nosedive place a very brief war in the u.s. stock markets with the dow jones down three percent nasdaq three and a half percent the only company weathering the storm right now is kraft foods are more than one hundred percent after the food giant said it would split into two
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publicly traded companies european stock markets ended the day also on a very negative note the fourth seed down three point four percent the dax also free for four percent in the red this was as the banks were declining in london lloyds banking group declining ten percent at inmarsat said nineteen percent as the provider said customers were switching to a broad back and there's a closing picture for moscow where we all see a three point two point four percent my sixty two percent this is because of course russia's markets and before me almost after the. opening off the u.s. markets and so therefore not much time for reaction banks with president amount is the bank from the point nine percent no i was never two point four percent in the red and into rao one of the few companies gaining at a close up just as it was included in the list of privatized companies and that's all the business news for now we will be back in fifteen minutes time bill is next
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