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would be a dramatic centralization of power to help get the eurozone out of its debt crisis chancellor angela merkel and president nicolas sarkozy want a single eurozone government with the power to monitor whether member nations are following its decisions and artie's don't know bushell is in brussels with more on this. the key decision is they have announced a single united eurozone government they also announced a corporation tax to unite the corporation taxes of germany and france so we're moving slowly towards a fiscal union which is what many had predicted but of course there's one small problem which is the people of europe haven't been asked because the the president of france faces an election next year where he's already trailing behind his rivals and is suspected this may make him even more unpopular because the people of europe haven't been asked but in polls in the opinion polls they say that they don't want the european integration angela merkel the chancellor of germany says they showed great courage to do this and they dismissed the use of euro bourne's which many
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have said would be the solution agreed eventually they said the euro bonds are not a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries did it so they refused to bail out the rising problems in countries like italy and spain they also denounce the rumors and speculation and said they'd fight against this the rumors that they say are trying to bring down the euro so there will be a single government they'll elect the president be very official attacks on financial transactions was also announced. that the purpose was to harmonize economies and taxes across europe so a very wide ranging proposals on offer here today. well for more insight on this i'm joined by financial writer peter bilbies live in berlin thank you very much indeed mr bill for joining us now i know that you indeed have speculated over the
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possibility that the e.u. may unite fiscal policy under a central financial authority in effect that's being proposed today but the thing is will it be enough to save the eurozone or is it not a quick fix. no it is not a quick fix but then your oh bombs which people have been saying would be a quick fix are also not quick because in order to issue euro bonds you would probably have to more or less rewrite the the treaties that bind all the members of the eurozone possibly even the main treaty of the treaty of rome or and its successors and that simply couldn't be done in the space of maybe less than a year or two and at the end of that maybe you could have then start issuing europe bombs the problem being with euro bonds in their present situation would be politically untenable certainly in germany and probably in france too because if you start guaranteeing for other people but have no control over their budget
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policies over their spending and their taxing then effectively you're putting your neck on the line without any sort of influence but have them find out what they've done now yes sort of direct about the euro bonds issue but isn't that what nervous investors want now and after all this is about a crisis in confidence more than anything else isn't it. well sure the crisis may be now but you simply cannot issue euro bonds there is no mechanism for doing it there is no treaty to do it it may be a good idea and it might even have been a good idea if both merkel and sarkozy had said yes at the end of this process of fiscal integration perhaps we could then even issue euro bonds and if you read between the lines of what what both merkel and sarkozy are saying they're not saying no forever they simply saying that with the present degree of or the present lack of integration of government economic policy without an institution that can
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oversee the budgetary policies of all the members euro bonds simply to go or what about this idea of a euro zone government politically being accepted do you think that parliaments throughout the euro zone when except this proposal i mean couldn't be seen as a threat to their their sovereignty and fact move towards a federal state of europe. well of course it is a step in that direction and they will doubtless be parliaments who are very jealous of their power but in the end if you are hugely in debt it is your creditor who told you what you can and what you can't do parliament may not like it but in the end the power of economic decision making of central major decisions on budgets if they are not harmonized if they are not done in accordance let's say with them are strict rules which limit how much debt you can run up then of course the
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creditors are simply not going to give you any money now if you accept that you do need money and you are also going to have to accept rules and possibly the loss of some so-called saw from three course the crisis on at the moment to many may say look these to come up with an idea which is just really they're not too sure what they're doing this is just a case of more words not enough action more bureaucracy this is a case of the politicians being indecisive should it be more of a and then the shooting for the economists to work out. well i think economically speaking politically speaking what they have done is basically the right thing or at least it is a step in the right direction that there is no quick fix or if you like the only quick fix is one that the central bank or the stability fund those been set up within the eurozone can possibly handle in other words they can manipulate the market but the essential problem is not a question of market manipulation which is central banks and possibly the stability
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fund could even out it is fundamentally a question of the huge debts of it being run up in some cases not even willfully but in response to a huge economic downturn which means that countries revenues have fallen and as things stand right now i can't see any end to it we're seeing that all of europe is slowing down and that means that probably deficits will increase and not decrease just in a word and finally you say this is the right thing to do do you think the eurozone will survive just briefly i think it will survive but it's certainly going to have a very rocky time ahead peter bill thank you so much for your time your thoughts here really appreciate you being live here on r.t. there in balance thank you for your time. the european central bank is announcing spent an unprecedented twenty two billion euros in just one week the money went to prop up the shaking economies of italy and spain but as r.t. said in a political report public faith in the ailing your own may already be beyond
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a quick fix. some work to live others lives to work haughey market combines the two today he and his nephew run the picture framing shop set up by hawking grandfather almost a century ago but the family firm is in a rough spot. like all in spain my business has been struggling over there was not visible in all areas of business times have been very hard. consider this unemployment at more than twenty percent one of the highest in the eurozone again should sovereign debt ever cross their bonds and the country's problems don't stop there despite being the fourth largest the problem in europe spain is definitely feeling the bite of the credit crisis and that left many asking the question is the eurozone such a great idea after all the answer may just be no the country's rating has been downgraded twice in september of last year with moody's agency threatening to do so
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again in the future in fact some in spain believe the best strategy in the current climate may be an exit one. this would give us a certain autonomy it would affect positively internal procedures in the country the purchasing power would give citizens access to all sorts of benefits and would have been good for the wages very well could lead to the improvement of situation in spain. a key factor here is distance while the spanish struggle with unemployment their fate is largely being decided by the masters in chief in brussels. what we're witnessing here major internal problems which you cannot solve. because it's outside of you competence they have neither the finances nor the labor capabilities to help spain of course many people are unhappy with the place spain takes in the european union. but who took him isn't losing hope that
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his country and his business will eventually climb out of the slump. of course it will stay. lies in the end it's the small businesses like mine that will do the job because the real all people who take work closer to heart than large corporations something which me only be possible if spain quits the floundering federation r.v. and puts its own house back in order it is because kartini hundred. high tech combat jets in the latest gleaming airline is a piercing the skies over the moscow region at the moment the world's biggest aircraft makers are russia's next two thousand and eleven airshow showing off their newest designs and ortiz tessa city is there to she's at the airfield. well it's been a very vengeful day here the first day of the max two thousand and eleven we've seen some pretty impressive individual shows of some of the aircraft here we saw the thirty we also saw a modified version of the savoy twenty seven as well as the f. fifteen of the u.s. air force again very impressive performances and one interesting one was the airbus
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a three eighty which is the largest commercial aircraft out on the market right now flying in the sky like it was a small plane that was interesting to see but again the two thousand and eleven that's what it is it's here for it's basically for these companies to showcase their latest innovation their latest technology what their aircraft are capable love and as far as the a russian the participation here is concerned there's one model that's really highly anticipated a lot of build up towards it that's the savoy nine hundred fifty now this is a russian made of this generation military aircraft and it's the first of its kind that is made as far as russia is concerned also the first at the country has done a produced in the last twenty years now the only other fifth generation a military aircraft out there is the f. twenty two raptor which belongs to the u.s. air force and now we're talking fifth generation we're talking about faster more efficient aircraft as well as those with better stealth capability so that's something to look out for this is the first time they will be unveiling it to the public it's made its maiden flight already but again unveiling to the public so
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interesting to see how it will fly in the sky but it's not just military of course we have some a commercial aircraft here we've seen some of the bigger commercial aircraft in the market of course the boeing dreamliner the airbus a three eighty i mentioned earlier and of course a so why super jet we have people just going inside trying to find out exactly how big it is but i actually was looking for smaller planes this plane right here the one i'm sitting in is one of those i'm not military not commercial it's called an experimental plane it's traveled eight thousand kilometers to come here to russia from the united states the first time it's been out of the united states and it's actually also home built basically can build it at home that's what it is but i'm not going to try anything funny. yeah i think i'll leave the stunts the professionals are still looking forward to the aerodynamics us are aerobatic performances of the french italian and american air force as well as two teams from russia russia nights at a swift action my colleague eager a crowd have you had the chance to see them behind the scenes practicing on one of
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their practice runs and let's see what fun he's had. at the cuban air field this tends to do the most famous aerobatic teams in the world even a dress rehearsal there's no margin for error. today is one of the last chances for the russians and the swish track has a new program ahead of the marks to show performance. to show stopper the trademark nine plane diamond of two very different aircraft delight the migs information the behavior. down from below the false jets looking for a fix sink but as the pilots touch down tempers run high. that's normal everybody cares we're all in the mood to work we all want to put on a great show for. these pilots don't think of themselves and to train as
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a serving officer as the flying elite hand-picked from the entire russian air force the best technology develops. maneuvers being abandoned in favor of long range missiles and advanced trade. these demonstrations of piloting prowess just becoming a sideshow right taken the digits i don't think so at all the real war over the chronics could often be jammed so we would go back to who sees whom and how they can respond to this situation skills will never become obsolete enough to go again practicing for hours affecting the skills only harmful in the world are capable of . old fashioned dog fights might not be as big a part of combat as they once were but here they're keeping the oh it alive. you are never see. the field. well stay tuned to our teeth throughout the
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week because we'll be there at the next two thousand and eleven show we'll have some of the first clicked first class flight action i should say try saying that in a hurry as well as talking to the captains of the aviation industry there that's all week here. the two thousand and four tsunami in south asia took everything from many of the victims that lived along the coast of india recovering has been next to impossible and some of resorted to selling the only thing they have left their own body parts frida has this report. a room again is alone in her tiny empty apartment in chennai like many indians who struggle to make ends meet kala is constantly in debt despite selling pretty much everything she has including her own kidney. i went to a brokerage he told me that i could sell my kidney i agreed because i was in a bad situation and my children were small we did not even have any food to eat. when the two thousand and four tsunami hit the coast of south asia kala was one of
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hundreds of thousands of people who lost everything in order to get back on her feet she got a loan that she was later unable to repay. we had a lot of debt i had to borrow money to buy the fishing boat the people i borrowed money from started asking me for money they said they will come home and embarrass us if we didn't pay the money desperate and vulnerable tsunami survivors soon became the perfect targets for the illegal organ trade in india it's become known as the red market every year one hundred thousand indians need organ replacements a demand that drives an illegal supply with some organs even being sold to a small percentage of desperate transplant tourists in one thousand nine hundred four the indian government hatched a law meant to regulate organ donation in this country each recipient was supposed to get an organ from a donor who was in some way known to have even though each transplant was supposed
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to be approved by a committee of doctors it's almost impossible for anyone to stop money transactions from happening under the table in general when a recipient finds out that he or she needs an organ donor they normally approach friends or family for a match when those options are exhausted rogue doctors or hospital staff can introduce the recipient to a broker usually a former illegal donor too who can scout nearby poor neighborhoods for someone who is willing to sell their kidney and go under the knife. but good news for the most part of roots of this. is the law. so blind to this happening to transplants from the donor to the recipient take place in the hospital simultaneously the donor ends up making a little over a thousand dollars while the brokers can profit almost double the. i went to the
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broker he said he will give me fifty thousand rupees for my kidney it was supposed to be much more but the broker cheated us the donors also frequently are robbed of their health before i used to run around and work a lot but now i can do as much work as they used to i find it difficult even to leave that part of what i can go to work i have severe pain in my abdomen and my chest. and while horror stories of the red market are exchanged among locals those with no options left are forced to take extreme measures sacrificing their health just to stay alive preassure either party chennai india. a recent report by the bureau of investigative journalist says u.s. drone strikes in pakistan have killed at least three hundred eighty five civilians almost half of them children washington's own estimates are much lower and as chris woods a senior reporter at the bureau says the cia getting in the way of a comprehensive investigation. a minimum of three hundred eighty five civilians we
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think and as many as seven hundred seventy five civilians are among those killed just to be clear the cia has now admitted that they have killed around fifty civilians in pakistan during the duration of the seven years of the drone war but they say they haven't killed a civilian since may of last year and our evidence suggests entirely the contrary we were hearing rumors of u.s. officials in washington trying to cast aspersions on our study before it was even published and for example trying to link us to someone they were claiming was a spy in pakistan and also raising doubts about the validity of our research itself we went back and looked at over two thousand individual media reports from pakistani us u.k. international media looking at the strikes and then once we've actually untangled that process and got the clearest idea of what had taken place we don't cross reference with a host of material which included legal studies case notes of lawyers who are
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fighting cases on behalf of civilians in pakistan leaked intelligence documents us secret cables there were leaks boy wiki leaks earlier this year and so on so we're trying to build up really as comprehensive a public view as we could of what's actually been taking place with the cia attacks . some other world headlines. this hour and first to france where a full investigation has been opened into international monetary fund's chief christine lagarde it relates to allegations from when she was france's finance minister when she approved a huge payment to a friend of president nicolas sarkozy to god denies any misconduct and there is no suggestion she profited slowly returned he doesn't believe the investigation will affect her role is that she. government siege of syria's port city of latakia forcing thousands of palestinian refugees from the camp four days of shelling has claimed at least thirty lives and troops would be making house to house arrest officials that did not. troops in attempts to crush the uprising against president
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shocked when i heard of them happening in particularly near where i live but i was not surprised because i mean i think a lot of commentators have said that this sort of thing. has been waiting to happen for a number of years now why is that is and i think it's complicated and i suppose you could isolate a few factors firstly we have a kind of run of disaffected socially disadvantaged young people in urban areas or. maybe a couple of decades and they have become more. they've become angry. divisions in society of god. and they've become less frightened of the consequences of misbehavior because actually they've been getting away with
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this sort of behavior for many many years what about the education system is failing this generation i actually argue very forcefully not know that said education isn't everything as i've been hinting at you know once you've got the highly educated group of people who know that they're not there haven't got huge prospects then you've got perhaps even more of a problem than if they were totally uneducated we also know we have a small minority of very disaffected illiterate poor so the education system has done well and i think it's that mick. it's a sort of toxic mix of the bright working class kids and. a group of people a community plate perhaps very easily educated or not though surely these kids should know that violence is not the answer people brought up in
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a context where they have a kind of conscience perhaps you wouldn't be doing this with a gee this is a one off or is the energy more to come the underlying rumbling kind of disaffection of your brewery that kind of affects all of us in the day to day level i don't think that's going to go away. for many years unless we kind of reorientate the prospects for a lot of these young people to spread to europe do you think i don't know are i personally not i mean i always say this in my your nation. you know french italian cultures so-called have a different kind of attitude to social behavior and it doesn't seem to be so much of a problem because of the way for example they treat things like alcohol which again we have mentioned alcohol in britain plays a huge role in the perpetuation of anti-social behavior and causes you know mass
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kind of problems throughout the u.k. every weekend what is it about british society then the with the means your vicious flourishes and has always been the case i mean i argue in the book how to mean our mascot in britain used to be john ball who was this drunken fierce sort of yeoman type character who would bash the foreignness of broad and that was a cruising agent for cologne. and that's that was two hundred fifty years ago even people like david cameron were members of the thing called the bullingdon society which actually actively encourages young man to get drunk and trashed property. you know deputy prime minister john prescott a few years ago i punch someone in the mouth a rein in posting actually was celebrated for it you know we have kind of as a culture an attitude to violence we've always joined in whatever was going on you know we kind of quite an aggressive adversarial culture and that that
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really influences things as well it permeates into every level of our society the reaction in many parts of the country from communities to launch vigilante groups clearly they're angry and they want a heavy handed response is the answer i don't think the public a very well educated about how and why children come to do this so for example there's a lot of discussion around how parents should be teaching their children and you know disciplining them more is so much evidence and all my experience a teacher is that the children by their parents are the ones who are worst behaved you know and that just doesn't come out in the kind of general conversation it's a sort of knee jerk reaction you know we need to be much tougher when we know it doesn't work in the long run ok so what should we do then if we say see thirteen year old who walking down the street so we give him
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a hug well i think again it's much more. she should say hello building relationships within communities very important this is something i've argued with you know quite strongly on the website and in my writing you know we have very socially segregated communities and socially segregated schools. where you have schools where all queen she come together where you have communities that actually know each other these sorts of problems are dealt with in a bit better fashion francis girl thanks very much thank you. cool new the latest in science and technology from.
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if you're just joining us very welcome this is all. of the top stories now that france and germany proposed a single collective eurozone government led by the president to steer the book out of its troubles. to oversee its decisions are being implemented. in. the skies over moscow i welcome the world of aviation and scores of the latest jets perform breathtaking stunts at this year's max air show. a market in bodies a gruesome. in india is on the rise with authorities accuse of colluding with those illegally preying on poverty stricken people. their health. i'll be back with more on those stories and more developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime america is suffering a hidden epidemic of domestic violence and delves d. .
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