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this is r.t. internet nato gets its marching orders from the un to leave libya and end its destructive airstrikes but leaving the country's new leaders struggling to deal with a population that's armed to the teeth. of europe's leaders are clear they finally got a debt solution plowing yet more money into greece and telling banks to write off half of what they're owed by the collapsing country. while the epicenter of the crisis is back to basics as cash strapped greeks revert to bartering for goods and reach a startling realization that it's maybe not that bad after all. and arrests in new york were anti wall street protesters encounter rough police resistance during a show of solidarity with oakland activists who fell victim to an earlier crack that also. is a step closer to join in the w.c.l. as georgia says yes it's a new proposal by swiss mediators. hello
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britain even when i was kevin only watching r.t. from moscow it's now eight pm and first no more war planes or air strikes in libya the un security council unanimously voted to lift the no fly zone next monday but libya's new leaders want the mission extended to the end of the year has gone if you can reports from washington d.c. . us your council voted unanimously to lift the no fly zone over libya effectively meaning to and nato operations there nato has been operating all this time under the un security council mandate from march now with russia's initiative the council has voted to and the mandate and complete all nato after operations by the thirty first of october and as we heard from russia and which of the united nations. nato is expected to comply with iraq resolution it's important to note that the vote comes that is when leaders in flames leader asks nato to prolong its air missions
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through december and head military advisers on the ground the nato ministers had been scheduled to meet on wednesday in brussels to finalize determination date the operations but they abruptly postponed the meeting until friday presumably to weigh in on levy an interim government's request for an extension u.n. diplomats were saying this latest resolution that lifts the no fly zone is an end they will face that raises questions as to what the next phase will be some analysts say maybe nato is planning to stay in one form or another anything is possible at this point the grounds for the nato mission in libya have kept changing throughout the whole campaign from stopping a potential massacre in the view to killing off the nato has been the times been accused of violating do why mandate the announced goal was to protect civilians but scores of leven civilians died in need of strikes the country is in ruins right now it's also brimming with weapons for more on what's the situation on the ground in
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libya right now here is my colleague and he said now we. still have war is over but the weapons are fully loaded and. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about leftover arms in libya their job is one fear warehouse thought to hold ground to air missile which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft through may so are new to our eyes in the region. which these weapons have been flooding libya and also libya is quite a world country anyway the population has has quite a lot of light weapons in its possession and those light weapons are becoming a heavy burden on the national transitional council now relying on an army of former rebels for security and we try to control the bends and we check if there is somebody has work and we ask him if he has authorization for this we are not.
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a. checkpoint have been set up across tripoli to check that those carrying weapons have proper documentation and those who do have the paperwork are being called on by the national transition committee to return their arms the question now what if they don't and what does that mean up for pumps gadhafi libya and its stability and now as you can see is being secured here everything is under control and the only word things that we will make some return is a how to give back the weapons but we see something very different i asked the head commander what mine is to disarm the population and i swear i don't know if you. look. at the home of the see the man who was killed but who and a makeshift arms collection center that covers one neighborhood in the capital we're showing. you. these are the weapons people brought to me today not many
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walked down one walk in tripoli and twice as many fire on. you know how many weapons there are maybe i think it's like after we have incentive yeah i think everybody have. something the fun of arms in the country could spell disaster ahead and the vacuum after gadhafi and puff will fall chaos as groups find out vicious. adult power. what you have now in libya is scores of armed factions who have no respect for each other and who have no respect for mates or actually i've of a proper to mystically used to achieve some aims and nato has been foolish enough to go along with this so i think what we're going to see now is an intensification of the civil war between increasingly the factions which have overthrown the gadhafi regime with many libyans not yet ready to say farewell to arms. which
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could only be get happy with nato how it's now asking the alliance to continue with the mission there indication of just how unstable the country is anything our way artspeak tripoli. pictures being painted there will talk more about what's next maybe for libya when the no fly zone is lifted let's talk about a show and joe but it is a palestinian human rights activist thanks for being with us this could tell i guess look back as well isn't it now that this deadlines finally been. looking back at nato seven months of military campaign in libya as it enters these final few days now what your thoughts about if you think it was a mission that was justified and indeed did it comply with its humanitarian mission at the end of the day. i don't think it's. the. everything he leaves
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here not just the. g.m. but they think it's also. these days i think in society the concern that we have this society maybe you will explode more and more of the violence will continue more for so long this will destroy the society institutions and the. this is you know the. concern we have. after this long military intervention libya because it's not like egypt the case is not like tunisia i think the case is completely different to what troubled against the three a few days ago also it's the situation. before i think if they acted accordingly lower the principles and things like that
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maybe things will will change i mean if the captured arrest got their feet in a peaceful way according to law completely the situation will be different but the . other what's happened it's six tried to excuse i guess the crowd there feel beside also the inhuman. because. all of these things this is makes a situation difficult and i think the society it's. a very way. it's a private society i don't think the i heard about the wish to leave the libyans. leave from the peace this terrible situation but i don't think so child what about the human cost here i mean nato saying it still doesn't have any information about the number of civilian deaths in libya over the
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last seven months you think we'll ever learn how many innocents will kill. it's a it's a highly i think it's a high human caused this high price but they need to. they don't take her with these things. it's a building of against what's going on in afghanistan these days and what's happened in libya it's an example that they are my taking care with the human situation and they are not. taking care with the wife of the people i think it's a high price and the high cost of the consequences of the. continual for so long that's the case of this is what they call the unitarian intervention it's not the with the region completely it's against the human the material what's going to happen after one day when this deadline is too we thing is there going to be more trouble breaking out again and the the c.c.
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says that it doesn't want nato to pull out it's worried about trouble what do you think is going to happen. nothing. has really a real concern there the situation maybe will explode. lead to i mean literally between the throws between the different political groups. communities and this is what will happen in libya i hope not but this is just to show this is a hold go to the reality i think in a girl then when you put everything together you see that there is i think ground and there is something in the ground seeing different very briefly we saw the people we've been speaking to said the interim government isn't in control of libya it can't control is a myth fighters on the ground what's your understanding of the state of unity within the country and within the interim government. i think it's just the superior thing for us to you know it's not in the ground really it's just. a
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decision i think it takes. to maintain what's had been. in libya and the. price and the consequences will continue i have not but this is as i mentioned it's a wish chargeable in palestinian rights activists things being on the line from ramallah tonight much appreciate thank you. an awful lot more on the story for of course on our web site including the hunt for the remnants of gadhafi regime broken legs another missing injuries the country's next prime minister fears for his life safe media representing a severe beating as a suicide attempt to find a more about that on line from us tonight also the u.s. military machine may be moving out of the rack but they'll still be spooks in the shadows we got a report for you online about why the cia is staying behind against at r.t. dot com right now. european banks have agreed to write off fifty percent of the
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debt to them by greece it was decided during a budget see somebody in brussels where your leaders. what many believe was the final attempt to save the euro zone the settlement was reportedly a close run thing with the bank holding out until german chancellor angela merkel threatened greece defaults while the also promises to loan athens another one hundred billion euros while the loonie bailout funds the live now to expand to a trillion euros now the task is appalling to work should look to leave rather a ms from britain's taxpayers alliance which one has to howard leaders are cutting and spending there where the trouble let's speak to him should we talk to rather and thanks for being on the program what are your thoughts on what's been achieved that in brussels over the last twenty four hours or not where it's what's not been achieved over the last twenty twenty five years which is more important look i wish the people greece extraordinary well i mean very difficult bind of the moment and it's as real pain being felt by ordinary people but. it's almost like one of
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those 1980's comedy is where the somebody giving a. great speech who then keeps getting up and carrying on it's it's something which . had to fundamentals were there to be seen twenty twenty five years ago it was supposed to be a sixty sixty percent. to g.d.p. ratio before states qualified in the first place to join the euro and now it's being seen as an achievement if greece manages to get to get down to twenty so you think it has always been a bit of a ticking time bomb anyway you know it's long been a ticking time bomb you know nonetheless this was the big push we've seen in the last twenty four hours is the most comprehensive plan we've seen so far especially that it was agreed unanimously by all e.u. states surely at least some degree of a way forward isn't it. well of course each small step is a way forward it and hopefully and as i say i do hope that this is a chief measure of calming the markets and it may well be that looking at it it
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actually acts as a spur for political reasons and statesman and indeed trade unionists will increase to get together and get their act together because that was fundamentally what's needed clover or i guess you know what you said this next one you know what are your thoughts about the continuation of bailout politics towards greece where it's good money after bad frankly it bailouts as a rule of thumb unless they are there to achieve a set end with major reforms as a rule of thumb don't work i don't see within this package and reading through the fifteen or so pages of the document and there are some aspirations and a lot of aspirations in there but in terms of concrete proposals they're a little thin on the ground. so is it more of a matter of keeping greece on life support rather than giving it a cure the new year while possibly for eternity to go around making sure the life support is and isn't physically switched off my my own view is that ultimately police will have to join the euro and i think the longer that this what the levy your reality is avoided is yes and the longer this reality is if it is avoided.
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longer this that the money will be will be pouring into to support a new reality i mean what is this what is the scenario if you could really if if if if greece does bail out and it all goes wrong what is the scenario for everyone else. well they'll have to stop paying for the greek bailout because on one level. the greek economy as a proportion of the whole of the european g.d.p. . is relatively small i mean in overall terms so from the basic drive underneath. economic union that in your opinion is the island and the states of the old founding sex and. i would say i would suggest that the euro is a survivable entity without some of the periphery states which have got problems with respect to. mismanagement of the economy or housing market shoes or simply being on a different economic cycle from the from the court ok thanks for the program does
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leave all the remote research fellow at the responsive ball spending taxpayers' alliance of the you got the right things of the most. euros proposed big part there will need some foreign cash to top it up to the head of the fund is no due to travel to china to try and attract some backing but economists there say that the e.u. is trying to get others to do what it should have sorted out itself there are plenty he'd hero in who's going to pay because you're talking about really in europe and this is a lot of money even have right now doesn't have that money poking out by leveraging the european financial stability fund. the countries like china. india even brazil to lend to a d. or your peers to believe if you don't have money you can sell your s.s. to raise the money or. already some what china i think they have
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a talk in among. your peers but brilliantly funny but the refrain from playing a leading role because this is this is what do you look the leader should have done . well even if the crisis plan pays off will still take a while to fill to the ground in greece but some are finding their own ways to try and make things work as sarah first reports next. they say that time is money for a country where cash is now in short supply time has taken on a whole different value. change montreux services sometimes they give a painful lessons for free but they take your gun for free also some of. the time banks just one of the growing number of service walking alternatives that are providing people in greece another way to cope with the tough economic conditions services can include anything from language classes to babysitting all home cooked
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meals. for country in crisis building social unity camp predicts dreamy hard price is a terrible thing it creates fear it divides people from public sector workers from private sector workers it divides richer workers the poor workers immigrant workers from home work for the party networks in a great way of bringing together large groups of people the populace slogan here in greece now is no one's alone in the crisis organizations are arranging swap shops to exchange clothes one town increases even started saying bharti currency it's huge everything we do without. looking after people are made by ourselves nicky gives me and her friend alexander he's also a member of the time bank and less than one of the three services she provides and in exchange alexandra helps out with the gardening so the time is repaid it's an
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amazing way. of receiving finally by giving of the. many greeks struggle with wage cuts tax increases and with unemployment in the country now cripplingly high there's been huge interest in the time banks and bars and networks this places in aladdin's cave of arts and materials it's no wonder really this idea is swapping good services has proven so popular it's going solidarity time an economic situation extremely uncertain. it's not to respond to. crisis in the sense that it's going to overturn a terrible economic policy both by the kreutzer it's giving people to feel that they can be something. with the tough economic times leaving many greeks feeling worthless there is real value in projects like the time going with the
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greek government drowning in debt these creative solutions are offering any support that encouragement to the people here which is a time of deep recession approving priceless commodity so i think athens. fresh clashes broke out in new york during march followed by arrests several hundred people marched in support of activists in oakland california who suffered a riot police crackdown. in new york. at least five hundred out. occupy wall street were walking through a lower manhattan to show their solidarity with the protesters from oakland california as is that now citigroup was walking through manhattan and there were helicopters flying overhead we saw riot police come out. and restrain of police officers and police cars following the group around there were some that
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scenes top police officers arresting some hostages and at some point taking them down to the ground this is six weeks in to a movement and that is world car larger and outer not just in new york city going to across the entire country in the past day or so we have seen a huge crackdown now in atlanta and occupy demonstrations took place at least to this were arrested there but it was in hoagland california that is scenes many saying look like something of the urban wars still cause the occupy to get into the streets there were at least three agency fifty of them odd got into clashes with the police and medical least fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd trying to remove the optimus from a campground a date i stablish two weeks ago in front of city hall at least ninety seven
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protesters who were arrested but we do know that there was one man shot in the face by river foliage and it was in a brocky war veteran by the name of straw polls it was a former marine two time iraq war veteran he is now in critical condition for once the work he was shot in they had caught by a police projectile and all right now he's in the hospital he was one of the many he brought order to better in south work peacefully participating in the occupy oakland march so. there's not much images or visuals or think. they showed any of the protesters. attacking the police officers police in oakland california new york city and throughout the country have been criticised for using brutal force against activists that are just trying to exercise their freedom of speech when important to our correspondent in new york and our correspondents in the u.s.
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watching those protests and they're posting what they see online check out our tease twitter feed for those meantime i would this is no clip of that footage on the web showing the intensity of the police crackdown this is the video that. was referring to in her report showing an iraqi vote for a massage expert scott olsen seen lying on the ground with a group of protestors and russia to help in the so-called. the a please to help folks i'm saying when a flash from the peace be thrown by one of the policemen it seems that they're deliberately aiming it at the activists let's take a look at video again other video of protests also delivered our t.v. channel here is that the ability to make footage like this public is making a difference to the current protests says joshua holland he's editor of the independent news website today. everybody has a cell phone there are millions and millions and millions of cell phone cameras that are just photographing all of this stuff it all ends up on you tube so i think that out having
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a greater impact than it it might have. you know if if if an act of excessive force police officer wasn't captured by c.b.s. nobody would ever see it the movement has shifted the discourse in this country dramatically just a few months ago the national journal did a study that found that the mainstream media was focusing much more on the deficit then on the unemployment crisis the foreclosure crisis student debt these issues have been thrust into this central into the center of our discourse this occupy wall street movement and that is that's already having a significant impact. one thing because the crossfire was not for that the war in new application for android powered problems called i'm getting arrested it's all for noise friends and family for being handcuffed they come in and check out the details. exactly twenty five minutes past eight o'clock at night here in moscow you
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just twenty minutes away from latest spall with richard he's got the latest of the world's top female tennis players are getting on at their end of season finale in istanbul what's more about that later after the thursday night business next from moscow. welcome to business r.t. some progress appears to have been made in russia's efforts to join the world trade organization georgia the only country which still opposes russia's annexation has now agreed to new proposals from swiss mediators in new situations but russia says it will need some time to consider these swiss proposals let's discuss this now with the chief economist at deutsche bank russia u.s. office of what it is not always a pleasure to have you in the studio so i mean progress or not do you think with or without georgia's consent russia will join the world trade organization by the end of this year is that this problem just well i think clearly we're seeing progress i think we're seeing efforts on the part of the international community to advance
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these talks because this is really the last hurdle. in the world to washer's. w.t. accession clearly russia can try to bypass georgia on this road towards w.t.r. membership but i think for the sake of the organization itself for the sake of preserving the rules may spring work of the w.t. oh i think all sides should work towards an agreement which however should be struck very quickly because time is running out and russia needs to be in the organization to be admitted there by the end of the year otherwise new delays may take place which is something that we don't want to see again yet we've seen we've seen delays for eighteen years now absolutely eighty three russia has been trying to to join the opposition on the other hand it's been successfully trading with the e.u. with china with other members do you think it's actually that urgent that vital for
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russia to join and why well first of all i don't think it was that successful this trade on the part of russia outside of the w t o i think this trade was. frequently . not based on prosody and there are a lot of restrictions more than one hundred restrictions against russian exports abroad. and. joining the w t o is one of the key ways in which russia can get this recites rossley can get. the access to this level playing field in terms of international trade and by using the structures of the w t o such as the dispute settlement body russia can. deal away with some of these restrictions were introduced by russia's key trading partners well what industries are we looking at as the most benefit saying if russia joins there we see it how
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quickly would actually happen. the main beneficiaries are export industries so we're talking about industries such as metals such as steel such as chemicals including fertilizers these are precisely the sectors where washing seemed to be most competitive one of the ways to gauge this is just to look at the number of restrictions against russian exporters abroad and you will see that more than half of all of these restrictions against russian exports are either in or in so those are the sectors that are likely to benefit on the other hand there will be sectors that will be negatively affected as well and really compete noncompetitive sector yes but a significant degree their share there are portions of these laggard sectors in the economy has already dwindled has already declined substantially and the past five
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to ten years so the auto sector agriculture to some degree i would say manufacturing machine building textiles those would probably be. the weak spots that the government would need to take care of including through greater subsidies perhaps on the transition period basis i'll write us off as somebody thank you so much for your time here for your comments i was the last letter sort of have gone amiss that which a blank russia and i'm afraid that's all we have time for in this edition of business come back satellites.
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