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to mislead 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 for a march now with russia's initiative the council has voted to and that mandate and complete nato operations by the end of october as we heard from marcia's and voyage to the united nations nato is expected to fully comply with the resolution we expect the nato council to act in accordance with this decision of the security council of the united nations and to suspend its operation at midnight. so we're told that indeed a new chapter is being opened in libya. and the libyan people will be able to take advantage of the new situation to build a new libya they desire the vote comes at a time when the head of libya's transitional government asks nato to prolong its mission is through this ember and add military advisers on the ground the nato
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ministers had been scheduled to meet on wednesday in brussels to finalize the termination date of the operations but they abruptly postponed the meeting until friday presumably to weigh in on libyan interim government's request for an extension u.n. diplomats here were saying this latest resolution the. no fly zone is an end of a phase that raises questions as to what the next phase will be the ground as we know for the nato mission in libya have kept changing throughout the whole campaign from stopping a potential mess a korean leader to killing qaddafi nato has many times been accused of violating the u.n. mandate the announced goal was to protect civilians but scores of leading civilians died in nato strikes the country is in ruins now it's also grieving with weapons which is of great concern and danger not only for the libyans but for the whole of the international community and we know russia is now proposing a plan aimed at making could obvious military stockpiles secure a plan that will provide help prevent the smuggling of libyan weapons because it's
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just too much of a danger and for more on that here's my colleague and he said now we. the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about leftover are in libya their number one fear warehouses thought to hold ground to air missiles which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft it's through made so our nato allies in the region which these weapons have been flooding libya and also libya is quite 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 that would try to control the bends i mean if there is somebody who has worked and we ask him if he has a third is
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a shoo in for this we are not. checkpoints 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 pulse gadhafi libya and its stability and now as you can see is being secured here everything is under control and the only one would think that we will make some major news of how to give back the weapons but we see something very different i asked this head commander what the plan is to disarm the population and . i swear i don't know if you. see. that but at a makeshift arms collection center that covers one neighborhood in the capital we
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are shown this. to these are the weapons people brought to me today not many. walk down one block in tripoli and you'll see twice as many firearms. do you know how many weapons there are in the gear i tend to slaughter to have instead of yeah i think everybody have a weapon some think the front of arms in the country could spell disaster ahead in the vacuum after gadaffi and post world fault chaos as groups fight out of this just battles of 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 who actually either they've opportunistically used mates or 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 the intensification of the civil war between increasingly the factions which have overthrown at the gadhafi regime with many
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libyans not yet ready to say a farewell to arms the n.t.s.c. which could only be daffy with nato how is now asking the alliance to continue its mission a vivid indication of just how unstable the country is and he's now a r t tripoli so with libya declared liberated and nato awarded to move on a rocky path to stability still lies ahead human rights activists want to know whether the price the libyan people had to pay for a future without gadhafi is justified. it's a high human cost and it's a high price but they need to. take her with these things what's happened in iraq with the building of against what's been going on in afghanistan these days and what's happened in libya it's an example of the you know that the automatic encounter with the human situation where they are not taken care of with
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their life or the people i think it's a high price and the high cost and the consequences of the it will continue for so long that it's the case this is what they call that humanitarian intervention it's not even within the region completely it's against the human and the material has really a real concern there the situation maybe will explode. libya i mean internally between the tribes between the different political groups. communities and we get a lot more on this story on our website including the hunt for the remnants of gadhafi his regime on line from us broken legs other horrific injuries the country's next prime minister fears for his life he says saying the way the media is presenting his severe beating as a suicide attempt is wrong one father more about that culture without a dot com tonight what you're there to this story might interest you the u.s. military may be moving out of
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a rag but they'll still be spooks in the shadow of the report on why the cia is staying behind. rain cold and police cracked have not been enough to stop thousands of americans from protesting against what they say is corporate greed and financial injustice more than a thousand have been arrested since the protests began six weeks ago but as artist maria port now found out the occupy wall street movement is a strong as ever. the landscape here in zuccotti park has changed quite a bit and that's because the optimists that have been living here sleeping there for the past six weeks have each had inside this park that's because it's been raining nonstop the temperatures have dropped significantly and it is pretty cold out here poles enough that you pretty much see your breath when you're talking despite the change in climate there's a good crowd out here those that are participating in the occupy wall street movement those that are joining it it is relatively peaceful here right now this
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following quite a protest that took place when state believe they were a thousand or so activists took to the streets to show their support and solidarity with the occupy oakland protesters at least ten people were arrested here in new york city on wednesday evening but there are a lot of attention most attention is being paid to what's taking place in oakland california as are the border actions between police and protesters but the. pilots there a few days ago police fired tear gas flash grenades and leveled bullets at the activists among the many protesters that were injured includes x. marine stopped to listen the twenty one year old was hospitalized in critical condition with a picture of the skull he was at that had like a police projectile and many marines now are up in arms are
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are taking to the internet very angry that up police officials in the united states are treated better in this way was a mention of one of the many optimists that were peacefully protesting odd that suffered many injuries as police many say used the words against these occupy. to this that we're just trying to capture size their right to free speech crowd in oakland california even larger since the crackdown by. the occupy movement in new york city. sharing their supplies with the op to. supply. some. growing louder larger since the september seventh
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a lot of. athletes would not last long. to see that despite the weather despite the dropping temperatures they are still out here talking about. politics talking about. wealth inequality. and all the police actions with protesters many believe it's just getting this moving this can't. support reporting from wall street. to well this latest show of force by the police may have had an unexpected effect for solidarity protests springing up across the country because of it let's talk more about that and talk to joshua holland he's a san francisco based editor and senior writer at all to push for a very good morning to you thanks for being on our to international so why do you think the police crackdown was so severe and indeed this really surprised at the
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amount of support these protesters have received the last couple of days. the amount of support has been extraordinary the night before last when this brutal brutal police action came down there were probably about five hundred protesters out there last night and when there were maybe three times that number so i think that when these excessive police tactics end up on you tube it inspires people to join the movement if the idea was that it would discourage protests i think that that's a miscalculation to talk about the role of social media a minute but let's just focus more broadly on what this is all about me people at these protests say that they represent ninety nine percent of the nation but yet their message doesn't seem to be so unified does it need to be more unified more shot up before the movement can make any more significant progress do you think. well i think the overarching message is not all that complex they're talking about
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the loss of economic security and the middle class that's about spiraling inequality and ultimately about the you know the influence of money and politics that led to this point. you know it could be more more finely defined i would agree with that but this is a genuine grassroots movement there is no top down leadership they don't necessarily have media training etc etc and they've achieved some significant victories i should point out that the mayor of oakland has completely reversed her position today late last night actually and invited the protesters to remain said that they will minimize the police protest and to work with the protesters to avoid such incidents in the future she also promised to personally oversee an investigation into some of the acts of alleged police violence ok that's one thing but i mean on a bone on a bigger picture what else has been a change of importance over the last few weeks we've seen all this play out on the
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street but what what has actually got everybody well you know so far it's had another. great impact which is that there was a study done in the spring which should show that mentions. unemployment and foreclosures and the kind of mainstream mainstream economic concerns had taken a back seat to discussions of the deficit and debt and the occupy wall street protests along with president obama's shift to talking about jobs has resulted in a dramatic change in the media landscape here a more recent study found that this whole. this whole distorts had shifted back to talking once again about you know unemployment that we have a very severe unemployment crisis student loan debt the types of things that really impact the middle class in the states so if you touch social media how big a role does social media and has it played in these protests and again taking this
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forward you think the american government might try to limit it it's been suggested in britain. you know it's i think it's had a huge role you know what we saw in oakland was instantly posted to you tube and it was captured with flip phones it's worth noting that none of. the kind of mainstream broadcasters really showed footage of that in chile that already appeared on you tube so this is you know see this in media at its at its finest what the promise is as for whether the government will try to restrict that i think of certainly civil liberties act activists are concerned about those issues we do have a constitution which limits the the extent to which the government can target freedom of group the press reports for time one last quick question of what is going to go do you expect these protests to grow or fight away as the winter approaches. well it's hard to predict but i can say that you know i've covered these these protests
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in the bay area and every single time i go down to occupy san francisco and occupy oakland the crowds are larger than they were the challenger for ok thanks bill the program goes to holland and it's reducing your rights for all to that. european banks have agreed to write off fifty percent of the debt owed to them by greece it was decided during a bear of that emergency summit in brussels where your leaders made what many believe was the final attempt to save the euro the e.u. also promises to loan athens another one hundred billion euros while the loading bailout funds now i'd like to expand to euro's the third component of the package is recapitalization of european banks so they can try and cope with possible losses in the future the euro reached its highest level being tired against the dollar in sept weeks actually following that agreement but you invite over well to run the. leading business magazines told us that he believes the latest measures are no better some for the greek economy and euro zone leaders are just too afraid to face
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. it's just buying time this is really not the bazooka everybody has been asking for i would describe it as a water pistol this of course prevents for the moment that we really get to a kind of. coalition of the green to adopt a level which is now growing in the direction of hundred and eighty percent of g.d.p. but you cannot call this a structural resolution to the different greek problems they are a little bit afraid to really bite the bullet here because if you look at it closely there is only one solution for greece and the truth have been put on the table already several months ago that is for greece to leave the euro zone but that is a decision everybody is afraid of and what has for example not been discussed now but which is very much on the mind of several of the european leaders is that there is a huge problem brewing in portugal because this country is going down the grid the greek road quite rapidly now so if one does the action today on greece one
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immediately has to put a similar kind of action into operation with respect to portugal. course even if the use of the crisis plan does pay off helps i'm going to take awhile to filter down to the ground in greece but some are finding their own ways to try and make it through me time as artist sarah firth reports. they say that time is money for a country where cash is now in short supply time has taken on a whole different value the time bank quick change want to services sometimes they give a painting lessons for free but they take your for free also somebody else is. the time banks just one of a growing number of service swapping 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 meals. for a country in crisis building social unity camp reeve extruding me hard price is
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a terrible thing to be creates fear it divides people from public sector workers from private sector workers who divides richer workers to poor workers immigrant workers from home work for the party networks have been a great way of bringing together large groups of people the populous slogan here in greece now is no one's alone in the crisis organizations are arranging swap shops to exchange clothes and one town in greece is even started its own bharti currency it's huge huge everything we do without money like looking after people are making things by ourselves nicky gives me and her friend alexander he's also a member of the time bank and lesson one of the free services she provides and in exchange alexandra helps out with the gardening so the time is repaid it's an amazing way. of receiving finally by giving to the
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other. 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 places in aladdin's cave of arts and materials it's no wonder really that this idea of swapping gets in services has proven so popular it's building solidarity as a time when the economic situation is extremely uncertain. it's not a response to the economic crisis in the sense that it's going to overturn the terrible economic policies that are being posed by the troika it's giving people support to feel that they can do something with the tough economic times leaving many greeks feeling worthless there is real value in projects like the time bank with the greek government drowning in debt these creative solutions are offering all they need support but encouragement to the people here which at
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a time of deep recession a proving priceless commodity so i think athens. we work financial woes are intensifying calls in the u.k. when time to leave the bloc next that are to explore the possibility of that very thing happening in the future broadly of the euro with the daily telegraph writer who's one of britain's most prominent political journalists and opinion formers. all.
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i'm doing why peter oborne chief political commentator for the daily telegraph and he's just published a pamphlet entitled guilty man a term used to describe those trying to drag britain into the euro zone peter thanks for speaking to r.t. this term guilty man use a term used to describe in the 1940's those who appease the nazis are you seriously comparing brussels and the eurozone. to hitler's third reich that's not the comparison i'm making what that brilliant pamphlet short book my written by michael foot and what they were analyzing was afraid of policy in the one nine hundred thirty s. that's what it was about the policy of appeasement which led to the this moment here now what we have what we're trying to do in this part of that is to allies another failure of policy which is the attempt by the british governing elite to
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push britain into the your and. we base exceeded in that period we would now be in the same situation as greece absolutely destitute was certainly italy and spain were utterly dependent on the whim of the international markets and the benevolence of the i.m.f. and of the european union so who are these men and why are they guilty the guilty man i'm delighted to name them i think it's important that we do name them by arrangement tony blair the british prime minister time his close ally peter mandelson close friend of a leg during pascoe another russian oligarchs ken clarke michael heseltine the conservative. politicians nick clegg the deputy prime minister and danny alexander the show the chief sector of the treasury many of them retain unbelievably very powerful positions in the british ruling elite
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a decade ago euro skeptics were hounded out of planet society labelled xenophobes racists fascists was the effect on these people's lines it's very interesting to just examine the sheer ruthlessness of the pro euro movement at this time they were planning to hound out of jobs the people who were euro skeptics brutally he was the policy director of the institute of directors a key. business organization. and took it she took an anti euro largely she ended up losing her job and the. stories were spread that she was mad dislocated and they were tough they were ruthless the was a kind of big part of the supremes with talk of the british establishment and the ideology of that was was was the european union and the euro captured the new labor party at the time it captured the lib dems at the time british foreign office was
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a major manifestation of this dogmatism disgracefully so the treasury of course did hold and gordon brown not publicly but behind the scenes did work to block block the euro would you say is the most sinister aspect of brussels rise to power. it's in many ways the your opinion is a fast competent organization that it's quite hard to take it seriously if you can't get its accounts. can't. it's sort of fantastically retain in sort of the way it conducts itself on the other hand there is a ruthlessness to it and if you have a any sense of humanity or the sense of compassion what is happening with the euro now which is the imposition of a very dogmatic monetary policy on a whole set of diverse nations is it's horrific i mean the destruction of the
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greek economy greek businesses the creation of mass and unemployment in greece. is really horrendous and it comes from the dogma you have to have a single currency and a single monetary policy and i think economic policy across a very diverse continent germany's just deepened exposure to euro's and losses even further and it seems like there's no turning back to they really think this is making economic sense here or is it more political face saving if you read the english munchen climbing guide mountain rescue it says turn back if conditions turn against you and applies to the us all sorts of things for intervention school generally. venture that piece of advice might well have a use for afghanistan but it also applies i think to the euro zone i mean the euro zone was an experiment the euro skeptics advised against it but they've gone on
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ahead but it is not creating financial chaos it's creating the potential of a great financial cataclysm and it's also just wiping out industries across europe as an extraordinary pace a terrifying if the u.k. had joined the euro zone what would have happened would have been another greece i can tell you what would have happened if you carry a joint it would have been even worse because we. we had a boop like anyway it would be big in the first we've had interest rates would have been less than they would otherwise would have been the first three. the last decade of the twenty first century and then they'd have been higher than we want to go afterwards so we'd have had a bigger boob and we'd had a bigger boss we wouldn't have been able to that some international markets we'd not be we'd now be controlled by the i.m.f. taking orders from the at and by the from brussels we would have
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lost the ability to control our economy we have lost the ability to project internationally it would have been a complete and total economic and political disaster if we had joined the euro ten years ago. thank you thank you very much. wealthy british. market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports on. the legacy that survived the russian revolution and. the bolshoi is. looking more splendid than the didn't truly great century. the grand decorum czarist times this dazzling the audience again. after a six year reef. long awaited resurrection of the bolshoi theater. the. nato gets his marching orders from the u.n. to leave libya and. strikes but leaving the country's new leaders struggling to
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deal with a population. of new york. police and resistance to any show of solidarity with open to themselves. and they finally got a debt solution yet more money and. telling banks to write off half of what they're owed by the collapsing. coming up next the kaiser report looking at europe's continuing financial crisis and how some european leaders seem to be losing their cool.
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