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coalition after narrowly winning a crucial confidence vote in parliament but the country's future remains far from clear the main opposition party has demanded snap elections and wants. out of the government. reports now from the greek capital. there's a lot of confusion about what that coalition government is going to look like we still promise the passenger and his governments and by that call this nation in parliaments in the early hours of the morning it was very very close it is always going to. take decisions but no changes really everyone still waiting to see what the details of this will be as we said before the devil really is in the details and so a lot of uncertainty still remains about was going to happen now moving forward would help guide us a bit see this political quagmire i'm joined by. professor of economics at athens university. it's very uncertain what's going to happen now can you tell us a bit more about what the politicians are doing and we've heard
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a lot of people saying they're playing political games can they afford to do that at such a critical point the big picture is not what happened in greece is what happened yes the g twenty when they couldn't agree on anything so not agreeing on anything means that austerity packages will continue as the only policy coming out of the euro zone the pressure on politicians of the center left center right because of the stereotype measures is that the leader of the right wing party wants quick elections so he could do well and not be implicated in any of the austerity packages we've had so far were asked up and drove a leader of the center left party doesn't want quick elections because he's deeply implicated in these policies and wants a national government a government of national unity so that the responsibility for the austerity package is shared but if you will only say or there is one missing actresses and that is the people of greece who have been demonstrating for the last six months from the
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street and really i see no solution that doesn't at least meet some of their demands for your stereotype recession more austerity measures vicious cycle being removed somehow the. tented and political leaders actually addressing the social needs of the mass of people in this country and indeed of european feel that really is a very valid point what a lot of people are talking about here today is that is the missing ingredient the public opinion here very very disappointed at the end and spent yesterday at the what we've seen playing out in the last week really as he said that message of uncertainty at a time when everyone was hoping for was a unified front for some decisive action and that's not what we're saying it's all and of course moving forward the situation looking on increasingly unstable ground . coming up later in the program of fighting the corporate evil the us for me has done little more than deepen the gap between rich and poor making some resort to
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drastic measures. now there are widespread concerns that u.s. police are becoming increasingly heavy handed in breaking up the corporate occupy protests that have gripped the country for nearly two months now officers used force to disperse a demo in the u.s. capitol and take down tents three activists were struck by a car but the driver wasn't charged and be a california city of oakland police tear gas and baton as of protesters and arrested more than one hundred several people were seriously injured including a u.s. army veteran it's a second incident of police brutality the city has seen in two weeks and meanwhile in new york where the occupy movement began that protesters camped out and zuccotti park are bracing themselves for a showdown artie's body in a port and i want to find out what are authorities in the big apple in store for them. the occupy wall street movement has cemented its presence here in zuccotti park for nearly eight weeks but now many believe that the city will try to evacuate
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demonstrators under the pretext of crime new york city mayor michael bloomberg is now accusing these activists of the danger in the entire community saying they are failing to report crimes that are taking place here the activists here say that they try to police minor infractions but when it comes to very serious crime or violence these activists say they do take to the police some media outlets have also learned that it is actually new york city police officers some at least that have encouraged criminals and people to come down to do coffee in an effort to stir up some trouble the n.y.p.d. denied those accusations we did speak with a few of the. hundreds of activists that are down here and here's what they had to say my experience has been that i've been safe here and i feel safe here well i
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think that you know the mayor is discussing things quick times that aren't haven't been reported what are those crimes that you think the mayor is probably gearing up to make another attempt to to remember us from the park simply because someone walked into the park doesn't mean that they're part of the movement a lot of these out with that even critical of us characterize anyone who is within you know a mile radius of this place as a protester and therefore reflective of our movement but as you can see anyone can come in here and that's fine you know we want to welcome people in but certainly because someone destructive doesn't mean they reflect what we're doing or that we promote what they're doing princeton professor and activist dr cornel west who's been a huge supporter of the occupation movement was down here in zuccotti park r.t. had a chance to catch up with him to get his thoughts on what mayor bloomberg has recently said just think you're own mother your own david trying to come up with a rationalization was not a convincing reason do you think there's anything criminal about you know dangerous about this encampment that in a way i think every section of new york city has
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a day and then. what it is they have a human community and we have a human community here. still supporting oh my god yes one hundred twenty it was it overall though all the activists that we have spoken with today say they feel as safe today as they have felt since day one of these occupy wall street movement they say the momentum is growing bigger it's growing louder it's growing larger and they are here to stay reporting from wall street marina port r.t. . our correspondent lisa caffein office also covering the occupy protests just had to artie's twitter stream for more lucy was at the scene as police waited to break up the latest protest in washington log on to her twitter feed for full coverage of the incident as well as photos and videos. a lot of the man. driving the occupy movement is an increased tax on the rich that could help bolster the us budget a little later this hour we find out what some new yorkers think. as people get
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wealthier higher percentage of the think they are going up until about certain point words as you get even wealthier if you want even more glory harford mistakes in the streets of the big apple to gauge public opinion do stay with our team for her findings in just a few. a joining hands with a growing occupy movement tens of thousands of people have pledged to take a shot of america's big banks this saturday it's officially back transfer and move your money day both of which to deprive leading bankers of their customers freelance writer kimberly thorpe thinks the banks have only themselves to blame over eighty one thousand people have pledged their support to go to their banks and move their money to a credit union a smaller bank in september bank of america announced a five dollars fee on debit cards people were outraged this is when people started moving their money in credit unions have reported some six hundred fifty thousand
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new members in september that's four point five billion dollars in new deposits people are so outraged with the big banks that they're committing no matter what to move their money you know a lot of us are underwater our homes are worth much less than they were when we bought them our whole entire economy has been built on credit so the idea of just walking away from your debt is something that really captures your imagination so if your kind of on the receiving end of harassing phone calls of people threatening to take your car from your driveway and you can't drive your son to work you know that there are ways there are ways to fight back. now in russia massive election campaign is now in full swing with seven parties competing for seats in the dubai that's the country's lower house of parliament candidates have until december third to woo voters with all their debates at enticing advertising on t.v. ad in the print media artistic got that he got children reports now on the race.
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for the next thirty days on t.v. sets in russia will be talking politics politics and politics in other words but on another labor the rule of the people and socialism at the top freedom solidarity and justice our free sanctuary some of the most storied going on is party which stands for the poor and the russian the national. banners future is with. banners educating for the top political parties head of the december vote have been out for a while but the most cherished cake free t.v. and radio air has just been sliced seven parties are in the running for the duma seats and while the country's main political force the national russia party is only concerned by home a majority will be getting this time maybe there is a dash for it to just make it into the parliament and the race is on the staunch
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communists are appealing to solve. all of communist haven't lied a single time in one hundred years of the save the country from fascism in world war two we twice save the country from collapsing we were the first in space with. the liberal democrats are yet again appealing to nationalism but. the russian president should be the sole ruler in the caucuses we have to eliminate the clan culture in this region and introduce curfews in some areas video surveillance is a must. just while just russia comes up with a robin hood plan to help the poor with the money of the reach. reform number one is fighting poverty and introducing tax on luxury business and country should brief really the what the there had been and not a runner in this race lobbying for both small and big businesses billionaire me how
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prokhorov hopes were high he would create a powerful lobby for western minded liberals in parliament proper of himself was even considering running for president of the complaint fails or it feels because of cross personality he thought that to run a party is the same as to run a business this is a strategic mistake he considered our party members had been with the right cause much longer than he noticed teammates as his subordinates and they responded to him with the right cause will take part in the vote but it's listed among outsiders one month ahead of the actions polls suggest united russia will gain at least forty three percent of the votes coming second hour communists with fourteen percent the liberal democrats will secure at least nine percent for the other four parties it will be largely about how they perform in t.v. debates and to secure at least one seat in the duma they will have to overcome a five percent threshold to mention it very far has the united russia party his
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list has even put his political future on the table saying his possible pose as the country's prime minister could depend on how well the party reforms and the election booths prime minister putin is also backing united russia and has even become somewhat of a trademark of the party over the years make sure isn't december's douma elections will each receive as sparking new t.v. set a welcome gift from the government the specifics of the order are exacting the subtle be made from white porcelain each with a gold trim each cup must hold a certain amount of tea interesting you though not all circuits are of the same size two hundred four are tea and coffee sets for. twelve persons while the remaining four hundred fifty are just scaled down six person sets and while it's not clear which devotees will win which set some jupiter discrepancy means they're not a party has haunt current plans for
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a tea party of its own following the december vote by winning at least two hundred four seats. r t. let's look at other news from around the world now and we start with nigeria where a series of bomb and going to taxes left at least sixty seven people killed and more than one hundred injured the assault on the town of goma to a lasted more than an hour hitting several targets including the local police precinct and at several churches the radical muslim sect boko haram claimed responsibility for the attack and promised more strikes in the future along friday the same group also attacked a military headquarters in neighboring borno state with a triple suicide bombing. in colombia troops have killed a top rebel commander delivering another severe blow to lott and america's longest running guerrilla insurgency alfonso cano died during a military air and ground assault a reward of nearly four million dollars was offered for information leading to his
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capture the sixty three year old took over as head of the rebel group in two thousand and eight after the death of its co-founder. and italy at least six people have been killed and several are missing after a flash flood struck the port city of genoa a week after torrential rain storms ravaged nearby coastal areas the victims include two children and a woman was apparently crushed by cars being swept away by the water emergency officials warned residents not to leave their homes and to move to higher ground as to reverse burst their backs is the second delusion as many weeks with warnings that the worst is yet to come. and one of the top u.s. commanders in afghanistan has been sacked for making disparaging comments about the afghan political leadership general peter fuller said that president karzai and his staff were quote isolated from reality washington's been quick to dismiss the statement as a personal opinion that doesn't reflect u.s.
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afghan relations the incident comes as foreign troops are gradually withdrawing from the country having control over to afghan forces. although as the u.s. led coalition prepares to leave afghanistan by two thousand and fifteen it so far failed to root out the country's notorious drug problem the u.n. says opium production there is set to increase by sixty two percent this year our military contributor thinks the u.s. is too distracted by issues elsewhere according to a. survey. the harvest has jumped from thirty six to fifty eight hundred metric tons just in one year because the main competition mintz of the deep. in the last five years has been the manhunt and decrement of victor boot of a county justice against the united states is the latest symptom of this is to make
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failure of the us intelligence and law enforcement community until law enforcement and intel community remains hostage to political expediency until then the justice will be just hypocrisy carver in the united states any american or for an individual stands pretty fair chance to get a fair trial and hearing in the united states of america massive rescue operation is underway for fifteen construction workers kidnapped by maoist rebels in india and it's the latest attack by insurgents who want to establish communism in the country all they say they're fighting for the rural poor who've been left out of india's big city economic boom. has the story. these are the images people recognize when they think of india as maoist rebels for almost twenty five years the group has attempted to overthrow the government in violence and intimidation to turn india into
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a communist society in their eyes the government is not taking any interest in the indigenous people of rural india the government has called the maoists the single biggest security threat to india and it's held them responsible for displacing and killing thousands of civilians but far from the jungles of india a new maoist revolution is brewing like the movement in the rural areas this one is also anti-establishment but is largely focused on overthrowing multinational companies and development the maoist argue that the arrival of multinational companies here is actually caused a further divide between rich and poor they want to stay in india without the presence of quote unquote dominating western companies where everyone has access to basic right meet varvara the brains behind the uprising the highly educated man is in most senses the opposite of his counterparts in the jungle armed with a pen and paper and sitting in his relatively modern flat in hyderabad rao is seen
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as the intellectual leader of the maoists and a voice for a growing group of indians against globalization if the investment is from the. listed agent. in hyderabad as a symbol for many indians of the countries booming economy and presence on the global stage the city has the biggest microsoft research and development office outside the united states and for many in the city the presence of foreign firms is welcome yeah providing us the opportunity and we wanted to get dirty a lot of better india to get into is being used by the m.n.c. right. blending in different applications for me. it seems to be. while most indians aren't convinced that communism is the answer many agree that india needs to find
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a way to improve on its own i think that india has such a rich who do these sorts of minutes walk out of a. home on science and technology that's called a human resources that we can produce and while they watch the uprisings around the arab world they believe it's the sub continents turn to demand change preassure either r.t. hyderabad india and don't forget you can access any of our news at any time by visiting our website that's dot com or here's what else is on my for you right now in the glorious top of the roof anonymous is reportedly valid to take down major websites like facebook and fox network today while americans are marking national move your money day and also online for you. the fruits of labor a russian baby dubbed the world's seven billionth citizen a ton of oranges from south africa has a rather juicy reward to get
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a taste of that story at our dot com. now russia simulated round trip to mars so successfully concluded after an eighteen month long test to see how a crew my cope with a long space flight well the massive experiment was carried out without ever leaving moscow peter all over and tom barton watched the mission end and met the volunteers who spent over five hundred days in isolation. after five hundred. twenty days of this trip around. we are proud to there to to prove that humanity can go to mass this is experiment to see basically the psychological effects a trip to mars would have on the crew and how they would work together inside such
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a facility now those that took part in this are looking to be part of future martian missions this overhaul operation was an international cooperative mission the russian space agency working with the european space agency to put this experiment into into practice now the crew itself was made up from people from all around the world three of them were russian there was representatives from china as well as from france and central america who will find out a little bit what it's like on the scene where the mars five hundred module is we can now cross to tom barton who is there tom what's going on where you are well peter i remember on june the third last year watching this door behind me shut and sealed and that was the start of the five hundred twenty days which ended when i watched them the door open at last after all that time and the crew emerged little bit white faced a little bit bleary eyed into work into
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a cheering crowd after all that time they all stood together in front of microphones and they said how glad they were to work with their other crew members and to have got through what is really quite a feat of an jurors really to be in isolation and with a very strict routine day in day out for all the time i remember seeing some bookmakers of eight to one of us on that one of the crew going insane as a result of this experiment that hasn't materialized and i think they can now look forward to the deep brief period free of all those tensions. now as the occupy protest movements gripped the u.s. for a second opinions are divided over some of its aims and one of them is a tax hike for rich americans who demonstrators are blaming for the economic downturn laurie harshness has been on the streets of new york to ask whether people there agree.
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the general public has been vilifying the very rich lately so what does the public consider too much money this week let's talk about that more than a million too much money yeah if someone has more than a million should they pay more in taxes yes they absolutely said yes i want too much money so i'm not going to answer. those ten million too much too much for too much when one of the women when millions enough to have i would say if people make more than a million dollars and they have bet on their bank account should they be forced to give back a moral or a moral and time outs in general interestingly i saw once that the to answer the question do you have enough money to curve goes like this as your wealth increases so people who don't have a lot feel that they don't have enough as they as people get wealthier a higher percentage of the think they have enough until they pass certain point where's as you get even wealthier you want even more so if you made ten million
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dollars i would give some of it away it's too much money are people that don't give it away and have that much in the wrong i guess it's a personal decision i just think that if you make that much money you could share it with someone that doesn't have so much should they be forced to through taxes like they do in scandinavia maybe so because sometimes if you don't force someone to do something they're going to do it no matter how much wealth you consider to be obscene the bottom line is when it comes to money it's hard for anyone to not want just a little bit more. that's it for this hour i'll be back with today's headlines after a short break. the .
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see what nature can give you. in canada and the us so that it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the most independent they are sponsored but in this day and most of the time they don't claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect focus because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people with family history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c.
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this is our live from moscow here's a recap of all the stories we're covering today the greek prime minister survives a confidence vote in parliament after a week of drama in. the e.u. markets into turmoil the prime minister is now holding talks to form a temporary governing coalition but opposition is demanding immediate elections in the country. and with. tear gas to put down the attic or who but activists say they're determined to stand their ground against the odds. in oakland have become the latest scenes of police with several casualties and more than one hundred arrests. political as of boardings are appearing all across russia as the campaign kicks off to win seats in the country's lower house of parliament seven major parties will be competing in december fourth election.
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