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around the world and around the clock this is a welcome but he has published a blueprint of what he says is needed to move russia for with tackling poverty and corruption to fostering a more civil society russia's prime minister is trying for a third term as president is here with the details. how much of a bridge builder would you say this is between the government and the and the crowds we saw protesting last night who were angry at how the parliament through that turned out. well in a lot of ways this was a statement which was directed is response to the accusations of statements made by the opposition leaders during the protest that has pointed out that russia has already gone through an abrupt and very drastic change a very similar to a revolution during the collapse of the soviet union and that brought the country
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down into decline essentially into shambles and it took a very long time to get out of the dire situation but russia has succeeded in doing that which is in fact the education levels of employment has also risen over the past fifteen years as the standards of living for eighty percent of russians have increased there is such thing as a middle class which is in existence now it comprises around thirty percent of population something like this was not even heard of in the soviet era so let me put it has more in essentially people in his statement to be wary of that of the statements and slogans of which sound very lucrative may sound very lucrative by the opposition leaders but he did mention that such a such an abrupt change in the in the governmental system diary attacks on the country and he did talk at length about the situation we very much improved situation which the country finds itself right now but of course. he also
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mentioned that some some problems do remain on the table. so in general then what problems there is russia face right now. while there is a very well known problem of corruption there's also a lack of civil society overall in the mindset of people also unfortunately from ten to eleven percent of russian population still live below the poverty line that is also something that needs to be taken care of and of course of the country's dependence on natural resources oil and gas something which a lot of the a lot of the people a lot of business that in the in russia have gotten very accustomed to that and on these natural resources and that is also something that needs to be looked at and something which needs to be slowly taken step away from. how there is suggesting these problems be tackled. a well there's of course the the progress to into into the high tech world and creating more jobs in that sphere as it has instead of
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around twenty five million jobs in high tech stocks or should be created in the in the next few years we have a lot of young people she said a lot of very educated young people all of them should get jobs in in the spheres off to college if also talks more about creating a that civil society into people people and government officials taking a more more direct approach in spears such as. the such as of course understanding of a civil society and contributing more to charity and of course he also talked about russia a becoming a major as being a major player on the global political arena a russia has served as a bridge between the east and the west for centuries as it has a lot of experience in that area and of course also is a major contributor to g. eight g. twenty and the united nations and the role of these organizations is something which also should be taking that cow. and you also basically underlined this
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statement by saying that the country has to come out of the post. that that period is over and not just from russia but for the world as a whole so more global and a new approach to the situation not just in the country but also in the entire world should be taking. part in correspondent ridiculous thank you. for moving on now syria's president has granted an amnesty to prisoners for what he says are crimes committed during ten months of deadly antigovernment protests the amnesty also applies to army desert has tens of thousands of people have been detained over the past year by the sara furth now reports it's unclear whether it will be enough to stop the continuing conflict. strings of people leave the syrian prison into the arms of family and friends.
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who have been. prisoners i'm relieved to. hear this prison on the outskirts of damascus these are the prisoners they've been selected for at least. you can see the signing on this is being overseen by the arab league. this is part of the amnesty president but of course for everyone he's not being released from detention questions that he why they were detained in the first place. i've been in prison for four months i was accused of weakening national security i didn't protest they brought me here by mistake to use a good step just hoping to do everyone. i had some weapons i had inherited from my grandfather and was accused of bearing illegal weapons i've been here three months when people heard about the amnesty they were ecstatic they never thought this could happen. here in the.
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military intervention in syria if the by the. u.n. general secretary i was president of the bloodshed at the age of ten is the rule in the arab world. some critics statements claiming in a highly volatile situation. the amnesty shows that syria is trying to find a political solution rather than a security solution and that the country is succeeding in implementing the plan agreed by the arab league. position grapes as being little more than a just. do you mean when all political prisoners are number one arrested since the beginning of the crisis have been released on the amnesty will have been. yes but the answer is c. does not consider this the start of a dialogue but you know if your family just is welcome or you can just hope to be
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freed over the coming days but outside the prison walls people in the country remain trapped in a situation of escalating violence from which they father seems to be listless. surface r.t. damascus. independent journalist. so the amnesty means president assad this submitting to foreign pressure it's being received in a kind of mixed way by the syrian syrian people of course these people they were by no means just peaceful protesters according to the syrian government they were in fact. they were people who had set things on fire destroyed many government buildings in these kinds of things the reaction is very much seen as though the president is being very generous he is releasing more people despite that the situation in some parts of the country is still very tense there are concerns among
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some sections of the syrian population that among the many people who are being released there will be some criminal elements who will slip through the next people understand that the president is under a lot of pressure especially international pressure to respond to calls to release these prisoners by the same time there is very much a concern that it could be a dangerous move. well still ahead this hour thousands of british children caught in the cold how a campaign is trying to turn around the lives of growing numbers of poverty stricken families. and back to work somewhere fragments of the failed russian probe that should have been on its way to mars by now finally falling from all bit more details up ahead. america's mainstream media is being accused of playing with fire for playing up the prospect of war between iran and the west it's a sensitive time with the military standoff in the strait of hormuz and looming
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sanctions of iran's nuclear program. in a chicken reports viewers in the states are repeatedly hearing how war is virtually inescapable. torito options bomb iran or let iran get the bomb with tension between iran and the west as high as ever a host of hard line speakers on us mainstream media seem to be pushing the audience to believe that war is inevitable the better way to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly although experts say war with iran is far from being inevitable i don't think that we are very yet that is to say at the precipice of the media are already preparing the grounds for it some by misinforming the public the new york times wrote that the international atomic energy agency said iran's nuclear program has a military objective but that's not what the i.a.e.a. reported the watchdog said iran might have the technology to develop
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a nuclear weapon if it wants to or here's another public misconception due to a lack of information it would be saying to the iranians you to open up those facilities you begin to dismantle them and make them available to the inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes in fact i ease factors have already been in the country monitoring iran's nuclear facilities when you american people here information over and over again and sometimes it is often these subtle subtleties you are not providing the context of the i report or not putting in some of the doubts back in two thousand to two thousand and three about the iraqi w m d programs that kind of slanting of the news does have the effect of altering how the american public use in issues the u.s. mainstream media have proved to be cheerleaders for war jeff cohen was a senior producer of a popular t.v. show before the iraq invasion he says they were under pressure from their bosses to root for because their owners benefited from it it was
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a constant pressure campaign. to make sure that the pro invasion voice was dominant jeff cohen says not much has changed in u.s. mainstream journalism since the iraq invasion there is no doubt that mainstream media are crucial in this idea of settling this idea that the u.s. is going to be on a perch actual war media analysts say says the intervention in libya the us media have been instrumental in making americans get used to the idea that washington will continue to intervene militarily in foreign affairs i worked at newsweek and as well as a.p. and other major u.s. news organizations and the and what i saw especially in a place like newsweek was this idea that the media was actually part of the establishment that it was it was it was that the american people were to be guided more than even informed it seems most american media are so used to talking wars
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that went after a decade of the inconclusive war in afghanistan the white house announced the necessity to negotiate with the taliban you have to have a political solution at some point the message and the words political solution came out as somewhat alien peace talks with the taliban it's come to this tell us more about these proposed peace talks and that may sound a little weird to some of our viewers it seems that warrants a political solution don't belong in the u.s. media of accountability two main reasons one moring and second some very powerful people are behind a kind of trigger happy pro-war journalism too many times in history the media did the bidding of war profiteers we can go back more than a hundred years and look at how the american public was primed for war with spain over cuba media tycoon william randolph hearst falsely hyped up the story that the spanish sunk on american ships when in fact it sunk because of
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a coal bunker explosion it was then that hearst told his illustrator in havana. you furnish the pictures and i'll furnish the war more than a hundred years on the phrase still sounds relevant but it doesn't have to be that way and some argue political solution although not popular words in the media vocabulary is better than war and death i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . well kazakhstan is on the verge of a new political chapter official results show that three parties are heading into the lower house of parliament until now the president's group held all the seats and has come away with a huge majority election was brought forward after parliament was dissolved last autumn of poland's last month's deadly clashes between police and striking oil workers going to work or reports. this elections were never expected to produce any surprises and in fact they did and the biggest surprise of all was the fact that they were indeed held it was. himself last fall dissolved the country's
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parliament reach a point consisted exclusively of his own supporters and called for that snap elections. has been in power and for twenty two years just last year his security at another five year presidential term with more than ninety five percent of the vote now he's nor party also won these elections with an overwhelming majority and retain control over the lower chamber of parliament but this time around it is expected to face some very modest opposition the main reason why i. want to have this elections in the first place was he's declared intention to make the country's political system a little bit more representative a little bit more democratic and this time around the elections were held on to new rules guaranteed a second place to party at least two seats in the parliament regardless of whether or not it clears this seven percent tree. buyers opponents say that it is just that
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exchange that was in part prompted by he's in these in this over what happened in arab countries and he's attempt to sort of preemptively blind public discontent over it because i sense a political system that may and rise in the future. these elections were test of confidence for himself especially following december clashes between protesters and the police in the west of the country that had seventeen people killed and more than a hundred injured. one is an eye catching video preview for hours a day at r.t. dot com. some of what's online at the moment is really agents in the sky it's the story of how sudden televisions officers opposing a serious crew to train train terrorists to attack iraq. post mortum a new if i die application of facebook let's use a separate final status update twenty first century twist on her deathbed
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confession well we've got the details of how to dot com. british our families are feeling the chill stuck below the poverty line and unable to meet soaring energy bills and it's having an impact on the next generation who slip through the government for heating handouts as your smith reports now from london this is something that single mother of four julie henry can't afford to do very often boiling the kettle for tea house is one of eight hundred thousand families in the u.k. in fuel poverty struggling to pay for heating and electricity in the last three years she says her bill has doubled and it's a constant juggling act there more go to the bill and for food and school uniform then you don't have not into safe so that's the difficult bit of what children have to eat for them have to eat and their school uniform i have to buy and on top of
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that cloud down the electricity use and the library i try to cut down so many teen is now working. the warm home discount is a government scheme aimed at helping low income families heat their houses adequately in the winter but charity save the children says energy companies aren't contributing enough to the fund meaning only three percent of families are getting the help they need with disastrous social consequences to growing up in a cold and. has a really profound impact on children in terms of physical terms in terms of general . in direct effects in terms of educational time and. energy u.k. which represents gas and electricity companies in the media refused to give an interview but they did issue this statement following consultation the government decided who will benefit from core funding under the new home discount scheme and those
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customers will get an automatic discount of their electricity bill without needing to apply for it save the children says that's not good enough currently only pensioners automatically benefit from the warm home discount scheme and others must deploy which charities say is very complicated the scheme. every year energy bills take up and up additionally and crucially poor families often pays you go to system for their electricity and gas which works out more expensive than paying monthly a poverty premium in action. meanwhile julie sees first hand the other price of being poor if she can only afford to heat her house for two hours a day her children's school. they go jump out to put on and socks on the silken arsole would go to places to call and then go to bed late and where governor late
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and i don't concentrate my twosome was in big trouble or the time too many detention tired cinese knowledge of the play call. save the children says it will carry on lobbying the government to help poor families lead and julie henry and her children will go on fearing that the next energy bill they receive will be the one that drives them into debt laura smith london. now to some more headlines from around the world violence has erupted between rattle militia groups the libyan city of going on leaving at least three people dead and around fifty injured they reportedly used machine guns and rockets and we can shoot outs fighting began when the local military council demanded tribe hundred members accused of aiding colonel gadhafi the interim government's attempt to broker a cease fire in the area failed to take hold. for many years leaders have called a crisis meeting during
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a fourth day of violent protests against austerity cuts down demonstrators clashed with police and interest some hurling stones and viable officers. although it was a proposed health care reforms to try to drop the still deep frustration of public sector wage cuts and widespread corruption. italian authorities say a sixth the body has been found in the wreckage of the cruise ship capsized off italy's west coast a male passenger was discovered with a knife jacket in part of the boat that was not submerged the ship's captain is in custody and may face manslaughter charges it's claimed he abandoned in london before all the passengers have been evacuated which he denies. homemade bomb has struck a religious procession in central park is down killing eighteen people leaving dozens wounded the blast went off as hundreds of sheehan was there was piled out of a mosque following a ceremony and were crowds then turned on police who responded with tear gas
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militant two rival sunni muslim groups often attack she is with sectarian violence increasing since pakistan joined the u.s. war against insurgents. but fragments from russia's failed mars probe group of four to worth two months after its launch it's not clear exactly where what is all over has more now on the troubled one hundred seventy million dollar mission. it's a merge at the pier to be three theories as to where the revenants of phobos ground eventually hit the earth now most of the probe burnt up in the atmosphere along with any of the toxic fuel that was carrying but around two hundred kilograms it's believed all of the modules made it through the earth's atmosphere now we heard initially from the russian military saying that that landed in the pacific ocean around one thousand two hundred fifty kilometers off the coast of chile we then
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heard from cosmos the russian space agency who said this well maybe it landed in the atlantic ocean over the other side of the south american continent now we've also heard from a ballistics expert putting forward a third theory which is that the remnants of they say this probe that came back down to earth could have spin spread over such a large area that it could have actually hit both the atlantic and the pacific as well as parts of mainland brazil it was a huge leap and dissipated mission from the russian space agency it was supposed to go to the martian moon a photo of us pick up soil samples bring them back to earth for analysis partially where it gets its name from food was good and basically meaning phobias soil in russian now that information that data that the scientists were craving could potentially they were saying of lead to developments towards a potential martian settlement a human settlement on the moon of course all that data gone now it was
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a hugely disappointing mission at the probe got into orbit and then pretty much stayed there no matter how much effort was made by ross cosmos as well as the european space agency to try and contact it and get it back on its way eventually crashing back down to earth on sunday evening. it's all over there now in a few minutes we're on lies which republican candidates will be chosen to take on barack obama for the u.s. presidency first though the business news with the touch. it's twenty four minutes past ten am here in moscow you're watching business r.t. russia and ukraine will restart the negotiations on tuesday last week ended with the two sides on the brink of another gal's war kiev says it only wants to buy half of the volume specified in the contract but gazprom says it cannot agree to the cut the gas giant insists key of could have reduced its order by up to twenty percent
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but only if that is given a six months notice. late friday the european union joined in saying it's ready to play a part of the talks meanwhile analysts say ukraine's economy will not be able to survive with reduced gas supplies. in the longer term. with that you do the expected by the i.m.f. to grow or at least four percent per year. there's no way grade come just permanently come down it's consumption to those levels i think it's going to to grow together with steel and fertilizer sector and most of the fish in seguin's seem to be in the past already because ukraine used to much more so some to believe meters rather than fifty four last year it doesn't look like ukraine ukraine's consumption is going to climb to subsist with think it's quite wide to stay flat world with. that because most of the first savings are in the pools.
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and let's now see the markets for oil first and it's gaining some experts view continued tensions with iran as the so-called permanent premium that will be built into the oil price from now on at the moment that of u.t.i. is that under ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is edging closer to one hundred and eleven dollars. and now on to the equities and asia are there in the red this hour the main drag is these series of s. and p. downgrade the major european economies including france and austria and stole that talks in greece tokyo's nikkei is down more than one and a half percent this hour with the financials alz the main loser and in hong kong the hang seng is shedding roughly one percent. and the russian markets have opened sharply in the red on this and b. downgrades both the r.t.s. and the my socks are currently losing around one percent which. the russian stock market lost twenty percent last year in defiance of its longstanding
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correlation with the oil price which games twenty five percent chris weaker from troika dialog says this year russia's equity markets will close we monitor the european debt crisis rather than follow the crude. the equity market is moving much more with the global trend rather than the oil price but that's only the case so long as your price remains above and the acceptable limit for the budget which is approximately ninety dollars in terms of the deficit and below about one twenty five dollars which would then start to affect global growth so it's a background issue when we spend a lot of time talking about it but the reality is that it's much less important than how the stock market performs than what happens in europe. china's growth holds up and what the government actually does in terms of you know trying to improve the investment in the business climate wants to new government takes shape in may. russia's depth and you free market is seeing the first major
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deal of the year swiss operator do free and its russian rival reg's star embark on a joint venture the company will include twenty one stores located in moscow airports analysts say the joint venture will become the country's biggest duty free operator one all the outlets are linked up. and that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes but your goal was find a lot more any time at our com slash business. week.
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market mind scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news joining to cause a report on our. past the hour here in moscow the headlines. but the deputy has published his plans to fight corruption and poverty as well as create a more civil society russia's prime minister is launching his push for a third term as president. syria's president pardons crimes committed during the ten month uprising against his rule with an amnesty that also extends to all media centers tens of thousands of people have been detained over the past year.
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