country but this is this is just a race to the bottom this cannot easily happen but only out of an authentic stream so still cost so i think that what we saw today will just the first reaction by the trade union considerations was just the beginning i think we're entering a new circle of social struggles of protests and us i think so some explosive. the greek prime minister has reportedly after the finance ministry to prepare a default report you were ready for that you do believe grief should default but i mean how close are we at this stage. i think that in that they're putting very very great pressure to the ruling parties the parties of from the coalition government to sign even at the last minute the new loan agreement so they will relieve the necessary funds so they can avoid the march twenty third of that standoff but then there's going to be another point because

actually during all this time the only story here is when greece was supposedly trying to rid reduce debt that has increased so i don't think in the end we're going to avoid some sort of default for example by year ago if someone was suggesting something like the the debt restructuring they are now trying to bring forward the so-called besides private sector e involvement so i think he was accused now they are actually restructuring debts so i think that in vienna this old is the only option but the question is what's kind of the fault is it going to be a credit or legs default which would only mean even more so some devastating for greek society or is it going to be a necessary act a necessary act of let's say national appeal. it goes right and that's

a squeeze of the meat going to spill. over this this and try to sort of reconstruct social stability social cohesion that's in this country where we will certainly continue to keep our eye on the developing situation with the euro you certainly seem to think this is just the beginning of public reaction once again for the office but here is a lecturer at the university of the aegean thank you very much for your analysis and. you can continue to keep up with what's happening in the greek capital with live feeds on our web site as thousands gather in front of the part of the men to protest austerity measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed max keiser and safety herbert check out the ears record after two decades the full program is coming out next hour here's a look ahead. at their opportunity was last year to have

a coup d'etat and get rid of pap and rail and they could have been put in a populist government and they could have saved themselves but they failed to do that so it's finished for them ireland similarly is toast no hope for them whatsoever portugal under the bus spain no italy they have twenty five hundred tons of gold if they can hold onto it they're in good shape but i suspect that the current government will sell that italy's gold deal with the i.m.f. because they are totally corrupt and this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. but after decades of drilling russian scientists in the arctic have uncovered a rare piece of nature and ancient lake buried thousands of feet under ife thomas toward the frozen our tactic confident exactly a year ago and now explains what this discovery could mean.

research base in antarctica it is the coldest place on earth and the deepest drilling location on the continent the main research was to drill the great your eyes as deep as possible to get these tiny bubbles of air which was preserved for about four hundred thousand years at a certain point researchers made a new discovery lake vostok team of russian scientists have drilled more than two miles into the ice and have reached the surface of the subway szell lake itself excited about the possibility of discovering life while the drilling project at legg is exciting for scientists and promising in terms of finding a new life form here on earth there are some who are thrilled to go and see the project should continue in fact they say it could even be builders to humans there are some wars that we will bring up some microbes that are really harmful. to human beings which is from the biological point of view it is some kind of the harsh

conditions make working in vostok difficult now scientists have a limited window of opportunity to conduct their research for the season. we had mana sent for so if this is the coldest one that's minus eighty nine celsius at the end of february beginning of march temperatures begin to drop drop drop at these temperatures the planes can't fly anymore and that is it. now that the drilling task is complete the race is on to find the new discovery of ancient life on our planet in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . but next here on r t let's get the latest business from daniel. morcombe to business in a surprising move for the russian stock market may compensate its minority shareholders for losses on their investment from mr putin says the bank will use its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in the i.p.o.

five years ago the current price of a t.v. share is roughly half of its initial listing plans estimated to cost of the whole of a billion dollars while investors await the details to be revealed richard haynesworth from rating agency rating says they could be a more efficient way to solve the tv's problem. if the shareholder. he's unhappy with the performance of the manager of his company you fire the manager of the company and bring in new ones the share price has gone down the shareholders do not like what's happening and therefore that they have been selling out the government doesn't like the effect that's had on minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really sack the management of the tb and put teen new managers who will increase the share price.

so look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro has risen against the greenback in the last hour at this point continuing on certainty over the future of greece in the single currency strong oil is pushing the ruble higher to the dollar and the euro. oil now i'm brant is edging further towards one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel this hour u.s. crude futures hit a six month toil monday as the called where the truth defeating demand europe has recovered a tad in the last hour but it remains down as greek officials meet to discuss the tough new bailout plan mine is also weighing on the markets off the glencore and extraordinary as their merger to drop over two percent on the news. and russian markets up barely moved in the last hour with the obvious recouping losses from the morning the most six hold in the red for a second day movers on the my six now flagship korea era float is lower traders had already priced in the announcement the passenger growth group or quarter last year the best results of any russian airline is also down as investors await details of

its recent boy back and precious metals producer polish gold is extending its losses this hour now down over seven percent investors are cashing remarkable forty percent gains in the last few days rumors of a merger with rival poly metals now the russian government may introduce new measures to support local carmakers by posting. rules the industry ministry had suggested introducing a special fee for imported cars and those assembled in russia the process will be spent on recycling car components surcharge which provides some compensation for the lowering of import duties on u.s. foreign cars. mobile phone retail is among the sectors that continue to show double digit growth numbers in most of the markets russia second largest seller says noise as last year's revenues rose by a quarter company c.e.o. dennis that cost the outlines what gadgets will be driving growth this year and mobile markets usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will

probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum my understanding is there are about thirty eight million phones maybe thirty nine max were sold in russia this year but sixty four percent of the overall revenue coming from the mobile phone segment is actually coming from smartphone sales and that will increase dramatically was a hundred percent increase in mobile phones there were smartphones in two thousand and eleven he would leave there still significant growth. and that's the latest join us for the opening bell on wall street next hour.

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know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

breaking news this hour here on our t.v. the russian foreign minister says syria's leader is committed to ending violence in the country and it's ready to negotiate with all political sides syria's opposition in turn says it's not against russia's role in mediating talks between them and the government circular broke was met with bashar al assad in damascus also said both countries agreed the arab league should continue and expand its mission in syria. in other news this hour the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting

against massive new job caused demonstrators have clashed with police who used tear gas to disperse the crowds that's the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures the creditors and secure a vital second fell out. and iran slums new u.s. sanctions targeting tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war rock obama on monday ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. but the world community now at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodshed in syria today we hear from bahrain's foreign minister to there what his country believes should be done to stop the violence. our guest today is his excellency shaikh. mohammed al khalifa is the minister for

foreign affairs in the kingdom of bahrain is there anything they would like to say to the russian authorities about their position on the syria issue. the situation in syria as both difficult and dangerous not just for syrians but for all arab people everyone who wants to see peace and stability in the region of the initiative put forward by arab nations was clear it was approved by syria the only question remaining is whether it will be implemented properly and we've sent our servers there and they were in danger unable to fulfill their mission but their reports and do indicate that the situation is extremely dire. the material served to us by the head of the observers mission and what he reported to the arab league differs from what we heard from other observers agree with the syrian authorities that foreign military intervention would not be tolerable we don't want to see that happen and we do not support calls for it not a single country in the region is calling for a military invasion in syria the question of an authority change in syria by

whatever means is not a common peregrination to. anything that the situation in syria is declining in part due to the fact that western states have not adopted the unified solid position on syria needed if the u.n. security council is to adopt a resolution in russia's case the motivation behind stopping the resolution was clear but the west is not a single minded on syria as it was on libya do you think that's true yeah. the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in the region is extremely volatile the region under the jurisdiction of the cooperation council remains fairly calm and safe i think going to countries are doing all they can to keep it that really the policies of other states. so they are not helping to bring peace and stability to their regions and countries are divided into tears for major according to their geopolitical standing close they are to one state or the other and their world in

which interferes in a regime change in a minor curry would not lead to big changes and we gentle scale syria on the other hand is very important to the reality that we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's affairs. taking into account the battle cries we hear especially from american and european media do you feel that a full scale war might break out in the region that would harm all gulf states. and that will obviously having worked in the media for a long time you understand a lamb about politics and we've engaged in global politics for a long time to have the cries for battle ever stopped we hear them constantly throughout our lives they come from the west to the east and the north we can't simply ignore those calls will work on our own military policy as we've been hearing war drums throughout our entire lives and we've become used to that but we must take the situation seriously the region is unstable due to interference by

various forces our own geopolitical situation is affected by what happens in iraq iran afghanistan the peace process is constantly threatened and israel is still threatening as it always has to strike out against iran it is nuclear program therefore we work all day every day to relieve tensions in the region and to reach a mutual understanding we have to work on that we have to take this situation seriously the war drums you mentioned and not getting hotter and they won't stop in the near future event. could you give us more detail on the discussion about security in the region where. there might there are direct external threats coming from countries who don't want stability and security in our region as well as internal threats coming from within the region are relations with their own are currently threatened and we find them on satisfactory there are stable and contradictory which we're not happy about this especially as representatives of the

cooperation council we are beginning to fear a deterioration in our relations with iran as well they're threatened by the unstable situation in iraq which developed after the u.s. forces pulled out of the change in iraqi government policy relations between booker in iraq have always been good historically speaking but the statements we'll hear coming from iraqi politicians and regional governors aren't in line with their tradition i was referring to specific threats to the cooperation council nations and there are also certain hidden threats to civility. security in the region and that these have to do it but arrange relations with the allies such as that let us in the the e.u. and russia we'd like to have a clear strategy and clear mutual understanding of problems of regional stability and security with all of our partners we're trying to make our region safe for foreign trade vessels and contribute to global economic growth if we and our allies had a clear cooperative strategy and we would have no problems with security has to belittle

in a region where we can achieve that by establishing open and transparent relations with all of our partners and that's what we're in a full and he hadn't noticed the horn is the gulf countries peaceful nuclear program intended to counter iran's nuclear program or would you have developed it anywhere on earth yes we do have such a program but we're not going to use it to stand against anything else the issue of iran's nuclear program is an international one that we live in this region and when it's discussed with iran the conversation turns political that touches upon many other issues when something concerns a particular region the opinions of those living in that meeting must be considered there are big and influential states in this region the cooperation council must take their opinions into account but i'd like to say that we are no less concerned about instability in the region and then with the iranian nuclear program sometimes we can't help but feel that many other issues it's not our biggest concern getting back to the gulf country's nuclear program and i'd say yes but firstly it won't be

built to oppose any other regional nuclear program whether it's iran or any other country secondly this issue is still being discussed and a specific legislative framework is being worked on with the i.a.e.a. of this program will be peaceful and transparent at every stage just that it's required to be and we're working on that with total understanding of our full responsibility here. before i'm tackling the challenges to regional security addressed the issue of strengthening. what aeration with russia an important international stabilizing force but we know the position of bahrain on this issue do you think your partners in the cooperation council will listen to these calls and take any specific steps to make cooperation with russia even closer than it is now. i can answer positively not only on behalf of bahrain which cooperates with russia in many areas including those in regional security also corporates with the us e.u.

countries with china japan india and many many other states we also see a positive response from russia regarding all areas of cooperation and the benefit from it will russia has always played a major role in international affairs and russia is a great power on russia should be present in our region a troll is indispensable russia has put forward an initiative on security illegal we support it and confirmed it in a joint of greeny russia statement adopted during a visit by our king to moscow and signed by him and president medvedev. should have cause for all political forces in the region to develop a similar approach to gulf security and in. the last summit of the cooperation council for arab states of the gulf put forward a proposal to create a commonwealth head have they taken any steps towards achieving this goal at. the summit itself so a number of steps and transformation of the cooperation council into a commonwealth as proposed by the king of saudi arabia a working group has been formed and the group is to hold

a number of meetings to come up with his proposals in may at the annual summit of the corporation council and real steps are being taken not only as proposals but also in terms of concrete solutions. if you remember our previous interview we discussed the initiative by the king of bahrain to set up an intern commission on human rights and a special commission to gather evidence of human rights violations has this initiative been approved if so what's been done so far. cannot we've achieved to go in the first is that a commission on gathering evidence or a relation as has been established on the commission is studying the events of the past year and about the submitted a report to the king which as far as i'm concerned has been broadcast live around the world now the other commission is to implement the twenty four proposals listed in the report and that's been set up another thing is that a high ranking government of commission has been created to implement the tasks imposed on the go ahead all proposals concerning legislation and additional system

will be submitted to parliament what i would put it the second proposal is to create a human rights court in the arab world and that's hugely important of europe has an international court on human rights in the middle america has a court on human rights with its headquarters in costa rica for the arab countries don't have such an agency only the arab charter on human rights is in place and we don't have a competent body for anyone to address his or her issues over human rights violations and this proposal has been submitted to the arab league secretary general you know and will be considered at the assembly in march this year we're watching this process and continue to work on it i don't come of the arab world is part of the whole wider world and in no way differs from it and we're not trying to condemn anyone but the point is that our society must move forward and for us that's crucial. but actually khalid bin ahmed al khalifa thank you very much for your time.

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two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses goes there to take care of all the people who are ok the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to be a mass and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

too much brighter if you move from funds to pressure. these for instance on t.v. don't come. breaking news this hour the russian foreign minister says syria's leader is committed to ending violence in the country and is ready to negotiate with all political sides syria's opposition in turn says it's not against russia's role the media in talks between them and the government sorry about probe was met with that in damascus also says both countries agree the arab league should continue and expand its mission in syria. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job because demonstrators have clashed with police used tear gas to disperse the crowds that's of the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more

austerity measures to appease e.u. creditors and secure a vital second ballot. and iran slams new u.s. sanctions targeting tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war rock obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. sports is up next year an artsy with kate. hello welcome to the latest scores and here are the top stories. getting back to the pool manager kenny dalglish insists luis suarez should not have been found on the striker returned off the bench in monday's goalless draw or taught them. simply the best tennis star not the top of it is named the laureus sportsman of the year

long ball so i get the team award. out of testing time as williams becomes the last only one team to wield a new car out of the garage the pre-season preparations get underway in spain. but first a football and john terry will not retire from international football despite losing the england captaincy that's according to reports the football association strips the chelsea center half of the armband on friday while the thirty one year old is due to stand trial in july after allegations he racially abused q.p.r. defend the anton ferdinand it's the second time terry has lost the captaincy following allegations he twenty ten of an affair with an england team mates ex-girlfriend terry who gave everything as he continued playing for his country well the little manager kenny dalglish has again vented his anger over the eight game ban given to this torres the striker returned to the site by monday night's goal a stroll with tottenham after being found guilty of making racist remarks to not just you know just patrice evra.