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very unpopular the greek population is alienation which resulted in a little clashes with police violence and injuries also disruption to the capital for the protest itself wasn't just restricted to the public we saw in parliament politicians well forty three the ruling coalition choosing to vote no to further the measure is this something now that really isn't that popular politicians all the public do get the impression we speak to greeks here in the capsule a growing sense of resentment of how they're being treated what they're be made to do by the euro zone we've heard the head of public order here coming out today m.p. and saying that what europe is doing at the moment they're not really acting very responsibly. well over on our web site r t dot com we're asking what's ahead for the eurozone and not much optimism from voters so far as half of you think the euro is doomed to failure thirty seven percent say greece will spark a chain reaction of the falls about
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a tenth think germany will save the crippled eurozone and the minorities see austerity measures as a way out what's your economic forecast for greece log on to r t dot com and have your say. in america china's vice president wasn't treated to the warmest of welcomes from u.s. officials vice president joe biden voiced a whole list of disappointments from beijing's economic policies through its stance on syria criticism was also level that tide over its copyright and forstmann and human rights record apart from the brief exchanges that day was largely ceremonial as american leaders sized up paying the man widely tipped to lead beijing over the next decade christine ports i should say reports now on the rocky relationship between the two economic giants. he loves me loves me now that age old question is one china at least has every right to ask regarding its
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relationship with the united states just in the last three years china has been whined to dine. praised and envied for its ability to do whatever it wants right now in china the government can disconnect parts of it in another in the case of war when you don't have to the chinese pretty easy row capital gains tax folks in congress are also going to get a chance to decide later. in the month whether our construction workers should sit around doing nothing while china builds the best railroads the best schools the best airports. in the world but it turns out those chocolate covered compliments seem to come just as frequently as those cold hearted criticisms and it's not just the president himself those hoping to take his job also tend to flip flop these guys around for us and. look for ways to. get to work to harness china doesn't want to various they want to see
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a succeeded thrive so we could buy more chinese products ivan eland senior fellow at the independent institute says the paradox transcends the rhetoric we borrow a lot of money from china too so it's quite a curious thing that we're really borrowing money to pay for defending other countries from china right i mean that's what really doing in life and love there appears to be a fine line between resentment and respect i want to be china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business if you look at china they're in a very different such as they say for their own retirement security they don't have the f.t.c. they don't have the modern welfare state and china's growing it's that growth and the sharing is caring relationship that has bound these countries in this holy union this trade and economic interdependence with china is really a defining factor and perhaps like most relationships there's nothing simple about
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the one between the u.s. and china there are disagreements about who gets to lead when how to spend the money and how to raise the children but the fact is this relationship is one that's going to be around for generations to come in washington christine prison r t. a look now at some other headlines making star other stories i should say making headlines around the world first nato has admitted its recent airstrike in afghanistan killed eight civilians the attack happened a week ago in the village in a village northeast of kabul and has outraged afghan officials it comes in the wake of the latest. u.n. report indicating that the number of civilian casualties in the decade long war rose last year compared to twenty. villagers in romania have had to be rescued by emergency services after heavy snowfall trapped them inside their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters and army trucks to deliver food and medicine from c.
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end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels with moldova and albania also badly affected . business is next year and are at sea with kareena stay with us. so welcome to business here in r t we go straight to our top story this hour all have hit a six months high following an elvis month in the iranian media that the country was cutting exports to six european countries iran's state run press t.v. says it's a response to the e.u. sanctions over the country's nuclear program the move applies to spain italy france greece portugal and netherlands earlier the european union approved an embargo against iranian oil imports starting from the first of july however it intended existing contracts be complete it. meanwhile crude prices already has
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worries over supply dominated concern about weak economic growth light sweet is currently trading near one hundred two dollars a barrel while brant is hovering between one hundred in one thousand one hundred twenty dollars per barrel. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday and the ruble is high against both the european and u.s. currencies following gains on the russian market now let's cross over to europe that is trading higher at this hour britain's footsie move into positive territory lifted by solid gains for banks that's up to the governor of china's central bank expressed confidence and europe's recovery. and here's russia where the markets are also lifted by higher prices of oil both the artist and myers it's adding over a percent this hour let's check the index movers all the my xix most of the blue chips are high and oil majors are on the rise of course supported by stronger crude
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would look oil up almost one percent where bank is in the black as it expects to finalize a deal to buy east european bank international later in the day bucking the trend though is trying to make a come on that's after an unexpected thirteen percent jump on tuesday. the latest short term drops of russian gas supply to europe spurred discussions on how to secure consumers from possible cuts in the future ahead of gas problems export branch alexander medvedev says that one of the way story one of the ways is to increase storage capacity in the region. choose a key. for security to supply for extreme situations where you can make to do so in those those who are repros a program for the. person to. experience . between two hundred to three hundred million euros for a few years to cicutto. stanwood gas of the destiny of russia second subsidy
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hassling to europe will be decided this autumn the countries gas monopoly gas prong says it will confirm a final investment decision on south stream in the vendor the pipeline will deliver gas to europe bypassing transit countries such as ukraine and it is currently expected to be completed in two thousand and fifteen. moscow to restore mask or production in the city capitals authorities say they are negotiating with italy's fear and a number of korean carmakers to set up production at the plant of truck makers even city hall plans to turn the facility which used to produce armored cars for soviet leaders into innovative production platforms. the world's largest retailer wal-mart may buy russian hypermarket chain for two billion dollars newspaper in st petersburg cites wal-mart's top manager saying that the company may strike
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a deal in two weeks however the head of wal-mart in russia says no talks are being held although the company has recently said it could reenter the russian market within two years x. five the current owner of car sale has reportedly been considering selling the chains seventy seven stores due to weak sales. one finally if you fancy a promotion or a pay rise then you might be better off working for a russian company but if stability and good benefits are more of a priority than a multinational company could be a better choice according to a poll by staffing agency and russia the pluses of working for a russian company include more responsibility faster career growth better pay but the disadvantages include being paid off the books lack of benefits and a weak corporate culture. well that's it for this hour but don't go away we have headline news coming up for you right after the.
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why from moscow words five thirty pm the headlines syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution which would effectively end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country amid escalating turmoil. and rallies marking one year since the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh clampdown with police using tactics and weapons from the u.k. . was iran stops oil exports to six european states in
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retaliation to sanctions as international rhetoric is ramped up to further found the flames of friction with the islamic state. up next our special report on peoples around the world who are forced to stand strong to preserve their culture amid political and often violent suppression of their aspirations for a separate homeland.
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sure my. feet. here's one of the largest rivers in the world the plan is to dam all the major tributaries of the amazon river. there will be immense pressure not only on ecological reserves but also on the communities and the territories that are used sustainably by indigenous people. meanwhile agribusiness is encroaching illegal logging is taking place and so the single basin is now at
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a crossroads and this is there's a resistance against this dam project that has gone on for twenty years. we are gathered here to defend all waters as it on demand so right. to finish these energy will power and the big aluminum companies and on mining companies. oh well and resources. the. the. jews to the grief and anxiety that the indigenous people are suffering. and i don't think this story will end well. and there will be
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will be viable that was the tie up all war cry nobody should underestimate the indignation that they're feeling that. we're going for that i think that the federal government should see this as a message a message that much more blood could be spilled in the chamber river valley if they continue to pursue the project in this way the. the one day out of one to do something they do. out in the open and not behind people's backs like the government my tribe and i i'm not going to accept this. board's solution. for
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us injury and that's our sons were taken away. by britain by france but then they would look good meant to us the sources were exported from have been for the british ones fighting all for my jail for their kids. when they were no must as i didn't vote for watching the africa the i did what if you leave the people with money pleads so that was too good no resources of africa for next to nothing to do to get by with you a break but. i just don't get it doesn't help i don't know yet is it only because man music is the whistle. it is a figure of the future i was about thirteen when my father was singing about all those i'm forty seven now and i find myself still singing of all these things my father was fighting for in this times are young to get somebody like one. of the no.
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no no let's. look at. the one of those. who don't leave but i reckon i can edit this or dream that bad mangers. accounts are comparable or sicknesses got a. broken. shipment concrete is. well for us but it is enough to realize the long haul and move for peace on the river front of the lens. but even though they do see that as you do not. so do their little long winded to those on this only to trade up their deval it does that in the eyes of government without until those last or group of fish on
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the puzzle believe that is a loss also whole problem because the multinationals it is a new problem with that is going to be. safe to stop to eat. shit that will. be i thought of going to the moon go. see before i can go to the wall the wall why what else will be there is. no get out of moving. because of all those things through my vest act are you going. to do something and. you know a peaceful way i'll put this to no friend can so. you know is making a peaceful protest sad that best not that's not in a good. team he's a good leader the montra good to see in sorry but the peaceful campaign against the sham will company. the fool the dictator something not sure thing and something.
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it doesn't develop as guy we michael matz martin luther king the son koran a comment who my my father will be me people have sacrificed risking their lives to put the truth for the generations to understand. that. we've got to be like us are well thought to assay i get. all these molecules you want to pass that you can read we have twenty words. that's very hard to see nonviolence is distributional. if there predated you know we have knowledge that we don't have but it is a for people you don't listen then lead generation comes and says well i'll buy those tried nonviolence maybe we should try violence how do you bring people who were that we way to government as look if i did force people.
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there is. a bit. of a battle but when one speaks of genocide one tanks of a wonder or doorbell on the television member speaks of the congo. or the united nations and is that there be a conflict in the world since world war two. was a geological scandal because of the enormous mineral wealth that's in its soil the . conflict is based on who's going to control the resources of the congo that's really what's at stake we're talking about ten year rainy i'm cobalt or you name it ira and they have it is there in the congo and nothing's in their backyard but you ask all the soldiers what a different bed what the children are at odds are it's on track so you have
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a number of major corporations that are infiltrated illegally exploring congo's mineral wealth so you have cabot corporation out of boston massachusetts o.m. group out of cleveland ohio you have freeport mcgraw hand out of phoenix arizona microsoft panasonic touchy you have new kia motorola being questioned about the. tattoo that's used in their cellphones congo has anywhere from sixty four to eighty percent of the world's reserve of coal tan three letter conductive and it's found in almost every cell phone in the world and in almost every electronic device so these are some of the corporations that have been involved in benefiting from the cargo while on the other hand we have the congolese people dying to the tune of fifteen hundred a day forty five thousand a month five point four million in the last ten years hundreds of thousands. women raped.
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so what really discouraged as you is to see a patient you treated in two thousand come back five years later with the rape or and even worse than the one she had before this is terribly discouraging the what gives us courage is the capacity of these women to fight. this. if one person is bring the lies in front of every war by the time that ends everyone in the area i'm going to take their baggage and leave the community. as they are being displaced these is the region where most of the minerals i look at it so death which costs way to move the people. so the actual rapes taking place the rep on the land and the report of people and these two rapes in the district of
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believe thank you. very well i ask for you don't bring a lot of your. fish . out of. the fish. in the name of mine organization as uber does boeing you know the uber does about. how late they are going to see a chunk. of change on the people complain buy things. now i would go out into my space and cool. but if we take new trucks to give it to the flights.
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i know rick oh he's ok he should get care and have a mobile money for the next thirty years it's a. new war our friends and i gave our people. i was in this group of students movement. you can see there's a man day he has gone. down and i want to do is and i want to. make sure that it's time to just shoot. in the underflow people nine down below zero it was so so i so side to see austin i want to ask. i think we just want to talk move on we just bought by this company
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alcoholism is a mile. from the also drawn so i didn't want a formal in the documentary was taking place what i was close to in place along as an artist. because i felt i was mildly proud of recorded accounting artistically even though i was doing there was doing so. we lost artist who try to encourage the people we show you know what we're saying it will write about it and know people are picking up. like you can make a little better and want to rule and transforming the lives of the people. to day is the opening of the international women's.
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to the finish president madame. you know the one to remove him to come out to be deliberate welcome welcome welcome. the liberian women have always been strong we have the only woman president in africa. and we want to make sure that they are more women that's what this coming together is about for us to sit down every three months if we want to continue to keep the. prince of liberia pockets of liberia. i welcome you all to see me get. into these women. they are placeholders. sometimes they are the boldest of all of the people trying to stop the war because they have so much invested they
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know it's their daughters that are going to get raped they know it's their sons their are going to be picked up as child soldiers it's their husbands who are going to get killed so they care deeply about stopping that violence. no could you who call lukewarm. distant tragic events are going to need to listen to. one million people. who are not on they came with machetes spears shouting and looting holding us they were after the ethnic tutsi we thought towards. the shores there was so much negativity.
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