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long. greek chaos threatens the euro as talks on forming a new government failed to reach agreement after last weekend's election with international bailout austerity conditions proving hurdle for the country's political party. ongoing demonstrations in support of a mass hunger strike by palestinian prisoners. in the forefront of the brutal response from the israeli military. and bloated student loans become a ticking time bomb for the u.s. economy with more american college graduates ending up unemployed and indebted for life.
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a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. greece starts another day without a government after wrangling politicians continue to fail to agree upon a coalition after last sunday's elections the leader of the second largest party has refused to join any administration which pledges to stick to the country's bailout agreement with the e.u. and i.m.f. if a last ditch attempt to form a national government fails new elections will follow the greeks are deeply divided over harsh budget cuts which came as the price of international cash injection is continued the e.u. has already warned that money will continue to flow only if things stick to agreed austerity measures the german finance minister said the eurozone will deal with the greek exit from the single currency should it happen. crisis management a.c.m. partners says the block is now trying to save face as turmoil is unavoidable but.
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you're basically. trying to tell the world the markets generally is that look if greece doesn't agree to these are steered the measures or continue to propel them that you know that. i stared measures that we put in place for the second bailout then we are we're going comfortable allowing greece to play all i think what's really interesting about the three collections and i do think that there will be a second round of elections is that there really reflecting the complete defeater agree so greece both wants to benefit from the membership of the euro and it also doesn't want to pay the price for not playing by the your own rules and finally if you look at the as banks you know all in john i think it's really interesting that britain also believing it though from europe so i think honestly the past few weeks and months dermody t. you know look at both the political and economic situation in greece and really how to create a plan that would allow the euro to say goodbye to the european union which is
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a fantastic and idealistic idea and so while i think brussels that definitely approaching us from an economic point of view that defaulting ripple across the euro zone and the global economy and i think it also attempting just hope medically to save this mass now anger has for a long time now been mounting in other e.u. countries over the chaos stemming from greece's financial woes but it's now reaching new levels of fury with german private investors claiming they've been forced into a fraudulent scheme after being advised to buy greek sovereign bonds the investment turned out to be unsafe after the latest move to save the country from default and reporting from germany now it's easy to go to piskun off. imagine most of your retirement savings gone with the stroke of a pen and this man certainly knows how it feels peter moritz invested his savings into greek sovereign bonds after being guaranteed his money was protected by the
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government but soon the retired banker realized he was and played in his own game they are looking for people like me. re dyer's not a little bit gray say in short of the hospital maybe here then here you have no risk peter is among hundreds of german investors who were advised to invest money into greek bonds to secure some cash for return meant but greece's recent debt swap which cut the country's financial burden by more than one hundred billion euros swallowed their money despite guarantees in other words private german investors are being forced to pay greek bills now they're getting ready to sue the banks for what they claim was fraudulent advice and the governments of both greece and germany for not fulfilling their obligations if. there is an agreement between greece and germany that this money is secure from political risks it's really unclear why private investors should be responsible for political gains brussels is
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aiming to reduce greece's debt from one hundred sixty to one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and twenty and the long term plan is supposed to attract over ninety five percent of private investors like peter moritz who bought greek bonds. these investments are usually money for retirement family support or medical treatment in many cases these people are very dependent on it. in greece constant austerity measures and hard hearted banking policies are already pushing some ordinary citizens to go to the most extreme forms of protest in turn to keep greece from completely going under brussels is also willing to shock through its actions which are. the pockets if you abuse outside the greek state putting money into so we're in bonds is supposed to be one of the safest ways of investment but apparently not when it comes to greece since the bond holders thought they invested
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using what was supposed to be sound advice but as it turned out for many they would have been nor better off than if they had just rolled the dice. you bought is going to. germany and france is also worrying that you use champions of austerity as new to elected president francois hollande plans to renegotiate the fiscal pact driven by german chancellor angela merkel well that's all off for debate today in the latest edition of the kaiser report full program coming your way in just about twenty five minutes. chose a new president will the euro krauts let him do anything in france doesn't matter who the president is they are simply being taken care of by the bureaucrats in brussels who in turn are being taken care of by the technocrats in some other country who are journey being taken care of by the kleptocrats in washington on wall street in the city of london they're all being taken care of by the fabulous
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banking cartel and they're doing such a bang up job on it. and of the cause report later this hour here in artsy fernando thousands of supporters of former dictator moammar gadhafi are still being held in libyan prisons many of them being tortured according to a new u.n. report many jails are secret and under the control of the rebels who refuse to comply with the country's new government lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says there's no sign libya is getting any closer to that of democracy. this is a major disaster which was caused by the west and the asian regime change policy under the guise of humanitarian intervention the
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responsibility to protect and i think the country is in terrible shape some people tell me in africa that the country may be on the verge of splitting up and was so it's created massive instability of course all of the sahil in northern africa you have a tribal society you don't have a nationalistic clear direction misuse of the country so once you overthrew khadafi who was no good no question about it but you did it in the way that the west did including the killing of. then you are setting up various tribal groups to vie for control and right now those tribal groups are all off on their own competing with one another including attacks on the national transitional government itself. now the u.s. is partly resuming weapons sales to bahrain despite human rights concerns washington previously froze arms deliveries to its key gulf allies following a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests demanding more democracy that began
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last year some experts believe the uproar among human rights activists over the latest decision is justified. one of the frustrations of the people in bahrain is this is one of the most organized most consistently nonviolent. pro-democracy strong to fight in terms of portion of population and the heart of the really it was the largest of all the arab spring pro-democracy protests in the country and yet the united states stood by while the bomb barring the regime and support of the saudis and other u.s. allies really crushes ridging not just through not just of persecuting the protesters but even sitting journalists to jail for daring to cover their protests and doctors and nurses to jail for daring to. heal to try to help to help the wounded oh my goodness i mean certainly you know we've seen the same so what was interesting a lot of america africa southeast asia and dictators we support like
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a you know generally and mubarak and i think the for the problem of course of course you know it was too late for us to stop what happened. in tunisia egypt and yemen but thanks to bahrain's relatively small size of the intervention by saudi troops that pro-democracy story will unfortunately oh what was quiz crushed. and just last weekend that bahraini authorities of arrested the country's leading human rights activist and foremost critic of the ruling family all of this on charges of inciting protests through social networks in the build our job was detained just days before featuring on julian assange show right here on our in the program the whistleblower gets insights from our job into the uprisings in arab states go to a special section on our website r t v dot com to watch that. as speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the roof old was
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a leadership where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. it's good to have you with us here in our to today they must hunger strike by a palestinian prisoners over their detention without charge and treatment by israel is increasing unrest all across the west bank over fifteen hundred detainees have been refusing food for almost a month as their supporters clash with israeli forces almost daily outside their youth is at the forefront of the protests being met with a brutal response from soldiers artie's reports. the scenes are all too familiar children throwing stones soldiers brandishing rifles major confusion very often it's very difficult for the army to determine who throw stones but a message has to be sent to the local population but that won't be tolerated and
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the message is delivered brutally these children were playing in a side street in east jerusalem when undercover israeli soldiers attacked them and forced them into their vehicle. he caught me by the neck and started choking me he dragged me to the current threw me inside i told him i was hurting me but they said it's not their problem. i report issued by defense for children international found that in most cases children are arrested in the middle of the night they were blindfolded their hands are tied and they taken in a military vehicle to an interrogation center by the time a child arrives here at off a prison he will have been detained for up to eight days in the end because of pressure almost all plead guilty but it's often clear they really are relative going in and he told me the best way to get out is to confess they said they had four soldiers testimonies and it's testimony as one month in prison so i confessed i eventually said i did it with war but the truth says it to him is that he was at
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his grandparents' house for the festival of ied they'd been clashes between army and palestinian youths and the soldiers had started going from house to house rounding up youngsters. they wanted to take anyone they didn't care who i told them i wasn't throwing stones but they kept hitting me and saying we know it was you know aside from the arrests and illegal detentions in the last decade israeli forces have killed almost one and a half thousand palestinian children but the i.d.f. justifies its actions by saying many of them are used by adults as pawns one incident that's been publicized a lot was when a fourteen year old palestinian boy was courted a checkpoint with a suicide belt attached to him since june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven more than three quarters of a million palestinian men women and children have been through the israeli military courts a statistic that underscores the perpetual palestinian search for justice policy r.t. katon a village. it is good to have you with us here on our to today still ahead for you
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on the program. over at a medical term used for years now considered too offensive by some to decide what's politically correct. though should we not adjust the facts because it actually came to. the banks with better things with their own. safety dodging death on india's road find out why the north makes helmets compulsory for men on motorcycles but not the women. graduate from high school go to college get a job that's the conventional path for u.s. students towards the so-called american dream or rather it was for a struggling economy that continues on the rising cost of education the search for stability has become a roll of the dice. portnoy explains. it's the heaviest investment
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a young american can make now becoming a trillion dollar ticking time bomb for the nation i have twenty thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars some one hundred fifty thousand in the u.s. student loan bubble has inflated larger than car or credit card debt in this ballooning crisis graduates now have financial deficits that rival home mortgages. night in new york many have taken to the streets protesting against the an affordable cost of higher education we're already seeing a large increase in the number of student loan defaults across the country and that's coming at a rate that is similar to the rate when the when the mortgage your mortgage loans started to default as well and like i said this has a cumulative effect and it's a downward spiral according to reports every percent of recent college graduates are unemployed or work you know we don't even require i do agree now on rick. that
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student that cannot be dismissed for bankruptcy this means loans that u.s. students and account for higher education policy for decades or possibly for the rest of their lives mike freedman has a ph d. in biology and works as a part time teacher because he can't find a full time position it's the option of getting an education and being in a state of financial or economic insecurity for the rest of your life according to the federal reserve bank of new york americans sixty years or older still owe thirty eight billion dollars in student debt and ten percent of that group is past due on payments senior citizens can even have their social security checks taken away the money reportedly redirected to banks waiting to collect. as the investment of a degree morphs from security to risk more americans are reportedly turning to online colleges to save money while others are suing for
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a refund dozens of lawyers have filed class action lawsuits against their own law schools accusing the colleges of fraud and inflating employment figures. it was an american dream when qualification equated to security but now the once cherished degree. appears to be no more than a gamble marina porter r.t. new york. now i do remember that our website provides plenty of coverage on all of our stories there's a so much more in store. not system in the kindergarten lessons of patriotic bringing in latvia include praising the role of troops in the second world war those details that on so you don't go home. plus earth but the three d. have a look here just brilliant pictures are stunning multi-dimensional pictures taken with the help of a cutting edge russian at a soft light log on to get a closer look.
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live from moscow this is art so you will get to the world update soon getting on a motorbike it can be a life or death situation certainly for some on india's roads where safety laws mean men must wear helmets but there's no requirement covering women exposing them to typical motorcycle dangers. explains. to outsiders it's complete chaos i think it's quite scary they need to do something about it you need to start following the rules because quite stupid really it's chaotic it's some believe it no no idea of the rules and regulations it does it please but to indians it's every day life you're so used to.
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do. so it just grows our mind we're just riveted. it's quite funny the streets of new delhi are the deadliest in india some as to mate that at least five people die every day in collisions but while men are required to wear helmets when riding two wheelers which dominate the roads in delhi the city's high court hasn't been able to make mandatory helmet wearing a rule for women the issue has been particularly divisive in india's large sikh population think men are required by religion to wear a turban and since you can't wear a helmet on top of a turban all sikhs were exempt from the safety match but since sikh women don't usually wear and tear of and i made it hard for law enforcement to identify the woman from a non sikh woman so in the name of fairness to all women who are exempt from their will say oh. but indian women's issues over the helmets extends beyond just the
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sikh community women of all backgrounds in delhi opt not to wear a helmet but this isn't about religious duty this is about plain old vanity on the me and i don't like wearing. helmet because when i go for a parrot it's part of my makeup and my hear. experts say indian women routinely don't make safety a priority to men are used to neglecting them since it's it's we women are programmed to neglect themselves so if there is a problem if there's any health crisis it with the man and the woman of the house then the man is taken to a doctor the woman is smart. for now all the havoc over the home it will be put on hold and women will continue to commute hard hat free regardless of the risks preassure either r t new delhi india it's twenty minutes past the hour here in
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moscow around three thousand opposition activists have gathered in the ukrainian capital kiev many of them demanding the release of jailed ex prime minister yulia timoshenko the country's leadership is facing accusations at home and abroad that the former premier has been jailed for political reasons lithuania's president has warned kiev of a growing crisis of trust with the e.u. or the case of the visiting team of shanghai and hospital where she is recovering following almost three weeks on a hunger strike which is currently serving seven years for abuse of power and office and is also being treated by doctors for chronic back pain hunger strike began after she said she had been beaten by prison staff which is of course denied bio authorities her opponents in ukraine allege claims of physical abuse and poor health are no more than political games. ok let's get to the aussie world update now some other global headlines for you in brief straight into an easier as well
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remains found near the crash site of a russian sukhoi superjet in india needs to be back to jakarta for identification meanwhile the plane's manufacturer says there is no evidence of technical problems with the aircraft prior to the crash in indonesia melton. crashed during a demonstration flight for potential buyers on wednesday with all forty five people aboard. a search teams through highly difficult remote mountainous terrain and found at least twelve bodies sort of. four people have been killed and seventeen wounded in a car bomb attack on a police prison convoy in northwestern pakistan at least one officer died in the blast which targeted an escort for the following a battle with prisoners in the city of peshawar the police vehicle was destroyed in the explosion which caused extensive damage nearby none of the detainees there were injured it's not yet known who was responsible but taliban militants are active in
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the area. two people are missing but as many as ten thousand may now be homeless after a blaze tour through a squawkers settlement in the philippines fire crews had to call on the coast guard to help by spraying water from manila bay to the flames several concrete wall surrounding the makeshift buildings had to be not down so people could escape it was another fire in the south of the country two days ago in which seventeen died in a in a department store. but suffer from hawaii will certainly be riding high today after the guinness world records of knowledge him as conquering the biggest surfing wave ever forty four year old garrett mcnamara wasn't on the home seas however he set the record last november in portugal it's taken since then to have his amazing achievement confirmed by the huge wave you're seeing right here measures almost over twenty three meters almost half a meter higher than the previous biggest four years ago.
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obesity it's a ballooning problem in the west but so too it appears in the very description with some claiming the word obese is offensive was raging over whether the use of the medical term is final falls foul of political correctness so our resident went to the streets of new york to chew the fat with people of the big apple. the u.k.'s national institute for health and clinical excellence has issued a guidance suggesting that the word obese might be too upsetting and derogatory to use is this a case of political correctness gone mad this week let's talk about that last forty
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films is that when you were still heavy and someone called you obese with that offend you. been called worse you know what's worse calling someone obese or calling someone fat. the same thing over. the sofa so should we not address the facts because it actually you can dress up like that's just. the better things we don't but it's bad for people it caught at least the heart trouble and a diary to go for a joke go for it to be sweet who is in charge of deciding what a word is slang and what and where it is the proper term will i mean you don't really want the government to be in charge of that that's for sure you have anything yeah i mean the government shouldn't be in the in the in the game of policing what you say certainly of what you think you know what if someone called you whitey somebody called me why do you have so the property accurate but siri but you would you be offended no so why do people take offense to some words and not
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other words. probably because they care about what other people think it's an insecurity so we should just stop caring about what other people think and then the whole p.c. thing all the way it's not like you should start caring what other people think you should start caring more about what you think i think it's matters in the context that it's use like if you look at somebody and say damn they're obese that's there in that context i think it's derogatory i think this a the word obese or say obesity in general and when you're talking about a condition is it would not be derogatory just a statement of of a problem in a society maybe if we. ever get this word to people to feel ok maybe only it will be good for the world regular people so there's no problem and what if you want to think about what to take exactly like what are we afraid to college drug user or a drug user exactly you know this isn't big the way where we should escape from the pros defied the problem the night escape for
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a bit whether or not you think the word obese is derogatory the bottom line is that it's also a medical condition and simply avoiding the word is not going to make the issue go away. but i do stay with us if you can hear in our next there's been an austere response to austerity from france's new leader francois hollande who seems to have no intention of following in the footsteps of the e.u. champions of cutbacks that's all in the kaiser report hafter a wrap up of our top stories in just a moment. it's
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