tv [untitled] May 12, 2012 11:00am-11:30am EDT
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eurozone exit looms for greece as irreconcilable differences torpedo their latest coalition talks with the president now leading a final charge for unity. rallies in support of hundreds of palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in israeli jails facing brutal crackdowns by the israeli military with the youngest protesters often bearing the brunt plus. i have twenty. forty thousand dollars from one hundred fifty thousand u.s. students facing a lifetime of loan repayments while struggling to find jobs now counting the true cost of their education.
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it's very good of you to join us here on r.t. today rory sushi life for you in moscow it is a game today in athens where political party leaders a beginning a last ditch effort to form a coalition if they fail greece would have to stage a new election one predicted to bolster the bell out factions even more and as uncertainty grips greece its once unthinkable exit from the euro zone now looking increasingly likely in the country itself banks are reportedly begun to prepare for a switch to the former currency that of the drachma and the e.u. is also deeply worried over the possible consequences but maintains greece's exit won't be fatal but political analyst dr. says it shouldn't be about preserving the euro but about helping the people. is already you know the. in very should other countries will do the say because it's not just working class
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it's really middle middle class which will be. without any pictures. for the sake of these financial interests and this is something which goes against the grain of democracy and against the grain of dignity and freedom we are stark in italy to have you know a number of suicides which are very similar to the ones that we had in tunisia and watched us say our official statistics and statistics office well that number is in line with the past years i'm sure the same thing has been said to ben ali of ways those that decisions but that is not the point it's not about numbers it is a bulge politics and political perception so i think that the situation at least in some countries is really ready for. something very similar to an arab revolution. and as uncertainty builds in athens so is anger melting across the e.u.
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private german investors many of them pensioners are especially furious and they claim they were intentionally do put into investing into doomed greek bonds all in the name of agenda driven politics this report marty's a got a priest going off in germany. 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 government but soon the retired banker realized he was and played in his own game they are looking for people like me. re dired not a little bit grey 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 retirement but greece's recent debt
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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's 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 aiming to reduce we says that from one hundred sixty to one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. by twenty 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
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measures and ford 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 of europeans outside the greek state putting money into sovereign bonds is supposed to be one of the safest ways of investment but apparently not when it comes to greece since the bondholders start 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 got us going off r.t. germany. vigilant for financial misdeeds aunties max kaiser and stacy herbert also weigh in on the state of the eurozone that will be coming away at nineteen thirty g.m.t. the kaiser report looking at the problems of financial hardship. little by little
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the e.u. commission is taking on the role of legal guardian of the economic affairs of the member states yeah the girl with the dragon tattoo i remember that film she was awarded this date and what you're saying is that that the the wards are being abused like the character in that film the girl the dragon tattoo and we see this all over the world so this argument that well the greek people brought this upon themselves or even the american homeowner brought this upon themselves by taking out mortgages is a false argument because everyone has become the ward of the various states and then this state or their caretaker is unmercifully beating them in some kind of draco nian you know poor house scenario and this is being played out around the world.
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this is arts he now over fifteen hundred palestinian prisoners a stepping up their month long hunger strike in protest against attention without charge in israeli jails mass rallies are pitting best supporters against israeli soldiers every day and it's the young children who often end up bearing the brunt of the crackdowns as oxen's point to sleep 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 throws stones but a message has to be sent to the local population but that won't be tolerated and 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 car and to me inside i told him i was hurting me but they said
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it's not their problem there's a report issued by defense for children international found that in most cases children are wasted 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 far from clear they really are. 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 a little war but the truth says it by him is that he was at 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
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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. katana village it's good to have you with us here on our to today still to come for you this hour a stands over the world. but. be so let's go should we not just the facts because it actually came to us. as a group of medical experts say the word obesity is offensive. if it's politically
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incorrect or just stating a fact. traffic chaos in india claims hundreds of lives every day so we brave the roads to find out why the country has such a controversial safety laws. the american dream is a symbol of education and success but many are finding themselves left with a lifetime of debt or they try to achieve it u.s. graduates can end up owing tens of thousands of dollars after college and in a corner me where they then struggle to find a job now they're questioning whether it's all worth it as art is more important i explained. it's the heaviest investment 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 and one hundred fifty thousand and that the u.s. student loan bubble has inflated larger than car or credit card debt in this
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ballooning crisis graduates now have financial deficits that rival home mortgages. night in new york many have taken to the streets protesting against the un affordable cost of higher education we're already seeing a 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 mortgages 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 more than fifty percent of recent college graduates are unemployed or working wage jobs that don't even require a degree now unlike other with that student that cannot be dismissed for bankruptcy this means loans that u.s. students and account for higher education follows them for decades or possibly the rest of their lives mike friedman 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
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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 soon. for 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 port r.t.
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they're watching on t.v. now thousands of supporters of libya's former dictator moammar gadhafi locked up and allegedly tortured in secret detention centers all across the country that's according to a new u.n. report which also claims several detainees have been tortured to death by revolutionary militias lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review review magazine says there's no sign that libya is getting any closer to democracy . this is a major disaster which was caused by the west and invasion regime change policy under the guise of humanitarian intervention the 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 over the site here in northern
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africa you have a tribal society you don't have a nationalistic clear direction misuse of a country so once you overthrew gadhafi 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 or from their own competing with one another including attacks on the national transitional government itself america is lifting restrictions on military sales to bahrain they were imposed back in october to two a bloody crackdown on anti regime protests in the arab state that's despite the fact clashes there are still ongoing as riot police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse an opposition rally near the capital on friday some u.s. out of the say this shows a possibly of washington's example of a two faced approach to such uprisings in the arab world. one of the frustrations
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of the people here in bahrain is this is one of the most organized this consistently nonviolent. pro-democracy struggle fight in terms of portion of the population and the high end of the really it was the largest oh yeah spring pro-democracy protests in the country and the united states stood by while the bomb bahraini regime in support of the saudis and other u.s. allies really crushed not just 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 the you know the wounded. were you know you see the same thing that was sort of seen a lot of america africa south east asia. dictators we support like 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
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to bahrain's relatively small sized intervention by saudi troops that pro-democracy story will unfortunately i would screw was crushed. and just last weekend bahrain's leading human rights activist and outspoken critic of the rolling family was detained in that country and charged with inciting protests through social networks i feel that jobs arrest comes just after he was interviewed on julian assange just program here on out say if you go to the special asylum section allow website to talk call me at your leisure and you can watch the entire. speech the two leading revolutionaries one from the right where the revolution failed was in egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to come.
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this is artsy there remains of the pilots have been found at the sukhoi superjet crash site in indonesia they'll be sent to jakarta for identification along with the thirty two bodies already found police experts say identification could take weeks because of how badly damaged the bodies are the plane crashed during a demonstration flight for potential buyers on wednesday they were forty five on board all of them now feared dead difficult difficult mountainous terrain is hindering the social team's efforts meantime the airline is manufacturer says there was no evidence of technical problems before the crash. twenty two people an hour die in indian traffic it's a country that's believed to have the world's most dangerous roads despite this on wanted image india still lacks even basic safety laws. found out some of the causes of the shocking death statistics. to outsiders it's
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complete chaos i think it's quite scary they need to do something about it really stop following the rules because quite stupid really it's chaotic it's some believe it. no idea of the rules and regulations it is it please but to indians it's every day life you so used to. do so used to people are getting in moods and people are getting in and. so it just grosses our mind we're just riveted. it's quite funny the streets of new delhi are the deadliest in india some estimate 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. where target and since you can't
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wear a helmet on top of a turban all seats are exempt from the safety measures but so you see women don't usually wear turbans and i made it hard for one fourth man to identify the woman from a nonstick woman so in the name of fairness and or accept from the world say oh. but indian women's issues over the helmets extends beyond just the 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. i don't like wearing a helmet because when i go for a parrot is it spoils my makeup and my hair. experts say indian women routinely don't make safety a priority for men. to neglecting them so it's women are programmed to neglect themselves so if there is a problem. if there is in a health crisis with the woman of the host then the is taken to
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a doctor the woman this month. for now all the havoc over the home it's will be put on hold and women will continue to commute hardhat free regardless of the risks preassure either r t new delhi india. in just a moment it's the r.t. world update but for now around three thousand opposition supporters have gathered in the heart of the ukrainian capital kiev many of them demanding the release of a jailed ex prime minister yulia timoshenko of the country's leadership is facing accusations at home and abroad that the former premier has been jailed for political reasons lithuania as president has warned kiev of a growing crisis of trust with the e.u. over the case after visiting hospital she's recovering following a three week hunger strike she's currently serving seven years for abuse of power and office and is also being treated by doctors for chronic back pain. began after
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she said she had been beaten by prison staff which has been denied by authorities her critics have questioned whether her claims of physical abuse and poor health are an attempt to play political games. and militant groups with alleged links to al qaeda has claimed responsibility for a double bombings in damascus which killed fifty five in a video posted online the group called the front it says the blasts in front of the intelligence complex came in response to what it sees as government attacks on residential areas. however say they are fighting terrorists and militias backed by foreign powers thursday's terror attacks have become the worst since the start of the syrian unrest last year. at least four people have been killed and twenty one wounded in a car bomb attack on a police prison convoy in northwest pakistan at least one officer died in the blast
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which destroyed the police vehicle and caused extensive damage nearby at this point nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion which comes after several attacks by islamist militants in the city. public transport workers have gone on strike in bolivia protesting against stricter. elation is coming into force it follows a spate of demonstrations by health workers during the last month demanding better pay and working conditions clashes erupted on friday between medical students and riot police in the bolivian capital public opinion that has turned against the country's president evo morales since his reelection three years ago. obesity has become a growing problem in the west but now a debate is raging over its very description with some claiming the word obese is offensive many are now questioning whether using the medical term is politically incorrect our resident went to the streets of new york to chew the fat with the
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people. 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 a case of political correctness gone mad this week let's talk about that last forty films is that when you were still heavy and someone called you obese with that offend you. have been called worse you know what's worse condom one obese or calling someone fat. the same thing. so should we not address the facts because it actually you can dress it like that's just a race of toilet which has better things we don't but it's bad for people it caught at least the heart trouble and a diary because for a joke. who's in charge of deciding when
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a word of slang and when and word 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 know of 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 if somebody called me why do you have say the property accurate but what you would you be offended no so why do people take offense to some words and not 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 will go away it's not like you should stop 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 used like if you look at somebody and say damn they're obese and in that context i think it's derogatory i think to say 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
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a society maybe if we ever get this word to people to feel oh ok maybe oh it will be good for regular people so there's no problem and was he one think about what to take exactly like what are we afraid to college drug user or a drug user exactly who this isn't being so where we should escape from the pros defied the probably the escape from whether or not you think the word obese is derogatory the bottom line is it's also a medical condition and simply avoiding the word is not going to make the issue go away. all right i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment. please
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