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greece's major differences torpedo the latest coalition told us with the president now leading a. unity. rallies in support of hundreds of palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in israeli jails faced brutal crackdowns by the israeli military with the youngest protesters bearing the brunt. 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 and counting the true cost of their education.
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from moscow with twenty four hours a day its end game today nothing where political party leaders are beginning a last ditch effort to form a coalition if they fail greece would have to stage a new election one predicted to bolster factions even more uncertainty grips greece it's once unthinkable exit from the euro zone is looking increasingly likely in the country itself banks are reported to be done to prepare for a switch to the former currency the drachma is also deeply worried over the possible consequences that maintains greece's exit won't be fatal but political analyst dr. says it shouldn't be about preserving the euro but helping the people. greece has already hit you know the bottom and very soon other countries will do the same because it's not just working class it's really middle middle class which will be squeezed without any pity for the sake of these financial interests
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and this is something which goes against the grain of democracy and against the grain of dignity and freedom we have stock in italy to have you know a number of suicides which are very similar to the ones that we had in tunisia and watch just say our official statistics and the 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 a certain statisticians 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 are something very similar to an arab revolution. as uncertainty builds in athens so is anger mounting across the private german investors many of them pensioners especially furious they claim they were intent to me into investing into doomed greek bonds all in the name of agenda
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driven politics and he got a piskun of reports now from 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 silver and bonds after being guaranteed his money was protected by the government and soon the retired banker realized he was played in his own game they are looking for people like me. for a dired not a little bit gray say in short of the hospital maybe. 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 this is recent that's what the country's financial burden by more than one hundred billion euros swallowed their money despite guarantees in other words private german investors
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are being forced to take to beat 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 are not for doing their obligations. there's an agreement in one piece in germany that this money is secure from going take risks it's really unclear why private investors should be responsible and political games brussels is aiming to reduce reeses that's from one hundred sixty through 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. on his achilles investment a usually money for retirement family support or medical treatment in many cases these people are very dependent on it up in greece cost austerity measures and ford prodded banking policies are already pushing some ordinary citizens to go to the
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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. in the pockets if you abuse outside the greek state putting money into sobering bonds is supposed to be one of the safest ways of an investment but apparently not when it comes to greece and the bond holders thought the investor 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. the board has gone off to germany. ever vigilant for financial misty jealousies max kaiser and stacey hubbard also weigh in on the state of the euro zone coming up at nineteen thirty g.m.t. the cause report looks at me problems all financial hardship. little by little 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
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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 the 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. the cause report coming away to hear an auntie over fifteen hundred palestinian prisoners is stepping up their month long hunger strike in protest against detention without charge in israeli jails mass rallies or putting their supporters
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against israeli soldiers every day and young children often end up bearing the brunt of that crackdowns as 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 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 just powered whilom stressful 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 wasted in the middle of the night they were blindfolded their hands are tied and they taken in
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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 or plead guilty but it's far from clear they really are. going to an internet 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 months in prison so i confess that 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 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 porn's one
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incident that's been publicized a lot was when a fourteen year old palestinian boy was caught at 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. i want you live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day still to come this hour a spot i look fat. but. not at the back because. as a group of medical experts say the word it is offensive all resident in new york asks if it's politically incorrect or just stating a fact. and traffic chaos in india claims hundreds of lives every day so brave the road to find out why the country has such
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a controversial safety. the american dream is a symbol of education and success but many are finding themselves left with a lifetime of debt trying to achieve it u.s. graduates can end up owing tens of thousands of dollars off to college in an economy where they then struggle to find a job now they're questioning whether it's all worth it. explains. 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 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 ballooning crisis graduates now have financial deficits that rival home mortgages. are not in new york many have taken to the streets protesting against the un affordable cost of higher education we're already seeing
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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 debt 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 then 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
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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 porter r.t. new york. had to a website called him for the latest news videos or the stories you may have missed here on the screen here's a taste of what's at the moment
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a groundbreaking discovery or a skillful check out this recently leaked video supposedly showing an unknown sea monster and. plus spectacular footage of the taken by a russian satellite that shows a planet in a way usually not visible to the human eye. america is lifting restrictions on military sales to bahrain they were imposed back in october due to a bloody crackdown on the regime protests in the arab state that's despite the fact clashes there are still ongoing as police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse an opposition rally near the capital manama on friday some u.s. analysts say this shows washington's two faced approach to arab uprisings. one of the frustrations of the people in bahrain is this is one of the most organized this consistently nonviolent grown furthermore strong fight in terms of portion of the
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population and i and really it was the largest oh yeah right spring pro-democracy protests in the country and yet the united states stood by while the bomb bahraini regime in support of the saudis and other u.s. allies were really crushed not just not just of persecuting the protestors but even sending journalists to jail for daring to cover their protests and doctors and nurses to jail for daring to. heal try to help the you know the wounded was very well you know you seem to assume that was saddam hussein a lot of america having to southeast asia not dictators we support like the you know they're only here and mubarak and i think the for the problem of course of course i know it was too late for us to stop what happened. in tunisia egypt and yemen but thanks to bahrain's relatively small size in the intervention by saudi troops that pro-democracy story will unfortunately you know what was chris crushed
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just last weekend bahrain's leading human rights activist and outspoken critic of the ruling family was detained in the country and challenge with inciting protests through social networks now below the shops arrest comes just after he was interviewed on june the sons program here on r.t. got a special designs section on a website i don't come to watch that interview. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from the right where the revolution failed once in egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to come. download the official ante up location on the phone all i pod touch from the i
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good luck. good luck to the montana minimum coming. down to come out bottom and a little. blue to be soon which brightened a few. songs from feinstein pression so. these firms don't talk t.v. don't come. the remains of the pilot have been found at the. crash site in indonesia they'll be sent to jakarta for identification along with the
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thirty two bodies already found police experts say identification may take weeks because of how badly damaged the bodies are the plane crashed during a demonstration flight for potential buyers on wednesday there were forty five people on board all of them dead difficult mountainous terrain is hindering the search teams efforts manufacturer says there was no evidence of technical problems before the crash. twenty two people die in indian traffic a country that's believed to have the world's most dangerous roads despite this unwanted image india still lacks even basic safety laws. found out some of the causes of the shocking statistics. 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 of these as quite stupid really it's scale to. believe that it's and no idea of the rules and regulations to please
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but to indians it's every day life you're so used. to. so. it just grows your mind we're just. 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 to wear a turban and since you can't wear a helmet on top of a turban all sikhs were exempt from the safety measure but since sikh women don't usually wear turbans i made it hard for law enforcement to identify a sikh woman from a non sikh woman so in the name of fairness all women are exempt from the rules
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here. 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 on the me and 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 when the program next to them serves so if there is a. if there's any health crisis with the man and the woman of the house then the man is taken to a doctor the woman is smart. for now all over the home it will be put on halt and women will continue to commute hard hat free regardless of the risks preassure
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either r t new delhi india. around three thousand opposition supporters of gathered in the heart of 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 when he's president has more in kiev a growing crisis of trust with the e.u. over the case of the visiting to machine code hospital where she's recovering from almost three weeks on hunger strike she's currently serving seven years for abuse of power in office and is also being treated by doctors for chronic back ache because hunger strike began after she said she'd be in prison the stuff which is denied by the authorities critics of question whether her claims of physical abuse and poor health and attempt to play political games. now let's have a quick look at some other stories from around the world in our world update this hour a militant group with alleged links to al qaeda has claimed responsibility for double bombings in the syrian capital damascus which killed fifty five people and
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a video posted on a group called the front 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 armed militias backed by foreign powers fields have been held for the victims of thursday's attacks which were the worst since the start of the syrian. hundreds of marching through london as part of the latest action organized by the occupy movement demonstrators are protesting against inequality and corporate greed police and police vehicles and said to be following the marches the occupy london movement had previously camped out in the city for four a half months until being evicted by authorities. at least four people been killed twenty one wounded in a car bomb attack on a police prison convoy in northwest pakistan at least one officer dart in the blast which destroyed the police vehicle and cause extensive damage nearby nobody's
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claimed sponsibility for the explosion which comes off to several attacks by islamist militants in the city. 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 all resident went onto the streets of new york to chew the fat with people in 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 almost 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 calling someone obese or calling someone fat. the same thing like. so should we not
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address the facts because it actually you can dress it like that's just a race of toilet which is better to use real but it's bad for people like hot leads to heart trouble and a day read cover to cover. this week who is it a charge of deciding when a word us leg and when and where it is the proper term we'll i mean you don't really want the government to be in charge of that that's for sure 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 somebody called me why do you have so the property accurate but if you were 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
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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 that's in that context i think it's derogatory i think to say the word obese or say obesity in general and when you talk about a condition is it would not be derogatory just a statement of i'm a problem in the society maybe if we ever get this word to people would feel oh ok i'm a maybe a little be good. 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 and drug user exactly who this isn't being so where we should escape from the problem by the problem that escape from it 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.
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oh very shortly here a nazi a stroll around the heart of the russian capital that will be in this week's edition of moscow ass and the shadow of the kremlin before that i'll be back with a roundup of our headlines don't go away this is also a life in moscow. on .
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the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are weapons there. as we're just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets
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of the intelligence community can provide. data chain isn't. not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more are six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search we have not yet failed shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but helps the country over the stakes and even if they come this way at least for the time that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in
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a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. news today violence is once again flared up. saying these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled today. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation.

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