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paymaster ahead germany's chancellor is in china hoping to attract investment that could keep the eurozone from collapse. iran says it will team up with other nations to help stop the bloodshed in syria as the main day of the summit of the nonaligned movement opens into iran despite u.s. criticism. and syria's president assad goes on t.v. to reassure his supporters he will wipe out the rebel opposition but heavy fighting and destruction carries on regardless. of the russian gavel you're watching r t with me. the german chancellor is the
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latest e.u. leader to beat a path to china with a huge delegation of business leaders alongside beijing offers a chance as any for the struggling european economy to attract the investment it needs to avoid financial catastrophe and angle our goal has become a frequent guest in china aiming to nurture a friendship with economic superpower or just get all the reports. is no stranger to china this is her sixth trip to the country since she came to power in two thousand and five and there's going to be something big business to be talked about during this current trip it's not just politicians that are there on this visit a group of around twenty in the delegation including people like siemens and volkswagen who are all there to show that the eurozone still is a stable market to invest in but china has its own vested interest in seeing the eurozone stick together europe is china's biggest export market so they will be
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support there from beijing to keeping the monetary union together both just expect some kind words they shouldn't be any talk of cash coming forward from china to help the ailing eurozone now there is talk of a special relationship between germany and china not unsettle some people in brussels who feel a little left out when you look at the figures you can see why some nations would be feeling like they're not getting a slice of the pie trade between the two countries is set to rise to around two hundred and eighty billion dollars by the year twenty fifteen well the reason that the to make such good economic bedfellows at the moment is that germany produces the machinery needed to china's manufacturing industry germany also sees china as a growing market full day or exports since the orders have started drying up from within europe due to the people simply not having the cash to buy german goods within the european union and within the euro is a monetary union it's not all going to be happy families that when angela merkel
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meet with the chinese leadership there have been some claims from german companies that there has been political interference while they're working with in china also some of the companies claiming that has been intellectual property violations from their chinese partners so will be the eurozone crisis on increasing economic ties the. it's will top the bill when it comes to angola merkel talking to the chinese leadership who will be underlining the meeting is the cruel fuck that germany needs china fall more right now than china needs germany it all reporting there from berlin in the meantime europe's fourth largest economy spain and considering whether to ask for another bailout catalonia known for its proud and independent attitude is now seeking over five billion euros of rescue cash from madrid spain the prime minister admitted the fact that such a wealthy region cannot meet its debt financing obligations it's
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a big problem and catalonia accounts for almost a fifth of the country's economic output authoring el entre morocco believes the whole situation could have been avoided. the way in which the spice tax system works it goes this way. it is the central government that's collects all the taxes have to be ninety five percent of them and then pretty stupid among the different regions. following these great t.v. as they call it the reach of regions gets less money the poor regions get more money so that's a load which actually gets back very a small amount of the money it keeps to the to the central estate and that is why they have these huge steps so what they say is that there is not really there that is the depth of the spanish to state of the debt that this financial state has decided them to have so what they want is they put it not alone not not money from all the other people's pockets but they won just more money from their
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own pockets spain east. is now performing a very hard agenda of a study to see cuts and actually bites in all sectors of this funny economy and the problem is that it's not working it's not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all the aspects of spain's economy. so look on this hour good news for professionals in india not so good for job seekers in the developed world we report on the booming freelance industry in the asian country which is giving western workers a run for their money. spaceless taken literally we reported how the dreams of one savita engineer of an electric train to the cosmos are growing ever more real. iran has proposed the creation of a group of three nations to implement a cease fire in syria they would then hold three months of talks on national
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reconciliation the idea comes as the country opens the main sessions as host of the summit of the nonaligned movement that's a bloc of states that generally don't consider themselves in a union was the united states the gathering began last sunday with one hundred twenty nations participating about two thirds of the un's members of the un secretary-general ban ki moon himself as attending the meeting despite staunch calls from the u.s. and israel for him to stay away at the same time a special group of inspectors has been created by the united nations to monitor iran's nuclear facilities. of war over its things to iran is being very courteous. the i.a.e.a. has a twenty four hour around the clock monitoring system off the facilities mr ban ki moon can watch it from his office at the united nations so i think that is just agree courteous gesture on behalf of if you want to invite him to to the facilities to bring ki-moon does recognize the fact that he has said so this. player in the
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region and nothing much really can be solved gets knowledge that you want participation. i'm sure that the united states and israel like you used. to come down hard on the iran things he's also where it's the flag there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine aligned. the united states state department likes to say many things and i think that's precisely because they do tend to be very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries in particular although i think they have the whole goal in my love to be a global vision however. the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent coming together to resist this kind of action to resist this kind of double standards and hypocrisy and i think that's probably not the united states this finds. it appears battles between government forces and rebels syria's president made his
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longest t.v. appearance a month stressing his competence in victory over insurgents however bashar asad admitted it would take some time for the country to scramble out of crisis and he lashed out of turkey saying it bears direct responsibility for the bloodshed in syria and some of the latest fighting is taking place at a military airport in the province were rebels claim to have destroyed a group of army helicopters and this was later the nine by syrian t.v. which was one of the attack was repelled and the military hardware same sister agnes mariam host spent over a decade in syria and came to aid of the suffering when the conflict erupted says the destruction is making people turn away from the rebels. but. it's not everywhere in syria. and these reside near the border beds and is following
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a special plan but you know the country. who have the knowledge of people. ground of which is not on the viola. and even in the cities where you have your names they have so much they still. what would be. a crime do you know of for a company like it completely destroyed that many of the opposition and begin to think. their way. and don't miss the full version of this interview with firsthand accounts from syria coming up here on our team in about twenty minutes time. jordanian security forces at a massive refugee camp on the border with syria are on high alert after two hundred refugees turned on the guards over the camp's conditions as follows leader now reports dealing with the immense influx of refugees is far beyond what jordan can
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offer. exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides sweltering under the scorching desert sun children from the vine and spec home in syria they walked for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under the wire not one person here has gone through the official borders in state depending on the level of violence in syria as many as a thousand people each day off across into jordan they're picked up from the border by the jordanian police and brought here to the scamp. and now a man doesn't know what to do with them the country is struggling with few natural resources little water and is in need of foreign aid their growing number is putting pressure on in a way the refugee way republic we can close the border on the faces of the refugees we have to help syria is like a sister to jordan i'm king abdullah president assad friends now king is in
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a very difficult situation goes on there has a direct impact on what has. relations between a man in damascus are already strained a number of defected soldiers and senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then that the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems for jordan where we have our own extremists far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped to escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to
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go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so. mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death as i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that's what the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place. caught between both sides it might be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in. camp on the jordanian syrian border. of course we've got plenty more for you at our website. and analysis available twenty four seven up blasts from the past one of germany's largest cities to hold its breath as authorities before a controlled detonation of the world war two bomb plots. how much does it take to shoot down a passenger plane find out how
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coupon through. their spirit is of indian professionals has allowed a recent boom and the country's freelance industry indeed is gradually writing itself for the call center republic stereotype and going online to sell their skills to the world but as our trader now reports it could be a concern for the workers of the west. it's the middle of the day and while most of his peers are out and about working nine to five in the corporate world twenty nine year old buck she is sitting at his workstation in the comfort of his bedroom i haven't they would have the job it would go to if in nine to six i'm not a. bonus and so i'm pretty much doing it on my own when i work from home. i'm
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feeling less productive what i need some inspiration for writing i would go to a coffee house a self professed tech nerd buck she graduated with high marks and has forty years of work experience at microsoft under his belt while he may have had his pick of cushy jobs buc she chose to become a freelancer and is now working online on short term branding campaigns for multiple clients around the world such as american express his part of a growing trend of people who are moving their work out of the office and online studies show that one third of the global workforce will be hired online by two thousand and twenty and it seems like boxing is the hot commodity experts say that one third of the freelance projects from around the world are being completed by people here in india they say it's not just about hiring workers for lower wages they also believe that indians are extremely competitive when it comes to getting white collar jobs the internet has created a level playing field and now indians like buck she are being chosen to work for
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major international companies there are. very skilled. jobs or exceptional they do. what i would call situational. understanding of us or cations and cultural norms it's a matter of pride for many indians who believe that the country can be known for more than just outsourcing call centers and manufacturing a ton new image in the our quit his full time job last year to develop digital databases for european university. good workers. go to good schools in india probably good causes people are. more educated and most skilled in different areas and sometimes more technicalities macian their specialized skills and digitization has made him highly sought after and he's now earning twice as much as he did when he worked full time he believes
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that india's economy will prosper as freelancing becomes more widespread economy would be stronger because it made people more money but while the popularity of freelancing might be good news for people in the east it is causing some concern for highly skilled workers in the west and sometimes for id jobs that's definitely a concern i definitely know people who are concerned about that and the friend of mine actually that that people are going to get laid off soon at her husband's company because they're looking outsourced think that it makes economic sense to take here and to invest in the place where you live and work and ultimately that's likely to benefit you i think the u.s. government and the american people need to think for themselves about how they can make themselves more attractive or work for any company leaving them there. for obviously bucks she freelancing allows him to focus on his work for free and so you
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just get the job done and before the designated as the nation with the highest number of freelancers the indian labor force is using its skills and education to give workers around the world a run for their money preassure either r t new delhi india. now take a look at some other stories from around the world afghanistan's president has a move the country the fans and interior minister as well as the intelligence chief it's said to be part of a planned cabinet shake up on the eve of elections and the withdrawal of foreign troops meanwhile in the south of the country it's been confirmed three nato led troops have been killed by an afghan soldier the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks. have gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest china has taken the lives of nine people leaving more than forty people trapped inside the blast happened wednesday evening while one hundred fifty two miners were in the pit the owners of the mine have already been detained coal mine accidents killed almost two thousand people in child last year were
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safety rules are often neglected. twenty twelve paralympic games have started in london after a spectacular opening ceremony which took place on wednesday the fourteen summer paralympics will last for eleven days and it's the second largest of a sporting event ever hosted by the u.k. over four thousand athletes from one hundred sixty four countries are taking part. i ever dreamt of taking a lift straight to the moon well after over fifty years of space elevator dreams their reality is moving closer the idea is that people could someday travel vehicles attached to ribbons of super strong material to reach orbits of up to one hundred thousand kilometers our system barton explains. a strange as it sounds the idea of a space elevator has been around for decades it was a russian yuri out so tunnel through in the one nine hundred sixty s. had some of the first modern ideas on it first you would have to send
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a satellite up into geostationary orbit then the line could be lowered and secured to earth and another warm up into space as a counterweight all of this would keep the line tight and allow spacecraft to be loaded up and down it thousands of kilometers. one hour and at the fraction of the cost of space flight it could literally be our lift to the stars and it's not as far off as you might think most of the technology already exists the biggest problem being that cable reaching out into space to make one strong enough to stretch the thirty six thousand kilometers necessary scientists think you'd need a material over thirty mega yury strong that's the measurement named after yuri arts the turn of the strongest material available now is just three point nine but new projects are trying to solve that science problem and make the space elevator a reality they want it to reach the moon the american company lift port is raising money for the project and the japanese firm corp aims to have one up and running by
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two thousand and fifty in the meantime russia is working with ukraine and kazakstan to try and build super sized booster rockets for more traditional trips to the moon but who knows by the middle of the century we might have swapped our rockets for a distant cousin of the humble lift. and straight to the world of business now where in the thousands got all the latest and russia's gas promise but as giant gas projects stop on hold what's that all about russia wells talking with its enormous reserves enough to meet the world's gas demand for about a year was gazprom flagship project but now the monopolist and its partners believe that the development costs are way too high considering that gas prices are falling gazprom france's to a tall and norway star will have been in talks for years about the details of the investment plan and during that time the united states which is the primary export markets to stockman developed cheap shale gas plus slowing european economy hit the
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demand for gas making a real shock cut its gallons export forecast by about ten percent. and it's time now to check out the equity markets so let's see what's going on there and going straight to asia traders active this hour in tokyo the nikkei is down around one percent as you can see are mainly on weaker than expected retail numbers in hong kong the hang saying is even deeper in the bread plus a lot of investors are staying on the sidelines till friday waiting for a much anticipated speech from the u.s. fed reserve chairman ben bernanke. over in the states overnight wall street saw a pretty different picture moderately of beaches of the day when traders welcome the commerce department revising the u.s. g.d.p. annual growth rate all for the so-called beach book showed
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a steady expansion in the u.s. economy which also benefited the equities moving on to the currency on the currency markets this hour the dollar's losing value against these euro the russians over move all of well and the wednesday's session down against the currency basket will have. the fresh ruble figures as soon as the russian markets reopen a lot them two hours karen rush evens burbank's gains on the back of better than expected first half results didn't help lift the russian equities out of the gutter they finished a little warm wednesday and falling oil prices were certainly a factor there and oil continues its slide on thursday as hurricane isaac spared us production facilities and we recently saw this u.s. inventories are on the rise also the g. seven finance ministers made a lead to world producing nations to lower crude prices to kickstart global economic growth what effect that we might haue longer charm remains to be seen.
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growing pollution and rising crude prices and environmental awareness is pushing electric vehicles to become the next generation of eco friendly cars on the road business r.t.s. very own katie being reports from the moscow international auto show. one of the main things up to date old is that the politically friendly and big old fake is a puppet with the base and a little bit he shot up a lot of people that read him play to me a lot of the kids if you want to buy it and that you copied below the challenge it would be a way you go all the love bob hope i know many of the things they said to actually lead to logical big bold of the ways that was the case they mind i'm now joined by the neck a problem is that they see my sister like you know i dislike the talented overcome
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them once it is that positive about buying an electric car here mustn't it really willing to give it a whirl like this that is. what the seriously missile. would . cost that this. russian one was the time line the sling simply wasn't up. we compare that with the regular car but. there are subtle body parts to that but that's all it is so just a complete in twenty years' time to see everyone plodding around the eco follow up the bulk of that wraps up maybe a little less with that but what about ten percent of the still cars that take a very optimistic indeed having a volatile time it's very hard to deny that it's certainly
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a good to be great. well martin i think mall school roads could certainly benefit from some eco friendly cars and you think absolutely indeed i mean the what's happening in the car show is really fascinating i really hope that i'll have some time to just go there and check it out and electric cars probably are the future will see more of that as things very much indeed for the sunday dinner recap our top stories is coming your way right after this short break.
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