tv [untitled] September 8, 2012 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT
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international paymasters going to work in athens checking the books as more than ten thousand greeks protest against the government's pitch for more austerity. that the bahraini government announces it will sue the opposition is activists and disregard authorities orders day this and hit the streets that once again saying only democratic reforms can cure the country. russia and china lead the way at the asia pacific summit strengthening economic bonds in the hope of jump starting the global financial recovery. and a can of the un friends in iran calling it the biggest threat to global security and severing all diplomatic ties but some experts think the u.s. could be pulling out of was strings.
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to him in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story greece bracing itself to face its harshest round of cuts yet the country's prime minister antinous some maurice has made his pitch for the latest austerity package set to come into force thousands gathered in greece's second largest city protesting against the measures artie's peter all over reports. greek prime minister antonis samaras has said that he will do everything within his power to make sure the greece remains within the euro zone however he did acknowledge that the cuts that is government to are making were both unfair and painful for the greek people but as unfair and painful as they are he says that the necessary as without being in the eurozone greece would die as a nation he also says the important is in terms of the country meant taining any
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credibility that it has left on the global financial stage and not credibility is set to be tested quite soon is all that is from the so-called troika arrive in greece to see whether they've fulfilled their part of the bargain when it comes to making the cuts that they were asked to do on whether they received the next round of bailout money a massive thirty one billion euros worth of assistance whether those cuts are necessary they're certainly not popular here in thessaloniki we've seen thousands of people out on the streets of greece's second city demonstrating against the way that the current governments are handling the financial crisis and anger and the way the government is dealing with the crisis and what they're doing is wrong it's not just in terms of protest the greek people are airing their their grievances with the current government if you look at the latest political polls we're seeing that some are ases government lies in second place behind a
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a opposition party that anti bailout money what's perhaps more worrying though is if you see that in third place is the ultra rightist party golden dawn party that has a far right agenda some of called neo nazi and fire they certainly have a seemingly growing popularity here in greece which is concerning many people many people i've seen out in the streets here in thessaloniki protesting what they call the fascist organize. i have to say though this demonstration thessaloniki far more peaceful than some we've seen in the past in greece that people are upset airing their views but there's certainly none of the violence a that we've seen in cities like athens as people demonstrate against the handling of the financial crisis. the major gripe of any protesters is that the new cuts target some of the country's most vulnerable including pensioners low income workers and those on state benefits william dartmouth an m.e.p. from the u.k.
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independence party questions what it is that greece gains from clinging to the euro i would have some eyes that many many people in greece will feel will feel that greece has has suffered enough already from being in the euro. what is it that they're really being offered if they're just going over to more of the same it's another dead end. leading to nowhere and already the greek economy has contract by almost ten percent since the crisis began i mean how much more dignity contract i mean the fact of the matter is that the political establishment in these countries you know always tends to be in favor of more and more you are more you are although the evidence is absolutely crystal clear that it isn't working it doesn't work what we're watching is a slow slow motion train crash which also could endanger the entire world economy things aren't much better for greece's fellow sufferer italy they're the world's
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oldest bank founded before columbus discovered america is on the verge of bankruptcy the banks predicament explored coming up in the kaiser report with max and stacy explaining its looming downfall for program in the next hour here's a preview. in italy world's oldest bank faces uncertain future moment to the passkey did not survive berlusconi's bunga bunga parties it seems the country the bank is on the verge of bankruptcy it's the third biggest bank in italy and now it has all these government bonds which is trying to sell but of course the yield keeps on going up and up meaning their bonds are going down and down so they're caught in a spiral nobody knows for sure there is some sort of bailout agreement reached with the italian government but nobody knows what it actually means the government debt became toxic and they're unaware of this you know member indiana jones at the scene where he replaces the bag of jewels with a bag of sand. but it doesn't quite do it and the big boulder follows him down
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through the tunnel this is the this bank now in italy they realize that there was a swap and they now hold government bonds that are junk and they're trying to run away down the tunnel. and with finances across the e.u. in the doldrums many ones prosperous companies are finding themselves having to trim the fat but it's easier said than done with migrant workers flooding the job market across the block working harder longer and cheaper they're finding favor among customers and envy from those they force out to sort of silly reports from. over here at a construction site where all the workers as well as the owners of the construction company are from belgium is seeing an influx of foreign workers from other e.u. countries and more often than not these workers cost much less than the belgian counterparts in the brig for example a province in flanders which has a significant construction sector thirty eight percent of all companies have lost bids to foreign firms ninety percent of them expect to lose bids in the future and
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this is prompted fears that in the coming months one in five companies will have to lay people off the price is that. it's what we can. people need to work but if that work is going to other companies then we will lose a lot of jobs a. local firm say they're also losing out when it comes to speed of delivery our building sectors have the unionized to do good for a strict working the rules but if you look at the foreign companies people work ten twelve thirteen fourteen hours a day six days out of seven and then of course for delivery speed of your project is a huge advantage and more belgian clients are opting to try their services these people are much more flexible so that's that's why we try it and it was a it was a success europe's debt crisis has dealt a massive blow to
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a sector that employs up to sixteen million e.u. citizens and with no clear signs of the tough times letting up tension is brewing especially when local firms feel they're getting the short end of the stick on their own turf tesser cilia r.t. and in belgium. bahrain's government announces it will sue the opposition over a bad march or early broke out with people taking to the streets demanding the release of prisoners of conscience riot police again resorted to tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the latest authorized demonstration bahrain's witnessed constant protests since the end of august latest following tuesday's court decision upholding a guilty verdict for opposition activists accused of plotting to overthrow the government patrick hemmings in a geo political analyst for the u.k. colum website things it'll take more to break the protest movement. but the problem in bahrain is this is an actual democratic reform movement this is a real arab spring movement this isn't like the kind of spring that you saw in
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egypt this has been brewing and we linger over for over one year now but yes it's been more or less you know to go on all the legal means. in corporate media and some of the state run media organizations like the b.b.c. so i think it's obvious why rain is hosting the us fifth naval fleet bahrain is in absolutely the most key position in the straits of hormuz so the existence and maintenance of the us navy using bahrain as their chief outpost is of excellent strategic importance and they will not negotiate they will not tolerate a democratic uprising in bahrain where they could make an unstable leadership they need is an outpost for western imperialism. still to come here on the program a matter of taste. organic no that comes from the same cow in the cows are labeled organic or regular. people in new york weigh in on the debate surrounding the
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labels on genetically modified products plus as more jobs are created online the freelance boom in india empties offices both in there and developed economies but for very different reasons we'll tell you more stay with us. leaders from china and russia have called for a stronger unity and urged other countries to combine efforts to protect the global economy i think apec summit and russia's far east city of lot of all stuck with traditional powers like the u.s. and europe in a relative decline asia pacific economies feel it's time for them to pick up the task of recovery parties or an igloo sco has more. right now the global economy has reached a critical point and in order to ensure stability and prosperity china is ready to take on the role of the power locomotive to pull the world the global economy out of this crisis so it's really no surprise that russia is looking
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increasingly more and more towards its close neighbor and moscow and beijing seem to agree on the lot of matters and not just in matters concerning the economy but also concerning politics as well and now of course russia has a lot to offer to china and china is ready and willing to receive whatever russia has to offer of course we can expect the united states to be somewhat worried about china which it probably sees as its main rival as some have suggested but of course the united states to a geisha is here right now u.s. secretary of state has met with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov bright and early this morning they were discussing again not just economic matters a but political as well they talked about syria's foreign minister said that russia has expressed its dissatisfaction with the fact that syria gets continuously appointed with sanctions and he talked about the pointlessness of such sanctions president obama sent his regards and apologies saying that he couldn't be here if
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the united states right now is in the midst of its pre-election campaign republican contender for the presidential polls mitt romney has expressed his opinion that russia is united states geopolitical enemy number one president obama doesn't seem to share that it's saying that it is sort of a leftover from the cold war era type of thinking and president bush in. an exclusive interview ahead of the summit that say he's willing to work with whichever candidate wins the upcoming presidential elections in the united states but he did pay some compliments to president obama for feeling is that he is a sense of that he sincerely wants to implement the positive change. but can he do it will they let him do it. i mean that there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative as for mr romney's position we understand that this is to a certain extent motivated by election campaign rhetoric but i also think that he was just the wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as
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using nationalism and segregation as a tools of us domestic policy. of course watch the full version of this interview on our t.v. you tube channel. will show you are sort of interview with midnight thirty g.m.t. . talks. to economic union if heated up at the apec summit and as ben arris editor in chief of the business new europe magazine argues the u.s. has made a rush attorneys by failing to cooperate the idea is that you know the fast growing economies of the world are increasing linking up i mean they formalized politically with the break she's gone from a marketing and acronym to actually a political organization and here. they are getting down to the business of you know working out which roads need to be where the railways have to go which goods are going to go where this is going to you know you put a road down that's a permanent change in the trade. me
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a change in politics starting from about two thousand and four where russia was disappointed with the reception it was getting from the from the west to europe and america to keep. going up to putin's famous speech in two thousand and seven where he called the west to account and said cooperate or we'll turn our back on you and i think this conference actually marks the point where they begin to turn their back and pay much more attention they're talking about increasing trade the russians with five. america is only talking about doubling trade with russia since it is ceded to the deputy and so clearly building what putin has been calling. union has gone to. at the top of the russian policy agenda and that's russia asia led by china of course and that's where all the effort is going. all you've missed from the summit as well as detailed analysis up for you twenty four seven at r t dot com a lot of foreign said and a sight to see
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a lot of the spectacular fireworks and the laser show was put on for the movers and shakers at the forum is online on our website. canada has expelled all iranian diplomats from the country and closed its embassy in tehran pushing relations between the nations to a crisis point ottawa declared iran a state sponsor of terrorism claiming its nuclear plans and stance toward syria are unacceptable to tehran didn't pull punches either it responded with promises of retaliation saying canada is being manipulated michel chossudovsky from the center for research on globalization agrees that canada wasn't the one making the decisions this is its high only statement at that time a moment. really also very serious this is because it closes down communication it isolates iran it's taking diplomacy and it is creating you call
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boy diplomacy so to speak this is what until you can in all of life take it in that canada is very much a policy of the united states we have an integration of the military between the two countries there's consultation in foreign policy it's well known that. really more or less follows in the footsteps of washington and i think that they want to put science lukather that stick with us they're not it's interesting to say the least that when harm innocent they're made the statements he also said well there are no reports of on one actual fact all wrong so everybody's talking. well the wrong israel is talking about it not all of us talking about it it's the elections can get snagged. is there around that because we have to maintain a dialogue with concert. create conditions which could lead to.
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accidents turning to some other stories making global headlines now washington designating the pakistani army network a terrorist organization the movement criticism in islamabad where senior officials say would undermine peace efforts in afghanistan and strain u.s. pakistani ties the insurgent group is said to be active in afghanistan has been blamed for a number of attacks on u.s. troops the organization came to prominence in the one nine hundred eighty s. when it was funded and hailed as freedom fighters by the cia. egyptian forces reported success in shutting down thirty one of more than two hundred smuggling tunnels on the sinai peninsula they were used to move goods into the gaza strip blockaded by israel with cairo previously turning a blind eye lately though it's feared local militants are using the tunnels to smuggle weapons israel which neighbors of the sinai is worried that egypt's massive military presence there and is considering closing its border. torrential rains in
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northern vietnam triggered a deadly landslide that killed at least twenty nine people other parts of the country have also been flooded with hundreds of homes submerged villagers say they're completely cut off from civilization and they don't have electricity or clean water more than four hundred people in the country have been killed by natural disasters in the last year alone. about fifteen hundred people gathered in ukraine's capital kiev to protest against what they say is the government's crackdown on an independent t.v. channel t.v. eyes executive director of the basic use of tax evasion though he says it's an attack on the child as a whole with the able of closing it down many ukrainian journalist say since two thousand and ten when victory on a code which was elected. president they've been increasingly censored by authorities. when the developed economies stall and shrink it's felt across the globe but one man's losses and others gain while professionals in the west lose their jobs to cost cutting in india highly skilled tech workers are finding themselves increasingly in demand for freelance work online artie's preassure to
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look at who's benefiting from outsourcing. 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 open them to six i'm not of. those and so i'm pretty much doing it on my own when i work from home. i'm 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 four years of work experience at microsoft under his belt well he may have had his pick of cushy jobs but 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 she's 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
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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 major international companies there are. those who are exceptional. what i would call shoot you originally we were understanding. us 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
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a time new image in the our quit his full time job last year to develop digital databases for european university. good workers mound lot of young people who go to good schools in india for good causes and people are. more educated most skilled in different areas and need something more technicalities much in 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 key believes that india's economy will prosper as freelancing becomes more widespread economy would be stronger because it made the people who are 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 a friend of mine actually that that people are going to get laid off seeing her husband's company because they're looking outsourced i think the u.s. government and the american people need to think for themselves about how they can
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make themselves more attractive or work for any company leaving them there. for a buck she freelancing allows him to focus on his work but if you 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 new delhi india you can follow this and many other stories online here's what else is a click away right now and ambiguous attitude towards naziism in estonia is startling many the latest shocking move is a campaign using holocaust imagery to promote diet pills bad taste or something else by the water website. at attempt to bridge the cultural gap struggling to scale down cases of friendly fire nato issues a cultural guide to the afghan national army seen within its pages.
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finally in this news block genetically modified foods are being touted by producers as an answer to the hunger risk that's facing the world's booming population but there is a battle between consumer groups were raising the alarm about possible health risks and food producers resisting attempts to force them to label their genetically modified products artie's laurie harshest cage opinion on the streets of new york. more than forty countries around the world have mandated g.m.o. labeling on food products but not in the u.s. is it fair to consumers to not have that information this week let's talk about that you would like to see the labels that absolutely why do you think we don't
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have them here oh i'm a big conspiracy theorist and i'm sure that like the government you know because they're getting paid by pharmaceutical companies that own the g.m. most of they don't that's all that's what i think it comes down to money like everything out right exactly and it's all about big corporations making the seeds that are genetically modified i don't know i mean i've got a daughter who's really really particular about what she eats where it goes no i mean i guess in our generation we do see what it has been there it is it a younger generation concern is i think cite a lot of people say there's no direct link to it in terms of what it does to your how but then again they said that about smoking two decades this is true i mean the greens in a way whether they're good for you or not so maybe they should put on there are you ok with it i'm ok with it you don't care if it's been messed with or. just think you know we've got to be careful because we're not going to have enough food at some point if we don't we maybe need to look at other wise that we can help. in
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whole. food production really things should be labeled the consumers you know the point where you get to go everywhere and it may go away what do you do put a barcode mascot read it right no you only have the other thing are people going to pay attention and care anyway right the price being someone that works in retail food on the shelf you know you read those labels and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels or you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are labeled or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's unbelievable you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's a different if you think it's about me or not or it makes no sense you can buy it
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whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is that if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. but be back with adeline's in a couple of minutes stay with us you're on our team. will
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