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someone. chooses to use the consensus get a. chance to opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the lives choose the access to your office. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow eurozone finance ministers have boosted spain's beleaguered banks by approving a forty billion euro rescue package for them back in june the same minister said they were ready to provide aid of up to one hundred billion euros despite the recession madrid is trying at all costs to avoid asking for sovereign bailout economists and financial consultant marco pierre pauline believes this bailout is just the first of manny. and independent report commissioned by the spanish

government back in june found that while they estimated that the banks would need sixty two billion euros to rescue the banking system and of course many thought at the time that the figure was was quite conservative. of course since since. the summer the situation has deteriorated in spain. whereby unemployment has carried on rising loans having crease now to a record of close to eleven percent of outstanding loans. and one would expect that the situation will deteriorate so i think this will be the first of probably more of them more than one challenge new research suggests britain is one of the toughest countries to live in when it comes to paying taxes evidence shows some households are handing over the lion's share of their income in tax with little

hope of getting vital benefits in return artie's probably boyko reports. up to seventy three percent that's the amount of tax that your average british household pays once an average british household that's two kids two parents with one breadwinner so a lot of people who are just trying to raise a family being called good by this tax that goes towards your income tax your national insurance a lot of other european developed countries they also pay a high rate of tax but nowhere near as high as the u.k. we've got the netherlands that pays around forty eight percent tax germany pays around forty percent average families that pay in tax now we spoke to a few londoners on the streets and asked them about how they feel about how much tax they pay let's take a listen i'm not looking for us person these players such as think it should be fair across the board move people should pay proportionately. it could be.

you know going from it really. feels like it's going to the fact that it's in the. communities it's just so as you can see you know a lot of people just extremely frustrated that they aren't getting any of their local services back it's demoralizing figure and as the government had promised to recognize marriage to provide some of these tax breaks they haven't done that yet and in the run up to christmas with prices on the rise food prices fuel prices just the price of heating a family's home this is very very bad news and a lot of people feeling extremely frustrated about it. italian prime minister mario monti who has a non-elected cabinet of technocrats stated that he plans to resign the news came hours after the country's former pm silvio berlusconi announced he is to run for office in next year's parliamentary elections on thursday barrels counties people of freedom party withdrew its support from the government he says montes

a stare at the policies that harm italy and he helps to leave the country out of the financial crisis seventy six year old has already served as italy's prime minister for three separate terms is currently caught up in a number of scandals including tax fraud convictions which he is appealing add to accusations of paying for sex with an underage prostitute something he denies. nearly two hundred countries have agreed to extend the kyoto protocol a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some nations and hopes of curbing global warming legally binding plan was approved by un delegates during the climate talks in doha the summit established for the first time the rich nations should move towards reimbursing poorer nations for losses due to climate change. well and president which of us as announced he is suffering from cancer once again the leader says tests showed a return of some malignant cells in the same area where tumors had been previously

removed he will return to cuba were already received cancer treatments to undergo surgery in the coming days the news comes two months after chavis was reelected as president in a tight vote. and u.s. authorities can obtain and study data to european storyline overreaching europe's strict privacy protection laws that's according to a report issued by the university of amsterdam saying washington is being shielded by the anti terror of patriot act one of the authors of the report believes international privacy regulations should be stepped up. normally in an offline world you would have cooperation between governments that would respect international human rights standards but as these companies in the cloud are often conducting systematic best business and united states direct access warrant all over the world internet surveillance is increasing and it's quite breakneck speed

so a solution would be. to at least try and come to some international standard of how to resolve all this and what does privacy mean i know that this is a very ambitious goal but as we all move into the internet and as we all as it all becomes a part of our daily lives free speech and privacy online is becoming ever more important beijing has warned the end against pursuing oil exploration in the disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by anya's net navy chief who announced his country go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests and orcas going off investigated the claims. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as well both need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government

cannot afford to be seem to be reek in dealing with china obviously a higher power with government popular over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accuse chinese boats of sam with dodging exploration india warned it's ready to use force to defend its interests hopefully as i said the trip not to lead to a longer term conflict but you know it's inevitable because both these countries now large ambitions of becoming global actors and players both china and india have been pumping billions of u.s. dollars into their armies and navies holding drills on

a regular basis and beijing has also announced its police will soon start to board and inspect foreign vessels surely the vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for neither trying out working here to pass out cause i really want to accomplish between the two economic power houses so is it really a game that neither can win the two asian giants can't afford any weaknesses and that would make it easier for other countries to take a bite of the vast resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region this ng is there west strike to take this extension bible into jannah last. four bolz. lessing that the wall is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely the catch me they will go to some other players already prowling on the sidelines you got this going to all of our team and after

a short break america's former ambassador to saudi arabia weighs in on the consequences of amorous violent confrontation between israel and the palestinians to stay with us. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is what sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes that bites as well it's part

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you. and your need to buy coal can be unique trip of a lifetime and the local say once you've seen it you'll be coming back again and again. former u.s. assistant secretary of defense also a former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia it's great to have you with us here today it's a privilege right so operation pillar of cloud that israel has carried out in gaza

is over now both israel and hamas are claiming victory who do you think is their winner i don't think israel is the winner except in one sense and that is demonstrated that the. iron dome missile defense system will work otherwise in the arena of public opinion internationally in the region it lost heavily. nobody likes to see advanced military aircraft bombing civilian populations which is what was happening. and of course this energized egypt diplomatically in a new way and it generated a lot of support for the palestinians in gaza. despite the fact that many of the governments that came to visit sent their foreign ministers there to gaza for example don't like the mass at all in fact they fear it so it clearly strengthened the. how matz both in the palestinian territories and in the arab world politically

and i think that's a victory for a mass and a defeat for israel but israel invokes the right to defend itself against terrorism and this is a claim backed by countries such as united states and germany certainly don't deny israel this right to you certainly not and but that doesn't mean that you can take preemptive attack action to attack others especially civilians the fact that one side commits occasional acts of terrorism does not justify state terrorism and in this case there was no rocket far of any consequence from the gaza strip into israel prior to israel's inauguration of military raid that killed to the military leader of amounts hamas is an organization that doesn't have much of a military capacity many people actually say that israel back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine and also this time if it really wanted to could have

squeezed hamas out of palestine but it didn't do so why. well i think israel did attempt very to use violence in the earlier cast lead operation it did that was at the very end of two thousand and eight as there was a change of administrations going on in washington it's interesting this war happened around the u.s. election time exactly but what israel failed and the reason it failed is that the strategy is wrong you cannot bomb people into peaceful coexistence just does not work you just spoke about the election so it was right after the presidential election in the united states or right before the elections in israel. what does it suggest to you is the timing important or was it a coincidence well i suspect that the timing in this case was dictated by the israeli election. it's very popular in israel to kill lots of palestinians in gaza . and have mass is seen as a monster and so

a war against amounts when vote you know i want to talk about the wording of the operation pillar of cloud obviously referring to the bible and back in the bible. it was the pillar of cloud who let the israelis through with pete out of egypt and save them from the sorrow how much the torah narrative actually dominate the mindset of israeli war planners well the religious element in both in the israeli armed forces largely subtle are driven. not orthodox jews many of whom don't want to serve in the military refuse to do so but the religious complection of the israeli defense forces is steadily increased so religion is now very much bound up with its operations the language of some rabbis during cast lead was simply hair raising in terms of evoking old testament images of genocide against

non jews. i think also it's true that this use of language reflects the fact that the israeli palestinian struggle which began as a sort of struggle between two competing nationalisms became a struggle between arabs and israelis has now become a struggle between jews and muslims in the western media though the operation pillar of cloud was renamed pillar of defense quite suppose it sounds less alarming defense is a good thing isn't it. attacking people behind a cloud perhaps maybe isn't. evoking memories of old testament violence raises questions perhaps in the broader world. so this is the sort of typical example of what the israelis call. spada which is control of narrative. and propaganda and they do it very well in two thousand and nine

you were nominated to lead the national intelligence council in president obama's administration you declined. due to pressure what you've called these rather lobby in the united states you precise later on that it's actually more correct to call it the likud lobby or the lobby of the right wing in israel what exactly do you mean by that definition well i think if you look at the american jewish community which from which the activists in the israel lobby are drawn there is a large passive support for israel among christian fundamentalists but they are not active generally speaking the activists come from a very limited segment about four percent of the american jewish community and these are people who are strong supporters of the extreme right wing in israel there's another very interesting instance that you describe i'm going to read out a quote of yours you were being told by a senior israeli official thank you for what you did for israel what job in

president bush administration do you want how exactly does that work i mean can a foreign power actually influence staffing of national security positions in the u.s. government well when this man who i had considered a friend and rather admired tactlessly made that offer to me i thought he could deliver it. i thought he was making a real offer and i was enraged. as somebody as an american patriot i don't like the idea that any foreign country even one close to us should be able to dictate our decisions about our internal politics was it a bluff or could he really does i think he might have been able to deliver and i didn't take him up on it for obvious reasons i thought it was a despicable that's can also carry it is a little scary yes. but you see. there is again

a narrative which is that israeli interests and american interests are identical israeli values and american values are identical neither is true if you examine it but that israeli narrative would be nothing without american backing yes america is a wonderful echo chamber for israel because our relations are so intimate and we are. so much in contact with each other and the american media are so. amenable to spreading. the israeli line the narrative. and the american media are enormously interview influential internationally and so this takes what might be a rather small voice from israel and magnifies it and spreads it everywhere and israel is after all a very small country that is surrounded by enemies whether it made those enemies itself or whether it's simply. there simply there is beside the point israel is in

a difficult position it uses everything it can and. it can use to defend itself and this is one of the means of defense a very strong one what exactly are the priorities of the lobby in the united states and how much power do they actually wield over the us media well i think it's less the media than the congress. but ultimately the media also depend upon. advertising and congress works the fuel of our congress i'm sorry to say it's campaign contributions which is another way of saying our politics is pretty corrupt you can vote by vote. the fuel for our media is advertising and advertising can be withheld or granted depending on what you say you know what i always wondered how come that our blog is not so prevalent in the arab shakes could probably find its pretty much anything they wanted. interesting question first of all i don't think there is an arab lobby i think it is the fiction of the

israel lobby is imagination or perhaps a sort of construct they've created because you need to to have an enemy so why isn't there an arab well there's lots of reasons for that we have significant arab american population which potentially could produce a lobby but it's divided as the arabs themselves are so there's no domestic base that could focus the energy of this voting bloc in one direction and second turning to the united states yes the the gulf arabs have plenty of money but they also have no understanding of the importance of institutions. as opposed to people their own politics is very personalized their own societies don't have many cases rest on institutional foundations. they don't have a habit of sustained effort on anything they are more likely to do something short

term they like the sprint rather than the marathon that is required in this arena. and probably many of them consider it improper to in effect buy votes. and i happen to agree with them but. they are behind the times unfortunately everyone else is doing it so you don't have the domestic base and you don't have the foreign support and i might say that the gulf arabs like other arabs they don't like the arab americans who are not mainly from the gulf. emigrate there are no saudi americans to speak of there are no pottery americans to speak of there are no amorality americans to speak up while they come to study in the states and then go back and study and they maybe have a vacation home and they enjoy the united states as a visitor but they don't. emigrate to europe cracked with throwing in two thousand and nine and not taking a position you know i don't know how i'm i didn't want to go back into the

government i had given thirty years of my life to public service i thought that was plenty i was very reluctant to do that job and when i was publicly attacked in the way i was it became apparent that i couldn't do the job so the decision to withdraw was so simply a matter of logic and i don't regret it at all i have a good life a better life than i would if i were doing that i think i wouldn't consider taking another position in the government in the future no no i think i'd let somebody younger have a chance but. now i can't think of any position i would really like to do at this stage in part because at the moment our government is pretty dysfunctional it's not making any sensible decisions yet and it seems to find it very hard to do that we can't even pass a budget jobs we can't even address our fiscal imbalance we don't address any of

our fundamental questions of foreign policy we continue to do more of the same in this circumstance the chance that one individual could make a real difference is not very great and i'm i'm happy cultivating my garden. best your family thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. six.

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