tv [untitled] December 11, 2012 2:00am-2:30am EST
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as radical islam has claimed a new victory in syria fears mom the country's chemical weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. by the way it switches trying to create a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. while surgical says the u.k. taxpayers to tighten their belts on he looks at how big corporations are using legal loopholes for boys paying their share. and security stepped up in the egyptian capital as it braces for potential clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's new constitution.
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it's eleven am here in moscow you live well with us with me to be on with day in syria radical islam is have reportedly captured a key military base in the country's north they claimed advance has stalled here's the country's chemical weapons stockpiles could potentially fall into militant hands arches middle east correspondent policia has the latest. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism my consults provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria
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there is of course growing concern that chemical weapons stockpiles within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as has been in the south operating in lending support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union ought to train the rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons
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we can be verified what we do know is that so you're has one of the world's largest chemical weapon also knows syria has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it has never given any kind of information in terms of the extent to and the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage it is unknown exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and in his hands there are there certainly is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos. it's been posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as limbs and incredible glued to their bodies there is of course also videos of rebels
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reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a great against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as shellings while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child they hade a number of prisoners now according to the information that's reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of beheaded victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating or verifying exactly the truth of this although some sources say that there were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate. as you are sources say washington is training
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rebels to secure and handle chemical weapons some of the visit of foreign interventions in the making. this period right now and the talk of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons in syria is very reminiscent of the run up to the anglo-american attack on iraq in two thousand and three one of those videos purported to show syrian insurgents funded by the west preparing chemical weapons which were used on rabbits but could be used on syrian civilians and then blamed on the syrian government the assad government is not suicidal it has been playing its cards very carefully and there is no basis in fact for the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government that would be counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction argument used so effectively in two thousand and three and later found out to be a complete hoax they've just they've tried it out of the dustbin and their plan to
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rerun it again. their opinions three presidents have received this year's nobel peace prize on behalf of member states they you have been given the award in recognition for fostering peace even before the prize is handed out the decisions bottom as indignation throughout europe several previous winners wrote an open letter to the nobel foundation demanding that the blood be stripped after want i had of sunday ceremony hundreds of mars are through the norwegian capital in protest john laughland from the institute of democracy and corporation believes peace is one of the last things the e.u. should be rewarded for. but there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attempt to. reduce europe so one cannot
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say that there has been peace of europe since there in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization never mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union as foster peace. while ordinary people enjoy life in the austerity red to e.u. does seem some corporate giants will stop at nothing to get out of paying their shame tax evasion and avoid its cost the dead stricken bloc one point three trillion dollars a year a figure that's no longer being tolerated as artie's affair for its reports. well people from all over the board tend not to protect this country because companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally
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suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. their head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute here one of amundsen's massive disturb the sentence is based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers are their employees and many more distribution centers like this one are in fact based here in the united kingdom so
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it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing in fact is they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out that's a timely on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of taxation whereas you can have fewer activities are actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds leak out. but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the panelists on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this
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government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but now that people know that. morsi or doing that they're doing it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it after not paying well there's a difference between people who. voiding tax to. those who are illegally doing it and those are to do when you're a citizen or you are still avoiding paying where interested me again today let me actually answer the question once before you actually interoperability tax avoid it's ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you say i said there's a difference between tax avoiders and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax
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avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah firth r.t. london. also i had for you this hour security tight as in egypt as well protests support of the opponents of president morsi to confront each other again as the nation ready for a referendum on a draft constitution plus. he says well. you won't have no brit. way to may want. he said you will never have. bought a problem having a baby we'll see if the victims that when you make the program have any chance of
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having their birth tragedies recognize this story and much more often. if you're passing through rushes to via region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lacks in forstmann means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphans and unable to survive the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group to rescue wolf and bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a time it's taken to
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a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them. these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs
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nine people have been hurt after the known attack as flight of protesters camped out in cairo central to here square this comes as egypt gears up for another day of protests by the opposition and supporters of president morsi in the spot after morsi granted himself extensive powers and put a new constitution to the vote he later backtracked on some of the decree but left a referendum intact egyptian leader has now given the military temporary powers to
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arrest the billions in the run up to the vote raising opposition fears the country is turning twenty dictatorship barely out my colleague cabinet journalist how it. all things morsi is just constitution the nation on the brink of civil war. he insisted on the. situation after that actually has more green. approved by the people of. the country in the. civil war will not fall in the nation. and it's experience to speak for the first time ever in the history of egypt to become free from the age of peace point we don't even know you've been there will be ready for in them because. many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it illegal if it happens. to be free supervision view on the opposition and their
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stance they're blaming the government for dividing the country but why can't they make some concessions agree to dialogue instead of pushing for more protests is there is no point to. point if he's insisting on. these groups if you should be afraid of the unit people people who go to the street . the people of egypt feel that. we always have weak weak political parties but we have a strong civil society in. which the. people of egypt after very. concrete now. can see. the arm of.
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someone who want to be. we. have our freedom we are not going to. the legals of the fall my international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn of the sex abuse accusations in the u.s. apparently come to an end the new york hotel maid at a friend's wedding of sexual assault has withdrawn her civil north undisclosed from its remit to amount you up to six million u.s. dollars scandal cost ross can his position at the top of the international monetary fund and stifled his presidential ambitions at home he could still face other charges of being behind an alleged prostitution ring in. the proceedings of the vision. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state t.v. boycotts just hours after his arrest late on monday shaking libido de oro was
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detained by members of a citizens group backed by the country's military was promoting a un backed resolution for international military intervention to help me gain control of mali's north al-qaeda linked militants took control of the area during a march. deny the chance of a baby a decades long program of forced sterilization in america left tens of thousands of women unable to have children once promoted as a way to build a healthy nation it's only recently the traumatized victims of a usually takes program that are being considered for compensation are just more like what i went to meet a one of those who had their lives changed by compulsory birth control you won't want to pay it eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future said why don't i have to go to the hospital i'm not saying rocks was with two other
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girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin so he took me now in there and they did surgery. then no one knew was doing to me eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the for the money. she says well you know you nobody you won't have no bread. said whoa wait a minute what do you mean she said you never know. and that's when i want to head to me this is angle of the grand brooks went on to
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adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. or a way she will free some modern should be. a fresh day that anything. they should base. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the first state to compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were kind of us except that they were
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born this kind of janice day. can do better than this. shane. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffer in june north carolina state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying victims for what was a legal program could lead to subsequent payouts tied to america's other historic atrocities such as slavery seven decades ago this building served as baker senatorial it's where state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other young girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today it serves as an apartment complex where families are living routine lives this as others still bear deep scars over how their lives were forever changed here they had
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a baby. the people. my be like yeah. a life changing question but u.s. state officials refused to answer for her in a port archly north carolina. on r g dot com right now the u.s. navy has two additional warships to the north korean shores as washington says all possible rocket launched by the communist state. in gaza after granting asylum to talk with the blower julian a son said adèle continues its open door policy find out who's that some of the country's most welcoming lives on the line. shortly max kaiser has sounds the alarm on what he says is a looming threat of a new credit bubble damas the kaiser report here in just a few minutes. sometimes
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which brings me food. from stupid question. who screams don't tonty don't come. by imax kaiser welcome to the kaiser report double double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble yes people the three witches of wall street lloyd jamie and jamie have spoken they say that into their cauldron of perpetual bubble will forever go your toil and trouble and that your economies and your wealth will burn in the fire of their witches are dead. stacy. yes max believe it or not after years of zero percent interest rates just as we
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predicted world the risks fresh credit bubble switzerland's be i asked warrants asset prices across the world have risen to the heady levels not seen since the credit boom five years ago and maybe losing touch with economic reality yet again the bank for international settlements is war and that's exactly what i had as my top story i'm love one more thinking like exactly the same on the same brain week they see right there i took this out of the paper today and this is exactly what we've been talking about the assets in question of course would be sovereign bonds for example that are trading at three hundred year highs in the u.k. are two hundred forty year highs in america and the yes which warned before the collapse of two thousand and eight that assets were in a bubble warning again so people say you know all those zero percent interest rates didn't produce any inflation so says paul krugman and yet the inflation is on the
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balance sheet of the central banks that have been buying government bonds to create the illusion of economic growth and now we're headed for a massive. collapse the biggest collapse in history bigger than the tulip bulb collapse bigger than the south sea bubble collapse bigger than the mississippi company collapse bigger than the nasdaq or collapse the biggest the mother of all collapses. and they also point out that investors are not being rewarded for their risk they're taking so they don't seem to understand how much risk they're taking for example yields on mortgage bonds have fallen to the lowest level ever recorded spread some corporate debt have narrowed to the way for thin margins of two thousand and seven even though default rates are currently three times higher than they were then for junk bonds and twice as high for investment grade companies but this is the.
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