tv [untitled] December 17, 2012 9:00am-9:30am EST
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spain is set for more public fury with hundreds of thousands ready to cry out against. now demanding that the plans to privatized must be scrapped. egypt's opposition groups call for nationwide protests to challenge the outcome of the first round of voting early results showed backing for the islamist constitution. and protesters in bahrain say the situation has spiraled out of control with a nation going through the worst crisis in its modern history.
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just after six pm on monday moscow time this is r t life with me wrong welcome to the program. now hundreds of thousands of people are set to march in spain to protest against the government's cuts and reforms the demonstrations have been called by the country's top labor union and social groups on sunday thousands of health care workers marched across madrid to make their feelings clear about plans to privatized hospitals and the government insists it's all part of the austerity measures needed to pick the country up from its deep recession and the protests come as e.u. leaders agreed on closer integration in brussels the french president said there's no doubt about the integrity of the eurozone which will no longer be taken by surprise but investment advisor patrick young believes the euro's continued
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existence is a facade spain is simply run out of cash. the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it doesn't actually want to to bite the bullet over the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and minutely one could say that was the previous government run rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold off and there have to be stoppage culp's because truly spain has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that unfortunately while we can obviously say it tragedy for the poor independent healthcare professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain the biggest shock of the whole year hasn't died leaving the
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fact that the euro is held together the european union is putting on a brave face it's throwing money around the place it's trying all manner of things to hold together a cracking and creaking facade and ultimately you know they might just manage to carry it off but ultimately i think the smart money is waiting in the wings and it's looking at the whole idea that we are going to see a euro break down even if it's not going to be as instantaneous as some of us might have predicted. now opposition groups in egypt have called on their supporters to stage a nationwide protests to challenge the outcome of the first round of the referendum on the new islamist backed constitution they claim the vote was marred by widespread violations with rights groups calling for a rerun of saturday's poll now only said results are suggesting here that fifty six percent of egyptians approve of the draft constitution which is supported by president morsi and the muslim brotherhood but the opposition says the document is poorly drafted and turns the constitution into an islamist code and the biggest
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opposition alliance the national salvation front has called on people to take to the streets to defend their freedoms ahead of the referendum second stage on saturday and the group's spokesman khaled that wood is hoping the opposition's complaints won't remain on it. right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is good enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that the violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the outcomes of this it's a privilege and there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting crows is that according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were going to doing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying
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to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are again is this then so we're still holding a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and considering that this is a draft constitution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by a fifty something last. now the cradle of the arab spring but of tunisia has now marks two years since the start of the uprisings with an angry attack on the country's president people threw stones on projectiles that zookeeper was visiting a town where a protester set himself on fire triggering the string of uprisings across the region and saudis are now reports many of those who helped usher in the changes in two thousand and ten say they are still no better off. it began here in tunisia two years ago when
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a poverty stricken france vendor set himself on fire in an act of desperation some say he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hollow was this is real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections bread on their tables and jobs what they got seems to be a very different result situationist war strife comparison to war. and comparison to the years before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police. or of the salafist. if
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unpoliced attack by some interest people. there are less freedoms right now when it comes to under their own freedoms there are attacks on individual freedoms every day i received so many messages from girls saying but they were. straight even by police men. who didn't tolerate their or their way off but there are saying this seems to be a common pattern in the countries that i showed the so-called arab spring just two years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes to new democratic forms of government seem to have halted rising islamism economies in shambles and increasing discontent the pattern is the same in tunisia and egypt where people are pouring out on the streets again with a renewed. sest the only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim
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brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during the elections i think a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak i mean morsi and morsi no he's obviously you know right different political figure to mubarak in terms of psychology has carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising took a bloody turn moammar gadhafi could rule the country for over forty years was deposed and killed in two thousand and eleven and he nearly the government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard khadafi supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses second be using now. guys again it's just a feeling people children and now i'm glad they're really sickening we would not humanity of the one of the us save our family. i got this time to
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make libya had to quote them a place where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and we're going to the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s. would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in and out of school are too. hard a time. in the evening here in moscow a police have used stun grenades and tear gas against the opposition who have been
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mocking that annual mottos day. coming up shortly here on the program we take a look at why the gulf states government has maintained its violent starts. now the u.k. has plans to go green could prove too costly for its people while the moves also splitting views in parliament we are reporting on much more often this break. he. says.
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a clash with anti-government demonstrators in the capital and some activists are claiming on social media sites that several human rights advocates have been arrested so far the demonstrators have been marking martyrs day in an annual commemoration of two protesters who were killed back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four the opposition groups say the gulf nations suffering the worst political crisis in modern history and threaten even more protests after in your thirty's did ban all public gatherings a few months ago all of this in an attempt to stem almost two years of unrest which up to eighty people have been killed thousands arrested a leading human rights to find a job did have his prison sentence reduced last week this wasn't quite enough to calm activists who were calling for his and media to release hussein from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain believes the situation will not change as long as the government remains supported by certain western powers. they always
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talk but they never. do the walk and other wards recently they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to see it is locked out of the political situation however you know such see this is step has been taken for example we still see attack on peaceful protests we still see. political prisoners released torture still taking place human rights violations are placed on daily bases the human rights issue as they go on to behave and not allowing or just in the first place first the law or the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests there itself this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially rain and syria where the rise
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violations are committed and behind on daily basis however we we we hear no condemn nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the bahraini regime. we are not far off from the world operate here on r t for now though environmentally friendly energy it sounds like a reasonable solution when the natural resources are running low and exporting them becomes more dangerous the u.k. wants fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be covered by renewable sources by twenty twenty that could prove too costly for the public as artie's laura smith reports. wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy
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secretary says he's got no hope for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter nubile energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly please those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as london affiliate merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that bore a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do sing seem to think that they're helpful to the
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environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty low base of only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year. there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowing so wind power is still needs supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of its running costs are subsidies the right way to encourage an industry to mature or are actual shooting i
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think what we're doing is we're rewarding in adequate technologies now and indeed we're fossilize in the more infantilizing them we actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes well if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place to miss you're welcome at the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact i quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight kilometers away is a nuclear power station supported by the community as a reliable source of power and local employer unlike the wind farm which is controlled from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind power by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith r.t. can't. well the u.k. needs action because it could soon fall into what's known as fuel poverty it's a brand new record predicting that thousands of people mainly pensioners on the
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disabled may not be able to afford to keep warm by two thousand and sixteen a story in full at r.t. dot com. plus a rescue the russian fisherman who was lost in the siberian wilderness four months ago now confesses he ate one of his friends after shocking details on our website. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations to rule the day . download the official ati application to choose your language stream quality and
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and. this is r.t. you just in time for the world update now will start off with seventeen confirmed dead after a car bomb explosion at a town market in pakistan but the blast was near the office of a government official the alleged target of the attack this happening in a region close to the afghan border and the area has long been plagued by fierce fighting between the military and taliban with civilians often being caught in the crossfire. iraq has been hit by a wave of explosions and attacks three gunmen raided
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a checkpoint need to create killing five policemen and wounding five others a roadside bomb in a village north of baghdad also claimed the lives of three soldiers and while a car bomb north of mosul and another similar blast nearby at a shia place of worship resulted in twelve dead. but to japan now where the right leaning liberal democrats have won a resounding parliamentary election victory but in former prime minister shinzo back in office he spoke of a shoot to task ahead promising tokyo won't concede china one millimeter or japan's islands about to give up in the dispute between them was lost by minister for short time between two thousand and six two thousand and seven this time he won in a landslide with almost three hundred seats. president obama has said he will do everything in his power to prevent more mass shootings of the first funerals for the victims of the newtown school tragedy have been held twenty children aged six
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to seven and six adults were shot dead on friday when adam lanza went on a rampage with an assault rifle the twenty year old had killed his mother cried to carrying out the massacre he later turned the gun on himself but the tragedy has sparked calls for tighter gun control laws including a ban on military grade assault weapons. now reports of emerged that huge amounts of gold are being flown out from afghanistan according to airport staff and most of it's headed to dubai charles long being considered a haven for money laundering political analyst and former afghan m.p. . says this could be the latest incarnation of a trafficking racket carried out with the connivance of the afghan government. naturally when you're trying to stem one thing from flowing away there will be other ways of doing it and actually gold is that is being used not only in lieu of
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dollars leaving afghanistan but also it's a very very interesting change for money launderers for drug smugglers and also there's. another angle to this which would be the dumping of gold by. regional players and even beyond the region because around afghanistan there are some central asian countries and as far as russia after russia a good producers of gold and the drug. money that was coming into afghanistan or other bartering was taking place gold is taking a new shape and it's easier to carry and also the central bank of afghanistan is totally oblivious to these things and they're always act after the fact the same way that they acted about after the failure of the afghan one of the afghan banks they are also always behind the curve. now bashar al assad's vice president says
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neither side can win the conflict in syria. called for the creation of a national unity government in order to try and settle the crisis and some opposition fighters have said they're open to seeing him lead an interim cabinet a neighboring turkey that strongly supports the rebels also considers him a credible candidate to replace assad this as damascus is now on the defensive al qaeda linked militants claim to have captured another loyalist base while russia and china are leading calls against foreign action in syria wanting a political settlement instead we believe that the matter of the sea who should be decided by this human people not by the hour said force. if. you say that i don't live in the sky i want to go to for the chinese at least not upset. because that you are following us you don't need of these countries
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why should you side who should stay or should go so we have a problem with these that come statement. and you can see the full interview with a member of china's foreign policy advisory committee at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. for now though here. our weekly roundup of the top sporting highlights that's coming your way after a short break. on the edge of human capability. struggling with page. layout to become the first. force. in the.
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hello welcome to the all too sports show thank you for joining me for a partridge and here's a taste of what's coming up. the big story as the russian premier league enters its three months of winter break we take a look at the time contenders who make up the top three. plus russian stars shine it you have got a mountain and even a couple troops and that's the winning goals as russia beat finland three one in moscow to retain the china one cup. and to fight night for my you have to see heavyweight champion out of isle of ski makes a winning return as he triumphs and his first fighting russia for twelve years. but first a football and as the snow starts to settle across russia the premier league has entered its three months winter break the top three of says angie and sunnis have pulled away from the rest of the pack and confident that's up.
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