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ten years of work and centuries of time one of the world's most vicious you see it is open some papers see is that. the un terms the force feeding of guantanamo inmates is torture is the hunger strike struggle sees now up to twenty three prisoners being fed against their will. and can they put can go either the tens of thousands a few genes in the u.k. are being refused asylum but officials insisting they have to go back to the troubled home.
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well over grieving to have just joined us just a tad after ten pm no remorse kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. and as you will just heard the curtains been raised at the morton high tech twin to some petersburg's world renowned ballet and opera venue is a taste from the dress rehearsal of what the risky two theaters first audience is big treated to right now let's take a listen. well the head of the venue very good gear for conducting the garter opening on what is also the sixtieth birthday pretty ballerina early on in the world can hand over thank you for the legal understanding of the premiere as well star studded cast grab the morning skate to concede up to two thousand people boast the latest high technology so they can styx can deliver everything from powerful orchestral pieces to the quietest of saddles artie's type i must say to jump so much sculpture is one
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of first presents of. is a venue needed to actually blend in a way that the beautiful new fossil cool architecture of st petersburg so that everyone can enjoy it and at the be important thing about is that the space which i get to give wanted to create was so that one people can come into it and enjoy the theater it's no longer for all people we want to bring the yeah we want to introduce into the theater life is all about but it's been a little bit of controversy surrounding this building and early on i spoke to jack diamond's who is the architect of the building and all sam you know what all this controversy this is what he had to say when some isaac's defeated. people thought it was terrible into school when charcoal skipper formed his first kind of conservative that was trashed sun and good company the point about st petersburg one of the most beautiful cities in the world has amazing continuity over streets
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stor so in order to make it for equal unity we have stuck to the ways you know you know an analogous form that can come forward just as the. stand in contrast to the streets or so order to moria stands in controls to its enclosure it stands free like the church or the food and it's good to get the importance of the owner. because it's really the whole you will use it now what's important about this building it's not only it's just a verse seven thousand seventy thousand square metres rather it was as big as ten football fields but the thing that actually makes a difference is that rehearsal spaces are here you have seven levels of this place up and down three levels we can have over a thousand feet all workers here from the design days testing people as well as over two hundred dancers one here under the same space and speaking about dances i
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have right now all the way from washington knowing whole grade this is a tropical of arts and culture here in russia canada is with me she's going to share what it's like to be a dancer at the met a youth ski theater and of course she says with us what do you think about the displays what do you make of it i mean it's an incredible space so much happening here i mean first of all it's massive it is huge and i think it's an excitement sturrock tonight to have this incredible new theater being opened. i mean in this all to or in the hall area it's it's really something special go look at our repertoire for next season and we can do so many shows and now it just opens up so many doors and it's very exciting i mean any time i step on the stage. it is it's an honor and it's a privilege and it's there are no words for. this. process go back to that live event these are pictures streaming now on our website from within there we've
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just seen placido domingo. use you to feel after the bring your voice are from side. to auditorium in korea watching streaming right now to our to dot com also on our you tube channel as well. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from his street and headed their. operations are all today. the eurozone central banks conceded that the struggling plot needs another kick
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start its finally cut interest rates to a record low of not point five percent that's on the back as we were disappointed jobless figures another record high let's see whether it'll make any difference to those countries still languishing in the economic doldrums show it at least as far as robert oulds is concerned is from the euro skeptic think tank the bruise group is joining us now robert even to you what's this got to main them for the average person on the street in there in the eurozone or is it going to affect them at all where it won't really make much difference at all and of course we're seeing limitations of monetary policy which has been pushed as far as possibly can by having interest rates at no point five percent what it will help will help german exports to outside of the euro zone say to china because it will they will some depreciation of the euro e.u. single covered see out of course in the eurozone there will not be any change because they have one common sense it won't actually help the economy of southern europe particularly spain portugal are and italy and greece which we can all count
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together as countries that are struggling as a result of their being the e.u. single common see the euro france as well is also suffering economically and has unemployment rising we're seeing a separation between the french and german economy is so cutting interest rates by this small amount to no point five percent won't actually really make much difference we need a vatican change of policy within the e.u. to to bring about economic growth you've been saying that for a long time it's not happening though is it. no or eventually it will be forced to happen eventually the euro will of course collapse is only so much money that can be continually lent to to countries like spain or countries like italy which is in a deep recession as well and of course those countries are too big to be bailed out and of course there be the capital flight as difficulties continue because investors will be scared that there will be another cyprus situation happening in and because we would have been told that's going to be the template for future
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financial rescues of banks and needs other financial institutions within the euro zone so really eventually the will have to be a breakup of the euro that's the only way to restore economic growth it's the only way to get people back to work if they can then have their common seize depreciate and of course that the the the new tapering to dortch market that were to be returned that would then increase in in value and that would help the disparities within the eurozone which has been created largely by the single currency to need to be a vatican change or course unemployment will just keep on going up falling off without fault of yours that would make a comment from the e.c.b. chief today warning indebted countries against quote unraveling their austerity policies in the cracks start to show well there is beginning a bit of a vote within the e.u. against austerity it doesn't actually help it's actually creating a worse situation is actually means economies can grow and then they can deal with
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the long term debts that they have because there isn't the tax revenue coming in that's actually are you pushing any countries way to jump in and imminently do you think. i think italy is one to watch that is a domino that will eventually fall there in of a session and of course the italians are beginning to get very fed up this is mutterings and then we've seen in the recent elections that people are willing to to take a very cool measures and vote for a new party is because if it up with the same old establishment parties that have one answer to the problem austerity without of course it just creates unemployment so spain and italy are the really ones to watch and perhaps even france in the long in the long term but let's take a quick second while you're on the line there to think of germany where that is manufacturing shrank across the year in a preventing germany the bottom of the blocks biggest and strongest economy german heading for trouble potentially because the german economy has relied a lot on exports to the eurozone state has benefited in the short term from the
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single currency but as though their country's economy is dry up this spending the purchasing power in them will of course cease and then they won't be able to afford the german exports any longer so really in the long run it will actually germany it will damage the german economy because of the no one in europe will be able to buy their cars and their manufactured items so really some germans are already beginning recognize this professor bernard luck in germany has established a political party saying that germany should leave the euro because he's on balancing the whole single comments egypt a strong economy like germany being at the center of euro zone and of course in the long run election really helped the german economy by accepting because of course he allowed the other countries in the euro zone to grow again and then they'll be able to afford to buy the german exports so in the long run you'll actually be in germany's. interests to exit the single currency because the moment is just
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destroying everybody else robert thanks take the time here with us tonight robert oulds there from the group think tank thank you my pleasure. force feeding inmates at the guantanamo bay prison is torture and breaks international law but the united nations labeled the treatment of detainees at the facility as many as twenty three prisoners and being forced to eat through nasal tube as a mass hunger strike that is the three months noise for the detainees say that as many as one hundred thirty of the one hundred sixty six inmates taking part but the u.s. military insists its only one hundred person described the force feeding procedure is one of the most painful things he's ever experienced the protest is over there are definite attention and invasive searches five of them now need supervised medical support a prisoner lawyer told me that the authorities of failing to take simple steps to resolve the crisis the prisoners our client has been on strike since february sixth he has chosen not to eat not to speak any of the cards in protest of its plans and
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forcing someone to do what they don't want to do and now strapping them to chair and sticking to their nose is depriving them of their liberty you have it walk with your own greed just had our co-counsel visited yesterday we have my co-counsel and richard saying will be with you next week and he remains committed to you continuing to protest not just. at the base but now also forced even prisoners and his indefinite detention without and requires this problem could be resolved something as simple as. meeting with and talking to the prisoner and discussing with them what it is that it's going to be and the hunger strike at the symbol as allowing them to return or to not have their qur'an searched and they haven't seen very many years but we finally heard from president obama on the issue he had been silent for many many years how
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since he committed to close that we find we. really need you and your confirmation that the president. coming up on the program tonight where the street cameras don't capture criminals in tod just as one theory anyway that's the call of the united states cell for the boston bombings even though big brother has been expanding for over a decade it seems with limited success in many cases also to reporting digging deep for smaller space adventures you can find out why this huge hole in the ground in russia's far east is open the next chapter in mankind's cosmic explorer a ship. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy r.p.
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loved direct from moscow twenty two fifty moscow time thanks for being with us. those fleeing their countries it's a seeker safer life in the u.k. can often end up with neither a job or unable to live either tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers are struggling to make ends meet while being unable to go back over either party's poly boy because the story of one such man is in scotland are as floodwater on iraq he's been in glasgow for five years and he's had three asylum claims rejected so he has no right to work and nowhere to live he's here illegally i just been this shit for two years i can't go back to iraq because i am under the threat the assassin of my family all my family nowadays he sleeps on the floor of this gym in a say inside the local community center but for iran and others just like him the
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abject poverty he subjected to is still better than going home and the home of his duty as a lady this is because she was a united pupil at the home of his that you don't see where they are not the way they live in to us how is iraq safe the. last time i heard it will last we got a lot of people being killed number two it is in iraq in the especially in my city where the home of his isn't always a safe i mean there is not here is a but they lying to you they want to you go back i mean. they want to get the redo of you we asked the u.k. home office about their policy towards destitute siloam see kez this is the statement we got failed asylum seekers have no right to remain in the u.k. and no need for protection they have a return home and any support provided is temporary well individuals make those arrangements the u.k. government will say people don't need to be in this situation but i think that
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callously mosque's the reality they are in limbo maybe for years i have to tell you who are living with nothing absolutely nothing not even. the u.n. millennium goal over in five dollars this is absolutely nothing glasgow city authorities say they want to help people like iran's but their hands are tied because of policies made over six hundred kilometers away in westminster the law has been constructed in such a we actually illegal for the council to provide support for asylum seekers so what has happened is that the numbers of destitute people have started to rise and build up over the years it's a terrible situation it's a humanitarian crisis or school scotland's biggest city is the first in the u.k. to openly condemn the government's treatment of failed asylum seekers we want to treat people with compassion in school and they get in government won't let us do that in the standing in our way it's not known exactly how many destitute asylum
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seekers there are drifting about the city because after the home office rejects a case they slip through the net and disappear from the view of the earth or sees so they're left with no support and no way of working in a city that's just been ranked the most violent in the u.k. the shelter volunteers provide a hot meal for a few hours at least men and women can experience a safe environment i think it must be really difficult to be in the city. you don't know anyone. you might be called speak the language. you don't know what the law is you don't know your rights. you don't know where you can go what you're going to do you got no money must be horrific frightening most frightening experience to be that lost at seven fifteen it's time to wake up. and face another day of trying to stay and survive in the united kingdom i never
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expected in they to meet me laying that i want to have a better life and iran have a job so i want to leave i mean as a human being so at the moment i feel i am an invisible pearson in this country. r.t. . real real case being caught between a rock and a hard place isn't it seems as well even those who help british troops and some of the world's worst conflict zones are getting the cold shoulder over solomons well in the u.k. locals who helped facilitate british troops on the ground in afghanistan are being told the bay should stay in their homeland after the military leaves even though they fear taliban reprisals they've been called the deed to offer asylum to hundreds of those who risk their lives at the front line but it seems the mood in london is no change just talk to one of those people who desisted british troops in dangerous territory on the telephone line a rough kareem he's joining us live from afghanistan i hope you can hear me i know
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people like you to stay in afghanistan instead of going to a safer place and getting asylum in the u.k. why they change their minds do you think. what we have actually we have the british forces for a long time and we actually have been side by side and. come. more than nation but we know how the society works and we can learn. and see our. government to change their mind and know that why we have to take. you know we had actually work for a long time and. and now like human resources you know.
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people or. the great danger so that's why we ask them for political asylum what sort of danger to talking about briefly are there we don't have an awful lot of time if you could just paint a picture for us of the kind of danger your colleagues at the help the british forces are facing that you're up against. this no that. carol and. you know the. people. they have the forces here and again we stand and a lot of people. are media. so that's what we want. a government. have
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to forgive your time we wish you all the past i serve abdul roughly karim you work to help or u.k. forces in afghanistan thank you. the work of celebration that is made a saw its fair share of anger in many parts of europe as we were reporting were talking about online as well as squeezed wages fewer jobs and tougher conditions saw marches reach boiling po'd point only to be met with pepper spray to gas and water cannons who are website for pictures more videos recorded all their fear also lying to his. president riding a winning horse but hey. before but this is well r.t. dot com has got details of how the going was down the road for this particular. jockey.
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u.s. lawmakers and surveillance have occurred so calling for more nationwide cameras in the wake of the deadly boston bombings but billions of dollars already been spent over the past decade of course and there are more than fifty million cameras nationwide although seems none can prevent the mouth and tragedy report miles more now on how the u.s. security strategy could have already cost more than its worth. september eleventh two thousand and one terrorism claims the lives of nearly three thousand americans and the construction of a super sized us security paradigm begins. surveillance technology has become the driving force behind washington's counterterrorism strategy bodies scanned at airports faces filmed on the streets and social media closely monitored in
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cyberspace there has been a severe denigration of civil rights and civil liberties and the anger a nation of power by federal government authorities and by law enforcement against individual since two thousand and one are around seven hundred and ninety billion dollars has reportedly been spent on cementing america's homeland security apparatus a platinum wall of defense easily shattered by inexpensive pressure cookers ball bearings nails and of bomb building manuals that could be found on the internet you just can't prevent terrorism in the current model with these surveillance technologies i can go into a right and walk out with the makings of a ball i can build a bomb in my own house put it in a backpack. put it on a street corner and kill fifteen or twenty people three people died and more than two hundred seventy were hospitalized last month after twin bombs exploded near the
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boston marathon finish line a terrorist attack in broad daylight that no camera or law enforcement official was able to prevent i believe this was a massive failure of the the surveillance state that we've created in america since nine eleven we have spent over seven hundred billion dollars on national security and a lot of that is surveillance with the help of surveillance video the f.b.i. was eventually able to identify the boston bombing suspects however the best images did not come from a public camera the video was reportedly filmed by a private camera belonging to the department store lord and taylor every publicly installed camera for every camera that the n.y.p.d. puts out or bloomberg kelley puts out or or some security agency puts out there's anywhere from thirty to fifty privately installed to being installed everywhere
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it's a pin up the car everywhere you go you're being watched in new york city the u.s. capitol of surveillance four thousand security cameras are mounted just in lower manhattan alone just in visual recognition hazard how the new normal in the big apple and recently city officials proclaimed privacy to be off the table the attacks in boston and the news that new york city was nest on the terrorist list shows just how critical it is for the federal government to devote resources to high risk areas it also shows just how crucial it is for the n.y.p.d. to continue to gather it's to expand its counterterrorism capabilities and intelligence gathering activities meanwhile the u.s. president is questioning whether his administration needs to apply new strategies to tackle domestic terrorism answer. there are more things that we can do whether it's. engaging in commune engaging with communities where there's a potential for self radicalization of at this point of this sort is there work
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that can be done in terms of detection detecting terror in the homeland eleven and a half years after america's global war on terror began. r.t. new york. will live from moscow with me kevin but after this break. wealthy british stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines comes a report.
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very good have you company let me take you through if you will some world news headlines now first off a gold mine has collapse in north darfur in sudan at least sixty people have been killed the local commission has said the number of deaths is expected to rise well men are all in gold deposits of fuel the most recent conflict in the the tourist while an area of sudan for a decade. and evacuation orders been given the residents of chemical in southern california where two hundred firefighters are struggling against this wildfire the
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blaze broke out on thursday morning and the state fire service says hundreds of homes are now at risk a red flag warning has been issued to residents a strong winds extremely dry weather threat to found the flames even more. u.s. has called for more korea to immediately release one of its citizens who've been sentenced to fifteen years hard labor for antigovernment crimes kenneth bay who is of korean descent was arrested last november and charged with committing hostile acts including attempting to overthrow the government it's believed bay could be used as a bargaining tool during the ongoing dispute with south korea and the u.s. . but british garment factories have resumed production after an eight day closure following the building collapse that killed hundreds locals have been burying the remains of the many and then bodies more than four hundred deaths thousands of people injured and massive protests led multiple arrests in suspension of the local man. more world news headlines a new sars like break has killed five and left two more in intensive care in saudi
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arabia infections of the respiratory virus have so far been contained to the all ridged province of us in the east so this is discovery and twenty twelve have been sixteen fatal cases of this particular strain in saudi arabia jordan britain and germany. a new home for russia's ambitious space plans is beginning to rise from the sands of the country's far east the vostok nice spaceport to show you will be ready in three years time and should be the launch pad they hope for manned flights with the ultimate goal an observatory on the moon tracking it all his artie's space fam. this site is now being described as the main construction side of russia's far east in just two years time this will become the top priority facility in russia the brand new cosmodrome. this will make russia independent mostly independent from the baikonur cosmodrome which is now using and paying an annual rent of six hundred million us dollars of this will also
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make life easy in terms of political decisions on several occasions asked on the blocked launch of russia's satellites and manned space ships of course when russia will have its own space port here in the far east this problem will no longer exist there will of course be some disadvantages for instance the transportation of the russian carriers to the cosmodrome here in the far east right now it takes several days to deliver them to the baikonur cosmodrome which is two thousand five hundred kilometers away from moscow this side here is five thousand five hundred kilometers from moscow so it will take longer and a little more closely but the advantages which exist in this project are having its rushing its own cosmodrome are much much more significant in the first place the parts of the carriers the parts of rockets which are falling off from the rocket when it enters the atmosphere will no longer full on to the land and of course will
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no longer create risks of these parts holding on to populated areas in the case of the drawn these parts will fall into the ocean but the biggest and the most significant benefit which russia will have from having its own cosmodrome is its lunar program by the year twenty thirty as it's expected a space ship a manned space ship will take off from here to the moon which will then circle the earth satellites orbit just the beginning that life will pave the way to a whole new moon exploration program with plans to build an observatory and the research lab on the lunar so. if it's already voiced by russian scientists should that be successful the whole string of facilities including helium mining shafts may follow there's even a possibility that now lifeless planet could be made inhabitable by humans and enjoying a quiet evening watching lunar landscapes from the balcony of a moon hotel will no longer be science fiction but an absolutely real option.
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it's all real you know now a few minutes india's foreign minister talks to and see by the regions plus points and so points to a very. famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented home schooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents not turn it into standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultus if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion like what's with that kid with what his parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american
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supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading right now to riff material that homeschooling might be for you as art sports or. news a can science programs all across the nation that total lack of funding is wrong post libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids hey i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education nowadays but that's just my opinion.
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and many other regional and international issues were discussing with india's foreign minister mr salmond corset many thanks for joining us for this into pleasure my first question to you would be you've come to moscow on the back of international conference on the future of afghanistan the removal of the military contingent the u.s. contingent from the country what would that mean for the region and for afghanistan in particular. we feel and i think that this is the position that we share with russia. is that must take the call there must decide the base and they must decide the alternatives to put in place when the us forces withdraw they still have to sign their bilateral strategic agreement which is the basis on which the remnants of the forces that will continue for purposes of training exception will remain so now there's still a lot of of details to be worked out we will only said one clear thing that
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it's important of rather sound should be absolutely comfortable about this changeover from the u.s. presence to their own security forces and we will do whatever is necessary to help them equip and. build capacity and indeed the same time make a major commitment to development of understand do you think of gas status capable of fighting terrorism on its own without the presence of the u.s. military contingent i think there are two ways of looking at it one is that. whether it's terrorism or any form of hold some opposition to the elected government ultimately it has to be done by the people themselves. represented by the government and to get an inclusive peace. sustainable model within the ram this through. which is actually. worked by the
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afghan people and and decided by the around people is something that we all support . you were quoted for saying that afghanistan may face terrorism threats coming from abroad by that do you mean to stan there are considerable issues on on the ground sans the eastern border and i'm sure that they know it better than anyone else this is only a flagging of concerns that all of us who are friends of iran as the un and the stakeholders within the neighborhood of understand who must keep in mind in helping i'm gonna stand chart out its own course head of two thousand and fourteen other any concerns in india that the withdrawal of u.s. contingent from ghana stand may lead to an increase of the pakistani influence in afghanistan well that this could be a concern this is
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a matter that that would be required to be factored in by a broader standard self but at the end of the day it's the we think that's important i think it's what i've done people think that's important and we've only insisted that i've gone people be allowed to make free choice about what is their destiny and who they would want to work with i don't think anyone on the outside should be dictating to afghanistan but having said that it is our duty and obligation as friends of grandson to give them the advice warning and cabinets that we believe are objectively in their society in their being able to make up their mind as to what they want to do would you be willing to then persuade me be the united states to stay if it's viol if it somehow endangers the situation in afghanistan that's a very difficult for question because i do understand the united states public opinion is strongly against their staying on again there are views about to what extent will united states stay on even after it withdraws its operational troops so these are these are very complicated issues and i think they have to be examined
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objective lead by the government and the gun people all of us who are frankly friends of understand we owed to them to help them decide objectively and decide in a manner without any pressure both from within or from without. what role will the taliban play in the new power structure in afghanistan and is india considering it a threat to itself a distinction has been drawn between the al qaeda and taliban and the distinction between the good diet of one and the not so good taliban about dollar but these are distinction of the read on draw as far as we are concerned but if there has to be an inclusive settlement within the afghanistan and the gun high peace council and the gun people feel that some form of inclusive fifty will provide says sustainability due to a peace agreement then we will go along of course we will go along let's move on
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a little bit farther away from afghanistan and pakistan talk about syria the u.s. the u.k. and israel have been all saying in one voice that there are certain indications of chemical weapons and being used in syria is that creating any concerns in india i think it's only fair be we be we be honest in our dealings with situations like the situation in syria i think we should not allow our personal preferences and ideologies to influence an objective decision that's to be taken a complaint has been made by the syrian government you may like the syrian government or you may not like the syrian government but a complaint has been made about them for about use of chemical weapons in a particular place. i think that should be investigated and that should be taken to its. natural conclusion i don't this this should be allowed to go over by a general proposition about without. substantiation and without
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necessarily evidence so what's your take then on the latest statements that the u.s. may actually use force in syria how would that bring both sides to the end will we would we would advise caution i think our experience in recent years of use of force has not been good for the. the one least of all for the united states of america and i would certainly advise caution despite all the pressure that that group of countries that support action against syria or the syrian government have been putting on the united states i know it's rather premature to say and to speculate but do you think will syria avoid military confrontation and we still hope that it will i mean we have signals of both nature but we will continue to hope that dialogue is the is the is the way out of this very difficult situation and we would certainly begin to continue to advocate a greater dialogue and giving dialogue greater opportunity we know that india is
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striving to become the member of the u.n. security council and russia and the united states are supporting india in that in that push how far are you on that i mean how realistic is the chance that india may become a member of the un security council well a lot of people say won't happen in our lifetime a lot of people say that let's push and try a little bit harder it's extremely important the un is reformed the security council is reformed that it becomes more reflective of the reality of our dimes and the good thing is of course that we have major countries as you just mentioned the u.s. and russia are supporting india in this quest which a lot india's quest alone but i think it's the quest of of those in all the countries in the world that believe that it's important that we bring. bring us to a contemporary reality let's talk about china now we know that after moscow you'll be traveling to china's in an in years future to resolve this rather weird and
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interesting border incident no it's not it's not a result of the border incident. we have a very wholesome relationship with china which is not necessarily to be to be diluted because that would suggest that happened. this is a this is a. you know it's being heard in the room it's it's something richard dialed in the process. come up when i'm there but it's certainly not the cause and loosening of the meaningful piece of my visit it's possible that while i'm there we can take up this issue and try and see if we can take it to a revolution quickly we know that both india and china are members of the brics at the same time india and china are the world's most populated countries and china is on its way to become the world's largest economy. do you feel that india is in some way losing the economic race with china despite that it's being like two boarding countries in the big countries and big populated countries do you feel there is
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a race economic race between india and china well inevitably i mean if you're that if you're a top three or top for the world you could see that in a formal for release but. in the form of healthy competition it's probably healthy competition if we know china is there we will not be lazy our business will be will be on its toes and we would want to produce better and go further and and offer better opportunities that's part of the marketplace philosophy so we don't we don't see that as as a problem we see that as the trinity india is one of the countries which passed the global recession in a rather good manner didn't suffer a lot like many countries of europe did. now this with analyst speculating that another possible global recession is not ruled out do you think that india will have the same result should anything should any major economic turmoil in the world
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happened again. do you think india is ready for another hypothetical recession we slipped from one percent two to six percent which is which is tough for us. but we're quite hopeful it's not we don't have a pessimistic view about the world economy over the next two years but both with our view that the world economy will shape up on c.n.n. and also that we have prepared ourselves for eventualities i think in the next two years we hope to get back to seven or eight percent. as we can see in the example of china that a growing economy is getting more and more energy needs and china is now becoming one of the world's main importers of energy resources from all over the world. in that sense i have a question about nuclear energy where does it where does india stand on the usage of nuclear energy and is there anything any points of cooperation between india and russia on that sense absolutely i think we are very strong partners and nuclear
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energy with russia and you know the. plant which is with russia collaboration and help will get critical the first unit will get critical in our very shortly the second unit will be ready by the end of the year. so we think that . for a country like india with which it's huge population and in relative terms. limited limited energy sources nuclear energy is something that we cannot do without we will have a mix in which nuclear energy will be a growing contribution and there our collaboration and cooperation with russia is paramount it's of extremely wealthy extremely important important contribution to to india's energy energy supply probably my final question i did a preview reports for the just past bric summit in south africa where many experts
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including the deputy foreign minister of russia have been telling me that the role of the brics now is very very important in the world its decisions somehow influence the major global decisions by the un security council and by many major international organizations would you agree with that would you agree that the brics is now stronger than the initial idea of the organization obviously i mean obviously it's a growing it's a growing concept the i. it was a visionary idea and a lot of people did it as well but i think now that we've done one round of summits it's becoming very clear there is an enormous potential the fact that. the west is beginning to do express an interest and concern means that the impact of the effectiveness of fossil abberation is beginning to to make sense to people who are beginning to become apparent to people do you think at some point of time brics may
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become something of a counterweight to when nato the e.u. and western conglomerates i don't use leg like to use the word going to come out way because it would alarm people it will cause negative concerns to people i mean we want to be partners in an organized way we want to be partners in peace and prosperity and whatever it takes to. have that partnership grow forward i think should come come forth from everybody getting from the countries in the brics thank you so much for this interview and finding time for us thank you thank you. thank. you. yes social interests of the surface are severely obese along with the civilian you .
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