mental damage that comes as part of the package. reports. three weeks after u.s. military refueling plane went down in the mountains of kurdistan people in the nearby villages are still reeling from the effects of the crash of the budget went into the mountains right into three fresh water springs where villages get their drinking water the fuel leaked into the streams and now it's impossible to drink people now say their livestock beginning to get sick and when americans came here to get the wreckage they drove right over our pastors and fields. the k.c. one thirty five straight a tanker was one of the planes stationed in the manassas air base which for a decade has been a major hub for the u.s. led war in afghanistan the base was renamed under the government of president bush to rid of any association with another country's military presence on the ground some thought that the heated debate surrounding the air base would window once it was are named into a transit center changing the nature of its activity but the people in surrounding

towns and villages say nothing has changed and they continue to feel the negative effects of the american presence no matter how much money is said to be poured into the colony the people still want the u.s. base off their land washington shells out sixty million dollars a year on the lease and wants to extend the deal but the kurdish government has already announced the plans to evict their merican in june of next year once the lease expires the decision could be attributed to the vocal opposition to the base many have expressed over the decade often questioning just what exactly is going on . in the course of all these years the government never once inspected the base they have absolutely no control over what's going on there you can and what kind of operations is engaged in. the us would be hard pressed to find a better location afghanistan china and iran are all within easy reach it's the

spot on the map that's therefore difficult for washington to let go and this puts kurdistan in a very big. kerry's position. to you know the risks that you're going to start in the people. by possibly being dragged into a larger war there's a possibility of course recapture control of the country and. you know arm time still these undercover gone out the alley and eventually of. destabilization there's a flight to afghanistan so you know the destabilization politically and security wise in that region it's hardly worth it to. you know return for comparatively small sums of money but it's think vironment the tops the long list of complaints about the effects the american transit center has and the region. because experts say planes have to land with their fuel tanks nearly empty so they just dump the fuel all over the place mostly in our lowlands and in the mountains in one town

even the trees don't grow anymore. u.s. officials say any problems are more than compensated for with a huge annual investment into kurdistan's economy which has surpassed one hundred million dollars annually for the past four years but money locals never see means little to the carcass people who describe the treatment they received from the u.s. military personnel as derogatory and would much rather see their crops grow than have another plane spilling fuel into their drinking water in kurdistan. r.t. . you know this hour at least sixty six people are being killed and many more wounded in the string of car bomb attacks in baghdad explosions struck mostly shia areas of the iraqi capital a busy commercial street deadly bombings hit iraq almost daily and the country suffered an upsurge in sectarian violence since the u.s. withdrew its troops in late two thousand and eleven. thousands of ethnic albanians turned out to march in protest of the arrest of six former rebel

commanders in pristina suspects including the republics and. pena allegedly committed war crimes during the kosovo war in the late ninety's they're accused of running a detention center where civilian captives were tortured to death because it is led by the e.u.'s mission in kosovo which has been operating since pristina unilaterally declared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. well that brings up state of the monarchy but with the business with the used team in about twenty five minutes from now i mean we have the business with the tasha she's here in the studio with us and the i understand that the chinese they want to build a massive new city in byelorussia not far from the capital minsk indeed to the tune of about five billion dollars and then the business bulletin after a short break i asked their deputy head how they're going to make money with this who they're going to sell this to all the details right there thanks indra.

a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will allow the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels this seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel faction al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organization with links to al qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. government itself as it started something like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra well the free syrian army is that much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian alawite minorities with

great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the taliban and those mujahedeen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion. it's thirty six minutes past midnight here in the russian capital and you're watching the business program with me at the same. belew display ends to build an

entire city near its capital minsk using money from china build as the new high tech manufacturing hub the city will mushroom on a land lot that's almost twice the size of manhattan it will get its electricity from a nuclear power plant that russia will help build by twenty eighteen the project's total price tag is estimated at about five billion dollars that's roughly eight percent of the country's entire struggling sixty billion dollars on me the bulk of those initial investment will have to be borrowed from the chinese the preliminary green ones have already been reached but every loan has to be repaid i asked the project's deputy head curial car a tale of how the bell russian side plans to do that and when it hopes to break even on the project. four who. as of today go reuss is working with two of the largest chinese banks export import bank of china and china development bank it's

a long term loan totaling three billion dollars we expect to pay it off in fifteen to twenty years. quickly run through the markets it was a relatively quiet day for the european equities with wall street and alondra and close for a banking holidays germany's dax was posting pretty robust gains rebound rebounding from its first weekly loss and more than a month mainly thanks to high tech stocks and the auto makers now when it comes to the currencies the euro was trading a lower to the u.s. dollar and here in moscow the russian ruble closed mixed to the major currencies on monday and when it comes to the russian equities they both share the value on very thin trading volumes and that's against the backdrop of other emerging markets that headed for their biggest gain in about a week and falling oil prices could have been one of the major reasons for the

stocks decline here in moscow it's day five over a lower crude it continues to drop after the world's second biggest consumer china said it's in dissipating a lower economic growth rates hence lower demand russia is planning to sell part of its giant state own railway company by the end of next year the deal likely to offer the first five percent the value the russian railways at more than forty two billion dollars if the offering successful the state might sell an additional twenty percent by the end of twenty sixteen put into the economy ministry the russian railways as one of the world's biggest railway companies with one million employees and one billion pounds turds. unemployment has become one of the biggest social and economic issues and here the recent data shows that chu out of three young people in greece and spain are out of work and

it's the austerity measures that should take all the blame for the jobless rates that's according to an american economist a nobel prize winner dale want to see the austerity programs have been counterproductive. a negative effect on growth and therefore increased employment it's hard to debate otherwise countries that haven't had to go through that like northern european countries are doing finding i'm having problems with unemployment i just went through it spain italy portugal ireland greece those are the countries that are under the gun for a sterling as well as the united states they seem to be doing much better than europe but wages are falling so do you see the united states curbing the unemployment in the near future but at the moment u.s. is doing relatively better it's coming back but we've just had our own form of

austerity going into effect the first of march with major budget federal budget cuts and these are headwinds against which the recovery is trying to trying to cope many europeans especially young ones start losing hope to find job after several years of unsuccessful job seeking what do you think of the western labor market gets back to normal in europe or is it lately it's been getting worse and part of it is a reversal in policy government policy part of it is there are going to get to some of the structural issues that are working themselves out you know ten your horizon that's probably because better but in the next year or two it's hard to find. it's hard to be optimistic. the widely accepted cliche that men on average earn more than women may turn out to be far from the truth according to fox business men

and women earn the same when they make the same career choices the problem is of course they rarely do women whose priorities a vastly different from those of men often sacrifice their careers and of course or pay in favor of family flexibility and even spiritual fulfillment the existing way just spared comes from men choosing higher paying fields and occupations here is an example and the relatively high paying computer and engineer field men outnumber women seven to one within the medical field men are far more likely to become surgeons while women tend to go for the old lower paying specialties like pediatrics and dentistry. and that's all the latest from us of the business team after a short break r.t. speaks with the leader of the libertarian party in the netherlands about the role of the state and the individual freedoms that the party stands for keep it here.

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it's been said that in life only two things that guarantee death and taxes and my guest today has some issues with one of those i'm joined by two on monday is the leader of the libertarian party of the netherlands thanks very much for talking to us now for our view is that might not be completely ofay with libertarianism what is it that you stand for it's a political philosophy that wants to maximize individual liberty and minimize government we believe in self ownership we live that every individual on his own life his own body the fruits of his own labor and that these are fundamental human rights that nobody should violate including the government so if libertarianism is trying to pay as little tax as possible deal face off in a situation where we get what you pay for well there are many reasons why we are opposed to taxation the first reason is a moral reason we believe taxation is immoral we believe that every individual has

a right to his own life and therefore a right to the fruits of his labor or to his property and that it is morally wrong to take somebody's property against their will and that is what taxation is taxation is legalized for foreign of robbery what changes would libertarianism bring to europe. well first of all would have a lot more freedom it would mean the people would now control their own lives they control their own destinies they can decide for themselves what it is they want to do with the fruits of their own labor their longer have a government that's taking half of what they earn what would you get what do we get a return we get streets we get we get highways filled with traffic jams we get hospitals with waiting lines we get schools that are very expensive but the quality of these schools is not all that great we get. an army of bureaucrats whose job is to make new rules and they keep making new roles all the time what are the main

problems facing europe right now. the problems caused because. of our financial system because the government has created the monopoly of government employee of money creation there was a time when money was gold and when money was gold and good money was gold coins there was no inflation there was deflation in fact one one coin of gold could buy you more and more over time because. there were the production levels are rising much faster than the amount of gold in the world and that in those days there were no. the pressure there were no big recessions that started when. money sort of started changing when people took their gold to the bank and received . in return a bank note or research or received in return and accounts with

a credit in the account when that started happening banks became. influenced in the sense that they they received an incentive to start handing out loans to people that weren't actually covered by gold they just created money out of thin air and that's what caused. inflation. and then some banks started to go bankrupt their bank runs when people found out that their bank had created so much money out of thin air that their gold backing was so low that it became a risk to put your money to keep your money in that bank and when that happened banks are lobbying with the governments to create a central bank and the purpose of the central bank was to make rules that all the banks now had to follow as to how much they could inflate how much money they could print out of thin air so the odds were that all the banks would inflate

together at the same rate so that the risk of bank runs would now disappear and that's what's happened and as a result inflation has become rampant if you look at the value of our currency today compared to the value for currency hundred years ago. about ninety nine percent of the value of the currency has disappeared and that's because of inflation and that's that's because the government has allowed bangs to create money out of thin air it's a government issue privilege to the banks and the banks are happy to to take advantage of it. and of course government is not the creation of money now only the central bank has a right to create money and central banks do what is called quantitative easing which is a very nice word but it really means is. is is creating money out of thin air in a way you could actually call it counterfeit money because what is counterfeit money it's money that isn't backed by anything that's just a worthless piece of paper but that's what the government is doing to us and we all

understand that counterfeiting is a bad thing and why is that a bad thing because the counter fitter get something for nothing. and all the people who have saved money lose outs when counterfeiting. is allowed to occur and a lot of people start counterfeiting what it means is all the people to save their money are now losing and the counterfeiters are getting something for nothing and it's very distorted because people now receive an incentive to become kind of critism selves right to do productive work but that's exactly what the government does with central banking government has now monopoly in counterfeiting they have the right to create money out of thin air just worthless pieces of paper and as a result all the people who save money. are watching their savings disappear there are savings become worth less and less and the and the government is getting something for nothing and it's very distorted because now a lot of people stop doing productive work they start working for the government or they start selling services or products to the government they can become part of

the military industrial complex to make money off government so it's a very distorted process and not only is the distortive but it creates the business cycle because when central banks inflates create huge amounts of money out of thin air they create bubbles and these bubbles cannot last forever they must burst and when the bubble bursts that's when we have a recession as we have a depression it is really. very comparable to knock a holic who drinks too much alcohol and is then received the next day he has a he has a hangover that's that's what basically what our recession is it's the hangover and the the money creation the credit expansion is like the the that's the also gives you and the problem that alcoholics have is that when the are getting a hangover they are very tempted to take more alcohol because they can delay the

effects of the hangover and that's what our governments are doing as well our central banks are trying to solve the crisis by printing even more money but that only makes the. worse in the long run it's only a very temporary measure but it's only kicking the can down the road so the only real solution to this problem is to end this government privilege of crap of creating money out of thin air and go back to a situation where money's worth something ramoni is covered by something it can be gold it could be silver could be a any other thing that has intrinsic value but as long as government is allowed to keep on printing counterfeit money that's worth nothing that whose only value is based on the fact that they have a monopoly on creating it and they can put anybody in jail who does counterfeiting except themselves as long as that is the basis for money we will be in this business cycle why should libertarian principles be used to help solve the problems in europe the free market is the best system that we have to create products and

services to enrich our lives to make sure that we live long and happy and prosperous lives because the free market is a system that is based on voluntary cooperation in a free market every turns action between two or more people requires the voluntary consent of each of the people involved and that means that they all expect to be better off their own spec to be happier as a result so as a result any turns action a free market is bound to add to the happiness and prosperity of the of the individual people involved in the transaction and when you allow an entire nation to reap the benefits of the free market everybody in the long run will benefit to become better off and lead happier more prosperous lives and government to vention always goes against that principle government pension is based on force would you say that modern day europe has drifted away from liberty there is

a lot of positive developments but there is also negative development of the pl the . where comes to privacy our right to privacy versus the government that's a right that has completely been eradicated over the last thirty years and government has the idea that they have the right to know everything. and that either we have nothing to hide in which case we don't need privacy or we have something to hide which case we don't deserve privacy so when governments bill politicians talk about privacy in a new privacy laws they're always talking about how private should be protected amongst the people how corporations and companies should be stopped from invading the privacy of citizens but government of engine of our privacy that's something that is is occurring more and more over the last thirty years another very worrisome development is the european union. because up until now. actually up until one thousand nine hundred two is a better year to pick. the european. economic community the

e.c. was a force for the good at the time what the e.c. did was reduced trade barriers to zero richer is reduced terrorist is your reader reduced trade quotas to zero. and promote things like free movement of capital and people and goods and services that was a good idea at the time the e.c. was was was advancing individual liberty that's changed that project basically was finished in one thousand nine hundred two and what those european bureaucrats should have done is said ok we're our job is done let's all go home let's find a real job to do productive for us what happened what happens at the euro kratz have started the new project which is basically the creation of the united states of europe and it's a very gradual thing it doesn't happen overnight but what we see is that they're trying to erase competition amongst member states right now we have competition right now every member state to set their own tax rates right now every country commit to make their own rules and as

a result there is competition in this competition has been extremely helpful and the euro kratz would like to reverse the process they would like to end tax competition they would also like to end competition as to the level of regulation they would like to have. european union but sets tax rates on european level they would like to have your opinion the man has the same rules all over the european union and eradicate competition they want to stablish a cartel so freedom is lost and prosperity will be lost if that happens and that's why most of the terence are very skeptical about this project of european integration because what it really is is a cartel they're trying to form a cartel so that we can't escape them anymore we can't we can't move anymore to another country to escape high taxes thank you very much for speaking to us today well it was a pleasure you're very welcome. they

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