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released any official statistics on it but the we know this the chinese have three point five trillion in foreign exchange reserves as about fifty percent of their g.d.p. and they're worried about the value of the dollar of the world's major reserve currency five ten years from now so they're looking to diversify those massive foreign exchange reserves and this is probably the primary reason why they're buying gold had been buying gold in recent years diversification. and do you think that they still comes from the fact that the u.s. has an absurd amount of debt right now i mean we say sixteen trillion but it could be fifteen to one hundred some estimates is that what's what's fueling. the cation . one of the primary reasons that the u.s. national debt now is sixteen trillion dollars. and projected to grow quickly over the next few years. or the dollar remains the world's primary reserve currency about eighty percent of the. reserve currencies are held in u.s.
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dollars but there's a concern if you look at the federal reserve assets they've tripled in size over the last three years so looking down the road. there's obviously concern among chinese authorities about a dollar inflation the dollar eroding in value and so this is the primary reason for diversification for buying gold and getting away from the u.s. dollar and what would they stay again presuming that they are intending to do this what would it do for chinese gray yeah we're really no impact on chinese growth the problem right now the chinese have a very tight control and the capital can and there's no. we won't see the chinese currency the remember the become a reserve currency any time soon it made it may be decades away the fact is outside of china no one uses the chinese currency only the chinese use it so there are a long way away from from being a reserve currency why ok what is the u.s. . i don't know what is the biggest rival it doesn't even have one of them i mean is
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there a feasible currency out that's take its place it's got a modest rival right now with the of course the euro about fifteen percent to twenty percent of. our reserves are held in the euros but given the the very acute structural economic problems you see now in the euro zone. i think the euro's future is very much in doubt and again we'll go back to china why it was why is trying to have been buying gold why are they interested in making their own currency much more powerful much more internationalized because they don't have a whole lot of trust me euro but of a whole lot of trust in the u.s. dollar and which is why they're moving as fast as they can to make their own currency more internationalized to win wilson thank you very much indeed for coming into the studio today i'm not fit for today's edition of plenty capital from all business news monk analysis and exclusive interviews to me same place same time and
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next week see that good bye. oh. i would rather that as lessons for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. most
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people out of ugly duckling. you're watching the weekly here on our team he rock is facing a massive influx of syrian kurds who suddenly found themselves caught in the crossfire of war kurdish areas in syria's north are being raced to the ground by al qaeda linked factions involved in the fight against the assad government to harvest reportedly aim to set up an islamic state there human rights activists as i've been wanting a says the militants also want access to the natural resources there these groups
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seek a stylish in going to islamic states they supposed to engulf the rich areas of kurds and they said they are support the very world by turkey so there are two factors one of them is that these groups want to establish their or islamic state many islamic state which is a project. by a huge islamic state. to syria and iraq now they see that kurds are facing them all the kurds is a challenge to them the other factor is that turkey is pushing these groups against kurds because turkey is not happy that could it. are willing go to try to establish their own internal me in that region and the kurdish region northern syria. more than one hundred thousand people in russia's far east are on the brink of having their homes to lose by flooding in the worst disaster of its kind there in over a century local authorities are preparing further mass evacuations from three
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affected regions with almost twenty thousand people already forced to flee water levels are the highest on record for the region and are expected to climb even further next week now the region's infrastructure has also been largely maimed as the floods have swamped vast farmlands only preliminary estimates show that the waters have dealt around sixty million dollars worth of damage archies paul scott is that the scene for us and reports on the main threats hanging over the reach him . the floods stretch from east to west a distance of two thousand kilometers and from north to south a distance of five hundred kilometers now there is a real concern that the situation could get worse with great anticipation over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so the flood levels are expected to peak in the middle of next week and in particular there are two points where of people is seriously concerned at least the hydroelectric power stations where water levels at the moment ah it's a critical level now there's a real fear that the humble river which you can see behind me could bust its banks
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once more and could power to even close in attempt to try and counter the battle for its use or allowing walter to flow through the downs out of increased rates of twenty percent to try to relieve some of the pressure on the lower the flood waters there around three thousand military personnel in the region as well their own bball hospitals and butterball kitchens as well providing simple food such as bread to help those people who have been displaced like most i was doing it's great to limit the damage being caused but the real concern is with. all right what is expected in the coming days the flood levels could rise the situation could be about to get worse. our team remains in one of the worst hit areas and we'll continue to bring you the very latest as we get it. a young chechen man who was killed while being questioned by the f.b.i. may have been shot in the back of the head alang face down on the ground that's according to private investigators hired to study him break him today in case his father is currently in the u.s.
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where he vows a legal action to see his son's killers punished as he went to meet him. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son a brother games tragic death this is the entrance into the condo where twenty seven year old lived minutes away from disney world it was here that on may twenty second after reportedly being questioned by officials for hours he was shot and killed by the f.b.i. under circumstances most of which remain murky. from reminiscing about ibrahim as a child who was very much into sports. to looking through graphic images that
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a parent should never get to see images that will haunt him for the rest of his life which four or five shots right into the heart i've never seen things like this even in the movies not in the u.s. not in russia nowhere. such violence from law enforcement nowhere have i seen anything like this in the morning father is on a mission to uncover the truth behind the f.b.i.'s killing of his son and he's even willing to sue. but i want justice honestly because an unprecedented intentional murder of my son took place. ibrahim came to the u.s. in two thousand and eight to study english and ended up staying to pursue a career in martial arts this spring he was questioned in connection with a triple homicide in massachusetts as well as the boston marathon bombings as officials believe the chechen young man had been friends with the deceased suspect
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to milan. the father says the only connection his son had to the tsar knives was a chechen background that had once prompted them to exchange phone numbers were given received multiple fatal gunshots to the heart and head during the night of the questioning the f.b.i. claimed a violent confrontation took place but has been blocking autopsy results from going public some reports suggested breggin was armed with a knife others a broomstick but there are also claims that he was not armed at all demands from the american civil liberties union and the council on american islamic relations for florida authorities to hold an investigation were declined while the f.b.i. claims to be conducting an inquiry of its own. now they would never be able to prove his guilt in anything because they killed him if they kept him alive tried him that would be a whole different story. showing us the postcards from american sending condolences to his family he hopes those behind his son's killing would show some heart as well
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. maybe the f.b.i. will have some kind of guilt resurface and it meant that they committed this fatal mistake for several years prior to his death ibrahim was not able to leave the u.s. while waiting to be granted a green card he eventually received permanent residence status and had plans. a visit home on may twenty fourth but he died two days earlier. i'll never get tired i'll do what i can i'm just not able to leave this says is. r.t. orlando florida from the carnage in egypt to dissent within the saudi royal family the week's top stories are coming up in just a few minutes stay with r.t. . wealthy british. time to time for.
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. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman i killed. years later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to try to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. the.
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fury in egypt security forces and pro morsi supporters lock horns in the worst violence since the revolution two years ago which is left hundreds dead. a saudi prince speaks out against the wrongdoings of the ruling monarchy in his own country condemning the injustice abuse and killings r.t. talks to him exclusively. rubbish at spying wary londoners question the use of high tech litter bins that scan people smartphones or report on that shortly. in the storm of l.g.b. to protest against the sochi winter olympics all some want to boycott the games over brussels law against gay propaganda to under eighteen's others call to use the event as a political protests.

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