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and for a year now but after that he has. no definite future so it's designed to add pressure on to embarrass the u.s. the french government has called on consumers to be more patriotic a bond buying from domestic produces bar what's intended as a lifeline for french industries is proving to be an unwelcome burden on people's wallets looks into the initiative when france's industry minister i'd no more did was struck a pose looking as french as one could be consumer affairs minister but one more thought it was a joke this is a real food of on new moon to be. i don't believe it. in fact what it was message was serious choose french products over foreign made ones to help more of their countrymen and keep jobs and appeal to french patriotism in the face of a thirteen year high unemployment rate with the number of jobless hitting three million for the first time a move that comes as france talks about reforms to restore global competitiveness
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a critical priority says the international monetary fund. a recent study suggests that if consumers were to buy only french made goods they would have to spend between one hundred three hundred euros more each month and amount that would sneeze an already weakened purchasing power because of all the publicity the french are even more aware now are made in france products versus those coming from the outside but most of the time the difference can really be seen in the prices of the goods now this one for example is peaches from spain it costs for ninety five per kilo right this one which is clearly marked made in france cost six and ninety five per kilo that's a two year old difference so the question here is how well it will decide d.s.l. to the french. we definitely know i won't spend three hundred extra you have to find this money first he says yes if i have the money certainly.
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did he just know i think globalization allows us to find cheaper goods but you must know it when you look at the product you know. those short or whatever you go that bottle he has been dug into in france but part of it has been done as well in fact the french political parties have been accused of hypocrisy as a local newspaper's investigation last year she lection campaign materials had been made in china bangladesh morocco you name it. here for example this little case is made in china so i'm not afraid buying sings in china that's not the point the point is we have. no hope in france at all isn't d.c.m. is a brand that takes pride in having its manufacturing base in france its director says the study more is an important point that paying more to support their own industries creates local jobs and is far less of an economic burden than the cost
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of three point two million unemployed big amount of the. those docs are of course. the social care we have in france and a bigger more of the social worker is employment so we'd move rued be much more healthier in france and with lower deficits deficit if everyone was to have. a job the world trade organization has criticized this campaign as patriotic protectionism as france's economic why was giving trickier to manage politicians seem to be grasping at straws the government's new call to arms may look good on paper but its critics point out it could end up an economic fall power. does or sylvia r.t. paris. delegates from ninety countries are heading home after
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a three day meeting off of the world economic forum in the chinese city of dali an economic power play is to discuss issues ranging from industrial innovation and energy security to trade and investment in his speech to the chinese premier said he expected the country to reach its target of seven point five percent growth this year despite the rough conditions in the global economy but dr faustin peds berka from peking university feels china's priorities should lie elsewhere. there are a lot of things to do the economy grow it's actually faster than a lot of other things in china like the political maturity and social problems that still loom large in china and one of the toppers actually at the global forum in this distaste is also work ethics you know china wants to have a stakeholder in making the rules are fair game and shaping them in the future i think it's perfectly reasonable to think that the chinese want to see their currency to become the next work currency they supply and and of course sign at the
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moment is for purchasing more and more gold this also plays into this sort of china is take a leap forward actually to control the world currency and to replace it with you and yes on to some other stories making headlines around the globe now the pakistani taliban has demanded the release of militant prisoners as a condition for launching peace talks with the government they sign is good has also insisted that the army withdrawal from pakistan's volatile travels a lawmakers in dos to talk so with the taliban last week in a bid to end the deadly decade long insurgency. you know warsaw tens of thousands have been running against changes to labor laws poland's government recently raise the retirement age to sixty seven and relaxed rules on maximum working hours demonstrators carried banners calling on prime minister donald tusk to resign the protests have been escalating in the capital for the past four days.
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security forces dispersed demonstrators in turkey on the fifth consecutive night of protests following the death of a young man reportedly killed by police the twenty two year old was allegedly hit by a tear gas canister shot from an empty ride vehicle at a rally a case as really with a wave of mission like anti-government protests first seen earlier this summer. just outside pretoria a statue of a man considered the father of a party overlooks the town which bars a number why visitors unless they have a special pass this isn't some sort of open history museum it's a very real and is self-sustaining community art is policy it took a look at inside the disturbing time capsule. a half hour drive north of south africa's capital and you'll be forgiven for thinking you've traveled back in time it might be two decades since nelson mandela was sworn in as the country's
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first black president but communities hankering after south africa's apartheid past when racial segregation was enshrined in law are starting to wave their nationalistic colors when white people first advanced into the interior of south african eighteen hundreds this is what they saw before them vast dissolute strictures of land and now one hundred fifty years later they're returning to the dreams of the forefathers to create an independent entity with their own laws flag and language. well come to claim fontayne an aspiring whites only enclave if you're black you can visit but only for a few hours and with special permission where there's a little it is really strict. if you go to work you can come in the first thing that greets you is you coming to claim fontayne is a bust of hendrick for vote the former south african prime minister considered the architect of a part hate all of us signposts are written off we can see the language spoken by
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the town's one thousand inhabitants who can all trace their lineage back to the european settlers who arrived here in the sixteen hundreds residents insist they are not racist it's just that they don't welcome jews catholics or any english speakers either merissa has lived in came from tain for six years she says she feels safe here there's no crime and she enjoys being part of a community that shares the same culture and history this is private property so we're not taking anything from anybody else so we don't think i think it's a great show but we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it. claim for change residents include professors engineers and other middle class professionals they pay fees to a carpet of board that gives them water and electricity the community has survived largely without the help of the government it has its own water pumps and a natural reservoir and there's a shopping center a bank
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a school overtime and center and several small businesses it's residence aid self-sufficiency born out of necessity they dream is to create their own flag and currency the problem. is that many of the law or based on race. benefit a certain racial group. can amika. many of our young people who were even born in the aborted. system work. iliza smith moved here after being unable to find work she now cleans houses a job she's very grateful to have my skin and all that i there is no i'm not black abroad for work at least no work and then my freedom get to work yet. and that's when we come back here under a party to the white of economy government force black south africans to live in homelands now decades later the dice has turned and many white often carnets feel
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that white homelands are the only solution but many south africans fear their communities that came from tain a merely lingering outpost of the apartheid era threatening to return the country back to the dark days of its racist past policy r.t. came from tain south africa and i'll be back with the news headlines in just a few minutes just stay with us here on our city. the. war is probably the most complex and difficult to.
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answer. not. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. kill a bunch of people who don't know what their families are really us people. think reading. this something shoots my brother in the leg not intentionally because of it because it was nine times four in the morning even the best given the mess soldiers. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood and author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context that has absolutely no place. to. hold.
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constitution and. that's because a free and open prize is critical to our democracy right albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and as crass cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of trans national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on on the world we go beyond identifying the problem trying to fix rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have on camera go ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. ok . i democratically a welcome here to ted you're all a virginia edge a little while in the middle of the chesapeake bay and of virginia shod and i go
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back out a. ramp a year all in the chesapeake bay probably one of the best areas in the fence is tall fred. this is an old picture of ten deer island before the channel was cut for oh oh here. gone way up there. as go all. right here are some of the headstones from the graves it for here this is a fruit that's that's what we don't want happen to change your all and we want to get some protection and make sure that we don't go into the chesapeake bay like uppers did in other communities.
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