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tv   News Weekly  RT  September 15, 2013 4:45pm-5:01pm EDT

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an 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 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 squeeze 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 month to five per kilo that's a two year old difference so the question here is how well it will decide to sell to the french. we definitely know i won't spend three hundred extra
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you have to find this money first we says yes if i have the money certainly. noises just until they come with it it is known i think globalization allows us to find cheaper for you must know it when you look at the product you know some of those short or whatever you go the bottle he has been dug into in france but bottle of the been done elsewhere in fact a french political parties have been accused of hypocrisy as a local newspaper's investigation last year she will lection campaign materials have been made in china valid in 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 the point the point is we have. no hope in france at the cme
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is a brand that takes pride in having its manufacturing base in france its director says the study shows 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 of three point two million unemployed big amount of the. those ducks are of course. the social care we have in france and the big dogs a social worker is an employment so we'd move we would be much more healthier in france and with lower deficit. if everyone was to have. a job the world trade organization has criticized this campaign as patriotic protectionism as france's economic quagmire is getting treated here 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
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. does or sylvia r.t. paris. some international news in brief and i have a massive rescue operation is in full swing across the u.s. state of colorado where deadly floods have already killed six people and left hundreds unaccounted for thousands have been forced to evacuate from the deluge areas president barack obama has signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving fragile federal disaster aid because master feed has been branded in the story one hundred year flood but the cost repairs estimated at fifteen times the state's annual budget damp or the still forecast. at least fifty three people have been killed in the latest wave of insurgent attacks no one has claimed responsibility for the blast which targeted commercial areas and parking lots in mostly shiite dominated cities across the country it comes less than twenty four hours after a suicide bomber attacked
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a funeral in northern iraq the country's weathering its deadliest back to violence in half a decade with more than four thousand deaths since april. and while in cambodia right police have fired smoke grenades and water cannon at opposition supporters in the capital phnom penh twenty thousand people took part in a nationwide rally to demand an independent investigation into the results of july's parliamentary election the opposition claims the ballot was spoiled by fraud it comes just a day after the country's king gathered the leaders of rival blocs for the first time in years calling on them to resolve their differences in a peaceful way. and thousands have gathered in the city of montreal in canada to express their anger against a controversial proposed charter of values the draft is the draft law is supposed to prohibit public employees from wearing the he jab and other religious clothing in the workplace protests organizers criticized the state premier poorly calling
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her plans racist and discriminatory opinion polls however have shown that there's considerable support for the charter among key bex electorate. the statue of a man who was behind some of the ugliest policies of apartheid stands just a stone's throw from south africa's capitol and it's not just a monument to past injustices it's still guards a whites only enclave. takes up the story. a half hour drive north of south africa's capital petrolia 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 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
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before them vast dissolute stretches of land and now one hundred fifty years later they returning to the dreams of the forefathers to create an independent entity with their own laws flag and language welcome to claim fontayne and aspiring whites only enclave if you're black you can visit but only for a few hours and with special permission there's a little to reduce that. we don't actually say that. 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 hendrix or vote the former south african prime minister considered the architect of a party eight although signposts are written off the cons the language spoken by 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 haas book has lived in came fronting for six years she says
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she feels safe here there's no crime and she enjoys being part of a community that shares the same culture and history there is this private property so we're not taking anything from anybody else so we don't think i think it's a ratio but we are we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it. claim for change residence 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 a school over time and center and several small businesses it's residents say it's 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 boast or race. benefit a certain racial group. can amik involvement many of our young people that weren't
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even born in the aborted don't have access to work that don't have access to education 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 work and then my fitting get to work here at playing for time and that's when we come back you're under apart hate the white of economy government forced black south africans to live in homelands now decades later the dice has turned and many white often corners feel that white homelands are the only solution but many south africans fear their communities like 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. delegates from ninety countries are now heading home
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after a three day meeting of the world economic forum in the chinese city of dalliance economic power plays discussed issues ranging from industrial innovation and energy security to trade and investment in his speech the chinese premier said he expects the country to reach its target to seven and a half percent growth despite the rough conditions in the global economy but dr thought. from picking you know the feels china is 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 at large in china and one of the toppers actually at the global forum in this. 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 that scientists want to see their
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currency to become the next work currency they supply and and of course sign at the moment is for purchasing more and more gold this also plays into this sort of china take leap forward actually to control the world currency and to replace it with your own yes thanks for watching r.t. this evening i'm back with the headlines in the back i think it's time. i've been negotiating in being a participant in the doubly cio since nine hundred ninety seven and over all these years i have never seen a moment moment to motor year moment when three dimensions were not there. libertarian they claim they're hard to take that
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no. the latest news on the week's top stories sealed with a handshake and washington agree on a roadmap to eliminate chemical weapons from syria and now a u.s. strike on the country. cools the conflict are teammates imprisoned foreign extremists who have been fighting on the side of the syrian opposition to find out why they joined the civil war. and the debate on academic freedom we talked to. a leading u.s. university he says the administration ordered him to retract his criticism of the n.s.a.'s method of decrypting data.

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