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bill shorten oh in the autumn in automobile sector and now they're afraid that these all these years of the force will be cleaned by the new deal which will happen between us and iran for sure that the european companies will be most probably losers in this kind of agreement. taking a look now at some other news stories making headlines across the globe a stampede at a bridge at a hindu temple in northern india killed at least one hundred ten pilgrims more than one hundred also injured as huge crowds attended a religious festival reports say police used battalions to restore order but that caused even more panic stampede it started when a group claimed the bridge was about to give way in order to speed up healing for the temple. in iraq at least forty two killed dozens wounded in multiple bombings across the country most of the blasts happened in busy markets and bus stations not clear yet who is behind the killings militant groups including al qaida have carried out similar attacks in the past according to the u.n.
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more than five thousand people have been killed in militant attacks this year alone . in mali at least thirty six people have died including more than a dozen children after a boat broke up and sank in the river needs there many more remain unaccounted for rescuers continuing to search for survivors so far around two hundred people have been plucked from the water the vessel is alleged to have been overloaded and authorities say there is an investigation underway. israel's army discovered an almost two kilometer long tunnel running under the border from gaza into its territory country's defense minister said it's possible that it could be used for terror to prepare for a militant or terror attacks find trigger the cancellation of crucial construction and humanitarian materials to the palestinian territory hamas said the move is intended to continue what it calls the israeli siege that's been in place since two thousand and seven. having amassed a three trillion dollar war chest chinese firms have gone on
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a shopping offensive in europe over the weekend has reported that beijing is close to a multi-billion dollar deal to snap up shares of the u.k.'s nuclear industry now even london's iconic black cabs have been spared the interest of cash rich chinese businesses are reports. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufactured g.d. which already owns volvo stepped in and bought the company for eleven million pounds the factory is now back in business this part of the assembly process is called the marriage of the carriage where the shape of the taxi. meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and she on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next
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five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines so the future really previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. to develop. i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does it say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it represents
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a hollowing out of corporate britain and i'm happy that it's not going on that but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies that means i would british companies are not competitive across the globe. so we're not putting in the right tax policies we're not dealing with regulation that hinders these companies welcome to have new investment it always is in the long term this takes away economic productivity from this country it means that stuff and job some are liable to go because there's allegiance between the companies that are owned by foreign entities and their country rover than brisson piece has been a cabbie for the forty years and has seen the london taxi company through several british. i hopped in for a ride and asked him how he feels about turning chinese this is a shame that it's not owned by a british company but it's better to then go into the wall dynamic the companies that are still british they would be faced with and you see. i see
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london take a look at some of china's recent investments as our report just mentioned in two thousand and ten a chinese car maker flush with cash decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it in january of last year one of germany's premier concrete makers also fell to beijing's riches that same month italian yacht builder ferrante was snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime and just a few weeks later french fashion house sonia rykiel was taken over by a hong kong based firm in keeping with east growing fondness for a luxury roger nightingale founder of an economic strategy consultancy firm things many european countries say chinese investment poses a threat. a lot of european countries are very nervous about except seeing chinese cash who they are many of them and i think you find this in southern europe you find it in france you find it to some modest degree in
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germany also some countries think that they are threatened if china buys into their industrial base my own view is that that is entirely wrong my own view is that the industrial base of these countries will fail if you don't get the investment into them that will allow them to raise their productivity and to raise raise the profile of their products it's something comparable to that which afflicted the africans earlier they think that by selling out their assets they actually somehow undermine their capacity to have an economy that is viable in the future i think they're wrong but time will tell. the olympic torch has started its long journey to sochi for the two thousand and fourteen winter games after the lighting ceremony on red square last week the flame embarked on a four month relay that will cover more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia and even into space in greece it was then taken to russia by plane last
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sunday was a squatted to red square by a two hundred strong cavalcade of bikers president putin personally lit the ceremonial cauldron kicking off the relay torch then toward moscow for two more days before setting off on its trip across the country it will visit nearly three thousand cities and towns it'll scale russia's tallest peak and ascend to the bottom of its deepest lake it will be taken for a space walk for the first time in history and that on the seventh of february two thousand and fourteen it will end up in the stadium in sochi to herald the start of the winter games you can see the highlights and catch the reports from the relay ceremony on our website r.t. dot com. more news coming your way at the top of the hour and a recap of the week's top stories stay with us.
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couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. three blog. for your media project free media. israel is the country iran threatens to wipe out those are done with them goodies that could the iranian leadership openly says so in this sense there is no difference between rouhani enough. for his visit to new york rouhani publicly declared that their goal is to annihilate israel. i think. the really. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because
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a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crack cynical we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class from my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing to find a job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. wealthy british style it's time to retire things will target. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global
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economy in these kinds of reports. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. yes precarious. yes we can. there's no such thing. and to anything. to. seize the moment and even of. this leadership. here comes this. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate.
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that was funny but it's close in for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different right. ok because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not high. i'm. sure you guys stick to the jokes will handle the mess i'm. the real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this
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directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was and it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this boils.
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to the. lives. of the young girls cammo for the future han are. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes. you know teaches them a lot of response ability and simply come to think through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children our future might. hold.
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a moscow suburb turns into a battleground after the killing of a local man fuels massive anti immigrant riots with almost four hundred arrested. us government shutdown sparks angry scenes in washington as the world bank warns a deadlock is just days away from causing a global financial catastrophe. to blast ripped through damascus one targets a government t.v. station the other goes off near the hotel where the chemical weapons inspection team is staying at the latest from the city. and looking back at the week's news whistleblower edward snowden the races head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance in months outlining what he says are modern day threats to privacy.

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