new york. and when it comes to trade a sea route through the arctic is certainly an attractive shortcut from russia and europe to asia to the thawing ice such a journey could take just twenty two days that would still last the transport costs that's almost twice as fast as a southern route through the mediterranean and across the indian ocean a christopher perry is a strategic forecaster and former british naval officer he thinks disputes are unavoidable in the race for the arctic. where i think we could have some disputes is there are a number of other interested countries such as india china korea japan all getting very interested not just in the northern sea route but also in the resources that exists up there in the arctic already the chinese are operating greenland to places like that and i think there will be a scramble by some of the other countries for some of those resources when the ice does recede to you're not just going to have the northern see route across the top

or russia and the northwest passage across canada you're also going to have a route around twenty fifty straight across the top of the north pole now that means that the countries that in the past have faced each other across the north pole that icy waste they can open water for quite a few months of the year and that will introduce different perspectives different geometries and you're going to see canada and you know the states also venturing into the arctic so it's going to be an interesting situation g.g. point of view probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty but people will be getting ready for that of course it in the years leading up to that it's good to have you with us here on the program this week saw the announcement of a great taxi u.-turn by french president francois hollande he's worked long and hard to bring in new taxes but now he's backpedaled promising businesses will save thirty billion euros as artie's more if an option on our reports are lands lackluster approach to dragging france from its economic mix as certainly made him

rather unpopular indeed. i think so just like this why did not go this video clip mocks francois loans tax policies which are among the major reasons he's become the least popular president in france as more than history you know you couldn't hold all timo talk too much more together with belgium that france's tax grab is the highest in the eurozone you don't want to do but see it was way ahead of. the last two hours french i had to fill her top says more than two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't write eighty per cent look the president's economic policy is misguided i don't inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was foolish to close his business down after taxes became too big to bear to sell second if you're sick this is a vicious circle with my business has stopped working and which means i can to

provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development it is like everything falls apart right up to the current taxation policy was part of the finance strategy chosen by the french government to fight economic crisis but almost two years later critics say it simply hasn't worked the country's credit rating has been caught the unemployment level all those table recently is at its highest in almost sixteen years and for twenty fourteen the european commission for costs just zero point nine percent g.d.p. growth in france against one point seven percent in germany and two point two percent in britain people and businesses alike of oh my god another tax and another it's not that they're too high but there are too many and a combination of all these taxes makes it really heavy taxes today really break an economy it seems that's also finally beginning to dawn on the country's leader

examples of new rule all rule taxes big game having to have a the. usually known for very optimistic speeches in his new year address. sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted that. the socialist leader pledged some truly liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new all known and and need hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they see long's plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late reef nationality from france by very quickly to some other global news for you in brief here three children and nineteen adults being killed in an attack on a convoy in the central african republic the group who are mostly muslim families was traveling in the west of the country when that truck was hit by

a grenade launcher meanwhile the european union is expected to give the go ahead for a thousand peacekeepers to be sent to the country on monday that's a joint in with the african peacekeepers and french soldiers already there and the national parliament will also name a new interim president on the same day. that the libya a state of emergency has been declared after gunmen stormed an ace the decision was taken during a quite extraordinary session of the general national congress and seen as an attempt to put an end to violence between rival armed groups that's been ongoing for a week was triggered by the death of one of the rebel chiefs. riot police are fired water cannons and scuffle with protesters in the turkish city of istanbul demonstrators flooded the streets to express anger at a new draft bill which are but ultimately restrict access to the internet the government wants to keep records of online activity and banned sites for alleged

violations of privacy and without the need for a court order if passed internet service providers will be required to join an internet union which will be under central control. and the death toll from flooding that's been raging in southern brazil has reached at least twenty two still there five people are missing and more than three hundred were left homeless in a town south of the country's largest city sound hollow but flooding was caused by a last week's torrential rains which caused a local river to burst its banks and the water destroyed several dams further complicating the rescue effort in the area. as the saying goes there's no place like home but for some there's no country they can call by that name hundreds of thousands of people in latvia have so-called alien passports even though they've never lived anywhere else the only way for them to get equal rights with full citizens is a naturalization test intended for immigrants all scott takes up the story.

but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights we can't vote can't occupy government positions or be policeman or lawyers in total there are ninety differences in november alexander invited u.n. secretary general ban ki moon to latvia for a congress on the issue the invite was politely declined. there are around three hundred thousand of us and i'm one of them here's my passport it's an alien passport. when the soviet union collapsed latvia only gay full citizenship to people and their descendants who had lived in the country prior to nine hundred forty when it became a soviet republic that was around fifty two percent of the population everyone else was classed as a non-citizen today one in seven people are considered alien canady is one of those

affected he was born in latvia and although his mother is latvian because his father moved to the country after nine hundred forty eight was denied citizenship he eventually went through the process of naturalization when he was twenty two years old how did it make you feel having to go through that process despite the fact is he saying you were born in this country well does your mother loves you. right and that's the same if she does that you feel good and if she doesn't you feel a bit about insulted the process of naturalisation attests noncitizens on their knowledge of latvian history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the latvian government are using them to avenge the past but it's not just a moral issue it could also be economic benefits to ending this policy if that three hundred thousand people will be back into political and economical life will be very good feel for the country so you know it isn't to finally move on further

because we always look back into history who are trying to go further. into european union insecurity though and so on but we still had to turn back those fighting for their right to acknowledge they have a long way to go before they win the argument to say they're prepared to take their case step by step postcards r.t. latvia and plenty more of the top headlines from the week coming up on r.t. international in just a few minutes. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. going to be. pretty.

there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese oh crap i don't believe that there. are three. profit. these golden rice. we have corruption like we've never had in this country you can say that this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich and poor we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to take up on an

earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and significant especially in so far as historians can provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a us citizen overseas really you might say the power of a king to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. but in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were

empty. in november they bombed the warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. move it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of the. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for

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