to the ground and weeks before it gets to the top. no billion new rock to spend do i choose to spend it on meters or do i choose to stand up billion euro in fixing the leaks and building a new one for structure. despite the water having been paid through general taxation. no tax exemptions were plans to offset the new charges. forcing one of the major. threats of paying for water twice led most citizens to regard the introduction of meat as an challenges as another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water as the first step towards privatization. mr ferguson said down with the minister tusk by the government with setting up the new company. clearly didn't work out quite as we expected. it was

never on the agenda from my perspective that it could would or should ever be sold or privatized when i was just costing just matter with my officials at the time i insisted that the legislation would have to include three point one the legislation was handed to me before it went into the parliament it wasn't in it. was real. central office and i didn't say of course we all know privatisation is ultimately and it's just. an end it was a letter from disinterested just example saying you're stuck you can say that would you please take these words out of the report. so then the report came back to us that would towards.

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you know can we. i'm here that muddy fields. stadium in edinburgh the home and the heart of scottish rugby i'm here to interview a scotland legend doherty we're a man who fought many great battles on this pitch behind me now he's engaged in the greatest battle of all his struggle against motor neuron disease. yes. the decision has already been made and everything is ready for the big day.

following the examples of berlin and italy the people of thessaloniki will be called upon to say through a non-binding referendum whether they want the water company to be privatized as planned by the government. suddenly however on the eve of the ballot there's a problem. she. said it was the body. facing bit of the ceiling at least not the arms into the school and the people who are making a little bit of this. interior minister younis make a locket in a circular sent out to all municipalities declared the referendum illegal then it got to. them that christmas numbers a lot of money couple. of years must go and i mean to get my police feet of course

physical is going to become some of it is. also difficult but there is my gut that this little piece is to say yes of this i don't need to but i think i posted to somebody needs to be good at this chemically not all of us an estate is supposed to fit to give a list of if he has a couple a good thing it's a scene. the b.b.c.'s even of spider-man implicitly to call b.c. to put the long haul and soul of the name on a place to put up some with a lot of water.

thank french president emanuel micron's on an official trip to weston's thanks is accompanied by forty french businessmen each with an interest in the greek privatization program maybe. today they'll have the opportunity to directly question prime minister alexis to press. among them as sean louise shows up the sewage c.e.o. is company has its eye on greece's water company's. many pot of hell of. a mystery guest we've got booked on the back of my because. i've been this is us they've got them now look you know from a bit more you know the lepto brought up.

the fabulous you know. if you look each of. those i must ask. you to me have. you ever. gotten it so you don't know don't stop it or not make it maybe i will skip class but if you're. going to. the country is now obliged to transfer all state owned assets to the soup. fund. a new anonymous company with a life expectancy of ninety nine years whose management board will also consist of representatives of lend us. the water companies are among those assets but the government still promises they will not be privatized. they need a guy who got these men up ok it show you may know it was cheeky bet the same as

they say it could be he he asked me that i don't like out on boats i've been able to get upset at the park yet if i see both the state i only see the noted piece of above the seas fifteen at least a piece that. crosses from a loss who took part in the thessaloniki water movement became the alternative minister for the environment and was put in charge of water management following the state council's decision he's trying to salvage at least fifty one percent. of the if it was in the midst of the most oil and. it was just want to get you to give up with the going to go to the loo and get these people at the snow to get the stupid notes of the government with. it is a little bit of what i mean this is it's that we're going to produce for what it was it's what ickes the put it.

in twenty fifteen and as became minister of the environment and portugal's newly formed left wing government after the twenty fifteen elections water policy changed to suit enough to. a system of the vs the. yeah it will be in this movie seat views could they. be. that is good nope it is say the defeat it was nice e.p. you snip it is that we will see the events. unfortunately the government has washed its hands of these cases according to portugal's constitution municipalities are autonomous and the state is forbidden to intervene. dimple well those who vote

on d.s. bossiest c.d.o. but if it is our problem ever us into the. like a veto mundo us most of us all to the real cull if you so she had already out at the at the divorce place for you minerals. the key is to kick you boil if you know says look i etc. marcello some passes to farrah have to get by on their own. mr gomes knows he has no choice he is bound to pay a huge amount of compensation one hundred seventy two million euros will go to the private water company because the botanist municipality failed to reach the

envisaged population and water consumption targets. the municipality also realized it had lost all technical know how regarding water management. going to their shelves in new d.s.t. eat eggs you would buy put it abroad. so mr gomez decided to negotiate with the company was she so maybe that starship was awful doubtful to support. those artifacts not by fact if that flag. themselves to two versions with our home with vs once without us and them. visit. zied and no suspected even. england leaving you if they just say. look out. past us different

era but the most expensive water in portugal did not appeal to the courts. on berto brito seeing barson as troubles realized that the game was lost and try to negotiate with the company. you know seems unusual appeared to me as. misleading lucas and cooper to users consider the new world of the past freedom at their leisure the. bison was going to see. no no. no no no. activists against water charges often patrol this cork neighborhood. if they find an irish water crew installing meters they try to force them to leave. oh we say you know what we mean

when we know everybody knows that nothing is set in stone yet. the commission keeps pushing islands to comply with the community directive and impose meters and water charges on its citizens. and there is this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be so there should be a direct responsibility in this cannot be done with a general exception obviously next friday we meet the same time. and we'll do. own act and we don't act and we'd. faced with an precedented public disobedience the government is trying hard to maneuver between public discontent and the demands of brussels. what are trying to do you know in a small way they would say has to happen because the european union toss it has to

happen because detroit at all of us deserting to us but we can time logic on its head very very quickly because when the european commission after the different opinion something acts for example that apple corp older citizens of this country talk to been taught in billion euro. suddenly the ideology walks in next and suddenly didn't hear a liberal saying that the european commission it's only an opinion we're powered of europe but it doesn't it doesn't take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to how we tax how can the unit be in commission take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to water. for an opinion of the very same body and the very same people alone has to be her own decisions in relation to give an apple a thirteen billion year old gift. well all you have to do is look at puppets to explain those contradictions.

all of these situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each other. was. to ask chris who plays the whole movement to defend. you people basically need to be made nice to see more of a. system that when they're trying the west and i mean to get them out of the government and then them kind of i wouldn't have a dogmatic approach to. was. going to

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heard. the u.s. coalition in the interest so-called defensive end strikes against pro-government forces in syria accusing them of attacking a rebel group. on the eve of the winter olympics hopes diminishment dozens of russian athletes fighting to have that bans overturned. love em. and a video of libyan children playing out a mock execution that was piled on against share their views on the effects war can have on the minds of youngsters. mirroring in their executing their mock executions what have they been what she was it online or really would they watch first if they watched the first guaranteed they're going to have

a stroke because probably many. think if you're watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate and we start with the news from syria the u.s. led coalition sorry the u.s. coalition has conducted what they describe as defensive airstrikes against pro-government forces in the country with more on this let's cross live now to our to tell of more pain in new hi there kelly could you bring us up to date with what's happened. absolutely now from what we understand at this point the u.s. central command is confirming that it has conducted air strikes against syrian government forces it's calling these defensive airstrikes it says that the forces they struck first attack to the s d f now this is a group of kurdish forces that is being supported by the united states now this

comes in the light of on january seventeenth we heard from rex tillerson that u.s. forces are in syria for the purpose of defeating the isis terrorists however we've seen previous statements from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson we've heard him previously state that the forces are there for the purpose of trying to replace syria's president bashar assad at this point there are roughly two thousand ground troops from the united states in syria and u.s. aircraft are patrolling territory in the eastern parts of the country now it's rather unclear what the purpose of their mission is on some occasions we have heard that these forces are there simply to help defeat the remnants of the isis terrorists and make sure that they don't return to the area but on other occasions we have heard statements to the effect of these forces are there to fight against the syrian government now with the fact that they are now airstrikes being conducted by the united states against the syrian government the question of what

purpose these forces are carrying out and what is their real mission in syria that question becomes even more pressing it is also important to note that u.s. forces are in syria without the permission of the internationally recognized syrian government making this constitute essential an invasion under international law. indeed thank you for that kind of movement in new york well for some insight on this we can now bring in retired u.s. army major general paul valenti who thank you very much indeed for joining us well interesting developments in syria the u.s. describe this as strike his defense. it doesn't look that way to you. ok you know this continues to be a very complex situation over there with all different types of cross border operations and you know you've got to produce forces now you have the coalition forces that are there with their no one purpose of defeating a gash. or isis a residence you also have

a turkey that his done cross border operations from the north into syria to defeat the kurds so you have united states supporting the kurds. forces you have russia involved with the protege forces from the standpoint of protecting no. transit you're in the borders of syria so it's very conflicted over there that's for sure and i would hope that we could work closely to us to divert very closely with turkey and also with russia to finally solve the situation there including those borders of iran's also involved by the way play date and also you talk in that all about russia also about second let's look at russia first of all i mean earlier russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he had said that the u.s. has and this is what he said given up their assurances that the only goal of that presence in syria was to defeat islamic state on the terrorist i mean what is the

u.s. going in syria now do you think on the back of what is just said. well i think there's always been the motive to see a saud removed and a new government a new leader put in syria no less than one of the motivations of the united states and then of course you have russia and you know side supporting assad and you know i've been inside a series a few times myself i've been to aleppo and i have zero work with some of the forces over there several years ago but again united states russia can solve this problem if they can sit down and work something out with all syrian elements all working as asians you can't just be broken gene they've got to look at some of the residents of the better parts of the free syrian army they have to look at the kurds the. northern and eastern syria purely to be brought together and resolve we're going to see a continuation of these conflicts and it's also that look at

a turkey as well i mean could these our strengths are in that cycle given the president doing recently described the kurdish led s.k.f. as a terror. well sure they may consider mature there's no doubt about it and that conflict is going on for years the church you do not want to see in a defended current state of the united states is in the one party because they support the iraqi government from northern iraq and the kurds there could yet go on the other and get kind of the whether there should be independent kurdish state the northern part of syria and iraq and that's got to be worked out so again sure what the solution is my so far the better it has to get together and talk and resolve it so seriously to be rebuilt again that's one of the players of working on the syrian renaissance plan the rebuilding of syria and i work very hard to provide to

different foreign ministers. and finally let let's also look at exactly he was targeted in this a strike i mean this seems to be some incessantly anyway the u.s. described them as preparation for says but that's not specifically the syrian military i mean how do you think that these forces could be. well you know i'm not sure at this time who's working with the syrian. armed forces you know i'm sure there's a notice over there that are doing that but i do not have any information or intelligence on that so it's very hard for me to answer your question they're. just put out that is basically what they call regime forces were pretty good to me it would be just yeah these foreign forces of syria plus any others flittered minister being supportive. that's going to be a shame to see what comes out of it doesn't reside u.s. army major general pulled out of me thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you kate. now the twenty eighteen winter olympics get underway in

south korea on friday but there's still some doubt over who will compete the court about a trace of the sport has one of the cases of dozens of russian athletes who've been banned despite being cleared of doping charges trying to reports. the olympic dreams of almost fifty russian asked they right now depend on the court of arbitration for sports and for the pm chang games this is their new home. the court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow . but simply a final decision can be rendered at the end of the day tomorrow what is called after the opening ceremony the goal is really to finish for you and then when it is going to so i would say to me the last moments of the announcement should be striving to not simply could be only. it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches with

a clean doping test history against the international olympic committee but in a sense it's a battle between the court of arbitration for sport forecasts and the i.o.c. here's why a group of russian winter athletes were an issue lead a few months ago banned for life by the i.o.c. their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didn't get lifetime bans but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well they still heard that they can't come to pyongyang so it's the careers and the olympic dreams as these athletes that a swiss law firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swished lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the

nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of. citizenship and remember that some of the people whose state is being protected here are reigning olympic champion and. olympic movement does not consider me an athlete to do good to be a part of it without even providing an explanation i've never given a reason to doubt my own history and my integrity. the games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my partner we've been working towards these olympics for many years it was my cherished dream.