it's asians people who work would probably end up paying more taxes. we are losing forty seven percent of our trees of war into the ground in leaks before it gets to the top. no billion you're up to spent 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 kinds of abel's where says. the threat of paying for water twice led most citizens to regard the introduction of meters and challenges as another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water as the first step towards privatisation.

mr ferguson 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 my insistence that the legislation would have to include three point one delay just say she was handed to me before i 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 envisaged. and then there was a letter from disinterested just example saying your start you can say that would you please take these words out of the report. so then the report came back from us

that would towards. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet people themselves with simple song alone even find company elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us the robust alag so miss you guys you got. to go. by been this is just because i'm out of it over and over some more you know i'm going to lift hill

brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about to hurt and the redistribution of our west towards dairy debt downwards the one dollar. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the beach for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spend the student twenty million fly a. book it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy great so well. and thinks it's going to.

level off selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks try to tell you that because of the public myself most important. off the bat i've been telling you i'm not cool enough to buy their products. on the hawks that we along with our loved ones. 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. there's a little there's the idea. they save it and there is the end of the scene at least they can not put 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 the old municipalities declared the referendum illegal and then at the top you can a kind of it will not in the christmas numbers a lot of the couples are going to see it as muffed or. going to the victim i believe you speak of course physical is going to become some of it is.

also difficult but that is my gut that this if you tickle base is to say yes of this i don't need to but i've been a professor to somebody needs to be good at this timothy none of us unsteady support if it be given still if he has a couple a good thing it's just a host he it b.c.'s even if his but a man implicitly to call b.c. to put them on almost all of them the money pushable that smith about a quarter. 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. today they'll have the opportunity to directly question prime minister alexis to press. among them as sean louise shows the sewage c.e.o. is company has its eye on greece's water companies. and any part of tell us that all. of us you guys we got booked on the back of my because. i've been this is. a good time now look you know it's a bit more years now and the left elbow it up. a. little flat last time you know. if you missed it so it was

a nice that's. what you. get when you said. you know me. you don't know don't stop it you know. it's. going to be. the country is now obliged to transfer all state owned assets to the super fund. the 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 out so you may go straight to bed the same as they say it could be he he asked me that i don't like and go to some extent but only get upset at the bike yet if i see both the state i may see that i did the 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 fuel oil it. was just going to get just one begins with the going to go to the loo and get these people at the store to get the stupid notes of the government with. a mist over what i mean this is it's that we're going to produce but what i was is it's we thought ickes the bit that it's.

in twenty fifteen and as became minister of the environment and the portugal's newly formed left wing government after the twenty fifteen elections what a policy change soon after. all in the slightest will deal with a system of the vs the believe it's a start but they meant that yeah it will flood loom is the in this movie see bruce good day. bash. no city feed it was nice see bruce bettis is that if you see the vamps. 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 quantiles new sleepers dimple well those who vote on d.s. bossiest c.d.o. but if it is our problem ever us into the ten. others that i can veto

mundo us malva us all to the real cull if you so she had already the it to the divorce place for you minerals. the key is to kick you boil if this 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 boston us 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 d.s. the kids you would buy put the board. so mr gomez decided to negotiate with the company was she so maybe. starship was awful doubtful to explore. the facts not by spec just to get it for. themselves thirty versions. home with vs one without is no. i don't. visit when people. lose ied and also just like that you've. encountered one week you leave and you if they just say double again but a blackout. passes different era but the most expensive water in portugal did not appeal to the courts. umberto brito seeing barcelona's troubles realized that

the game was lost and try to negotiate with the company. knows you must begin to. look seems to me was what appeared to me as well look misleading lucas and cooper to users of food through the newer of the past freighter at that he for that work bison wasn't going to sit. oh and. 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 now what we need mean 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. the jury is certain this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be sought there should be a direct responsibility of this cannot be done with a general exception obviously next friday we meet same time. we'll do that. yet we don't act and we. faced with unprecedented 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 it has to happen because the european union told us that has to happen because detroit at all unless that's what it has become time logic on its head very very quickly. because when the european commission after the

different opinion something acts for example that apple collaboration all the citizens of this country talk to be taught in billion euro. suddenly the ideology walks in the next and suddenly the new liberal say the european commission it's only an opinion we're part 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 do you know being commish 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 given apple a thirteen billion year old gift. well all you have to do is look at puppets to explain those contradictions.

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dozens of russian afflatus have their hopes dashed just hours before the winter olympics start in south korea as the court of arbitration for sport dismisses their appeals against the don't think related. syria calls on the

u.n. to hold the u.s. coalition to account for wednesday's airstrikes targeting pro-government forces u.s. central command says the attack was to defend an american bank. and republican lawmakers in the us are threatening to cut funding to a global cancer research program after revealing america's most widely used wind killer made by giant company monsanto to cancer. from cape partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a ban preventing them from competing in the winter olympics has failed the court of arbitration for sport secretary general announced the ruling with just hours to go

before the games get underway in south korea just arbitrator's of concert at the process triggered by the r.u.c. to establish an invitation list of russian that leads to complete olympic athletes from russia could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision. did not demonstrates that the manner in which two special commission system stuff wastes by the i.o.c. was carried out in a discriminatory of a trio and feminine. auntie's any of us in the host city chang well any i mean pretty devastating news for some of russia's top last place i mean including key medal hopes i mean can you tell us more about this ruling from carlos. kate hello so there you have it according to the court of arbitration for sport or specifically it's panel rating and athletes of the infant they should to the

olympic games isn't equal to punishment plus they're happy with the criteria the international olympic committee chose for these invitations in the first place one of the main problems is that a group of russian athletes and coaches who by the way have never failed a doping test were never explained what criteria by the i.o.c. they didn't match to get this red card these people included reigning olympic champions and here's how they reacted when they found out that they weren't on that list of invited athletes in the first place. movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves 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 are to be the first in my career together with my book we've been working towards and to settle in because for many years and it was my cheering group. i was showing the lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given no reasons to doubt that i'm. again the forty two russian athletes and coaches who sued the international olympic committee work from two groups thirty two had been sanctioned by the international olympic committee investigators have as a result of the russian doping scandal at all then fifty received a lifetime bans and had their medals taken away a few months ago but the very same court of arbitration for sport last week

cancelled these bans they were turning their podium winds and allowed to compete again but what we've got right now is a decision that completely contradicts that some have argued that since the original court ruling to overturn the lifetime bans cas has been under emens pressure by the olympic officials well see for yourself. how so the decision is so extremely disappointing and surprising care for. the the i.o.c. we would never have expected this. decision shows so the urchin to meet for reforms in the internal structure because it has this kind of pressure of affected the decision possibly we will never find out for sure well i can tell you that the

international olympic committee has already applauded the ruling so as the people who were. in favor of the russian bed and the first place but of course for team russia it is a complete disaster and the athletes are baffled. why how it could get that unfair some of the teams have already said that they are going to other civil courts with this and what they want to do is somehow retrieve the moral and financial damages and it's an issue that's going to go on and on if you're trying to in killing tank thank you very much. for we can now hear from investigative journalist david lindorff so we can discuss this in more detail i mean dave if you are listening to the report from me are there let's have a look at the nitty gritty of this i mean some of the people banned they have no prior doping convictions so many people therefore will struggle to get their head

around this ruling by cast me do you think this decision is based on sports or politics. i think a lot of it has to be politics you know we've had other countries where there were charges nationally run doping campaigns that teams have not been banned individuals who who don't pass tests slee are being and or have their medals taken away if they're found to been doped earlier but this kind of banning of the whole team is reeks of. you know when attack on a nation rather than individuals who are cheating well i look at some of the individual athletes taking part i mean the russian federation for instance i mean it said it's going to sue the i.o.c. for financial a moral damages through the civil court system as area was saying there do you think we could be heading for a wide scale a massive legal battle. oh i think so i mean this the thing is that the olympics

are not just what they're made out to be you know sort of a celebration of athletes of amateur athletes it's big money people who win these gold medals become endorsers of products and can make a fortune and so it's it's a huge life change if you work that hard to get to the top and then it's taken away from you. and you know it isn't just national honor it's in congress and also on that night as well russia is one of the leading winter sports countries i mean do you think that by leaving some of these key medal hopes they'd actually devalued the games itself i would think so i mean you won't have. as many new records you know the it becomes less interesting to watch if the competition isn't as good. i suspect if this kind of thing accelerates you'll see into

the big t.v. networks that make all the money on it objecting to that to having whole teams taken away out of the games i mean it's also a look at what the ramifications are long term i mean if the clean athletes get banned for diving issues that don't have anything to do with them individually i mean what sort of precedent do you think this sets in a sporting sense well you know there's always that question of you know what happens to one group ends up turning around and biting the people who do it so you know we have plenty of doping in the united states there's plenty of doping in france and germany. you know it may not be state sponsored but it's widespread and just look at the bicycle races in france you know it's just everybody is stoked so. it you know to single out one country isn't going to work at some point.