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just ammonia oh yeah well we need just before. this week on amount of. the french have other preoccupations besides rankings they need money more money france covered we envisioned land but the successive governments are founded on thinkable to sharply increase tuition fees it would be political suicide so hypocrisy rules paying programs are gradually and in conspicuously being introduced in certain french university departments. at the forefront of a forthcoming marketisation prestigious institutions such as pope paris or. have been authorized to introduce tuition fees these experiments are inconsequential for now but they're definitely aimed to prepare for a change in the system one day or another. these between after.
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or whatever. and either the principle is good or the principle is bad has to be a apply equally and that is not being done. while you go shit will get you where you don't order your sisters no less than others but brain and one million people died and died. he killed people the beast even gave you. know no one stone tool to chew everybody's round in that and that's.
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over the past decade a great many european asian and african countries have introduced during crease tuition fees in their universities. in the name of excellence prices go up a little every way nothing seems to stop the process and yet among the four honest some questions arise and for good reason. current news should students learn repayment debt stands at around forty billion pounds at the minute right that's going to rise to around two hundred billion pounds by the middle of this century. and the end of two thousand and thirteen. one
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year into the one thousand pounds really tuition fee a parliamentary mission is called regarding the rising student debt. after several months of investigation in room fifteen of parliament the public accounts commission questions the public body in charge of student loan repayment. giving that's realistic forty percent of the current money that goes up to students will never be collected at the moment that is at the top end of our estimates but it is not unrealistic ok so you don't quite know how you're going to fund it. well the longer term issue of lifting the cap the treasury announcement related in the first instance to potential sales from the future loan book the plan would be to sell transfers of the loads of amount you sell a particular tranche of dad the terms of capone and the terms and conditions upon
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which it is sold as it were set in stone crystallized and the buyer of that debt buys them on those terms and that's it they don't change can we just big can we just be clear that the person buying the debt buys it on set terms and conditions that then cannot subsequently be changed by the new owner of the debt is that correct yes ok thank you. here in the u.k. the prospect of cutting the debt tranche is and selling it to private investors instantly brings to mind the disastrous mechanism of subprime loans that are shattered so many lives so many families two years ago thirty to forty percent of student loans remained unpaid today it's reached forty five percent with close to the tipping point at forty seven percent of non collected debt the university system and its nine thousand pounds yearly tuition fee will cost more to the english states. than it did at the time of the three thousand. england seems to be
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engaged in a dangerous game. in the us the bang university system became widespread nearly forty years ago. today the student debt has reached a catastrophic point. during the occupy wall street movement
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a handful of american citizens and research professors met with andrew ross professor at new york university the world's most expensive university. these activists goal was to fight the unbearable debt weighing on american citizens including the housing debt health debt and most importantly the student debt. the student debt problem in the united states to about one point three trillion in told all and there are about forty million student debtors about eight million of those students are already in default meaning they're not paying out loans people can't imagine social goods or public goods in the united states it's unimaginable that you could have free education so there is a kind of normalizing of a of a i like to say kind of economic violence that people are used to and they just. expect that that's the way that is that's the way it always will be the right to
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education has been supplanted by the right to access education loans. they emphasis that has had the overall impact of stifling optional political imagination of students because they're so highly and and they have to think about their future in very particular ways that are tied to their financial position and their financial survival in the future. then movement tackles a huge market a for profit schools that have developed throughout the country in recent decades these schools do not target the elite of american students or the working classes poor families like you to believe in dreams.
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this is. what the end of capital kind of looks like or at least you know a different kind of. you know stayed in the capital with that sort of. was when everything we've done all the all the jobs you know you're going to force to work together again. amy and christine are two young women from the detroit area who grew up in working families and who continue rolled in the country's high profile university which they still believed in the prospect of
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a better life like hundreds of other young americans they put their fate in the hands of private for profit educate. no institutions this sector has grown by two hundred twenty five percent over the past ten years. america should be ashamed to even say that their education system is this way when we're supposed to be the best country in the world especially the richest country in the world but we are the richest country in the world for the rich but we're also the poorest country in the world for the poor in a way. before god knows. i mean just really bored there's a whole new category of people out there now. extremely more rewarded. war is almost the new rich. and sad.
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when i was watching the television and seen that they could make my life better if i went to their school. soon as he has of the phone was hired how are you this is my name's terry winters i'm you know i'll be the one to answer any questions you have. and so he basically asked me if i would be interested in coming out to the school and looking at the campus and seeing what programs i had to offer said that he was a graduate there that i should come check out the school when he walks through the school they have different things on the walls of jobs i could qualify for with the degree but they're not actually telling you the full details of everything and that they don't tell you that there's an arbitration clause that you can't sue the school whether individually or through a class action suit don't really know that you're getting into a predatory lending type of situation because they don't educate you to that they
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gloss over the financial aid it's very quick and you just initial and then you sign at the bottom. and then it was oddly he just asked you know i have a couple graduates that would like to come in and speak with you and you have an issue talking to some recent graduates and in my mind i'm thinking that's kind of cool you know i can actually talk to some people that went to the school you know see what they say about the school so young female and young male came in and for all i know it could have been the recruiters working with this recruiter. he came and they both came in and said that you know they found a job before they ever graduated the school placed them and that they're doing really well and they're not struggling paying their student loan batton life is just so much better now they have so many opportunities they can jump job a job they want a lot of these student advisers at these schools used to use on students to get them into an education. this is an document from
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a for profit college if i can find that shows all the people that were. going after welfare moms with kids relocation recent high school graduates career change of grades goes college freshman dropout physically mentally abused pregnant ladies recent incarceration rescind the forced drug ability should military active every tired dennet no future steam college credits two years low income jobs vocational rehabilitation living with multitude of families experienced a recent death living with parents experience recent birth of living with significant other and the messenger i'm fired by a recent marriage self-employed no benefits so they specifically targeted all these people for these type of loans that were subprime and very expensive for
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the education they received and that's just the the internet is filled with all kinds of stuff like this. my mom was extremely proud she'd like to brag to all of her friends like my daughter's a college and you know i never when she's doing less great things for her life. after enrolling i called my mom and i told her i want to chop out and she did not understand why and i was like mom you know understand a school is a scam and she said i don't understand how can a school be a scam. i have a hundred four thousand dollars in student loans as of september two thousand and thirteen and there are only growing by the day. you know you. know how long will it take before public european
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universities start charging twenty thirty or forty thousand dollars a year how long will it take for a lucrative private educational system to skid out of control like it is today in the u.s. everywhere around the world students are mobilizing can anyone out there hear them can anyone understand them a question our society our political choices what kind of world we want to live in a world where the economy is at the service of man. or a world in which man is at the service of the economy.
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the financial survival guide today was about money laundering first because it's cash in the three different. good the good stuff we have our three banks all set up maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman
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islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the club congress to decide to call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile for a match you know what money you want to hire legal. watch guys really quick. another gun some is not is not adequate place is not a good country and. the minister to live bush among us well loves. a visitor that's good at this that's just all there is. to the culture. of the culture of the sure it was from the. second christmas. just little and bias from the moment of i'm still to be
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a little. play almost anything and a member of the base the last second hour that john said i'm based on the other side no one can i do not believe i would miss rice from that nick matter how not eating. from a show. tonight fucking on a canal seems almost feel right now we're going to fuckin on a cuckoo vets who served in the foreign affairs bush i did go to sleep i don't want to go to the cities in the micro our forces in this or do whatever to think the. cinema of our government allows this. is one of those. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably most secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than ford and all costs customs are here up on place while all the
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science is controlled by them and they impose the opening time so it will go up was it because it took these forms all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and soon the scientists warehouse that's where the report comes in if it covers up deals with our naturally discreet commercially discreet effect but also discreet. because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets kept inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business.
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the u.k. home secretary confirms a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent a lot of politicians in the media talk of the kremlin's possible role amber ruds rules out speculation. if we are to be in this investigation we must avoid speculation and allow the police to carry out their best occasion. in other news the saudi crown prince is given the red carpet treatment by downing street as protesters outside denounce riyadh bombing of yemen. motivated hostility and crime against native germans on the rise in berlin that's according to the city's interior minister.
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good evening to you my name is the harvey this is r.t. international. first this hour news just in from syria. terrorists have shelled a large group of civilians who were close to the exit of the besieged enclave russia's reconciliation center says nearly three hundred families were in the convoy both russian and international journalists are also said to have come under fire there's no information at this point on casualties that's just hours after a humanitarian convoy was temporarily prevented from entering eastern ghouta on thursday juta military developments on the ground the situation in the area remains dire.
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the. former russian spy and his daughter a believed to have been poisoned with a nerve agent according to u.k. police. remain unconscious and in a critical but stable condition that's according to the home secretary after being
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found unconscious in the british city of souls but the country's top counterterrorism officer says the pearl were targeted deliberately. this is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agents i will not be providing further information at this stage about the exact substance that has been identified well here's some background information on surrogate script al used to serve in the russian military intelligence service but in ninety ninety five he was taken as a double agent by the u.k. russia court script in two thousand and four and later convicted him of revealing the identities of russian secret agents in europe he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison but he served only four of those before being released as part of a high profile spy swap with the united states he was later flown to britain here's what the u.k. home secretary said earlier today in parliament. the use of it. is
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a brazen. act but if we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation and allow the police to carry on the first occasion well that was her updating the house of commons on this case and she cautioned against speculation and not just speculation in the media it's something that now the politicians are doing as well many of them have pointed the finger of blame squarely at last and some are even using it as an opportunity to push for more defense spending take a listen to the circumstantial evidence against russia very strong who would harm. the. defense the first use of the room and spending two percent on defense is now not enough there will come a time for tribulation and there will be consequences and there will be further information that follows but now i'm concerned about the incident and the
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consequences around and actually speaking in an interview this morning the defense secretary gavin williamson pulled that thread as well he refused to say whether or not he thought moscow was behind the attack on sergei script but almost in the same breath he also referred to russia as an ever greater threat despite the home secretary's appeal for everybody to keep a cool head about this news stories about sergei script pollen the therese just keep on coming one media report has even linked him to the intelligence that came up with that so-called dodgy dossier on donald trump so some pretty wild theories swirling around in the meantime the police are getting on with the police investigation somewhere where they might actually on a few facts it's now been divided into three separate sites that investigation the script files. the pub where they were drinking on sunday with their daughter and
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the pizza restaurant where sergey script al and his daughter are thought to have eaten and the police say that they came in through the c.c.t.v. footage that they have and they're building a detailed timeline of events they've got hundreds of offices where king around the clock trying to find out who it was that used that nerve gas on sergei script powell and his daughter and why it was already mentioned the script all incidents dominating the news. all the little skirt only known about what really happened reporters always thing no time in speculating it was orchestrated by the kremlin a claim that moscow has strongly denied a police officer peter cook and believes the media doesn't help the investigation speculation in the media speculation by politicians is never helpful to an investigator when you get any sort of hard profile case you'll find that the media ago is. going quite quite loudly about what their theories are and all the rest of
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it we've had it we've had prawns and rice problems and various other things terrorism sort of a big thing that excited about it's not helpful to sitting investigating officers investigating officers no they shouldn't be themselves be swayed by that they follow the evidence it's obviously not helpful. the u.s. secretary of state is on an official tour of africa with ethiopia his first stop head of this journey rex tillerson claim the continent's being exploited by china an issue that's expected to dominate upcoming towards his foreign minister who's also on a tour of africa this to say about the sins remark. here in his nose i didn't know that rex tillerson is an expert in africa china relations you think it's a little tactless when on a visit to talk about the relationships of your hosts with other countries especially in such a negative way. it is done of takes
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a look at whether africa will become a new stage for rivalry between the u.s. and china the united states wants africa back in its pocket which is all things considered a bit of a tall order just a few months ago african nations learned that according to trump they well to paraphrase the president kind of stink now the state department is on a bridge building mission we're partnering with our. governments to meet long term security and development goals. this is a stark contrast to trying as approach which encourages dependency using open contracts predatory long practices and corrupt deals china you see is something of a major headache for washington beijing has been courting african nations for years the asian powerhouse is involved in crucial infrastructure projects there it's
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invested billions of dollars in a railroad linking the continent from east to west effectively opening the door for pan african trade kenya is one country in particular that has benefited from china's cash injections it got its own railway the largest infrastructure development since its independence more than half a century ago but even this pales in comparison to a chinese construction firms in bishan in south africa to build an eighty four billion dollar city. with. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid education investments and a chinese t.v. channel for the african audience beijing is going all in here it's soft power strategy has already made china second most popular destination for african
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students and its military is in africa to last year china opened its first overseas base with a facility in djibouti the same year it held joint drills with tanzania chinese soldiers have already been here for a few years it's peacekeepers have been involved in missions across central africa so is it really that much of a surprise that some african nations prefer the chinese way over america's sweet talk the chinese has been front and center in providing us with roots this country . developed op team occupy city in this regard so we're working very hard to go over and we believe that walking to gether would bring about more charlie beneficial relationship china has become successful in africa because china tends to favor intense distrust civilian projects and some.

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