station leaders faced just a few months ago were on the global economy and was killed by the crisis response immediate response was the main concern. for a new leader and for a collective decision making as well. just twenty will gradually move to a longer term agenda and it's happening. but it will take time it's still developing institution developing formal leaders to just do each other and. i think they will focus on the longer term issues more and more including the soul side. what is russia expecting from this summit as far as the key issue for seoul summit is concerned i mean. stability currency markets the russian position is that we need more coordinated approach we don't want surprises from our partners. we want. a more intensive look and central banks finance ministers ministers and this can lead to great some stability in the markets also. we believe that. we should pay more attention to issues related to energy security and our traditional regional area of concern. and russia trade and came to story to initiatives in that area one on energy security a new legal framework or in t

just a few months ago or were on the global economy and was killed by the crisis response immediate response was the main concern. for. collective decision making of the world. twenty will gradually move toward a long term agenda. it's happening. but it will take time and it's still developing situation developing form of the there's a just to each other and. i think they will focus on a longer term issue more and more including the soul side do you think a possibility of a trade war between the united states and china is possible as some experts are warning the two countries so much interconnected in your. actions that may lead to a major trade war. can worsen the situation in each. of the congress so most likely they will find a compromise let's speak of europe european countries have had to tighten their belts which has led to massive protests do you think there are measures are adequate and to what extent. is responsible policy. domestically it's probably. limited perspective it's hard to do and finding the right time consistent way to tighten the belt is a huge challenge for any governm

the russian foreign ministry even said recently that enhancing syria crisis response mechanisms should be a priority what do you think these mechanisms are developing now. they certainly are the next serious to summit to which will take place on december tenth will be devoted to these issues but actually one the leaders of the c.s.t. countries met in your iran recently they spoke highly of c.s.t. oh efforts our response to the current use crisis was prompt and effective we designed and recommended the measures which the presidents then approved the reason for criticism was different we were criticized because we chose not to send up peacekeeping forces to kurdistan however considering the way you dance unfolded we see that we were right not to send military units there instead we focused primarily on helping the. courage is authorities and law enforcement agencies to restore order in the country says new. general all the collective security treaty organization spotlight will be back shortly will continue to fit into view in less than a minute so stay with us. it was created to serve pu

oh efforts our response to the current is crisis was prompt and effective we designed and recommended the measures which the presidents then approved the reason for criticism was different we were criticized because we chose not to send up peacekeeping forces to kurdistan however considering the way you dance unfolded we see that we were right not to send military units there instead we focused primarily on helping the. courage is authorities and law enforcement agencies to restore order in the country says new. general on the collective security treaty organization spotlight will be back shortly we will continue this interview in less than a minute so stay with us down. it was created to serve public interests to inform and to entertain. these days there's nothing easier than opening a new media outlet but there is nothing harder than revoking its license in case of corruption. involved in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspapers radio stations television stations the cable outlets that you told me that that sounds like democracy public opinio

made recommendations to enhance the department's response to metropolitanal health crisis calls. -- response to mental health crisis calls. some of those rose out of an officer-involved shooting involving an individual in mental health crisis. the o.c.c. continued its work on juvenile policing practices as well as language access. that concludes my report on the third quarter.

. >> we will make sure that the current crisis response mechanism, which we support in its present formreplaced by a permanent system. we want more responsibility from those who earn a lot on certain government bonds. i will continue to insist on that. >> the head of the german employers' association called for harsh sanctions on eu countries to break the rules on financial stability, saying the situation in some states was jeopardizing germany's economy. >> the european union and international monetary fund inspectors say greece has made enough of an effort to meet its 2010 deficit target to qualify for the next 9 billion euros installment of its emergency loan. greece will narrowly missed the target but pledged new fiscal measures to comply with its 110 billion euros bailout. meanwhile, a greek citizens continue to express their dismay at the austerity measures. >> strikes have become a common occurrence in greece recently. on tuesday, public-sector workers were out on the streets of the capital, athens. there were protesting cuts to their pay as part of the austerity package. many in

made recommendations to enhance the department's response to metropolitanal health crisis calls. -- response to mental health crisis calls. some of those rose out of an officer-involved shooting involving an individual in mental health crisis. the o.c.c. continued its work on juvenile policing practices as well as language access. that concludes my report on the third quarter. president marshall: question for director hicks on the third quarter. commissioner chan? commissioner chan: i just want to put a plug in for the out-reach. three of the classes -- my classes about criminal justice. i want to say for people out there watching this who might have classes and students they want o.c.c. to reach out to, they did a great job. there is a whole team of o.c.c. investigators that came out and gave a power point presentation. the students were interested, and when they left, some of them said, how do i join the o.c.c.? how do i work for them? so it did clarify for a lot of students, is there an oversight body. thank you for that. >> thank you very much, commissioner chan. and the neighbors of my

. >> we decided to keep in mind certain points for our crisis response mechanism. one of those is the role and responsibility of private bondholders. >> that set alarm bells ringing in the portuguese capital where the interest rates on state bonds raised. if investing in states brings added risk, investors will demand an enhanced return on their investment. >> of portugal's 24-hour general strike against the government's austerity policies largely paralyzed the country on wednesday. trains and bus services were canceled. factories came to a halt. rubbish went uncollected. even soldiers who have no legal right to stage work stoppages organized a day of reflection. while many take to the streets, others are simply taking their chances overseas. >> the dream of faraway places. that means just one special place in lisbon -- commerce square. it was once the commercial center of portugals empire, and it is where explorers set out on their journeys. like those explores, these young women see their future elsewhere. >> they want to conquer the world. now young people -- we

one of the things that chancellor merkel has been criticized for is our government response to the global economic crisisasked our correspondent if she had defended her policies. >> yes, she has a very vigorously. she said that her government's response to the financial crisis in in general, and in particular, the crisis for the year, have been one of its greatest successes. she said that the bailout package for greece had been absolutely essential, that there were continuing threats to the stability of the euro, and she used very strong language talking about how this is about the future of europe and peace in europe. and she said the government had done everything that it needed to do. she rejected suggestions that germany has put unreasonable emphasis on its exports, that it has not done enough to stimulate consumer demand. and she said that pressure on at the banks is the right way to create the stability for the euro area that is desperately needed, in spite of the fact that greece has been criticizing the germans stance on banking regulation. >> despite her strong performance, the cdu is still doin

. >> we will make sure that the current crisis response mechanism, which we support in its present form replaced by a permanent system. we want more responsibility from those who earn a lot on certain government bonds. i will continue to insist on that. >> the head of the german employers' association called for harsh sanctions on eu countries to break the rules on financial stability, saying the situation in some states was jeopardizing germany's economy. >> the european union and international monetary fund inspectors say greece has made enough of an effort to meet its 2010 deficit target to qualify for the next 9 billion euros installment of its emergency loan. greece will narrowly missed the target but pledged new fiscal measures to comply with its 110 billion euros bailout. meanwhile, a greek citizens continue to express their dismay at the austerity measures. >> strikes have become a common occurrence in greece recently. on tuesday, public-sector workers were out on the streets of the capital, athens. there were protesting cuts to their pay as part of the austerity package. many i

early days for east just a few months ago or more on the global economy and was killed by the crisis the response immediate response was the main concern and main focus so poor in leader and for collective decision making of the world. just twenty will gradually move to a long term agenda. but it will take time it's still developing situation developing form neither suggest to each other and. i think they will focus on the longer term we feel more and more including the soles. of our four interviews coming your way at around twenty minutes time here on our team religious intolerance in israel and the palestinian autonomy has found a common target christianity extremist muslims and jews are turning increasingly violent towards christians and their holy sites artists policy or reach those being persecuted for their faith in the holy land things that david ortiz lives dangerously a christian pastor among religious jews in the west bank city of i will he's received death threats for trying to convert jews and muslims to his faith my first time going into a muslim village. i got beat up we were giving

early days for east just a few months ago or more on the global economy and was killed by the crisis the response immediately response was the main concern for pl so for him to go in for a collective decision we can go. g twenty will be ready to move to a long term agenda and it's happening. but it will take time it's still developing has to do both informal neither suggest to each other and. i think they will focus on the longer term we feel more and more including the souls. that are full interviews coming your way in around twenty minutes time here on r t and another major issue due to spark debate in seoul is a battle over currencies president obama is expected to face tough questions over the u.s. decision to pump six hundred billion freshly printed dollars into its economy its a town to revive the country's finances but will devalue the dollar leading economists even lewis says the policies aimed at boosting public opinion at home and pays little attention to the needs of the world. the u.s. will be on the defensive this g. twenty meeting it will have very few friends willing to support the

my question pertains to peace corps response, or crisis core. when it was founded, it was started, and is now under the leadership of director williams. can you comment on the division you originally had four prices court and what peace corps response looks like today and where it will be? >> let me get one more question and we will take them both together. you do not have a question. we can take one more question. >> my name is greg. i am a senior at the u.s. coast guard academy. my question is for director williams and everybody else. you identified change agents as being a product for the united states in terms of sending abroad. what has been done for peace corps in terms of identifying change agents in the country's you go to, in terms of saying this is a member who can make substantial change for the country going forward, and providing resources to do so? thanks. >> u.s. about the decision to create the crisis court. i want to talk about the extraordinary values. >> the history, of course, as alain said, was listing to so many returned pea

. >> speaking the person crisis, one man is responsible for a traffic mess this morning that inconvenienced thousands of drivers. he was finally arrested on the upper deck of the bridge after claiming he was armed and that his car was packed with explosives. abc 7's vic lee is live tonight to explain what happened. >> well, dan, first of all thank goodness that this stalemate ended peacefully with no one hurt. and thank goodness this was a holiday. this would have caused a nightmarish commute on that bridge. 51-year-old craig valentino was booked in jail after chp investigators finished interrogate being him. >> this is also similar to the handgun he threw into the water. >> the sargeant cross says it's was a toy pistol but looked real to chp. valentino called 911 just before 7:00 saying he had a gun, and explosives in his ford explorer, stopped on the bay bridge. the chp closed the toll plaza, and cutoff traffic coming into the maze. cars on interstate 80 were backed up all the way beyond emeryville. this commuter took it in stride. >> because it's a holiday. and traffic was lighter. it wa

my question pertains to peace corps response, or crisis core. when it was founded, it was started, and is now under the leadership of director williams. can you comment on the division you originally had four prices court and what peace corps response looks like today and where it will be? >> let me get one more question and we will take them both together. you do not have a question. we can take one more question. >> my name is greg. i am a senior at the u.s. coast guard academy. my question is for director williams and everybody else. you identified change agents as being a product for the united states in terms of sending abroad. what has been done for peace corps in terms of identifying change agents in the country's you go to, in terms of saying this is a member who can make substantial change for the country going forward, and providing resources to do so? thanks. >> u.s. about the decision to create the crisis court. i want to talk about the extraordinary values. >> the history, of course, as alain said, was listing to so many returned pea

let me talk about the last couple of years, the crisis and our response. these are not normal times. the financial crisis that broke in mid 2007 intensified dramatically following the failure of lehman brothers really was the worst financial crisis the united states has experienced since the great depression. that crisis in the financial markets was followed by one of the longest and deepest recessions that we have had since world war ii. our actions and response to the crisis fell into two broad buckets. first, we took steps to -- so that financial markets could continue to function properly. in order to enable households and businesses to maintain their ability to obtain credit. we load funds to financial firms secured by their collateral. traditionally, -- in the modern u.s. financial system, there were many other lenders that were not banks. they provide financing for credit card loans and many other activities. during the crisis, it is the head -- congress created the federal reserve emergency authority to lend to nonbanks. during the crisis, we were i

one of the things that chancellor merkel has been criticized for is our government response to the global economic crisisour correspondent if she had defended her policies. >> yes, she has a very vigorously. she said that her government's response to the financial crisis in in general, and in particular, the crisis for the year, have been one of its greatest successes. she said that the bailout package for greece had been absolutely essential, that there were continuing threats to the stability of the euro, and she used very strong language talking about how this is about the future of europe and peace in europe. and she said the government had done everything that it needed to do. she rejected suggestions that germany has put unreasonable emphasis on its exports, that it has not done enough to stimulate consumer demand. and she said that pressure on at the banks is the right way to create the stability for the euro area that is desperately needed, in spite of the fact that greece has been criticizing the germans stance on banking regulation. >> despite her strong performance, the cdu is still doing poor

for, ah, any kind of stimulus packages that we've seen in, in the industrialized world, in response to the crisis. ah, many of these countries depend heavily on remittance flows. ah, they depend on foreign and direct investment, portfolio flows, ah, and also foreign, ah, foreign aid, generally speaking, which now, given the rising unemployment levels in the industrialized world, may find it, um, it may be more difficult to actually continue with, ah, addressing, foreign aid, in these countries, because they're facing competing, um, policy choices, ah, in, in, the united states, in europe, um, in terms of the unemployment at home. this makes it a much more difficult environment, ah, particularly when these countries are going to be facing rising, um, uncertainty, potential violence, ah, and conflict in some of these countries. i mean, we've seen, ah, a number of riots, just as a result of the food crisis. and so, the ability of these countries to respond needs to be addressed, and there are initiatives out there, but more could be done. >> and noam, what are some of the linkages to the global econ

same practices that caused the financial crisis so c'mon f.d.i.c grow a pair investigate the banks that are still running the us economy who are just as responsible for the crisis as the banks that later failed other countries of launch probes of their banks of their executives so why do they always get a free pass right here in the us oh that's right because congress and the white house are too afraid to take them on but at least the f.b.i. sees beginning the process so hopefully finally somebody will be held accountable. now more bad news for obama and the new start treaty just yesterday arizona senator jon kyl they came republican voice need to get the minimum age e.o.p. votes announced that he doesn't think there's any time in this lame duck session to hold a vote especially considering the complex and unresolved issues related to the treaty those issues being his calls for nuclear modernization even though reports say the white house has already offered an additional four point one billion for nuclear facilities now with an unexpected turn around from kabul secretary of state hillary clinton turned on her charm hosting a breakfast meeting wi

thousands of protesters rallied in the streets, claiming world's powers aren't taking responsibility for the financial crisisce arrested a woman who threatened to set herself on fire. it's not peaceful inside the summit either. so far, g-20 leaders condition agree on the agenda, much less a draft statement on the way forward in the financial crisis. they have one more day to figure it out. charlie d'agata, cbs news. >>> federal workers have the day off and many are talking about comments by house minority leader john boehner. the ohio republican is talking about a pay freeze for federal workers. >> we say there out to be a freeze on the hiring of new federal employees and frankly we ought to freeze the pay. it's gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker. >> our partners at "usa today" report more federal workers are making $150,000 a year. we got reaction from some federal workers. >> you are working for america. so i don't see what the problem is? >> i serve the american public, so i work hard for what i get. my counterparts in the private in

i saw several times in the report the top four recommendations to enhance police response to mental health crisis calls. these are synched and clear recommendations. i want to let you know that at our retreat, commissioner mazzucco and i will volunteered to take on the mental health reforms that are needed. >> think you very much. these are recommendations that the officers have made over the years. they have become more refined as time goes on. a lot of them arise from complaints that we have received and investigations we have made, and policy recommendations we have made as a result of the investigation of those complaints. commissioner chan: i can tell they are very well thought out. we look forward to working with the department to implement these recommendations. president marshall: commissioners, anything further? if not, can i get a motion for approval of the consent calendar? >> so moved. president marshall: public comment on the approval of action items -- go ahead. >> i am the director of san francisco open government. having been elected to two terms on a neighborhood board in honolul

decision-makers are operating simultaneously and responding to the crisis in a way that's not necessarily going to be coordinated to the extent legal response to national security crisis would be which is a fairly significant difference just operationally. the mundane experience of the thing to other factors that seem of significance to me, the last to a .2 is the first is legal authorities that are in play. in a national security crisis, the possibility of an appeal two cars with no authority is ever-present. there's a possibility that statutory limitations might themselves be unconstitutional and that is a thing that is considered as entrenching on the president's powers and there's the possibility that if there is a lack of statutory authority the president has supplemental constitutional authority to respond to the emergency. that is not they feel in the context of responding to an economic crisis. it is statutory law all the way down as discussed. there are ways in which there might be constitutional limitation on the president's ability to control this or that actor but short of that there is very little, at least in the modern govern

decision-makers are operating simultaneously and responding to the crisis in a way that's not necessarily going to be coordinated to the extent legal responseo national security crisis would be which is a fairly significant difference just operationally. the mundane experience of the thing to other factors that seem of significance to me, the last to a .2 is the first is legal authorities that are in play. in a national security crisis, the possibility of an appeal two cars with no authority is ever-present. there's a possibility that statutory limitations might themselves be unconstitutional and that is a thing that is considered as entrenching on the president's powers and there's the possibility that if there is a lack of statutory authority the president has supplemental constitutional authority to respond to the emergency. that is not they feel in the context of responding to an economic crisis. it is statutory law all the way down as discussed. there are ways in which there might be constitutional limitation on the president's ability to control this or that actor but short of that there is very little, at least in the modern governme

crisis. what responsibility does the media have? >> i think it was clear 9-11, even the financial crisis -- the media i thought was unusually involved in the story, and in some ways it made its more personal. i say standing in front of her was completely natural -- standing in front of her, yelling at her, was completely natural. when you were in mississippi talking about where you were growing up, there was an unusual amount of being part of the story, and i think it -- i do not think it has changed journalism, but it has changed television news in many respects from the this passion, and it was remarked upon for years. >> i am troubled by the absence of distinction between the word media, which is supposed to be about facts and truth, and objective checking of facts verses media that is the internet and the jungle of people who do not fact check and post and published based on other publications were the truth is not verified, and i speak personally, because recently an organization i am a great admirer of published something about

having a sense of equality in society is that still sustain through this financial crisis that the state is responsible to some extent for the lives of its citizens. i think there's one misunderstanding you see the smaller government a smaller welfare state in the u.s. but the much bigger deficit let's. you have. to say it in percentage it's one hundred percent more u.s. twelve to fourteen percent of the g.d.p. is the public debt we have heart of it in germany with a much bigger welfare state so so why welfare state is not financed by taxes it's not. the federal government which is which is spending all these monies we have created one hundred years ago those independent insurances they are public half private insurance as you can step in step out but you have the shield of these big big insurance is for insurance this fall employment for health for. the care of older people and for unemployment and these for insurance is run by own organization and they are collecting their money we call it in german by to they get it kind of tax and people and that's the difference to the u.s. people people love this

my question pertains to peace corps response, or crisis core. whent was founded, it was started, and is now under the leadership of director williams. can you comment on the division you originally had four prices court and whateace corps response looks like today and where it will be? >> let me get one more questio and we will take them both together. you do not have a question. we can take one more question. >> my name is greg. i am a senior at the u.s. coast guard academy. my question is for director williams and everybody else. you identified change agents as being a product for the united states in terms of sending abroad. what has been done for peace corps in terms of identifying change agents in the country's you go to, in terms of saying this is a member who can make substantial change for the country going forward, and providing resources to do so? thanks. >> u.s. about the decision to create the crisis court. i want to talk about the extraordinary values. >> the history, of course, as alain said, was listing to so many returned peace co

response to the insufficiencies of of government not responding not non-response or limited response to the economic crisis that was affecting main street the tea party movement is born out of a lot of people for gray davis in your work a lifetime to to get something out of the draft so you know government didn't really do enough not even didn't that they did something they didn't do enough to stimulate the economy the two major parties here have a responsibility to the american people and if they fail to deliver you know them or kratz. have failed failed to deliver in two thousand. and nine and two thousand and ten and if the republicans fail to deliver in two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve i think there's tidal forces that are move one way one year and another way another time those tidal forces are going to wash both parties out just watched you know watch for that to happen because people are not going to tolerate excuse making i predict that america will necessarily go through a kind of person to where we change our relationship with the world where we pull in our troops where we don't ha

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