private sector in terms of investment you're critical office tower it's a naturist introduced in latvia but still christine lagarde has recently said let's be easy inspiration for european leaders grappling with the euro crisis how do you respond to that well christine legarde and the i.m.f. generally and the pundits who have been supporting austerity as the proper solution for what ails the world's economies have been desperately seeking a success story and they think they have finally found one in latvia so we have all of these failures and there are some aspects of the latvian austerity story that one could read as a success we do have a return to economic growth after seeing this really huge collapse which occurred in two thousand and eight but of course there are big problems as well my short answer is that it's ideological they need an example that says we can pursue austerity as a solution for those economies who are seeing significant both public and private debt levels once a series is introduced how to shift from it and towards what's it's very difficult if you have to adhere

this is an under 17 game in latvia. watch the team in blue. this is during play.start moving the ball. the ball's in here. they're kicking it to each other as they move down the field. kind of creating a force field around the ball. now, the orange team has no idea what to do and it appears to me they keep coming up and knocking into these blue players. >> they get a yellow card. >> the team in orange got a yellow card for returning into the team in blue. seems cheesy. soccer's supposed to be a high-speed fast-space game. they're forming a rugby scrub. seems they are bigger than the guys in blue. maybe the only way to get close to the goal. >> according to the posters, the blue team won the game and try add tactic they'd been wanting to for a long time. they get so far down and then just start kicking the ball around. >>> ever felt were you in a situation where you didn't feel safe out on the street and thought, ah, what if i'm not alone? >> all the time. it you're a female, alone. especially after its dark. i think all of us experienced that. >> fortunately, ther

clash spurs were held to a goal this drawer in their opener at home to latvia a fortnight ago however unbeaten in three league games and think the first victory in twenty three years at manchester united with a three two win loss saturday want to keep up their winning ways in europe. to be the. world around so. they were the guards you. so. much that are going to. divorce. me one in the champions league on wednesday night as the needs of a cruel three two defeat at home to ac milan offer a tamasha goal fifteen minutes from time gave the seven time european champions victory the businesses were to the up up to sixty minutes thanks to emmanuel sun and stephan i was sure zero eight votes record signing hulk pulled one back in first top stoppage time and then don't show off level soon after the bright but with a quarter of an hour left who was put through his nets to make it three two to milan and a string of inspired ses from the keeper christian are beyond them to the visitors congo exhibit traits the result leaves in the bottom three see without a win off to two games while malaga a to

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we've got to provide moral support to the poles and estonia and latvia and all of the nations that were former soviet satellites. but we've also got to provide them with financial and concrete assistance to help rebuild their economies. georgia in particular is now on the brink of enormous economic challenges. and some say that that's what putin intended in the first place. the other thing we have to do, though, is we've got to see around the corners. we've got to anticipate some of these problems ahead of time. you know, back in april, i put out a statement saying that the situation in georgia was unsustainable because you had russian peacekeepers in these territories that were under dispute. and you knew that if the russians themselves were trying to obtain some of these territories or push back against georgia, that that was not a stable situation. so part of the job of the next commander-in-chief, in keeping all of you safe, is making sure that we can see some of the 21st century challenges and anticipate them before they happen. we haven't been doing enough of that. we tend to be r

we've got to provide moral support to the poles and estonia and latvia and all of the nations that were former soviet satellites. but we've also got to provide them with financial and concrete assistance to help rebuild their economies. georgia in particular is now on the brink of enormous economic challenges. and some say that that's what putin intended in the first place. the other thing we have to do, though, is we've got to see around the corners. we've got to anticipate some of these problems ahead of time. you know, back in april, i put out a statement saying that the situation in georgia was unsustainable because you had russian peacekeepers in these territories that were under dispute. and you knew that if the russians themselves were trying to obtain some of these territories or push back against georgia, that that was not a stable situation. so part of the job of the next commander-in-chief, in keeping all of you safe, is making sure that we can see some of the 21st century challenges and anticipate them before they happen. we haven't been doing enough of that. we tend to be r