sterrett it policy i think they should cancel the cuts in capital spending particularly and because of that that those schemes were ready to run when the kurdish and took office and they have been put into cold storage they could be this is buildings building schools building building houses hospitals all these projects that were canceled because the government was cutting down its spending i think should be uncancel that i think they should be revived so you saying you've got to speculate to accumulate in a way not speculate spend you've got to spend because you see at the moment they're not meeting their deficit reduction targets they're not reducing the national debt in fact it's going up the whole time. and it and it's going up because the economy is going down the economy is what provides the government with its income and if the economy is shrinking the income of the government shrinks of the same type and therefore the deficit rises and something like that has been going on so the policy can't even succeed in its own terms one of your colleagues an economist called james keane h

about the recovery but that it's derailed by these unfortunate external shocks but the policy of a sterrett is basically wrong when there is a lack of private sector demand when banks aren't lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing. at all you can watch out the full interview with economic historian robert skidelsky in just over an hour's time here on c. well change or more of the same the question venezuelans have to answer as they had to vote for a president now long standing incumbent hugo chavez now faces the biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from a very young democrat in caracas artie's lucy calf. well the stakes could not be higher as venezuelans take to the polls to determine who will leave their country for the next six years at one end as president incumbent president hugo chavez was represented a radical change for venezuela and the region as a whole under hi

about the recovery but that it's derailed by these unfortunate external shocks but the policy of a sterrett is basically wrong when there is a lack of private sector demand when banks aren't lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing. you can watch the full interview with economic historian robert skidelsky in about twenty minutes from now right here on our city well also for you this hour and see us motorcade the traffic at a military convoy entering pakistan's militant a hotbed to stage a protest over the use of deadly drone strikes in the country. and celebrations in georgia as the ruling party loses the parliamentary election explain what led to president saakashvili defeat. by these stories and so much more after a short break certainly hope you can stay with us here on alt. no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their

point because debt wipe you wiping out debt wiping out that accuracy means you have to have lesser sterrett and it starts focusing the problems on the right people instead we do all this to stare at the which makes the banking sector happy but six months later we still have no jobs we have an economy that continues to deteriorate and we have the zombie like bank system that keeps limping along and keeps getting bailed out ok jeffrey. we got to jeffrey jeffrey there's a lot of economists are saying there's not enough austerity you have to keep cutting cutting spending cut spending budgets cut cut cut cut i mean it's a remarkable looking at europe well. well there are always these kinds of one nine hundred thirty s. the like dizzy with success stalinist who want to see more extreme measures imposed or. types who just can't see enough destruction that their appetite is is growing only as they taste more blood and of course this is absurd we can't just keep opposing this austerity i mean what is the end game it is you can continue to keep cutting away just as you continue to keep cutting the so

like education with this we are protesting against the sterett in europe and everybody knows better sterrett who leads to recession will have from the cities we are against the imposition of the austerity plan will be very difficult for us of course we don't want that picture taken on the crisis is in golf in europe these days and austerity measures have led to a national wide protest in many countries and the protesters have. in question with police to dramatic events have been taking place also wrote europe and many here today fear that france could be the next country to face this reality was dramatic reality and they say they've come here to protest to every these negative consequences and not to repeat the big mistakes of other e.u. members reflection our team paris france. while european countries are seek ways to cut their expenses and india is pumping more money into spain's program plunging larger sex lives and climbing ambitious projects on our way i'm. glad the cities that made the pitch and won these are now the final list of venues for the twenty eight team football world cup in

against spending cuts continues throughout europe as people vent their fury of a bailout sponsored sterrett mass demonstrations in madrid turned violent last week that's after the problem and constant little story to project in a row police fired rubber bullets to control the angry demonstrators leaving more than sixty injured dozens more were detained archies jacob riis has been following developments for some time agreed to sprain her personal boarding a bunch of stairs to protest the mirrors are the first time passes their frustrations and anger that only seems to be hardening for the last to bring a charge the card put my hours into it and the politician are saying that i'm a particular settler as many people feel they're already being fed is the director of police baton rouge. broken promises like bruised protestors and battered buildings are becoming the euro zone's currency from athens to madrid capitals this week have been braced for an onslaught of the angry and indignant. boss to get out of the belligerence on the rez here charge marchers job benefit us they just benefit very few

until sterrett it is mounting in euro civil servants take to the streets for a second day in madrid tradeunions have gathered thousands to demand an end to cutbacks in the public sector and the privatization of public services it's and he has also seen his fair share of action this week led by the country students who clashed with police thousands marched in major cities calling for the government to save schools not banks and roam up to six police men were injured as students heard stones at them men trying to rush a police van. veen as their venice independence supporters marched on saturday to demand the region go into an investment advisor patrick young says the e.u. is headed towards collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland into a beloit in order to basically appease french and german borrowers there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u. has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not a horribly soiled exercise in

shocks but the policy of a sterrett is basically wrong when there is a lack of private sector demondwhen banks lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing. october seventh eleven years ago the u.s. led war in afghanistan began more than three thousand alliance troops have died in the conflict most of them americans far more afghan civilians have also lost their lives international affairs commentator rick rose off from the group stop nato thinks the alliance has fostered discontent among the afghan people. precious little has been accomplished on the positive sense of course for the the western military intervention an occupation in afghanistan. most of you know arguably the only accomplishment dubious as it is that opium production of skyrocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan you know evidently the afghan people are not on developing foreign boots on t