of america's most economically depressed cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances corporation is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to them and they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from the federal government in part to create jobs and i think our u.s. workforce certainly. factory workforce if you will is that is the best among the world so we're very confident in the future of u.s. manufacturing for our kind of products one year later the corporation received nearly twenty million dollars from the state of michigan to expand its facility which now serves as a gateway into benton harbor it's good for the community good for the state and good for your business as well there's a real art to that but as the u.s. based c

telecom in the program abandoning helmed base. citizens. benton harbor are living from one day to them that there's very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community the. giant corporations thrive on government funds and outsource labor asshole in communities fall apart around them. rushes policy on migration has come under scrutiny from its prime minister and presidential hopeful watermen putin in a second major newspaper article as part of his election campaign put and set out his position on a range of key challenges are all over now reports. well talking on multiculturalism a migration vladimir putin praised what he sees as russia's long history as a multicultural nation a history he says goes back to the days of the russian empire it said it has been some very serious problems though when it comes to migration and integration of migrants in russia that these problems over the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union were very serious indeed in our problems that russia is still strug

security cameras capture the empty aisles at the benton harbor walgreens. hovan is at work when two masked gunmen rush through the doors and seize one of the assistant managers. >> one of the managers ran across an aisle, pulled in a piece of shelving and headed directly to the stock room. this frightened me and i suddenly realized that something was wrong. seconds later i saw another manager with a gunman in the pharmacy area. the gunman saw me. and i saw him. >> hovan moves back to call 911 but the gunman hurtles over the counter. hovan draws the handgun he legally carries in a concealed holster during every shift. the robber appears to fire his weapon, although it doesn't go off. >> the gunman repeatedly attempted to fire upon me. i feared for my life. and in self-defense, i fired my weapon as i continued to move from him. >> he shoots three times missing the robber who drops his weapon and flees with his accomplice. another employee picks up the dropped gun. if hovan expects praise for his vigilante actions, he doesn't get it from his employer. instead h

public park to a trans national corporation to build a chemical factory or a condo or in the case of benton harbor michigan a city on lake michigan where a ninety acres lake michigan waterfront park a part of the commons that's enjoyed by mostly low income kids in a minority neighborhood has been sold off by want to governor snyder's financial dictators to real estate developers want to build a golf course resort for affluent white neighbors across the river to enjoy and worse these republican crony dictators can completely redo local budgets without any input by local elected officials just like what the greeks are afraid of so far rick snyder has put four cities in michigan under the control of his republican crony buddies benton harbor a course pontiac in flint and michigan's biggest city detroit is next on the list to be taken over and looted i asked a few michiganders on my show earlier this month what life is like in that state under the financial managers life is horrible this is a state takeover of the city of detroit flint been harbor. does not count it's not in void i mean we voted for o

the. citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to them that there's been very little effort on the part of the world for that runs everything to try to. involve the community how giant corporations thrive on government funds and outsource laborous home communities fall apart around them. gracious set to become the twenty eight's country to join the european union after the proposal was given the go ahead in a national referendum the country's accession now has to be approved by all current member nations but almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed a desire to join the block the spy that is ongoing debt crisis the turnout however at just forty four percent pointed to apathy among many towards the issue of the build up to the referendum was marred by clashes and to e.u. protesters staged demonstrations right up to the vote as artist on board reports opposition to joining the european union is unlikely to end here. violent scenes in the croatian complicated it's the country's new referendum that said. this to be made behind me the police trying to push the protesters

brown, white and yellow religious and non-religious occupy irs, naacp, many from around the state from benton harbor, muskegon, flint, came to let the governor know that there is a sizeable contingent and a growing number of citizens in michigan who are appalled at the way the vote has been made null and void. >> what do you make of the overall argument that in troubled communities, particularly financially troubled community, places where local budgets are a difficulty, services aren't being provided to the degree they ought to be, that democracy is a problem, that local control, local elections for officials is something that needs to be got around so things can be done in a correct way, what do you make of that argument overall? >> i think that is a bad argument. there is no connection between dismantling democracy and fixing a deficit. democracy allows for accountability and transparency, if you take democracy off the table, you have tyranny. there is no accountability. we must also add emergency management does not work. the detroit public schools is under emergency management, still has a defi

the european union. tone bottom. still got a program abandoning home base. citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the net and there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community. how giant corporations thrive on government bonds and outsource labor as home communities fall apart there were around them. russia's policy on immigration an internal movement within the country has come under scrutiny from its prime minister and presidential hopeful was more potent in a second major newspaper article as part of his election campaign put and set out his position on a range of key challenges let's get more on this now from our correspondent peter oliver. so peter good morning to you now what are the main points to come out of this article well this latest article is being written by the prime minister vladimir putin highlights his views on what he would do if he was elected president in march what he would do would concern to immigration and race and how to tackle the google problems that he sees a and to face into

and here's the best part they get paid as much as a quarter million bucks to strip a city down to its bones so far four cities in michigan are under control of these dictators benton harbor course pontiac in flint and now michigan's biggest city detroit might soon be taking over as well a team appointed by governor snyder is as we speak reviewing the financial situation in detroit and weighing whether or not to appoint a financial manager to take over the city so the officials and local union leaders in detroit are scrambling now to prevent their city from being taken over and sold off but this is a decision is expected in february last week tom talked about just how radical governor spenders financial managers are and how they're a sign that the mocker see is dying in america. these radical laws coming out of michigan are a huge step backwards for our nation you know in the united states we overthrew corporate rule in seven hundred seventy six the east india company used to basically the iran north america and now michigan is returning to corporal democracy in a republic is the will of the people being exercised through their representatives for rick snyder to say that

the future to create more jobs. we have a huge opportunity at this moment to bring manufacturing back it's a great goal though on his watch several manufacturing plants have shut down this whirlpool plant in benton harbor michigan has scaled back with more than five thousand people losing their jobs a small fraction of what this country has seen as a whole well rock obama doesn't understand that the reason the jobs are leaving is because politicians like him have pursued policies that have chased them out so this is a comparison between the u.s. and china this is part. think our parity and the g.d.p. and it shows that the chinese economy will expand from eleven point two trillion in two thousand and eleven to nineteen trillion in two thousand and sixteen meanwhile the size of the us economy will rise from fifteen point two trillion to eighteen point eight trillion i would take america's share of the world output down to under eighteen percent the lowest in modern times china's would reach eighteen percent and will most likely continue to grow optimism and strength must be at the forefront for the president for any president really it is after all an election year anyone who tells you that america is in