they want to strike and former trade union. -- form a trade union . they designed a logo showing the boots of oppression. they can only former workers' organization. what is the difference? >> they say we can form worker'' organizations, but we can't be real trade unions. workers can't link up with the international trade union. >> i introduced people by name and the number of years they were sentenced to jail. >> the revolt that started the campaign for democracy. >> 55 years, and this lady here? and you too, for 55 years. >> most were released only weeks ago. and what do they expect of the international community? jimmy spent 15 years in jail. >> i don't agree with lifting sanctions. partial lifting will be ok only after the remaining prisoners have been released. only when the true national reconciliation in the country at the constitution has been amended to allow full parliamentary democracy. only then should all sanctions be lifted. >> now there are rejoicing that there has been a genuine political breakthrough. the country's opposition party an

they work 8 hour days, six days a week, and they want to strike and form a trade union. this shows the pood of repression from which they are fighting free to form a trade union. they say that we can only perform a workers' organization. what is the difference? >> we have to have a new labor laws in this country that gives rise to workers. the government knows they have to accept this if they're going to encourage investment from abroad. they say that we can for workers' organizations but they don't want us to form real trade unions so that workers cannot link up with the international trade unions abroad. >> this man is not a word about the problems with his television set. it just needs to be hit now and then. radio and television is not worth watching, he says. you don't hear anything about real issues, nothing about labor disputes, or demonstrations. this was a video journalist for a fashion company from abroad. he was sentenced to jail after the uprising. he was released in january and is part of the government reform. >> when the revolution happened, we took these

workers like these ladies can't link up with the international trade union movement abroad. >> as a party in rangoon, i'm introduced to people by name and by the number of years they were sentenced to jail. this is the elite, the generation of 1988, the revolt that started the campaign for democracy and which launched aung san suu kyi. >> sentenced to 55 years? and this lady here? and you, too, for 55 years? >> 55 years. >> between them, they spent hundreds of years in jail and most were released only weeks ago. what do they expect of the international community now? jimmy spent 15 years in jail. >> i don't agree with lifting sanctions. partial lifting would be ok but only after the remaining political prisoners have been released and remaining ethnic conflict has ended, only when the constitution has been amended to allow full parliamentary democracy, only then should all sanctions be lifted. >> now there's rejoicing in burma that there has been a genuine political breakthrough here. the opposition party and their leader now have a voice in parliament. these people now hope that th

the essential elements of the trade union legislation of the 1980s will remain.e is saying it is not going to dismantle -- are you with me? the changes we do propose would lead british law the most restrictive on trade unions in the western world. this must have been music to your ears. >> i don't think i read it but yes. >> according to what you disclosed with your meeting with leaders of the opposition there was dinner with mr. blair that evening, march 31st. 1997. do you think you discussed that article and congratulated him? >> i doubt it. >> labor party in 1997, we move forward to march of 1998, on the 24 of march. they claim the italian prime minister had taken a call from mr. blair which they discussed your multimillion pound office? >> multi-billion? >> if i say million -- and mr. perotthey -- an italian bidder. what truth is there behind that story? did you speak to mr. blair on the seventeenth of march 1998 and asked him to speak to mr. r proudy to say he shouldn't interfere? >> no. i had access to mr. proudy and talked about it. we wanted to get rid of

i want all of the union trades in this city to get jobs in these proposed new hospitals. i would first like to see cpmc deal honestly with the current labor dispute between the union and the guys out on the street, looking for a contract. i do not want cpmc to give us all snow jobs so union workers get the short shift and the benefit of short-term jobs to give up long-term careers. cpmc needs to resolve their current labor issues and move forward, allowing all union trade to provide good middle- class livelihood to keep standards as though economically and socially strong. i encourage the planning commission lee's holding your decision in advanced until the resolution that's achieved between cpmc and stationary engineers local 39 san francisco. thank you very much. commissioner borden: thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is edgar. i was born and raised in sentences go and i have worked at california pacific medical center for the past 33 years. i am also a member of the stationary engineers local 39. i wish i could stand here before you and tell you that i supp

all this in front of the afl-cio building trades union today. here is the amazing thing. nott once in the speech did he mention the keystone oil pipeline where hundreds of thousands of blue collar jobs would be created. in full reelection mode, obama never even mentioned it. instead, he was too busy bashing successful people. in just a moment, the dnc and the rnc are going to face off on the president's mayday preview. >>> also this evening another new york sometimes piece on business, this time targeting apple for legal tax planning. now, folks, the world's largest company paid $8 billion in taxes last year. they're responsible for 47,000 jobs in the u.s. probably another 250,000 support jobs. wouldn't you leave for a low-tax state yourself? where is that news? >>> plus, there is a key economic debate tonight. should we be scared of an economic down shift, or is all this talk of america in decline just that, only talk. all right. we begin with the president's speech. it's unclear if he was in presidential mode or campaign mode or what. either way, he unleashed another so

were the, the members in the trade unions were definitely part of the wpa. okay. good evening. >> i believe the was able to galvanize the country which elkus to win world war ii had we not had that backroom. one of the questions i have is in terms of the african union, do you feel a program like the wpa would be important in terms of governments and that continent to create an infrastructure and if so how do you think we can move that policy forward? >> that's a great question. i think the answer to that question lies in how much money is available to the nations in africa, how well they can coordinate with the picture of their infrastructure needs which ensure our great, how you would manage to run a program like this without the corruption that has been endemic in many of the nation's. it's an impressive new vision and i think it would be a wonderful thing for some eloquent visionary leader to undertake. it would certainly do a lot of good. >> how does history judge the success of the wpa? that's the first part of the question and if it was just accessible

the united trade union has said that that will put a deal to its members which could avert a strike by a fuel tanker drivers. the union has been holding talks at a conciliatory body to resolve a route over issues on pay and safety concerns. -- to resolve a fight over issues on pay and safety concerns. the health secretary has said that the tobacco industry should have no business in the u.k. the industry has dismissed as preposterous a plan to remove branding from cigarette packets. the government will begin consultations on the idea next week. a man has confessed to blinding a woman in an attack lasting 12 hours. tina nash had her eyes gouged out in an attack. her attacker will be sentenced next month. this is "bbc news," of the headlines -- violence has marred syria's fragile cease-fire. the u.n. has not agreed to a plan for peace monitors. the u.n. has pledged to further isolate north korea following the failed rocket test. let's return to syria and we can speak to an activist in homs. and i asked you what the situation is at the moment? -- can i ask you what the situation is at the

he was presented as the man with the will to crush the trade unions. >> i did not have the will. i might have had the desire, but that took several years. >> had he asked the prime minister to support his bid? >> i never asked the prime minister for anything. >> 1997 brought a change of government to tony blair and new labor. mr. murdoch had supported tony blair in the election, but -- >> i never asked mr. blair for anything. nor did i receive any favors. >> from player to brown. mr. murdoch said that he had gotten into a -- blair to brown. mr. murdoch said that he had never gotten into a row with gordon brown, but then described this telephone call. >> he said that your company had declared war on my government and we had no alternative but to make war on your company. i said that i was sorry about that, gordon. thank you for calling. and of subjects. -- the end of subject. -- end of subject. >> in a statement tonight, mr. brown has said that mr. murdoch account is completely wrong. as for david cameron, he was flown out to meet rupert murdoch on a yacht in the mediterranean. wh

although they are within the agreement, with cpmc, really end up with an agreement that concerns the trade unions who have spoken today in san francisco, and the contractors. that is where it rests. it does not really rest either with the city or with cpmc. it rests down there, and the monitoring is going to be even more difficult because it is another layer involved and i'm going to also trust the next -- an expert in the field, ms. simmons because i do not have that expertise. i do appreciate the testimony that she has given to us on that. ok. at first, i questioned the idea of a $29 million in downpayment a system -- downpayment assistance for cpmc employees. the concept of someone working in san francisco being more likely to stay in the city then move around, someone who owns is more likely to stay then someone her rents. so that have not been mentioned before. i think it is in -- an important consideration and it gives more weight in my mind to breaking up those numbers. i think that is a good thing. my biggest disappointment was from the gentleman from mta. all we get from mta here is we d

the net trade union has said it will put a deal to its members that could avert a strike by fuel tanker drivers. the union has been holding talks with fuel distributors to resolve a route over issues including pay and safety concerns. the threat of a strike caused panic buying at petrol stations last month. >>> one of the world's largest cigarette manufacturers, imperial tobacco, has criticized health secretary forcing the industry should have no business in the u.k. the firm said the remark was very unhelpful and dismissed it as a preposterous plan to remove brannon from cigarette packets. the government will began a consultation on the idea next week. >>> a man has admitted planting a woman, his ex-girlfriend, and an attack lasting -- has admitted blinding a woman come his ex girlfriend, during an attack that lasted 12 hours. he admitted grievous bodily harm and he will be sentenced next month. >>> this is "bbc world news." the headlines this hour -- violence has marked syria's fragile cease-fire. the u.n. has so far agreed to fail to agree to plans to send peace monitors. the u.s. ha

of these movements in one way or another channel that behind the democratic party made via the trade unions which. you know the argument being that somehow the democratic party is really a people's party but it has always been a capitalist party it is the second party of american capitalism and so it has functioned primarily to channel social opposition completely behind a cap of this program of bush what program workers face governments which are completely controlled by the world bank so that oligarchs or the corporate elites and in every country the working class needs a. political program and our program isn't based just on slogans or media conjuncture a live event it's based on an understanding of history in the long struggle by the socialist movement and such figures as leon trotsky is no national solution for american workers or greek workers we're confronting a huge multinational corporations but nowhere in the world does a presidential election receive an garner the type of financial to the nation's a contributions as an election in the united states. and u.s. president barack obam

trade unions that have spoken in favor of the current plan to rebuild are being duped into believing that cpmc has their best interest at heart. i stand before you today having stood in the street for the past five weeks fighting for a contract, which cpmc has failed to negotiate with us. as an employer, cpmc has become a tyrant in their treatment of their employees. using the rebuilding as an excuse to cut staff, cut full- time employment, and paid substandard wages to the working class employees, their refusal to ensure employees who belong to a union the ability to keep their jobs and transfer to a new facility clearly exposes their anti-union agenda. they are discriminating against the san francisco citizens that can least afford health care. their plan of building more and maximizing profits at and minimizing services in the less profitable area, mayor lee use the potential of a major earthquake to suggest that this project go through. one did occur after cathedral hill and say clemens were built, the reality is that 80 beds at the same loose facility would not be enough. trying

he showed complete weakness when it came to the united trade union and the fuel stride. he has a mayor of london they won't pay his taxes. that's his last though. as ever, completely hopeless. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, he talks about the fuel price. i am not going to take any lecture on industrial relations. [shouting] i'm not going to take any in lecture on industrial relations from a government and a prime minister that causes panic at the pump. [shouting] and that is reality. when he gets to see let him apologize to the gross irresponsibility. let him apologize for the gross irresponsibility of the cabinet minister who calls the panic at the pump, and for him. the reality is, the reality is, he should calm down, mr. speaker. he should calm down. he should calm down. mr. speaker, this budget comprehensively fails the test of fairness and the spectacular fails the test of competence. we have a prime minister who is unfair, out of touch and incompetent. nevermind we're all in together. when is he went to get a grip on his government's? >> he won't take election until

as professional as opposed to the decision that too many of them make that they would rather be trade union activists. you can either be lockstep trade union members who did not get rewarded for being better or held accountable for you can be a professional. somebody who is rewarded for being gifted. i don't have any problem at all with paying six figures to outstanding teacher. if you are an inspired teacher and you change kids lives and everything possible to incentivize and reward that but on the flip side if you are burned out, if you are dead weight he should be treated the way any other profession -- we should not have a system that protect mediocrity. this is a challenge for teachers. i hope some of them would rise to this because it is a calling to be a teacher and we have turned it into this sort of factory unionized setting. otherwise you wouldn't see stories like that. when you say wouldn't it be great if we treated teachers like professionals, that is what is described as teacher bashing. thank you very much. appreciate it very much. and [applause] >> you are watching 48 hours o

three of the biggest trade unions now are on strike. factories and offices are likely to close today. they're protesting pension reforms. these were introduced late last year, and some plans all set to make it easier to hire and fire workers. workers are understandably concerned about what that means for their jobs. concerns here about growth. we're expecting a cabinet meeting today, likely to slow growth prospects. we've already heard from the european commission. they're likely to get some confirmation of that today. more, of course, in "world business report." >> familiar territory for a raft of countries. ben, thank you very much indeed. thank you for watching "bbc world news." i'm david eades. plenty more still to come, including saving the world's most endangered wildcat. conservationists get ready to pull the iberian lynx back from extinction. an elderly spanish nun has appeared in court in madrid accused of baby stealing. that's after a mother used d.n.a. to prove the baby she was told had died 30 years ago was alive and had bee

call you know organized networks they are going to replace the old forms of political parties and trade unions and these are you know dense forms of organized. heavily supported by networked technologies that are somewhat smaller units than what we see now you know what we see now is television spectacle you know if for instance at. coney two thousand and twelve so i'm more interested in what comes after ok after if i go to alex i mean i think that's one of the things everyone else is asking too because you know what is the sustainability because you can get all excited about kony two thousand and twelve and you can click and you can share and then i have absolved i did my bit you know and you can brag about it if you want and you can share and show how it's important to you and then you just go on to your daily business i mean it's about sustainability isn't it. well it may be i mean you can say that you go about your daily business but the fact is that those who have done this have changed their attention in some way right now attending to something that they wouldn't have done otherwise som

i would like to also start out by speaking to all the trade union members that were in here, the building trades. no one is talking about building less than 635 beds and hopefully we're talking about building more. what we're talking about is where and how to build those beds, not whether or not you all are going to get jobs. you're going to get those jobs. we need to build this system right. the broad issue here, the issue that covers this whole thing is that this is not just the rebuilding a hospital and building a new one. this is rebuilding an entire network of hospitals and changing the way they operate across the entire city that is going to affect the health and welfare of hundreds of thousands of people who need to use those hospital services for the rest of this century. we need to do that right. and anyone, anyone from mars could look at this project plan and see that we're taking one hospital in a poor neighborhood from a couple hundred beds down to 80 and then building a huge one in a more wealthy neighborhood where there are going to be major traffic problems and just recogni

of believe the demanding a wage increase they call for more to give between the government and trade unions as they say the country's current pain policy doesn't compensate for soaring food prices in march follows a strike by health care workers unhappy with the decision to increase their working day to eight hours. and now on a lighter note would like to show you this video from a russian motorist recorded by his dashboard camera and it's definitely something you want to see again for a while well and ordinary drive quickly turns ugly with a driver in our alleviating to oncoming cars only to find himself spinning out of control towards a speeding truck with a block or reflexes the car winds are drifting around the truck and even right itself. hard to imagine what was going through the mind of the driver there but he certainly won't be forgetting that morning commute any time soon. what's not to dive into the world of business with a target and markets in russia and europe still closed. and what's happening in asia now because trading there is in full swing absolutely and asia is posting a

which are given by the government which extruding only come to watch is the situation known by trade unions. so a technical problem with that let me think through some of the world news briefing tens of thousands of people protested in egypt to demand the ruling military junta there bans members of the ousted mubarak regime for running for presidency the demonstration was organized by the muslim brotherhood and other islamist groups after parliament voted for the measure it followed the surprise calendar see announcement of mubarak era vice president and intelligence chief almost silliman because a lot of the power has to be approved by the ruling military council which took over from the top of the tate and last year. elsewhere around the world tonight in your briefing the prime minister of guinea bissau carlos gomez jr has been arrested by us soldiers in what looks like an apparent coup soldiers attacked his residence with heavy weapons seizing the premier in advance of a run off presidential election later this month which he was expected to win he's opposed by the army which also took c

that the legislation says that if an employer has a voluntary agreement with a non-independent trade union, like "news international" staff association, that, too, will prevent any independent union making an application. you're aware of these things, mr. murdoch? >> i am afraid i am not. up on these issues. >> that embellishment is referred to in trade union circles as the dniester clause, the staff association clause. what i want to suggest to you is that you have some discussion, or people at "news international," had some discussion with mr. blair or officials of his side to ensure that that provision was in the legislation, so that at the nuj, any of the union, could not make an application for recognition for collective bargaining at "news international." >> now. -- no. bakken i've be no, or i don't know anything about this. which is that? >> i know that i had never approached mr. blair or spoke to mr. blair about it. otherwise i had no knowledge. >> thank you, sir. anybody else? thank you. mr. murdoch, thank you very much indeed for the time that you devoted again to the preparation

as opposed to the labour party, which just crosses its fingers and hopes for the best from the trade unions next wednesday my mother maud will celebrate her 100th birthday. living, as she does, five minutes from the olympic stadium, she has agreed to be usain bolt's pacemaker, in order to give the other athletes a chance. will my right honorable friend now call on the indomitable spirit of former land army girls such as my mother and encourage our olympic athletes to go for gold? >> i will certainly do that. i have written to maud to congratulate her on this fantastic milestone, and i am sure that as she speeds past usain bolt, she will turn round and reflect that the only way is essex. >> i am delighted that the prime minister has written to her. that makes two of us. >> the prime minister has spent plenty of time cozying up to news corporation in return for political support, so -- i can wait. he is therefore well qualified to answer this answer -- when alex salmond agreed to act as a lobbyist for news corp, was he acting in self-interest or in the interests of scotland? >> first, i think

he showed complete weakness when it came to the united trade union and the fuel stride. he has a mayor of london they won't pay his taxes. that's his last though. as ever, completely hopeless. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, he talks about the fuel price. i am not going to take any lecture on industrial relations. [shouting] i'm not going to take any in lecture on industrial relations from a government and a prime minister that causes panic at the pump. [shouting] and that is reality. when he gets to see let him apologize to the gross irresponsibility. let him apologize for the gross irresponsibility of the cabinet minister who calls the panic at the pump, and for him. the reality is, the reality is, he should calm down, mr. speaker. he should calm down. he should calm down. mr. speaker, this budget comprehensively fails the test of fairness and the spectacular fails the test of competence. we have a prime minister who is unfair, out of touch and incompetent. nevermind we're all in together. when is he went to get a grip on his government's? >> he won't take election until

other thing i would do to save money for the city off the bat and do away with the persnickety trade unionfortune. now because the streets are crowded in glendale, you will hand the traffic problem. this is what you do. on saturday night when the cool people come to town that you party with, block off every street coming in the city so monday morning all those straight people can't hang around there. and then, there is the most important thing, kimmy care. now kimmy care is an idea i think that is important for you. it would be free cosmetics and plastic surgery for everyone. then, of course, the last thing is i think you ought to make khloe your food and beverage czar. with that in mind, i want to say to you no mg, lol for mayor. something like that. we got it. brains are overrated. >> dana: is that the artwork you put up in your new apartment? >> bob: right here. >> andrea: it's a wond they're you are divorced. really. >> andrea: look at the mayor. kwan from oakland, disaster. mayor from l.a., disaster. the governor, schwarzenegger was the for. she could be a vast improv improvement. >>

and you know the trade unions and it was very, the media, it was very very difficult. am sure during this campaign it's building a new relation with french people. >> rose: if after the election the first round this weekend results in alan and nichai, the pollsshow aan would be about 10 points ahead, 8 to ten point 10 points ahead. >> i never read the polls because when they increase or when they decrease, if you wanted to go, if you want to work, you don't have to read the polls clearly. i prefer to go to meet people to meet the french people in france in united states too. >> >> rose: i want to go to europe in a moment. i have several questions about europe but also at the same time clearly you are partisan for initial linicholai sarkozy and e anyone to comeo this program before the election and ta o behalf of francois hollande. tell me about your debt crises in particular. >> well everybody is looking at the situation in spain and greece. in europe and the word. -- the world. but we have together all the countries of europe. that's very importt. that's the policy of