opposition activists been down schools and college is set to these polling stations the european union united states in the commonwealth mobilization of all refuse to send it to this unconvincing say the prospects of the federal action. fresh protests on the streets of bangkok this sunday. anti government demonstrators trying to drum up support for a mass rally planned for january thirteen. depositions trying to scuttle elections which are scheduled for next february. despite this prime minister the election the party has launched its campaign. the sister of exiled former premier attacks and is expected to win. this is their fight to the us secretary of state john kerry says the united states will stand by iraqi and its battle against al qaeda the sending in troops. his comments come after the islamic state of iraq and the love bond fighters took control of one of two main cities in anbar province. fighting has raged in food as well as for money for days. many residents are forced to flee the violence iraq's prime minister bound to take it back. the city grandson has the details. new richer each ira

importantly, from the european union's, the united states, and other major world powers. that is in the context of where there are limited financial resources available from african nations. we saw that here. a similar accident -- a similar tract is for molly. mawli.tice from >> it does seem that there is a limit to what exactly africa can do to help african problems, especially in respect to the central african republic. >> there are these massive funding constraints, but also, it is a case of there being european boots on the ground. is the african led force around 5000 troops of the moment. there are also 1600 french troops there. the un security council approved the deployment of a 600 strong european union force. european powers are being embroiled in the conference -- conflict in africa. this has led france to say that there are limits to which it can be expected to operate a policeman of african affairs. >> and not the only major conflict going on. major worry.s a is there anything new to report on that front? is aroundflict there six or 7, 8 weeks old. it has been

invariably to siding with the soviet union over the united states. saddam hussein over america. mass murdering what terrorist dictators over israel. , one like trayvon martin story after another after another. happy to takey questions. thank you for having me. [applause] as a understand it, the questions of already been prepared? >> no. we are passing car to run the audience -- cards around the audience. please write them down and bring them over in this direction. you used then, term modern liberal several times. wordntrigued by the modern, is this a new phenomenon? did this person not exist a few decades ago? >> no, this ideology has soually existed since john? -- john clouseau. changed post-ning up to it ii, leaving again -- leading up to it. untilhe dawn of time, just before i was born, every human being had to avoid disease, hunger, poverty, and physical pain. by the tape -- time i came of -- polio bank wished was think west, the chickenpox was a gift, disease was vanquished. hunger, by the time i came of age, find a dollar in the street, and you can eat ramen noodles for t

but what we're hearing from the united states and from the european union is of course the most cynical hypocrisy after the last few years of the brutal police repressions of the occupy wall street movement in the united states and the anti neoliberal austerity diktats that have been instituted around the european union which brought literally tens of millions of protesters out onto the street. them calling against the violence in the ukraine where the majority of the enjoyment of the time to be against has been from the police that it was suffered injuries from allah calls talked tales firebombs knife stabbings club meetings with morning stars withered shots from trebuchets constructed and the my don and bows and arrows i mean there really were afraid to seeing a level of medieval violence from the protesters that is where the real violence in these protests is going to. be dissolved the ukrainian opposition say present because it's refused to also their questions jaron ago today but they could continue tomorrow the president did say the cabinets resignation is not impossible while opp

explains why he believes the decision is hypocritical what we're hearing from the united states and from the european union is of course the most cynical five percent. after the last twenty years of them. it's refreshing to be occupied wall street the united states in the anti me a new liberal posterity. the tights that have been instituted around the european union which brought literally tens of millions of protesters of october st. of them. call it against violence in the ukraine where the majority of the inside it has been from the elites that have suffered injuries from our cocktails fire bombs like stabbings. love the ease with morning stars. we did shots from trina which it is constructed and the mike don and both the narrows between them were frequently seen on a level of the people want us up from the protesters that is where the real time. in these protests. this pieces of the new cradle position in state prison yanukovich refused to alter the questions during negotiations today that they could continue tomorrow the president did say the cabinet's resignation is snorting possible while opposition

other protesters targeted a proposed free trade agreement between the european union and united states. german agricultural minister hans beat fb page said he welcomes the debate and called for greater length between food production and foreign policy as for the free trade agreements. he knew and the us hoped to have a deal by the end of this year safety is just one of many concerns on the table bookings for snack on a big surprise in world cup downhill skiing is allowable holden classic in switzerland it was a swiss here. he came up trumps when no country can be swept to victory. cycling is proving to be the surprise packet in alpine skiing this season. one month ago the thirty year old won the world cup downhill race the infamous held on to prove it wasn't a fluke. the ads his victory was great since then. the cross the finish line in his six hundredth of a second faster than costly and qantas flight to the margin between second and third was even thinner so don't spend on the norway just one hundredth of a second behind my stats normally the velcro born is the longest on the world c

what we're hearing from the united states and from the european union is of course the most cynical five percent. after the last two years of the boot. it's refreshing to be occupied wall street the united states. in the anti a new liberal posterity the thoughts that have been instituted around the european union to run literally tens of millions of protesters of the screen of them. call it against violence in the ukraine where the majority of the inside it has been for weeks that have suffered injuries from olive crop fails fire bombs like stabbings. love that is what morning stars. we did shots from that revolution is constructed and unlike don and bows and arrows in the minimum frequency high level of the blue lights from the protesters that is where the real dial size in these protests come to this. and a star and all almond said the ukrainian opposition won't survive a national democracy. they want to marginalize and really didn't get a conviction his part to the region to support us. see you need it and normal constitutional revolution one of the opposition television station says

since to sign not only for the politics of ukraine the democratic countries of the european union the united states the governments and the bureaucratic institutions in brussels all siding with rioting in the streets but it also in a sense is an indirect threat to anybody who dissents from the official european line inside your opinion after all what is the basis of this protest that you know his government refused to sign this government agreement with the e.u. that sparked the protests so in other words is. negative rating for the e.u. and for the americans is that he didn't do what we wanted but what if a government inside the e.u. was to begin to say we don't entirely agree with this or that would they also see a sponsored crowd on the streets would they also see inside countries inside the threat to the constitutional order if you don't follow the line that the bureaucrats in brussels so i think we're seeing not a promotion of democracy here but in fact a sinister in all the cynical power political game about the ukraine but one which has implications for the functioning of the constitutions o

that protesters propose free trade agreement between the european union and the united states. chickens ind up one-filled me to end our plates. that is why we want to stop the agreement. 70 i were culture ministers were in berlin. ministeragricultural says he welcomes it. agreement,free trade the european union and the uso to have a deal by the end of this year. it is one of many concerns on the table. cupn a big prize in world downhill skiing. at the classic in switzerland, it was a swiss skier i came up -- that campe up. surprising -- it is proving to be the surprising package in downhill skiing. he won his first cup in the down hill race. he proved it was not a fluke. his victory was great for him. the finish line faster than an austrian skier. the margin between second and third was even thinner. a second behind. winds cause organizers to shorten the course. 29,000 hailed the new swiss champion. he is suddenly among the favorites for the winter olympics in sochi. are out in full force here in europe. we have a round up of the latest coming -- starting with the nordic combin

will it be the warming between the united states and soviet union.he pumped $2 trillion into the military. it would have been a persuasive negotiating. the treaty calls for the dismantling of all russian missiles. the man who once called the soviet union the evil empire had done a turn around. early in his administration it was telling the country it could survive a nuclear war. hardly good news. >> what can we think about a yet so callusly and quickly commit a terrorist act. >>> when the russians shot down a korean air carrier, his statement would very scantily. who can forget reagan walking with the russian president. we saw these symbols throughout his time in office and carefully calculated moments designed to be reassuring as well as a spark to the country's collective sense of patriotism. we saw him in normandy. and now the curtain finally falls. >> we meant to change a nation and instead we changed the world. >> reporter: as he said, parting is such sweet sorrow. for him the sweet was returning to california and the sorrow leaving washington.

finance proposal to hold the unions during the lunar new year season one reason they gave was military exercises the south koreans plan to hold next month with the united states analysts say meters and killing anyone. the south to scrap those exercises in return for holding the unions officials with south korea's unification ministry welcomed the proposal to re unite families. they say they'll top with their counterparts in the north to work out the details. now analysts say it's not clear whether reunions will happen as the south koreans don't plan to cancel the joint military exercises. japan's leaders say they're planning to relax the immigration rules for construction workers. they say the country doesn't have enough skilled labor and are looking abroad for help members of japan's cabinet had been discussing how to handle the shortage you. they say they need more people to be built from the twenty eleven disaster in northeastern japan can stop fast facilities for the twenty twenty olympic and paralympic games in tokyo and repair aging infrastructure construction company officials say their chronically short of what its skilled and plastering and reinforci

. >> the european union and the united states officially agreed to relent sanctions on iran on mondayreign ministers approved the measure for six months. world powers will continue to seek a comprehensive deal that defines the scope of iran's nuclear activities. decision confirmed earlier on monday confirmed iran had suspended high-level uranium enrichment, in line with a deal reached with western powers. the international power's long suspected iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. this is something tehran denies. >> the task will be to support french and african forces seeking to end months of fighting between muslim and christian militias. established an environment where humanitarian aid can be brought in. officiallypean union open membership talks with serbia. speaking in brussels, serbia's prime minister called it the most important day for his country since the end of the second world war. clubade hopes to join the by 2020. but it still has obstacles to overcome before becoming a member. paidrkey's prime minister its first visit to brussels in five years. the trip was mea

that save believes the ukrainian leaders attempts to restore peace that blocked the united states and the european union they shouldn't our very much miss a mistake and that what they should be doing is supporting the ukrainian government and urging the rebels the holdouts to accept the amnesty agree with the most important thing is to defuse tensions and prevent a new explosions of violence and the opposition are not doing this they are not in a constructive mood they were not oppositional destructive mode they don't want to make change to due process i think it would be disastrous of president you know who they were to resign i think if that was the case the danger of civil war in ukraine between eastern ukraine and western ukraine with kiev caught in the middle would be much greater president you know which should be supported by the european union and by the united states he is the main force for moderation and reconciliation left in this country. say up to date with events in ukraine twenty four seven would be helpful to our website and. find a timeline including photos from a kia as well as fresh

would be much greater president you know because it should be supported by the european union and by the united states he's the main force for moderation and reconciliation left in this country. i stay up to date live events in ukraine twenty four seven with the help of our website our team dot com then you'll find a timeline including photos from here as well as fresh reports from our correspondent. a superhero has come to the rescue of billions homeless he's not a guest from other planets no a rich crime fighter basically is just a character from magazine but as art is probably going to reports even that may be enough to help those in need. his muscles affair but he has no fixed abode it's super hobo the unlikely superhero inherited his super powers accidentally after savoring some discarded beer. normally like that man or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world know it's the guy from the on the ground rescue which gets to the city because it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it's so correct or clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's log

u.s.s a very combative president barack obama gave his annual state of the unit address -- state of the union address last night. the president has made no bones about his frustration with partisan gridlock on capitol hill. he says he will use executive orders to pass legislation that is blocked in congress. america does not stand still and neither will i. canever and wherever i take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, that is what i am going to do. >> president obama delivered an address before a joint session of congress and millions of americans watching on television . that speech is the subject of today's inside look. joining us is a u.s. specialist. much moreike it was a confrontational barack obama we heard in that speech. would you agree? >> yeah, but there were signs that he was going to go it alone. remember in the first few weeks, "i have a pen and i will use it when it is necessary. also, the opinion polls are bad and he has to do something about it. finally some republicans may be moving on the immigration bill. maybe he realizes this is th

union. in the united states, 3 pthalates were permanently banned from children's toys and child-care articles in 2008 because of their potential to leach from plastic that's chewed or sucked. >> the worst actors have been taken out of children's toys, but they're still widely used in many other types of consumer products, and bio-monitoring studies show that these chemicals are still showing up in people. >> we're deep in the hold of bisphenol a. there's widespread exposure. it's biologically active at very low levels. >> bpa is of concern, because it looks like an estrogen. and it's been shown to have a weak estrogenic effect. and so if you're exposed to a chemical that might interfere with your hormone levels, in this case your estrogen, that can have effects, particularly if it happens during development. >> and there is preliminary data that says that it may in fact directly--an early life exposure might directly increase the risk of breast cancer in animals. >> if there are chemicals that affect the development of the breast even before birth, if there are chemicals that cause breast tum

fringes where their views have been inflamed unfortunately by interventions from the european union and the united states of america which i think are wholly unreasonable in the domestic politics of ukraine and you will see them try and rise up and and deed those people are rather extreme some of them have very very ugly views indeed and of course they're demonstrating it through the violence that they're propagating on the innocent people of kiev and ukraine at this moment is not a huge majority movement demanding change it is all timidly a very well organized terrorist rabble. well with me now in the studio is news editor of across who be discussing the implications and the consequences of what's happening there in kiev at the moment also auntie's. who's witnessed some of the rioting over recent weeks in kiev. you were. now unfolding to be a tragic sad day for kiev are you surprised that it got to this level off to what you saw before all this erupted no not at all because the way that the protests have been going since the end of november something had to have happened either the protests were going t

korea will no longer have to cut its purchases of crude oil from the run after the european union and the united states suspended a range of sanctions on the middle eastern country on monday korea is one of the country to be eligible for a bronze tension exceptions under the us national defense authorization act. korea depends on imports for its oil needs and iran as the major supplier to the east stations will also allow sold to imply petrochemicals and export automobile parts that haven't been since last july the mill is expected to bring korean companies about one hundred million us dollars. the international atomic energy agency confirmed monday that iraq has begun shutting down parts of its nuclear program the agency said the tehran to stop production of uranium with a concentration of about five percent and had begun diluting its stockpile of twenty percent enriched uranium. iraqi now benefit from the easing of sanctions with up to seventy billion dollars including recovering frozen oil revenues when some four point two billion dollars the east asians will only be effective for six months giving

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back on the offensive and to see more violence we can see my report now what the european union and the united states ought to say about what's happening here and. the violent scenes in ukraine triggered a strong reaction from abroad scenes like this so police attacking protesters need to tell us to protest is against the police has prompted the head of the e.u. parliament martin scholtz to call for immediate elections in the country while jose manuel barroso the e.u. commission president warned that he was ready to take action if the situation didn't change these type of statements of led to accusations of encouraging the rioters in a way that's being seen previous conflicts so very similar scenario to what was happening in. the beginning of the ninety's. we had people clamoring for democracy which was completely legitimate and then. outside western support pretty much gave wings to the extremist who started calling not just for democracy but for the breakup of the country it's not just european leaders that have weighed in on the ukrainian crisis the united states council visas for officials who it

the reason that workers even in the united states have things like social security stamps unemployment insurance that these things came as a result of the soviet union that the capitalist powers the united states were forced to give concessions because the soviet union existed and it was it was in competition so so we're really seeing the austerity that continues all across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. to the american city of omaha and now as we go into the yard. where a large of an animal feed plant there was left at least two people dead another ten seriously injured it's not yet clear what caused the blast and one witness inside the plant said he heard a large crowd before the back wall of the factory collapsed emergency services say all workers on the bodies not been accounted for. afghanistan fifty people working to clear mines are reportedly been abducted in the province of punjab tunes on a good local security officials say the group arrived in the area near the city of herat three years ago no one's claimed responsibility for the kidnapping at t

back on the offensive and to see more violence we can see my report now will the european union and the united states up to say about what's happening here in kiev. violent scenes in ukraine triggered a strong reaction from abroad. seems like it's the weeks that i can protest is. i can tell it's me. protesters against the police. it's going to be paid if the eu column and molten shields to call for immediate elections in the country. while jose manuel but also the eu commission president when he was ready to take action the situation didn't change these type of statements that led to accusations of encouraging the right is the way it's being seen in previous conflicts. it's a very similar scenario to war was happening in exodus lobby at the beginning of the nineties we had people clamoring for democracy which was completely legitimate and then outside western support pretty much gave wings to the extremists who started calling not just for democracy but for breakup of the country. it's not just european leaders to the way you've seen on the ukrainian crisis. the unites states consul pieces for offici

the reason that workers even in the united states have things like social security stamps unemployment insurance that these things came as a result of the soviet union that the capitalist powers the united states were forced to give concessions because the soviet union existed and it was it was in competition so so we're really seeing the austerity that continues all across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. and i coming up just a bit later today here at the international are just about as far from coleman ism as you can get a box keyser suggests buying exactly shining examples of august. i would imagine if you asked the chairman and the president and the c b c right now what they had for lunch they would lie they would they have made just out of baloney sandwich and they said we just had a turkey sandwich because it's in their culture it's in their d.n.a. they grew up liars they are liars they'll die liars their d.n.a. if you take it to another planet another universe another parallel dimension you could sell on the open market as d.n.a. that's made a pure l

he died in losing to italy after a long illness the european union and the united states officially agreed to relax sanctions on iran on monday. eu foreign ministers approved the measure for a period of six months. during that time will palace will continue to seek a comprehensive deal that defines the scope of iran's nuclear activities the decision came up to the un nuclear watchdog confirmed earlier on monday that iran had suspended high level ukrainian enrichment in line with the deal reached with western powers the international community has long suspected that iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons a charge tehran denies. the european union agreed this week to send troops to the central african republic. the cost will be to support french and african forces seeking to end months of fighting between christian and muslim militias. the goal is to establish a secure environment on the capital home to the humanitarian needs can be broken. on tuesday the european union officially open membership talks with serbia. speaking in brussels. serbia's prime minister he beat said that she scolde

about that, not only protesters but some voices outside the country as well, the european union and united statesre they say the laws going against democratic principals. at the same time though the foreign minister of russia sergei said it's none of their business and criticized members of european government for what he said they rushed to join antigovernment protests here and it's obscene when the government whose have diplomatic relations with ukraine get involved like that so there is both a standoff on the streets and a diplomatic war of words. >> reporter: are there any hopes for some kind of political solution to the crisis there? >> well, i think that a lot of people are starting to lose hope here in, ukraine and on monday there was supposed to be talks involving members of the president's government and the opposition, but those talks didn't happen. part of the problem is that the opposition is demanding that the president takes part in any dialog which he said he is prepared to enter into. but at the moment it's just representatives of his party who are being slated for taking part in

fringes where their views have been inflamed unfortunately by interventions from the european union and the united states of america which i think are wholly unreasonable in the domestic politics of ukraine and you will see them try and rise up under dede those people are rather extreme some of them have very very ugly views indeed and of course they're demonstrating it through the violence that they're propagating on the innocent people of kiev and ukraine at this moment is not a huge majority movement demanding change it is all timidly a very well organized terrorist rabble. and when i joined live by a political commentator soon gay a stroke on. let's now wait a second for a moment we had just preparing our guest to go lie with him and this iteration a ukraine is pretty tense now and we are about to talk with our gas on the situation in kiev that we previously had from our correspondents from central kiev and right now we can bring you sergei and struck a live promote mr khan welcome when the process first started in kiev and ukraine it was led by people who basically wanted ukraine to turn towards the

kennedy did, when he said that the soviet union would in short order overtake the united states. >> andhat missile crisis didn't exist. the americans had vastly more missiles than the soviet union did. >> it did. it played greatly to reagan's advantage in the 1980s. >> many write that china's economy will overtake america and one are prediction to cebr pushed that back to 2028, but china becoming the world's economic power. is that how you see it? >> i certainly don't because i've seen these predictions come and go. they refer to the soviet union, to europe for a while, to japan and they are now referring to china. what this report that you just quoted is you know run of the mill, declinism, let me put it this way: it is not a very very sophisticated economic analysis. they say the japanese, chinese growth rate is higher than american one and the it will inevitably over take america. but look at japan, japan was growing at 12, 14%, it is now growing at 0%. the european union was growing faster than the united states, it is now growing at 0%. we are now watching china which has come down

fringes where their views have been inflamed unfortunately by interventions from the european union and the united states of america which i think are wholly unreasonable in the domestic politics of ukraine and you will see them try and rise up under dede those people are rather extreme some of them have very very ugly views indeed and of course they're demonstrating it through the violence that they're propagating on the innocent people of kiev and ukraine at this moment is not a huge majority movement demanding change it is all timidly a very well organized terrorist rabble we're now joined by political analysts martin the he's in london martin the rights of the calling for revolution is that what we're seeing here is yet a coach in serious trouble now. when you talk about a revolution situation there's one key factor the protesters have to convince the police who are over run the police so that a significant number of them begin to doubt whether there should be protecting the . government and therefore the key event will be if the riot police and police begin to doubt the job they're doing and if they

one of the consequences is to let off be insane nuclear arms race with the soviet union and the united states that developed a bomb soon after then by the 1980's with 70,000 nuclear weapons in the upper world but hydrogen bombs, a 10 and 51 digit thousand times more powerful than hiroshima. now we are working our way down. that could have been prevented if we did not use the bomb. on balance we should not have dropped it on nagasaki or hiroshima. we were winning the war in the way. the emperor was preparing to surrender regret the very least we could have waited a few more weeks to see if the surrender talks we're going to succeed or not but i recognize it is a very controversial area but that is my opinion. >> from providence and day school, a student. >> i am a junior. what the of the reaction rigby the ballistic missile attack since they have not signed any sort of pact? >> that is a tricky question because israel would not attack palestine you read the occupied territories with the ballistic missile that is a long-range weapon they go hundreds or thousands of kilometers. if there is a con

it's basically, do we want to have union, mandatory unionism in the united states or not. >> unions have a long time. they do great things. i loved the way people complain. oh, i could do it myself. do you think you could get the same wages on your own that you get through the union? do you think? how about tenure? teempers have job security. imagine having a job you don't have to worry about getting fired. >> i have tenure right until the end of this show, probably get another 12 hours. imagine every week, every month, every year. >> you think they shouldn't protest, they don't protest the benefits and goodies that come with it? >> i don't see it complaining at payday, benefit day, lifetime health care. tenure. boy, you can hear a pin drop there. >> i adegree with that aspect. i agree, randy. >> i'm sorry. >> wow. >> what i think -- >> you are a conundrum. >> code, yes. these people are saying in america the first amendment allows me to opt out. if i don't want to take those benefits, i don't have to. i'll do it on my own. i think they basically are saying, we don't hate the union but w

john roberts right there, how many actually come to hear the president of the united states to deliver his state-of-the-unionddress. there's ruth bader ginsburg and stephen breyer. >> as we wait for the president of the united states to enter the house chamber only a few moments from now, let's take a quick look at what's going on, set the scene. you just saw the supreme court justices of the united states. they have been introduced earlier. members of the diplomatic corps, they were brought in. members of the joint chiefs of staff. they were there. you'll see the cabinet members about to be coming in. right in the middle of your screen you see the vice president of the united states. he is the president of the senate. that's why he's there together with the house speaker john boehner. all of this happening on a very, very important night for the president. he's

fringes where their views have been inflamed unfortunately by interventions from the european union and the united states of america which i think are wholly unreasonable in the domestic politics of ukraine and you will see them try and rise up under dede those people are rather extreme some of them have very very ugly views indeed and of course they're demonstrating it through the violence that they're propagating on the innocent people of kiev and ukraine at this moment is not a huge majority movement demanding change it is ultimately a very well organized terrorist rabble. well let's now talk about the tactics used by the ukrainian rock police with simon for he's a retired senior officer from london's metropolitan police side now what do you make of the methods used by the riot police there in kiev well it's always a very difficult scenes and obviously that situation is very quickly got out of control and what i thought was interesting was the way that it was described as being relatively peaceful one minute and then probably violent it was ordered to it and never. i guess really this is where the pol

a one sentence marriage in the united states union between a marriage and a woman.indsight, had that been language that we would have passed it back then. that is the one point i would have gone back and change. >> looking for work, would you be talking to leaders but making that a priority? >> i just think it is poignant time you will see that. is more of asee constitutional kind of doma which allows the states. we saw introduced in the house. we saw the defense of marriage provision that allows the state as the supreme court did. the decision this summer has been misconstrued. it only shut down one of the two portions of doma. one being what the federal government still marriage -- governments definition of marriage. there could be a move to provide that type of protection for the states from a constitutional perspective. do we get there? that depends on the outcome. >> before we leave this issue, it was over this issue that your office had a very frightening incident with a shooter coming him intending to do harm. 25 years of a sentence. up over a big ramp social

china's biggest race honors the european union to live by the united states. he is a breakdown of the tickets. dressed in chinese exports slowed in december from the previous month. companion i guess they were up by just over four percent as against thirteen cents in november. and it's a chinese companies a worried about the unstable global economy said jing yuan and higher labor costs the outlook is generally upbeat. what's he going to the international and domestic economies don't suffer from major risks. i believe china's foreign trade law and sayings of stable growth and the quality and efficiency of foreign trade department is likely to improve. by the same year on year comparison. imports to china grew by eight percent come on this scale back government as a sign that domestic among his crew. last year the government spends more on infrastructure projects to stimulate the economy. some analysts see a more substantial shift underway in chinese foreign trade policy. if the government uses its grip on the yuan and imports keep rising. more people could bene

and what we're hearing from the united states from the european union is of course the most cynical hypocrisyafter the last few years of the brutal police repression of the occupy wall street movement in the united states and the anti liberal austerity dic times that have been instituted around the european union right literally tens of millions of protesters out onto the street. them calling against the violence in the ukraine where the majority of the injuries are the fancy of gays have been. from the police that of suffered injuries from our calls cocktails firebombs knife stabbings club meetings with morning stars a withered shots from trebuchets constructed in the my dime and bows and arrows that mean there were frequently seeing a level of violence from the protesters that is where the real violence in these protests is coming from just. and back to the studio with me as i have a cross here and. well what's next can we expect that kind of civil war that i think. anybody is not. interested what's going on a kid is going to be spending a lot of time looking at the phone that's for sure i

is not and that ok well what we're hearing from the united states and from the european union is of course the most cynical hypocrisy after the last few years of the brutal police repression of the occupy wall street movement in the united states and the anti neoliberal austerity diktats that have been instituted around the european union which brought literally tens of millions of protesters out onto the street. them calling against violence in the ukraine where the majority of the injuries for the past few days have been from the police did and suffered injuries from allah calls talked tales firebombs knife stabbings club beings with morning stars withered shots from trebuchets constructed in the my don and bows and arrows so i mean there were afraid to seeing a level of medieval violence from the protesters that is where the real violence in these protests has come from but still there's been reports of the first that some of the key is going to become some kind of point of no return ok so we've had reports of three deaths at this point one of them has been confirmed this is a survey ne

. >>> the supreme court heard a case this morning that could have quite an impact on unions in the united statesat the heart of the whole thing is whether unions can force workers pay dues. labor leaders argue that workers who benefit from the union contract should pay their fair share of the fees. some workers say it's unconstitutional to require anybody to pay union dues. we're live in washington elm what's at stake here, shannon? >> the potential impact is so great this is what justice kagan said today. it would radley restructure the way work misses are run, if the supreme court sides with the plaintiff. in this case the state of illinois dvded to classify private home health care workers as state employees for purposes of collective bargaining. places, who sole purpose is to care for her disabled daughter, says they shouldn't have to pay dues to a union whose message they don't support. >> he is not able to walk or talk, hag had 79 surgeries. i dent want her to get up. she's my daughter. i don't need a union. i am concerned -- i was made a public employee, not by choice. >> the supreme cour