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unless it's pressured i guess well israel depends very heavily on trade the european union and military aid from the united states the european union the united states working together in a position to put the most enormous pressure on israel through sanctions or withdrawing aid or lift a lifting the trade agreement which also has a human rights course within it we need action urgently by those two key players in the situation because in france you time tonight screwed see. you're most welcome thank you europe's human rights court rules that ukraine acted illegally by jailing its former prime minister later in the program then we look at whether the decision could change anything incarceration that's coming up also coming up to medics he shifted to guantanamo to deal with a worsening hunger strike a psych psychiatric experts and that's why there's only one solution to the prisoners protest is couple of stories just a couple of minutes away. with . technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future covered. the international landlord in the very heart of moscow. europe's latest unempl

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by bargaining unit or union by union, but the nature of these problems such as the furlough agreement, definitely reached saving the city over $240 million, the pension agreement we reached to put ballot measure c together. all those things really require cooperation of a lot of different unions, a lot of different city employee leaders, and that's the only way that you can tackle long-range structural problems as complex as pension and as complex as the issue that is before you today. so, we have another one of those situations. i think people are prepared to have discussions about it and that's why i say i do appreciate the way the controller has presented the problem to you this afternoon. we think it's important that people's perspective on this number, which can be alarming, be realistic and that we go deeper on the problem to understand it a little bit more thoroughly. and the threat to the extent it is a threat that is presented to the city. it is beyond a doubt for us that the long-term financial health of the city is in the int

hotel union unite organized that protest. leaders want the hyatt to improve conditions for workers and have launched a campaign called someone like me. that is a call to create awe new position for a hotel employee. >> well, if you need to take bart at night, here is a reminder delays continue this week because of work going on inside of the trance bay tube. crews continuing the work to make the tube safer and you can expect delays tuesday, wednesday, and thursday night for 14 months. one tube will close during work hours. until a train coming from opposite direction exits the tube, then, it will take its turn going into the opposite direction. >> still ahead a battle brewing over a planned opening of a new women's clinic. abortion opponents using a new strategy to keep planned parenthood from expanding on the peninsula. >> we think everybody in this country needs to watch this movie. >> the movie the first lady is raving about. why she is encouraging >>> i prose pose yl in a planned parenthood clinic is drawing fire from nei

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it a pressing issue politically there is a certain impression that problems in the european union and the united states here seem to be sort of piling up and not being dealt with debt unemployment dealing with the financial sector do you think there is really some kind of gentle way of getting out of these problems or do you think that the crisis will show its face yet again somewhere. this is the biggest question which everybody is concerned with at the moment a central banks adopt policies to mitigate the crisis and governments raise taxes or reduce them in order to stimulate the economy. it everyone is wondering whether we are actually solving the problem or merely deferring it maybe we are just biding time to reform our banking system but either our reforms are difficult to implement or there is not enough time undoubtedly there are fears that the crisis may still escalate we're already witnessing a double dip recession in europe europe is probably looking at another year in recession if the springs from the meltdown of two thousand and eight which means it is being hit by a second wave of t

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and this again and other false information that is being put by the united states media is the fact that since the fall of the soviet union the united states has refrained from any intervention or intervening you know russia chechnya situation and that is not your fault since midnight hundred ninety s. the united states will do radley or through turkey has been army training managing orchestrating not only the chechens but also other factions in the region and we are looking at central asia and caucasus and of course the russian government is fully aware of this i'm sure they have plans all interested in those resources. well you don't really have been waiting and by we i mean alternative media at least all the analysts that that we have been working away at and we have been reporting on this for years on these operations u.s. operations in the region against russia and we are kind of puzzle in terms of the silence from the russian government because the f.s.b. the russian government at any given moment can put a lot of people nation that would expose the fact that we actually are in the business of creating terrorists an

this past week marked the eighty-sixed birthday of united farm workers union leader cesar chavez. update news has the story on how people celebrated the holiday. ">>>"nat sound chanting" students from san jose state, uc berkeley and various bay area high schools and middle schools chanted "we're here and we're not leaving" at a gathering in oakland on monday. they commemorated cesar chavez' holiday with a rally and march to fight for immigrant rights. "our opinion is, if we had open borders and people had equal rights on both sides of the borders, the kind of exploitation that is happening now would not be able to exist. " the organization by any means necessary, or bamn, seeks to end discrimination and other second-class treatment of all minorities. "nat sound marching and chanting" at the march, the coalition focused on: full citizenship rights for everyone who lives in america, open us borders, citizenship for youth brought here by their parents, and a lenient policy for immigrants who allegedly violated immigration laws. "this is really an opportunity for the movement to get b

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the road map which was presented the european union, united nations, but no israel. the expulsion to talk about sure drones plan and what about those people that were removed from their homes still living in caravans and destroyed synagogues and communities and schools? today we have president obama talking about a timetable for withdrawal of today and samaria. that is not 10,000 it is 200,000 or whatever the number is if they leave a few settlements in place. it seems to me your comments at the end about one of the fellows who said you looked at this on a diplomatic level but not that the human level the people involved are the ones who count and i don't understand the compulsion on the part of the united states to make the plants for israel who is a sovereign nation. [applause] >> the compulsion is an interesting phenomenon. every secretary of state the except the obsession immediately upon entering the building and happened to paul, rice and even carry they want to do the same thing. i agree completely with your timetable but the road map had a time table 2005 the

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that that could bring about if ever they should be used we need urgent action now the european union the united states working together in a position to put the most enormous pressure on israel either through sanctions or withdrawing or lift a lifting the trade agreement which also has a human rights closer than we need action by those two key players in the situation gerry called when that was when he was on the way including europe's rising unemployment as more countries struggle with a financial crisis of even stay with me kevin and not. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. twenty three fifteen on the button there in moscow thanks being with us this is our team next now europe's latest unemployment numbers are in and they do not make good reading the rate indeed went up across much of the european union in march according to eurostar as you can see let's take a look the figures of the disappointing rising year by year specially in spain and greece greece actually being the

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that that could bring about if ever they should be used we need urgent action now the european union the united states working together in a position to put the most enormous pressure on israel either through sanctions or withdrawing all of the lifting the trade agreement which also has a human rights course within it we need action urgently by those two key players the situation. coming up europe's human rights court rules that ukraine acted illegally by jailing its former prime minister later in the program and we'll look at whether that decision could change anything for you to change is incarceration plus to the e.u. is it working jobless rates reaching record highs especially among young europeans substory are abandoning their homes to make ends meet they're going to other countries because their story too right after this break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. international airport in the very heart of moscow. fellow gamers are mentioned just now europe's latest unemployment figures are in and they don't make good read

did the union kill the herald tribune? for 40 years, uniteder presidents walter reuther, leonard woodcock, and douglas fraser won higher pay for their members. why in 1979 would fraser agree to take less?

back then you had the united states and the soviet union operating space systems.erate space systems as well as numerous commercial and academic operators, creating an environment that is increasingly congested. for example, the u.s. department of defense tracks over 22,000 objects in space larger than 10 centimeters of which about 1100 are active satellites. there are also hundreds of thousands of additional objects to small to track but are capable of damaging satellites in orbit in the international space station. over the past five years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of debris. the first was china's thai satellite test in the second was the collision between a defunct russian satellite and a commercially operated satellite. these events are responsible for 36% of all of the trackable debris in low earth orbit. the threat to the space environment will increase as more nations develop and deploy counterspace systems. therefore it is clear that space is also becoming increasingly contested. today, space systems and their supporting infrastructure

that's of course peanuts compared to the world leaders in terms of external debt the european union and the united states which have more than sixteen trillion dollars of debt each monday was a pretty busy day for latina putin he also paid a visit to the netherlands russia's biggest trading partner in europe russian dutch trade reached almost eighty three billion dollars last year he also met with the dutch prime minister to talk about joint energy projects the result is gazprom signing an agreement to extend the nord stream gas pipeline to the country as artie's natalia novick of explains the two countries have a lot of common interest in the oil and gas sector. from nafta russia's natural gas exporters oil arm has signed an agreement with the world that shell is going to expand its partnership and shale oil developing in siberia and arctic offshore blogs it's a company separate because they work together on a number of projects including developing deposits of shale in the do was sign during president putin's visit to the now the law and it comes just a few weeks after shell had to delay its hig

back then, your two powers, the united states in the soviet union, operating space systems. today, over 60 nations and governments in operate as well as numerous commercial and academic operators created an environment increasingly congested. for example, the u.s. department of defense tracks over 22,000 objects in space larger than 10 centimeters of which about 1100 practice satellites. there are also hundreds of thousand of additional objects too small to track, but still capable of damaging satellites that are bit in the international space station. over the past five years he seen a dramatic increase in the amount of debris as a result of two events. the first is china's 2007 satellite test against some weather satellite and second wives collision between a russian cosmos satellite and a commercially operated satellite. these two events are responsible for 36% of all trackable debris in low earth orbit. the threats to the space environment will increase as more nations and nonstate terrorist develop and deploy counter space systems. therefore it's clear space is also bec