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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
President Putin has signed into law his annexation of Crimea. As far as | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Moscow is concerned, it is now formally part of Russia. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Celebrations and fireworks in Red Square and Crimea itself after the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
signing ceremony is over. Earlier, Moscow had dismissed further Western | :00:22. | :00:38. | |
sanctions against it. In Brussels, the interim Ukrainian | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Prime Minister puts his signature to a deal bringing his country closer | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
to the European Union. Two weeks after the disappearance of | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
a Malaysian passenger plane, dozens of ships and aircraft search the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Southern Indian Ocean, but nothing has been found. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Also coming up: Turkey's Twitter row - President Gul tweets that Prime | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Minister Erdogan's move to ban Twitter is illegal. What does this | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
tell us about the political balance of power in Turkey? | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Pub landlords, debt collectors and construction workers come out as | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Britain's most miserable workers, but what jobs make people happiest? | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
Stay with us. Hello and welcome. | :01:06. | :01:25. | |
As far as Russia is concerned, the legal formalities are over. The | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Black Sea Peninsula of Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Fireworks and a rock concert light up Moscow skyline tonight in | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
celebration of the annexation of the region. Similar festivities are | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
taking place in the Crimean cities of Simferopol and Sebastapol. | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
Earlier today, President Putin signed into law the official | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
incorporation of Crimea into Russia. Moscow says the move reflects the | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
will of the people of Crimea, but it has led to more sanctions against | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Russia by the EU. The EU has today signed a co-operation agreement with | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Ukraine in a sign that Kiev is turning more towards the West. In a | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
moment, we will be assessing what the impact of today's developments | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
are on Moscow. First, Gavin Hewitt reports. | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
A day of signings, two worlds, East versus West. In Moscow, President | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Putin sealed the absorption of Crimea into Russia by signing the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
documents. The Russian president saluted what he called a serious, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
momentous event. The Russian anthem played. | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
1400 miles away in Brussels, very different signing. The EU took this | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
ball at first step of signing an agreement with Ukraine, bringing the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
nation of 46 million people closer to the heart of Europe. No anthem | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
here, just a ripple of applause. At a summit in Brussels, Europe's | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
leaders adopted new sanctions against 12 Russian officials, | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
including the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, after the referendum in | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Crimea. Since we last met as sham and illegal referendum has taken | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
place at the barrel of a Kalashnikov. This is a flagrant | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
breach of international law and something we will not recognise. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
After this summer, 33 Crimean sand Russian is now face travel | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
restrictions. The summit agreed that if the crisis escalates, they are | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
prepared to move to some kind of economic sanctions and the | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
commission has been tasked with exploring potential targets. The | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
atmosphere was spiced with warnings about Russian intentions. This was | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the Ukrainian Prime Minister. What is happening in the world today? | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
Russia decided to impose a new post world War order, revise the results | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
of the Second World War. This is the truth! This is the president of | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
Lithuania. We are facing the largest security threats since the Second | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
World War. So, amid such warnings, European leaders agreed to | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
accelerate reducing their dependency on Russian energy. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
With me is Alexander Nekrassov, a former adviser to Boris Yeltsin. | :04:40. | :04:52. | |
Let stock about Russian energy. Europe depends on Russian gas, but | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
you need to sell your gas to somebody. You can't really afford to | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
upset the Europeans. First of all, it would take years for the European | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Union to change its supplies. China is basically banging on Russian | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
doors demanding more oil and gas. The issue is how will this be | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
resolved? How long will these sanctions last? The interesting | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
thing I have noticed is that the markets all this week have not | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
really panicked. Russian stock markets have gone down three or 4%. | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
The Russian market will bounce back. The markets in the West, they | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
realise that the sanctions, the real ones, will not be implemented. These | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
people have to trust their judgement. They see it as a game. It | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
is probably time to stop the game and start talking. Do you think it | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
is a game when the Ukraine signs this first step of agreement with | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
the European Union? They might join the EU, maybe even NATO. It was | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
signed by an interim regime. It was only signed on the political side, | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
not the economic side. The moment it does that, it will hit its industry | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
very hard. I don't think the interim regime dares to do that. You are | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
looking at what is happening today, but I am putting it to you that we | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
are starting to see a shift in alliances which could come in due | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
course, operate to the detriment of Russia. It would have happened | :06:38. | :06:50. | |
anyway. The western side was stonethrowing thugs. Anything can | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
happen. At the moment I think the danger is this, Ukraine can split | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
into two parts. It is time for diplomacy. The West, there will be a | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
G-7 meeting in London on Monday and they not inviting Russia. That is a | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
bad idea. It is time to talk rather than play those games. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
We have to leave it there. Thank you for talking to us. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
It is exactly two weeks today since the missing Malaysian airliner | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
disappeared. The second day of an international search in the Southern | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Indian Ocean for the missing plane has come to a close. The plane | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur and still there is no clear | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
understanding of what happened to it and the 239 passengers on board. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Hi-tech search aircraft and ships are being despatched to an area | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
where satellite images picked up some possible debris, but nothing | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
has been found. Jonathan Head has the latest. | :07:49. | :08:01. | |
After ten hours, this is truly an aircraft comes to its base in | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Western Australia. It is one of five to make the long journey today, I'd | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
do the search site in the southern Indian Ocean. They are using every | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
moment of daylight descends mission to from this space. Yet, the stretch | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
of ocean they have to cover is so vast it is only a matter of luck as | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
to whether they find any of the missing airliner. Of all the many | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
kinds of planes and vessels thrown into this remarkable operation, this | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
aircraft is among the most effect. Yet, for all its sensitive | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
technology, the crew are overwhelmed by the size of the task. Journalists | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
crowd around the young pilot, eager for any news of the Malaysia | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
airliner. We had really good weather today, compared to what we saw | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
yesterday. The visibility was great. There was no reason. We had a | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
really good opportunity to see anything visually out there. We have | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
a lot of hope. If the commission 's -- conditions remain as they are, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
we, hopefully, we'll find something soon. This satellite pictures shows | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
what looks like something large close to the surface of the sea. The | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
photographs are five days old, so they are expanding the search to | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
where the powerful currents might have carried it. Although the search | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
area is much smaller than we started with, it is a big area when you're | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
looking at the window and trying to see something. We may have to do | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
this a few times to be confident about the coverage of research area. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
It is exhausting, repetitive work. But they have to keep going. Each | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
day without any sign of where the airliner went down makes the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
likelihood of finding it more removed. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
With each passing day, the families of those on board have little to do | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
but hope and wait. Jennifer Pak has been to a shopping centre in Kuala | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Lumpar, where people have been sharing their prayers and messages | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
of support. This is the wall of hope, set up in the shopping centre | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
in downtown Kuala Lumpur are. It is set up so people can ) is an | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
well-wishers to people on board the flight. The messages are in English, | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
Malay, Chinese. This one says there are too many rumours about the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
flight, but we don't know which is true. Look at the number of messages | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
that have been put up. The disappearance of this flight is | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
affecting a lot of people. It is making us feel sad. Many people | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
can't sleep because they are thinking about the people. Did you | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
know anyone on the flight? My colleague has an uncle that was on | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
the flight. He is still trying his best to be positive. If they are no | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
longer here if you know what I mean, I hope the families will have the | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
opportunity to get the bodies back so they can pay their last. Militia | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
officials are still saying this is a search and rescue effort, but so | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
many days have passed without any concrete information of where this | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
team could be. A lot of the messages here choose to remain hopeful. This | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
one, in Chinese, says, come home soon. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
The row over Twitter in Turkey is now showing the splits at the heart | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
of the government. President Abdullah Gul has challenged a block | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
on Twitter imposed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr Gul tweeted | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
that the complete shutdown of social media platforms was unacceptable. He | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
said only individual internet pages should be blocked, if courts found | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
they had violated personal privacy. Mr Erdogan had promised to wipe | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Twitter out after it was used to spread allegations of corruption and | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
alleged recordings of his private conversations. Some internet users | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
in Turkey, where Twitter is very popular, have managed to get round | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
the block. With me is Serkan Demitas, a columnist at Hurriyet | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Daily News, the English language section of one Turkey's biggest | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
newspapers. This isn't really about Twitter, is | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
it? This is about Prime Minister Erdogan feeling a bit under | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
pressure. It is about politics, not twitter. In Turkey, Prime Minister | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Erdogan has continued his efforts to control media of four years. Social | :13:03. | :13:14. | |
media seem to be a great vehicle for the Internet savvy in Turkey. What | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
we have seen yesterday is another blow from Prime Minister Erdogan on | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the freedom of expression. Does he realise how difficult that is going | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
to be to do? It is virtually impossible. Even the president | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
managed to get round it! Of course. We have seen that this blocking has | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
been very unsuccessful. People could circumvent the blocking through | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
adjusting their settings. Does that show you that the Prime Minister is | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
a bit out of touch with reality? This is one of the most important | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
questions we are asking! If you are talking about politics, Prime | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Minister Erdogan is running for elections. There is just over a week | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
left for elections. He knows that the leakages of his conversations or | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
documents, allegedly linking him with the corruption network, that is | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
coming from twitter. Or other social media. What does it tell you when | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
the President, President Abdullah Gul, says I am going to keep on | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
using twitter. This splits within the ruling party are coming out in | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
the open, are they? President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Erdogan have been on different pages for a long time. The president is | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
much more keen in preserving democracy in Turkey. Prime Minister | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Erdogan is trying to strengthen his one-man party. We don't know if | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
Prime Minister Erdogan wants to run for president in August. Could he | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
really have any chance of standing and winning again? Has he and for | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
the constituency in Turkey? He is trying to consolidate his 50% | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
majority that he had in Parliamentary elections three years | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
ago. He needs to have 50% to become president. We need to elect the | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
president through popular vote, that means they need 50%. Prime Minister | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Erdogan is not really there, he is losing his popularity. His moves are | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
dividing the nation. Thank you very much indeed. | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
A doctor and another man have become the first people in Britain to be | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
charged in connection with performing female genital | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
mutilation. FGM has been banned in the UK since 1985. The World Health | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Organisation says more than a 125 million girls and women alive today | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
have been cut in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
is concentrated. In the UK, it's thought around 66,000 women have | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
been mutilated and a further 23,000 girls are at risk every year from | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
the practice. Matt Prodger has this report. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
Whittington Hospital in London, where a doctor, Dr Dhanoun | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
Dharmasena, is alleged to have mutilated a woman's genitals after | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
she gave birth. As acute as saying his defence was to allegedly restore | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
a mutilation performed on the woman prior to her becoming pregnant. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Another man is charged with encouraging the act. Female genital | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
mutilation has been outlawed for 30 years, but today marks only the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
first prosecution. A lot of FGM will be young girls and will involve | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
immediate members of their family, so they will not want to give | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
evidence against them, will not want to make a complaint that could see | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
members of their family go to prison. So we have had to look at | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
other ways to get the evidence. We have looked at how to work with | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
police around proactive operations, and there are other things we can | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
look at, such as anonymity for victims. It is estimated 66,000 | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
women in the UK have been affected, and over 20,000 girls under 15 are | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
thought at risk of the practice, classed as torture by the UN. The | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
BBC discovered only this week that many patients have been treated in | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
London alone. This is a crime, something that has been hidden for | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
far too long, which is why the government has stepped up its | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
response and stepped up some great understanding to take this crime out | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
of the shadows and into the light. -- some greater understanding. Women | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
are contacting helplines like this. For many years little known in the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
UK, FGM has been given greater attention thanks to the work of | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
campaigners, who are delighted by today's news. Today is one of the | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
best days of my life in campaigning. I feel like standing on top of the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
roof and shouting. That is how I feel about it. All eyes will be on | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the success, or failure, of these first prosecutions. The accused will | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
appear in court next month. In France, social services have | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
found four children kept in a flat. It seems the children hadn't left | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
the apartment since they were born. The children are between two months | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
and six years of age. Hugh Schofield in Paris has more on this. | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
The family, of Indian origin, lived on the seventh floor of an apartment | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
block in a poor part of northern Paris, three boys and a baby girl. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
The boys had never been to school or seen a doctor. The elder pair, five | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
and six, could barely talk. Neighbours said they had no idea. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
TRANSLATION: They are our neighbours. When we were taking our | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
children to school, we should have noticed something was wrong, but we | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
didn't. I don't know anything about the mental state of the parents, but | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
I think there is a problem. The alert was raised after the mother | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
gave birth to her daughter in January. Staff could see that she | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
has had no medical care during pregnancy and they sent social | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
services to the flat. The parents were drawing state benefits but the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
situation had gone undetected. TRANSLATION: It is not up to the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
benefits office to monitor what happens to the benefits paid to | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
families who have provided the documents required. The parents are | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
now in custody facing charges for negligence. The children are in | :20:16. | :20:16. | |
care. Now a look at some of the day's | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
other news. Afghan authorities say that nine | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
people are now known to have been killed in an attack by Taliban | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
gunmen at a luxury hotel in the capital, Kabul, after previously | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
saying there were no casualties. The dead include two Afghan children and | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
four foreign nationals. Four teenagers with small pistols posed | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
as diners before they opened fire on Thursday evening. They were killed | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
by Afghan security forces. A court in the Indian city of Mumbai | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
has sentenced four men to life in prison for gang raping an | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
18-year-old telephone operator at a deserted textile mill last July. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Three of the men had already been found guilty of gang raping a | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
photographer a month later at the same spot. | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
Those were the wrong pictures for that story. They were for this | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
picture -- this story. The parliament in Kenya has passed a | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
new marriage bill, changing it at the last moment to allow men to | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
marry as many women as they want without consulting their existing | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
wives. Female politicians stormed out in protest. The bill had | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
previously allowed polygamy, but stated wives had to be consulted | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
before their husbands could marry again. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Michelle Obama has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife on | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
the first full day of her week-long visit to China. The trip is being | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
seen as an opportunity for soft diplomacy, to reinforce relations | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
between the US and China. Mrs Obama is being accompanied by her mother | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
and her two daughters. Today she also tried her hand at table tennis | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
and was shown how to do Chinese calligraphy. | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Most of us have to work to earn a living but job satisfaction is also | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
important. Well, research in the UK has ranked the life satisfaction, or | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
general contentment, of people in different jobs. And it turns out | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
that while pay levels are clearly a factor, it's not all about what you | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
earn. At the top of the list, the happiest workers were clergy - | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
vicars and priests. They were followed by chief executives and | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
senior officials. Then came managers in farming and horticulture. But at | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
the bottom of the list were workers in basic construction jobs, followed | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
by debt and rent collectors. And the group with the lowest level of life | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
satisfaction were pub landlords. The findings are part of a wider | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
investigation into how much government decisions and policy | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
should take account of the wellbeing and happiness of the population. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
With me is Gus O'Donnell, former head of the UK civil service and the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
chair of the panel that wrote the report. Thank you for joining us. | :22:55. | :23:07. | |
How, in the first place, do you measure happiness? It is quite a | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
difficult thing to be objective about subjective emotions. Which is | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
why we ask you. We ask for your feelings. For this study, we said to | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
people, tell us, overall, how satisfied are you with your life and | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
your job. We had that information. We know there is more to life than | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
money, as you rightly said. We are tracking life satisfaction and | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
income, with the idea that when people in careers service for | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
schools, colleges and universities, when they are thinking about what | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
job they should get, at the moment all that they know about is the | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
money they will earn. We are saying there are other attributes you | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
should be thinking about. If you do jobs where you are helping other | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
people, you will be more satisfied, and maybe that is a consideration | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
you should take into account when thinking about your career. To | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
altruism, service to the community, that has to be balanced with pay, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
but pay is still important and you need a basic level in order to be | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
content. The absence of a decent living wage is not something you | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
recommend. Hugely important. When people say income does not matter | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
for well-being, that is untrue. Particularly at low to medium | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
levels. But it tails off. When you are at low income, and extra | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
increased matters a lot. When you are a millionaire, if you extra | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
hundred stores not make a difference to your well-being. It does not stop | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
them chasing it. You are an economist with a lot of experience | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
in government, the Treasury and economics and so on, but society as | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
a whole does not recognise what you have said. Take a nurse, for | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
instance, not very well paid, looking after the elderly, the sick | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
and infirm, doing a real job serving the community. A hedge fund manager | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
deals with finance, produces nothing and gets paid millions. Well, that | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
is the market for you. I can't change that with this report. But I | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
can tell people that what matters is that the hedge fund manager may have | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
a lot of money but is he or she happy doing that job? I would say | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
that the nurse is making a real difference, interacting. At the end | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
of your life, do you want to say, I look back and I think I made a real | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
difference? Why do you say what you have said? We know market forces are | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
difficult to control, but surely government policy can redress that | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
balance. I am not talking about the superstars and pop stars who have a | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
unique talent and appeal, but just groups of people who really perform | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
fundamental duties and services should be better paid. Well, there | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
is only a certain amount that governments can afford. Many of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
these are public sector jobs. What we can do is show our appreciation | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
for them. Lots of things that we do, in terms of the honour system and | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
other things, do reward these people, and we have a progressive | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
tax system which does tend to equalise. When we look at economics | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
and element indicators, surely we need to put in happiness somehow, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
and not just look at GDP as the be all and end all. I couldn't agree | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
more. There is more to life than money and we must move beyond GDP, | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
which is a ridiculous way of measuring success. Very few | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
countries only think about GDP. When we think about how successful we are | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
as a society, or as individuals, we do not just think about money. We | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
think about what we are achieving, whether we feel our life is | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
worthwhile or satisfied. Do you have job satisfaction? Huge job | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
satisfaction. That is it. Next, the | :26:52. | :26:53. |