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The dust settles on the EU summit and exposes new divisions and | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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worries about the future. Odd man out. Britain's David Cameron is | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
feeling the heat at home and abroad. Nicolas Sarkozy promises a legal | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
framework in weeks. But his presidential opponent it says he'd | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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renegotiated. -- we negotiate it. Welcome to GMT. I'm George Alagiah. | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
Also in the programme... What is America's legacy in Iraq? We ask | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
Iraqis for their views. Italy's jobless youth demand a future. A | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
new survey sees unemployment rising up the list of worries around the | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
world. It's early morning in Washington, 8pm in Hong Kong and | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
midday here in London, where David Cameron is due to make a key speech | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
in the next few hours explaining his lone opposition at last week's | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
European summit. He'll do so against a backdrop of criticism at | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
home and abroad. In France, the head of the financial regulator | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
said Mr Cameron's action now shows that the British right is the | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
stupidest in the world. Here his coalition government partner, Nick | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Clegg, says he's "bitterly disappointed". The politics aside | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
there's still the question - will the deal solve the problem? | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Britain's Parliament is getting ready to hear from the Prime | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Minister, David Cameron. Many of his own MPs will welcome his | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
decision to veto European Union treaty changes. But his coalition | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
partner, Nick Clegg, has said he is bitterly disappointed, and the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Liberal Democrats are said to criticise Mr Cameron for isolating | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Europe. Senior figures, however, are trying to maintain calm in the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
coalition. I think the public and particularly the business community, | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
which we want to continue investing and growing out of at a crisis, are | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
not terribly interested in these tribal arguments. What we badly | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
need is complete reassurance that we are fully committed to working | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
in the European Union, millions of British jobs depend on it. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
President Sarkozy, of France, has told Le Monde newspaper that the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
legal aspects of last Friday's European summit deal will be worked | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
out in the next 15 days. In the meantime, French Socialists have | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
accused him of bowing to pressure from Germany. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
TRANSLATION: If I'm elected President I will renegotiate this | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
deal to include what is missing today. I mean efficiency on the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
markets. Let's hope we won't be downgraded before that. I really | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
hope, for the interest of my country. But in Brussels, Europe's | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
economic affairs commissioner has said the new EU treaty will -- is | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
better than first seemed. Well we would certainly have preferred a | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
treaty at 27, this is called Compact treaty is, policy Wise, | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
bold and effective and legally viable. It looks likely that 20 | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
sixth of the 27 members of the European Union will agree to the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
new accord setting out tougher Budget rolls. Britain is the | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
notable exception. Later, David Cameron will explain why. We can | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
now speak to the former British Europe minister, Labour MP Denis | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
MacShane. What do you think David Cameron it should and could have | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
done at this summit? Frankly, avoided taking a decision at 2:30am | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
when they are all exhausted. We now face a triple crisis. Firstly, the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
diplomatic blunder that has left Britain utterly isolated. Secondly, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
you have without precedent in Britain the Deputy Prime Minister, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
number two and the government, open the attack in his Prime Minister. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
How do governments survive like that? Thirdly, what worries me is | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
you are getting around the world the words Britain and isolated | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
being linked. Some quite unpleasant stuff in European papers saying how | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
the English hate Europe. I don't think we do. That, unfortunately, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is the impression David Cameron has given to 26 other countries in | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Europe. Let's take the substance and what he thought he was trying | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
to oppose. You've got Nicolas Sarkozy today saying that clearly | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
there are two Europe's, I am quoting this. One that once more | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
solidarity between member states and more regulation, and another | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
that doesn't. Wasn't David Cameron to -- right to oppose greater | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
regulation? Tony Blair opposed the Working Time Directive it. What he | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
did was go and see Gerhard Schroeder and say, what do you | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
want? What the Germans wanted was no directive from Brussels imposing | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
and taking over deals on German companies without a lot more | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
consultation. That was the deal. Tony Blair worked with Europeans, | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
so did Margaret Thatcher. David Cameron hasn't picked up the phone | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
to a single European leader and said, look, this is what I want, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
this is important for Britain, can you help me? Last Thursday, what | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
they were wanting with things like the financial transaction tax, they | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
were looking for boat -- they were looking for a budget oversight. You | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
are not telling me the Labour Party would have said, OK, come and have | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
a look at our books. We are all agreed that if we want in the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
eurozone, Epping give his agreed now that there has to be some | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
mutual sharing of budgets, those are no secrets in any case. What we | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
have to stop other debts of Ireland, Greece and Portugal, but they ran | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
up. But had he not drawn a line in the sand their round them and gone | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
along with this treaty, it would have been much harder further down | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the track to say, by the way, on the financial transactions tax, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Britain doesn't want it. The Labour party presumably doesn't want that | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
either. But the diplomatic blunder is that David Cameron has quit all | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
relationships with other centre- right parties in Europe. He has | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
that party of his dreams, he is so isolated. It's the diplomatic | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
handling, it's the process that is so damaging. When in the New York | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Times you read the line, Britain is isolated. That frightens me because | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
investors all over the world of thinking, where do we put our money | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
tomorrow? If they see a Britain that seems to be disconnecting | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
itself from the world's biggest market and which is at odds with 26 | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
other countries... In the past Britain has always had a few | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
friends, big or small friends, David Cameron has left a cell alone. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
What about here at home? The Liberal Democrats have said this | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
won't make any difference to the coalition government, it will run | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
until 2015. That clearly is something that most people will be | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
glad of. The last thing people in Britain want his political upheaval. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
That I agree with. We are only 18 months into a government that is | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
meant to be stable. I just find it constitutionally weird that you | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
have the Deputy Prime Minister openly trashing the Prime Minister. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Who represents Britain now - Nick Clegg or David Cameron? What do | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
civil servants say and do, who do they take orders from? This may be | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
a new constitutional Era we're getting into, but it is profoundly | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
worrying. The country needs to unite around commonsense policies | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
to get us out of this mess. We need to find partners everywhere in the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
world, including east of Calais will stop Mr Cameron unfortunately, | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
in the way Mrs Thatcher would never have done, left Britain utterly | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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isolated and alone. This is very Britain is not the only country | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
where the outcome of Friday's European summit is proving divisive. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
In France, the opposition Socialist candidate for the presidency says | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
he would seek to renegotiate the deal if elected next year. That may | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
not be entirely surprising, coming from a politician running against | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy. But the view from the financial market seems to be | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
equally sceptical. Ratings agency Moody's has declared the talks as | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
failing to produce the size of policy measures. It is threatening | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
to review the credit ratings of all EU states within the next three | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
months. I'm joined now from Paris by a professor of economics at the | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Institute of political Studies. What do you think at the summit | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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achieved last Thursday? I am trying to think about it. I am not finding | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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much about the conclusion of the summit. Apart from fiscal rules, | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
and the fiscal sanctions, there is not much more than that. But the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
fiscal rules and sanctions are important. After all, if you don't | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
have fiscal rules you can allow people to go on having bigger and | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
bigger budget deficits. Well, they are important but not that | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
important. They are not up to the point. The problem has not been | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
fiscal indiscipline. Look at the case of Ireland or Spain or even | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
Italy. They were respecting the stability pact. Even for Ireland | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
and Spain, they have a surplus. Clearly the problem is not with | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
fiscal discipline. The problem lies somewhere else. What do you think | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
the summit leaders should have been talking about? There are at least | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
two ways to decree the fiscal deficit. There is restriction and | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
there is growth policies. If you constrained the other countries to | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
have an austerity programme then you will lose growth. Then the | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
ratings agency will attack the euro area because there is no growth, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
and or to repay the debt to one where there is no growth. It is not | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
as simple as it is presented. why do people like you always make | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
it sound as if it is either financial discipline or growth? | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Presumably you can have both, the financial discipline imposed, as | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
this EU treaty is trying to do, and you can encourage growth. There is | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
no historical example where austerity led to growth. A lot of | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
study has been done on the subject, and especially by the International | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Monetary Fund. There is no such a thing as an austerity programme | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
leading to growth. Of what are we speaking? We are speaking of dreams. | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
It would be the best in the world if fiscal austerity led to growth. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
There would be the end of trade- offs for the government, and it | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
would make the task of government fairly easy. The problem is not | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
that. The problem is we are now in the middle of a recession. We have | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
a jumping unemployment rate, we have a rate of growth which is | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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going down each day, if not each minute. We are really advising at | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
the lowest level the prospective for growth for the next years. | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
have to leave it there. Thank you for your comments. Let's take a | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
today. Syria is holding local elections today despite the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
continuing violence between security forces and opposition | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
supporters. The Syrian government says the elections are part of | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
reforms it's introducing in response to the protests. But the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
opposition has rejected the move and called for a boycott. Turnout | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
is expected to be very low with many voters not willing risk going | :13:03. | :13:12. | |
to the polls fearing violence. Russians are rallying in support of | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Claims of fraud in this month's parliamentary | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
elections won't affect the votes legitimacy or the result, despite | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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President Medvedev launching an Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Al- | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Maliki, is due at the White House today, and top of the agenda will | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
be America's impending military withdrawal from his country. All US | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
troops are due to leave by the end of the year. BBC Arabic have been | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
asking ordinary Iraqis what this means to them. This is what is left | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
of the American presence on the streets here. Some personal | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
belongings and products left over by troops. They are sold on the | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
markets. Iraqis come to get a good bargain. A pair of sunglasses that | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
normally costs around $50 will sell here for $5. There has been no sign | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
of American troops on the streets of Iraq for more than a year, when | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
they pulled out from the cities. Which is why the impact of the | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
withdrawal seems invisible on the ground, even though it marks a | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
momentous political event. It is also what time of reflection for | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
many Iraqis, who are still gauging whether the American invasion | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
brought good or evil to their country. Cancellation macro the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
positive sides are more than the negatives. They ousted Saddam and | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
brought the end of the old regime. TRANSLATION: What have they done to | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
us? They harmed us, people are killed. Saddam heard us, they came | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
after him and did the same. There is no democracy, no freedom. They | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
are occupiers, they have brought sedation and sectarianism. Despite | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
ongoing attacks in several parts of the country, life goes on. But many | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
things remind people every day of the state their country has sunk | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
into since the ousting of the old regime. The people are completely | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
indifferent about whether the American leave or not. The issues | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
of their health, education, work, freedom, infrastructure, they can | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
go safely from place to place. That is what concerns people. As nearly | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
a decade of foreign presence sets on history, whole generations here | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
that only new wall look for a better future. As for the legacy of | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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the last eight years, it remains Still to come, a very lucky | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Australia and tells the story of a close encounter with a great white | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
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First, let's get the business. I said the dust is settling over | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
Europe, it has exposed some strange things. Yes, this light market | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
euphoria we saw on Friday after the agreement, that has gone. The | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
markets have been Digest in this agreement, and although it is a | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
step in the right direction, more is needed. That was backed up by | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Standard and Poor's, they said more summits are needed. They also said | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
it is likely another big shock is needed before everybody starts | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
reading from the same page. They are talking about the German bank | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
raising money from the markets. There has been criticism about it | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
eurozone leaders are. What are the markets looking for? | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
Some kind of announcement from EU leaders that would help the ECB to | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
undertake quantitative gazing at and unlimited purchases of | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
government bonds. But that has not materialised. Mario Draghi last | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
week said that under no to circumstances would the ECB | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
purchase bonds without a change in the treaty, it is not legal. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
The markets want the ECB to step in. Let's go back to an event which | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
started this. RBS, the bail-out from the British taxpayer. The | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
regulator here has come out with a report, trying to make sense of | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
that. It is our financial watchdog, criticised for having an park and | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
no bite. The taxpayer owns a lot of RBS, but they are looking at the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
deal when RBS bought ABN-AMRO. That should not have gone ahead. Very | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
critical towards RBS management, but the FSA said it failed to | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
challenge RBS. Why has nobody been held to account? | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Under the current legal system, they do not have a case. Without | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
doubt, RBS management made a huge error, but you would have to be | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
able to prove they were negligent or fraudulent, and they do not have | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
a case. But they say that, going forward, the rules that govern the | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
management of bags will be much tougher, so if it happens again, | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
the management will be on the Hawk. Bank chiefs in charge of a bank | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
that fails may not be able to take one of the job at another bank, and | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
they could lose financial -- they could face financial consequences | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
themselves. It is the same old story, the eurozone crisis. | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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This is GMT. The headlines. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
David Cameron was shortly tell the UK parliament why he refused to | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
sign the eurozone rescue treaty. In France, Nicolas Sarkozy has said | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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Unemployment is -- has joined corruption and poverty as the most | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
talked-about topics across the globe. Almost one-fifth of the | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
11,000 respondents of a survey said they discussed a job losses with | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
friends and family over the previous month. This week, we are | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
looking at how unemployment is affecting young people around the | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
globe. We are taking a journey from Tuscany in the north of Italy to | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Naples in the south, meeting young people, for whom the future looks | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
The city of Prato in northern Italy is dominated by factories making | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
textiles. They once employed thousands of people. But the | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
recession has not been kind. In recent months, benefactress like | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
this have been forced to close. Italy, like Greece, Spain and | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Portugal, in serious financial difficulty. In the 1980s, the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Government spent too much money, and now it has to pay that money | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
back. For students at the local college, that means jobs are hard | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
to come by. The Head Teacher says the future looks bleak. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
TRANSLATION: I am not just worried former students, but for the whole | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
new generation. I and my father, I am very worried. Travel south to | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
the rural areas, the problem is much worse. This is Pompeii, in the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
shadow of Mount Vesuvius, traditionally known for farming and | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
agriculture. Unemployment here has always been high, but over the last | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
few years, it has jumped, and particularly amongst young people. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
The rate of unemployment is now the highest in Italy. It now stands at | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
42%. But here, instead of protesting about the problems, they | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
are making music. They say it gives them a voice. TRANSLATION: The | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
crisis in Italy is huge. We have a weapon against the economic crisis. | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
It is the music. TRANSLATION: Sometimes, I do small jobs to get | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
money for me and my parents, but it is so difficult. It is all about | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
who you know. Many want to leave Italy, but with the crisis now | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
engulfing Europe, finding a job elsewhere can be just as difficult | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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Joining Li Na from Geneva, Jose We have just seen the problem of | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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youth unemployment in Italy. How universal is this problem? Yes, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
unfortunately, it is quite widespread. The crisis was very | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
synchronised in many countries. Developed countries, Curate, the | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
United States, and eight stronger impact in the developing countries. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
-- a stronger impact. The young people are some of the most | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
formidable. -- most vulnerable. In some countries, the or unemployment | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
rate among young people is three or four times the rate for adults. But | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
there are other situations, Kim people with temporary jobs, or in | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
long-term on employment -- young people. There are many difficult | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
situations. Why do you think young people of being hit | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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disproportionately? Well, there are a number of special circumstances, | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
characteristics of young people. One of the most important, they are | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
younger, they have never had work experience before. Employers look | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
not only for technical competence but also for some work experience, | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
teamwork abilities, communication abilities, etc, and many of them to | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
not have that experience. They are in a catch 22, a vicious circle. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
That is why it is so important to have programs that allow them to | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
have that kind of internship or work experience. Briefly, looking | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
into the future, what do you think the consequences of this kind of | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
youth unemployment are? The social consequences? We have been warning, | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
even before the crisis, a lot of human suffering for the young | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
people, it is a waste of human capital, and you could have a lost | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
generation, or a generation marred by the experience of not entering | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
the labour market in time. The long term scarring effects, it is clear | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
that they will find it more difficult to find jobs in the | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
To a species we definitely know about, the Great White Shark. The | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
surfer has had a close shave after an encounter with one. It leapt out | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
of the waves, taking a chunk out of his surfboard, but luckily, he | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
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To close to Mall, the bite that missed a surfer by a whisker. The | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
board-erves ahead of the intended main course, Stephen King. I am the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
luckiest guy on two legs. Unbelievable. The shark swam off | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
with only a mouthful of surfboard. It left Stephen with a few minor | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
injuries. Just as I was taking off, there was a banned from the side, I | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
cartwheel through the air. The thrashing beside me. He says he has | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
never seen one here in 22 years of surfing. But unlike his board, he | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
made it back to shore in one piece. Very relieved, we are lucky that he | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
is with us still. They have been a few fatal shark attacks around | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Australia this year, experts say there is always some danger. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
have got to be realistic, this is their territory. We are just the | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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