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The eurozone's big three - Germany, France and Italy - meet in yet | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
another bid to find an answer to the eurozone crisis. New man on the | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
block, Italy's Mario Monti, could be caught in the middle as the | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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Germans and French argue over the Hello and welcome to GMT. I'm | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
George Alagiah with a world of news and opinion. Also in the programme: | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Sienna Miller tells an inquiry about UK media ethics had the | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
paparazzi affected her life. For a number of years, I was relentlessly | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
pursued by about 10 to 15 men, almost daily. A truce after five | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
days of clashes in Egypt - the ruling Military Council issues an | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
It's half-past 12 here in London, half past two in Cairo and have put | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
one in the French city of Strasbourg, the venue of the latest | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
in a long line of meetings aimed at finding an answer to the eurozone | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
greatest. -- eurozone crisis. It is Mario Monti's first as Italy's | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
Prime Minister. Signor Monti could be caught in the crossfire, if it | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
can be believed that France and Germany are clashing over the role | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
of the European Central Bank. There are plenty of urgent issues to | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
resolve between France and Germany, and they are joined by Mario Monti. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
The message they want to send to the markets - the eurozone's third | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
largest economy, too big to fail but too big to bail, is back in | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
safe hands. But can Mr Monti, a respected academic economist, also | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
play a role in mediating between France and Germany? As efforts to | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
find a way out of the crisis seems stuck in the mud. France still | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
wants Germany to change its mind and allow the European Central Bank | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
to guarantee the debts of any country which runs into trouble. | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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The fundamentals are solid, but the But there is little sign of Germany | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
or the ECB itself changed its position. The bank is not there to | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
print money. But how much of a jolt did Germany feel yesterday when its | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
debt agency had to do retain nearly 40% of an auction of German bonds | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
because of a lack of demand? Some analysts believe pressure on Berlin | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
could be building. And another idea it has rejected so far - Eurobond | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
issued jointly by all eurozone countries. It will certainly be | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
discussed by the three leaders in Strasbourg. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
I think that today's meeting will move us closer to Europe, rather | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
than distancing us. The German government is no longer ruling out | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
euro bonds. Germany, of course, has its own ideas, including far- | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
reaching treaty changes to make the rules which govern the eurozone | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
much tougher. That will have to be part of any grand bargain which | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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emerges. And it really does feel Joining me from Brussels is Thomas | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Klau from the European Council on Foreign Relations. Thank you for | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
being with me on GMT. Do we call this a three-way meeting, or a two | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
way meeting with Mario Monti on the side? I think it is fair to call it | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
a three-way meeting. It is significant that for the first time | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the Italian leader has been asked to participate in what is an | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
important meeting, bringing the German Chancellor and the French | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
President together. And it is a sign of the respect with which | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Mario Monti is held, and the necessity to ensure that Italy | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
continues on its reform course. Mario Monti is a heavyweight, an | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
academic economist and also a former European Commissioner with | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
long-standing experience of the workings of eurozone governments. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
He is a man of ideas, and both the French and German leaders will | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
listen to him. I accept that he has got novelty value and a track | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
record, but he is basically part of the problem, or his country is. And | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
as we heard from Chris Morris there, it is the Germans and French that | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
have got to work out what they do, not least on the European Central | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Bank. Absolutely. I think there is also a | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
time when leaders and particularly the French and German leader, I | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
genuinely looking for a convincing and plausible plans. Angela Merkel | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
said herself in a recent press conference that one of the problems | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
for her is that she gets conflicting advice. Mario Monti has | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
not only the Italian leader, and are therefore the new leader of a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
country in trouble in many ways, he is also one of the most widely | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
respected analysts and thinkers in terms of how to manage the eurozone | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
better. So I think there is also an important meeting here in that | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
respect. They have now and your partner to discuss major issues. | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
Germany is really between a rock and a hard place. It could cost a | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
lot, a helluva lot, if the eurozone fails, but if the eurozone fails, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
but it could also cost a lot if it went the way that the other | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
countries are suggesting. This could far outweigh the cost of | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
whatever is needed to rescue him the eurozone from collapse. Germany | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
is still resisting a more massive engagement but something like the | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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eurobond, but to some extent, that resistance is tactical. In the last | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
instance, it can decide on its own how to respond to the crisis in | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
terms of how it manages bond purchases and its monetary policy, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
although Germany's backing is important. Angela Merkel has not | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
said it never on the eurobond. She is partly using her stance to | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
extract more from her partner's in terms of the exchange. Thomas Klau, | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
thank you. Dr Constantine de Ejiofor is head of research at | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
Swiss based asset manager. What do you think is at stake at this | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
three-way meeting in Strasbourg? think the three-way meeting itself | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
could be yet another exercise in trying to devise a solution which | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
is really masking the actual issues the eurozone is facing. So I don't | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
expect much to come out of this. There will be discussion of the | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
eurozone, and discussion of participation. None of these issues | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
will resolve the problems the eurozone is facing. You say neither | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
of these issues will? Why not? problem we are trying to address is | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
not the real problem faced by the eurozone. The problem of the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
eurozone is it is just not collectively the debt of the member | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
states, it is the overhang of debt on the economies of the eurozone at | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
large. By that measure, France is completely insolvent when you | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
factor in all of the debts that the economy is carrying in terms of | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
household debts, corporate debts and the banking sector debt. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Germany is partly insolvent, and all of the rest of the eurozone are | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
pretty much in the insolvency been as well. So if you think the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
solutions we have been talking about up until now, for example | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
greater intervention from the ECB, if you don't think those are the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
solutions are the problem is something else, what do you think | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
should happen? What should be happening is a restructuring of the | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
debt. We should be restructuring the debts of the banks and the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
household. Fortunately, we cannot restructure the debt of the | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
corporate sector, and we shouldn't be restructuring Government -- | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
government debts in the first place. Then we have to go about resolving | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
the problem of the insolvent governments. The problem is | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
somewhat linked to the problem of the banks, but it is also | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Independent on its own. The euro- zone does not have great capacity, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
and it doesn't have growth policies or institutions in place which | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
would be able to allow it to get out of what it is in. Thank you | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
very much for being with us. Let's take a look at some of the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
other stories making headlines: Egypt's ruling military has | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
apologised for the deaths of protesters in clashes with police | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
as unrest in Cairo and other cities and enters its 6th day. Thousands | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
of protesters are still in Tahir Square. They are demanding an | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
immediate end to military rule. Egypt's Military Council insists | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
parliamentary elections will go ahead as planned on Monday. | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
The State Of Egypt, four days of -- ahead of what should have been a | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
pram for democracy. Barbed wire surrounds the Interior Ministry. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Troops are on the streets. Overnight, there was the latest in | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
a series of truces between police and protesters. But no one is | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
optimistic it will hold. There are still huge crowds in Tahir Square. | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
On state TV, two generals appear. For the first time, they offered an | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
apology for the deaths of protesters. They insisted they were | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
not like the former regime. They did not want to hold on to power. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
But in other cities, they sent the tanks out in the night as | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
demonstrations continued to spread to many cities across Egypt. The | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
opposition claimed that live fire is now being used against them. The | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
army firmly deny they have shot any protesters. The military stay there | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
are still determined to press ahead -- saying they are still determined | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
to press ahead with elections on Monday. The crowds do not trust the | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
military version of democracy. They want the general standard a | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
complete power to a civilian Council immediately. Egypt is | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
increasingly paralysed. This could be a long stand-off. | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
The leaders of Hamas and Fatah could -- call themselves the head | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
of a new partnership. Talks between Mark Kermode and bass and Khaled | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
Meshaal come after previous talks fail to achieve anything. The | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Islamists of Hamas Govan in Gaza. Israel, which regards Hamas as a | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
terrorist group, strongly opposes Palestinian reconciliation. Iraq's | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
foreign minister has said that Syria has agreed to a protocol to | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
send an Arab League monitoring mission to the country. The | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
decision was made at the foreign ministers' meeting of the league | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
which is being held in Cairo. Syria was suspended from the Organisation | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
last week. The meeting has been moved from Arab League headquarters | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
because of protests in Tahir Square. In Portugal, a general strike is | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
being held in protest at austerity measures being introduced their | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
following an international bail-out. Public transport, schools and | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
hospitals are among the areas expected to be affected during the | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
24 hour stoppage. Emperor Akihito of Japan has been released from a | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Tokyo hospital after more than two weeks. The 77-year-old monarch was | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
admitted after suffering from a high fever, and was believed to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
have bronchial pneumonia. He has endured bad health in recent years | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
and cut back on official duties. The actor's Sienna Miller has been | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
telling an inquiry into the ethics of the British press about how she | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
has been hounded by journalists and photographers. She was one of the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
most high-profile victims of the so-called phone hacking scandal | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
here in Britain, and is what among a number of people who have | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
suffered from press intrusion. She is talking to the press inquiry -- | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
Leveson Inquiry this week. Other witnesses include Max Mosley and JK | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Rowling. Sienna Miller told the inquiry about the newspaper's | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
tactics. I actually now have an order against paparazzi, so my life | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
has changed dramatically, but far number of years, I was relentlessly | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
pursued by about 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Anything from being | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
spat at or verbally abused. I think that the incentive is to get as | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
stronger reaction as possible, so as other people have mentioned, | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
being jumped out at so that you get a shock, or saying things to get an | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
emotional reaction. They seem to go to any lengths to try to upset you, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
which was really difficult to deal with. Ross Hawkins is following | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
today's proceedings at the High Court in London. I gave a brief | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
explanation of what these hearings are about. Could you give a little | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
bit of background for our viewers around the world? | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
In essence, the judge is leading an inquiry here to try to work out if | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
there is a better way to run and regulate the British media that has | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
been riven by scandal in the last few years as it has emerged that | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
some journalists, particularly on one paper, the News of the World, a | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
paper now closed, had got stories by hacking into the voice mails of | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
people's mobile phones. And in doing that, they have heard from | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
some very high-profile people like the actress Sienna Miller. At the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
moment they are hearing from former motor Sport boss Max Mosley. They | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
are talking not just about photographers misbehaving, but | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
privacy. Max Mosley is making the case that years after a piece about | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
his sex life was published in the News of the World, he is still | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
fighting court actions in 22 or 23 countries around the world to close | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
down stories and websites. And at the heart of this is that | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
for a question of how you regulate the press. It is a thorny question | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
If taught extent to lead us to buy something because you say it in the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
public interest? It's a defence of British journalists in other cases | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
and in others, it's not. We've heard from many Seventies and | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
victims of crimes saying there must be much tighter rules are -- from | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
celebrities. Of course, journalists here say if you bring that in, you | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
could end up with a celebrity chatter, when all we hear from | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
famous people is what they want us to hear when they are selling a | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
film or book -- Charter. Still to come on GMT: Coming up we have a | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
special report by the BBC's Angus Crawford, on the future of Afghan | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
children, who have failed in the their asylum claims to Britain. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
First though let's get all the business news. I've been spending a | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
lot of time talking about the eurozone. One thing I want to pick | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
up with you, it looks as if even Germany is now beginning to pay a | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
price. I think it's safe to say that this crisis is running out of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
road of. The leading financial experts to talk to say we have | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
reached the end game, not so much the end but a moment of truth where | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
we either take a leap forward all we face the break-up of the | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
eurozone. Global markets are turning their back on Europe. We | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
are seeing large selling volumes out of Asia and the US on all | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
things Europe. We have to remember, back in September, world leaders | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
gave Europe six weeks to save the euro. In effect, so did the markets. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Two options, either break up the eurozone or the ECB step sin in a | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
big way. Some believe the EC be stepping in won't save it. Listen | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
to this. I'm afraid we are getting to the situation, even if the ECB | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
was to step in, which I think is very unlikely because of German | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
resistance, even if it stepped in with unlimited buying, I think this | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
stage we have got to now, in the global market place, is shying away | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
from the euro because they are fed up with the dithering and | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
uncertainty. I'm not even sure that would save the situation. So that's | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
all right then. Talk about doom and gloom. The backdrop to this is | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
where is growth going to come from? Retail figures coming out of | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Britain suggest it's not happening here. UK retailers are taking a | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
hammering and have for some time. Consumers are hanging on to their | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
money. Arcadia, the owner of big high-street shops, their profits | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
slumped nearly 14%. It blames the weather. Warm weather meant less | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
people in their winter collections. We spoke to Philip Green and ask | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
them how to have it's going to get. It's going to be tough landscape | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
for quite a period of time for the very competitive. We are going to | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
have to be better than we've been before. There's nowhere to hide. We | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
have got to hope fleecy the economy Let's have a quick look at the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
markets. Don't be fooled, they are up. Lots of bargain hunting going | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
on, George, at the moment, but we Thank you very much. This is going | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
to run and run and run, the story. And you can read much more on the | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
eurozone debt crisis on the BBC website. You know the address, | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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because I have forgotten it, This is GMT. The headlines. Italy's | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
new prime minister joins talks on the eurozone debt crisis, amid | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
sharp differences between France and Germany. Egypt's ruling | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
military council has said parliamentary elections will go | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
ahead as planned on Monday. Earlier the generals apologised for the | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
deaths of protesters. The BBC has learned that Britain | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
and three other European countries may start sending Afghan children, | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
who have failed in their asylum claims, back to Kabul next year. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
But refugee groups have warned that the whole policy could be unlawful, | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
because young people risk ending up in orphanages in a war zone. The | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
British government insists the changes will only affect 16 and 17 | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
year-olds whose families can be traced. The BBC's Angus Crawford | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
has been talking to one young man On the streets of London, far from | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
home, this man feel safe. In Afghanistan, the Taliban tortured | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
his father, cutting off his arm as punishment. The family lived in | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
fear. Three years ago, when he was just 14, he was smuggled a loan to | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
the UK. And he claimed asylum. What would happen to you if you were | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
sent back home? TRANSLATION: If I go back to my | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
village, I would have to hide and after a few days, the Taliban would | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
find out I was there and either they would kill me or forced me to | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
be a suicide bomber force of blow myself up somewhere. But we have | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
learned the Home Office has teamed up with a government of Norway, | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
Sweden, and Holland, to find a way of sending 16 and 17 year-olds | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
whose asylum claims have failed, back to Afghanistan. The returns | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
could begin as soon as next year. In September, suicide bombers | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
attack the US embassy. European refugee groups warned the policy | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
would mean returning of vulnerable children to a war-zone. The Afghan | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
government opposes the move and says there's no adequate child | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
protection system. Despite billions of pounds of aid being poured into | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
the country, more Afghan children seek asylum in the UK than any | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
other nationality. The Home Office says there has been no final | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
decision on starting the turns and says it will only happen if | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
families can be located at or arrangements for care are in place. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
As for this man, he is in limbo, too scared to go home and terrified | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
that Britain may decide he is no longer welcome. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
The Home office insists that no final decision on returning Afghan | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
children has yet been taken. A spokesman told this programme | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
repatriation will only occur if families can be located or | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
appropriate support and care arrangements are in place. Joining | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
us now from our studio in central London, is Shoaib Sharifi, an | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Afghan journalist who has travelled the people-smugglers' route from | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Afghanistan to the UK. Thank you for being with us. What other | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
chances, do you think, the British Government has of finding the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
families of these people they want to send back, and ensuring they do | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
go back to somewhere that is safe insecure? I think that will be | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
quite challenging. And almost impossible, because it's not like a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
couple of months journey. Some of these children have left | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Afghanistan at the age of 12. During the journey, I have been | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
talking to them from Afghanistan or the way to France. I come across | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
children who left at an age of 11 and 12, and some of them were with | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
family members and on their way lost their family members. Three or | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
four years on this journey until they make it to Britain. They | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
hardly remember anything about Afghanistan for the the other issue | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
is, they don't want to go back to Afghanistan. They don't want to see | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
their families. The chances are, I met some children, who tried for a | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
second and third time when they were deported, in the other | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
countries, they don't want to go back to their families because they | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
know how severe the situation is. Is it right, to make the assumption, | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
that at least some of these children, perhaps the majority, | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
their families, if they can find them at all, they would be in areas | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
controlled by the Taliban now? actually, there are many areas in | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Afghanistan which under the control of the Afghan government but | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
influenced by the Taliban. It's not only the Taliban. Also right now, | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
there is a demand in the exploitation market for children | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
like them by drug smugglers and the Taliban and, astonishingly, we have | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
seen many young children being exploited by drug smugglers to take | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
drugs to the borders of Afghanistan. We have seen a shocking rates of | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
suicide bombers, children. There is a high chance of them being | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
exploited. If they are taken back to Afghanistan. Equally, the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
British Government and European governments says there must, point | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
when the responsibility for these children, teenagers now, obviously, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
the responsibility reverts back to Afghanistan. It's only a couple of | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
years away from British troops leaving their altogether. Actually, | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
the route to the problem should be addressed. The couple is the home | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
of thousands of street children, and child labour is a high rate, so | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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if the Afghan government exploit hundreds of children into becoming | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
drug smugglers, they should see why children are leaving and address | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the root of the problem and that the number one, unemployment. If | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
that is addressed, by the International Committee and the | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Afghan government, I think that is the solution in the longer term, | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
otherwise it's impossible to stop. Thank you for being on GMT. Now | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
here's something that sounds like it's straight out of a film. | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
Australian police are trying to solve the mystery after a lot of | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
dough was left in a pizza restaurant, if you'll pardon the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
pun! It seems a man left a suitcase at Cafe Marco in a suburb of Sydney, | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
which had a million Australian dollars stuffed inside. There's | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
been an arrest but it's still not clear if it's the person who left | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
the money behind. We're coming to the end of GMT. Before we go, a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
reminder of our main story. Leaders of the three biggest eurozone | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
economies are holding emergency debt talks. The French president | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy is urging his German counterpart Angela Merkel to | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
abandon her refusal to allow the European Central Bank to become a | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
lender of last resort. Today's mini-summit takes place in the | :26:40. | :26:43. |