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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Dozens dying in | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
homes and on the streets of Europe. As the severe cold weather claims | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
more lives today, we ask why the authorities seem an able to stop | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
the deaths. Tensions high in Egypt as the | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
football stadium deaths give fresh impetus to political protests. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Have we vastly underestimated the number of malaria deaths worldwide? | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
A new study claims the disease is killing twice as many people as we | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
think. Also coming up: Footballer John | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Terry is stripped of the England captaincy. He will not lead the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
squad until his trial over racial abuse allegations is over. He | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
denies the charges. And the critics of Russia's | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Vladimir Putin who claimed the country's voting system is loaded | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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Hello and welcome. Many countries in Europe remain covered in snow | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
and ice and the number of people dying from hyperthermia is | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
continuing to rise. The intense cold has caused around 100 deaths | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
in Ukraine in the last week and at least 37 people have died in Poland. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Most of the dead are homeless or poor people living in rural | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
villages. Steve Rosenberg in Moscow it takes a look at the big freeze | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
gripping Europe. Southern Russia is looking more | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
like the North Pole. Heavy snowfall has blocked the main roads. Dozens | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
of cars and lorries are stranded. This ambulance driver says he | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
urgently needs to get his patient to intensive care, but they are | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
stuck in snow with no idea when they will reach a hospital. There | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
are travel problems in the Russian Far East where temperatures in | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
places have fallen to minus 50. The big freeze has caused big problems | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
for anyone needing a fairy. The Pacific has frozen over. The ice is | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
more than a metre thick. You have to find another way across if you | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
are brave enough. The colt is more than just an inconvenience. It is | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
claiming lives. Officials say that last month's 64 Russians died from | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the cold weather. Emergency teams will now be patrolling the streets | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
to make sure the homeless are not in danger. But the situation seems | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
even more desperate across Eastern Europe. In Ukraine more than 100 | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
people have died in the past week as a result of the freezing weather. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Most of the victims had been living on the streets. Hundreds more have | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
been hospitalised suffering from hypothermia and frostbite. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Emergency crews have set up special heating and food shelters. More | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
than 30 people have died in Poland. One of the coldest places was this | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
city. Across Eastern Europe the cold is causing power shortages. It | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
is forcing schools to close, sparking transport chaos and | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
endangering lives. Let's talk a bit more about this | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
and Freik Spinnewijn is a director of the European Federation of | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
National Organisations working with the homeless, an organisation known | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
as Feantsa. Do you think, I know it is difficult you cannot get | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
evidence, there will be more deaths from hypothermia because there are | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
more people homeless as a result of the financial crisis? There is | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
definitely more people that are homeless because of the crisis. If | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
there are more people dying, it is difficult to see, it not only | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
depends on the weather, but it is important because we have seen an | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
increase in the number of homeless people. How can you tell that? Are | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
there people presenting themselves are to hostels? Each country is | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
starting to collect data and there is an increase, but we also know | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
from our members that there is quite an important increase in | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
demand for services like Shelter and accommodation and we see that | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
especially in countries that have been hit by the crisis such as | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Greece and Spain. What happens with homeless people in severe cold | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
weather conditions? Surely they do not try to sleep on the streets | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
because they know that could kill them. Exactly, it's basically comes | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
down to a shortage in emergency accommodation, a simple shortage of | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
beds where people can find shelter from the cold. It is a question of | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
political will. I do not think it could be that difficult to make | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
sure there is sufficient bed space available for these people. Are you | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
calling on governments across Europe to try to do more? It is not | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
the cold weather killing them. Sweden is a very cold country, but | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
people do not died on the streets. It is interesting to see that in | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
countries where it tends to be cold they do not see so many homeless | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
people dying from the cold. It is possible to address it. It is not | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
just Feantsa calling for countries to do enough to make sure people do | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
not die, but it is also the European Parliament that has on | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
repeated occasions asked for things to be done to make sure people do | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
not died due to lack of accommodation. Anger is boiling | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
over again in the Egyptian capital Cairo over the deaths of the 74 | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
people in football violence on Wednesday. These are live pictures | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
from Tahrir Square where thousands have been gathering all day. Just | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
off the square there have been running battles between police and | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
protesters and our reporter in Cairo says one protester, maybe two, | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
have died from tear gas inhalation and two others died earlier in Suez. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Activists have declared today a day of anger and many are blaming the | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
security forces for the deaths in the Football station in Port Said. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
They believe the fans from Cairo were deliberately targeted because | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
of their prominent role in the revolution. Let's get more from | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Yolande Knell. Other protesters still out there? They are still out | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
there in large numbers in Tahrir Square itself where people are | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
seemingly planning to camp out for the night. They have re-established | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
the campsite in the middle of the roundabout. Things are relatively | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
calm, but if you go onto the side streets approaching the Interior | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Ministry and that is where we are continuing to see these | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
confrontations between angry, young fans, mostly young men, hurling | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
rocks at the please and the police responding by using large | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
quantities of tear gas. That is what we could see through the day | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
and field hospitals around Tahrir Square say they have seen it many | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
injuries from the use of the tear gas. Perhaps one person has been | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
killed we understand. The death toll from today stands at two | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
people killed from the latest clashes and two people killed in | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Suez overnight who were shot. Hundreds have been injured, the | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
official figure from two days of violence in different places around | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
the country and its stands at around 2300 according to the health | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
ministry. The biggest single incident of violence since the | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
revolution. What is the focus of those people in Tahrir Square? Who | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
is the focus of their anger? Directly their anger is focus at | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
the police who they believed were negligent, who stood by and were | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
deliberately negligent on Wednesday night in that violence at the Port | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Said football stadium. Certainly from the television pictures from | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
that night you could see there was a relatively small deployment of | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
police officers and they stood by while hundreds of thousands of al- | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Masry home fans stormed the pitch and targeted the al-Ahly fans and | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Pune players. People are also very angry at the ruling military and | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
they are continuing to demand a faster transfer to fall, civilian | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
rule. Up to now the military has been keeping to a timetable and it | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
will hand over full power to a civilian led Government by the | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
middle of the Year after presidential elections have taken | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
place. People want that timetable speeded up. There have been many | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
protests about continuing military rule, but now we also have a new | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
parliament partly elected, and these new parliamentarians, mostly | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
Islamists, have had been using the latest events to put more pressure | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
themselves on the Military Council and have been making accusations | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
about their poor handling of affairs and the lack of law and | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
order in the country. Now some other news. The growing tensions | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
between Sudan and South Sudan, President Omar Bashir says the | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
climate is closer to one of war and peace with neighbouring South Sudan. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
He was speaking on state television a day after the south Sudanese | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
President Salva Kiir also warned that renewed conflict could erupt. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
The United Nations has declared the Thanet in Somalia is now over. They | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
have downgraded the situation to a humanitarian emergency. Conditions | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
have improved because of a good harvest and significant | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
international aid, but a third of the population needs emergency | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
support. The hacking network Anonymous has released a recording | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
of a phone call between the FBI and British police in which they | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
discuss efforts against hacking. The FBI says it has launched an | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
investigation. But Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has quit his post as | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Energy Secretary after learning he will be charged over allegations | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
that he asked his ex-wife to take a speeding penalty for him to escape | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
a driving ban. They are being prosecuted for | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
allegedly perverting the course of justice. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
NASA has released new pictures of a galaxy which could tell us more | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
about where we lived. The Hubble space telescope has taken pictures | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
of a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
One of the world's most deadly diseases, malaria, is killing twice | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
as many people than previously thought according to the Lancet. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
The research suggests the total number of people dying from the | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
mosquito borne disease is declining. The study by researchers in the | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
United States and Australia was funded by the Bill and Melinda | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Gates Foundation. We already knew it malaria was a | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
killer, taking hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
of them are young children in sub- Saharan Africa. According to this | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
new study the number of victims may be higher still. The researchers | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
say 1.2 mean the end people died in 2010. That figure nearly doubled | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
previous estimates from the World Health Organisation. The research | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
also shows 42% of deaths from malaria were in older Jordan and | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
adults, much higher than previously thought. Trying to accurately | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
estimate the number of deaths caused by this mosquito borne | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
disease is extremely difficult due largely to the poor quality of the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
data kept in those countries where malaria kills most. The authors of | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
this new study used a new data and complex computer mapping to try and | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
build a more precise picture. They also looked at deaths which they | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
believe have been wrongly attributed to other causes. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Although 2010 may look worse than it was thought, the new study | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
suggests malaria deaths peaked in 2004 with a decline since | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
attributed to major investments in prevention and health care made by | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
international donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
bed nets, and better disease monitoring are having an impact, | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
even if far too many children and adults are still dying. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
We can speak to the co-ordinator of the strategy, economics and | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
elimination team at the World Health Organisation's global | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
malaria programme. I asked why there was a discrepancy in the | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
figures. The major difference arises because of the number of | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
deaths attributed to those aged five and over in sub-Saharan Africa. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
If you look at the other age groups, the under fives, the differences | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
are not that substantial and the uncertainty by which these things | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
are measured is great. The Rangers of the two sets of estimates | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
overlap quite a lot. Statistically they are not different. But is it | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
not different for children over the age of five and adults? Is that not | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
where you have not got your figures right? Well, I think you have to be | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
careful because these are estimates. It is very difficult to estimate | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the numbers of people who died from any cause of death, but that is | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
particularly true of malaria, because the systems for recording | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
deaths from malaria are weakest where malaria is most common. In | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
order to derive the number of deaths we have to estimate rather | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
than count. When we estimate there is always a large amount of | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
uncertainty around those estimates. Is it not possible that people are | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
dying as a result of malaria and it is compromising the system, making | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
them more vulnerable to illnesses which may be recorded as the cause | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
of death? Your way of trying to work out who is dying from malaria | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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We need to improve systems for recording of malaria and every | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
suspected case of malaria should get a diagnostic test. And secondly | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
we advocate the strength Lane of surveillance systems, better | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
recording and reporting of cases and deaths and we work with the | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
various countries to do this. When it comes to the estimates in the | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Lancet we think it has been -- there has been over diagnosis so | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
many of the deaths counted as malaria were not in fact malaria. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
There was the World Health Organisation in Geneva. The English | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Football Association has confirmed that John Terry has been stripped | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
of the captaincy of the national team until after his trial over | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
allegations that he racially abused a black player during a match last | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
year. John Terry has consistently denied the charge. Mihir Bose is a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Sport Correspondent for the Evening Standard and he joins me now in the | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
studio. This would have dogged England's every move, it was | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
inevitable? It was and the f eight have to show it is governing the | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
sport. Later on this month the FA will report to the British Sports | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Minister on governments and not long ago the same minister said | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
football is the worst governed sport in the country. In the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
context of what was happening, a sensitive and a serious charge, | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
John Terry is innocent until proven guilty but the charges serious. A | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
trial soon after the European Championships, the trial hanging | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
over it and having made the nature of the captain seat so symbolically | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
important, it gives the wrong message and the FA did not want to. | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
The man he is accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, Rio | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Ferdinand has been named as a possible successor. Rio Ferdinand | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
defeated he does not want it. There is a question whether Anton | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Ferdinand would shake the hand of John Terry. No handshakes took | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
place. These are symbolic gestures taking place. It is a background of | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
the emergence of racism in a way which has surprised the football | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
authorities. They are trying to share their governing the sport and | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
are in charge and making the right decisions. He will succeed him as | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
captain? At the moment, difficult to say. Fabio Capello the Italian | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
coach is surprised how important English football took the captaincy. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
He would decide, John Terry -- Rio Ferdinand could have been a choice | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
but says he doesn't want it. John Terry denies the allegations but | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
how bad is racism in football today? Recently I looked at | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
grassroots football and there raised a lot of racism. It is | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
complex racism, the sort of racism that disfigured English football in | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the 1980s, that has gone, monkey chants and throwing bananas but | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
there is still some racism. This does not mean John Terry is guilty. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
He is still an innocent man but there are elements of racism | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
problems in the game which has not been eradicated. | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Tens of thousands of people are expected to march through Moscow | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
again tomorrow as part of the ongoing protests against fraud in | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
December's parliamentary elections. With only a month to go before the | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Presidential poll, Russia's voting system is still a raw topic for | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
some as the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tries to return to the | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
presidency. Our Moscow Correspondent Daniel Sandford has | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
been investigating why some people claim his ruling United Russia | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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There has been a backing off in the new year in the battle to clean up | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Russia's elections. This was a raid by democracy activists where | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
hundreds of signatures were being forged on the nomination papers of | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
a presidential candidate. With the presidential elections only a month | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
away, hundreds of volunteers are training to be election observers, | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
many are fired up by the stories about cheating in December's | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
parliamentary vote. Stories like that of these students who were | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
approached to join a carousel, a group of young people paid to go | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
around illegally voting again and again for Vladimir Putin. They made | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
sure the whole thing was secretly filmed by an undercover journalist. | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
TRANSLATION: We would go into each polling station and go to table one | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
or two and show the passport. When the person saw it he knew what | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
to do. And gave us a ballot paper without the usual explanation about | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
how to vote. This was one of the many polling stations where the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
young couple voted that day. It was on a list of over 40 in this area | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
alone where they were told to save the game. It gives you an idea of | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
the scale of the institutional conspiracy to rig the election. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
Although he was an official observer, par felt watched as the | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
result that his polling station was changed after the count. The ruling | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
party gained 80 votes, the other parties lost 20 votes each. It was | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
my first time but it was much worse than I expected. I was so upset | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
that on the night before the elections I could not go to bed so | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
I took time writing a report and was posted on the internet. It was | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
these examples of blatant cheating that brought tens of thousands of | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
protesters out onto the streets of Moscow in December and will | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
tomorrow. He is a statistician who says the overall effect of the | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
fraud was critical to the outcome. The official result was 49.3% and | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
statistical analysis gives us something between 34 and 39%. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
percentage points cheating. Yes. It is cheating and this means Russia | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
has no majority. Vladimir Putin has been tainted by his party's crude | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
vote rigging. A giant banner appeared reading Putin go. He is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
still Russia's most popular politician and a little can stop | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
him returning to the Kremlin. Over the past fortnight we've been | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
taking an occasional look at the lives of the super rich. Well today | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
we're joined by someone who certainly falls into that category. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Jamie Johnson is one of the great- grandsons of Robert Wood Johnson | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
the First the co-founder of the Johnson & Johnson consumer product | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
company. He's made two documentaries about wealth and the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
rich, and he currently writes a weekly online column for Vanity | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
:23:00. | :23:00. | ||
Fair called "The One Percent". He joins as naff all New York. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Della kits at Davos said the gap between the haves and have-nots was | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
the defining issue of our day. Do you agree? I do agree. More and | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
more people are becoming aware of the disparity in wealth between the | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
people at the bottom of the ladder and the people at the tops. In the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
United States to see more tension over the issue. Occupy Wall Street | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
really has forced people to recognise there's a great disparity. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
And nothing more and more we will hear more about it as the election | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
evolves for the run-up to the White House. And you personally, you are | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
one of the heirs to this great fortune, do you feel a bit self- | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
conscious about being a member of the super rich? | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Personally I do not. In my case I have made films about wealth and | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
social class, I have included myself in the films. I have been | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
straightforward about wealth in my own life. I have also thought a | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
great deal about it and some of the privileges that go along with | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
wealth and some of the attitudes towards rich people. They can be | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
negative and positive. It is not something I am uncomfortable with. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
What things did you come up with? What are your attitudes towards | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
rich people like yourself? What are your reflections on having a huge | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
amounts of wealth? Well in my case it is a great | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
privilege. It has done amazing things for me but more than | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
anything It provides choices, the ability to pursue a career that is | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
interesting, I do not have to worry about paying the bills. That makes | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
a big difference. And the main point is there is a sense of | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
freedom. Do you think because of what is going on, the gap between | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
the haves and have-nots, conspicuous consumption and the | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
ostentatious flaunting of wealth is something the super rich really are | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
avoiding or are they still doing that? I think people are aware of | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
it in terms of some of the things they do with their public relations | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
save people are conscious of it and want to create the perception at | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
times they are not as rich as they are. On the other hand, what you | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
are really seeing his people that are super rich are not really | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
experiencing it as a recession. I think if you go into affluent | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
circles in the US life seems to be going along as usual, where you see | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
people hit the hardest of the low end of the economic spectrum. | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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Briefly, is it fair, unfair, what do you think? Well, it is not fair, | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
nobody would make that argument. You would not hear me make that | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
argument. OK, thank you very much for talking to us. And for being so | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
frank! Before we go, the main news: the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
death toll from the extreme weather continues to rise as the Continent | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
remains blanketed by snow and ice. More than 100 people have died in | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
the Ukraine and 37 people have died in Poland. Crowds of protestors | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
have gathered in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to | :26:31. | :26:34. |