Europe+and+Centrral+Asia

=[] Europe and Central Asia =

=__**Science and Technology **__=

"Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests."

In the EU it is becoming more and more popu lar to make internet access a human right. It does not seem fair to many people in the EU that some people have access to the internet and others do not. They seek to make internet access a human right.

A Swiss news report that cancer cases are expected to double in the 20 years. You can access the article here.

**The Large Hadron Collider**
The Hadron Collider is about 50's miles long, the most powerful physics experiment ever built. The Large Hadron Collider will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the universe itself. for more info please to go this [|article]

Lip reading mobile promises end to noisy phone calls
In Germany scientist are trying to come with away for people to conduct silent phone conversations. The technology measures the tiny electrical signals produced by muscles used when someone speaks. The device can record these pulses even when a person does not audibly utter any words and use them to generate synthesised speech in another handset. [|links to more info]

=**__Economy__**=

Uk banks are bracing for debt crisis. In the article it was stated that, ""Sterling is going to fall further over coming months. I am not expecting a crash of the gilts market but we may see a further rise in spreads of 30 to 50 basis points."

Tax rises hit Greece as EU meets on debt crisis

Greece's economy is in ruins and the Greek are reacting by rioting. Greece's new austerity package raises taxes and demands government spending to stop. Greece is one of the countries hardest hit by the recession and it's finical troubles are causing problems with their relationship to the EU.

Russia is going throw bad economy too!
Russia is not paying the Olimpstroi -funded construction site in Sochi for months, like to more info

__**Awesome news links for Europe and Central Asia**__ World-newspapers.com

The World Factbook
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Bloomberg =British Airways Strike Enters Third Day With No Deal In Sight=

The workers have been on strike for about four days seeking for cut in cost of the air fare. The BA's fear that this will decrease sale by 1 million if it continue. [|more info].

=__Health__=

The UK health care system is facing some financial difficulties. The UK has a popular government run HC system. Here's an article about some of the things that th gov funds under the HC [|read]

=[| Attempt at EU-wide 'wonky fruit and veg' ban fails]=

In the EU a ban on selling ugly fruits and vegetables has been knocked down. The ban was expected to pass but officials were worried about food wastage.

__**Health In Central Asia**__ Central Asia has a very high infant mortality rate and many other major health problems. This graphic shows some of the main causes of death as well as infant mortality and life expectancy rates for the region. Recently there has been a report on the awareness of HIV/Aids in Central Asia. The world community is trying to educate people in this region on how to prevent themselves from this decease and also other people as well. [|Read More]

=Security and Terrorism=

[| US and Russian nuclear arsenals]
This article talked about the size and strength of Russia and America's defenses in in light of the recent talks that have been happening between the two nations. It can clearly be seen that Russia has many more nuclear weapons than the United States. Russia has 4,600 warheads and the United States has 2,702.

The most major security and terrorism story coming out of Europe this week was about the US and Russian nuclear weapon treaty provided in the above link. However in [|this] article, it was stated that the UK stands the greatest chance of facing terrorism threats in Europe.

The major story coming out of Central Asia and Europe this week and past week were suicide bombing, cars, buildings and trans were mostly target in this area. This week for my news trust I look at the bombing of the train in Moscow, Russia.

And here is a awesome link that talked about this from Russia point of view. About 39 people told to be death and more then 60 are still in hospital. The attack was filmed by security cameras as they helped the bombers get into the newwork at a place call Yugo-Zapadnaya, both explosions took place at the southermost station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. The police are searching for where the terrorists might have stayed near Yugo-Zapadnaya and in Moscow Region. The police have not found any of the terrorists but it is told to be that there are their people involve in this attack, two woman at the age about 25 and about 40 and one man about 30.

__**Education**__

Ireland: http://newstrust.net/stories/1327758/toolbar?ref=mp Where will Educate Together students go for second-level? This article is about a town in Ireland that has a set of " multidenominational school" schools that are worried about their children finding schools after primary school. The type of school tries to focus less on traditional Irish teaching which is typically heavy on religion. Right now there are 56 schools from this organization "Educate Together" and they currently do not have clearance from the Department of Education. Many children will be forced to go to a secondary school that is not with Educate Together and the parents of the children are concerned about this.

Finland: http://newstrust.net/stories/1260191/toolbar?ref=mp

This article is about how in finland the children are educated and what the finish believe when it comes to the style of educating. The believe in shorter school days, longer waiting to start school, more emphasis on teachers and teaching qualities, and less moving around for the students. Apparently these strategies have been working for them as many educators around the world have been marveling at the success Finland has had.

One thing that Finland does for it's students is focus more on practical learning in which the students are not just learning in a class room but also putting to use what they are learning as they are learning it. In this video a woman from the UK visits a classroom in a finish school where they are working on literacy by means of making their own stories and putting them into books. 

[|English Education] This website explains how the English education system runs their education system. It explains the appropriate ages in which students are able to enroll in school. It also discusses the legal ages to transfer into secondary school. The website also provides links that give more understanding of English education.

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http://belta.by/en/news/econom?id=521278 According to this news website, from Belarus, Belarus and Finland have decided to start an energy cooperation. One thing in particular is a heat electropower station in Belarus. It's interesting that Finland and Belarus would be working together on an energy cooperation being that they are not exactly next to each other. As seen in the map there are at least 3 countries in-between them and the gulf of finland. They also hope to make transportation, and development more efficient as well.

[|Renewable Engery Supergrid]

9 European countries are joining together to create a under water renewable energy grid.

Society and Culture

Apparently in the Finish culture a sport called "[|Wife Carrying] " is all the rage. They have also influenced several other countries to compete in this sport as well. It started in Finland a long time ago when pirates would steal sacks of rye and tested new pirates to see how much weight they could carry. The winners get beer.

This graph represent education in Germany 95%of schools in Germany are public. Every citizen has the opportunity to get an education []
 * ~ Type of Institution ||~ Number of Schools ||~ Number of Teachers ||~ Number of Students ||
 * **Primary and secondary schools** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * //Grundschulen// || 17,941 || 208,768 || 3,419,584 ||
 * //Hauptschulen// || 9,209 || 101,939 || 1,483,229 ||
 * //Realschulen// || 3,634 || 59,176 || 1,056,739 ||
 * //Gymnasien// || 3,126 || 146,124 || 2,047,241 ||
 * //Gesamtschulen// || 930 || 48,419 || 493,406 ||
 * **Evening schools** || 352 || 3,734 || 48,606 ||
 * **Total primary and secondary schools** || 35,192 || 568,160 || 8,548,805 ||
 * **Secondary vocational schools** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * //Berufsschulen// || 3,233 || 56,779 || 1,796,452 ||
 * //Berufsaufbauschulen// || 230 || 423 || 6,564 ||
 * //Berufsfachschulen// || 2,612 || 22,103 || 263,592 ||
 * //Fachoberschulen// || 740 || 4,983 || 75,461 ||
 * //Fachgymnasien// || 564 || 9,842 || 151,819 ||
 * **Total secondary vocational schools** || 7,379 || 94,130 || 2,293,888 ||
 * **Advanced vocational schools** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * //Fachschulen// || 1,537 || 10,953 || 171,693 ||
 * **Schools of higher education** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Universities** || 81 || 127,755 || 1,223,907 ||
 * **Comprehensive universities** || 7 || 8,732 || 136,731 ||
 * **Teacher-training colleges** || 8 || n.a. || 22,518 ||
 * **Theological seminaries** || 17 || n.a. || 2,828 ||
 * **Technical colleges** || 126 || 5,281 || 389,501 ||
 * **Art academies** || 45 || 1,136 || 29,718 ||
 * **Colleges of administration** || 30 || n.a. || 53,252 ||
 * **Total schools of higher education** || 314 || 142,904 || 1,858,455 ||
 * **TOTAL** || **44,422** || **816,147** || **12,872,841** ||

This week I read an article about why certain region mostly the Islamic regions don't allowed woman to obtain certain right.
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=Azerbaijan: =

Well, these guys, they're not too bad with the human rights, but they're not perfect either. See, there was this journalist. He said somethings that the government didn't like, and BAM, in jail he goes. The UN didn't like that, what with it violating the Declaration of Human Rights and all, so they told Azerbaijan to stop the tomfoolery. Then the police claimed they discovered some heroin on the man, who said that it wasn't his (claims that he said he was holding it for a friend go unverified). Then there was this whole business about the blood test showing heroin, but no independent tests being allowed. Anyways, the situation is indeterminate and the reporter is quite cross. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR55/003/2010/en/d037d431-8c97-4201-97f8-92687149b9fd/eur550032010en.html

= = =French Politicians Urged to Lift Ban on Face Veils = This heading links to an article that concerns human rights in France. The government in France has enacted a ban on face veils. This is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of expression and religion. Violating the law would result in a fine of up to 150 euros and the possibility of having to go to rehab. The French government argues that the law was enacted to prevent pressure on women to wear covering such as the hijab or burqa. -Alex Wiles

It looks like Europe has a really good system for their women. Women are happy to be there and don't really have any problems. A lot of women from Africa are trying to come to Europe because they know that women have a good life there and don't have problems like they do. Many the more, more and more immigrants from other countries want to be in Europe and be free. It looks like Europe is the place to be if your a women. Even though there are many different countries in Europe, all if them have their rights, and its god rights not bad. http://www.europeanpwn.net/
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 * Europe: Where the women are exotic and underpaid:**

So, Europe has this whole thing with sexism in that they do it. Women earn an average of 18 percent less than their male counterparts, and it seems that a bunch of people there (over 50% in fact) believe it is because of gender stereotypes at play. The article didn't mention any opinions from the average woman, so we will be forced to assume that they are ecstatic with the development. Meanwhile, the evil EU is trying to take away a woman's right to be discriminated against by employing legislation that will make the payment process of companies more transparent and guarantee pay that is equal to that of an employee.



__**Gender Discrimination**__

media type="youtube" key="r4m7FwTNmao" width="425" height="350" This was one of the saddest story I have ever come a across in the past month of newsstrusting. This story was about a little baby girl in India that suffer from hunger because her mom wount feed her enough food, she tend to feed her baby boy more than she feeds her daughter. This really shows the dicriminations that India has on geneder. It a really sad story because the government is not taking action to save these children. The value the life of a boy than girls.