morning from moscow if you've just joined us tad after one am here now it's kevin owen with the top stories and struggling homeowners traveled for miles and queued for over twenty four hours to get free advice being offered by a mortgage advocacy group in washington d.c. they say the government's aid programs failed them despite talk of an end to the financial crisis more than three hundred thousand homes are still repossessed every month in the united states. these are the faces behind the crisis we're waiting and hoping and praying to but we can decide to get help everybody really help you know to help and that's what we're looking for help the desperate voices of those who have reached the end of the line for him to land what time nine thirty nine thirty last night and if you sleep here. gondola mccrone naomi lawrence took several buses from florida eighteen hours then arrived

at the washington d.c. convention center thursday morning waiting thirty hours to get in oh you've been our boy it's tat and we don't have no place to go and bathroom. but they waited anyway for a chance to restructure the mortgages on their homes all part of the save the dream tour good you need to go put on by the neighborhood assistance corporation of america or natca this is a look at foreclosure activity around the united states during the last year the height of it came in march of this year but never once did it fall below three hundred thousand homes in a month everybody here has tried to work with their lender and it's failed c.e.o. bruce marks calls himself a financial terrorist and with the help of many volunteers works with people to help them they get counseling and meet with lenders to come up with an affordable mortgage or to lower their interest rate or both not everyone qualifies but

everyone is at least promised an answer the where in adjustable rate mortgage rates just keep going up in the system and believable napco targets people with nowhere else to turn more dish basically is out of reach saw. some choosing whether to keep or pay mortgage. there are also targets c.e.o.'s of big banks who they say caused this crisis five protesting outside their houses putting furniture. on their lawns they also protest inside the capitol even though congress wants to pretend that there's no crisis out there and repression obama wants to pretend that he's solved it the fact of the matter is it's just as bad and it's not getting better deborah phillips told her daughters it was president obama they were here for they think they're here for the white house that's all they've been talking about saying obama but. i guess that we're not trying to let them understand it's a struggle shared by everyone here in varying degrees we've been having struggles

with paying our bills we had to take our son out of private school and i'm actually doing it for my dad he can't come here. when my family members pass away and that's why we got we also. went over a thousand miles hard and started a last hope in an economy still in peril reporting in washington christine for sound r.t. . so microblog to believe thousands are simply rejected from president obama's mortgage aid program because the bugs some goats too much say and who qualifies. i was in atlanta with the naacp. foreclosure effort there to try to help people and all twenty five thousand people showed up the men showing up around the country precisely because the government programs are not working something like five hundred thousand people have been thrown off the government program because they don't meet various criteria as a consequence only

a small relatively small percentage of those facing foreclosure are being helped at all and when we say helped means that their mortgages are modified either the interest level is reduced or the in some way the terms of payment are made more affordable for people but by and large the services so-called mortgage services who work with the banks are really controlling the process the government is not imposing rules here they're not really offering debt relief to people as they do to people in other countries so we have a situation where the foreclosure crisis could lead to a million new foreclosures this year have your say on that story on our home page also our you tube channel now ahead this hour still president mahmoud ahmadinejad claims the rand has a new adversary to fend off find out who it is later this hour. roaring engines and hard rock music shaking the ukrainian city of sevastopol as an annual

international bike show gets into gear there this year's festival had an expected guest revving up the action. for us. one thing can be said for certain about the russian prime minister he certainly knows how to make an entrance arriving at the bike show that is taking place in the ukrainian region of the crimea just outside of the ukrainian city of so us open the russian prime minister made his entrance like all of the other people here did on a bike admittedly it was the first time that he was seen any public on a motorcycle and he speaking to the crowds here later said that it was an experience that he very much enjoyed specifically because of course the bike is very much associated with freedom and the free journey that most bikers do experience when they take to the roads and of course everybody here very excited to hear that they greeted with cheers they everything reacted responded to everything that he said all of the wishes that he bestowed upon him and thanked them for

inviting him to this very event this annual event that takes place in the ukrainian region of the crimea. is the most democratic means of transport there are of course. today but on the whole banks of widely available and it's possible to say you soon. has the most courageous adventurous and the fastest means of transport and what's most important it gives the owner of the bike the sweet feeling of freedom so without any exaggeration we could say that the bike is a symbol of freedom. every year bikers from around the world gather here driving down to spend a few days in the crimean sun by the lake just have some fun enjoy each other's company and this year was and it was one of those who shared that freedom and that joy with them of course in this speech he touched upon many prominent issues of

course thanking first of all the ukrainian government for making such a thing as the bike show possible and making it a possibility to happen of course congratulating everybody not only with this event but with the up. coming day of the russian navy which the craniums and the russians according to a budget which they will be celebrating together of course the russian black sea fleet is stationed just a few kilometers away from here on the black sea in the city of sevastopol and if you wish maybe a parade is scheduled to take place on sunday morning so a great event most of the people here will actually move over to the city of sevastopol to watch the parade to take part in the festivities all in all a very happy occasion that he met with and making his mark left just the way he came on a bike. but no matter how much russia's prime minister enjoyed his day in the saddle the sunglasses you know in black look in a way for more sober target later is he going to business with ukraine's president the leaders met for talks on the latest show if he ever improving relations between

the two countries towards the prime minister also met with journalists following his trip on the subject with interested the media the most the didn't putin is meeting with the spies involved in the recent scandal between russia and the us. what did you talk about with them. people say you sang karaoke with them. we did sing but it was in karaoke strictly music what songs. was song from a soviet spy movie i'm not joking i'm serious we sang similar songs. was an attachment at the meeting she was there yes because what will these people do you know in russia. they'll work i'm sure they will get good jobs and have interesting lives. in a few minutes seeking inspiration from the installation. project

we've been taking a walk on the wild side and finding out how. to get that nature and. we certainly will but before that iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has accused russia's president of turning against iran and joining the u.s. to spread lies about its nuclear program did as he had also insisted to iran wants to continue its friendship with moscow russia joined its western allies last month in imposing additional sanctions against iran for failing to disclose the full content of its atomic program. from the moscow state university believe with his latest statement the iranian president simply trying to score points with the radical population of the country. i think that behind such aggressive rhetoric there is a desire to unite the section of the iranian society he relies on this section is not conservative but rather militaristic and i'm a dinner doesn't reject any tools to reach his goals he blames western countries russia he blames some arabic countries for conspiring against the islamic republic

but the next time he could say that everything's fine in relations with his partners. for several years i'm a degenerate has been using the same tactics of aggressive rhetoric and despite all the protests on the streets of tehran he is still in power but the methods he uses in foreign policy help him to stay in office. we're in the stone year so for the highest gender pay gap in the entire european union the latest survey says they earn an average of thirty percent less than their male counterparts and with most politicians turning a blind eye to the problem women are often scared to speak out against inequality. today the sun is shining on olga it's a break from her hard working life earning money to raise her son but as a single mom she has to swear to town to the factory just to bring in a meager pay packet just that it's thirty three degrees celsius in their workshop but our employees don't care if you try to stand up for your rights they'll point

you to the door if you don't like it here you're free to leave it's very hard to find a job here in a still when you're there for put up with working in slave like conditions but still only has one of europe's worst pay gaps between men and women studies say women get paid seventeen percent less than men on average but in a stone year it's as much as thirty percent people think that we don't have the problem instead there is there where ness of the problem and and the problem that people don't have their gender lenses how to say to see when there is an inequality going on. it goes much further than wages so-called segregation in the economy means women often remain in lower paid jobs like health care and education while men dominate the more lucrative private sector experts say that's not just infer that it's bad for business if for example a concrete to woman feels that she can i do the job or cannot take up the career

that she would lie and she she has a talent for that and of course this is some human resource loss to their connolly there also appears to be an ethnic dimension but there certainly is a large russian minority receiving lower paid and there is stony and counterparts and ethnic russian women come out. bottom of the list it's a structural issue in the labor market. that. russian speaking we mean the they are perhaps working in the sectors where the pages where the wages are especially low and this where of course increase. the pay gap even more whether it's over at the city or gender stereotypes that have been identified as one of the root causes of inequality in green latitudes of what to seen as the proper roles mon women should perform a passed down through generations the government says it's trying to weed them out

but it's going to take time. i would submit. the problems there is no point of. hiding the problems that your country faces it is a lengthy process and. and the certitude of people to not change overnight are all good though it's simply a case of double standards. i think if our prime minister was peed myself even if he didn't have to pay the utilities i don't think it would last him a week. children and parents are enjoying the summer sun behind me but for many estonian women it's a rare luxury and with gender stereotypes dying hard it could be years before stoning women catch up with their male counterparts tom barton r.t. stonier. a couple of top news stories for you now this hour and fifteen people have been crushed to death stampede at the love parade music festival in the german city of duisburg it happened when police tried to block

a tunnel to prevent overcrowding there despite the situation being described by authorities as chaotic the first of all these continuing it is one of europe's largest techno music events attracting founds from all over the world. north korea's escalated threat in response to the joint us south korean military exercises this week and saying it's prepared to use a nuclear deterrent it's the latest in a series of threats from the isolated nation following an international report blaming the north the sinking a southern warship in march something strongly lives china criticized the planned war games warning against any action which might exacerbate tensions. here in russia and international landscape design festival is taking place for the fifth time in the center of the country the event brings together designers and architects from around the world to exchange ideas and inspire each other to even greater achievements that's the plan anyway sarah firth took a view of the world through inspiration. all these this installation set

a hair the landscape projects first of all quite fascinating all made from natural materials as he pointed out the one just behind me here the sort of like structure is one of those completely made of wood and able to have people go up and look at it and get involved with that other thing quite a few years to out the festival we've also it's the fifth year that it's been running say there's a section of the shows all the old installations say people can come and have a look at some of the installations from the previous years and then the ones from this here as well spread out now it's got a strong environmental feeling that the artists are focusing on and he better to explain their artistic vision than the arts themselves who can hear from the know what that is worth from my installation it's called the temple of water the meaning that we receive water from the drain pipes and from the earth we've got this water mixed in the best so when we take a bath we wash ourselves and then there is water at the same time but. we will have

to use projects cooled peat this labyrinth is made from and supposed to reflect the spiral path of the human being so you can try to go through this doorway look at the end you drop into the piece which reflects a crisis in your life then you are supposed to get out of the peat and more leaving the library you feel like you've resolved the crisis in your life because architects also involved in this project lots of the installations textural structures another actual curator of this first of all the killer is an extremely famous russian artist he was a pioneer of russian video arts and an extremely high caliber of art as an architect steve contributed to this event giving know people the chance to come and see these arts and architects concepts try and understand some of the things and just explore and have a bit of fun we've been looking around in the certainly plenty on the show you have plenty of people to do you all the installation and correct if you're able to go out and touch them in the case go. behind me actually climb up on to them in the

main candidate itself they have workshops and they have people not thanks on hand to those people in giving lectures as we're about three hours out of the city but it's a two day event so still plenty of time for people wishing to get a bit of sunshine and have the feel of and coach it's coming down. well i think i look at it by you watching out up next the nato military committee chairman says their lives views moscow as a strong strategic partner not a threat or an enemy watch our interview with. his recent visit to moscow in just a few moments.

joining me today. who is the chairman of the nato military committee and as you may know nato was established as an alliance between countries to defend against outside threats the admiral's with me today to talk about the possibilities of a future between russia and nato as well and the direction nato is taking so thank you for joining us admiral good pleasure really a pleasure the first question let's get right down to it anders fogh rasmussen has called on russia to join the new anti-ballistic missile defense project now in your opinion what could make of this an attractive option for russia well i believe

first of all that. and the alliance have a common interest to protect them and. the proof of. destruction and their means of the leaders including ballistic missile is this . this is one of these threats so the reason i believe. in general and interest. to protect themselves from this. i also believe that the meal let's say u.s. approach so-called feast approach to missile defense is also potentially attractive because it's focused on spiral development so looking at the trip as the image which is always been one i think of the classical strong position by russian side we have to take care of the

threat as the amish saw in this progressive approach as the threat to desist from develop this seems to me attractive to russia but we have to be clear here the regional patootie a possibility but still there's a lot of work to pull also the allies the alliance himself is not yet decided if he's going to bargain this you don't cooperate on a such sensitive issue if you don't trust so that's what i think should be attractive to most but we need to develop this we're not there yet we are not there yet we need also in this strategic patience understood now nato's secretary general has mentioned that there is an increasing threat of missiles attacking europe can you specify any of these threats or is there anyone in particular that is singled out in this moment that we're worried about what is clear we know that there is

a generally speaking both looking from russia and also the european aside for the land side is clearly from the south generic and the reason an emerging threat and there is a certain country in the south and we know what we are talking here in particular which can be a matter of a concern so. i think protection the people. of the alliance the old. russian people from a potential potential threat. it is important you mentioned unity there is cooperation now in two thousand and ten between nato and russia do you think that this cooperation is stronger than what has been in the past i think it does have the potential to become stronger because we have gone through a period of difficulty and when you manage it if you manage to good through the

difficulty then if you resist it then. you have and you know the meaning to do it so i think normally when you go to a difficulty and then you emerge other difficulties then there is a much solid base for moving forward now russia's permanent representative at nato has said that there has been a certain lack of unity among the alliance members and that that was sensed at the russian nato council on the subject of partnership with russia do you think that there is anyone actually trying to undermine this partnership between the alliance and moscow or is anyone trying to get in the way of this this newfound friendship now first of all. a matter of dear friend of mine so i can speak very frankly because with a friend whose big bank is sometime you like to. give a touch of

a call or two state and source and i muse color for no i don't think so it is through we are in the middle russia and so we are twenty nine and there are differences and. therefore difference since a t.v. it is but in all true honesty none of the twenty nine i or none of the twenty nine certainly none of the twenty. putting obstacles is it common political sense that we have to try to work together to have a solid relationship this is good for us is good for russia. and i hope we'll be able to see concrete progress in the future now in the past a bone of contention if you will between russia and nato is nato expansion towards the east and recently ukraine has dropped its intentions to try and become a member of nato do you think becoming

a member of nato is becoming less attractive or do you think. what do you see on this front in the future. me i would like to turn you would you say because i don't think is the right way to put it. middle is not and if so and soon he's still going to need to is an organisation of free nation willing to share together certain value and first and foremost the value free democracy they want to protect them and they would stay together across to to say they were planting. the atlantic charter which was written in one nine hundred forty nine well before the open door boys can nearly said we are. not going to. which any european member who share these values in the freely choosing to be part of these alliance it can contribute to the value of the land is welcome so there is nothing to do

with the expansion to the east to the north to south to the west we are an organisation in which any nation willing to abide to these values can we will and when i say any i see any european nation large beak small or medium and even. even very large do you think that do you ever see russia as being a member of nato at some point. i would respond to a question with a question would you i am no i do put my own rides in because they're planning the as thomas friedman said is flat and when he's fled there is no red zone could and as things change who knows what the future will bring thank you very much for taking some time and speaking with us today spose he.

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