you're watching r.t. live from central moscow thank you for joining us and now for a top story 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 program has failed them and the spot to talk of an end to the financial crisis more than a three hundred thousand homes are still repossessed every month in the u.s. . these are the faces behind the crisis we're waiting and hoping and praying to but we can decide to help everybody really help you know to help and that's where we live before you know the desperate voices of those who have reached the end of the line or am i too am what time nine thirty nine thirty last night when did you sleep here yeah. 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 all the way put on by the neighborhood assistance corporation of america earth 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 and that rates just keep going up and it's this and believable not the targets people with nowhere else to turn my more dish basically is out of reach so i'm actually. choosing whether to keep or pay mortgage. so there are also targets studios 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 re president obama wants to pretend that. 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 the struggle

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 come here. when my family members pass away and that's why we've. lost income in our mortgage went over a thousand miles higher than it started a last hope in an economy still in peril reporting in washington christine for sound r t. filmmaker and blogger danny schechter believes thousands are simply rejected from president obama's mortgage aid program as the banks have too much say on who qualifies. i was in atlanta with a not. for closure effort to try to help people and twenty five thousand people showed up there they've been 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. in some way the terms of payment are made more affordable for people but by and large the services the 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 and there's plenty more coming your way on our t.v. this hour. president mahmoud ahmadinejad claims iran has a new look for a story to fend off find out who it is and later at this hour. but

first a roaring engines and hard rock music are shaking the ukrainian city of sevastopol as an annual international wide show gets into gear this year's festival however had an unexpected guest revving up the action artie's got that he now is out of all was there 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 sevastopol the russian prime minister made his entrance like all of the other people here get on a bike a bit earlier wasn't the first time that he was seen any public on a motorcycle and. that it was an experience that very much enjoyed the sense that we because of course that is very much associated with freedom and the free journey that most bikers do experience when they take to the road and of course everybody here very excited to hear that they created it here they at least reacted in

response to everything that he said all of the wishes that ana and thank them for inviting him to this great 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 o'mahony bikes and widely available and it's. just silly and if. so most important gives the owner. a sweet feeling afraid so without any exaggeration we could openly say that the bank is a symbol of freedom. everything is like this. world you're driving down to spend a few days in the crimea and so on by the lake just have some fun enjoy each other's company and this. was one of those that freedom and that joy with that of

course in the city she touched upon many prominent issues of course thank you and first of all be great in the government you for making such a thing as the bike show were possible and make it work for us ability to happen of course congratulating everybody not only with this event but with the up. day of the russian navy which the craniums and the russians according to whether it 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 maybe a raid 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 sabbatical to watch great to take part in the festivities all in all a very happy occasion but you know what's in it making his mark on the left just the way it came on a bike. but no matter how much russia's prime minister enjoyed his day in the saddle the sunglasses and all in black made way for more sober atar as bloody mayor

puts him got down to business review crane's president the leaders met for talks in the latest show of the ever improving relations between the two countries and afterwards the prime minister also met up with a journalist following his trip and the subject that interests of the new media the most are putin's meeting with the spies involved with the recent scandal between russia and the u.s. . yes. what did you talk about with them. you will see you sing karaoke with them given we did sing but it wasn't karaoke strictly music what songs. a song from a soviet spy movie i'm not joking i'm serious we sang. on the beach was an achievement at the meeting she was there yes because the way what will these people do you know in russia. will work i'm sure they will get good jobs and have interesting. and in

a few minutes seeking inspiration from the installations. that will be breaking almost on the wild side finding out. but first a rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad has accused russia's president of turning against tehran and joining the u.s. to spread lies about its nuclear program and we did the job also insisted that tehran wants to continue with friendship with moscow russia joined its western allies last month in imposing additional sanctions against iran for failure to disclose the content of the atomic program you need to sell from moscow state university with this latest statement that the iranian president is simply trying to score points with the radical population of the country. i think that behind such aggressive rhetoric there is

a medina judd's desire to unite the section of the iranian society he relies on this section is not conservative but rather militaristic. doesn't reject any to reach his goal because he blames western countries russia. 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 going to have 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 helps him to stay in office because. women in estonia suffer the highest gender pay gap in the entire european union the latest survey says that 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. it's a break from a hard working life learning money to raise her son but as a single mom she has to sweat it out in a factory just to bring in a meager paper. just to put it it's thirty three degrees celsius in the workshop but our employers 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 and therefore put up with working in slave like conditions estonia has one of europe's worst pay gaps between men and women the studies say women get paid seventeen percent less than men on average but in the stonier it's as much as thirty percent people think that we don't have the problem. there where the problem . and the problem that people don't have their gender lenses how to say to see when there is an equality 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 a woman feels that she cannot 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 cause there also appears to be an ethnic dimension with a soon as large russian minority receiving low pay the merest ternium counterparts and ethnic russian women come out bottom of the list it's a structural a show in the labor market. that. a russian speaking we mean the they are perhaps working in the sectors where the pages where the wages are especially low and this will of course increase. the pay gap even more

whether it's in a city or gender if stereotypes are to be identified as one of the root causes of inequality ingrained attitudes of what to see as the proper roles mon women should be a passed down through generations the government says it's trying to weed them out but it's going to take time. i want to meet. the problems there is no point of. hiding the problems that your country faces it is a lengthy process and. and these attitudes 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 paid my salary even if he didn't have to pay the you. i don't think it would last week. children and parents are enjoying the summer sun behind me but for many a study in 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. and now a quick look at other stories making headlines around the world german police say at least eighteen people have been crushed to death in a stampede at the love parade music festival in the german city of duesberg it happened when police tried to block a tunnel to prevent overcrowding despite the situation being described by authorities as chaotic the festival continued its one of europe's largest techno music events attracting fans from all over the world. the u.s. and south korea have started large scale naval war games in the sea of japan earlier and more through your want that it was prepared to use its nuclear deterrent to stop the military exercises this is the latest in a series of threats from the communist nation and tension between the north and the south intensified recently over a report that blamed the pyongyang for sinking

a southern warship in march. ships have been returning to continue operations on a blown out all well in the gulf of mexico earlier tropical storm bonnie had forced crews to leave the area it's estimated that the dewey has put back efforts to drill a relief well up to ten days in april the deepwater horizon rig exploded causing the largest ecological disaster in u.s. history. and international landscape design festival is taking place for the fifth time in central russia the event brings together designers and architects from around the world so exchange ideas that inspire each other to even greater achievements sarraf earth one to seek inspiration. all these this installation so the hair the landscape projects first of all quite fascinating all made from natural materials as you 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 but now there's been quite a few yes through out the festival we've also it's the fifth year that it's been running so there's a section of the shows all the old installation say people can come and have a look at some of the installations from the previous years and then the ones from this year as well spread out now it's got a strong foreign mental thing that the artists are focusing on. better to explain the artistic vision than the arts and selves who can hear from the know what that is worth from my installation it's called the temple of water the meaning. water from the drain pipes and from the we've got this water mixed in there so when we take a bath we wash ourselves in the heavens and then there is water at the same time the right. projects cool. this labyrinth is made from and supposed to reflect the. human being so you can try to go through this far away. and you drop

into the piece which reflects crisis in your life then you are supposed to get out of that and more leaving the library you feel like you've been sold a crisis in your home because architects also involved in this project lots of the installations touches structures another actual curator of this first of all the killer is an extremely famous russian artist he was a pioneer version of video arts and an extremely high caliber of artists not contributed to this event giving no people the chance to come and see these arts not text concerts trying to understand some of the things and just explore and have a bit of foam we've been looking around the certainly plenty on earth so you have plenty of people to do all the installations and collect if you're able to touch them in the case go. behind me actually climb up. in the main candidate itself they have workshops and they have people just not thanks on hand to those people in giving lectures he has learned about three hours out of the city but it's

a two day event there's still plenty of time for people wishing to get a bit of sunshine and have the feel of in coach it's coming down. and up next the nato military committee chairman says the alliance is moscow as a strong strategic partner and not a threat or an enemy watch our interview with admiral. during his visit to moscow and that's just in a few moments. joining

me today is. 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 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 and 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 they have

a common interest to protect them. the proof. of a poem of destruction and their means of delivery including ballistic missile is this is one of these threats so there is i believe in general and interest. to protect them 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 target to desist and

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 a sensitive issue if you don't trust so that's what i think should be attractive to both but we need to develop this we are not there yet we are not there yet we need also in this strategic patience understood now nato secretary general has mentioned that there is an increasing threat of missiles attacking europe can you specify any of these threats or is there any one in particular that is singled out to 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 in particular which can be a matter of a concern so. i think protection the people. of the alliance but also. 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 he did so 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 reached it then. you have and you know the munition to do it so i think normally when you go through 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's 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 is anyone trying to get in the way of this this newfound friendship now first of all. and that's a real good thing is a dear friend of mine so i can speak very frankly because with a friend used be frank is some time you like to. give a touch of a call or two statements or stand and he's calling for no i don't think so it is

through we are in there to meet the russia council we are twenty nine hundred different. we are four different 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 geo 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 near 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 a less attractive or do you think. what do you see on this front in the future.

i mean i would like to cheer 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 it was through to be a close to to save the planet. the atlantic charter which was written in one thousand forty nine well before the open door points clearly said we are. not going to lines in 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 the us 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 into may arise and because they're planning this as thomas friedman said is flat and when he's fled there's no rising and as things change who knows what the future will bring thank you very much for taking some time and speaking with us today i spoke a. few

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