the new finance ministers meet in brussels to consider boosting the bailout fund but experts warn no amount of money to help struggling economies will save the euro . also waste in the water claims that a big area of adriatic coast is poisoned by sunken nato weapons spots concerns over a toxic legacy that is endangering people's health. and business update at a later major share swap. russia p.-p. historic deal to join explore the potential energy trenches.

with news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. here in moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour the coastline of the adriatic sea attracts tourists and provides income for fishermen but locals say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has dumped toxic chemicals there including depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by eating the fish caught there diminishing the real life italian government and the alliance remain tight lipped as matthew stevens reports. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a minute she dumping ground ever since world war one nervous amount of weaponry in talks which is present in these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and need a weapons used in the one nine hundred eighty nine war against serbia including depleted uranium munitions these weapons often contain toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorus. and italian investigative journalist spent

years trying to uncover it his secrets johnny landis has received death threats and been attacked this footage by landis reveals some can vessels in toxic waste on the seabed of poor u.s. coast fishermen here say the presence of the nato weapons is seriously affecting their lives and posing a threat to local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in our nets we try and avoid them full in the war ninety ninety nine the fish are practically disappeared from our waters we come across have affected our health too causing skin rashes blood vision and so forth fishermen have had to quit their jobs because of the scarcity of fish but fishing corporative in seaside town are more fit to emporia was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five nato says there are six contaminated areas along their dratted coast but man is claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean tito nature was lying

twenty four areas are affected not six dilatation of these areas have not even be made public and the population is being kept in the dark. has repeated attempts to raise the issue with his defense minister have led to nothing and the legacy of years of military dumping continues to be felt to this day with the local fishermen of still awaiting answers from nato we do everything we. went. in. following. them. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities should be economic conversation for those affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the beautiful water of the adriatic coast line

where stretches from the gulf of venice to the sea are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for italian fishermen but lurking beneath the waves more than just fish match you see. in the southeast of italy. still ahead for you this hour an r.t. breaking the law to help the underprivileged the growing gap between rich and poor in the us is driving some to a new form of civil disobedience details in a few moments. also coming up this hour an alleged attempt to assassinate the ukrainian president has been uncovered that's coming your way at little shortly here on to. the. european union finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the proposal to boost the e.u. bailout fund the e.u. commission says the existing one won't be able to provide a loan if the struggling eurozone members like spain and portugal need help they're ready concerns from germany which is pushing for a more comprehensive approach where for more insight on this story we can now talk

to god. and the hunger for the u.k. independence party thanks very much indeed for joining us here on our team now the german finance minister has actually said he was somewhat surprised by this latest proposal are you. well i can't say that i'm surprised but of course this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people that putting serious qualms of money into it the germans and of course the germans are getting cross because the hole at the bottom of the budget of the bucket so what's actually happening it doesn't matter how much money you put into this huge bailout bucket it's not going to work until somebody seals up the holes at the bottom so i think the german taxpayers are quite right to be fairly shocked at this new development but despite what you say belgium for example proposing to even double the fun to one point five trillion is euros a trillion euros short of that proves that many members of the euro zone of their

to express unity to make sure the euro zone stays buoyant and critics like you quads and it's showing another month of unity and it will survive. wonderful belgium is absolutely broke the broke the portuguese it broke the spanish it broke the greeks it broke the irish the brogue they're all talking up a very good story but at the end of the day there's only anybody in this there's only one person in the game here with any money and it's the germans and so therefore then what has your economic recipe to you saying that obviously the bailout plan isn't working and the euro isn't working so the euro should be ditched by all of the countries in the in the eurozone. what is plain to see that nothing's actually working the only thing that was working at the moment is the german economy and the dutch economy and some of the coal come true is everything else is going badly wrong as i said it would do ten years ago when i was a guest lecturer at cambridge university this whole concept is absolutely absurd you can't have one currency for sixteen or seventeen different economies it simply

can't work it isn't working it's floating out like a deck the whole thing was ridiculous from the start and it's ridiculous now and moreover the more serious note a lot of very small people are going to be hurt by this and i think the people who drove this euro zone project through should be criminally culpable and i would like to see them win this finally breaks probably next year i'd like to see them go to prison but if they. are strong words there but what all the implications of not only people maybe going to prison but what about for the european union itself obviously many of expressed fears that if the euro collapses the eurozone cannot just so does the european union. yes well it's a very silly and absurd organization anyway isn't it we've got twenty seven members we've got twenty seven different cultures different languages different economies the whole thing is totally not to be diverse because a few people have this dream of a political unity in a european union project they've stuffed everything into the same pot and it's going wrong it's been going wrong for years the euro is just

a sort of phenomenon getting worse and worse don't forget the new treaty the new constitution we had was voted down by the french down by the job the british have been given a referendum which they were promised by the main political parties this whole thing is going wrong and it's been an idea of the political class for years and with problems we have now there's a big divergence between the political class the bureaucratic class and the electorate this whole thing has no legitimacy demar democratically whatsoever and so it's breaking up very interesting to hear what you have to say thank you so much godfrey play many people yorkshire one hundred five u.k. independence party for being with us there in strasbourg thank you for your work. well is that the global financial recovery in danger that's the question up for debate in peter develops cross-talk program and the full show is coming your way in twenty minutes from now but in the meantime here's a brief preview. we've all heard of the our

a triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats lobbyists politicians and special interest groups all getting rich at the expense of the american people that should outrage and upset everybody and it happens unfortunately not just in america it happens in europe with the special interest and i worry it is happening in china where you guys they make this evolution to a free market system that's been great hundreds of millions of people having higher living standards and him i just want to come on if he likes it so much so i will create and write him to i do with english i mean that is the way the united states is going on europe is going i mean seriously i think moving may be one of the options. in. the. russian nuclear agency denies that iran's bushehr reactor could be damaged by

a computer virus this follows western newspaper reports that the plant was subject to a sophisticated joint u.s. israeli cyber attack. from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations told r.t. that such an attack is completely unrealistic. this is just the media and media reports hype actually because. of course all the nuclear installations throughout the world have for the so called double systems which actually prevent any. harsh or serious nuclear disaster even if there is a computer warm being in the system so i don't think that there is a major threat to. build atomic power plant. having in mind these computer war western media believe that this is a joint effort taken by israeli america going to say. that the joint efforts could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program.

the editor in chief of nuclear energy publications says although the potential threat should be started a chernobyl style scenario nowadays is in the realm of fiction. since your novel the safety oriya of reactors have been improved significantly in more stuff safety system. by another one so i'm not so much concerned that such a scenario could be repeated usually they are quite well protected and just their cyber terrorists could not damage such a high tech facility but they're the same time for sure this is a new type of threat which should be quiet. by the experts who are responsible for cyber security not on their nuclear power plants but they are there are high tech facilities. civil disobedience has for decades been used in the united states as

a means of resistance now instead of taking to the streets people caught in the center of america's financial crisis but using a rather different tactic is loyalist to reports it's a more quiet protest that has gone underground quite literally. the only language that they understand and showing don't get is that you in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we wish you all moderate protests you're supposing well it's a sad way she's standing somewhere with signs of the civil disobedience but these days with rising inequality and low wages in the us being a pressing issue many researchers and activists are documentation wages are falling cutting benefits for people taking away their pensions there is evidence of a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country maybe not

quite page in the papers there are no statement making the right fit in love with the research college economic just so they don't see it going on underground. and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organized to raise a little money to buy subway cards offering unlimited rides they swipe as many people in as they can to give them a free ride here resistance their rights were resisting the cost of living is going up in so many ways for all the one of the activists who organizes this form of disobedience most importantly it in response to an economic system he sees as unfair and taxes are being carved for wealthy people and their bailouts for a very small. number of the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's wrong un-american sociologist found the subversion of the system going on all over the country but she found these acts among business managers in the middle

class helping out their employees and they really were about the fact that wages for some or all of these were managers who felt as though the people working for them during a jobs being responsible were still unable to take care of their families she found grocery store managers sending bags of food home with were. there is fast food managers padding paychecks with overtime wages she also found most of these managers believe breaking the rules is wrong but these people are saying that there are much bigger problems and ignoring the fact that people who are working very hard for you are unable to feed their children or is in the minds of some people at least others become a bigger wrong in their eyes it's a bigger wrong people are breaking the rules to make right whether it's in all these low income new york neighborhood to neighborhood people who don't really have much of a political voice or whether it's behind the closed office doors of the middle class breaking the rules because of the economic imbalance in the country and what

seems in america to be the rising disobedience of modern day that are going to bail us out this is what will do to yourselves or more and lyster our t. new york. by the way you can always check out our website on dot com for all the news blogs feature stories and many more here's a quick look at what's online for you right now if you're looking for a faster way to get around you might want to check out when to hop across a few more than a slow friendly sailing from wildly to. the most demanding are the freedom for all charges to be pressed against. spying in the u.k. as the russian woman is forced to wait months for a deportation hearing. forty. nine

people have been detained in western ukraine for reportedly plotting the assassination of the country's president the police have descended on the village where the presidential plane was to take off on the flight route was subsequently changed the action came as a result of the police discovery of in a village palace. in kiev with the details. nine men were detained in the western ukrainian city of havana from calls for an alleged assassination attempt of the korean president called which these men identified themselves as members of the radical nationalist organization called the local police reports that in the house which these men were renting just ten kilometers from the airport they managed to find a whole stockpile of weaponry including explosives grenades kalashnikov assault rifles guns and never gave systems and even make up for disguise this according to

the local authorities makes them believe that these men were plotting an assassination attempt of the korean president viktor yanukovych who is now on visit in the west of ukraine along with the parliament speaker of the libyan who was also threatened to be assassinated according to the local authorities experts are now speculating as to whether it was possible for the man to gun down the airplane from the ground because they had no rocket launchers in the stockpile of weaponry only sniper rifles and this is now being discussed whether it was possible to gun a plane down but obviously these threats were taken seriously by the presidential administration and he had to reschedule the flight in the west of ukraine not to suffer this attack. now for a brief look at other major headlines from around the world a former swiss banker is given wiki leaks bank account details of over two thousand rich and famous individuals and corporations

a banker announced that he wanted to expose massive tax evasion schemes in the name of justice he said to fly back to switzerland to stand trial for stealing information from a bank. currently on bail and awaiting an extradition hearing stated that the files will be released to newspapers and fraud investigators. with them poland has been hit by widespread floods as snow and ice overflow rivers many communities were cut off when water covered interstate roads while far fighters worked to prevent water levels from rising services are also working to repair broken flood barriers and break down ice buildup on the rivers authorities believe that the situation will stabilize and do not expect further flooding. israel's defense minister and labor party head he's resigning to form his own political faction his new party which he says will be called independence will be based on centrist zionist and democratic principles his organization increasingly leftist views and lack of political confusion was cited as reasons for the split critics however accuse barak of

corruption of being one of the main factors for the downfall of the once all powerful labor party. unity government headed by the incumbent prime minister to ready the country for elections this comes after violent protesters overthrew the president after a twenty three year rule forcing him to flee the country. tense with protesters urging the revolution to continue in a bid to force radical changes in government. are joined by dr alan bennett he's a professor of international relations and middle east institute york university thanks very much indeed for joining us well such a debility it's so close to europe could europe be affected by this. not really i don't think the european community necessarily will be affected by it but certainly it will. definitely affect the rest of the arab states because this is not something that you can contain only to tunisia because

a similar middle is has infected many of the arab states and the current arab governments are going to have to think hard to prevent similar occurrence in their own country if we do you see something similar happening in other countries obviously we've seen in tunisia or a coalition government being set up but the rest seems to be full from over could we perhaps see religious radicals exploiting the situation there possibly in tunisia and in the other countries you mention if a power vacuum is formed. there is no question you see the problem here is not. a matter of freedom and democracy it's a problem in the internet age and many other arab states is the lack of economic development is a lack of jobs lack of opportunity lack of good education what people need today in government who want to prevent similar occurrence in their own government and

various other states they don't have to focus on economic development in particular sustainable development in order to provide the people with opportunities for job people even a student go to finish their studies by the way when they finish schooling they have no place to go to end up working as vendors this is not going to work. when you have one of the top five. jobs this is a major problem and that's kind of have to be dealt with and i think each leader today in these various countries need to form in my view. for economic council where they would be focusing on economic development and development of infrastructure to provide hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs that is what is going to be necessary then the order for of course we have to move to more and more political reforms but the principle would have to be based on economic development while in the same time ensuring human rights and that's what you really

need as the state you want well i would say over the next five six years do you think you will see exactly what you've just been talking about this new coalition government in. i'm afraid that may not be the necessarily the case when you look at the new coalition government the majority of which still from the old guard from the previous government. doesn't mean it cannot change anything but the question is will they have the will do they have it we'll have the capacity to go and mega necessary changes you know we are living in a terribly different age you know i do still have been able to maintain the domain of government for so long they may not be able to do so because of the technological revolutions today people can connect with one of the facebook linking twitter. information is disseminated in a huge variety and in literally in seconds so they are standing up to rethink their

situation and begin to reconstruct their government is in a manner so that's going to meet the needs of the people but. we should not be starting as the united states and other advocating you have to start with democracy there mark i see an election i'm not going to provide jobs opportunities what you need to do is economic development while focusing on human rights as i said before well thanks very much indeed for your insight into this talk to unbend mia joining us there professor of international relations of middle eastern studies at new york university we appreciate time thank you thank you it's my pleasure. brings you up to date for the moment i'll be back with a recap of the main stories for you seven minutes from now in the meantime schroen is next with the business news. welcome to our business program. b.p. has proposed a swap with rosneft worth around eight billion dollars has been met with approval

by russia's third largest oil company t n k b.p. the partnership will see both the partnership will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's arctic cardinal shelf lot of point to analyst b.p.'s proposed share swap with the us nafta is primarily beneficial for the russian oil giant giving it access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance analysts say the asset swap alone is very clever move by rosneft. earlier i spoke with jacob now chief economic the chief economist for russia and c.i.s. at morgan stanley who explained who the main beneficiaries of the deal will be each partner has to offer the other the opportunity to participate in a free in every piece of business that are involved in russia. but i think that. the russian partners of b.p. into k b p will be happy to see p.p.

shoulder the expense and cost risk of exploration and i think this is she will royce only if they make a significant discovery so do you see anything threatening the deal no i don't not with the support of mr putin mr searchin i think that the deal will continue but down the road an attempt. to participate in the event of success. introject mexico second largest airline has signed a six hundred fifty million dollars deal to buy fifteen sukhoi superjet one hundred planes under the deal introject has the option to purchase five more planes first deliveries are to begin in late two thousand and twelve this is the first delivery contract for russia's new type of super jet airplane airplanes to a latin american country sequoia international a joint venture between russia's to company and italy's alenia antarctica currently has one hundred seventy orders for its new project. and the russian

stock market opened this week with its highest postings on the r.t.s. in my sack since the summer of two thousand and eight the main engine behind the upswing was shares in ross nast on news of a share swap with b.p. both the r.t.s. and my sex close trading up on the day. closed up nearly one and two thirds percent and the my sex close just over one and a half percent. and the russian markets are continuing to perform well in the first weeks of two thousand and eleven monday saw rosneft as the biggest winner after it announced plans to swap shares with b.p. but vladimir's are gifts from phenol investment company said the talk of upcoming i.p.o.'s was also driving the markets. also we can name. was in the first of all it's. called expert the worst song which is. of course here's mine in division in. the pub in the four.

or so exposed. also we should mention the there is a really strong minute for we saw last two weeks. with the funds. like three hundred million dollars which is around seven percent of total emerging markets in flown really looks really strong. and that's all the business for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that started out slash business stay with us.

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