new finance ministers meet in brussels to consider loosening the bailout plan for struggling economies but you're skeptics say the single currency is broken beyond repair the several euro zone members albro. to these reforms a new national unity government in days after wide so widespread protests that the previous president into exile look at why you're sitting on the development is seen as a key to make because once again. the nature of. the toxic tourist trap claims that nato is dumping poison it including depleted uranium in the toilet adriatic sea with silence for the alliance and the italian government

. dead. you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow six in the morning here welcome to the program euro zone finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss further boosting the e.u. bailout fund which was set up only last year now the european commission and the european central bank want to deepen the fund saying it's currently too small if larger eurozone members like spain it need help well belgium's finance minister did a ranger said the emergency pause should be doubled to one point five trillion euros however germany has so far ruled out any substantial increase reflecting major tensions in the union godfrey blue member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the bailout won't work because of the scale of debts in the

e.u. . this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people putting serious corners of money into it are the germans calls the germans are getting cross because the whole of the bottom 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 of the broke the portuguese broke the spanish broke the greeks broke the broke playing 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 country 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 simply can't work it isn't working it's floating out like. 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 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 we've got twenty seven members we've got stranded seven different cultures different languages different economies the whole thing is tough enough to be diverse because a few people have this dream of a political unity and a european union project they've stuffed everything into the same paulson it's going wrong it's been going wrong for years well another and more to messerschmitt of denmark says the battle to save the euro by bailing out countries in trouble involves measures never agreed on or even thought of a single currency was created. we can only have a common euro common currency if you have the same financial policy that's also why the commission has suggested or demanded that all of the euro countries now shall have their budgets accepted in brussels before the national parliaments can discuss

the budgets you can only have a common currency if you have a common economic policy that was never promised it was never told before the introduction of the euro that was the first lie now is being demanded to greece portugal ireland italy and so on that they must strengthen their economy they must do whatever is done in germany and those countries who are paying them out well that of course the southern european countries don't want to make that kind of reforms that's why you see the riots in these countries and the germans are fed up paying other people's bills that's why you see the riots there so the solution obviously is simply to stabilise some realities to say we have two different economical zones in the in e.u. so we cannot have one currency we should at least have two different currencies in the euro zone maybe actually sixteen which we have as we had ten years ago. now to nisha has formed a new national unity government to prepare the country for elections just days

after the former president was exiled following widespread violent protests well the new administration led by the prime minister marks the first time the opposition has been given a share in power president ben ali was ousted after twenty three years in office and is now in saudi arabia the country remains tense with some protesters urging revolution to force radical changes in government professor paul gardiner political scientist from the american university of paris says what used to be a relatively stable country buffering europe and africa could now be instability to the whole region. the main problem for most of the middle east countries and islamic countries in general is what i call the youth bulge of the youth a large percentage of young men entering the workforce who don't have opportunities for jobs and this is a problem for pakistan afghanistan throughout much of the middle east it needs more

competition needs more investment it needs some international encouraged but if it doesn't get that then it could simmering it could begin to create fissures in the rest of the region but to these are highly educated they're very westernized they're on the internet the young people all want to identify with europe i really don't see them identifying but if the economy doesn't pick up may see more turning toward towards this if if you can get the new democracy on the move. the italian adriatic coast is a major tourist destination with the seas also a huge source of income for local fishermen but locals say nato is using their waters for other reasons to dump toxic chemicals including depleted uranium well despite increasing illness from eating the local fish and diminishing real life in the area nato and the italian government are not giving many answers 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 enormous 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 thousand nine thousand nine war against serbia including depleted uranium i mean these weapons often contain toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorus. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it has 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 the local ecosystem in that there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in our nets we try and avoid them following the war ninety ninety nine the fish are practically disappeared from a waters the chemicals 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 this fishing co-operative in the seaside town of morphett emporia was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five natives says there are six contaminated areas along the edge or attic coasts but man is claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean the two need to is lying twenty four areas are affected not six the location of these areas have not even be made public the population is being kept in the dark in. his 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 fisherman of still awaiting answers from nato we do everything we will. when. and. following.

that will. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities should be economical with the station for those affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the beautiful water very droughts the coastline where structures from the gulf of venice to the union sea are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for fishermen but looking beneath the waves more than just fish. in the southeast of italy for tea. and still to come this hour breaking the law to stand off for the less fortunate. as the world's most unequal industrialized nation some americans turn to a new form of civil disobedience details coming in a few moments. and an alleged attempt to assassinate the ukrainian president has

been uncovered that's coming up later in the program. well the russian a nuclear agency denies that iran share a 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 by the mere sought me call from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations told r.t. that such an attack is completely unrealistic. this is just a media western media report 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 because ations this is clearly dubious that this a joint effort could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program. who edits a nuclear energy magazine says that while the potential threat should be studied at chernobyl style scenario here today is a fiction. reactors have been improved significantly. by another one so i am not so much concerned that such a scenario could be repeated usually. just cyber terrorists damage. the city but there the same time for sure.

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well for decades americans have turned to civil disobedience as a means of standing up to the system but now instead of citizens american scott in the financial crisis are choosing a more creative tactic as artie's lauren lyster reports it's a more quiet protest that has literally gone underground. the only language. in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we drove on your supposing wanted to say i was just an exam where would science would be 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 made the papers there are no state making the right fit in love with the research call it economic just that they don't see it going on underground. and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organize 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 that resistance here hates were resisting the cost of living is going up and so many ways for all the one of the activists who organizes this form of disobedience most importantly it's in response to an economic system he sees as unfair and taxes are being cut for the wealthy people and their bailouts are very similar. to that of the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's wrong an 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. hers 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 is in the minds of some people at least that has 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 the economic imbalance in the country and what seems in america to be the rising disobedience of modern day they're not going to bill and so this is what will do to there was also lauren lyster r.t. new york nine people have been held in western ukraine for allegedly plotting to assassinate the country's president police swooped on an area where the presidential plane was to take off with a flight subsequently changed artie's alexy ownership scheme is 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. 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 navigation 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 president 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 men 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 the stack and now let's have a look at some other headlines from around the world a former swiss bank has handed over what he says are bank account details of a huge pool of international law makers and celebrities to wiki leaks all the alleges that the documents exposed widespread tax fraud schemes i individuals in the u.s. britain and asia when he returns to switzerland the man will stand trial for stealing back information we can weeks editor in chief julian assange says files will be released to these papers and followed investigators following every view. the polish province of former on there has been a flooded duty of melting snow and overflowing rivers many homes were damaged and roads blocked wall firefighters battled to keep water levels from rising further emergency services are also working to repair blow broken flood barriers and stop the build up of rice ice that is in reverse well the authorities believe the

situation will stabilize soon and they don't expect a further flooding. a ball on a minibus in northwest pakistan has killed all seventeen passengers on board and two people on a second bus nearby ten people were also injured on the second vehicle which was turned over by the fierce explosion the bomb the bus was traveling between cities near one of pakistan's most lawless regions now islamist groups frequently attack civilians and security forces in the northwest where a fifth of the country's terror attacks occurred last year. and now support for far right parties has been increasing in parts of europe by some of the economic crisis . in our interview next. fresh national front about just how far right.

now you're a member of the european parliament what impact do you think that has had on french national identity and the french culture not a positive impact in fact. europe should have been protected against the side effects. but it wasn't the case the borders were kept open or.

flowed. from abroad. a very very negative effect so. do you see the european union as the solution to europe's problems or perhaps more. supposed to be the solution of some of our problems for example to build. a huge. market but is this market was open as i said to globalise men. for example external policy we just follow the united states of america so we do not see the use of european union and also european union is trying to to build a kind of a european superstate each which is not the genius of european civilization europe is a place where has been invented the equal to it the equality equal dignity and cerinthus

of nations and i think we should retain the spot of european culture as a member of a far right party and as a law professor what do you have to say to those who would use violence to pursue their means condemn the violence that is quite clear and we never use violence against anybody against the aliens for in years or ponens very often we are subjected to violence for example against us from the far left although there are people also coming from right and left conservative and progressive in our party were just patreus we would live the french be first in france exactly the russians remain the masters of their own destiny and as a people we absolutely have no sympathy towards this kind of violence even mention of course just now that you want the french to be prominent and for c n n france

and you've also said that you're not extremist you're not anti muslim but you're merely defending your own culture but i have two statements to quote to you one is from your party mate our muslim prayer in french streets is comparable to nazi occupation and another as said by our president russia has come to be a strong state with the largest territory and a powerful economy soley due to the unity and solidarity of its multinational people hence our reaction to any ethnic intolerance. well be absolutely incredible do you believe that president a decision for russia's identity is flawed in some way well i would first censors you if you don't mind as a first question about mrs le pen she didn't say nazi occupation she said. that the occupiers of streets and she mentioned that it was without guns so obviously this

is progress see. which is quite natural if we have not enough french people and people from abroad and mainly from muslim africa trying to get a better life in our country they have in their home country i can understand that but i think we have the right to change its policy and to keep millions of people abroad and to try to help them in their own country and to remain masters of just ask mr medvedev i would not like to teach mr president medvedev award to russian nation ease perfectly agrees that there should be no discrimination according to race or to a region that is quite clear but it seems to me that there is a reason russian culture which. like very much which is mainly slavek which is mainly a christian and russian culture says russian people in a way is very huge territory due to the secretaries of. discoverers in history and that can be. the people if the

russian. not enough children for example to success themselves they were charged with denying existence of crimes against humanity in two thousand and seven and yet as you said yourself rewriting history has proven divisive and counterproductive in european history why persist with the genitive you have been. found hundred percent innocent by the. court of cassation the supreme court of our country so why why did that matter arise why were you. charged with anything i was charged because it is usual for rick to assimulate patry arts to nat c's and as you have been in the company school for seventeen years you know that better better than i do it is the usual wrestler weeks of our open ends to wrongly

assuming the treaties defending national interest was a kind of being complacent to fascism and that is which is an obvious lie and i seems quite clear now for ninety percent of people in france now it's also happened in our country i think there's a very thin line between patriotism and nationalism and neo nazis me even perhaps so many people who want to use it to their advantage will do so how how does one prevent how do you keep the lying that we're it's quite clear we just defend our national identity our patriotism even naturally since one has nothing to do use our gratian to any other country nor to any of their people and i would go even further by defending all national identity against globalise we perfectly understand people who do so seen and many of them including not only in europe but also in africa and in asia understand and dissent that don't follow and

think that in the front arsenal of been the. forefront of this defense from what you've said i understand that you agree that holocaust denial is a crime do not deny holocaust but i just think that history should historical discussion should be absolutely free as many intellectuals from right or left as in discussion about this period should be one hundred percent free also because the laws about that in france were made by committees to you know and companies themselves there are many things to. yes to agree to do it to be criticised and i think they wanted to prevent this kind of free approach i mean favor of freedom nothing yet.

repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian aid. buses shady officials all get the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan on the dollar. on the. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just. sixty to seventy percent of what i did

as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was to do with the turds doing what we call making our presence felt to go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner invade another. religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb and kill. a thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until a few you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid to hear a religious jew calling another jew and not the way they really didn't. think.