bad greca nomics is causing violent spillover into the streets so what does this mean not only for the e.u. but the global economy as well this as some say to us is also showing signs of societal collapse. and one of those science well i probably should go we'll take you to the windy city where it's an example of worse things it's a come. this case between the u.s. and cuba is not fair because her son's cause was very noble and the cuban five sent to the u.s. to prevent terrorism in cuba so why is the man they were launching now receiving

the key to the city of miami all the cuban five are in prison. good evening it's wednesday june fifteenth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you are watching r.t. now as united states lawmakers are trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and also to decide on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which you may recall the u.s. has already blown through in greece it's a different story protesters are taking to the streets in opposition to their government solutions greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they were trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on a new austerity measures austerity measures so that the country can get more bailout cash for of has been on the ground here is a report. the clashes between the police on the protesters still they. say

something else of the state you can head to build a fire in the crowd you can see the destruction of the central area that was built at a time that. people have one thing that was going to go to the game and the police trying to find out that violence still breaking out. still i love the people on the street people touch them but with the castle still they really don't want anyone still that it's been said that the people here. for breaking the plate of people still need the central slaven that you can have a cigar still think such but the place they turned out to be a place to start their i guess about the economic situation has been happening and i told him they would and that we have they really didn't have the protests turned violent till the end but you can see the sales happening.

right at the ferry moment that is that still a chaos on the streets the police all over the place we were licensed. to take out something that's all i can tell you it's not a pleasant experience you absolutely cannot break up the numbers of people who could. really like carry. out people of the state take a crack at it and then the favorite a nazi so. that's why it's not the mike. you can see right there the police leave it close enough to be another round of take up stuff that you can see that happened there. was because you think i'm going to feel nothing that. is something that you still standing right in the. river you stupid ok ok. girl who

they see right now it's very hard to tell because the protests that want to see this show you just love how pretty your defeats right we've got to find it but. you've got to take us ok you got to take us up. all right got the phrase cut. now that's a get the last number these people are actually. the police you can see the good the fight here to focus on the other ones he tried to stop a scumbag. six yes. i did i guess lately guy got right as we say you could see the road. ok got out we see the prices i don't really feel crashing i have the good very hard to really love these people who are provoking did you want to see so because we come to you because right in the middle of it all in the protests in greece in athens that was our chief correspondent sara for on the ground there now well you may not see those violent

mass protests on the streets of washington d.c. in response to the u.s. economic struggles there are signs everywhere of the stress because of this economy while u.s. president barack obama is likely enjoying a not too shabby life at the premier home in america the white house not too far from here what is he left behind in his hometown of chicago where you may be surprised archies anastasio churkin have visited and she discovered that for a while now the city has largely forgotten. chicago at first glance a picture perfect city. what happens when a sneak peek behind a facade and if this postcard the gap between the rich and poor in chicago is extremely visible well off neighborhoods such as this one are just a hop and skip away from places where struggle is dense in the atmosphere. this is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in chicago filled with countless

streets like this one where rows and rows of devastated homes hold thousands of people for whom every single day is a struggle. doesn't live here is whole most people think that is all of chicago and that's gorgeous chicago but there is still an eighty five percent of the city that they haven't seen. one and raised in chicago so much he works several jobs to keep the city falling to its knees is a personal pain for him and this is a neighborhood that was full of factories and industry and once industry died so did this neighborhood a pattern seen in much of illinois in the last decade over two hundred thousand jobs in manufacturing went down the drain life is especially tough for chicago's black community one in three african-american men in their early twenty's unemployed men. overall african-american joblessness in chicago is over twenty percent more than twice the

white rate there is no you know i'm ok with any education you get some people just the way if you can't. get. over on the other side of the tracks with a lot of drugs and a lot of people turn to drugs a lot of a lot of people turn to selling drugs locals explain it's going here to get by robbery is also at a peak. upon a good morning. anyway. for many it's a vicious. circle. having pete for his crimes six months out of jail darryl batts is back where he started fighting for a job the government is. just a simple. thing and they say one thing. what is their heroin use and record high binge drinking chicago holds the top spot in the u.s.

. pantries are working nonstop as hunger intensify supplies are short oh my goodness it's almost a report was unexplainable. increase the demand of food. and because of the economy being the way it is the number of families living in poverty now stands at an astounding forty five percent almost half the population many of those going hungry are kids one in three children in chicago are said to live below the poverty line i'm quite sure they are homeless children ability. staff. over the last year income rates here have dropped by more than ten percent making it harder for entire generations of families to stay afloat. you know too proud to speak about it and start from the kids and it goes all the way up to our seniors you know and they have the same issues from young to old the hometown of

the american president is filled with sorrow that's already too deep to ignore and if that's your target r r t chicago illinois. meanwhile some other men are facing a difficult situation they are known as the cuban five imprisoned serving life sentences in the united states accused of committing espionage conspiracy according to those five though their mission was to stop terrorism against cuba monitoring the actions of miami based terrorism groups actions as guns like men rather like this luis posada could release the man you see there a cia agent some would call him a terrorist though he was accused of bombing several cuban hotels and the mastermind of the downing of a cubit bound flight in one nine hundred seventy six that killed seventy three people yet he runs free in fact he is being celebrated right there you can see the mayor of miami gave him the key to the city while one mother of the cuban five prisoner antonio good atta who are key interviewed is pleading still for her son's

release earlier i spoke with lawyer who they have together he is very familiar with the case of posada because he worked on trying to get that alias extradited to venezuela for the government here's what he said. well that's a question though you really have to ask the united states government the right to refuse to do this but really the united states should do this truth exchange the cuban five growing gross because you see all of this animosity between the two countries is really a relic of the cold war and the cold war is now over it is time to move on president obama has said so in many speeches that he has given and cuba has said as much to prevent child castro has said the same thing and the only way that both countries can move line is for the prisoners of each country to be released and sent back to their native countries i'm sure that until you have a girl's mother who's pleading person mrs embury not you haven't seen him for over

twelve years and i'm sure alan gross his family misses him very much so it's time to just return prisoners and get on with life and that it doesn't act with him very much and there are many claims that they can get on with bogus and that these kids and iran for a connected i want to play her claim her account of why that is but let's listen to a shed. risible the most painful thing was what the judge told my son when she handed down or sentence she said i have no proof i can provide any evidence because i don't have any however i'm finding you guilty regardless because i know you still have the intent of committing the crime even here physically done nothing but you still had the intent of breaking the law. so why do you think that the cuban five were convicted based in prison meanwhile you know that it could really runs free and is celebrated you know in the case of the cuban five they were convicted for conspiracy to commit espionage yet they had no classified documents on them there

was no evidence the tried to get cars without documents it's the only case where folks have been convicted on a conspiracy to commit espionage charges were not classified documents so why do you think that is why are they you know why are they not being treated by it and not being let out why is the united states not budging on this one we're in miami in miami. the rules of life are inversed and you have terrorists live blog every live or feed his heroes in miami given in the big heat of the city of hialeah and other people who should be considered to be heroes people risk their lives which is the cuban five to stop the kind of terrorism that's been waged against cuba for over fifty years from u.s. shores those dogs are in prison and it makes absolutely no sense oh except that for political reasons u.s. politicians are loads to go against the extremist exiles in miami who have

money and political clout i know there are reports that there are quite a lot of quite a powerful lobby very close by for that kind of backing up to what you said that the united states you know despite all of this despite all these may be political cern concerned that they should be released why do you think united states a mission the cold war you mentioned that we're past the cold war you know another country that the united. bates is you know still filing and mending tensions with over the decades is a chorus russia and we start a united states and russia negotiate a swap of events when that whole scandal according to some broke a while back and a slot agent you know the u.s. or russia doesn't like it they negotiate up and not there because there is no comparative political lobby of exiled russians who would oppose it as there is in the case of cuba you don't have a political block because you know it's not just that they have money and political clout it's that miami please approval role in the presidential election need to win

the state of florida if you're going to be nominated president presidents are laws to to go against what so on would think is the prevailing public opinion in miami even though that's a red herring because we know that president obama was elected president didn't carry the state of florida despite the fact that the convincing vote for him so then is it not political perhaps does that have to do with united states perception of being lenient in these kind of hate is a very maybe a fear that leniency is a kind of weakness i think the president and people of this administration need to show that they have the political courage to do what is right is lenient be seen as a sign of weakness for a country like united bridge but you know i don't think it is leniency to exchange prisoners or i think it would be a sign of courage on the part of the president i think people would respond to that

if only for trial. that was lawyer jose pettit the other now it seems that the conflict in libya really has no end in sight we see the white house is telling congress now that president obama has the legal authority to continue to participate in the nato led war in libya even though lawmakers have been our prize did they think you know nato is not really the u.s. is really out war there claim more of a support role regardless it was continuing its efforts to quote protect civilians yet if these efforts that lead to libyan teen to attempt to take her own life rather than live in a war torn country are she correspondent maria for a notion or has more from tripoli. has been we've been has. doctors have been formed in a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me i do do it myself. but who wants to kill the teenager some as they to see to tripoli has been under

constant bombardment by nato forces for three months they have been fooling around the city with a population of around a really no one can ever say when or where the next one would land. this week in the most intensive air raid yet there have been sixty eight slides in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians happen among. the claims have not been independently verified with botham is clear since march nineteenth the life wouldn't really be ins has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new boy my girl told me before that she thought death is

a good thing and i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere i could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately was something terrible this is not fan they told us they want a no fly zone and have a set they were going to bonus he promised to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are a provocateur saddam his father is more precise and it all the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives we'll need our storage wars and always into remains in other countries problems we're tired of war are patient is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it and sometimes that means people here face months more terror from the skies well of nato is supposed to target could duffus military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will

ever recover right national. tripoli. yes the united states continues its involvement in libya however this is a very different kind of involvement than what we've seen in another nation in the region and also deal with unrest off reign after a violent military crackdown in the country against anti-government protesters fast forward to last week the crown prince with in washington meeting with u.s. president barack obama and the secretary of state hillary clinton talking about reform here was the outcome. it is cheaper for both the political and economic fears. and find out we are close with our. indian our brain is the heart very. very important to the united states i do we are supportive. and the kinds of.

important. work that to the crown prince has been doing in his nation. ok however these claims of reforms engaging in dialogue with the opposition which the crown prince and secretary of state clinton were talking about last week come as bahrain is reportedly at the same time sentencing political prisoners to death reports that the government is keeping members of parliament and political opponents in jail denying unfair trials reports that they are being tortured and beaten in jail reports that the government is forcing people to stay home from work not be able to earn a living because they're perceived as possibly being opposition activists does this all sound like reform i don't know or more earlier i spoke with michelle she is the dusky he's director of the center for research on globalization i asked him why the white house is saying that things are moving forward with reform in bahrain while

the reality on the ground appears to sound very different histories that will associate. u.s. puppet state to this these are approved by the white house. trick recruits. but u.s. interventionism who various posts of the world atrocities are committed to. in the war through. withdrawal of all the tribal areas killing civilians. to be. committed historically career. this was the sopranos but you know it was all it's terrorism terrorism in different parts of what it was. presenting the. sort of humanitarian aid which in fact is also very because you do not come to the rescue of civilians will

be true so close friendship. because let's talk about some of the interests in bahrain because as hillary clinton secretary of state clinton made no secret rain is seen as a very important partner and one of the reasons why that is is that there is a naval base there the u.s. fifth fleet is stationed there and from what i hear from bahraini by looking at the construction they believe that the u.s. is expanding its naval base there that that it's growing that they're building upon it and they also say that the united states uses a u.k. air force base in bahrain to fly planes out and use that base so i want to ask you if you see those as being some of the largest interests in the region. well osa loop hole if you look at your political posts to reject.

those is to militarize it's militarizing the entire middle eastern region the persian gulf. there is no exception there is a ploy of us military moet throughout the region. it's those of this process so i think of course with saudi arabia. put this in inflated. we indications although. the saudi arabia is also seen in syria. that's another motion of this. geo political chess board because any kind of terry the so-called you know that there are operations where we will syria where the whole region would bear up eastern mediterranean right through to. the chinese border without god there is so

much at stake and one thing i'm curious do you think how many think yemen is because from what i understand from sources saudi arabia is perceived as having the power to stabilize yemen which is something that the united states obviously has a lot of security concerns with yemen they've reportedly had many concerns over al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based in yemen we saw the united states try to target. the cleric and believed to be in charge of that the western descent and yemen so do you see that as being one of the reasons why the united states is not getting into not intervening in bahrain because bahrain is very important to saudi arabia and saudi arabia does not want and rest there but look at it from a geopolitical perspective you have it is also very important that it's part of a strategy. it was. sort of the route see. because there's a lot of the so-called which.

i suspect the military presence in the region is what what the united states wants this there's. little explored to the regional agenda of the war agenda which no extends from north africa through the middle east right through to central asia where the very process for that was michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization. welcome to the war on our t.v. this is where we get a chance to fire back at some of the criticism that has been hurled against us that we don't quite agree with now one thing that often comes up when people write about our team they like to refer to us as. state run or kremlin propaganda or that sort of thing let's look at a couple of those comments this one comes from global media war as they said our

motto is question more but it's clear who supplies the answers to many of the questions on our key the kremlin all right well just to be quite literal i actually write on my own questions lying so that's not quite the case but that's not the only criticism that has come our way one of my favorites personally came from glenn beck on fox news let's take a listen to what he said a while back r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera could all just be hype to bring down the panthers. parents are probably she's working for the problems of today out for the record our t. isn't state run our she does receive funding from the government but we are editorially independent but that really doesn't stop people from calling a state run at any chance that they seem to get and as a result they dismissed us as we heard on n.p.r. not too long ago here was what the host of on the media said he said though they have the look and feel of maybe d d c or stand

a duck and quacks like a duck doesn't make it a duck. well since they brought up the d.c. let's talk a little bit about the d.c. let's look at how some of these other networks get their funding the b.b.c. broadcast to the world obviously on radio t.v. online providing news and information in thirty two languages how is it funded by a government grant that the world by service and what is their charter representing the u.k. it's nation's regions and communities bringing new cases the world and the world to the u.k. now if you changed out those you know the word u.k. and replaced it with russia you'd have a very similar approach to what the editorial mission is here on our team but you know let's look at and talk about some other international networks to france twenty four is international network mission to cover international current events from a french perspective convey french values and it is wholly owned the bias of video

of the public funded holding company that i can pronounce that out that there let's look at german t.v. joyce well very similar situation and they are set to represent a german viewpoint germany as an independent nation with its roots in european culture and as a liberal democratic constitutional state are basically to represent germany and its budget is made up of funds allocated by the federal government from german tax revenues and you know let's not go so far international let's live here in the united states look at the corporation of public broadcasting if you haven't heard of it let me tell you about it funding for p.b.s. programs comes from it it comes from a variety of sources but one of the corporation for public broadcasting and another is government agencies know the corporation of public broadcasting was created by congress when it declared that developing public media is quote appropriate and important concern to the federal government and by law ninety five percent of its appropriation from the federal government goes to support local television and

radio station programming such as p.b.s. also local radio stations all over the country and must look at what the u.s. is doing abroad let's. look at if we could roll this next graphic that we have the broadcasting board of governors what do they do well they broadcast all over the world fifty nine languages to an estimated weekly audience of one hundred sixty five million people on the radio t.v. the internet other new media this is you know the board of governors is a government agency this is government media and some of their objectives that they've said and how that are to be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the united states and let's look at what their stations are as i mentioned this encompasses all u.s. civilian international broadcasting this includes voice of america radio free europe radio free asia t.v. marti and in the middle east they have radio saw one alpha draw television so all of those broadcast from the u.s. and also another of their goals is the capability to provide a surge capacity to support united states foreign policy objectives during crises

abroad so i know that was kind of a little bit of a lesson but i did think it was necessary to kind of break down what some of these other stations consider their purpose which is very similar to our teas and how a lot of them get their funding which is also very similar to our t. so that if you want to call a state funded fine go ahead but if you're going to call a duck a duck is n.p.r. so eloquently put it in my i want to take a look at the pond we're all swimming in and that's going to do it for now from one of the stories we covered you can go to our tea dot com slash usa you can check out our you tube page too it's youtube dot com slash r t america and you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster and way and i what you thought of my warren on archie segment cause i know a lot of people have comments when we do those so please do and i will see you right back here for more news and commentary shortly.