no as an approaching a believer. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the former sleepy empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have fallen bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are flocking or the noise is our north usually doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here are to

provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know thing else you get everything you need. debt crisis and a fresh round of bailouts in europe costs a shadow over the future of the eurozone forcing a rethinking nation see what had been desperate to join up. centralizing power and stifling crops and cold voice spied me to be made to fear at the international economic forum in st petersburg during me i mused and now wait for more details in just a moment. the e.u. plans a third set of tougher sanctions against syria but some experts warn it could pay for it to be a start intervention. and the future of chinese college graduates as an increase to university leavers foresees millions without jobs into the life with the end.

are you watching our team work well and much more twenty four hours a day and carried off. greece's new finance minister is getting down to work by describing his job as a real war he needs to convince angry greeks to face more austerity cuts to secure more bailout billions from europe but the countries like turkey have been trying to become part of the e.u. for years the financial woes are slowly weakening arie's of to join up as artist tom barton points if you talked about turkey in the e.u. ten years ago turkey's hopes of joining would have been inseparable from joining the euro not any more turkey's attitude in short can be summed up very simply very glad we're not part of the euro right now took on the street seem to have

a wide range of opinions on the euro but their countries doorstep with europe's economy is worse now turkey's is improving turkey is improving in all fields but europe is going backwards so we don't need them. to fish people are using the year as an investment to earn money here is a more reliable and turkish money people don't want to save their money in the. few invest in euros you get more than the euro is also stronger than dollars having said that i don't want to risk investing. but academics analyzing public opinion have found a common logic in decisions about the euro people polled don't care about wider economics but about their own personal finances so much economy is actually. important factors that make euro skeptic or euro file the public opinion analysts a keen to point out that further economic integration into europe doesn't just mean money and that people shouldn't only think about their pocketbook economics they

have to take into account the freedom of movement of labor the freedom of service you know service these are all integrated any other so it's not only you know exchange of money or turks living. thing. one thing everyone does agree on is the mess the eurozone is in whereas turkey's economy grew nine percent last year and over ten percent in the first quarter of this year europe especially southern europe has come to the point of catastrophe because of excessive borrowing greece has so far been the worst hit send others economic disasters have meant appeals for bailouts this makes it difficult for national governments to defend. personally pouring more money into the coffers of irresponsible or inefficient members within creasing tension in need you or economic mismanagement some forsee

big problems ahead because army corp. based on a single currency in europe. is. going to be history in the near future meaning that turkey will likely remain an independent trader for some time to come turkey's markets are famous to tourists and traders alike taking that mercantile spirit to europe one seemed like a good idea but with all the riches here and not in europe no longer seems like such a profitable move tom barton r.t. istanbul turkey but as the euro zone's debt burden shows that will sign of abating new members that decided to stick to their own national currencies are breathing a sigh of relief that's the view of yourself editor of german newspaper design. those european nations that are not the you're much stronger. because

there's the right thing. there's no way we can avoid a default it will have to be done. with by the european community everybody together if the greeks leave. that is like you know like destroying a minor. league of weight into this is some but if you want to be truly cool economic you know. things like an economist i think us trust the best solution because. once you know you have devalue and once you can do that once your value you can retain your competitiveness on the international market this after all is the example of argentina average broke out of the monetary union with the u.s. dollar that's the beauty of. the states dominant role in the russian economy and corruption threatening the nation's development president medvedev has been

outlining his vision of the future epicenter international economic forum he says major political will is needed to force an overhaul and he said no way that the st petersburg event. well there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president medvedev knows that became very clear and has for real with his whole term as president that he thinks modernization is the way to go into the future with russia he clearly outlined all of the obstacles that the country is facing first let's take a listen to what he had to say about modernization of the whole process and it's called. at the studios my choice is not only a major green you'll have outdated elements in the economy but all public institutions used we need to hesitate to say sorry about many bad habits we can focus only on the step by step development question that would be a mistake would be which we should focus on the following improvement over the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions creation of police

and other security forces the improvement of the effectiveness of the jurisdiction system and finally the modernization of government employing modern approaches and the centralizing power. of course one of those bad habits so to say as the president phrased it that he was talking about was corruption it's no secret that corruption is widespread unless of course in many other emerging economies it's widespread as well the president clearly wants to fight it this is the warning he had for us and of himself that our corrupt. noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be coincident and the whole of russia agrees with this without exception which corruption is very difficult to deal with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way for that purpose we should enhance the way those suspected of corruption are dismissed from public service he will continue our coverage as the world's modern innovator as his executive world leaders gather to face the

challenges facing the modern world and of course you. are there today our special edition of r.t. is on the money people develop talks to people attending this it is but for about what lies ahead for business in russia. sixteen more people have been killed in syria as mass protests continue the e.u. is planning a third round of sanctions against the regime of president assad of its deadly crackdown on demonstrations but antiwar activist brian becker says the sanctions are only the first step towards a wider intervention the you if it adopts these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally ask a lady in the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we when libya where one step leads to another step there climbing the escalation ladder they have a very sort of selective concern for the lives of protesters and democracy

movements or movements that call themselves democracy movements you take bahrain they're they're they're condoning the crackdown on peaceful protesters i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by the united states and also in principally by. france and the u.k. for regime change and i think they see this growing protest movement in the possible slippage of the country in the direction of civil war as an opportunity to overthrow what has been considered to be independent government in syria the middle east expert and blogger told r.t. that america's policies in the region have shown its priority to be due political interests rather than the interests of the public. all the talk of exporting democracy and all that sort of preaching to the rest of the world i find is highly inconsistent and it's hypocritical and in the case of syria in particular i think

the u.s. is caught between wanting to be active but at same time mortified by what the alternative would be in syria which in my view is completely unjustified it's not necessarily going to turn into a fundamentalist islamic states or anything like that what we are seeing there are real aspirations for freedom and democracy and the u.s. was could have been if you like played a more consistent role in foreign policy hasn't done. also any sort of intervention there we're doing now which is based purely on this desire for stability is bound to be counterproductive. there's a looming u.s. military intervention in syria has been asking people in the streets of new york they think that there was. you know there was an arab spring maybe america will have its own spring. in the resident which is coming your way. also

ahead. of this russian orthodox church has wandered far from its home i'm john thomas. and coming up on r.t. we explore the world. right here what about your. children the war in the old. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls really first barriers will announce the troops on their way to moscow. susan breathless her dying one by one under suspicious. water. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left

a few simple words very well motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. if. it would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from silence to pressurise. starts on t.v. dot com. china's double digit growth rate during the financial crisis has been the envy of the world and yet many chinese are still not reaping the rewards of an economic boom that

includes the millions of graduates entering the workforce each nips they are becoming part of a phenomenon called ant tribes anymore to explain. despite the global slowdown china's economy is booming and its cities are expanding at a seemingly unstoppable pace as people look to leave their poor rural backgrounds behind in search of the chinese economic miracle and one of the largest groups of people currently moving into china's cities are university graduates like those from this campus in downtown beijing however many are arriving to find their degrees of furtively worthless and the streets are paved with anything but gold these graduates often end up living in the most basic and squalid of conditions and forced to do menial jobs sociologists have dubbed them the ant tribes and there are thought to be more than one hundred thousand living in beijing alone in june chine

is one such ant he shares a twenty square meter room with five other graduates in a former workers dormitory in the north of beijing washing and toilet facilities are shared and there is nowhere for them to cook but it's not just the ants that are suffering for my appearance and sister went through a lot of hardship to save the money that put me through university i studied hard and did part time jobs to support myself you know though all i can find is unskilled part time work so i really feel like i'm letting them in dying. part of the problem is that there are simply too many university graduates now entering the system in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the government began to seriously look at expanding higher education chinese universities were producing eight hundred thirty thousand graduates a year in two thousand and ten that number was six million and it's still growing. and that is on the one hand chinese universities are already in

a weak state we need them weaker with an over rapid expansion so the education received by many of today's graduates has been very poor on the other we have a whole generation who are used to having everything going for them you cannot do anything for themselves he's going to give people like this work. with reports of rioting taking place in some tribal areas the government is now looking to take action measures being discussed include limiting residents permits to skilled professionals and introducing electronic id cards for outsiders without a stable job however with the number of graduates entering the workforce set to continue rising there seems little hope in sight for china's and tribes and remorse and r.t. beijing. runs out lawmakers are demanding that president obama complies with the constitution so

that roving reporter the resident hit the streets of new york to find out what people there think of the growing u.s. military presence around the world. we're number one in the world are we here in usa house to show the world we can still do it even though you're going to be some of the best we can have we can still do it why is that so important to be number one has to be the house to be one no one better be as we think about. the americans as being some kind of. world police you know even get out your ass stick yes you don't think there's any altieri motive. no oil interest no economic interest no i don't know what do we want to accomplish that. just the safety of the people to which the money and the lives of the young people did you think this is maybe another reason that we're doing it of course one reason only zero or whatever

reason i don't think it's logical i don't think it makes any sense but i think there's a big disconnect between what people in government are thinking and what they think we want and what we're letting them know that we once. and maybe our priorities just aren't the same so you have all these countries in the middle east where the people are standing up against their government why aren't people in the u.s. standing up against their government saying hey bring our troops home i'd like to think that one day that will happen you know there was an arab spring maybe the america will have its own spring no matter how you feel about the imperialism of the united states the bottom line and let's face it it's not going to stop anytime soon. as the u.s. economy groans under the weight of its debt but unemployment continues to rise means that in cities like chicago it's boom time for crime and drug dealers. chicago at first glance a picture perfect city. good morning happens with

a sneak peek behind a facade and a flip of 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. born and raised in chicago sought to work several jobs to keep up 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 with one in three african-american men in their early twenty's unemployed men like chris. overall african-american joblessness in chicago is over twenty percent more than twice the white rate there is no jobs you know i don't care what any education you get some people just tell me if you can i mean anything. over on the other side of the tracks a lot of drugs and a lot of people are turning to drugs a lot of a lot of people turn to selling drugs locals explain it's done here to get by for many it's a vicious circle. having paid for his crimes six months out of jail darryl batts is back where he started fighting for a job. but the government is always short. just

a simple. lip service that's what they. say and they say one thing when it. is not the what is their heroin use and record high binge drinking chicago bulls the top spot in the u.s. . food pantries are working nonstop as hunger intensifies but supplies are short my goodness it's almost to the point where it's unexplainable what is. an increase of the demand of food for hunger in chicago 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 so embarrassed or you know too proud to speak about it is starts 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. r t chicago illinois. some other news from around the world. south korean soldiers fought at the passenger jets after mistaking it for a north korean military plane and supported a short and easy on it plane which had more than one hundred passengers on board no harm was done to the aircraft and a to see incident highlighting the ongoing tension on the border between the two koreas. libya's prime minister says his government has helped talks with rebels as were the night those who accuse nato of escalating violence in the country fresh air raids. explosions and tripoli thousands of colonel gadhafi supporters have staged that in the week to be the biggest since then. gratian began. and huge wave of flooding in

china has killed more than one hundred people and forced at least half a meter lovers to flee central and southern areas of the country are on the highest state of alert troops call they knew to be a definite. said to be the worst in fifty years was caused by tarantula rains weather forecasters were due to continue for another week. how we continue our journey to the coldest continent on earth on talk to you magine that dealing with a fierce climate there the of the futon for religion he's discovered that isn't the case during a visit to the southernmost russian orthodox church the planet. so. perched atop a picture ask a rocky hill overlooking the sea so it's a typical and a tiny russian orthodox church so this scene looks like it could be taken right out of a siberian picture book think again. at the world this is important so far this is the only antarctic station that has

a russian orthodox church. in fact the trinity church is the southernmost russian orthodox church on the planet and getting it here was not an easy operation. in two thousand and two they built the temple from the cedar tree and the church was built and it sat there for a while until the end of two thousand and three they numbered all the parts every beam was disassembled and they transported it to kaliningrad from there it was shipped all the way here to antarctica since february fifteenth two thousand and four the church has been officially up and running with the orthodox church providing a staff of two specially trained monks each year but given the extreme climate in which they operate they face extreme challenges as well. because the conditions in antarctica are unusual with strong winds we need to hold back the power of the wind with strong tight walls and special chang's sometimes the rain here comes out as horizontally with the wind so that the water is not is coming through the cracks

but also it can climb up puts to leak inside. now trinity church has become a sort of antarctica landmark even becoming somewhat of a tourist destination for v.i.p.'s and diplomats. no matter who visits this church they always say it's beautiful it's a remarkable church made out of boudin a russian architectural tradition. more than just a popular tourist destination the building station on king george island is an orthodox church and it's a fully functioning facility even performing rare matrimonial honors for those. of michelle and. i came here for a long stay sixteen months and i had no idea that the. it was a church in russia i was not a frequent visitor to church but here somehow i started to be before i left russia i promise atlanta that i'll bring her here i was not sure how but i promised that i would whilst atlanta was still in russia i got the idea why not have our wedding in this church. one of only two couples to have get married here

trinity making their marriage a part of antarctic history. and it's a very good feeling but in reality you don't think that you belong to some exclusive circle because for me at least the most important thing is the marriage itself and the location is secondary but i like this church very much it is very comfortable and you feel very special here the russian tradition in goes back to the very discovery of the continent and according to the russian orthodoxy it is only fitting that there is an official testament to that history. of this church just by its presence speaks volumes for every person not just russian but even for foreigners the presence of a church means a godly presence in antarctica. a presence that they hope will last for generations to come in antarctica sean thomas. in the path of one of the coldest environments

on the planet russia's tourist hot spot our special report in just a few minutes takes you to the pearl of the country's resorts the black sea the intrepid james brown. i'm going to.

be back with a recap of our top stories in just a couple of minutes time existing. one stream cascading from the slopes the view is midsomer.

this beauty brings death at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers. stepping the launch. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper.