belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half want to split two experts say build gyms already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part of. king albert fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself because he knew all the use skeered the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain were already seeing separatist marchers in mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting pulled to take just one big clash for brussels to become. that conflicts or a must killing suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you can slow via broke up and the determination of regional identity is

not to be underestimated french unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become france's twenty eight region all that's left are the details the new bush will see brussels. well how do you think the belgium's that could influence the whole of europe local and r.t. dot com to vote in our poll. is our countdown of year that's what we're asking so far five percent think the e.u. is strong enough to survive any challenges together however around thirty percent should have disintegrated long ago and seventeen percent believe exessive immigration is the major threat while eighteen percent fear worldwide economic slump could trigger a breakup well why don't you log on to our dot com it's happened. so as to come here and ask. the spy games of two hundred sins china a u.s.

reconnaissance plane from near its borders demanding respect for its territory but washington says the operations will continue. and that stream heat wave across several russian region schools is that wildfires with fears that the smoke filled summer of twenty ten could be repainted. as hypnotic a financial crisis for some is an opportunity for all those with some money in short supply the companies in the west they're taking their operations in dollars to the cheap east pretty sure it looks at how the american financial downturn has been great news for the indian economy. it's the great recession of the twenty first century what started as a collapse in the housing market in the united states has led to unemployment hunger and debt crises around the world and while countries are struggling to protect their interests increasingly western businesses are shifting their work

east to cut costs welcome to guard down a modern suburb of new delhi everywhere you look there offices of american companies it's a sign of the importance the united states has placed on the country during the financial crisis according to rethink the reports american companies have been free production in that country as much as that been fine in the past three year. carrier corporations is a multi-billion dollar american heating and ventilation company they say that over the past decade their business has shifted from being seventy percent u.s. base to just forty percent today removing consciously in that direction so the idea is to have a good balance it's not about being focused on one marketing together but having a good balance and obviously you know emerging markets like india china and asia as such continue to be called areas for us globally. and carrier isn't alone according to the u.s. department of commerce the same number of jobs that have been cut from the united states in the last decade have been added to these companies overseas operations

it's a phenomenon that angers many americans who are struggling to make ends meet i think it's despicable disgusting and we have people here that have worked here all of their lives in a losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible deal are mine dollars to go to stimulate the economy. i think the american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. the thing. and it's not just manufacturing work american i.t. companies and innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in that

part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping other other markets understand you know there are very talented people here who can do a lot of great work and it's not just about outsourcing and it's growth that these american companies don't anticipate will end anytime soon within the markets we have a good old boy from the last forty years almost lost on the u.s. british merely be would like to double the business. confidence not often found among their colleagues in the west preassure either r t new delhi india white house is threatening to veto the republicans plan to put a limit on u.s. debt congress because john boehner is willing to allow a high level of debt but only in return for massive cuts in public spending well that's less than a week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants

to avoid a potentially devastating to fall but president obama that agreeing to the cuts could affect the provision of medical care and social security in the years ahead investor and author jim rogers says the political games are driving the country into a deeper recession. they are not going to do anything serious they're going to announce something either the day before the day of the day after and they're going to say everything is ok but in six months from now a year from now america's going to be in worse shape than it is now they're going to continue to spend and drive us all deeper into debt we've been doing this for forty years it's not going to go anywhere stocking shay's it out you know the dust your lavage is near its all time high what kind of crisis is that when the financial markets are all fat and happy and most people well i mean yes there are people that are better despondent and suffering right now but that's not a crisis america's the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's just getting worse. now uncovering the standards in high finance all of these economic

ties and stacy have it make they raid for cost about where the u.s. financial tensions are heading to watch the kaiser in full next hour per se here's a quick taste for you. but look at these videos to see what america might look like the next the next time the deficit ceiling is hit here's india's parliament you see a nice brawl there. let's turn to the punjab parliament. and then just for a little diversity here max we're going to turn to afghanistan and here's two women busting it out in the floor of the afghan parliament so i think this is the next step they're tea party female mud wrestling with michele bachmann and the other show what's her name with the glasses bachmann and sarah paling i get those two in the mud mud wrestling for votes so i vote for.

president medvedev has awarded the creation of a list of americans who be banned from entering russia it's in response to a u.s. decision to impact travel restrictions on russian officials with links to the death of voice that. he worked for u.k. based financial firm accused of tanks evasion in russia cannot report. according to a source in the russian foreign ministry this list will include american officials were thought told why we had the rights of russian citizens and is moscow's answer to the so-called blacklist previous be enforced by the u.s. state department that list includes dozens of russian officials including some senior police officers agents of the federal security service lawyers doctors and others who the state department believes are willing to sort of you might be excused death and violated his rights all of them or no banned for it from entering the united states because roman says. it's possible to buy the situation since

there are several investigations currently being held looking into the circumstances of money ski's death and this blacklist was again forced before a court could make a decision on them previously the russian foreign ministry also if you speak criticized this blacklist saying that it's an unfriendly act which may negatively affect the trust between the two countries also called it an old type of old school type of tactic to intervene and apply pressure on these investigations and promised an adequate response just to remind you said it was all the lawyer who worked with a large foreign investment fund here in russia he was accused of organizing a huge money laundering scheme was arrested but died in prison before a court could make a decision on his case this caused a huge wave of criticism both in russia and among the international community several separate investigations were started including the one being held by the president's commission on human rights. you can always log on to our web site dot

com for a lot more stories his a look at what's on life at the moment. that the whole pounds debate is heating up with even the threat of fines for flushing a bit too much leg also online to. see who runs in cities are rated among the ten most police it in the world considered even worse the people's health and pension global problems of our website found out more of these stories along with all of all ages videos and blogs. american says it plans to continue reconnaissance missions near china this comes off to teach chinese a fighter jets intercepted a u. two spy plane over taiwan which china claims as its territory beijing has warned

that the move could damage relations with washington china is demanding respect for its territorial sovereignty while the u.s. maintains the air and sea should be open to any country to navigate its all politics the superballs competition for energy says a call on helen from the american base foreign policy in focus think tank. right now the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese or oil eighty percent of chinese energy supplies who've by see that you move through the streets of rome once which is controlled by the american oil emove. which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this they tell us they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy juggler vein and so they're they're very kind of tense and they're concerned about keeping those sea lanes open that's why they

are so. pushy about the south china sea i think that mistake on the part of the chinese a bit is they've been a little overly pushy with some of the smaller countries in the region and that has allowed the united states to get a foot in the door but this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between a number one and the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with bases that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place ok we've got a lot more stories coming your way this hour find out how orthodox religion first appeared in russia. orthodox believers in russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating at thousand and twenty three years since this part of the world adopted orthodox christianity but the choice of the religion may well have been different

joining me from kiev for all the details. as the mercury heads for forty degrees celsius here in the memories that will last long as smoked a cough it's a looming as a data over reports the extreme heat wave has a ready calls an outbreak of wildfires in the region. a whiff of a smoke and moscow is in panic again the toxic cocktail of beat smoke wood smoke and exhaust fumes that filled the capitol last august is still buried in people's memory intense been blocked fires and the record heat waves were blamed for the dense smog that sent pollution levels soaring ten fold and was thought to have contributed to tens of thousands of deaths in the capital the authorities swore they would be prepared this year to find a place like this you don't have to go far from the capital this smoke is familiar to everyone who was in moscow last summer back then doctors said breathing in the

smoke that covered the city was equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every hour now the question on everyone's mind is whether the smog misery is back again peed bones may look harmless with just tiny flames on the surface but in fact every square meter requires a ton of water to extinguish the fire burning deep underground before you get ever wanting it down your small green peas bin of the surface may undermine all our work . the authorities insist the situation is under control and most of the flies in the moscow region have been successfully extinguished however campaign is state officials are under reporting the extent of the problem both around moscow and across the country. and the situation has made it worse by the bureaucrats instead of reacted swiftly it went all the time concealing the information about fires and does make it more difficult to get the bill on time but it would. campaigners say part of the problem is that the forests are being mistreated they say more needs to

be done to prevent fires by better management with summer at its peak remnants of camp fires out all the course of the forest despite a ban introduced a month ago and there's only so much montes can do when i was driving into the forest that in seeing it for during the time when i got there is a huge tax cart at the entrance of the record. heat of summer two thousand and ten resulted in devastating forest fires that killed sixty two people destroyed one hundred ninety nine towns and reduced city two hundred houses to actions. the fire was literally coming towards us we could hear the trees crackling they were burning and then hoosh the wind blew it the other way. this year most of the country's advance well drained and the fires are raging once more large a reserve forest have already been destroyed in russia's far east while parts of the north are already choking on smog and with august still to go to russians from

the capital to the countryside hoop the summer sun won't be as deadly this time. r.t. moscow region. canaille some other international top stories this hour for you and heading for his plane flights but he's forty four for less than three days there the self brain capital seoul flooding has forced thousands from their homes and destroyed many buildings teams of rescue workers and are using heavy machinery and shovels to search for the survivors forecasters predict another twenty five centimeters of rain will fall on friday. israel is it reinforcing the northern border of the occupied golan heights where it meets syria with a one hundred twenty kilometer long a fence eight kilometers have already been built the move comes after last miles all the rest were hundreds of syrian appropriate stimulus protesters stormed the border israel is checking all its contested borders ahead of the u.n. vote in september on the recognition of

a palestinian state. libya's foreign minister has described worthen as decision to recognize the rebels and expel colonel gadhafi as deployment as illegal and irresponsible the british government is also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libya's oil assets to help fund the rebels opposition m.p. m.p.'s campaigner jeremy corbin says the u.k. has an inconsistent policy towards the north african state. what we've done is involved us selves in a civil war between the sensational government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time and incredibly nasty and bloody and there are human rights abuses being reported on both sides including the treatment of african people by the transitional government as well as the treatment for position people by the government to market to reality on reality is a war for regime change and this is now been successful and i think that this is

going to be subject to a lot of legal argument it's a very strange situation all round because britain formally recognized the government of gadhafi indeed we were providing arms and training for his forces until march of this year huge amount of trade with libya and indeed a vast amount of libyan investment in britain then when the war started in libya britain and france joined in nato jointly and they persuaded the u.n. to pass one hundred seventy three which is allegedly a no fly zone and now they've decided they're going to switch horses in expel the diplomats from tripoli and replace them with the people from benghazi will seems to me that we are now deeply involved in the civil war in effectively trying to play judge and jury on the future of libya surely the future of libya is for the libyan people the source not western arms. but more than a thousand years russia was christianized and to mark the occasion top officials in

washington gathering in the ukrainian capital and i see it as s.k. is in kiev where the message started to spread and then many of. thousands have gathered in key of central monastery the key of the chest a lot of the one you can see over there behind me to attend the biggest liturgy the biggest service held by the head of the russian orthodox church but they have to deal with came over to the ukrainian capital to mark the celebration of the christianization of ancient russia indeed a thousand and twenty three years ago. who was back then reigning in the key of adopted christianity he took several citizens of the key of to the waters of the river here in kiev and turned them into orthodox christians this is the biggest religious holiday for the believes all across the post soviet space indeed russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating this holiday and today it's thursday is the final day of the celebrations were understand that services and liturgies will be held everywhere across these countries and also this will become an ated with

bright colorful concerts later in the evening now indeed of course this is a very important for the history of russia that the country adopted orthodox christianity but that choice may well have been different and the beautiful monastery which you can see over there may have easily been a mosque because back then in the year nine hundred eighty eight delegates from all religions came over to key of two of the tool for their religion historians are still finding proper explanation why did lead even to choose orthodox christianity some even joke that just choice because the orthodox christianity in fact allowed people to drink wine well maybe this is a joke this is being debated by historians more likely that the choice for the orthodox christianity was more geopolitical because. even wanted to have closer ties with the other european powers nevertheless this was

a historical decision and it was believers all across the post office space are celebrating this day. ok that's where the news this hour here on r.t. business states. hello and welcome to business here on our team now let's take a look at the latest the ruble has reached the three year high against the euro dollar basket the growth of russia's currency is mainly due to uncertainty over the u.s. that ceiling and problems in the euro zone analyst also say strong oil prices and lower capital outflow are the factors supporting the ruble. let's take a look at the markets now precious metal prices are mixed this hour as silver has slipped into the red gold is gaining as investors look for safe haven to tell insurgency although the u.s. that does aleutian. oil prices are also makes the sour there is still on the pressure as the un resolved it was that ceiling debate chipped away at investor

confidence and down the american lights we discourage me trading at ninety seven dollars per barrel while bryant's is out one hundred seventeen. and in europe markets are in negative territory for fourth day now the financial sector is struggling after goldman sachs downgraded a number of european banks due to limits of prospects for loan growth the dax is down over one and a half percent now. and here in moscow the markets are mixed this hour the arts yes has slipped into the red this by its earlier gains but my sex is still up slightly let's take a look at some individual moves on them why stocks now and there are majors are among the main gainers with gas from up around point eight percent russia's pharmaceutical giant form standard is also up supported by news it has increased sales by sixty percent in the first half of the year meanwhile precious metal miner

polymath saw this point four per cent in the red this white stronger gold. the markets have been treading water for days here in russia city gates of vienna from deutsche bank says even for the investor keen to be involved they are not many growth stories right now. investors saw growth stocks and growth stocks. to my regular go stocks like retailers and banks listen stocks might be interesting but i think activity is what shortly after and investors. to buy a long term perspective on the maybe also for the wiser sector maybe in boston on your floor that will see most people jet off on their holidays this week probably aren't heading for the north caucasus the politically troubled region is barely on that source map however the government's hopes to change all that as much explains . the creation of new tourist destinations in the north caucasus is the key

strategy of the russian government to bring economic revival to the trouble to region the sums involved have been raised several times but now it's predicted that over one hundred thirty billion dollars will be needed to build five major resorts now government owned corporation resorts off of the north caucasus is running the project and it promises that the construction will be finished by twenty twenty five now funds will come from three different sources first from the federal budget than from the regions specially. done in english as and finally from a known state sources such as international and domestic investors it's not only new resources that will be involved but also some saw holiday destinations will get a new lease of life now the republic of dagestan will receive one third of overall investment most of it will be sponsor a point the construction of hotels and other infrastructure along its two hundred

kilometers of caspian sea shore now douglas dunn claims it will attract many private investors but so far only russian billionaire sulu monk has expressed an interest meanwhile austria and fronts have also expressed their readiness to participate in the construction of this major project the development of the north caucasus alongside the twenty fourteen. as the most expensive projects by the russian government. and that's all the business news for now for more stores you can always have to our website dot com slash business but in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines without us.

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financial mix to ford and russia. ok coming up next on t. talks to iran's foreign minister about the country's nuclear program and russia's role as a mediator between to run on the international community. the worst the suspicious of iran's nuclear program while you insist that you have peaceful intentions around doing to convince the west that you nuclear program is intended to serve peaceful purposes but when you come home. the only international body that has the authority to evaluate our activities is the. north state is allowed to accuse iran regarding its nuclear program outside i.a.e.a. bang to raise or to initiate any international action against iran this is why we pay no attention to the west claims regarding our nuclear research iran is

a member of the i.a.e.a. and a party to the nonproliferation treaty iran is going to respect that treaty says nuclear nonproliferation is in our interest as well i confirm that iran has made its intentions quite clear with regard to its nuclear program proving that it is peaceful this is further reaffirmed by the fact that the i.a.e.a. did not state in any of its reports that there is any military activity going on in iran's nuclear sector as for their intentions how come the united states accuse us of pursuing non peaceful purposes while america itself was the first nation ever to use nuclear weapons killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in japan this is why we have no faith in america's intentions as history shows cannot be trusted during our war with iraq saddam's regime used chemical weapons against iran but we did not respond in kind surrounds policies based on sharia law which forbids us from producing storing.