in india she's available in the movie joint people to the movie that's a good way to go to the grand imperial truly the taj was the coolest coromandel you can go with her till the close of the show which i suggested to go for clearance runs as the colonel was original as a retreat. tonight on r.t. well germans break up through irreconcilable differences between the countries to have seen the south strive to become a region of france that's raising concern that separation could spread and shatter the new. fresh violence erupts in the disputed border area between serbia and kosovo the un security council's holding an emergency meeting behind closed doors. and spy plans the u.s. says it won't stop its reconnaissance flights need china despite beijing's outrage over the violation of chinese sovereignty.

hello and welcome mrs r.t. it's ten pm thursday night my name is kevin our top story for you belgium may be an international by word for unity when it's nato will be you headquarters but it faces a messy breakup of its own with an irreparable north south divide. bushell explains next the split the tearing the country into could echo throughout europe. so wait till they're divorced before planning their next marriage but not near the southern region of belgium a country built big government for record fourteen months free speech while looms in the cells and flipping speaking floors in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into a suit as it splits with flawed business complete look to hook up with france richer

or poorer but mainly for brit child. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money and that is what the loonie is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french firms. polls suggest that hall for sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of builder be withdrawn its president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with your m.p. and we have contacted a socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then what would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants to

split to. save buildings 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 and vice versa albert bill james national day last week was its last he added the cross is written is not just every building but european integration itself. trails e.u. scared of the wars of belgium will spark up the rest of europe catalonia leaving to be scotland leaving reducing separatist marches and mixed community terms here. with guns getting it takes just one big one to become. that conflict mass killing suffered in europe since world war two was turned on each other as you can slew of your broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be

underestimated frige 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 cultural altie rossi's. of that story interests you'd also be interested to know that later in the program we look at a part of eastern europe where separation brought anything but peace and stability . also always store secessionist republics so in other words the serbs were down across all still believe themselves to be part of serbia as fresh violence flares up in the disputed border between serbia and kosovo we took the balkans expert says the un closed session and continued. the u.s. military says it will continue airborne reconnaissance missions near china and that's despite beijing's protests last month after two chinese fighter jets in the set to begin to spy plane over taiwan which china claims as its territory can hello them from the american base of foreign policy in focus think tank says the rifts

part of competition for energy moves in the region. right here on the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and trade is the number two and chinese oriel eighty percent of chinese energy supplies who moved by seen the move through the streets of rome once which is controlled by an american to sleep well in move straits which controls the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this and the need worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put its mark on the original again this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between the number one in the number of two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with bases there all the way from central asia to the north pacific but the context in which this takes place. could have been

a few minutes on r.t. the scorches strikes the sons of full health in russia's heat wave right now but the real danger is on the ground with fears that smoldering bogs could spark another choking smoky summer or fall on much of the. congratulating christianity were in kiev later in the program to well orthodox leaders from russia ukraine and belarus put their rifts aside to mark a millennium of shared worship and. talk of money now germany's finance minister is not happy at one of the key points in the greek rescue decided by e.u. leaders last week he says the eurozone fund didn't agree to blank checks for buying greek bonds and in another development the i.m.f. is warning france that it needs more cuts to avoid becoming the next victim of a debt crisis let's get more perspective on this talk to economic thought of her figure who is joining us live from monaco tonight very good evening now when will it in economic leave small countries like greece and ireland fall into trouble the heavyweights previously france and germany ran to the rescue but you know if france

is starting to struggle for a whole provide. the safety net if they can chip in in his cabin nobody can this is typical of contagion we've been talking about it for weeks we have you know when you get some degree of illness and it goes through the body ultimately you have to decide when to outwit it and the truth is we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago and in fact i mean good grief look at the new stories this evening we're talking about association of belgium and part of belgium going to france well the truth is that france can't afford it france is on the verge of probably finding itself its own debt being markets dined in other words it's going to be given one of these situations where it's less attractive to investors and actually you know there are fundamental problems going all the way through the euro zone and we don't have any leaders who are willing to give us a sustainable solution do you think it is going to happen or what you're suggesting there the amputation route of the greek rescue plan still needs approval there's no

by national parliaments as a just mentioned just now the only finance minister is not at all convinced about further exposure the greek that is the real danger of it having to go low i think there's a huge problem look we've got the situation at the moment kevin where provincial libraries in northern germany are being closed because the money isn't there because it's being used to fund people in the mediterranean i think german voters are going to get very angry about that very very soon and i actually think the political will is not there amongst the people to endlessly keep bailing out their saw their new first it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contagion is going to hit and i really do believe that after last week's events unfortunately we only enjoyed closer to the idea of a tool called your real melt on italy france the name just keep going on and on and you want to go into the pot cyprus now could be next in line couldn't it. it was downgraded to junk i think if they were at the edge of

a waterfall here. well we're certainly going that way i mean the problem is. look these aren't things that have just happened suddenly i mean the french budget deficit has been in a deficit the french budget since one thousand nine hundred seventy four i mean leaves are things that have been going on for thirty or forty years it's absolutely ludicrous and truthfully governments need to stop spending and they need to be very realistic about their budgets and that's very difficult to do because of course that attracts other political issues if cyprus ultimately needs a bailout but it's not a huge issue because cyprus is not a big country but the problem is as you rightly say we are getting to the point where the contagion is hitting italy spain and france and those are huge european and indeed global economies right so these pockets as we know are bottomless a-q. for cash is growing what should happen next anything the simple fact is i think that we have to find a completely new structure for debt some people are going to lose money on their

bombs but of course what's the problem without the difficulty is the sort of people who are going to lose money are going to be german and french banks and that's part of the reason why their governments don't want to realize the debts and the issues that are happening here but ultimately until everybody starts to lose money and i think probably until people like perhaps the greeks leave the euro zone we're not going to get anywhere near a solution economics author and writer patrick during us from the monaco tonight thank you for your input on the program. all right well a financial crisis for some is an opportunity for others it's an ill wind they say with money in short supply for companies in the west they take an operations and dollars to the cheaper east that is praise freedom looks now and how the american downturn great news for india. 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 go down a modern suburb of new delhi everywhere you look there are options of american companies but the sign of the importance the united states has placed on this country during the financial crisis according to rethink outsourcing reports american companies have been very good out in the country as much as seven nine in the past three years. care 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. space to just forty percent today. consciously in that direction so the idea is to have a good balance it's not about being focused on one market and having a good balance and obviously you know in merging markets like india china and the ship such. as 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 that we have people here that have worked here all of their lives in the losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible. 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. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is in their job. 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 it is arable 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 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 any time soon. in the markets. from the last. three years british military would like to double their business. confidence not often found among their colleagues in the last preassure either r t a new delhi india. just a minute from why you got more previous reports from inside india online on our website r t v the very smart about how to dial up the catch of the day story she told us about the indian fold approves falling mobile phones transforming the

livelihoods of a different kind of work. with us but the cartoon section girls will be a story for inspiration to want to check it out so that feeds your confidence. he would security council is holding a merger of meeting that serbia's request into the flaring of violence in northern kosovo fresh clashes began when kosovo police seized two disputed border checkpoints to prevent the transfer of goods from serbia serbs which dominated northern kosovo were outraged by the move which you. then destroyed the checkpoints about nato peacekeepers moved in to stop the violence but the situation is still tense there even tonight which by the political analyst alexander public should belgrade who told us that serbs shouldn't be treated as infringing minority. god is there are. trying to they're trying to enforce some unilateral moves in order to change the reality on the ground and change the reality as it was and as

it is under u.n. resolution security council resolution twelve forty four. the session is through public so in other words the serbs or down of course will still believe themselves to be part of serbia and they're acting in that capacity now the western states mostly nato states that have recognized costs of war treating them as a minority on the other hand states that have not recognized of course or in the pendants not treating serves as a minority but are seeing them as having equal rights as all other citizens of serbia but we must remember that the key to this situation of course it was really in nato hands they control militarily the entire province so really whatever happens down there is under their control and it's something that they will tolerate or not tolerate and we must also remember what happened yesterday with the burning of the border checkpoint we still don't know who actually did it these were masked men he really could have been any nationality we

don't know whether they were serb albanian or french or even american we just still don't know that. a suicide attack on a government compound in southern afghanistan left at least nineteen dead and over thirty five injured it follows a string of attacks and the killing of president karzai brother and it comes as the u.s. withdraws its forces from cia intelligence officer michael scherer told me that the violence in afghanistan is only going to escalate he thinks. we're watching a charade on fault here in afghanistan the afghan army the afghan national police force are never going to be able to control the country not just because there have been trained sufficiently but also because they're divided tribal we when we are gone when they go leaves they'll go back to their tribes and they'll fight each other again so the whole the whole house of cards will come down after the united states and its allies complete their their withdrawal withdraw in defeat really

ultimately what we have after ten years of effort in afghanistan is a body count that's all we don't have any measure of progress against the enemy the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build the western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply. and so we fail to do that and the situation is going to remain violence and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we stay there as long as the alliance stays in afghanistan. intelligence officer michael sure does but earlier on the program that he was in the long running efforts to eliminate some of the many shares that experience in fighting international terrorism with us on our website if you want

to take a look at well you get to it also you go problems and i believe is the president so exposed about fighting against the french. so i charging those with illegal activities with drug smuggling or terrorism for instance so ultimately destroy is this their plan i believe as i learned why he feels the threat from the u.s. right now also. supports this statement credibly posed as a player across all scope with president trade this. superhero plants in america check out the authorities reaction to a company called make over on our website exclusively to party all call. them. so as they seize the marking of a special bond between russia ukraine and belarus which goes back more than

a millennium orthodox church leaders are in kiev marking the conversion to christianity now how exactly one thousand and twenty three years ago when ukraine's capital used to be the center of the ancient state of parties and serious risk is that force. thousands have gathered in key of central monastery to cuba just 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 russians. who came over to the ukrainian capital to mark the celebrations of the christianization of ancient russia indeed a thousand and twenty three years ago. who was back then reigning in key of. christianity he took several citizens of kiev 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 coast soviet space indeed russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating this holiday and today it's thursday is the final day of

the celebrations of course this is a very important for the history of russia that the country was christianity but that choice may well have been different and the beautiful want to see which you can see may have easily been a more 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 a proper explanation why did choose orthodox christianity some even joked 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 nevertheless this was a historical decision and believers all across the coast of its base are celebrating this day. we have got reason to celebrate as well tonight our teams are catching video reports lined up for you online and our you tube channel where we

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this is r.t. from moscow now it's been a hot day here in the capital thank heavens as few hours ago poured down to give us a bit of shelter from the sweltering heat wave temperatures today hit forty degrees in the capital bring about memories them of last summer's smoke covered city and leaving a bit of a chill in the air without memory to push kovar reports now on how russia's wildfires are back spreading fear as well as the flames. and with arsenic and moscow zinc and again the toxic cocktail of heat smoke would smoke and exhaust fumes that filled the capitol last august is still the lead in people's memory intense bebop fires and the record heat wave from the dense fog that sent pollution levels soaring ten fold and you thought at least were they would be prepared. 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 dr 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 piedmontese may look on this with just tiny flames on the surface but in fact every square meter requires a ton of water to extinguish the fire burning the underground value of that evidence mining occurring is more green has been to the surface way of the mine or work the authorities insist the situation is under control and most of the five in moscow region have been successfully extinguished however campaign is saying officials are underreporting the extent of the problem both around moscow and across the country. as a division has made it worse by the bureaucrats instead of records with clear stand all the time concealing the information about fires and does make it more difficult to get a bit one time it would. campaign is so huge 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 campfires are all that holds the forest despite a ban introduced a month ago and there's only so much on tears come to new orleans when i was driving into the forests there in syria for living like i mean i don't there is a huge placard at the entrance the record breaking heat of summer two thousand and ten resulted in devastating forest fires. it killed sixty two people destroyed one hundred ninety nine towns and reduced thirty three hundred houses to actions. so get the fire was literally coming towards us we could hear the trees crackling as they were burning and then who's the we in the blue it's the other way you know this year most of the countries against the train and the fires are raging once more large areas of forest have already been destroyed in russia's far east while parts of the north are really choking on small and with all the still to go

russians from the capital to the countryside hope the summer sun won't be as deadly this time. r.t. a region turk to ten twenty five pm here in moscow thursday night spot for just over twenty red suitors got news of a gold medal day for russia of the world for being german ships here so there but it's korea there with a business after this quick break. hungry for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in some petersburg oh she's available in hotels a story and a litany and busted up in a small school to kowtow to church minister tell the truth schools hotel gold new gold and noble tilson pelvis you will see it still does ski lift you can see it

on this column if you visit tell us. how welcome to business here out here with me kareena how can the ruble has reached a three year high against the euro dollar basket fears over the debt situation in europe and us contributing to the rally but as you gain admission from a financial corporation explains currency is made in driven by technical fact. it looks like a local law that private capital outflow has decreased in the second part of july and hype oil prices prove to be bull. dog kind of sebastopol you speak about consumers when we speak about short term definitely it's good because a lot of consumer goods are being imported when you buy cheap or your feelings before those of yourself more comfortable in the longer term in focal businesses

will be able to sustain expensive food will be smooth result into higher levels of unemployment unfortunately that's me afraid to local out and this may result into a less comfortable situation for the consumer. let's take a look at the markets now precious metals are down on thursday gold futures well as investors renewed up to the metal surge to record gold and its growth possible in the previous three days a sign that prices are poised to fall so the drop the most in two weeks. of crude oil fluctuated in new york after u.s. dramas claims dropped to the lowest level since april tight squeeze down from one stance on trading at one thousand seven hundred dollars a barrel brant was trading at one hundred seventeen dollars prices from the pressure due to the on result u.s. debt ceiling. the european markets close makes with a foot see a quarter of a percent on the dax point eight percent lower lloyds banking group n.b.a. systems were supporting equities in london but while major b.p. weighed on the b.p.

shares have lost more than three percent this week after results posted on tuesday showed profits the best. time here in moscow stocks rose at the end of the trading session b.l.t.'s rebounded from a one week low calls and point four percent in the black on thursday now let's take a look at some individual most of them isaac's energy majors among the main gainers with gazprom up over one percent russia's promise to recall giant bonds than it was also are supported by use of the sales by sixty percent in the first half of the year meanwhile precious metal minor point rental was over half a percent. red spikes from. russia's biggest search engine yeah the ex has reported a fifty seven percent rise in second quarter revenue two hundred sixty five million dollars the company now predicts similar growth for the full year on a sustainable internet advertising yannick says have risen more than fifty percent

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