the biggest party in the northern half want 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 of pfizer's elbert bill james national day last week was its last here did the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself. the e.u. skeered the divorce of belgium the rest of europe catalonia leaving to be scotland leaving a group releasing separatist marchers and mixed community terms here. with guns getting. just one big clash to become. that conflict killing suffered in europe since world war two was turned on each other as you can slow over your broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be

underestimated for it 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 of the new cultural altie rossi's. and if that story interests you to 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 stores the session of the public so in other words a service or 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 talked to balkans expert says the un closed session continue. the u.s. military says it will continue airborne reconnaissance missions need china and that's despite beijing's protests last month after two chinese fighter jets intercepted a you to spy plane over taiwan which china claims as its territory called alan from the american base foreign policy in focus think tank says the riffs part of

competition for energy routes in the region. right now in the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and train is the number two and chinese oriel eighty percent of chinese energy supplies who move by sea the move through the streets of rome once which is controlled by an american city well in move. which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to the use of the term they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy john miller again this is start a worldwide competition for energy resources between the number one alone number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with nieces that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. given

a few minutes on r.t. the scorches strikes but the sudden is a full pelt in russia's heat wave right now but the real danger is on the ground with fears that small drink take drugs could spark another shocking smoky summer a report on that coming up. congratulating christianity where in kiev later in the program two 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 economics author figure who is joining us live from monaco tonight very good evening now when relatively economically 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 patrick who will provide. the safety net if they can chip in in well the fact is kevan 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 amputate 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 this decision 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 marketed 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 what you are suggesting there the amputation route of the greek rescue plan still needs approval

doesn't it by national parliament said just mentioned just now germany's finance minister is not at all convinced about further exposure to greek debt is there a real danger of it having to go low i think there's a huge problem look we've got the situation at the moment kevan 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 solve their nevers 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 the total 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 could it free of cash after it it was downgraded to junk i mean do you think we're 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 these 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 avoid their budgets and that's very difficult to do because of course that attracts other political issues if cyprus ultimately it needs a bailout that'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 the queue 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

bonds 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 or third writer patrick joining us from 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're taking their operations and dollars to the cheaper east but he's praised for it and looks now at how the american downturns 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 while going to go down a modern suburb of new delhi everywhere you look there offices of american companies the sign of the importance the united states has placed on this country during the financial crisis according to refinish sourcing reports american companies have been free production in that country as much as that been fine in the past three years. care of 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. consciously in that direction so the idea is to have a good balance it's not about being focused on one market together but having a good balance and all this me you know when merging markets like india china and asia such continue to be cool 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 or more 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. 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 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. from the last forty years on most reports in this last three years produced nearly we would like to double our business. confidence not often found among their colleagues in the west preassure either r t new delhi india. just about it for a while and you got more previous reports from inside india online on our website our team called annoyed about how to dial up but the big story she told us about the indian fold approach falling mobile phones transforming their livelihoods with

a different kind of work. for this but the part two section girls are a big story for inspiration to want to check it out into a continent. the one security council is holding an urgent meeting at the 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 dominate northern kosovo were outraged by the move which you. then destroyed one of the checkpoints the nato peacekeepers moved in to stop the violence but the situation is still tense there even tonight despite the political analyst alexander published in belgrade who told us that serbs shouldn't be treated as infringing minority. god is there. they're trying to they're trying to enforce some unilateral moves in order to change the reality on the ground to change the reality as it was as it is under un resolution security

council resolution twelve forty four of always to us the session is republic so in other words the serbs who are down in kosovo 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 cost of war treating them as a minority on the other hand states that have not recognized kosovo independence and not treating it serves as a minority but are seeing them as having equal rights as all of the citizens of serbia but we must remember that the key to the situation in kosovo 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 who 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 former cia intelligence officer michael scherer told us that the violence in afghanistan is only going to escalate he thinks. we're watching a charade unfold here in afghanistan the afghan army the afghan national police force are never going to be able to control the country not just because they're 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 a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we stay there as long as the ally and stays in afghanistan. former cia intelligence officer michael sure talked as a bit earlier on the program that he was indeed part of a long running efforts to eliminate osama bin ladin and he shares his experience of fighting international terrorism with us on our website if you want to take

a look at that while you're there to it r t v dot com tonight bolivian president. fighting against big french. fry charging us with illegal activities with drug smuggling or terrorism for instance to ultimately destroy it that's their plan i believe they were morale is why he feels the threat from the u.s. right now also. kept in the kremlin post as a paper across moscow with president medvedev to trade a superhero captain america check out the authorities reaction to the company make over on our website exclusively. thursday sees 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 exactly one thousand and twenty three years ago when ukraine's capital used to be the center of the ancient state 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 of course this is a very important for the history of russia that the country adopted was that of speech and it's about that choice may well have been different and the beautiful monastery which you can see may have easily been a mosque because back then in the year nine hundred eighty eight delegates from all religions came over to kenya for 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 nevertheless this was a historical decision and orthodox believers all across the post office space are celebrating this day. and we have got reason to celebrate as well tonight artie's eye catching video reports lined up for you online or 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 thankfully the heavens opened up just a 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 than of last summer's smoke covered city and leaving a bit of a chill in the air without memory to push cova reports now on how russia's wildfires are back spreading fear as well as the flames. a whiff of smoke and moscow is in panic again the toxic cocktail of big smoke wood smoke and exhaust fumes that filled the capitol last august is still the lead in people's memory intense b. book fires and the record heat waves were blamed for the dense smog that sent pollution levels soaring ten fold 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 moke 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 bongs 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 the value of that evidence why did it turn a small green bay has been able to surface may undermine or work with the authorities insist the situation is under control and most of the flies in moscow region have been successfully extinguished however campaign is city officials are under reporting the extent of the problem both around moscow and across the country . after the situation has made their wards but the bureaucrats instead of written swiftly it gets bent all the time concealing the information about fires and does make it more difficult to get the bill in 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 are all across the forest despite a ban introduced a month ago and there's only so much one tears can do when i was driving into the forest there in syria for dating a guy you know i've known there is a huge attack hard 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 city two hundred houses to actions but the fire was literally coming towards us we could hear the trees crackling they were burning and then hoose the wind blew it the other way that this year most of the countries against weltering 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 already choking on smog and with all the still to go russians from the capital

to the countryside hope the summer sun won't be as dead league this time during bush gave up r.t. moscow region. script to ten twenty five pm here in moscow thursday night sport for just over twenty minutes shooters got news of a gold medal day for russia at the world swimming championships here so nobody is corrina with the business after this quick break. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in some petersburg only she's available in hotels a story and a little busted up in a small school to kowtow to triplets her tell her true school toto golden golden nova tilson to. dostoevsky. and see if this

miscue business. to business here outs he would make them the ruble has reached a three year high against the euro dollar basket fears over the debt situation and europe contributing to the rally but as the beginning of the financial corp explains the currency is maintaining driven by technical fact. it looks like the local private capital outflow has decreased in the second half of july and high oil prices pushed a little ball up. out of the boss can 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 feel if you feel those up yourself more comfortable in the longer term and if local businesses

will be able to sustain expensive food will be smooth resulting to high levels of unemployment unfortunately this may affect the local food 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 after the metal surge to record gold in its roosevelt in the previous three days a sign that prices are poised to fall so the drop to most in two weeks. crude oil fluctuated in new york after u.s. jobless claims dropped to the lowest level since april i tweeted down from one stance when trading at one thousand seven dollars a barrel brant was trading at one hundred seventeen dollars price is one of the pressure due to be a result u.s. debt ceiling. and european markets close makes with a foot see a quarter of a percent on the dax twenty eight percent lower lloyds banking group and being systems were supporting equities in london but while major b.p.

weighed on the speed the shares have lost more than three percent this week after results posted on tuesday showed profits the best. and here in moscow stocks rose at the end of the trading session the 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 are among the main gainers with gazprom up over one percent russia's pharmaceutical giant france down it was also all supported by news of the sale price sixty percent in the first half of the year meanwhile precious metal miner poly metal was over half a percent. red lights from. russia's biggest search engine yandex 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 plus the spain internet advertising yannick shares have risen more than fifty percent since

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countries military rise is a headache for the pentagon. and he waves breaking russia right now but it's raising fears to the deadly small return to the capital. while fire seasons all the way along with underground people fires which choking smoke blanket mask last year. martino talks exclusively to rareness foreign minister about the country's nuclear program and the possible ways out of deadlock. 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 mainly. the only international body that has the authority to evaluate our activities. a new state is allowed to accuse iran

regarding its nuclear program it's a. bank 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 since nuclear nonproliferation is in our interests 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 fight with 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 can 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 or this is why we have no faith in america's intentions as history shows it cannot be trusted.