it will be painful and for many communities in the united states transformative but it's worthy of note and somehow hasn't much been mentioned that not a single plant out there reduces the national debt they just change the speed by which it grows. while the politicians pocket towns over who would be to blame if the american economy hits a brick wall gerald so then today from the u.s. space to trans journal says the political elite one recognize simple solutions to america's deficit that country is going bankrupt just look at the numbers the numbers don't lie the politicians but let's look at the bigger picture first of all they devaluing the dollar and we've been saying it all along gold in the last month is gained one hundred fifteen dollars an ounce what they're not talking about in all this deficit reduction hey how about the military budget how about slashing foreign aid fifty seven billion dollars a year how about companies like general electric that made fourteen billion

dollars last year paying no taxes look there's plenty of room out there to start raining this thing in and turning it around but we do not have a representative form of government we have a government that represents only the very powerful and the very rich and that's all this is about letting them keeping their perks oh economic literacy is plunging america deep into crisis so since monks kinds us financial experts and a host of the kinds of reports teradata. but the world is adjusting the dollar will lose its status as a world reserve currency us debt will lose the aaa rating and it's a complete different configuration and washington is not the biggest player in this if they were being mad as shit by somebody who knew something about economics not barack obama who's financially illiterate they would allow the dollar to collapse against other currencies let the economy go through two or three years of a gut wrenching depression and come out of it and rebuild but keep their

sovereignty intact otherwise america will end up like greece losing their sovereignty america will end up like other countries and they are ozone like ireland that's lost its sovereignty to the i.m.f. and these other banking institutions i think most americans would prefer to be sovereign and free than to be a vassal state of international bankers. you're just a second deadline for raising the debt ceiling in the us his rep reproaching placed a new solution on the horizon but he often this a.k.a. the resident in the streets of new york to find out whether americans feel the financial apocalypse is around the corner. with the looming debt crisis the u.s. is watching the clock tick down to an economic armageddon what does that even mean that this week let's talk about that they keep setting dates over and over again and nothing happened just be negotiation process i think so it's idle threat. i

believe so do you expect more from the people who like. neither party is going to let this actually happen where they would let it expire and then the united states would go into default i don't think that's going to happen i think that's a bluff but i think what actually is at hand is for real and they're they're using it as leverage to push their respective issues but i think americans if i'm speaking for myself as an american are sick of it or these are representative reports that they think they were representing but i don't i think they keep on saying the american people want this market one does but i don't think they're asking anybody really what they really want what do you want but i would like a compromise right now the drama right now is largely contrived there is a debt crisis but will make it through and you know we'll pay the bills and things will be fine so all this drama i think is just making people crazy why are they doing that now i mean we raise the debt ceiling every year why is this drama unfolding right now well it's largely political because the upcoming election you

know it's a good thing it's finally happening i think the people are speaking up. and hopefully will get our way but sometimes it takes a while to bad things really are i mean nobody is given any ground of so you know you log before for many many years and this is absolutely truly amazing and makes me wonder how they ever get anything done in israel or in italy or any place where they have multi parties i mean we go to parties to an airport if you include the two guys and we can't get anything done is utterly embarrass amish will be ashamed of themselves no matter what happens with the u.s. debt crisis the bottom line is we're. bound to be a lot more pasturing from all the politicians and. still to come on the program lifting expectations flying your own plane in russia. welcome the first steps to free the country's small aircraft from outdated restrictions and endless paperwork. also more than

a year has passed since the indian government capel children the right to free education has helped to bridge a social divide. tens of thousands of protesters gathered in egypt's tahrir square one of the biggest rallies since president mubarak was overthrown five months ago the largest group in attendance for ultra conservative muslims introduction of sharia law journalist and blogger austin wacko who's in cairo says the arab spring has produced a strong and divisive is the most movement day of unity yet it was a sign that liberal and islam is forces were going to come together to continue their push for sort of basic democratic rights but down in the square i was just down and before i came here is a huge number of. muslim brotherhood members the most just let me just read.

the time that i've been here and they there's many chance of. islamic identity the sort of islamic nature of egypt which has caused some friction with. the secular forces who are normally it is that you know forces dominate entirely they're the ones who run the running a sit in there for a month since the clashes that happened at the end of june but today. by the islamists. but a similar show of unrest is taking place in neighboring israel thousands of young protesters pitched tent camps across the country cities for social justice voicing discontent government policies and mass rallies planned for saturday as to israeli journalist as is sarah predicts israel is edging closer to revolution two thirds of the poor in israel are working poor people who are working every day people who have a great jobs and still are not able to go above the poverty level so that's

a reason that people are coming out of the street if you look at how the protesters started it's almost identical to how it started in egypt and internees and other places started through facebook somebody who made a post on facebook through social media that's how people organize or was organized completely in the beginning by the young people in his old student people who feel that they have no future people who feel who can't afford living here in it and i was realizing that this is not the way to go forward and he's trying to figure out ways to deal with it because the government could definitely fall as well and these are ground and i think he is in danger especially that the process and the growing while israel has been under a building in tel aviv in haifa in all these major cities in israel is or have been overbuilding in the west bank focus of the israeli government at the moment is more sustaining the occupation and more sustaining the settlement rather than caring for the majority of the population who actually opposed that the lands and oppose occupation and israel proper so that the problem here though is

a still many israelis have not been able to make that connection and the more and the sooner israelis make that connection realize that the occupation affects their daily life affects the pennies that the government spending the money the government spending in the west bank verses and does well i think you will see a real revolution in israel. more than a year has passed since the indian government announced the unprecedented right to education act below is aimed at stamping out a literacy and backing the country's social economic divide the concept was to provide compulsory and free education for all children aged six to fourteen however as artie's preassure discovered the reform is facing tough challenges. it's dawn in india's capital city of new delhi an eight year old cushy just wall is getting ready for school while there are nearly two hundred million elementary school children like cushy in india only half that number ever complete the eighth grade most end up leaving school to help their parents with domestic work or to get

a job to bring in some extra money maybe i haven't studied much that's why i want to educate my children after growing pressure to address the educational disparities in india the government passed an act making it mandatory for all children between the ages of six and fourteen to get a free education even requires elite private schools with tuitions nearing five hundred dollars per month to grant a quarter of their seats to students from disadvantaged backgrounds like cushy. and. today there are just as many schools where students have to pay a choice unlike this one as there are free schools that are funded by the government according to the act it's up to the parents to decide where they send their kids to school that means a student like course she can attend an elite private school if she enters that

awareness the lottery and gets into the twenty five percent quota it also means that if government workers are able to identify and successfully enroll this is one that are at times but just schools like the ones pushing attendance now could get overcrowded but the idea of free schooling in india has its opponents with concerns even raised by proponents of the act three schools have no art and quality and i think. much smarter than that. and they want to quantity and quality is something that the principal of cushy school knows has a different definition depending on the school while the teachers want to see their students succeed they believe that integrating indian children from a lower class. into a private school would not be practical. these elite schools have a very high standard only children whose parents are educated can study in schools like these schools want to maintain their high standards and reputation how can poor people send their children to schools like these because their parents are on

educators even at home there is no one to tutor or supervise their studies or homework it's a position supported by the well off members of indian society the schools are not meant for them. it's meant for. the good neglected in the sense that he comes from a background his parents are probably labelled as a what they were. putting him in that sort of. so he would have trouble getting assimilated in spite of the mixed reception the integration model received for children like cushy education is simply about accomplishing her dreams i want to study till the twelfth grade ten become a teacher. but it's a dream that may just fall through the gap of india's socioeconomic divide i prefer sure either our team new delhi india i. web page r.t. dot com you can always get more news stories and features here's

a quick look at what's available for you right now you can log on to find out more about america's state of indiana. to post evacuation. and c.c.t.v. footage from central where a deadly terrorist bomb was detonated bringing death and destruction all the videos from that tragic day and other stories here on each. news today. again flared up. these are the end. it is seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all. recent polls so the number of journalism rolls in the us is shrinking into red

contrast expanding public relations industry as newspapers across the country close a professional journalist being picked up by the p.r. machine teaser christine for has been finding out why using journalists might be a threat to democracy it is the end of the first of all this is what this little intelligence that newspapers like the seattle post intelligencer the rocky mountain news and hundreds more have now become relics from the past. slash budgets have stopped the presses at newsrooms nationwide. and nast layoffs throughout media have meant far fewer journalists to investigate policy and procedure who are losing their sense of accountability in government and business in our. life lives if we lose journalists who are now asking questions about what's going on the numbers particularly dramatic with newspapers

where revenue has been cut nearly in half while the journalism industry is shrinking the public relations industry is expanding at one time a one to one ratio between p.r. employees and journalists today that ratio is four to one with p.r. revenues jumping from three point five billion to eight point seven billion dollars journalists are simply overwhelmed by folks who are trying to spin them or trying to create their own story you have the public relations folks the spin doctors if you will driving the news cycle john nichols along with robert mckee has me wrote a book about it the death and life of american journalism in a sense we are becoming one of the most propagandized countries in the world short staffed news stations often use company video news releases or v.n. ours like this one if you have x. about chances are the first have been filled up before the age of five p.r.

described as news the new treatment is called mimics press releases also often read on the air or posted on the web before any fact checking is done with the focus often on getting it first rather than getting it right good evening everybody breaking news tonight but we are cutting into our program with some breaking news where corporate and government p.r. departments are filled with former journalists who know how to sell their message i understood how media word what. reporters thought it was a good story as opposed to hype butch ward worked for nearly twenty years as a journalist with the philadelphia inquirer but after layoffs he left to work for health insurer independent blue cross before returning to work as a journalist that revolving door between france and p.r. the press and governor. is causing real concern about what the long term effects could be if the influx of spin doctors take over the message machine completely

where there is very little journalism be done in an awfully lot of spin you create some dangerous circumstances for citizenry for democracy itself i'll go straight to questions white house spokesman jay carney worked for twenty years as a journalist for time magazine now he's president obama's spokes person former broadcaster and columnist tony snow went on to serve as spokesperson for president bush and jamie rubin went from the state department under president clinton to executive editor at bloomberg news so common such as a common practice and no one else no one is questioning or anymore in a time when hack and flack are often one in the same and the spin machine works overtime as the printing presses come to a halt the question becomes can a meeting full force a state actually survive. in washington christine for r.t. . now time for some other international headlines this hour nato commanders say

they've destroyed three t.v. satellite dishes near the libyan capital tripoli the statement says the attack was carried out in accordance with the u.n. resolution to protect people from government oppression through the media four months since the nato air force operation in libya began around seventeen thousand missions have been flown in which the libyan government claims killed hundreds of civilians. a light aircraft crashed into two houses in the suburb of seoul with a pilot and his passenger in airlifted to hospital with extensive burns no one else was injured by the incident or the plane burst into flames after taking off from a nearby field. the nato convoy in the north of serbia has had to turn back from its intended route after a crowd of serb protesters blocked its path hundreds barricaded the road in response to the alliance taking control of two checkpoints of across the border

thursday nato troops had moved in the after a series of clashes between cause of an elisa and protest is over control of the crossings. and the presidential family few political future tomorrow thousands filled the streets of the capital to support some hundred taurus from a first lady of guatemala in her life to register as a presidential candidate in the upcoming election because the law forbids relatives of the president from running for office torres diverse her husband had been leader of apprentice he was still rejected by the country's supreme court who described her actions through want. she denies it saying her marriage ended close to reason it's. u.s. admiral mike mullen has made an official visit to afghanistan and into reassure the people in the group of ongoing violence a series of assassinations had followed the beginning of a u.s.

pullout from the country or to military contributor you're going to who shove says american involvement to the region is a mistake that is dragged on for decades. as u.s. ambassador ryan crocker said in his speech in kabul frankly we really have the wrong way in the early eighty's and we all know the history of those decisions the civil war and the rise of the taliban sanctuary. and nine eleven and actually these statements just echo the same sentiments that previously expressed as an by the u.s. commander you. general petraeus and u.s. secretary of defense robert gates regarding the precipitous u.s. political and military withdrawal of after this sort of forces withdraw from afghanistan the real the wrong way for the united states was eat and turns into pakistan and afghanistan as

a proxy anti-semitic jihad in the late seventy's this is the main political military and security blunder that the united states has committed in this region the united states is doomed to deal we have been blowback of its own policy back in late seventy's in pakistan and afghanistan. now russian the pilots taking to the skies in small airplanes of them being grounded by an unimaginable amount of paperwork but it was simply adopted low has dropped some of the here in the runway for more frequent flights however many obstacles remain before it's the golden age for us as small aviation enthusiasts as the knees but that's the space. dozens of pilots swinging their way across russia for the second annual cuban air show the most small aircraft enthusiastic supporter fictions to meet other pilots and to enjoy the beautiful southern scenery or. he

took us almost eight hours to get their views with time turned. in november last year russia dumped at a new war for small aircraft pilots it sounds very promising abolishing much of the preflight paperwork letting the pilots use new airfields and generally adopting international flight rules it's a dream for any plane owner in russia however not all of the old restrictions were lifted back in the soviet times you actually had to have all the paperwork with you during the flight now the rules have changed but there are still some through and sometimes even up third requirements for the pilots of small planes for instance even if the pilot and the mechanic in the same berth and they'll have the main plane would come in they phone from one to another the new regulations allow the so-called notification mode instead of asking for permission for takeoff from the authorities in theory the pilots can now use the internet for air traffic control

of their plans but in reality it rarely works. as you can see there are many forbid in all restricted zones around moscow so it's impossible for us to use notification mode anywhere within a two hundred kilometer radius of the capital but even with the new law dozens of government organisations issue all sorts of contradictory instructions for pilots it's a major disincentive for pilots to make the effort to take to the skies and that means that russia is missing out on the potential pot of gold will some countries like the u.s. get billions of dollars from small aircraft fees and taxes russia doesn't get a sound. with no current regulations are in chaos and in that mess we're losing around five hundred billion rubles annually from the cover of the earth. however many pilots like what this year's air show are up to mystic about the real chrissie . the new law was just the first time any step the rest of the world is ahead of us

but eventually we will learn how to fly again russia's small aviation enthusiasts feel that broke receive has served only to clip their weeks no hopes are high of seeing blue sky on the horizon tennis ball ski r.t.e. cross in the region. and those flying high employing new technology to facilitate their travels we take a look at the news discoveries change in the course of the future the latest installment of our program technology update explores a groundbreaking power production conservation that's coming up at nine thirty g.m.t. . welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i can't use products they don't understand our huge pieces that we follow russian innovators to e.g. bitters abroad and their big breakthrough back home spotlight on story on

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time for the headlines now arundhati the torpedo effect democrat led senate kills republican debt ceiling plan shortly after it was narrowly passed by the house as u.s. default deadline looms. ultra conservative islamist overwhelm egypt's tahrir square demanding surreal more on in the wake of revolutions spreading across the region israeli state to the streets to protest for social justice. as a number of journalists in the u.s.

decreases public relations sector grows rapidly with some saying the ultimate victim of the trend will be democracy. but next. travels to the tourist friendly city of st petersburg wanted andres is your guide to top hotels and restaurants that. hello to you. on this week's program i'll be exploring the various hotels are restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time. growing the glorious summer where i'm

a late evening life and it's one true part of town it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget. ranging from comfortable small hotels. today i'm checking into the bridge her towel when you arrive at the hotel we'll take your passports and do your fish registration for you. to do. for a few hours. very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world . and the most up to date. will be an experience you'll never forget. we have a very noisy make sure coming through the summer. international companies plenty of tourists from. all over you.