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 plan out there reduces the national debt they just change the speed by which it grows while the politicians back to town tell you that who would be to blame if the american economy hits a brick wall so solenn from the us space trends journal says the political elite recognize simple solutions to curb america's deficit the country is going bankrupt just look at the numbers the numbers don't lie the politicians lied but let's look at the bigger picture first of all there devaluing the dollar and we've been saying it all along gold in the last month has gained one hundred fifteen dollars an ounce that's 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 is that out 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 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 parks. economic illiteracy is plunging america deep into crisis so says much kinds of financial experts and most of the country report here in o.t. . 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 and not barack obama 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 the arrows are like ireland that's lost its sovereignty to the i.m.f. in these other banking institutions i think most americans would prefer to be sovereign and free than to be a vassal state of international bankers. well your second deadline for raising the debt ceiling in the us is rapidly approaching and still no solution on the horizon but we heard from mr kerry that reston's hit the streets of new york to find out whether americans feel the financial pocalypse is around the corner. with the looming debt crisis the u.s. is watching the clock tick down to an economic armageddon what is that even mean this week let's talk about that big keep that it dates over and over again and nothing happened just part of the negotiation process of it so i don't do that. i believe so do you expect more from the people you 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 they don't represent a few boards that they think that they were representing but i don't i think they keep on saying the american people want this american people want this but i don't think they're asking anybody really what they really want what do you want i would like 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 and

hopefully will get our way but sometimes it takes a while to bad things really are i mean nobody has given any ground i've seen a large 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 it's utterly embarrassing dish will be ashamed of themselves no matter what happens with the u.s. debt crisis the bottom line is we're bound to the a lot more pasturing from all the politicians involved it's. all still to come on the program uplifting expectations. played russia just got easy to c.c.'s welcome the first steps to free the country small. taking restrictions. and endless paperwork. more than

a year has passed since the indian government announced the unprecedented right to education act the law was aimed at stamping out illiteracy and battling the country's social economic divide the concept was to provide compulsory and free education for all children aged six to fourteen 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 getting ready for school while there are nearly two hundred million elementary school children like coaching 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 ox making it mandatory for all children between the ages of six and fourteen to get

a free education it 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 clothes shoes. 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 to school that means a student like course she can attend an elite private school if she enters that wins 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 all that are attending 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 not. and i think. that. they want 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 worth it avoid being easily it's going to 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 an educator 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 people the people at the beginning elected

in the sense that he comes from a background his parents are probably leave because of what they were. putting him in that sort of for an environment 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 i i but it's a dream that may just fall through the gap of india's socioeconomic divide i sure either r.t. new delhi india. tens of thousands of protests gathered in egypt's tahrir square one of the biggest rallies since president mubarak was overthrown five months ago and largest group in attendance for ultra conservative muslims calling for the introduction of sharia law but journalist and blogger austin marko he's in khara says the arab spring has produced a strong and divisive isn't this movement dave unity and it was a sign that liberal and islam is forces are going to come together to continue

their push for basic democratic rights but down in the square i was just down and. came here. is a huge number of. brotherhood members. as the time that i've been here and. there's many chances. is. i think identity and this is the islamic nature of egypt which has caused some friction with the. secular forces who are down but normally it isn't you know forces dominated toughly they're the ones who run the been running a sit in there for a month since the clashes that happened at the end of june but today because they have not the islamists. well a show on the rest is also taking place in neighboring israel thousands of young protestors pitched tent camps across the country cities calling for social justice and voicing discontent at the government policies of mass rallies planned for

saturday which will be attended by both students and professionals but we cannot cross to start for fear one of the main protest organizers to get more on the story thank you for joining us here in our to another protest movement doesn't seem as yet to produce a clear list of demands that leading many to view the demonstrations as really following the revolutionary trend set by egypt and tunisia is that the case. we actually do have a clear list of. this product is a very unique process in that sound because it's not organized by any organization or any political party it's a process that was organized by the people when we started we had no idea what and trying it actually going toward and but we do have a demand the demand is what everybody has their dream for the ideal country you

want to be a part of people talk about social justice i mean this process started as a as a protest about how about the fact that we don't have a place to live even if we work full time in full time jobs we don't come from low . families very feel don't have we can't really see a future in terms of how the in education or health because all of these things that are basic in our lives exist anymore in. so everybody could actually. feel the same like the people who started these protests and at the moment it's the biggest social movement that ever started in. and when people screaming the truth we want social justice. so people talk about about public education that is actually very good and about public health like health and because public health in april i wonder what saying which was that. it's

not it's only those who say they've already been around for a basic reading that they will warn if it is the biggest protest movements or how serious is the situation for the prime minister and his government could this pressure even talk albany netanyahu. well you can see it at the now is under big pressure he wasn't prepared for such kind of movement at the moment actually our biggest fear is that netanyahu being so afraid of what's going to happen will start a war somewhere so because the situation in israel where used to be part of this big war zone we're in we're not allowed to talk about the way we live because we are always under pressure we are always under a certain threat and that's what people want to change now they want to say ok so there are threats and we are in this in very very big problems with the countries around us and with the palestinians but still there are things that we have to

solve and the situation outside of israel is also related to what happens here between us between our citizens you mentioned palestinians there could there be a connection between israel's social problems and occupation of the palestinian or old autonomy what are your opinion has triggered this on raised. well of course there's a connection because when we have when you have a society where people keep fighting with each other don't talk just about israeli that the moment and they're used to be in a certain struggle among their souls so of course there are problems with other communities as well. and as we saw i've discovered yesterday there was a protest in jenin and the palestinian territories. of solidarity with the protesters here so of course something happened and there was a secular and religious pants that started in the north of israel i'm sorry of

religious religious jews and arabs from we live in the same community but they never talk to each other so you do see the changes because once you see people who come together and they stick together in those tents all over the country at the moment we have thirty tent city. in israel and it's just go in and people come together and they talk and they can just talk and live with each other so they realize that we can have a different society here and how that i would actually think you know how will people and red eyes nose in egypt again how will people in israel react if the government fails to address the issues which you're talking about which sparked this public backlash. i can hear you. yes i'll repeat that i mean how will the people in israel in general react if the government doesn't do anything about what you're saying doesn't

do anything about it i don't think there is a chance of that happening because. the demand at the moment is just too strong you see. you see everybody in the street and you see people from all kinds of of sectors and and ages and today we have such a strong voice together and it's one voice and i think that everybody is aware that nobody is going to to take their tents back home and forget about these protests because i think what happened here is that people realize that they can dream that it's ok to dream that it's ok to ask for a different future. it's something that we didn't have before and then for many many years and now people are industry and they're not embarrassed and they're not ashamed to say that they have a dream and that's what they want and that's the place where they want to live and they want to live happy and we have that now so nobody can take it back from us ok

leave it there stop shop for thank you very much indeed for joining us live to thank you. well there on our web site r.t. dot com you can always get more on that and other news stories and peaches has a quick look at what's available few online right now log on to find out more about america's ghost town in the state of indiana often compared to post evacuation chernobyl. and the c.c.t.v. footage from central oslo where a deadly terrorist bomb was detonated bringing death and destruction other videos from that tragic day and other stories are available for you on our huge huge. news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images. from the

streets of canada. a giant corporations rule the day. recent polls show the number of journalism roles in the u.s. is shrinking and direct contrast to the expanding public relations industry as newspapers across the country clues professional journalists are being picked up by the p.r. machine christine for zara has been finding out why losing journalists might be a threat to democracy. it is the end of the year of the person with all the additional intelligence or newspaper is 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 in business in our. life lives if we lose journalists who aren't 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 vienne ours like this one if your ex about to answer the first they're going to fill it up because they need to apply p.r. described as news the nutri good as gold 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 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 they understood how media worked what. reporters thought of as a good story as opposed to hype bush ward works 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 the press and p.r. the press and governor. it's 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 a 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 no one is questioning 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. will force the state actually survive. in washington christine r.t. . now some other international top stories for you nato commanders say they've destroyed three t.v. satellite dishes that are libyan capital tripoli a statement says the attack was carried out in accordance with the u.n. resolution to protect people from government oppression through the media for months since the nato air force operation in libya began around seventeen thousand missions have been flown with the libyan government's claim of kill hundreds of civilians. a 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 at the close of the border with serbia on thursday nato troops had moved in after

a series of clashes between possible police and protest is over control of the crossings. russian pilots taking to the skies in small airplanes long been grounded by an unimaginable amount of paperwork but recently adopted or has dropped some of the legal clearing the runway for more frequent flights however many obstacles remain before it's the golden age for russians small aviation enthusiasts these reports. dozens of pilots on the way across russia for the second annual air short for most small aircraft enthusiastic perfect chance to meet other pilots in to enjoy the beautiful scenery though it took us almost eight hours to get their views with time turn. in november last year russia dropped to a new all 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 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 there are all thefts. but there are still some third and sometimes even absurd 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 pain ridden would come and 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 forbidden no restricted zones around moscow so it's impossible for us to use notification mode anywhere within a two hundred kilometer radius of the capital 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 of 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 cent. with the 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 the team that worked on that this year's air show are optimistic about fighting the real chrissie and. the new deal was just the first step the rest of the go ahead of us but eventually we will learn how to fly again through russia small aviation enthusiasts feel that broke receive has served only to clip their weeks now hopes are high of seeing blue sky on the horizon. our team crossed the region. did and as those flying high employ new technology to facilitate their

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out of the main stories we're covering for you ahead in our taking the torpedo effect democrat led senate kills republican debt ceiling in fact shortly after it was the only passed by the house as u.s. default deadline looms. ultra conservative islamist overwhelm egypt's tahrir square demanding shari'a law in the wake of revolution spreading across the region israelis take to the streets to protest for social justice.

that's number of journalists in the u.s. decreases the population set to graze rapidly but some say the ultimate victim of the trend will be democracy. becoming the next people to vote russia's capabilities in the world's financial arena and its addition of the money. i. mean welcome to on the money with the business of russia business i'm peter lavelle today we're talking about russia in a volatile world. discuss this issue i'm joined by chris we for here in the studio with me is chief strategist at i.m.g.

we also have yvonne chicago he is chief economist for russia and c.i.s. at renaissance capital and we have anatoly miller cough he is head of asset management at gazprom bank and andre who is not so if he is c.i.s. russia strategist and vice president citi investment research and analysis at citibank ok chris i'm going to start out with you gentlemen let's all talk about the volatility in the world let's start with the eurozone where is it going is there any end in sight and if there isn't in sight what's the outcome no i don't think that's what we're not expecting to see any you know short term solutions carry this is a very extensive problem and it's going to require you know a substantial euro wide. solution so i think you know obviously to the summer months we expect to see some perhaps some temporary stopgap measures nobody has. been started that is for two years it's going to keep going like that i would think you know where we are.