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if. the report. if. if if if . on r.t. tonight damage done washington announces a deal that could raise the debt ceiling and avert default but critics say the move doesn't solve america's problems and its reputation is going down the drain. the u.s. and the e.u. stepped up their push for more sanctions against syria after a crackdown of forces reportedly left more than one hundred people dead moscow says violence on either side of the country's conflict is unacceptable. egypt's on fire again as troops in cairo clash with gallons traitors demanding faster change after february's revolution. and
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a rare but deadly tornado hits one far eastern russian city injuring dozens and wreaking widespread. anger on business crude oil prices are falling down pakistan good thing for russia and the world economy more on that end business in twenty minutes. alone it's nine pm monday night here in moscow you're watching artsy live from the capital with me kevin now in this hour first u.s. lawmakers are gearing up to vote later on monday of emergency deal to raise the country's debt ceiling and avoid potentially devastating default it was finally struck after weeks of stalemate and political wrangling between democrats and republicans the hard won compromise will let american borrowing continually be
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exchanged for more than two trillion dollars in cuts over the next decade agreement was reached after president obama's last ditch efforts to persuade both parties to set aside their differences the u.s. could send ripples throughout the world's fragile economy if its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt limit isn't raised by tuesday. neiers been falling out for our tea the bumpy road to an eleventh hour consensus has already dealt a severe blow to america's reputation in the eyes of its investors. and to help us avoid default debt ceiling a nation default and this crisis time's running out the entire world is watching it's been a public spectacle filled with bickering grandstanding and lack of compromise i devise a debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling created an unprecedented climate of uncertainty over america's so-called sound economy the damage been done no matter what happens now everybody thinks the united states isn't so secure it isn't so safe even if the craziness
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subsides it seems to have gotten real close and who knows whether next month next year this won't blow up again since the underlying causes economic problems are getting worse in this country four point five trillion dollars of america's borrowing is owed by foreign countries experts say washington's mismanagement may cause investors to abandon the devalued dollar and end their partnership with america it's like being married to someone. of the rich or you want to know what or why do you how much can i put up with this relationship the us will be in for a long time the only game in. the european community is making noises chinese making noises were you know we're not alone now in our ability to be a repository of refining in the world the results could spark a replay of the two thousand and eight economic meltdown except this time washington not wall street would be responsible for the first time in history our
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country's aaa credit rating would be downgraded leaving investors around the world to wonder whether the united states is still a good bet. interest rates will skyrocket on credit cards on mortgages and on corals which amounts to a huge tax hike on the american people as the countdown neared zero all three big reading giants moody's fitch and standard and poor's threatened america's hollowed triple a score unless a deal with hammered out and the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt getting higher economists say america's unsustainable budget deficits are the biggest threats to the nation it's like the batteries worn out the spark plugs don't work the tires are flat all of this and so what we're trying to do is say we've got a little bit of money in the bank let's pay that down but we're not doing anything to fix the economy and so we're putting ourselves in a bigger and bigger hole not just because of dad but really because we're not
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creating any way to get out of that instead of us president repeatedly asked americans over the past week to join a campaign to borrow and spend more make a phone call an e-mail tweet keep the pressure on washington and we can get past this while the eyes of the world have been following the heated saga playing out between u.s. politicians the main problem not going away is america's debt and the growing realisation that elected officials may never be capable of agreeing on how to solve it. r.t. new york with the johnson joins us now from california and he's now the campaign for america's future which ones progress in the u.s. led suit he's going to. you're going to buy them i'm sure we are the firm who bring on our t. normal because the law seems to have reached agreement but it's of course not a done deal yet till it's gone through it could still fall through in the vote in
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congress here. well i think the world doesn't need to worry we are having a death crisis there are a lot of people are happy with this agreement but the agreement itself this is a manufactured crisis the world doesn't need to know we're going to default on anything we're not you absolutely sure but that he was looking for help with the worst case scenario b. if it didn't go through you absolutely categorically show yourself that it will all go through smoothly later if this deal doesn't go through congress will vote to pass what's called the clean bill with no conditions because we will not allow to ok now this deal involves what nine hundred seventeen billion dollars in cuts does that over the next decade who are the people going to be hardest hit by the cuts on this enormous scale and this is a two faced the first the first party cuts but then there's a whole another round of all of them fall on the power none of them fall on the
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wealthiest. and one of the american public think about that than. the public has in polls all over whelming really showing that they understand the problem we're having is that there's a jobs crisis. jobs fix deficits when you have people working there paying taxes they're not like you know. they are not a blue stamps and things like that and if we were to put money into investing in our infrastructure that would create jobs now that would pay for itself by reading behind the infrastructure making ours our new work added the polls reflect this people want tax increases on the wealthy they want investment in infrastructure they want programs for jobs and i guess i'm going to be realistic as well because the bills those have to be paid on a well that's how you pay the bills you know the deficit down don't forget all of this hysteria you heard none of it just a few months ago when the deal was to force it was another crisis they were going
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to hold a hostage unemployment benefits for people in order to force through an extension of tax cuts for the wealthy and added a hundred billion dollars to this problem are at it now but you didn't hear any of this is syria the ratings agencies are threatening to downgrade our rating and things like that so this is a manufactured crisis. on a fortunately there was no choice but you can pitch away too but people are very unhappy with this they're tired of being held hostage they're tired of elite rulers coming in and telling us how it's going to be and to read the people in america being able to have our say on this ok day johnson activists from account paying for america's future good of your thoughts on the program tonight thank you thank you. several nato states are threatening action against syria tonight that says eyewitnesses report that the country's security forces have
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a new there are attacks on the city of hama more than a hundred people is said to been killed on sunday when government times forced their way into the opposition stronghold. russia has condemned the violence in syria calling on both sides the opposition and the governments of staying for brutality and abide by the law germany many times called for the emergency u.n. security council meeting to discuss the situation which will be held later monday with the e.u. imposing more sanctions on the mass chaos political analyst spring thinks serious problems should be settled without external interference it's going to be a mix that of people who have decided that the way to deal with this issue is to is to take arms and contest for the monopoly of violence we've seen that happen in syria a number of times including nine hundred eighty two which of course resulted in a truly brutal crackdown of tens of thousands of people killed so there is some of that there will also be beyond that a core of you know what syria's less developed civil society that have decided they've simply had enough so it's going to be a combination of the two and of course you would expect the regime to. exaggerate
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the role of armed insurgents in this or on forces and you know significantly downplay the number of simple way of citizens who have just had enough and one of the reasons this is kicked off is people are unhappy at the same count combination of concern over military control and real economic hardship if you're not able to maintain that the energy subsidies and other things that the state is so often given its people that's led to this kind of unrest how much longer before you start having issues with your military payroll at that point you have a minority of officers directing comes griffen soldiers to fire on their own people and the conscript soldiers aren't sure if they're getting paid and that's that is not a sustainable model for a country to continue repression like this intelligence should troops and clash of protesters were camping out in the center of cairo hundreds of demonstrators were cleared away from tony square where they've been gathering for weeks now to demand faster reforms of the february's revolution now goldman is professor of modern history at oxford university he says egyptians are ready for another uprising because they see too much of the old regime and the new one. the secular opposition
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. are trying to censor barak are incredibly they feel privileged to go through this is a continuation of the old regime and also they want to have not been around well the thing to do is when we could see this attempt to clear the square may well vote more protests more violence from uni around it or on the other hand it also may be a sign the government wants to use gramatica as a mom carma situation before we're supposed to have elections. in eight weeks time now course more protests mcness here we've seen in other parts the arab world the expectation that in the evening after the end of last and people will just break their hospitals and demonstrate what we could see the government thinking that this will be an opportunity to correct some support from people who feel they've had enough demonstrations in cairo but you have a kind of weariness of demonstrations but of course there are many people who are stopped or mistreated. trying to also guard and watch out see from moscow with me
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club you know in this hour it's good to have you with us and ahead rewriting history lessons ahead for crowd troops hold a rally in a study of been banned in other countries and that's terrific is a revised naziism in europe that's the report. focusing on israel next though their thousands have taken industrial action in tel aviv in protest against the government and strikes follow a weekend of massive demonstrations over rising house prices and escalating cost of living people demanding social justice and i want better working conditions our correspondent paul asli is there following the latest in tel aviv. israelis emerging wising on the streets of tel aviv tonight monday for another demonstration against the government although the numbers on might seem to reach the tens of thousands that witnessed over the weekend the demonstrations are much the same as it has been over the past two and off weeks it's been urbanized immobilised online the grievances against these may be governments economic policies they are caused
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by the israeli prime minister and now which resigned as well as for a machine change time ago he's maybe close attention on purpose mixed with some of these posts his organizes the initiator the need to be in the city wanted to see what the grievances were and finding that music to say that what needed to be changed would be changed to a very different message completely what we're hearing calls from this on the top of him that's not in the sol has been person run over these protests are fading and we know that he is pushing away housing bill to be processed because possible this is a bill that looks at me ruckus and surrounding construction planning at the same time this announcement spokesperson saying that these demonstrations will also help the pollution and that was really kind of made with sound and healthy having said that both the director general of the finance ministry the science that's anomalous is the special committee to meet with the protesters and look into their grievances just so people the government is struggling to deal with what is really one of the largest midst of crises that they've had in recent years there are of course having
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those being made between what's happening there with israel what was sort of the arab world to be arab spring in the last few months there was at this stage seem to be no indications this approach is dissolving into violence or go back to the pentode there have been a number of a race made that's according to this past weekend of the weekend before there was another mobilization happening on line a million man march tens of thousands of these raids are really signed up for backward to be able to take place in the first weekend of september perhaps the best way to describe the mood here in israel at the moment is not a new leaf. labor politicians see the state of the city on eighty eight minutes of census records since the war ended back in one nine hundred forty eight course the hot seat. well for more on the situation in israel let's bring into the conversation from the israeli social movement the national left no thanks for being on earth see it all started with dissatisfaction of
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a rising house prices that have moved on to social injustice as it now grown into nation wide discontent with the government in general what's your view well first of all good evening and thanks for having us i think that is going to be general discontent from the government i think people long ago have seen more and more legislation moves that benefits the reach or benefit upper class and basically worsen the status of that of the middle class the middle class is trafficking now in the middle class are the voters and when you go against them yes they will rise up against the government you know a lot of people killing similarities between the events in israel right now what we've seen in north africa in the middle east since the beginning of the year is that a fair comparison. in some ways yes and in some ways no i think in the crisis and the protests in in africa are. basically brought the people to
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their greatest despair is i think we're not that. not in that great despair i think we have great motivation to change thing i think we believe in democracy and the fact that we have a democracy and we can basically vote our opinions. into elections is a great difference then the situation in north africa the people out on the streets in tel aviv over the weekend i mean it's one thing to be able to voice your opinion that's great but of course it's also very important to be heard as far as your concern isn't it we heard in our correspondent paula sleeze report but even though it was largely numb to the protests what do you think about it do you think it will make people go to more extreme measures to make their voices heard. i think the general agreement with all protestors is that balance is not an answer i think we should try to make our voices be heard in any measure we can but by alliance is
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definitely not one of them we will continue until someone hears us if it's not him then we will go to the election but violence is definitely not the answer would you like to see britney resign. i think so i think this current government is not the answer to what we're looking for it's neoliberal economic measurements and way of thinking is benefiting the wrong people it's benefiting the six strong families in the israeli economy and not benefiting the people so i think this current government and its prime minister is not the answer to what we're looking for just briefly no more demonstrations planned where does it go from here the. we don't know this demonstration is moving day by day living it day one day at a time i believe we will see more demonstrations i will believe i believe we will hear more specific and more well organized ideas about how we should change things
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and how we want to see our future. i believe we will demonstrate until someone hears this in something change i hope it will go to the next in the from the israeli social movement the national left thanks for joining us in london thank you very much. it was not your course on our website out so you don't come chance to have your say but all the stories you see news views pictures of so much wrong with my guest tonight china opened its own coffee cup. for us to join furniture store in the style of the iconic swedish crown no doubt with meatballs as well it's an authentic imitation here right down to the navy yellow color of the free pencils and paper route for a little more about that on line. moscow's old architectural gems are getting a new lease of life but not in a good way they've been turned into a money trap star getting illegal immigrants who want the back story there we've got a few tonight about tito called. preference of hitler's elite troops
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who fought against the soviet army in world war two and traveled from around europe to hold an annual rally and former members of the nazi waffen s.s. referred to locally as fighters for freedom or joined by neo nazi groups of the country but as artie's sort of first reports now it's feared that the stone is glorification of citizen is feeding dangerous far right movements across europe. the. association of former soldier of the officers i offer on theory but it's something at the moment through they don't think about they think the thing for both of them are crucial to people but. fame country and may steve year at these kind of events a band we kind of doing business and to hear it in a stain year it's a different story altogether. it's common in the story and to call these people freedom fighters we hold all potence trollies on the same gave me hope this event.
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and you are given allegiance to hitler you can tell them what they have never lived leytonstone and moreover what any of them are engaged in and on are more or less accomplices of the crimes committed by nazi germany. in fact in recent years the a stain in the thirty's and made it increasingly difficult for the daisy khan to accuse the events this year once again members of the anti ashes movement which attained at the buddha pulled a bit by the police the car we were travelling in was also a stop the questioning on the way in i was stopped. i have an entry for the country. of any kind of other opinions than their own opinion which is very very much supporting the. movement's revival of the far right across europe is caused growing concern right parties and gaining ground in countries like australia
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finland and france savage sluice are by far right extremists are in this brave making norway we simply couldn't shame just how dangerous these beasts really i think this is a problem of. extremism and far right wing extremism and the fact that the authorities you. close calls the arms and want work surface be you say far failed to take decisive action to stop the nazi commemorations within its borders bush's push for international legislation to condemn the glorification of wartime ashes and. events like the one in a stadium making clearing a clear the not all countries not all. critics of this event soggy the gathering for five to four and for dangerous fascists i did the government's failure to ban it the scene at the very least is being morally and politically insensitive surf.
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elsewhere around the world tonight's twenty five refugees from libya have been found dead on a boat which they used to sail to the italian island of lampedusa officials say the men were found in the engine room where they were choked by fumes a boat carrying two hundred ninety six people from sub-saharan africa arrived after a three day voyage from libya it is the latest in a series of arrival since the civil war began four months ago italian authorities are investigating the case. meantime eight fighters have been killed in libya itself part of rebels clash with colonel gadhafi as moralists of the opposition stronghold city of benghazi the fighting started when rebels rounded up a group a suspected of murdering a military chief and of having links with gadhafi a rebel military commander with libya's former interior minister abdel fattah yunis resuscitated last week of a two thousand people have died in the violence since the civil war began four months ago. this is face a leader of one of mexico's most notorious drug cartels has admitted to the murders
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of fifteen hundred people the thirty three year old man known as el diego was arrested after a gun battle with police on friday he's accused of being the head of a gang of hired killers and corrupted forcemeat offices working for a major crime ring the cartel controls a supply line of illegal drugs smuggled into the united states. finally freak weather destruction and death one victim was killed by a destructive twister as it swept through russian's far east twenty eight others were injured by the huge whirlwind natural phenomenon considered rare here in russia or in the region but in the whole country sale of the pictures look at this the tornado tore through a city center it tore apart the rooftops of balconies of more than one hundred buildings it overturned trucks such as it power uprooted trees. power lines what a mess raged only for a few minutes but i would this is say that it cause as you can see there incredible
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most roads have been cleared but many homes are still without power tonight while these dramatic. go to our website. looking ahead this. surely times revealed in a special report we've compiled for you takes a look at the some of your system of forced labor camps during the stalin era now the experience before that. hello and welcome to business here on arts now we start this hour with thermal energy main journey on which is going to take gas strong to arbitration court in order to pay lower prices for gas in argues that spot gas prices are up to fifty dollars cheaper per thousand cubic meters than the current long term contract it has with gas from god after more than a year of negotiations gas from is still unwilling to meet its german partners the rands taking the matter to arbitration as part of the contractual agreements between the two companies. crude oil is falling once again amid fears global
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economic growth is slowing down the latest manufacturing figures from the u.s. and europe make this no reading of what the slide in oil may not be all bad for russia as divine chicago from renaissance capital explains. if you could they use economy for example one reason why the economy has not done very well in the photograph of your is because of the american consumer has suffered because of the high oil prices it's also have also used the purchasing power of the american consumer i'm again this is a drag on global growth in my opinion the best all price for the global economy right now and maybe even for russia is not on them datapoints around ninety five hundred dollars or a little bit right. and it would be nice you know prices right now i think would be very beneficial for united states for the world and for us. let's take a look at those oil prices right now in light sweet is currently trading at ninth
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ward dollars per barrel while brant says that one hundred sixteen. and over in the u.s. markets have turned starting south after open positive and this new investors were encouraged that the government had agreed on a call scotland program but that also has a more strength away by the weakness manufacturing they are. both here in moscow stocks lost some of their earlier days and finished the day mixed with the arts yes last point three percent of the all the my sucks was up by over one percent so let's take a look at some individual movers on my sex energy rangers were among the main gainers with gas from up almost one and a half percent banking stocks were also higher rank of moscow was up four percent on the us the lender avoided the faltering on its roof bonds and that was after publishing twenty's had an earnings and power generator and still rally was also on the rise become pany has tripled its that profit in the first half of the year
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