in india oh geez available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the elevators the gates we go to the grand imperial truly the george was the bush coromandel you can oh well it's a little close richard good to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hurt you know as this korea treat. the u.s. house of representatives swings behind the debt limit bill to avoid default and criticism that america still faces a harsh economic recovery despite a last minute compromise to. the death of the bill is now in the hands of the u.s. senate after months of political peppering will it be enough to avert financial crisis. nato members press for tougher u.n. action against syria's government in response to escalating violence but russia vows to block any resolution leading to a libya style intervention. and israel is seized by

a tidal wave of antigovernment protesters demanding sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators complained that summer of discontent is a largely being passed over by the international media. a very warm welcome to you at this is r.t. live from moscow the lower house of the u.s. congress has done its part to prevent a devastating default by supporting an eleventh hour deal to raise the country's boring limit after months of stalemate and a political squabbling the bill could be signed into law later on tuesday if the senate also gives the go ahead. and offers across the latest in washington. not a lot of good news in terms of the big picture for the u.s. economy of course the only thing that we can be certain of that this deal means is

that it avert the self imposed potential crisis of a u.s. default what we do know in this legislation is it does sort of cut spending by about two point four trillion dollars over the next decade what that means in the short term for the u.s. economy is potentially a lot of tightening of growth now we have to keep in mind that the unemployment rates are still astronomically high at nine point two percent and so a lot of economists are saying this is not really the time to be cutting just spending this whole battle over the debt limit is kind of a proxy war an ideological proxy war between the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress and we have to keep in mind that the two thousand and twelve election is coming up for both the congress and of course president obama and a lot of political analysts are saying this is just another way for the republicans to try to embarrass the president to make them look bad the irony in all this is that neither the left and more of the right really liked what came out of the deal at the end we saw one democrats that this is

a sugar coated satan sandwich you look at the bun and nobody likes what they see and of course by creating the special commission that will sort of figure out where to cut spending over the next few months that issue is still going to come up right in time for the elections so no one really wins in this deal. he's going to funnel for porting right well while the deal helps the u.s. if immediate default it may be too early to heave a sigh of relief joins standard and poor's and moody's have both indicated they could still strip america of its priced aaa school financial analyst my scars i believe the days of america's debt being seen as risk free i would have. a u.s. treasury bond market will be downgraded it will no longer carry the aaa rating no matter what they decide and this is exactly what wall street banks want you don't make much money trading aaa rated u.s. government that the spreads are very tight and there's not much money to be made

it's foolish to think of this sometimes of republicans versus democrats this is about savers averse to speculators speculators want interest rates at zero percent and they want u.s. treasury bonds the junk savers who are not getting any return on their investments because interest rates are zero are buying gold which is about to hit another new all time highs in currencies around the world they're buying silver because they realize that the american club soccer say and the folks on wall street have the american public by the juggler and they going to keep squeezing and so they end up putting another fifty or sixty million of people permanently into poverty and just destroy this economy for the purpose of making a quick buck these people are financial terrorists what a barack obama needs to do if he were working in the interest of the people would be to nationalize j.p. morgan and goldman sachs immediately fire these crooks and start all over again because you've got a predatory monopolist down there on wall street was interested in wiping out the middle class for

a quick buck and that is tyranny. well the risk of the biggest economy defaulting has sent ripples all around the world with inevitable concern in asia with its heavy investment in u.s. and auntie's korea shrewder reports despite the immediate economic really move voices according to end the dollar's reign as the main currency was of. asia has a huge vested interest in what's going on in the united states three trillion dollars of united states that is held by asian countries china being number one hand being number two so confidence has really gone down here stocks here are rallying people are obviously happy that this debt deal finally passed and then you know we're it's here are actually shocked at how long it took chinese newspapers are calling this entire u.s. debt ceiling debate irresponsible and even immoral many critics of this deal are saying that this isn't going to do anything to help american unemployment which directly impacts the asian economy as well as you know asia is the manufacturing

center of the world so if the unemployment problem isn't solved in the united states that also means that consumer confidence goes down for america and that means that they're not going to be buying exports from asia so that can really impact. people's jobs here in this continent so people are definitely worried there's also been a lot of talk about that got that the dollar has been at some of the lowest rates we've seen and in the past year and so there has been a lot of muttering fear in asia about perhaps an alternative reserve currency or perhaps looking into about it aren't we including japan and china as well. as appreciative that the asian markets reaction to the u.s. debt deal so if you're on the program or naughty information vacuum we're quite mainstream media remains no to the one hundred fifty thousand israelis demanding social. but it remains a whole new meaning to taking

a look at this time versus them a savings from what so that's all about a little bit later in the program. a fresh outbreak of violence springs morgoth's to syria as government forces far gun on government. protesters the un security security council is set to resume discussions on the situation in the country amid reports of over one hundred being killed on sunday moscow has meantime condemned the brutal conflict appealing to both sides for dialogue russia has been cautious about international action on syria fearing a repeat of what it calls the violation of the un mandate on libya it warns that any measures on syria must be restricted to solving not aggravating the conflict as the e.u. expands sanctions on damascus a former u.k. ambassador to the country says it's the internal situation in the country that will eventually president assad. the economic sanctions are not of themselves going to

bring down but what will undermine him over time is the fact that the economy is collapsing it is a truism of syrian politics that if he loses the sunni little plus support from damascus and aleppo to a lesser extent. he will not be able to maintain his hold on power and when they see that the road he is leading them down is leading to economic disaster then they are more likely to turn against him the moment he has talked about reform but not done anything he's talked about checking the security state but in fact is unleashed it i don't see that intervention militarily would be anything other than disastrous within syria all syrians would object to that would be the one thing that might unite all syrians behind the government in fact. so i

don't see any prospect of it i mean while the western officials are ruling out military intervention in syria instead putting more economic pressure on damascus moscow says that sanctions against the country are inadvisable well middle east expert joshua landis thinks the restrictive measures will eventually backfire and only hurt the syrian people. all of the syrian opposition leaders who have met and elected executive committees have all got mad that there be no foreign intervention now of course foreign intervention is a very broad and gray area there is the alternate dimension like libya but there is also economic strangulation which could come along the united states already has sanctions fairly severe sanctions on syria the west feels it needs to do something it doesn't want to stop craving you know we've tried sanctions in iraq in iran libya they haven't worked very much and when they have worked they've started not

the government and that's the danger of sanctions if they feel good because you feel like you're doing something and you could tell the opposition you're on their side but in fact they are to hurt the people you don't want to hurt. so right now just turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and of course loads more for you on our website r.t. dot com well he's just too many stories you can find with one line right now and it is all revived narcism the baltic state welcomes veterans of hitler's waffen s.s. to a rally in estonia with fascism or finding a pocket of support in europe. and opened the world when strikes in eastern russia becoming the country's first ever city tornado the thirty minutes or so injured dozens and scores of massive damage. independent experts say there are doubts of poland's investigation into the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski as well as much of the country's elite was an

objective one also agree that pilot error was the main reason behind the tragedy that took place in russia last year but there are still differences in its findings and those of the interstate aviation committee poland's latest report highlighted various technical issues at the airport but these separate committee did not have a bearing on the crash experts also point to psychological pressure placed on the flight crew by polish officials during the landing phase of the flight the crash near the russian city of slovyansk killed all ninety six on board. in israel television central square has been turned into tent city crowds of protesters have expressed their discontent with soaring prices and plummeting salaries but as aunties paulus leo reports the peaceful demonstrations often go unnoticed i think government and by the world's mainstream media. tens of thousands on the streets of israel angry bitter and protesting for change but is

anyone listening when it comes to a lot of the foreign media want to see more of an action movie and thousand very violent it's been very hasn't been violent also in a very positive. well into week three the largest demonstration in israel in over a decade and how did a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. coverage they didn't a younger woman set up a tent while the editors of france twenty four b.b.c. and sky coughed up just a few meager seconds perhaps not even that interesting to. look. in the studios ok there's a protest well what exactly is a protest a social protest for the river lucia it's not the same kind of story the pollution is not as big and dramatic some of the bigger revolutions happening around the middle east and i mean it isn't surprised by the worldwide lack of media interest he's worked in israeli press for decades reporting from media both foreign and

local there is a box that the international media has put israel in the israeli palestinian conflict also israeli lebanese and syrian conflict anything that doesn't kind of fit into that. type of of news item which is unfortunate that just makes hundred reyes and others angry for nine days she's been camping here furious that she can't make ends meet as a university student it makes feel sad that when egypt decided to stand up and say we've had enough and. eleven and they decided to stay we've had enough the media was all over there i haven't seen anyone from c.n.n. or fox news or any other big news channel here and it's really sad we also deserve a chance to be heard out on the street has been. you're cornered by some of the people here an optimism perhaps that they too can bring down the government in the way they may visit it's not just where. that's where the cameras they were willing

to non stop here they pretty absent when you see r t tel aviv. and nearly quarter past the hour here in the russian capital with artsy a terror suspect has confessed to making the bomb that injured a five year old girl following an attack on a kindergarten in eastern russia investigators say the homemade device was wrapped as a gift box and left on the kindergarten terrorists in the city of qom some more exploded when the child touched it packed with nails the bomb left the girl with multiple cuts and severe burns she's now being treated in hospital the twenty eight year old suspect is still being questioned by police and authorities are now inspecting all schools and kindergartens in the region in connection with the incident. now let's get some other world news for you this hour and at least twenty three people have been injured in the northern iraqi city of kut of cook this after a car bomb exploded outside

a catholic church police say two further attempts to bomb christian targets were foiled and wounded included church staff and people from neighboring houses which were also damaged by the blast this is the latest of a series of similar attacks in the most of the region where minorities are regularly targeted by insurgents and religious extremists. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has agreed to discuss a possible return to supreme one nine hundred sixty seven borders with palestinians the country has been occupying land in the west bank where palestinians hope to build their own state since the six day war in argument follows a benyamin netanyahu is consistent rejection of the same proposal put forward by barack obama in may in return the palestinians would be expected to drop their bid for statehood at the u.n. and formally recognize israel as a jewish state. a suicide bomber has blown up his car outside a local guesthouse in the afghan city of conducts two more militants broke in and

held off police in a firefight lasting two hours four guards were killed and ten injured however several foreign guests did manage to escape through the rear of the building the taliban admitted responsibility for the attack and it's the latest in a rising number of assaults in northern afghanistan. japan's energy operator tepco has detected an extremely high radiation reading at the fukushima nuclear facility since the march earthquake and tsunami the recent levels are more than double the previous high and are considered fatal the company and government say they are still on track however to bring the reactors to a safe state of cold shutdown by january meanwhile tens of thousands of people remain in temporary shelters after a no go zone around the complex was enforced. a legendary russian military helicopter which has been in service for decades is coming back to the front line in afghanistan the u.s. which is withdrawing from the region more than

a dozen of the truck was from russia for the afghan security forces that's entirely novikoff and has the story. i'm glad it's is the nickname soviet soldiers gave to the strong sandy went over afghanistan over twenty years ago they regarded as their main enemy as they struggled through air missions over high mountains in extreme weather now it's used to describe these the soviet designed am i seventeen which made its name as a valid survivors. in this helicopter may not be the most advanced but it's well protected from the destructive sounds unlike many of its alternative source is very powerful and perfect for the extreme climate of afghanistan it will be able to operate here for about twenty five years. the u.s. led mission in afghanistan and soon when nato troops go there and my seventeen's will make a comeback to face the afghan is when once again russia will ship twenty one

helicopters to venice than to help the country's security engineers and pilots work together to perfect and ease operating with m y seventeen's while it seems quantum physics to me afghan pilots are already familiar with the machine many of them trained under soviet air force instructors even now twenty years later it's the perfect russian relatives and. i graduated from a pilot school in the russian city of christendom and nine hundred eighty four when i go back to afghanistan are said in the army we only had so good a craft those machines were the best to get in the most difficult and isolated parts of the country that the us will be for advantage than semi seventeen's something which could american helicopter manufacturers in a spin with congress during russian military aircraft the countries had plenty of helping hands after the soviet invasion russia provided millions of dollars worth of military hardware and a lot of a ten billion dollar debt to the u.s.s.r.

and now the deal is sealed russian engineers are working to assemble the helicopters the am i seventy. he's proved it needed three might doesn't always mean advanced technology is long as it's got tough stuff but it's rain and they've beaten banks we. see. so i don't know it's got one of the top stories here and the story of about one hundred fifty thousand protesters are congregating in tel aviv to protest against the government for economic reasons among many others that's let's get more details on this and talk to journalist and blogger on the kaufman standing by live for us i thanks for joining us today you wrote in your blog suddenly israel isn't a story anymore referring to the western media as apparent lack of interest in the mass protests what do you think it doesn't take an interest. well it's actually a good question i think there might be a few reasons for that i think that a lot of news editors. kind of take certain things for granted when it comes to the

almost going to sort of autopilot if it's not anything to do with the israeli palestinian conflict it's just not a story but it could also be. to credit the very very powerful jewish lobby in washington in new york to control the media to manipulate the media. so the reports of one hundred fifty thousand protesters simply flies under the radar. no i don't think it has anything to do with the american jewish american lobby in the states. those kinds of conspiracy theories are never true i just think that it is just so trained to see israel through one prism which is the israeli palestinian conflict and in a way they take the phrase if it doesn't bleed it doesn't lead to a certain extreme that goes a bit too far right now a few people around the world have any idea of israel's domestic problems the dispute with the palestinians as you were as you were saying it's really all the press talks about how can you change that and raise the profile of the country's

demonstrators do you think is that possible. well i think first of all you have to have an understanding a bit more of what these demonstrations are and how they affect the israeli political system. it's true that most socio economic stories across the world are a big story that's the case in most countries when they reach a certain threshold for example of huge numbers of people that participate in the protests and also when they. have have the potential to stir up the political map as these protests do then these things should be should be mentioned in the press and they should be covered well indeed as you say stirring up the political spectrum here. one of the protesters demands is for a benyamin netanyahu to step down as we all know he's largely backed by the jewish lobby in the united states if he did resign with that get media attention how would the world respond to that you know it's

a mess would it not. oh of course if he resigned in then of course all eyes would be on israel as again this would affect the israeli palestinian conflict any political change it has immense. and how the israeli palestinian conflict so i presume that if there is a chance of regime change and media coverage it will be a bit more closer on israel but but the family seems to have happened so far especially on saturday after the demo huge demonstration in tel aviv and across the country of one hundred fifty thousand people it is quite odd seeing as how israel is in the news so often when it comes to something that could affect the political situation and it isn't covered this is actually in my view it's bad journalism are they from i just jump in here briefly and i apologize that we are running low on time here but many commentators have already said that this israeli summer is similar to the arab spring so it's likely that. well my personal take

is that you might have been affected by the arab spring but i believe that what's going on in israel now is a lot closer to what's going on in spain and specifically my dream. where the middle class is struggling and middle class has had enough and the middle class is now going out to the streets to demand change from it from this government more rights. journalist and blogger thank you. for the heavy traffic and chaotic parking is a daily headache in just about every major city of the world people unable to find a parking space will often just leave their cars in any available spot you know pavement or even a bus stop but the mayor of lithuania as capital vilnius has decided that a ticket just isn't enough have a look at this here you can see how we employ a very simple yet effective means to solve the problem the owner of this mercedes

parked in a bicycle lane and made just three arrest this is called himself a bit of work for where in the scuffle with an armored vehicle. a video was published by the mayor's office as a reminder to those who violate traffic and parking rules that's one misdemeanor charming stuff. but i did just a few minutes we meet the commander of the notorious apollo thirteen mission that never actually reached the moon but first know it's a marina with a business. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. now a new legal specialist is being appointed in each of russia's eight federal districts so help improve the investment climate the position of the so-called investment on bottom and is the brainchild of president reagan with native their role will be to break down administrative barriers and be a point of contact for investors with the central government's. german energy major

eat only is taking vast amounts of course to get a lower price for russian gas the company argues spot prices are up to fifty dollars cheaper per thousand cubic meters than the current long term contract it has with gas from that's when the police go by has all the details for us. gazprom says it already revise the gas price for eat all last year at that time each person way to the gas pump will sell a part with gas and the price linked to support prices which will lower than gas pumps contracts now eon is asking for fill the reductions the company's suffering had a loss of due to the gap between gas probes brize and that's only european markets which he'll serve but gazprom wants to stick to its long term contracts which it says provides security for customers at only a small premium prices the talks have lost for more than a year now without success so now your new stake in the matter to an arbitration

court lawyers we've spoken to suggest it is it will be in the courts power to instruct gazprom to decrease what it charges but it would need a contractual reason to find in favor. but let's take a look at the markets now as u.s. stocks opened in the red and thus risk cautious about the prospects of a recovery and a potential credit downgrade that's coupled with the report states in spending the klein division for the first time in almost two years and this is in the negative territory let's take a look at european stock markets they are lower with banks meeting the clients are bar felt super science after reporting a one point one percent rise in second quarter profits swiss banks are also low world with credit suisse group of four point five percent and the london shares a five startups humboldt's two point two percent after the miner said first half net profit more than doubled. and it's

a similar picture here and most cold where both the indices are in negative territory the r.t.s. is there one point nine percent of the sour of all the my sites is losing over half of the site but let's have a look at some individual movers on the ny sucks and archie and frank insult so weigh in on that and the. c.s. gas from n.b.c. b. are valid point seven percent meanwhile russia's air carrier air float is up slightly and that supported by positive results the company has almost doubled its that profit and the first half of the year to point out and with million dollars. russian internet investment group the s.t.b. lobel has bought five percent of social network twitter for four hundred million dollars that's according to the financial times quoting a source close to the deal the newspaper suggests the investment might be the last one if warts were listed on wall street the a c. global also owns almost eight percent of facebook. russian mobile phone

resellers there is no way it's soon list on the london stock exchange and twenty twelve the company's c.e.o. has estimated its value between one point six and six point eight billion dollars and says up to thirty percent of shares will be sold meanwhile suppose no one has reported a twenty six percent growth profit for the first half. and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always had to sign it's r.t. dot com slash business but in the meantime statesman for the headlines with laurie .

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