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to go and. read as the colonel was hotel treat. the e.u. commission chief says more money should be available to save the region's crippled economies. towards distress. to syria's president legalizes opposition political parties a move dismissed by. claims being massacred by forces. and the palestinian woman on a mission for peace after failing in a suicide bombing mission against israel. here's a story. internationally

using comment this is live in moscow just to midnight here in the russian capital good to have you with us. the head of the e.u. is joining the struggles to lift the region out of its financial pit corner on yet more money to be made available to struggling economies but also also wants the bailout fund to be able to buy government bonds as the major eurozone economies of spain and italy face being crushed under their debt boring costs for both countries surged as investors rush to rid themselves of risky bonds italy avoided the worst of the boring bubble but production there remained sluggish and uncompetitive causing interest to surge. prime minister silvio berlusconi attempted to reassure markets saying the country's economy. it is hard to spray and it's really help. to foot the bills resulted in the commission reports it's the heart of the protesters taking them. step by step activists from the fifteen m. movement hope to make europe

a better place the point of it is to inform people that might not be informed about about things that they can do in their local government and to find out what problems they're having in their local government in their in their in their small towns and to help them come come up with solutions we have reunions every evening we get to the village we meet with the locals and they tell us what's going on in their town. the organization was born from the protest marches in spain where more than twenty percent are jobless and youth unemployment is painfully over forty percent the highest in europe it's these numbers the drove thousands on to madrid streets in may now the financial foot soldiers are beating a path to brussels and some other country is their problems. even. big.

brother strangely has. the whole chain. all together to change that to change the things. we march like a. symbol for everybody. rachel is one of many non spanish europeans with whom the fifteen m. message resonated knowing that if there is one thing europeans do agree on it's who to blame dodgy politicians promising rescue but delivering recession there's a lot of. there's a lot of injustice people want to change that people also in other countries i'm happy with it. in general the way the world is run with a lot of all that money in the hands of a few of the banking system. and the option of basically many of your little systems and they're convinced people power works if it's loud enough people are realizing that we do have the power to change things in the certain way and

basically we just have to get on the streets and make our voices heard so the idea is to go to where the. kind of where all the central european parliament and all the things that the muscles. particularly to to basically protest that we're not having our human rights respected in the place where they say that it will take them two months to march the fifteen hundred plus kilometers to reach brussels where the last thing on their mind will be putting their feet up greece portugal spain people those in their jobs and their homes and while the politicians in this country is insist the situation could get better come on people believe current economic policies of the euro zone lead down the road to nowhere it was carty spain . french judges of all an investigation into the new international monetary fund chief over allegations she abused her power while finance minister in two thousand and eight christine legarde intervened in a commercial battle between

a french tycoon and a form of the state to approve a payment of around three hundred million euros to the businessmen the guard denies misconduct she only took over from dominique strauss kahn of the i.m.f. last month after he was charged with attempting to rape a new york hotel maid or a professor of political science from paris west university befalls told me earlier that he believes investigation is unlikely to affect the guard's job because of her political views. but debate about this case was going on in products before she was actually wanted. she was appointed in spite of the. trend. president who is very close this foreman used to find it in front wanted to find somebody to speak to represent crowds and he's also involved in this in this case you know the reimbursement of public funds to tycoon a business tycoon who is one of his friends but i think both the best occasion

would not go very far because the investigation i suppose would be stymied in a case that french president is involved and he cannot be prosecuted in a court of law so you know if there were ok so he's not even sure some aspects of the case could not be discussed as long as suckers is the president of france so from this angle i don't think it's you know stopping her from doing their job but the map from a democratic point of view it's disheartening to see that somebody who is under investigation or could be and invest investigation was appointed or such a high level job here talking to me a little earlier the syrian opposition has dismissed a decree from present of a sad allowing a multi-party government system nor could see the formation of political factions other than the ruling baath party it comes as the u.n. security council condemned escalating violence in syria the money going into

bloodshed and called for internal political dialogue it's reported the syrian opposition stronghold of hama has been overrun by government forces with witnesses saying there have been casualties there france says it may seek further action from the security council if the killing continues well let's get more on this from james rosen's washington bureau chief for the international news agency into press service and joining the state now some experts believe that what ever reforms are assad's regime is do western powers are also full of skepticism is it too little and too late now for change under a sad. oh sitting here in washington i think it's impossible for me to say i talking with syrian experts based in the united states i get the impression that there's a deep split in opinion about that number of people such as joshua landis at the university of oklahoma believes that. the assad regime is very tough in his

words and could endure for quite some time and that eventually this will be this will become increasingly bloody but that there's no interest at this point in syria's compromise. and there's no sign that the military or his control over the military has has weakened it all or that the military itself is splitting apart. on the other hand there are others who claim and i think this is become conventional wisdom that the violence has been so great as has been the bloodshed. that the regime is doomed and it's a question now of time some believe that he's on his very last legs and major desertions at any time could bring about the regime's collapse and others are are much more skeptical about that so with that situation warrants any form of foreign intervention. well i mean the chief

chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. in the united states has has ruled out any form of direct military intervention as have a number of other you know interested parties external parties so i don't think anyone is contemplating at least at this point any any military action but isn't there i should hear more sorry to interrupt but isn't there a concern if if his regime does collapse and the country collapses into civil war that this not only would be a huge problem for syria itself but beyond syria bearing in mind is such a strategically important country. yeah i mean i think there is genuine concern about that but i think there's also a consensus that direct foreign intervention at least at this point is not going to lead to a stable and satisfactory result i think people have iraq very much on their minds and i think also the failure to make to reach any kind of decisive and to the

situation in libya has also served to take the option of direct military intervention at this time anyway off the table that said i think the major debate here is what kinds of sanctions can be used and what kinds of support can be provided to the to the opposition as diffuse as it appears to be. there are many on capitol hill who are calling now for some what are called sweeping sanctions which is to say sanctions that are designed to cripple the economy particularly against petroleum exports and that in the belief that that will somehow bring about the collapse of the regime on its own without a civil war there's also talk about what kinds of support to provide the opposition whether it's simply the kind of technical support for better communication as well as moral support or whether you know something more can be provided i don't think the administration the obama administration is very enthusiastic either about

sweeping sanctions or about much in the way even of covert. intervention at this point simply because it has so many other things on its mind and because i think also turkey's point of view is taken very seriously now in washington and turkey has probably the most at stake immediately and just remind us of what turkey's view is just briefly and turkey's position in all of this. well initially turkey was kind of asking suggesting strongly that. to be more open to major reforms at the outset and be less repressive in the way he was reacting to the protests around the country and they've become increasingly outspoken about the necessity for the violence to stop and for the repression to cease they're taking an increasingly hard line as has the united states much of the

west and i guess president. today in moscow also took a harder line then moscow has previously taken jones we'll have to leave it there thanks so much your time james loeb washington bureau chief of international news agency into press service is joining us live in washington. and has just been talking about dmitri medvedev has told syria's president assad he needs to carry out reforms and talk to the opposition the russian leader believes if both sides can't find common ground a sad future awaits syrians. nourse it is. unfortunately the situation in syria has taken a dramatic turn we real politicians should follow developments gadhafi in libya gave violent orders to destroy the opposition the syrian president gave no such orders unfortunately a lot of people are dying in syria this is our biggest concern in my private

conversation with the president and in the private letters i've sent him i discussed the same ideas reforms need to be carried out so he should establish peace with the opposition establish peace in the country create a modern state if he fails to do that then a sound future awaits him and at the end of the day we'll have to make our decision we're watching the situation it's changing our guidelines are to. go with the russian president has given an interview to r.t. and other media organizations on the eve of the third anniversary of the a setian war speaking about those events in the caucasus dmitry medvedev said georgian president mikheil saakashvili should face an international court for starting the war in two thousand and eight and you can watch president that interview in full on r.t. at six am g.m.t. on friday. aggressive war that threw a tiny nation into the global spotlight.

three years after georgia attacked satisfaction. could anything have stopped the bloodshed. i did russia have any choice but to step in. president medvedev gives r.t. the straight answers. palestinian women joining the ranks of would be suicide bombers those who carried out atrocities so they're waging war against israeli occupiers and seeking vengeance but one woman was captured before she detonated heard a voice and now has a very different mission paula samir brings us the story. this thirty seven year old palestinian mother doesn't attract much attention when she walks down the street but she's walked a long and difficult path from would be suicide bomber to peace maker it wasn't so long ago that she felt could see was planning to strap explosives to her body and blow herself up in an israeli supermarket maddock in front of the bomb i called fatah and tell them i needed all the equipment but they just laughed and said

you're joking i said if you don't give it to me and how much will they said think about it for a month and then they called me a mild later and said ok everything is ready for you. it was the second intifada or palestinian uprising and already two of she first teenage cousins had been killed by israeli soldiers while her brother was serving eighteen years in prison for his part in a suicide mission well i am a mother and i love my life but i wanted to do it because the israelis destroyed our estate is i wanted to destroy their arrogance female suicide bombing is relatively new in the palestinian world wafa idris a twenty eight year old divorced paramedic from ramallah became the first woman to blow herself up in jerusalem in two thousand and two ten more women have since followed in of what's. one of them is the woman that committed there's so inside in . restaurant she saw her fiance being killed in front of her eyes so she was really pushed to that. point that she want to talk to and her life

experts agree that the reasons that drive a woman to become a suicide bomber are complex there's anger and bitterness towards the israeli occupation forces there's also the patriarchal nature of palestinian society according to and not to bercow has written several books on the subject here women suspected of sleeping with a man before marriage can be thrown out or even killed by their families and numerous it doesn't have to be true but in such a society that can kill this is the way to get rid of women and to let them serve the problem with dignity and honor and without a million their families but the irony is that while these women are held by some as martyrs many religious leaders are reluctant to send their daughters to the front line as bombers and although islam condemn suicide explains shaikh mohammed it's acceptable when fighting colonise ation and occupation if there are some

groups or governments. will come to our territories that we are aware are we have to do to fight against these invasions sheaffer says her reasons were both political and personal she was fed up with the bombs falling around her and ashamed that after just two years of marriage her husband had run off with another woman life had simply become too much the plan was simple she thought was going to pretend to be pregnant and hide to see me hours of explosives and get me a maternity dress she was going to come here to natanya an israeli town not far from a home and blow herself up among israelis suicide bombing due to the kind of attack that doesn't between. all we there is no excuse absolutely no excuse at all but her plan was foiled by a palestinian informant who tipped off the israeli army schieffer was sentenced and spent six years behind bars now back in. home she says she regrets it and devotes

her time to telling her story to both israelis and palestinians in the hope that both sides can come to better understand the other if they are young hundred years later and my daughter asked me who i was going to leave her with and i said with grandma i didn't understand the time how much she and my parents would have suffered i understand and now i know that blowing myself up wouldn't have changed anything the only way to peace is for israelis and palestinians to work together. a strong message from a rather surprising source paulus here r.t. to carmen. when next we take you to one of russia's far flung corners where indigenous people enjoy life in the wild. today with russia's far east on the amir region it's

a place of breathtaking natural beauty where or inspiring wilderness meets the molehill traditions of the people the air is also rich in natural resources namely gold with industrialization it's getting harder for locals to preserve their culture as others have it now of course. it's just. it's a way of life that stretches back generations here in russia's far east chad thank people have survived by living off the land but their numbers and culture are fading. well out here in the depths of the amours tiger if you look hard enough you can still find evidence of the traditional hunter gatherer and their lifestyle we were fortunate enough to stumble across these two families that have been living out here for about a month now and today they're loading up their reindeer to move themselves on to another part of the far. past there are fewer and fewer places for them to go and

the elders say they know two siblings moved for the way in which we are dying out and it's all because of the gold miners the barbarians the destroying the tiger which now can't even provide us with enough food they've destroyed our home taken everything from us and offered nothing in return. whether a blessing or a cause i'm sure is a region abundant in natural resources and with gold currently trading at north time high the pressure to produce is greater than atlanta and few places more so than here. russia's third largest gold miner founded in one thousand nine hundred four the joint russian british venture says it will increase production this year by thirty three. sent to some seventeen tons so here we can see the very beginnings of the gold extraction places several small holes are drilled which are then filled with explosives and then blasted and approximately thirty to forty thousand tons of

rock will be broken up with each plant. it's a process that generates huge amounts of waste we're mining this operation all with a grade of three grams for each ton of gulf war well the talent of all is a million grams south of that one million grams three of the particles of gold and we have to recover those three it's the proverbial needle in a haystack an equation that just does not add up for those who see the tiger as their home others are more pragmatic an inevitable consequence of living in a lucrative landscape. mining in this area working more than a hundred years. old really did a lot of damage in this case it's new technology it's new technology how talked

into gold and how to store waste materials we talk with and there's also people. in this area and not all happy but i will say that most people say yes it's this gold mine will bring us more than we have before. life stumbles meaning more jobs and cultural sporting and schooling programs all funded by the mining bus it's the price of perspire a seat that could spell on told environmental damage and see centuries of tradition for them to extinction. alison thanks r.c. . well to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories about eight minutes from now the meantime we talk to the former head of russia's central bank to talk about the financial troubles piling up in both the eurozone and the us and they feel like a relatively recent phenomena but viktor. says the debts have been swirling around

for ages and is now being used as a political pawn. if it wasn't a russian to hello and thank you very much for being here you became had of the central bank when russia began pursuing its shock therapy policy following advice from american accents how would you advise your american colleagues now with the situation they are facing. you. live within your means that's all

that's just what they told us back then with no idea at all about our economic and social situation at the time that was in one nine hundred ninety two when we began well parts of the government began to listen to their advice after russia joined the i.m.f. that year later they wrote and the famous stiglitz a nobel laureate and former economic advisor to clinton was among them that they were doing everything wrong what they were telling us was all wrong. if we think about the ability to live within one's means who's better at that russia back than or today's usa. you see the u.s.s.r. was living on credit of course but it was solvent and other states were eager to give credit even the us though the latter wasn't doing it directly but through european affiliates they all knew after all that the soviet economy was under control and that the country would pay its debts sooner or later even without high

oil prices that's why they were eager to give credit to the u.s.s.r. especially to finance the purchase of high tech goods to be supplied to the soviet market it has been easy for the us to take credit because of the entire system that's been built up since one thousand nine hundred five when the i.m.f. was being set up there was a he said dispute between the u.k. and the us of course the british had to back off because their economy had been greatly damaged by the war that later led to the devaluation of the pound some years after the war in fact all of europe was living off the marshall plan back then and that consisted mostly of agricultural commodities along with some industrial plants and factories that had depleted their technological potential ones that the us didn't need anymore this in part was the reason for the america's technological leap over more recent years though with production capacities growing rapidly in the third world the share of production in america's g.d.p. has been shrinking that's how america began to live on credit and living on credit

is always difficult as a time may come sooner or later when debts will have to be paid off right now nobody wants to remember that it was in the early nineties when bush and the republicans came to power that the us external state debt obtained by issuing treasury bonds with different terms anything from one week to twenty years and the interest rates grew massively right now it has been increased still further so generally it all happened under the republican rule my question is then why all the hubbub now it's just political games nothing more. and what happens within that country. we reach a compromise to cut their expenses. this has no explicit connection to the situation within their country on the other hand the dollar exchange rate including cash immediately drops on the world markets and the exchange rate for securities traded around the world drops as well in spite of the fact they are issued by u.s.

companies so they incur bookkeeping losses at the very least and perhaps even real financial losses to a large extent the debt was formed under the bush presidency the war in iraq and their role in the afghanistan conflict required huge military expenses and in effect the whole world including our country has been funding those military costs their budget deficit and their balance of payments deficit a number of economists called the actions of the us financially irresponsible do you agree or is it rather a kind of game for the sake of their own interests from the viewpoint of economic theory there is a certain irresponsibility larouche a famous american economist of perhaps french or canadian origin about ten years ago said that the us economy considering its domestic and foreign economic policy is bound to face a crash like the roman empire. ratings full economic players central banks will obviously change the structure of their reserves kemas dumping of the u.s.

treasury happen and what implications can we expect to read you what else is there for them our chinese colleagues in spite of their trade surplus with the u.s. and their own willingness to revalue their currency still keep most of their phones in dollars even though they use them actively to penetrate the development of african and asian economies to develop their infrastructure and so on. there's nowhere to go the world is a stablished in a uni polar way you can't just get out of a marriage especially when you have kids. thank you very much. lisa.