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road as the candle was her turn to retreat. global stock markets falter amid loss of confidence in the u.s. economic recovery and growing euro zone debt. in my private conversation with the president of syria i discussed the same ideas reforms need to be carried out if he fails to do that then the senate future awaits him president medvedev warns syria's president as reports say more than a thousand people have been killed since unrest started in march. and ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is detained for contempt of court infuriating her supporters outside the court where she's on trial for abuse of power.

it's two am in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story world markets are clawing back their losses but remain unstable after the sharpest fall since two thousand and eight this is europe's third largest economy italy is at risk of asking for a bailout the country's borrowing costs rose to unprecedented levels pushing european leaders to interrupt their vacations to seek a response to deepening worries over the euro zone or he's daniel bushell has the latest from brussels. but you're of spreading to new countries france and belgium all next day yields have hit record highs against germany's the u.k.'s financial services authority has asked british banks to reveal how much did they hold in belgium on fears that that country could be next italy and spain have entered crisis talks with the e.u. as their yields hit critical new highs so now you have investors pulling out of france italy and spain. and fourth largest eurozone economies and that is

why the investors in the markets are panicking the moment the leaders of from spain and germany are holding an emergency teleconference to try and stop the open relative to coming out the top you have italian prime minister silvio berlusconi and his finance minister openly disagreeing on this solution solutions to the crisis and the e.u. president jose manuel barroso slammed on discipline communication by e.u. leaders for making the crisis worse and germany is furious at such an open attack this time when it's already critical as in europe we've seen the america really suffering and raising the debt ceiling doesn't tackle the key problem which is making the problem worse given the more debt and their economy is weak because they know the euro nor the u.s. have really started to tackle that key issue yesterday was the wall street worst

day in years there was steep slumps in the share price and there are now fears that america will go back into recession which would strongly hit not just america but the whole world economy and u.s. and europe politicians keep trying to reassure the public that everything is ok but it's investors who are really making decisions they're the ones that are pulling their money out of these markets and they're saying that they don't they don't like the situation at the moment at all. meanwhile the u.s. financial center wall street has closed its poorest. more than two years amid the stock plunged the u.s. government reported a gain of one hundred seventeen thousand jobs but as jeff steinberg from the u.s. based executive intelligence review magazine says the current economic situation may be remembered as being worse than the great depression. the main factor to take into account is that nearly two hundred thousand people were removed from the jar market because they've been chronically unemployed and if or if we've given up on trying to find work so the actual figure if i hit states is somewhere actually of

the city of twenty percent and if you add in those people only working part time that figure comes somewhere between twenty five and thirty percent it's depression level collapse in the west area majors who are going to help which is worst in two thousand and eight ecosoc says continuum from two thousand and eight there's been no real recovery since that point the be who you are banks are facing worse volumes of non-performing toxic assets now in the time of the collapse of lehman brothers there's four and a half million additional foreclosures either having occurred or pending in the united states and all of that means that the banks are being fat publicly bankrupt they're still up here in washington the bank of america and see to involve more of just the big six are in desperate straits there is no hope whatsoever for the

entire transatlantic system to recover in fact we're about to hit a rock bottom situation that will be looked upon in the future is worse than the great depression of the thirty's. stay with us here on r t still ahead. he. is on. a group of hardline muslims try to enforce tough sharia law in london opening a new front of multicultural tension in europe. also complicit or not as leaked top secret documents suggest british intelligence agents were involved in torture in prisons for nearly a decade we talked to one former guantanamo detainee to find out what he went through. russian president dmitry medvedev has warned syria's leader of a sad fate if government crackdowns on protesters continue statement came during an extensive interview with r.t. as well as the radio and georgian t.v. channel p.-i kate you can catch the full version of the interview later this hour

here is a greek. a lot of cities thought so unfortunately the situation in syria has taken a dramatic turn we real politicians should follow developments gadhafi gave violent old is 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 of syria and in the private letters i sent i discussed the same ideas reforms need to be carried out he should establish peace with the opposition establish peace in the country and create a multan state if he fails to do that then a senate future awaits him and at the end of the day will have to make a decision we watching the situation it is changing our guidelines to what. meanwhile at least ten people have been killed six wounded in clashes between syrian security forces and thousands of anti-government protesters after friday prayers as mass demonstrations sweep the country demanding president bashar al

assad step down tanks continue shelling the city of hama reports say a six day crackdown there has left more than one hundred thirty five day international pressure is growing on syria's leadership to stop the violence the u.s. says it's working on new ways to try and influence the situation beyond just sanctions . and ethnic tension is brewing in the u.k. is hard line muslims try to introduce sharia law in the nation's capital parts of london have seen posters put up by islamic activists declaring quote shia controlled zones banning alcohol and playing music. has been hearing many locals are angered by the campaign. so we are here to tell you that islam. is unstoppable in europe stoning for adultery cutting off hands for stealing death of renouncing islam this group of men is trying to enforce shari'a law in the u.k. they've started a campaign to make certain areas of london and other cities islamic law controlled

zones starting with will from stay east london will become on the good of the evil because of these numbers alternative to the muslim of an all muslim community or some of the inability of the muslims kind of together trade according to the sharia was all the problems. and even police themselves to a large extent hopefully one day to have a summit governments who should have authority look at the security locally i do you provide well for locally choudhry and his friends are fly posting parts of london with large muslim populations they want to ban drinking gambling and playing music and they say they've got bands of young men ready to patrol and in full shari'a law by any means you know that enforcement will not initially be in on the level of inviting and for didn't believe that islam has the capability to be what in essentially something like pornography prostitution it should do so. but by that you mean it of course i believe the pressures that are needed most should be run

out of the area these muslims say british society is broken riddled with drugs crime and prostitution because of that they firmly believe members of the communities that targeting will welcome shari'a law but the word on the street about the campaign tells a different story comes down to if you don't like the laws of the place you live find somewhere where you do appreciate the law and. things like a completely legal in this country this is not indira pakistan this is england we've got our own laws people have a right to coming here and bringing their laws in here we often have a cost i think the trouble councillor martin. agrees saying this could destroy community cohesion we've. taken down the post this assumes that because we do not want these posters around. that they have no place to move from for us citizen equality campaigners say the shoe real supporters shouldn't be considered

a religious movement as a phone right political organization with opposed to campaign designed to divide and conquer communities the danger lies in dividing people dividing communities and creating mistrust particularly among from non muslims towards moderate muslims i think this is part of their aim is to create mistrust so they can then turn to moderate muslims and say look everyone hates you we're your friend turn to us and it's a very very dangerous thing and it's a political tactic to increase their own power undeterred by opposition childfree and his group plan will they see is the beginning of an islamic emirate not just in the u.k. but all over europe police have mobilized to take these posts is down as fast as they appear but choudhry and his group say they formed bands of vigilante and forces to make sure. all physically and in other parts of london women have already been harassed for not covering their heads if these muslims ever get

their way i won't be able to dress like this on the streets. or many other parts of london brussels rome and paris. well from story love to. hillary's as a writer on terrorism and political violence he thinks britain's government doesn't treat the shari'a campaigners seriously their message may become more dangerous. of course he takes a very literal reading of the koran and a literal understanding of sharia law and i think this goes to the heart of the problem for islam perhaps throughout the world and indeed for for muslims living. in muslim countries but the trouble is that it's never really discussed on a serious level because it is considered so outrageous and then it creates then the opposite of that which is non muslims in britain saying let's lock them up these people are dangerous so unfortunately what he's done is he's trivialize the debate

which is a very serious one for muslims but it was anjem choudary news group that triggered the formation of the english defense league in a town north of london so actually you know while i know them and consider them i mean i've talked to them a bit like the flintstones the way they behave but indeed because their messages can be amplified by the media all around the world they've had some very very serious consequences both in creating groups like the english defense league and perhaps even. a string of them strictly in people like i'm this breivik in norway police and supporters of former prime minister yulia timoshenko have clashed in the center of the ukrainian capital after a judge ordered her arrest for contempt of court she's been on trial since june over alleged misuse of power while signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine charges she denies parties like sarah chefs he has. this isn't by a judge in a key of course ruled that units in the central ukraine's former prime minister is now placed under arrest now because that she was forbidden to leave the country now

she is taken to a detention center and that's where she will spend her time until the trial comes to and then certainly the atmosphere inside and outside of the court building here in central kiev has been electrifying over the last several weeks or so ever since the trial started in june supporters of you know some assegai have been flocking here several hundred of them are now here protesting the decision which they believe was politicized and the case itself they believe to be orchestrated by the country's president. now the atmosphere inside the courtroom reminded all of the chaotic times in ukraine's politics when there were sporadic fights in ukraine's parliament. accusations those scenes we've seen inside the courtroom for the past several weeks to today is certainly was the culmination when the judge ruled that tomasz uncle was to be placed under arrest supports as. prime minister as well as several deputies of the country's parliament tried to block the armored vehicle

which was to take go out from the building to the detention center they in fact broke this senseless but then the policeman managed to disperse the crowd then the bus stop that's moved with no problems whatsoever british intelligence services have allegedly been violating international law for almost a decade a leak top secret documents suggest agents were permitted to use information taken from prisoners under duress overseas officers were asked to balance the amount of pain the detainee might experience with the value of the intelligence gained this as activists dismiss an inquiry into allegations british detainees were treated as pointless tara while u.k. policy advisor for amnesty international in london has more. and there are a few key reasons why the inquiry is unable to do its job properly the first of these is the rather shocking level of secrecy that surrounds the inquiry much of the inquiry is going to take place behind closed doors and no information will be

released to the public without the say so of the government which is very worrying for an inquiry that's supposed to be getting information to the public about about what's been going on very much hope that they will see that there will still be an inquiry which is open and thorough and transparent and i think if there is a full open inquiry and lessons are learned from that then the u.k. can restore its reputation in the world by then making sure that what it does in the future learn from the lessons of the past. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's government has described reports that moammar gadhafi youngest son was killed in a nato airstrike as a dirty trick earlier rebels claim that twenty eight year old thomas gaddafi was among the thirty two who died in the raid which the alliance says targeted any mission depot and military police facility in a town south of tripoli in may one of these other sons was killed along with three grandchildren when the nato bombing hit the house they were it. thailand has its first ever female head of government has been elected prime minister after her

party secured a parliamentary majority she's the sister of former prime minister taksin shinawatra was overthrown in a military coup five years ago he was charged with corruption and then fled the country there's speculation he might try a comeback now that his sister is in charge. said for our main news here on r t up next our arts and culture program moscow out stay with us.

welcome to the program so i'll be exploring one of the. all the same largest museums in the world i will be taking a day trip to the pizza hut palace with its impressive gardens and fountains founded in seventeen sixty four by catherine the great to have its. great million items in five historic buildings this is one day trip in st petersburg you cannot miss out on. most visitors journey started here at the breath taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding and nearest say case extends for the whole shite of the winter palace its golden white system designed as a retreat case of blogs and follow. you can see here the location of the home it's

mostly created on palace where the building school and in principle saw it along the embankment of the lever is a built in the eighteenth century by the italian architecture strelley it became the home of katherine when she ascended to the throne in seven hundred sixty two over the centuries the pascua larger than a theatre and various new buildings. ices approaches and to a native instilled by the twentieth century to her response was one of the largest museums in the world. a lot of these museums from what i have read but this goes far beyond all my expectations using credit is the same thing. and you can only dream about it's absolutely fabulous since like two for one art and the building all together it's just beautiful and this museum is incredible we

have a great tour guide and she's shown is just a small piece of it but a small piece we've seen is just incredible we have a private tour and i think it's fair we can see a few more things in their understanding. of things they always ask a lot of. the palace boasts almost two thousand windows and over a thousand elegantly and largest decorated pools and rooms many of which are open to the public. is system a. it is better to see all the exhibits in the home as far as we have to move twenty five miles perhaps even a little fascinating at least for those interested in riches glory days if not just distances of the exhibits eliminating russia's imperial past also the rundown of the hermitage treasures would be complete without mentioning the museum stealing collection of western european art which states with thirteenth century onwards michelangelo manet matisse. of art history.

hall on the first floor was designed in an eclectic style by and. in eighteen fifty eight in serious here are just breasts aching it occupies the northern territory of the small helmets and that the main focal point is this amazing peacock clock. from seven hundred ninety seven to the present day the peacock cloak has been one of the hematologist most famous exhibits the figures of a peacock called cool and all that form part of this elaborate fine piece of the tin with mechanisms that set them in motion today so it's one of the few of its size still in working condition. to see how fast everybody was but it's really interesting to see so many people from different places gathered together to see something so unique very beautiful especially when it happened turn around and that is made me even see the famous collection of antiquities including a large number of gold artifacts bracelets rings earrings and male and female

clothing decorations. lived surrounded by wealth and luxury. here date back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold in russia became popular via siberia and the black sea the wealth and of course it's high and abundance of gemstones least far behind the splendor of other york courts while your precious stones were. only on ladies' clothes in russia men rivaled women in self the. dignitaries studded with gold and diamonds only in russia russian and western painting sculpture applied prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of poles if you do visit. or a group tool. in calls information. it's come in several languages this room is given a number which you press when entering you'll simply be lost without

a guide of some sort in the home it's harsh one of the highlights of the museum is the collection of paintings by leonardo da vinci called madonna and child it was really to be painted in the land where the artist lived in fourteen eighty two the image shows a beautiful. child a personification of maternal love their work so they're not all left in the world today and we have this museum on it is entitle to madonna leapt out and very famous was elegant sing beautifully often it was a challenge i remember in my books and textbooks at school and i was really impressed when i searched for the first time about ten years ago i. said. jeff space museum and one of the best in the world even if you're not in our story and will only be impressed with what the home is marsh has on offer as a museum and a grand palace in war and a visit to the state how much more she said petersburg is something you will never

forget. leaving the hermitage now and let's continue our journey crossing the street to the riverside next to the hermitage and you'll see very spent stands and a large jetty this is where we'll catch up boat to peterhof the journey takes twenty minutes and as much from seven traveling by car or train you can see on final destination. we have to travel around the. coastline to get to the world park in the state taking a bunch of fast food to the area called. because the journey time down considerably . nothing was about it it's about the state museum reserve peterhof is a big complex wishing to use the palace of peter the great instrument the alexandria park. parks and peterhof and also parks and palaces in.

each year more than four million tourists visit peterhof is named one of the wonders of russia when you plan your visit here make sure you've got the whole day just early enjoy this is. in my opinion this is one of the most planes taking sides in russia. because some pocket peterhof often referred to as the brush aside. the french palace was the inspiration for peter the great designer to build a similar complex in the suburbs of his new city the window to your. piece of home which means peace is close in jail it is easy to leap little piece of ground and priscilla's a bit of the expansion of the grand palace. peterhof was ravaged destroyed by the german troops during the second world war it was one of the first to be resurrected and thanks to the work of military engineers and over one thousand volunteers. structure has been fully restored by nine hundred

forty seven the most famous founded on someone peterhof if the grandkids stayed here with dozens of water jets creating this breathtaking view surrounded by impressive gold statues at the center the famous samson fountain resting in the jaws of a lion erected in the seven hundred thirty s. it was built to represent russia's victory over sweden. the grocer behind the great escape which is once used. contains the enormous pipes origine wooden the feet the fountains most visit his stack and when they are told that the fountains work only to the use of gravity. it's really beautiful actually more so than with looking at photographs that you saw people became definitely worth a visit beautiful beautiful and it shows a lot of russian history i like it i think it's. still

a hundred years ago and it's just. a lot of the alleyways and all the. fountains. in pottstown for example salsa see is not just because it's very very. spectacular parkland piece of golf is remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed its layout and features. the gardens is a must for every visitor. representing nearly two centuries of european socratic fashion execute to the highest standards peterhof is like an encyclopedia of design . remember to bring your camera and also note the parts of mission is not included when you pay if you harder for john to. come rain or shine a trip to the venice of the north will be something you'll never forget. the first time you enter the hematologist dazzling staircase to witnessing the rainbows

created by the grand cascades fountain in pisa hoff. constant involves reconstruction a certain late. as you can see the day we tell as compared to life and for those who happen to see the magic of the new of the capital i suggest you come here quickly to fool even louis missouri. absolutely spectacular one of forcefully that's all the time we have from some of the most beautiful attractions here in st petersburg i'll see you again at the same time next week some tell them for me and the rest of the crew from pizza health by now. claim.

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