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just after six pm on saturday here in moscow this is r.t. with me wrong receipt showing the united states prize a top aaa credit rating has been cut for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventeen standard and poor's has dropped america's ranking to double a plus this comes after a last minute debt deal earlier this week and narrowly rescued the country from default s. and p. says the spending cuts agreed upon by congress are one and a half trillion dollars short and if it's not changed the rating could plummet further in the coming years but the obama administration says the analysis is a way off and will damage any recovery parties at least you can find off is in washington. well it really is more than anything a huge or symbolic and unprecedented blow to the united states to its status as a safe investment basically what this credit rating lowering does it is it really

raises questions about the validity of the united states and the ability of the u.s. politically to get its financial house in order so to speak the record questions here for the american people for the u.s. government could be severe now while this only takes it down from aaa to a.a. plus with a negative outlook threatening in fact that the rating could get lowered even more in the next two years what it does is it potentially it is sends a message that the united states is a risky investment that it sent interest rates going up for the federal government and because other borrowing costs are tied to that that means mortgage payments could go up mortgage interest rates go up car interest rates can go up and really the rest of the u.s. economy could be severely affected now one thing that we do have to keep in mind here is that the obama administration had pointed out that the s. and p. had made an error of about two trillion dollars in. projections in releasing that information now the s. and p.

doesn't make these decisions based on any sort of special information they really it really is a political reaction based on facts that are available to just anyone and so the other thing we have to keep in mind here is that these same credit ratings agencies essentially allowed top ratings to continue in the united states at a time when we were investing a lot of money in these mortgage securities that essentially in a collapsing and pulling down the u.s. economy with it so they don't really have all that much credibility in the eyes of the world market still however we don't know what will happen come monday when the markets will open and if those interest rates do rise there could be a root ball at this very unstable economic time here in the united states with the passage of this debt deal the u.s. government's hands are essentially tied in terms of stimuli. in the economy in terms of any sort of new spending that could boost growth we saw g.d.p. growth which had stalled to almost a crawl in the second half of the year we saw on top of that the jobs report that

came out on friday for the united states was somewhat positive but actually showed negative growth because it means that more people here in america have given up looking for work so politically there's really not that will in washington to do what's needed to to stimulate growth and financially they simply do not have the tools in their possession in order to improve things here and so while these credit rating agencies may sometimes be accused by some financial experts of having missed the mark long ago these small tiny effects in terms of higher interest rates could really really cripple what's already seems to be a worsening recession here in the united states. right that grigori bird and analyst for russia's invest cafe agency says the downgrade simply put was inevitable i think it should have happened first of all the crazy agencies are trying to retain credibility and because many of us is criticizing them over the

fact that they haven't recognized the risks with the world economy with the current crisis and i mean this is the downgrade reflects the fundamental problem with the american economy that they're living beyond their means increasing the debt running huge budget deficits and their political problems which don't make it better i think moving towards a basket of reserve currencies and i think china is definitely. one of the big players in the. economist richard wolffe you told us that many are waking up to the reality that the u.s. economy is crippled. we've had twenty years of being told that a private enterprise economy is the royal road to success and prosperity forever then we had a crash of that system now we've had a recovery by a government that took care of the banks and insurance companies first and the sure the purse it would trickle down it's not trickling down that's what is unemployment numbers mean that's what the increasing foreclosure of people being thrown out of

their homes means and so on the stock market is finally the investment community itself realizing that this system is broken and there is nothing on the horizon to take it out and the anxiety that used to be among all the average people the vanishing middle class and all the people worried about government spending that anxiety is now spreading even to the top of the economy as they realize they've gone way too far and may have killed the goose that is laying the golden egg at least for them meantime china the largest holder of the u.s. that has immediately reacted to the news of the downgrade saying washington needs to cure its debt addiction beijing also calls for a new stable reserve currency instead of the dollar concerns are also raising in asia as of third largest economy of course india that's where the finance minister called the situation grave parties are pretty shrewd and reports from the dowry.

these markets are tumbling they were tumbling on friday obviously we don't know what's going to happen on monday in specific reaction to this news but many analysts many financial analysts here predicted this guy sleep after the u.s. debt ceiling debate that to go along and in many ways is what people are saying led to these lower approval ratings they guess you could say so the markets have tumbled here people are losing confidence in the american economy obviously there are things that soaring they're seeing a lots of decisions not specifically being made when it comes to that two point four trillion dollars in cuts a lot of people are wondering if it took us this a long to come to a decision just to raise the debt ceiling how much longer could it take to actually figure out but typically where to cut in asia has a very vested interest in this if you think about what these ratings actually means that means that the united states won't be able to repay a lot of their loans in asia actually hold three trillion dollars in the united states loans the people here are watching what's happening in the united states

very closely he's pretty sure to report asian investors are ditching bombs in the wake of what's been tough week for america's economy so it shows investor jim rogers. all the asians already know that america's got problems all of us are already moving out of u.s. government bonds we never got out of the first global recession unemployment in america still higher than it was in two thousand and eight the american dead has skyrocketed and gone through the dead and through the roof america is in worse shape now than it was before america spent a lot of money and the people who got that money are better off but the overall situation is much worse americas quite true but it's dead america if you take in the consider the things that they guarantee they printed huge amounts of money you know the world has gotten worse or hasn't gotten better vision of the u.s. will default that's why people are moving away from u.s. government bonds because everybody knows the u.s.

is in serious trouble and the debt situation is getting worse and worse not better and better well the downgrade came too late to hit europe's stock markets which have already taken a hammering this week of being battered by the eurozone and america's debt debacle he is a middle of the e.u. leaders have criticized the u.s. rating agencies blaming them of double standards saying they will create a european one in response teams that are bush will possible from brussels. downgraded trust in the rating agencies to junk status. as the agency admitted it truly a miscalculation when deciding its downgrade they claim to have the world's best minds working for them how to really surprise people here because most know that's emerged as a side unsustainable that for many years now while everyone apart from the rating agencies it seems and. collapsed in the credit crunch they still had aaa ratings on those companies now that made the agencies lose their reputation but people lost

their whole savings and triggered the world recession the followed. the rules are furious about s. and p's double standards they held long talks with the white house before this decision they prefer it when it would take place what would happen and that's allowed the white house to prepare a smooth response to the media or even question the the agency's judgment none of the happened last week when the agencies graded the european union countries and their ratings now that suggests that the agency is rigged to say the very least and as a result the european union is creating its own agencies will do this. for americans who will see themselves having to pay more more interest on their loans and having to pay more this is bad really for everyone around the world who lend money to america because it raises the risk of not getting that money back.

well one small debt for man one giant black hole for a government later on in the program here at r.t. we are in new york to ask what is the difference between our debt and. much worse for a government to be why. we trust the government do the right thing and they're doing absolutely the opposite of that do you trust yourself to do. i do you mean dad say that i can pay it off. all right past the hour here in the russian capital t. israel is bracing itself for a fresh wave of massive anti-government protests activists are hoping that two hundred thousand will take part in a third weekend of rallies all across the country one street has already been renamed by israeli. after the square with egypt uprising took place.

reports. bases of a saturday tens of thousands of protesters will be taking to the streets here in tel aviv as well as in civil other cities around the country we will be holding mass rallies against the government there hoping to talk with the one hundred fifty thousand nationwide who took to the streets last weekend this is the third saturday in the road that protest all the polls are united under the banner of the government has abandoned the people and the central message coming from organizes is that the people are taking the country back now the conscious mind is told in the strangest democracy of what's taught we have all read submissions last week a tent city has been established the final destination is not far from here at the korea defense compound and there they'll be holding a mass where you presume to a number of demands on the government of the civil speakers several populist singers also present in the last week there has been a number of smaller demonstrations that have been held for civil law was earlier

this week taxi drivers blocked off a number of main goes they were protesting against the high cost of diesel there was also another protest among teachers university professors and students and they were united under the banner we education for all i did not have demonstrations of yesterday we hundreds of parents with strollers took to the streets and they were protesting against the wizened costs and behind costs of having children feeling as well israeli prime minister. has been supplies by the masses to all these demonstrations and his government is still struggling in terms of how to deal with them essentially what you can hear some people here in israel saying is that an attorney who was so obsessed with gathering intelligence for the third turlough from the mediterranean that he missed the opportunity to see what was happening here wants under his eyes want to see ahmed see tell of of. the social crisis caused by the government policy but he decades allowed the wealth to go to

the hands of the rich if you will that's according to your view from the organization and. investor in two years they're worried. mostly. supporters change the character of these wally economy and we would see rich people. richer control most of the big companies and enjoying benefits and enjoying their condition. to develop it while they. actually found a team in order to have enough money. to live here in these. environments so this is something that people fear for many years now and this is the first time where you can hear such a big wave of saying we want to change just this experiment we want to go back to the north or slowly policies. across developments in israel and parties.

posting comments on our twitter account r.t. on the score card wonder what's happening at the so-called israeli. mass rallies tonight i have your screen right now here we go one of the latest tweets says that protesters promise to stay in the streets until prime minister netanyahu meets their demands on to r.t. underscore calm find the latest on this and other developing stories we're covering here i. put intelligence services have allegedly been violating international law for almost a decade a leaked top secret document suggests agents were permitted to use information taken from prisoners tortured overseas officers were asked to balance how much they expected detainees to suffer against the value of the information they could get they were also given a political protection from prosecution human rights activists are demanding an open and fair inquiry but fear their questions will be met with a wall of silence as torah law from amnesty international explains. there are

a few key reasons why the inquiry is unable to properly and the first. he says the rather shocking level of secrecy that surrounding the inquiry and 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 it's very worrying for an inquiry that's supposed to be getting information to the public about what's been going on very much hope that they will see that there will still be an inquiry which is open and and transparent and that the government will reconsider. the prior problematic protocol that's been put in place. so you thank you for joining us today there's always more in all the stories we're covering it up. here some of the items waiting for you want to run right now from london. start a group of hardline muslims want sharia law introduced in the u.k. which could come down. to. illustrate the point. of section

where we draw on all the major. the. the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime is an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are that. this work is being carried out under the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets

of the intelligence community and for by. david kay he is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund the continuing search have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course that helps the country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least for the term patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no

defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. welcome back here with r.t. live from moscow it's an hour twenty minutes past the hour people loyal to former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko continue to protest against the west her supporters have set up a tent city in the center of the capital p. have she was arrested or contempt of court on friday and. has been on trial since june over alleged abuse of power while signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are all charges she denies supporters call the case politically orchestrated by the country's current president viktor bout in the court which the rallies began on friday when they tried to block the armored vehicle taking t.v. show away a bit were dispersed by police. more international news now in our world updater an

artsy thirty one u.s. special forces personnel and seven afghan soldiers have all been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern one and back province this according to the office of president karzai the incident marks the biggest single loss of life for american forces in the country by the taliban have claimed responsibility for saying they shot down the helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade. but syria's foreign minister has a pleasure free democratic general elections in the country by the end of the year it comes as activists say fresh clashes in syria have left at least twenty four dead with security forces firing around you government protesters the six day crackdown is now reportedly killed around two hundred people of color cross the country international condemnation of the violence is growing and the u.s. is working more new ways to influence the situation beyond sanctions. seventeen people who are being killed and four injured in

a multiple vehicle collision in southern china state media says the pilot was triggered after two trucks collided flipping one of them into the part of an oncoming passenger minibus authorities are investigating whether overloading of the vehicles involved may have been a factor in the incident. sure. but back to the us now the debt drawn on going that seen its top tier credit rating taking a not if you are going into debt the banks all over us in a heartbeat it's only now that america which owes trillions is seeing its credit score decline on one talk show host laura and it's now in new york ask people why are americans so keen on going. but i think so many people allow themselves to get so far and that is the is the age that we live in everybody sees the person next door that they've got the brand new car the star lifestyle and that's what they want is so much advertising and

people just want you to spend money so i think that's the difference between americans and europeans but you have advertising in europe are you just you don't pay attention to it or. i think we pay less attention to it and we probably think a little more about what we need and what we can afford but it's all about thinking yes i think so is it worse for you to be into personally that it is for a government to be in such. as much work for government to be and why because we trust the government to do the right thing and they're doing absolutely the opposite of that we don't you trust yourself to do the right thing and live within your means i do mean that such that i could pay it off debt is dead it's bad for governments bad for individuals and the government should show leadership they've got to clean it up do we really expect our government to get its act together if we can't get our act together for small families we can only hope that individuals and

the government will step up and make a difference whether or not you're in debt personally the bottom line is we've become a planet of debtors so it might be time for all of us to rethink what it is to live within our means. without a life or to stay with us next we travel thousands of kilometers east of moscow but also millions of years time. and this time we're in the far east and are more richer it's a remote but rich area holding russia's largest reserves of precious metals but artie's alice ever has met one team whose treasure lies not in gold rather environs . this week the russia close the team is coming to us all week from the far eastern

and more region now for many this region's distinctive juice to its proximity to china and its funnels reserves of what materials and natural resources but one paleontologist and his team it's the bones of ancient dinosaurs discovered deep within the ground here this weekend firmly on the map. you evil lawlessly is a man obsessed with the powerless a bygone age when dinosaurs rule based part of russia he may have been born in the countries the western areas are not it's the far east on tap jurassic history in the end which has devoted his life for the rest of her very near this site to be known since about nine hundred forty eight there would have been unbelievable number of bones are buried here and i think we'll be digging for at least another two years when they literally everywhere here we are no region is looking at one of the few functioning archaeological sites only here can

a site boast of having produced a complete dinosaur skeleton that discovery made a decade ago led to the full recognition of a new breed of dinosaur a lot or to town or giants on a twelve missile long have all found almost exclusively here and it was you the some of the first steps of a fragment of tail bone sticking out of the father and son went on to make paleontology history a van has since followed in his father's footsteps it's painstaking work requiring patience and skill in equal measure when we discover the one we will begin to or him or the ground around it i was worried if your hand and the show were a girl who are slow because zero can be more in the ground around it. why does this. year eleven team of been excavating this site for the past three years and already they found well over one thousand dinosaur bones approximately

sixty five million years old but they believe that the bones of hundreds of more dinosaurs i gets to be found within this small plot alone i'm told that these will most likely be fragments of a not a giant duck billed plant eater unique to the region and named in its honor the are more saurus is another previously undiscovered breed credited to team the last ski which includes natalia also and scientists it was she who came up with both steiner saul's names as well as taking day to day charge of running the region's only paid homage of the burra tree and museum each new discovery must be carefully catalogued and examined the aim is to inspire the next generation of dinosaurs hundreds of this was one ensuring the family's feats don't do well no members but i reckon. on up here you can see a photo of your boat ski at the excavation site and here you see photos of my bonus

or as this is a skeleton of an annoyance or else what a strange looking reptile isn't it and so learn from the follies of history charles miles and this is charles marsh an american poly until august in one thousand nine hundred seventy he visited moscow and announced that there were no dinosaurs in russia and everyone believed him yet luckily yuri belongs comes from a long line of scientists who chose to follow their own instincts and secure a more as place in the history books as one of the world's foremost sites for paleontology it was their determination and no small amount of teaching that reveals a dinosaur jackpot alice a bit r.c. region. a recap of the headlines in just a few. to

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