a very warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow now the french and german leaders are due to meet in paris to have another go at stopping the eurozone debt crisis from spreading the worry is that italy and spain it may be next in line to fail while france is also battling to keep its credit score from being downgraded but we'll talk to our correspondent who's in brussels a little later for the latest on their ass. now in another development the european central bank has revealed details of its emergency operation to save italy and spain from sinking in debt it spent a record or twenty two billion euros or government bonds but is it in the glue to reports hopes of survival within the euro zone are fading in spain. some work to live others live to work haughey market combines the two today he and

his nephew run the picture framing shop set up by hawkins grandfather almost a century ago but the family firm is in a rough spot. like all in spain my business has been struggling although it's not visible in all areas of business times have been very hard. consider this unemployment at more than twenty percent one of the highest in the eurozone again soon sovereign debt ever crossed their bonds and the country's problems don't stop there despite being the fourth largest problem in europe spain is definitely feeling the bite of the credit crisis and that left many asking the question is the eurozone such a great idea after all the answer may just be no the country's rating has been downgraded twice since september of last year with moody's agency threatening to do so again in the future in fact some in spain believe the best strategy in the current climate may be an exit one. this would give us

a certain autonomy it would affect positively internal processes in the country the purchasing power would give citizens access to all sorts of benefits and would have been good for the wages it very well could lead to the improvement of situation in spain. a key factor here is distance while the spanish struggle with debt in unemployment their fate is largely being decided by europe's be masters in chief in brussels. what we're witnessing here major internal problems which you cannot solve brussels because it's outside of e.u. competence they have neither the finances nor the labor capabilities to help spain of course many people are unhappy with the place spain takes in the european union . but hook him isn't losing hope that his country and his business will eventually climb out of the slump of course. it will stabilize in the end it's the small businesses like mine that will do the job because three or four people take work

closer to heart than large corporations something which me only be possible if spain quit the floundering federation of the own and put its own house back you know what are you going to college carty madrid. top story now and the upcoming meeting between the french and german leaders taking place in paris a little bit later let's talk to daniel bushell he's in brussels for i don't know what do these bankrollers like to consider next thing. the magic pill is being called these so-called euro bonds which would spread the crisis the euro did across the european union it would in a way transfer northern reliability northern european reliability to those southern states which are in so much trouble but germany for obvious reasons doesn't want to even discuss it it says that the euro bonds will play no role in the talks today between chancellor angela merkel of germany and president nicolas sarkozy of france they will discuss the eurozone crisis but germany doesn't want to lose its

reputation by saying that by saying the doesn't want to lose reputation by saying that it wants to sign up to this euro bond now the meeting today is expected to come out with some results there are fears that it won't be a conclusive resolution and there are growing voices influential investors like george soros saying the only solution is that countries like portugal and ireland should leave the euro portugal and greece should leave the euro now the irony is that the opposition in germany the christian democrats wants this eurobond and they are leading in the polls it seems that the german people realize that the only way to save the euro itself is by is signing up to take some responsibility for this european debt now the trouble is germany's already being sucked into the crisis its growth the growth. economy skidded to a halt in the second three months of the you just grew no point one percent down

from one point five percent so a very dramatic fall so the resawing is no but even europe's biggest economy is being dragged down by the euro crisis. ok daniel many thoughts update our new bushell there reporting for us from brussels. or let's follow what else is going on with european economics today from our business desk. markets are all heading down around one point two percent as germany has reported a very low lower than expected g.d.p. growth figures for the second quarter and we will have more on that in around fifteen minutes for you not business but was. moving on now the aviation world's high flyers have arrived at their fold in the moscow region is this is international air show takes off max twenty eleven problems is causing is technology for both civilian travelers and air forces while top gun pilots will put it across through their paces with some spectacular aerobatics as our city is about

on an airfield for r.t. tests it gives us see what's being anticipated that this year's. well this is the max air show and as you said earlier this really is a plot for for a different companies in the aviation industry both civil and military to showcase the new technologies the innovations they have in the row field now for civil aviation for example we've been looking at two big planes of right behind me the seven eight seven boeing dreamliner as well as the airbus a three eighty and of course we've seen the the savoy superjet as well so again modern a bigger airplanes for a commercial travel on the defense side though there's a lot of a dissipated and for what russia has to offer this year at the savoy fifty you know this is a fifth generation military aircraft again when we say fifth generation we're talking about more efficient a faster and a better stealth capabilities and the only other the fifth generation in military

aircraft that's out there right now flying is the f. twenty two raptor which belongs to the u.s. air force so this is a platform for a russia to showcase the new technology that it has and it is pretty important because this is the first time in two decades more than two decades decades in fact that russia has come up with a product a created a military product with new technologies and put it out there so again we're interested to see what it can actually do up in the air now speaking of what can be done up in the air as you did mention earlier we are looking forwards of course to be the arrow batiks teams that are here right now we will have the italian air force the french and the u.s. as well as the russian two russian teams in fact of quite popular russian teams the russian knights as well as swift and if their past performances are to be used as a basis of what to expect i think we're going to be seeing some pretty impressive or scary start said my colleague either a good on have actually went with them on one of their practice runs and here's what he saw or. field this tends

to do the most famous aerobatic teams in the world even new dress rehearsal. should they. wish to practice the new program ahead of the mikes performance. to show. the trademark nine plain diamond of two very different aircraft delight to mix in formation with. them from below the fold jets looked in perfect sync but as the pilots touched down. everybody we're all in the mood to work we all want to put on a great show. but these pilots don't think of themselves and to train as they're serving officers the flying elite hand-picked from benton

a russian air force technology develops. a new was being abandoned in favor long range missiles and strayed. so. these demonstrations of piloting prowess just becoming a side show. i don't think so at all. electronics could often be jammed so we would go back to who sees whom and how they can respond to this situation skills will never become obsolete and up they go again practicing for hours perfecting distills only world capable old fashioned dogfights might not be as big. as they once were but here they're keeping the alive . feel. out the math. the week last in first class action as well as keeping him in touch

with the movers and shakers in aviation. hands. off approach. by shape our future flight tire are two types to the max airshow. now the energy giant shell says the oil spill in the north sea has been drastically with g.'s but ecologist warn it could take twenty years to clean up its after the anglo dutch company was forced to admit that more than two hundred tons of crude oil leaked into the north sea it's said to be the worst spill in british waters in more than a decade and began last wednesday but it was only acknowledged by shell two days later i don't ramsay from the u.k. based people on planet student organization think shell and the government i think

implicit in oil industry coverups for ages. i think the people who are used to dealing with cho wouldn't be surprised at all about the lack of communication it's worth remembering that it was only a few days ago that they admitted after years of lawyers and cover up their role in the enormous spills across nigeria this company has never let the truth or in fact people's lives or the environment get in the way of getting the way of their profit margin so so i think we certainly don't know for sure how bad it is but we do know that this is a serious bill we know for certain is the worst spill in this country in more than a decade i've seen very little coverage of this at all and i'm saddened to say that i'm not at all surprised how little coverage there has been of this also as i said it's the biggest in ten years but it's important to remember that the government and the scottish government have both got long histories of being hand in hand and in the pockets of the oil industry in this country and so with the government to the only other potential monitors of this doing everything they can to keep it

quiet on the show and show particularly not talking about it is not surprising that the media covering it again and again not surprising but very sad as you say a major incident really not reported in the u.k. press. well the british oil industry's track record is still in a shaky state even though this oil spill is far less than the catastrophe in the gulf of mexico which happened back in april twenty ten eleven people were killed in that disaster five million barrels of oil spewed into the ocean aussie house footage and coverage of that devastation is online dot com. now in india not everyone's benefiting from the boom with some people tragically selling their own body to survive i mean grim organ trade thriving because donors are hard to come by is pretty shrewd has been discovering. a room again is alone in her tiny empty apartment in china i like many indians who struggle to make ends

meet kala is constantly in debt despite selling pretty much everything she has including her own kidney i didn't mind that. i went to a group crazy told me that i could sell my kidney i agreed because i was in a bad situation and my children were small we did not even have any food to eat when the two thousand and four tsunami hit the coast of south asia kala was one of hundreds of thousands of people who lost everything in order to get back on her feet she got a loan that she was later unable to repay. and we had a lot of debt i had to borrow money to buy the fishing boat the people i borrowed money from started asking me for money they said they will come home and there's us if we didn't repay the money desperate and vulnerable tsunami survivors soon became the perfect targets for the illegal organ trade in india it's become known as the red market every year one hundred thousand indians need organ replacements

a demand that drives an illegal supply with some organs even being sold to a small percentage of desperate transplant tourists in one thousand nine hundred four the indian government hatched a law meant to. regulate organ donation in this country each recipient was supposed to get an organ from a donor who was in some way known to even though each transplant was supposed to be approved by a committee of doctors it's almost impossible for anyone to stop money transactions from happening under the table in general when a recipient finds out that he or she needs an organ donor they normally approach friends or family for a match and when those options are exhausted rogue doctors or hospital staff can introduce the recipient to a broker usually a former illegal donor too who can scout nearby poor neighborhoods for someone who is willing to sell their kidney and go under the knife when it falls through by good news for the most

a lot of roots of this got this the law. on a blind eye to this happening to transplants from the donor to the recipient take place in the hospital simultaneously the donor ends up making a little over a thousand dollars while the brokers can profit almost double that. i went to the broker he said he will give me fifty thousand rupees for my kidney it was supposed to be much more but the broker cheated us to donors also frequently are robbed of their health by before i used to run round and work a lot but now i can do as much work as they used to i find it difficult even to leave the point of what i can go to work i have to be a pain in my abdomen and my chest. and while horror stories of the red market are exchanged among locals those with no options left are forced to take extreme measures sacrificing their health just to stay alive preassure either party chennai

india or more from prison size into india on our website were lining up morning that analysis at home as well here's what's online few of them are a firsthand account from two survivors of the massacre or not. always a toilet either and has two teenagers from russia so tell how they tried to stop under the page or say. solve it military secrets for the chinese dragon why ukraine seeking to sell china planes and tanks and defense systems more of that and the other stories we're covering all that are. now the libyan government has reportedly fired a tactical ballistic rocket for the first time in the country's conflict a scud missile is said to have been aimed at rebel forces but landed it kilometers

off target in the desert it comes as the front moves closer to get out and stronghold of fierce battles raging in the city of zawiya just fifty kilometers from tripoli meanwhile libya's interior minister and his family have reportedly flaying to cairo in his private jet but cannot get out his position appearing shaky excursion to egypt it's more like defection according to former u.s. diplomat in libya. you know a fair and we know there are very turkish research although we haven't seen pictures of him of his kids and on camels in front of the pyramids eating ice cream it seems like he really has defected and if so he's being a bit top cop the senior interior minister is a real blow to the regime the last couple of weeks there's been some significant advances by the rebels. there you know blocked the road from tunisia they control they killed so through tripoli the job almost through sirte and they control the

city of misrata and the east so they really go tripoli surrounded on the other hand i remind you that nuclear forces are absolutely essential to their military success so far of the rebels can you imagine imperil. presidents. prime minister cameron and even our own the american president obama could learn. from them are used to carry water. pressure comes more international stories this hour fouls the palestinian red cross to flee a un camp in the syrian taqiyya amid shelling by government troops the latest military assault rooting out protesters around thirty life since saturday activists report random gunfire raids and house to house arrest on monday in the violence tall city it's all to draw interest to crush the fired up rise against the sounds. an australian man has been arrested in the u.s.

over an attack on a sydney teenager in which a fake bomb was attached to her neck. broke into the girl's family home and chained to the device for ten hours before a bomb squad when she was north of the device was later found to contain no explosives but he still think it was the extortion attempt even though initial reports of a ransom demand proved wrong. israeli airstrikes on goals are on tuesday morning have reportedly killed one and injured several people including a five year old boy the israeli air force struck four different locations allegedly targeting hamas training bases officials claim militants were about to launch a mortar shell from one of the tel of eve also says the shelling was a response to rockets fired from gaza at beer sheva monday thing. now poll after poll in the us show that a growing number of americans think it's high time to lift the embargo against cuba

it's been in place for over half a century and was designed to bring down for the castro but it's cuban citizens who suffer despite political promises from president obama downwards it seems the powerful anti castro lobby won't let the embargo dry. anytime soon as forward if. cuba ninety miles from america's shores and for fifty two years a world apart following the cuban revolution in one nine hundred fifty nine the u.s. imposed an embargo on all trade investment in travel in an attempt to bring down the communist government official castro. said of the cubans who fled the island for the u.s. push to keep this agenda alive and so the intake castro lobby was born to give a lot of money you know u.s. elections are in fact privately financed so they've been able to figure out how to play the game so even though they're a small percentage of the population they play very big in a key swing state polls consistently show that two thirds of americans favor ending

the embargo and normalizing relations with cuba and some in congress agree it's about time we talk to cuba and still stop fighting these wars in about thirty or forty years or anti castro groups have given more than one point seven million dollars in donations to federal candidates from two thousand and four to two thousand and ten more than half a million dollars in two thousand and ten alone to both republicans and democrats and sharing u.s. cuba policy remains virtually unchanged ground zero offensive military equipment and that it will enhance the effectiveness of the embargo the united states will keep the embargo. fewer than one percent of americans are of cuban origin and their journey emigrated before the end of the cold war unlike the rest of this panic population in the u.s. fifty eight percent of cubans are u.s. citizens cubans who arrive in step. beaches in south florida are on their way to citizenship haitians who arrive and set foot on the beaches of miami are on their way to a detention center in deportation cuban americans are also

a force to be reckoned with in congress we definitely are the most over represented community in congress with two senators and four representatives we say. including the. chairman of the house foreign affairs committee ileana roessler and i welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate fidel castro and any leader who is oppressing oppressing the people they have powerful political action committees behind them like the u.s. cuba democracy pac the number one campaign donor in two thousand and six with more than five hundred thousand dollars our community is very focused and it's very concentrated in florida in new jersey therefore we really have to make an effort to get out there and create the relationships to live in a socially and agenda that has been known to change many politicians minds including president barack obama. for you know obama changed his mind while campaigning before the cuban american national foundation they're going to go into

the room but while the majority of americans favor ending the sanctions against cuba even protesting in the streets i think. they have yet to match the strength of the intake castro lobby killing ford r. t. washington d.c. . ok that is the way the news this is our let's get to business update. as well as our team reported earlier moscow's international air show has kicked off the organizers expect more than ten billion dollars worth of contracts to be signed over the next few years and the first deals are already there as a russian airline trans there are signs up to buy eight jets with a catalog price of over seven hundred million dollars christopher buckley vice president outlines his hopes for the russian market. we're very optimistic and enthusiastic about the russian market we still see growth continuing

a little bit over five percent to five point three percent per year which is higher than the world average so for us that means the. many more aircraft in the coming years. if we can we'd probably like to win. between forty and fifty percent of the overall market. and even this year in two thousand and eleven we have new operators we're very proud. to be sold twenty used to trans aero if we can continue with the current rate and say grew our sales here by five to ten percent a year we'd be delighted with that. let's move to the markets now and european stocks are coming under pressure latest economic growth figures from germany have proved to be particularly disappointing showing the years owns biggest economy virtually stalled in the second quarter growing just point one percent daimler a.g. is one of the biggest losers in frankfurt is shedding two point seven percent this

hour. here are the russian figures where the r.t.s. is down one percent the my six two percent this is on the back of declining oil prices will look at them in just a second there for gazprom of losing one point seven percent as are other energy companies the company actually posted a eighty six percent increase in net profit for the first half wroth tell a call me continues with its high volatility it's going against the general trend it's up two point three percent this hour that's after growing more than ten percent and losing double digit figures the previous week burbank is down one point six percent this hour. while and as i mentioned earlier in this hour light sweet one dollar brant more than that even the one dollar twelve cents per barrel this is of course on the back of worries over the pace of the global economic recovery with these latest g.d.p. figures coming from germany precious metals mixed with gold is up as selling is

back on the stock markets a silver however is down almost one percent this hour. the russian shareholders in d.m.k. b.p. are taking their british counterparts a back to the stockholm arbitration tribe you know a final ruling on whether b.p. broke the shareholder agreement by trying to organize the arctic exploration and share swap deal with the ross snapped a corporate lawyer and a gold's blatt is confident that he has a good case. as long as they're all sniffing approaches b.p. that b.p. should have told us never you should have approached close to. the federal sniff approaches b.p. it's opened. the door for ten key b.p. be part of the deal this is going to prove to be a poor that looks. like some else in the headlines without listing say what's.

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it's all false now where a mosque a this is the german and french the dissolve to undertake a fresh attempt to pull europe out of economic turmoil it crucial talks in paris it's as indebted countries as the sale of more eurozone balkans while faults is boring day the suffering of all small credit waves cops. energy giant shannon the british government of being accused of trying to play down the scale of a major oil spill off the coast of scotland more than two hundred tongues of all it is thought to have spewed into the north sea following a leap believed to be the country's west in over a decade. and india is becoming a global market place for all four were teens are accused of turning up blind eye to the illegal but striving business.