the grand imperial truly the taj was the. most mature to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel will search as a retreat. a fresh a time to pull your of out of economic turmoil the german and french leaders hold crucial talks with pirates in a panic over a possible credit rating. all eyes are on the moscow skies as the world's newest aviation achievements taxi along alongside premier pilots for this year's stunning maps trying to see. a major oil spill off the coast of scotland but energy giant shell and the british government are accused of a slippery set up to keep quiet. and india's a. gruesome organ trade as leaders turn a blind eye to those illegally preying on poverty stricken people who sacrifice their health to survive.

a very warm welcome to you this is. with me will receive shock the french and german it leaders are due to make comparisons so you have yet another go at stopping at the eurozone debt crisis from spreading the worry is that italy and spain it may be next in line to fail france is also battling to keep its credit score from being downgraded. as a brussels. the magic pill the supposed to spread the euro across the european union is something called. trends in northern european stability to the southern states it would create a single that people could point to and the supposed it effect would be the coalmine best to show that there is a united front and the strongest states. with the weakest solvent periphery

countries like greece portugal also spain italy now germany for reasons doesn't want. to be at the moment it doesn't want to lose its hold the reputation as a reliable. signing up to this and it has actually said that europe will play no role in the talks today some investors a bit surprised because growing numbers of thing is the only way to save the euro now influential investors like george soros a political angry should leave the euro and eurobonds all the only way out now even germany is the already being felt into this crisis it's the group of its economy. just one percent in the second three months of the year which suggests that the euro debt crisis is even bringing down your biggest economy. right now later this hour here on our look at how i think that is fueling

a new gold rush across the atlantic as there's no end in sight to the troubles of the u.s. dollar some say it's time to stop the printing presses under time to precious metals plus. you know business program the dax is down two point three percent dragging with it out of financial markets as investors sell stocks worried about the health of europe's the largest economy and more and that's because once you. and the aviation world high flyers are now hitting the runway at an airfield in the moscow region that's where this year's international air show has taken off. two thousand and eleven promises cutting edge technology for both civilian travelers and forces while top gun pilots are putting planes through their paces with some spectacular aerobatics aussies are there for us right now feel free to talk to her own terms so you found yourself a toy cars and going to them like. i did you can hear it's pretty noisy i'm just trying to get a good shot for you when we have

a good shot of the air show which is beginning right now i'll have the camera pan over but yes it is getting quite exciting here it is the tenth the max air show and of course they are here to showcase their technology new innovations and there's a lot of built up sorts of russia's unveiling of the a t fifty we know that this has been anticipated it's made its maiden flight in a january two thousand and ten now it's a fifth generation fighter plane and the only other a fifth generation quieter plane out there is the f. twenty two raptor which belongs to the u.s. air force so again a lot of anticipation for the unveiling of this aircraft now if i think this out is getting a little too hard maybe we can become rover if we will i can see i can see a some point right above overhead right maybe you can see that right now but there are certainly excitement in the sky we have the italian air force and we also have the french air force the russian air force definitely out there two teams from the russian team the russian knights us all the swifts they will be if we are to look

at their past performances i've already seen the bits and pieces of it now it certainly is promising to be an exciting exciting show but we have either out of my colleague who actually went behind the scenes with them during a practice run and here's what he saw. a big deal disturbance to the most famous teams in the world even new dress rehearsal. days when the world showed the u.s. and the swiss russian. program it to the mikes performance. to show stuff on the trademark nine plane time and of two very different aircraft the light that makes information see course. down from below the false jets looking for sync but as the pilot starts down.

that's normal everybody we're all in a new to work to put on a great show of. these pilots don't think of themselves and to train as the serving officers the flying elite can take from the entire russian air force yes technology develops. a new was being abandoned in favor long range missiles and straight down . so. these demonstrations of piloting prowess just becoming a sideshow right. richards i don't think so at all. electronics can often be jammed so go back to seize and how they can respond to the situation skills will never become obsolete enough to go again practicing for hours perfecting the skills only can for the world ok feel old fashioned dogfights might not be as big a part of combat as they once were but here they're keeping alive. eager

and never thought see. if you. will be at the max the two thousand and eleven all throughout the. summer i will have a first class flight action as well as i keeping you in touch with the movers and shakers in aviation who will all be there at the show. hands. up from. shape our future flights. are to change to the max air show. he would argue live from moscow now the energy giant shell says the oil spill in the north sea has been drastically reduced to college just one it could take up to twenty years to clean up its after the

company was forced to admit that more than two hundred tonnes of crude oil leaked into the north sea it's such a be the worst spill in british waters and more than a decade began last wednesday but it was only acknowledged by two days ago i don't see from the u.k. based people on planet student organization things chelan the government has been complicit in oil industry coverage. to people who are used to dealing with shell 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 had missed it after years of lollies and cover up their role in the enormous field across nigeria so i think we certainly don't know for sure how bad it is but we do know that this is a serious spill we know for certain it was 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 little coverage has been it's also as i said the biggest in ten years but it's important to remember that the government and the scottish

government opposed but long histories of being hand in hand and in the pockets of the audit history of this country and so if you government to the only other potential money of this you have they can't keep it quiet in the shell picture really not talking about it it's not surprising that the media covering it so again again not surprising but very sad as you said major incident really not reported in the u.k. press. other 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 of course what happened in april two thousand and ten eleven people were killed in that disaster and almost five million barrels of oil spewed into the ocean but also you have footage of the coverage of the devastation it's online at r.t. dot com. in india not everyone is benefiting from the boom with some people tragically selling their own body parts to survive the illegal grim

organ trade is thriving because donors are hard to come by. street or it's going to covering. a room again is alone in her tiny empty apartment in china 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 the lineup an older brother when 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 kahlo was one of hundreds of thousands of people who lost everything in order to get back on her feet she got along but she was leader unable to repay. and we had a lot of get i had to borrow money to buy the fishing boat people i borrowed money from started asking me for money they said they will come home and in there so see 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 right 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 and ninety nine you for the indian government have the law meant to regulate organ donation in this country it's worth if it was supposed to get an organ from a donor who was in some way known. 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 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. but good news for the. roots of this. is the law. 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 doubled. but i went to the brokerage he said he will give me fifty thousand rupees for my kidney it was supposed to be much more but the broker cheated us the donors also frequently are robbed of their house by the four used to run around and work a lot but now i can do as much work as they used to i find it difficult even to leave the bottled water i can go to work i have severe pain in my abdomen and my chest we have got only 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 r.t. china india and a more from previous insight into india on our website were lining up more news and analysis i thought to hear what people were there right now a firsthand account from the two survivors of the massacre on norway's new toy island teenagers two teenagers from russia so how they tried to stop the writers from also. soviet military secrets for the chinese dragon why ukraine is seeking to sell china times under defense systems more about the other stories we're covering at party dot com.

so nearly a quarter past the hour here in moscow with america's debt drain and it's just trust dollars more and more investors are turning to shiny stuff gold is fetching record prices right now industry analyst scott carter told us here at r.t. you have to push for precious metal will continue while the u.s. struggles to get its house in order. objective was to make the dollar stable for the world we did not achieve that and as a result what you're seeing because of the boom bust cycle inflation devaluing of the currency you're seeing a move back to the gold standard even though it's not official you see gold increasing in value you see individuals sovereign nations and central banks purchasing gold as a way to hedge against the dollar with the dollar as the world's reserve currency there has to be some sort of consistency to its value day to day it can be work for us tomorrow than it is today otherwise the the means of which we measure goods and

services is subject to the whims of the federal reserve of the u.s. and i think the world is is skeptical of that so whether we have a gold standard or not if governments don't figure out how to spend or live within their means you're going to continue to see gold take the lion's share of the increase or the appreciation and you're going to see currencies like the dollar decline in value america's rose had already i think of the largest holder of its debt that of china now vice president joe biden is heading to beijing on a reassurance mission on wednesday saxena who's an investment advisor in hong kong says washington's troubles too big for his asian partner to stop wearing. planners extremely skeptical they must be very worried if i was the biggest holder of u.s. treasuries i'd be worried too because the us is in a terrible situation the budget deficit is partly out of control it's almost eight percent of g.d.p. the federal debt is now about ninety six percent of g.d.p.

and politicians in washington don't have any will to get the house in order all they know is to prolong the problem to push the can down the road and as long as that is the case we are going to see severe pressure on the u.s. dollar the economies in asia generally speaking are in a lot healthier state than they are in the us or in europe and when mr bernanke prints money this is the value of the u.s. dollar devalues the dollar and makes commodity prices go up and that causes inflationary headaches in asia. with r.t. now the libyan government has reportedly fired a tactical ballistic rocket for the first time in the country's conflict a scud missile that is said to have been aimed at rebel forces but landed about eighty kilometers off target in the desert it comes as the front moves closer to the stronghold with fierce battles raging in the city of zawiya just fifteen kilometers from tripoli meanwhile libya's interior minister and his family horribly flown to cairo in his private jet with colonel gadhafi his position now appearing

shaky the excursions to egypt looks more like defection not according to a former u.s. diplomat in libya. he says he and his family are there on a kurdish research although we haven't seen pictures of him or his kids and on camels in front of the pyramids eating ice cream it seems like he really has defected and if so is being a bit tough the senior interior minister is a real blow to the regime in the last couple of weeks there's been some significant advances by the rebels capturing it is that we have blocked the road from tunisia they control the hills so for tripoli the jebel nafusa and they control the city of misrata and the east of the virtually got tripoli surrounded on the other hand i remind you that nato forces are been absolutely essential to the singletary success so far of the rebels and you imagine embarrassment to president sarkozy and prime minister cameron and even the american president obama if cannot we should survive

all this from the mightiest military alliance on the planet. right not as good as some other international news for you this hour here on r.t. thousands of palestinians have been forced to flee a un camp in the syrian. all amid shelling by government forces the latest military assault aimed at rooting out protesters has claimed around thirty lives since saturday activists report random gunfire raids and house to house arrest on monday in the bottoms city it's after gunboats joined troops attempts to crush the five month long uprising against president us. 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 a mosque broke into the girl's family home changes to the device for ten hours before a bomb squad freed her she was not hurt and the device was later found to contain no explosives people think it was an extortion attempt even though when initial

reports of a ransom demand did prove to be wrong. israeli airstrikes on gaza and choose day 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 claimed militants were about to launch a mortar shell from one of them tel aviv also says the shelling was a response to rockets fired from gaza at beersheba on monday. 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 now and was designed to bring down fidel castro but it's a cuban citizens are the ones who suffer despite political promises from president obama downwards it seems the powerful anti castro lobby weren't like the embargo drop any time soon as for investigates. 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 due to attempt to bring down the communist government official castro. some of the cubans who fled the island for the u.s. push to keep this agenda alive and so the n.s.a. castro lobby was born they 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 old by castro groups have given more than one point seven million dollars in donations to pressure all 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

ensuring us killer policy remains virtually unchanged. with military equipment and that it will enhance the effectiveness of the embargo the united states will keep the embargo much. fewer than one percent of americans are of cuban origin and the journey emigrated before the end of the cold war unlike the rest of the spanish population in the u.s. fifty percent of cubans are u.s. citizens cubans who arrive and step foot 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 and we got and i welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate fidel castro and any leader

who is suppressing oppressing the people they have power. political action committees behind them like the u.s. cuba democracy pac the number one campaign godor 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 a relationship so you live socially and agenda that has been known to change many politicians minds including president barack obama i think. you know obama changed his mind will campaigning before the cuban american national foundation. i'm going to go to. the majority of americans favor ending this agency against cuba even protesting in the streets but i think. they have yet to match the strength of that and take castro lobby killin forward our t. washington d.c. . part of the business now for me to say.

thanks for a loan welcome to the business update on our channel reported earlier most groups national as show is underway organizers expect more than ten billion dollars worth of contracts to be signed over the next few days first the already there russian airline trans out has signed up to buy eight jets with a catalog price of over seven hundred million dollars has nothing to buy for more christopher buckley vice president of. 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 have ridge so for us to. use a cell and place many more aircraft in the coming years. let's see if we can be pretty likely. in fourteen fifteen percent of that overall market. and even this

year in two thousand and eleven we have new operators who are very proud with express without us. and we've sold a very twenty's to trans aero if we can continue with the current rate and say grow our sales here by five to ten percent a year we'd be delighted with that. and the russias may run united aircraft corporation as announced a bold new plan to become a global player in civil aviation following the success of the short to medium range suhas superjet u.e.c. says it now intends to design and build a long range aircraft this would be in direct competition with planes from boeing and airbus expects to start production in twenty twenty. russia so weakly capital fund down flows jumped over ten fold at the beginning of august to four hundred fifteen million dollars now many believe russia's upcoming elections are starting to influence investors' minds but allocated out of a two or three capital believes that politically there's little to worry about. there is not much of an interim good for the consumer. because well we have to and

those are candidates who want to. go for good since we here in washington don't really see much difference as being with growing older in the way as many people being used to really is the more liberal for the nation your vision looks like to me and various and can only come political development or worse. whatever means there which in some you regard the improvement in the future so that's why. it is not much of uncertainty here that is what much of the play in the world was. on. some of the stock markets and european markets are coming under pressure the latest economic growth figures from germany up proved to be particularly disappointing showing the euro zone's biggest economy virtually stalled in the second quarter growing just point one percent overall eurozone drove stands of point two percent for the period where they were a.g.

is one of the biggest losers in frankfurt is shedding four and sent this out. and now let's take a look at what's happening in russia with the on the r.t.s. there is down one point six percent nice more than two percent here's a snapshot of the market moves on the night six gazprom along with other energy shares is down the company has reported an eighty six percent growth in net profit for the first half was telecom is bucking in its trend it's continue with this high volatility it's up one point two percent on the growing more than ten percent the previous day financials also suffering with buyback shedding one. crew prices are down as the season gains overnights in the u.s. light sweet is shedding a dollar brant ninety eight cents per barrel this precious metals are make schooldays up by selling is back on the stock markets silver however is down more than one percent that's out. also three straight days of positive close as well as they're going to stay on believes investors should focus on come

out of the related stocks and those which were among the hardest hit in the previous week. just rome was quite safe it's large. correct and some of the best routes by twenty percent plus. get this leads back for more recent years stories i think you have three of the thirty four dollars as an alternative routes and forty who are interested in this infrastructure developments in the short and then there's still to. come up with we have a minister of russian universe also who was beaten up in the past wrote. and in corporate news gazprom is significantly bumped up its export forecast well yeah that's after the russian gas giant reported that twenty one percent increase in exports volume to the non-serious countries in the second quarter it's only and he showed the biggest growth with him on returning to pre-crisis levels one docs

thought was germany kasparov's biggest customer in europe where consumption continues to decline and we will be back in fifteen minutes time with not plate of latest business news breweries next with a headline. all

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