to me to let you rule the streets of the gurukul i would international. every green loyalty to intone. anger out austerity plan spills into the streets of italy and spain with their governments preparing to tighten belts even further calm markets and save the problem europe. calls for independence from the u.k. grow louder it was wales where high nationalist sentiment is coupled with the desire to have control over its own destiny. also a number of gadhafi loyalists including his security she leaves each year with the whereabouts of the colonel himself still on the road this is concerns girl one i never could replace him. and i mean he's now at the third annual global policy forum here and we're today's focus in security and multiculturalism joined me later in the program from.

nine am in moscow i match president good to have you with us here on r t our top story hundreds of thousands of people in italy have protested the government's fresh austerity measures announced on tuesday in a bid to tackle the country's debt crisis the forty five billion euro package welcomed by the e.u. includes among other things new tax hikes and raising the retirement age for women a number of violent scuffles though between demonstrators n. police were reported underlining the social tensions in a country struggling to avert financial collapse as finance and finance expert tells r.t. italy's troubles aren't coming unnoticed elsewhere in the euro zone nothing to the north aleutian you have proof of want to be competent from the financial markets and suddenly you have compacts rich people in. you want to bring the whole thing

all i'm going on like this won't work perfectly it will use not grease you know grease two or three presidents who both of you q but it will be the biggest economy in europe where we would certainly be the current crisis of the eurozone with an offspring of the economic crisis which has been caused by the financial markets abroad and burns and what the government is trying to do with they try to make the majority of the people pay the bill of the cries of the nuisance not work and we can't run an economy against a majority of the population and we saw the consequences in greece and so i believe even germany and france will have a few problems and in europe future. protests have also swept across spain ahead of a crucial vote by senate on amending the country's constitution to limit national debt as far as the parliament bowing to e.u. pressure and darkening the initiative last week but unions and rights groups say the debt cap could decimate the country's workers system and hurt the most

vulnerable writer and journalist miguel i'm so marotta believes it's the market that should be made responsible for spain's current predicament and not its people the markets are not rational they are driven usually by fear sometimes by greed. they just think they feel that spain could be like greece or like trial and or like portugal because the fertile country within the euro so so they tend to lump together countries that are very different but they resemble each other because they are part of the periphery and i think that's the history of recently sets a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain konami growth is not very good so that in the long term will be a problem for debt we don't have a debt problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. financial turmoil raging across europe calls are growing for the worst hit economies to abandon the euro and return to their old national currencies but german economic analyst michel

ross tells r t that the only solution to the crisis is if the strong economies leave the eurozone there's no other solution that the weak countries exit the strong country has to exit if germany for it for example pulls out of the year or so the whole problem with the thought of it means that we will have then a stronger currency germany can live with it the others then will have a devaluated currency this is exactly what they need it means also the. rupee devaluated this is that what they mean and what this what then we need and saw in this situation is why is it worth more than the weak ones have to pull out but the germans have to put our. own country that hasn't been struck yet by the crisis switzerland has stunned the currency markets its central bank has devalued the swiss franc by pegging it to medium battle euro an effort to stop deflation protect exports and promote tourism us economist paul craig roberts tells r.t.

that by doing this switzerland has deprived the world of the last safe haven currency. the swiss trying to eliminate it as a safe haven because the gold it's not going to really only use going up the only safe haven when the two reserve currency is themselves are in question here to gain currents in the euro well earlier in the situation with girls losing out. and so here nobody has come. in the reserve jurors what happens to the managers system so it will speak to people keep looking for a safe haven the goals that we have to continue to run. and greece has only itself to blame for its economic troubles according to rohan vora bell a political economist at university of mannheim in germany full interview coming your way in the next hour but here's a preview. the reason this through the ghost of all because the previous greek

government has been very is them through first that's accumulated very large deficits even before the financial crisis greece has been. a member state of the euro zone the chance most frequently violated their stability and growth so they really console you that they are a victim of the financial crisis. that text very pleased the germans very upset about greece a much more cruise on the board portugal and. europe's economic woes also being felt in the u.k. driving some of its parts to a craving for more control over their finances there's a strong sense of national identity in wales which is help fuel calls for it to achieve independence following similar calls further north in scotland as are his

lawyer and it reports the debate continues to rage over whether welsh ambitions are driven by economic sense or emotion cross country welcome to wales part of the u.k. and a proud nation with its own language and customs and it's the latest voice to call for independence plights comrie which means the party of wales has always argued the country could be better off without the u.k. and it seems increasing numbers is starting to see their points of view i would economy has been run from london with the interest and priorities of the south east of england to the full and independent wheels of course would be able to chart a different course based on our needs and priorities wales is a long way from declaring independence. but it's no longer just a pipe dream people here voted overwhelmingly earlier this year in favor of handing the welsh assembly full law making powers that was considered a turning point in welsh nationhood and plights couldn't read the party of wales

have undoubtedly taken heart from the surprise victory of the scottish national party that victory in may gave the s.n.p. an outright majority in the scottish parliament which has many powers devolved from westminster the party's promise to hold a scotland wide referendum on whether to declare independence according to applied comrie that marks the turning of the tide for a unified u.k. keeping law i believe are beginning to to use the word independence in in a welsh context which they say they wouldn't have done if you use our last activity gallops i think the people in where's it going to see that their child. becomes independent the next logical step is for we're just becoming dependent to of course separatism is nothing new to the british isles and the thousands of victims of the troubles in northern ireland are testament to how high feelings can run both in the present day and for centuries past while national sentiment may not be

a new phenomena and the reasons for it have changed over the years and in these current turbulent economic times money talks scotland has oil and gas but while wales was a proud coal producing nation its minds are now closed and it's got some of the highest unemployment levels in the u.k. because of that the older generation is reserved when it comes to independence but young people are filled with national fervor for them independence is less about money and more about nationhood and identity wales needs to be independent because it is a great country and we do we do and of like joining in because really patriotic and . good movie just explaining that we have a lot of people to it we shouldn't get to seem to be able to hear at the moment that you can get free prescriptions. education seems to be a bit much to plights can resize it's going to build on that support providing not

just emotional reasons why whales should be independent but concrete economic reasons too and it says wales does have resources particularly land and sea green energy if the scots vote for independence wales might not be far behind your and its policy cardiff ten minutes after the hour here on our t.v. stay with us plenty headed your way. this is an attempt to psychologically brainwash the serbian people that they deserve what they get and what they get is going to be very bad bosnian serb army general so mr twenty seven years behind bars progress on to question the hague tribunal but. it would betray us former military commander in iraq and afghanistan now serving as america's top spy or as one expert sort of perfect figure to make up for the failings of u.s. intelligence coming your way later this hour. first though security chief of the

ousted libyan leader colonel moammar gadhafi has fled the country and is now in neighboring new share according to officials gadhafi wasn't said to be part of the convoy that crossed the border on tuesday and burkina faso denied claims that it was ready to provide asylum it was comes as rebels now control most of the country but as are his daniel bushell reports all signs suggest it's not over for the violence in libya as the real chaos maybe yet to come. to the home of his song as well of africa's most experienced diplomats just broke from the libyan capital he says needs who has turned it into a ghost town there is no police. there is no administration there is no there is no schools nor and order has been replaced by a motley crew of rebels some fear that the various groups who've emerged might soon stop fighting each other what's your weapon stores have been raided every man with kalashnikovs if the triage fight for their independence their country will end soon and never ends in civil war but brutal urban guerrilla warfare lists argue that

even rebel leaders don't know where their fighters of from. rebel hands mom were julia was a launch to find islam a sleeper cells have joined history fanciful and vast parallel structure of competence has appeared we have no idea who's in charge of than. hopes of a reliable replacement for more may gadhafi appear to be fading libya's rebels remain deeply divided while the chaos from nato bombing appears to be spreading beyond the country's borders in the turmoil there are fears that religious extremists could be using libya as a base to further their aims in north africa if i'm to new zealand or a good while but no confusion women got abortion rights twenty years before women and they'll gym under the last regime divorced women good benefits revived arab who just movements are trying to reverse that. before the war leaders from barack obama

to nicolas sarkozy and silvio berlusconi shook and even kissed. the group was called the british call it treatment in paris but the west will also change tack war next but if libya doesn't go for them as planned with some saying the enemy in the so-called war on terror is no one winning side. are present. when it finds its army an al qaeda need to go turn under rebels. according to this man who's just returned from war torn tripoli the message from some locals there is that the conflict may have created a frankenstein's monster. the for europe they warned us that we don't know what we are creating in libya it will be a free haven of extremist groups which are just on the southern border of europe who routes from food somalia be bicoastal. fruits and diplomats know think libya is heading in the sea direction but what do lucia of that is needed today and would not be safe there will be products and there will be all bloat to control

limited to fit in to make it sit idle through french economy can support that with the new intervention in libya has proved large numbers of new forces to the fall experts feel the west itself may come to regret they removed. the new push to brussels. website continues following the fate of almost twenty ukrainian citizens who remain in custody in libya as the rebels suspect them of being pro the sniper it's earlier the russian embassy was able to negotiate the release of two russians any ukrainian couple they see the group are oil engineers and cooks who have nothing to do with the military check out r.t. dot com for the full story. activists in syria say government forces have used armored vehicles in the besieged city of homs is the u.n. is calling for more pressure to be put on president assad but professor edmund ghareeb an expert in international relations says the sanctions won't necessarily

bring down the regime but they will make ordinary people suffer. in any case what happened whatever happens the sanctions are clearly a blunt instrument does not discriminate between the regime and the people and what may end up happening is that the people who probably are going to have the price and the regime especially if we take a look at what happened in iraq or what happened with cuba experiment this is a very good example of this where some of the harshest sanctions ever imposed on any country in history were imposed on iraq and despite that. did not succeed in bringing the regime down. which was hurt severely as a result of the sanctions so this is. i think is going to raise a lot of questions especially some of them political some of. course more. we

use already imposed sanctions on oil imports from syria on our website we're asking you what is the true aim of this so far fourteen percent think that president assad is the target seven percent say the real aim is to liberal voters in the e.u. countries almost a third argue the e.u. wants to please the u.s. and around of all who've taken part say the sanctions hit ordinary syrians to provoke more protests. and have your say. is a russian city of jaroslav all turning into a global think tank this week with a third global policy forum inviting some of the best minds to come up with solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems these year it's multiculturalism among the main talking points a concept that's recently received severe blows in europe global security traditionally on the table with debate on syria and libya and the question of of to keep the region safe after nato withdraws from afghanistan or he's an isa now isn't

jaroslav and she joins us live with more on the an isa so some major security issues being hashed out in the form but is there any consensus or are there are some divisions to. well there's going to be some intense debate here at this first day of the your global policy forum where like you said security is going to top part of the agenda a lot of working sessions on that today and of course what is going to be debated most likely it's fair to say is the situation in libya and in syria and the arab spring in general those uprisings how to deal with the aftermath of that and the debate on those issues first off in syria is about sanctions the west thinks that sanctions need to be intensified russia sees very differently on that issue they don't think that's the lucian that mostly the syrian people will just suffer if sanctions are imposed when it comes to libya what the debate expected to be there partly is what we heard a little bit earlier in the program from our correspondent daniel bushell about the

situation after gadhafi are we going to see find all the fighting between rebels are they going to split and start fighting each other and also there's not much consensus on how nato dealt with the situation in terms of holding to un resolution it began of course as a humanitarian resolution a lot of critics say that it became much more than a humanitarian humanitarian mission like we're seeing now obviously so that's two of the major issues but also is going to be brought up is the role of the sea as cio which is the collective security treaty organization it's an alliance of security alliance and in this part of the world where russia armenia and some other former soviet states including and uses pakistan for a host of course to afghanistan are involved and there's ideas to reform and widen and make that organization bigger it's not going to be discussed here today and the focus there is going to be in fact of course afghanistan and how to deal with

security in the region after u.s. and nato forces withdraw as planned in trying to fourteen. other big topic on the table is the problem of multiethnic society. absolutely it's a big issue especially what we're seeing recently in europe throughout the spring and summer a lot of unrest on the streets of not only the british capital but other european cities you have the euro crisis which is also playing into that and it's most outspoken critics of the multiculturalists failure there are of the system is that it's just not working that something else needs to be done the immigration laws need to be tightened. its people who supported are very clear about the idea that europe is a place where people should be able to cause we have this war going on in libya people trying to get in from tunisia and egypt and so that's going to be exhibit here as well and the main theme of this third annual global policy forum is in fact

the modern state and social diversity and of course in that in that realm that means multiculturalism so that's one of the big topics here a lot of debate like i said on all of the issues and really dearest wobble at least russia hopes it's going to become a very big part of the political world it's going to become somewhat of a political battle both here and your survival and each year more and more experts are coming to the small town not very far from moscow to like you said discuss some of the world's most pressing issues and you'll be there throughout the day to cover it for us artie's i need to know where i live in your stuff right. or she will be bringing you the full picture of what's going on a euro sloppy global policy forum throughout the day and who will be giving us updates each hour so stay with us for that. defense team for former yugoslav army army general non chiller para said says they'll appeal the verdict out of the hague tribunal this after the military leader was said to twenty seven years in prison for war crimes paris was convicted of

a betting atrocities during the balkans war in the ninety's including the massacre of about eight thousand muslims in srebrenica he's one of several ethnic serbs military officials on trial of a hate but balkans political expert marco garces believes the west wants serbians to feel guilty for the whole yugoslav war well we know how those trials are going to go because the script for those trials has been written in advance but i think we need to look actually take a look at the real picture here of what pettish was accused of doing because he was accused in effect of crossing. illegally declared all the borders that had been played by the theists by the diktats of western governments particularly germany running the e.c. at the time and subsequently by the us of a these these governments declared that yugoslavia on board of no longer exists i would be replaced by borders the smaller of the secession so this was at the expense of yugoslavia's largest people i think there is an effort on the part of western governments to persuade the serbian

public that in some way they are guilty absolutely for everything that they feel they deserve to be treated worse than the rest of the world that they should be punished that they should be imprisoned that their territory should be carved away from them this is an attempt to psychologically brainwash the serbian people that they deserve what they get and what they get is very very bad sadly i don't see too much opposition so this policy on the part of the serbian government which really has a responsibility which it has not exercised to say that the description of the wall has been one sided biased and incorrect. in about ten minutes another controversial figure of the bosnian serb military on trial in the hague is explored in our exile report. worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years. and one million new war was upon the troops come true. a little for the well.

general of the service. to our chief. david petraeus the u.s. former military commander in iraq and afghanistan has now become america's top spy he's taken over as director of the cia replacing leon panetta who's moved on to become defense secretary a former u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen quiet koski believes petraeus will serve as washington's p.r. man to hide the community intelligence of the intelligence community shortcomings. petraeus is a smooth operator who has a great reputation in the media here in the united states so he's popular he's seen as on inside. the congress like something and i think in many ways he is a great degree to cover for what the cia is continuing to do and what it will

continue to he has a way of making really bad things look good. his. experience in iraq and afghanistan he has made it look successful even when it's not been successful at all i mean he doesn't stand up to washington he just takes what they give him and kind of wraps it in new wrapping and it sells he's almost like an advertising dream so the cia has a terribly bad reputation and has done terribly bad things looking at these two increasingly become involved in military operations military style operations that is you know not constitutional it's not part of what the cia should be doing i expect the traces the cia will be able to spin that. for media consumption as a good cia he will make it look good even though i don't think fundamentally will change anything he'll probably continue it exactly as it has been going i think the d.c.

establishment will love what he does at the cia and you know we won't hear much you won't hear negative things like we really should i mean i think he is a perfect imperial cia director. business next with me to stay with us here on earth. morning and welcome to the business update on r.t. also as large as construction company in tech around changed hands when cap landed been bank boards ninety five percent of the company from you in about two and of the wife of the four not mayor of moscow very bank took the remaining five percent because he's been valued at one point two billion dollars but given its debts the value of the deal could be about two hundred million but when it became the richest woman in russia with a free billion dollar fortune during her husband's stewardship of moscow. cough was fired last year by a president very of over lack of trust he often claims his wife's business success had nothing to do with his running russia's biggest city. bigger markets now will

is with nymex and brant brown forty one cents per barrel forty one actually to be sacked that's ahead of an energy department report which is expected to show with a climb in stockpiles as tropical storm leaves threatening production the gulf of mexico and also hope that obama's speech will provide a new path to this we can only grow for support and. pleasure markets are rallying with an egg more than two percent following a couple of negative sessions despite a drop in the us markets overnight drop in the end is helping japanese exporters was master our own three percent so only use up around three percent also. here in moscow trading will begin in half an hour the russian markets managed somewhat of a correction very minor though the obvious up point one percent of my six half percent on tuesday. russian equities are continuing to feel the pressure from weak

u.s. and e.u. data like the gallons of community believes the weary sentiment will remain during wednesday's three. like you see today is continued volatility markets fundamentally the markets across russia yes quite sweet on the back of the sun with us this in the united states however having said that we could see a technical bounce. perhaps towards the end of this week to beas a very important day with the german constitutional court ruling on the back to whether or not it's constitution for germany to inject funding into the euro zone peripheral that also to morrow will see a very important step by obama on the current situation of the jobs in the united states and we could expect a positive surprise if the bomb would announce a fiscal stimulus package which no one is currently pricing in the markets the consensus is priced in only the monetary stimulus at this point

a major of goods retailer could be formed in russia that's according to a better machine. eldorado is planning to merge with stores with rival m. video according to the newspaper this would create the country's largest solar circular meant how the route is currently owned by the czech group who want to controlling interest in the merged company new firm will account for most harmful rushes out of college goods markets the deal could be referred to the federal and c. monopoly service as a breach of the first the five percent share market domination. and we will be back in around fifteen minutes time nothing.

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