with me we're in a joshua welcome to the program italy is deciding on the future of a highly unpopular a sturdy package intended to put a leash on the country's runaway debt the country's lower house of parliament is voting today on whether to pass an extensive set of tax hikes and spending cuts the measure is already been passed by the senate despite weeks of wrangling and mass public protests but even if passed many wonder if it will be enough because as our first reports years of economic stagnation and a culture of government excess may have left it too little too late. as italy prepares to once again tighten its belt and the lighted mule staring. politicians it seems have found a way to save themselves and pennies we publish a new of the view inside the parliament you see. new. free. with very cheap prizes

you are made in the going to win and serve in the great the way. one you are twenty so. this cheap yet exclusive menu was leaked to italian let's press a magazine this is name it should instead be straight b. ball before we vote that these. prizes for the people of the parliament. five million some for around a thousand. a year and it's the taxpayer left getting that was paying in fact that's been hard for many to stomach that we are an economic. arlene are my people like us be the. decreases because they don't care they interest our feet only they care only day interest so we are angry sick and tired outside the parliament building a protest meeting and has been growing like a ton a ferrari because. you know the hunger strike for months. all the people here are

hungry for a future for their children and we don't see that at the moment but to make the boards actions listen we know we need to get three million people here we hope there will come there protesting against what they say is the politicians of peace of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country so we're asking for more reduction more for this salary something but i mean because they are they i guess salaries in our europe ok in an italian police. one hundred eighty thousand euro in spain for example only thirty five thousand euros. for the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated for learned which of course is naver million euros spent just for their stationery and his public anger builds the protest movement has been gaining momentum we. move to the greek protest in which.

people with. young. find. the situation's going to be very very complex still across italy costa to be cuts in social spending in people's wages when it comes to the politicians it seems no expenses sped up people's appetite for change is growing. thing that the protesters have their voices heard but no politician spoken so there but they vow that the hunger strike will continue and that remain here until they get them out there artsy. and. his guest discuss the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there is great concern over the engine of the world economy the once mighty and.

dying american middle class that are more and crossed are coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. but here's a brief teaser. i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody who's in the trade union is considered middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean about the very same terrible the family capital or capital gains or whatever you just meet people who make money from money and people earning money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poor of people who make their money to the point where being employed means middle class. dealer i know in both once said very powerfully that for him working class men people who didn't want to work . was an urgent you know when it collapsed and i would put it another way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they don't having this illusion that they can become rich like everybody else and suddenly realize hey we're just like the poor guy down the street that i used to pass by. in.

washington has strongly backed the libyan opposition since the revolutionary wave engulfed the state it's now equally enthusiastic in its support against syria's president bashar al assad but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides can backfire on its closest middle east ally israel or she's going to check out looks at a possible repercussions of u.s. policy. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know. iran is not an arab country the arab spring to

spread two absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the ones under the umbrella if arab revolutions washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming assad alone the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way i think assad's days just like the darfur number and let's hope that bashar assad is next in line they were overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syria next to take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target

will be iran itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations some went as far as to predict the arab spring would spread all across the world what this is all about is the arab spring and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's what the libyan people have just achieved oh that's wishful thinking on the part of john mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too i believe that the united states government feels in the aftermath of the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago this year that there is one single power left in the world so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the gov. in venezuela cuba or wherever people

are independent of the dictates of washington but i think it's a fantasy but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions it actually fosters the process by pledging support for anti-government movements there but some say this might eventually turn against america's closest ally in the region israel if you were to see the rise of a popular revolution with with very extreme islamic fundamentalist elements there what you have with. with hamas could essentially spread to many more places and then you'd have a much much larger population base in an extremely hostile position towards the very existence of israel by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far eject thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that still in power last week objections storen peace really

embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in leave here washington supported leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the herb spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for an undermining the whole region i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. . israel strained relations with turkey and egypt threaten to leave a dangerously isolated from the whole region a situation made even more delicate by the upcoming decision at the u.n. on whether to grant a palestinian statehood turkish political commentator you have to spite our told r.t. that israel's current policies leading it nowhere. israel now is getting

away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli coalition israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing even to to if you will believe those doors allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place since mavi marmara incident and also chilling the egyptian soldiers inside may and hoping to get away it's what has been done against them certainly puts for forward in new guinea is really image in the people in. the country who continue all to fashion on the seas while the world around them in their need to be snooty is is really changing. on the ground in

libya the national transitional council has given everyone in the besieged stronghold bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attach last week opposition fighters launched an assault on the city but the offensive stalled in the face of fierce resistance rebels however claim they have made gains in the city of red valley sixty kilometers east of cut off his hometown of sirte and even though the whereabouts of the embattled leader still unknown stephen rambam has to have an international investigative agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. khadafi is a nut but he's a very clever and up and he's a nut that's managed to survive for forty five years and i'm sure he took note of how osama bin laden was captured and i'm sure he took note of how saddam hussein was captured. and i'm sure he's avoiding those mistakes but he will make a new mistook.

a full interview with steven rambam is coming up in just around twenty minutes time here on our team. imprisoned without charge in britain extradition laws are catching people in legal limbo arshad was accused of terror related offenses and detained at the request of the u.s. five years ago he is still behind bars waiting as if he is either bana found out the british government is in no rush to close the gaps in the justice system the family is in complete. good hands. the anguish of a family torn apart. by. the. player who asked us to live musos. time what was going to lose some. son son is one of britain's forgotten terrorist suspects held in custody for five

years without charge trapped in a twisted bits of its justice system we don't. do better we cannot plan properly. these hitchens' some murders because if you're safe. our son was arrested in two thousand and six on alleged terrorism offenses he hasn't been tried here because it's not the u.k. that wants him but the u.s. it accuses of supporting the taliban and being involved with websites it calls extremist one of the web site servers happen to be in america and that's why it's after him people. if they committed anything occurred in this country and they should be brought to justice here and charged if released and the get on with their life five years prison i mean this is storm issue britain won't release him because of a treaty signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven crackdown it

means the u.s. can extradite terrorist suspects without a hearing or even showing any evidence has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them and medica says nobody. see. america's call on only the people who provoke us with something but not all and none of the government workers to. this is why a towel how was arrested at his father's shop just over five years ago since then the family have seen their son once a week for fear they won't see him at all if he's extradited to the states in prison here tell her writes poetry and teaches english if extradited and convicted it will be a supermax jail solitary confinement and life without parole extreme measures to those who know the man born and educated in london i'm very surprised that the

british courts have not treated him on veil at least in all these these years because it's completely clear that he's not any kind of threat to anybody there are four more like talha including bubba our maid britain's longest detained without charge prisoner gary mckinnon another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both t.m. town has suffered from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects garrett mckinnon is say you know white middle class english boy and and. very highly educated. british middle class boys and they're both asians and they're muslims and what that tells you is sort of something rather awful about our

society despite opposing the treaty in opposition the government's done little to overturn it only an independent review in september tell has families gone to the european court of human rights in a last ditch speed to get him tried here it's taken five years to get this far the town has fathers not giving up hope yet are they bennett r t london. the leaders of the us intermediate have sealed the deal under which america would station its much debated interceptor missiles in eastern europe under the agreement the us will build a network of military facilities in the country over the next four years by this is only the first stage of a plan with more bases to be set up around europe the state of intent of the program is to defend you are up against attacks from rogue states such as iran and north korea according to a p.r. girl and professor at paris west university the fact that there is no real threat to america or its allies it's

a question mark over just who the shield is aimed at. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one really believed to do was a possibility of iran in europe it's me size did not reach could not reach western europe so it was the deployment was crouched in the czech republic now and it's a new deployment in reno but i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to reassure the former satellite countries of the soviet union so it's a political move but hardly a military necessity and also considering the state of the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of. this research would rush at least he was achieving something. corp russia and key issues but this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some

kind of new arms race which is totally pointless not only because the effectiveness of that shield is problematic a duffle but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment a bus and two passenger trains collided during morning rush hour in argentina eleven people died and two hundred twelve were injured some of them children the bus driver is thought to have been trying to beat the train across the tracks several of the carriages were stopped the reals hit a train facing the opposite direction. having flooding has killed two hundred people and left two hundred thousand homeless in southern pakistan rescue boats are collecting those in villages cut off by water but many remain trapped most of the displaced population are staying in tent camps floods

began early last month but heavy rains have and live aid to them temporary relief efforts. at least nine people have been killed and twenty three wounded in a series of coordinated taliban attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul gunmen targeted the american embassy and nato forces have quarters before several suicide bombers hit police stations elsewhere in the city insurgents stormed and occupied a half built high rise building firing guns and rocket propelled grenades from there afghan and nato forces surrounded the building killing several militants and forcing several others to flee shots still running out on wednesday morning as fighting continued u.s. embassy staff were ordered to retreat into bomb and bulletproof shelters texas based eric pro of the brave new foundation think tank says the presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan usually encourages the taliban to keep on fighting. here we

are just as the nine eleven ten year anniversary and major attacks are being mounted in the capital we're just weeks out from betray us you know kind of crowing about the most recent to six he want to cite saying that you know violence is coming down but that was immediately followed by august which was the most deadly month ever for u.s. forces in afghanistan and then followed by the spectacular attacks in the capital it shows that the military approach in afghanistan simply hasn't worked what's happening is that because the united states didn't respond to their primary just for cation for the war being achieved which was the killing of osama bin ladin that has lent credence to the taliban argument with the local people that the united states has its own purposes in afghanistan that has given the taliban even more recruitment abilities be able to say that what's happening is the united states is occupying afghanistan my prediction is in the united states doesn't change course you're going to see continued slide instability in the country and it continued rise of local instability and local power brokers who are going to further destabilize the country we're actually generating

a situation in afghanistan right now that was much like the situation that led to the political rise of the taliban so unless the united states gets serious about political negotiations with the leaders of the taliban we're not going to see an improvement situation there the fact that such a bold attack was even possible highlights nato's inability to win the hearts and minds of common afghans says pakistani lobbyist ahmed crawshay. this is no longer about just old and of color ban or just groups of terrorists doing this there is a tremendous support from people on the ground to these kind of attacks i mean this particular attack for example would not have been possible without people in the neighborhood people who have facilitated these attackers the terrorists to to carry out this attack and this would not have been possible and of course we have the attack on the british council and many more before that so obviously it's not a stable and i think you can see more and more of these attacks as more and more

u.s. troops actually withdraw from understand how can you really stop use attacks if you if you have a huge segment of your population really sightline and isolated and actually punished over the past eight nine years ten years and you know all that brings us up to date here on our to remember that for more there is our website our team dot com right now let's take a look what's happening in the world of business. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update fresh concerns about the european economy have caused another wave of turbulence in the global markets and while investors away the chances of the meltdown and europe jacob mel from morgan stanley says russia doesn't have much to worry about so far. russia is actually a much better position than other central european countries and say turkey in the region because it has less strong trade and investment relationships with europe

because it's more of a global trading country and it depends on the price of global commodities such as oil which depend on growth in emerging markets such as china and india. so russia's fate is totally dark we've the growth of china and india are not at the moment looks reports and hasn't been affected by the downturn in developed markets as compared to other. countries i think russia has and of course with brazil as essentially a commodity exporter which is exposed to movements in commodity prices which are affected by global growth it's not like china and india which are large enough that they can determine their own fate to make their own economic weather to a great degree because it depends on commodity prices which depend upon global developments. which brings us to the markets oil prices they're heading down pulling u.s. crude of six weeks highs investors concerns about the eurozone taking precedence over typing supply flights which is trading below eighty nine dollars

a barrel while branches that one hundred and eleven dollars and asian stocks are mostly lower pulled down by we could financials europe's debt was is still in center stage as the threat of greek default continues to move however some exporters managed to show some growth in tokyo up three and a half cent and resource and energy stocks are amongst few gainers in hong kong shares of china co energy rose almost three percent after the firm reported a seventeen percent increase in august coal production. in russia the markets will start trading in about two hours time both the artist in the my six added a third of a percent on tuesday. now one of the world's biggest loss manufacturers brazil's markopolos plans to start production in russia in partnership with come us. they'll invest up to thirty million dollars in a joint venture to produce around seventeen hundred vehicles a year. i believe that we are having now. the board of a very good company leader in the market for believing with hamas technology on the

power drain the market all of technology on the bus what we have plans to be leaders in the whole segments we are in three i would see more than thirty five percent to be leader in the market in three years time. russian equities have enjoyed a brief balance impulse to trade on tuesday looking forward to next on the reef can at metropole i'm see believes that all the invest us are generally still cautious russian stocks looking more and more attractive. if not we will be still fall in europe will see how you are goes we see especially everybody striking european banks and all the things that are related to. greek and other countries. of the situation so we will definitely see volatility will definitely see that russia still stay. kind of we can call it so when we want now we can call it safe

having someone mr start stealing burst of definitely will be co-chairs everybody's some of the investors are sitting on a big cash piles are a little bit afraid of getting some new ideas and in some new ideas especially definitely not in the liquid names everybody is looking at the liquid stocks are what is looking at the right time to get you. ok that wraps up the business block you're up to date for most stories you can log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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welcome back here with our top story italy prepares for a government since down to prove a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish projects. the u.s. and romania paving the way for america to build new military bases in the former communist state it brings to fruition. at least nine people have been killed in over twenty one in a wave of taliban violence in the heart of the afghan capital kabul insurgents attacked the american embassy and nato coalition headquarters with guns and grenades along with suicide blasts in the city. in the.