deciding on the future of a highly unpopular stereo package and janet 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 measures already been passed by the senate the spire weeks of wrangling and mass public protests but even if passed many wonder if it will be enough because as sarah first reports of years of economic stagnation and a culture of government excess may have left it too little too late. as it sleep prepares to once again tighten its belt in the light of mule stares he measures politicians it seems have found a way to save themselves and pennies we publish a new of the inside of the parliament and the. new. free. with very cheap prize of this

cheap exclusive money was leaked to italian let's press a magazine but this is no image should instead be stray before we vote the. prize for the people of the parliament. five million some from around a thousand. a year and it's the taxpayer left fitting that we were paying for this being hard for many to stomach that we are an economic. arlene are my people like us pay the creases. decreases because they don't care they interest are free to leave the care early day interest so we are angry sick and tired outside the parliament building a protest need mint has been growing like a tonne a ferrari has been on 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 politicians listen we know we need to get three million people here we hope there will. they're protesting against what they say is

a politicians of peace of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country that we're asking for marriage or for this salary suffered by i'm in paris because they are the i guess salaries in our europe ok in an italian police. one hundred eighty thousand euro in spain for example only it's forty five thousand euros. for the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated for language courses naver million euros spent just for their stationery and is public anger builds the protest movement has been gaining momentum we least afraid something would soon go to the greek protest in which. people who are for. young people go to find.

the situation's going to be very very complex but 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. great have to have their voices heard. for the fish unspoken so that they vow that the hunger strike will continue and that remain here until they get some answers. r.t. . and as his guests discuss the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there is great concern over the engine of the world's economy the once miley and now shrinking american middle class that are more and crossed are coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. but here's a brief preview. 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 if you're very. family capital or capital gains or whatever you just need people who make money from money and people only money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poor people from. the point who are being employed mean spittal class well i once. went to dealer i know in both one third very powerfully that for him working class men people who didn't want to work. was in argentina when it collapsed and i would put it the other way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they start 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.

washington has strongly back to libyan opposition since the revolutionary wave engulfed the state it's now equally enthusiastic in its support against syria's president bashar but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides could backfire in its closest middle east ally israel artie's ganesh account looks at the 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 even though. iran is not an arab country the arab spring to spread to absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the runs 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 their side 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 washer 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 so they would like. overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government in venezuela and cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington 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 what you have with. with hamas could essentially spread to many more places and then you 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 it thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that still in power last week a gyptian storm peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in libya a washington supported leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into a 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 and undermining the whole region i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t.

. israel's 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 used by daraa told me that israel's current policy is leading it no work. 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 allies buy it if using to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place since monday marmara incident and also chilling the egyptian soldiers inside and hoping to get away with what has been. against them but certainly puts for

forward the new in israeli image in the people's eyes the country to continue all to fashion policies while the world around them in their need to be snooty is is really changing powerful you and radically and on the ground in the via the national transitional council has given everyone and the besieged stronghold bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attack 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 kid office hometown of sirte and even though whereabouts of the embattled leader is still unknown stephen rambam who is the head of an international investigative agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. qaddafi is a nut but he's

a very clever and up and he's a not 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 mistake. a full interview with steven rambam is coming up in around twenty minutes time. imprisoned without charge in britain extradition laws are catching people in legal limbo tell her i shot was accused of terror related offenses and detained at the request of the us five years ago his still behind bars waiting and as our teens are about a found out the british government is in no rush to close the gaps in the justice system the coming is incomplete. good hands.

the anguish of a family torn apart. by. the. party who asked us to live musos. time up one hundred lives some. who are son son is one of britain's forgotten terrorist suspects held in custody for five years without charge trapped in the twisted depths of its justice system we go through come do better we've got nickel and properly. these hitchens' some riggers because if you. 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 websites 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 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 to has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them quote america says nobody. the. americas. only the people who provoke us with something but nor none of the government workers to. this is where tell 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 it is extradited to the states in prison here town who 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 bail at least in all these these years because it's completely clear that he is not any kind of threat to anybody there are four more like including bubba our maid britain's longest attained without charge prisoner gary mckinnon another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both pm town has suffered from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects gary 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 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 jus out in september tell has families gone to the european court of human rights in a last ditch bid to get him tried here it's taken five years to get this far put down his father's not giving up hope yet on the bennetts are. the leaders of the u.s. in romania have sealed a deal under which america would station its much debate 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 but this is only the first stage of the plan was more bases to be set up around europe the state of the intent of the program is to to fan europe against attacks from rogue states such as iran and north korea but according to pierre goodland professor at paris west university the fact that there is no real threat to america or its allies puts 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 that there was a possibility of iran attacking europe its myside steve not reach could not reach western europe so it was the deployment was scrapped in the czech republic knowledge and new deployment in rumania but i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to reassure the former satellite countries that so huge 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 when obama had this reset policy of would pressure at least he was achieving something corp russia and key issued 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 double 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 of the 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 be the train across the tracks several

of the carriages forced off the rails hit a train facing the opposite direction. heavy 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 of water but man who remain trapped most of the displaced population are staying in tent camps floods began early last month but heavy rains have a group of eight of them hampering relief efforts. a series of coordinated attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul left at least seven people dead and seventeen wounded and resulted in a ninety nine hour a long gunfight militants targeted the american embassy and nato forces have waters before several suicide bombers hit police stations elsewhere in the city insurgents stormed in occupied a half built high rise building firing guns and rocket propelled grenades from there afghan and nato forces surrounded the building killing six militants and

forcing several others to flee u.s. embassy staff were ordered to retreat into bomb and bulletproof shelters texas based derek crouch of the brave new foundation of think tank says the presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan we really encourages the taliban to keep on fighting. and 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 the tree is you know kind of crowing about the most recent statistics you 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 specter. killer attacks in the capital it shows that the military approach in afghanistan so it has worked what's happening is that because the united states to respond to their primary justification 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 if united states doesn't change course they're going to see continued slide instability in the country kind of 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 a situation there while the fact that such a bold attack was even possible highlights nato's inability to when the hearts and minds of khalid abdalla pass pakistani lobbyist half met. 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 a plan is done it is not a stable and i think we will see more and more of these attacks to as more and more u.s. troops actually withdraw from the understand how can you really stop these attacks if you if you have a huge segment of your population really sidelined in isolated and actually punished over the past eight nine years ten years actually now. while it brings us up to date now let's take a look at what's happening and the world of business dealings here. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program fresh concerns about the european economy have caused another wave of turbulence in the clover markets and while investors away the chances of the meltdown in europe jacob nell from morgan stanley

says russia doesn't have much to worry about so far. russia is actually a much better position and other central european countries 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 pains all the price of global commodities such as all which depend on growth in emerging markets such as china and india above all so russia's fate is tied up with the growth of china and india and that at the moment looks robots and hasn't been affected by the downturn in developed markets as compared to other. countries i think russia is in a basket with brazil as essentially a commodity exporter which is exposed to movements and 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 and make their own economic weather to a great degree because it depends on commodity prices which depend upon global

developments. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading down pulling u.s. crude off six weeks highs investors concerns about the eurozone at taking precedence over tightening supply lights we just trading below eighty nine dollars a barrel while branches that one hundred and eleven dollars. and asian stocks are mostly lower pulled down by a week of financials europe's debt woes are still in center stage as the greek default continues to loom hong kong so saying is setting for its lowest close in more than two years as developers retreated and after premier wen jiabao signal china should not be expected to bail out the global economy. and here in russia the markets seeing losses in eritrea tracking asia lower what investors are going to be watching today. u.s. inflation figures to out to sixteen thirty more time looking forward to next sunday . at all i see the news that all the investors that generate still cautious russian

stocks the looking toward more attractive. definitely we will be to fall in europe and we'll see how you are goes we especially everybody strike in european banks and all the things that are related to. greek and other countries. salacious of the situation so we will definitely see will that suit you we will definitely see but russia still still. kind of we can call it saw the movie but now we can call it safe because someone must say stealing burst of definitely will be co-chairs everybody's some of the investors are sitting on the because files 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 or what is looking at the right time to get. that russia is considering delaying the privatization of a ten percent stake in its second largest bank fee to be

a sale planned for next year depends on disposal of another asset seven point six percent of the country's top lenders burbank earlier it was reported russia could revise its privatization plans due to the latest volatility in the stock markets. because in all the news one of the world's biggest boss brazil's markopolos plans to start production russia in partnership with com 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 work of a very good company leader in the market for delivering codes with hamas technology on the bar during the month the pall of technology on that was what we have plans to believe there is in all segments we are in very high would see more than thirty five percent to be leader in the market in three years time. ok that's all we have

time for now you are up to date more business stories and analysis and also time for you. well when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amount of damage done by aerial

bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's sonic boom city tractors marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that.

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talk about here with our team here's a look at the top stories it's only prepares for a wife of a stereo as a government sits down to approve a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. in the u.s. in romania seal a deal paving the way for america to build new military bases in the former communist state it brings to fruition a bush era missile interceptor plan for europe. the taliban hit the afghan capital kabul with a wave of attacks killing at least seven people and sparking a nine thousand hour a long firefight gunmen targeted the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters while suicide bombers hit throughout the city. in a time of electronic gadgets and high tech innovations fly.