it is one pm in moscow you're watching r t i'm marina joshie and he's in britain are pushing the government to take the power to stop and search terror suspects away from police the law was first introduced in march and will and in a cold war of both houses of parliament don't agree to prolong it but as are reports there are still some dubious legal loopholes in britain which are leaving some suspects locked up for years without charge the family is in complete. good hands. the anguish of a family torn apart. the. party who asked us to live musos tyler 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 the twisted depths of its justice system we drove

him home to this very week nicklen properly i mean are. these features some murders because you feel. 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 the corded 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 quote and medica says nobody says. america's call on only the people who provoke us with something but nor none of the government protested. 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 but 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 bail 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 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 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 jew out in september town 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 the town has fathers not giving up hope yet either bennett r.t. london. and still to come on the program the sour here in our t.v. target blog and there persuade the media to lead it put parts of a missile to fans on its territory with washington pushing ahead with its controversial plan. and a nineteen hour a long gunfight with the taliban keeps kabul the way we talk to again a stance former president who says the bloodshed as a result of foreign intervention. italy is deciding on the future of a highly unpopular package intended to put a leash on the country's wrong way deb 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 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 the culture of government access may have left it too little too late. as it sleepy peds to once again tighten its belt and then lighted mule staring. politicians it seems they found a way to save themselves some pennies we. knew of the inside of the parliament. of a menu. along with very cheap rides and this cheap yet exclusive menu was leaked to italian let's press a magazine this is name it should instead be straight before we've rolled the.

prize for the people of the parliament called five million some for around the thousand. year the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated for language courses naver million year i spent just for the stationery and it's. taxpayer less fitting that was in fact that's been hard for many to stomach that we are in economic crazy arlene are my people like us be the. decreases because they don't care they interest our feet only they care only they interest so we are. outside the parliament building a protest meeting and has been growing. in a ferrari has been a hunger strike for months. all the people here are hungry for a future for their children we don't see that at the moment but to make the politicians listen we know we need to get three million people here who will come

there protesting against what they say is the politicians of piece of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country 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 they have their voices heard so far no politician spoken so that they vow that the hunger strike will continue and that remain here until they get them out there say. on tuesday barack obama had some harsh words now it's china's turn to tell europe to get its financial house in order the premier of the world's second largest economy war in the euro zone a must stop its crisis getting worse issues concerning problems could take down the

whole global economy well for more on this france's loan from investment company holdings ltd joins me from hong kong mr owen thank you for being here with us on the program now first off. we've heard some powerful words coming from the chinese premier who's known as the soft spoken moderate speaker so what does this say of the seriousness of your. debt crisis. what. is precisely saying is europe's debt problem must be solved by europeans are long don't think lovechild last lend. last resort to. china and right europe's. politicians have been paying their budget deficits by selling bonds actually mortgage you are charging into the future so no. you catch up with them in two thousand and eleven is the

year that that fidelity catches up with several european countries like greece and italy so they've got to put their houses in order they have to spend. what they have but not spend more than they have so that is why i. came out saying that please put your how was in order for. well not so long ago in fact just a couple days ago telling officials who met with the chinese delegation and reportedly tines were asking beijing to buy significant amounts of its debt so what's in it for china. well. china's already holding about four percent of the. debt so it will have to refinance part of the. company coming to get years so

italy. china solve from the c.i. c. to buy some actually not buy some or buy huge amounts of it because china has about three trillion u.s. dollars of foreign exchange basically it to the ones trying to. solve. this why when joe said this. today but i think i think it is also time for china to flex economic muscle and gain some advantage not by a lot of italian. so to give the market a little bit of confidence. there have to be fired by europeans them south. well they'll be an interesting scenario of course now and we also know that italy said that a fire sale of state assets is on the table if

a sterile fails so what is it i mean is it a way for italy to provoke its neighbors to helping rome more perhaps rather than risk china buying our critical assets in the heart of the e.u. what does this move driven by in your opinion. well i think it clearly is the european. economy cannot afford to be out of the euro's think it would be dishonest or italy if it drops out of the euro so because it will not be able to fly. at the cheap interest rate so it has to do poor all the stops to gain five nation to pin their backing to grow its national of course the european central bank is playing hardball as italy to treat its budget deficit increase tax collection and decrease spending if

not if they cannot do is sell some says. basically what you see you the mandate and it really seems to have given in a little bit. we have to agree the situation right now italy has that much choice. well you know you mentioned dropping out of the euro zone in fact there are growing calls from other european countries for the struggling states apart from italy there is also spain and portugal. to leave the euro zone but is this actually likely to happen given that there is technically there is no mechanism for leaving the euro zone is there. well i don't say it will happen because of one thing only if these countries like greece spain ireland italy portugal stay in the eurozone they can find then is their national debt much

more cheaply if in. italy is paying something like five point six percent for a ten year or five year noakes if they if they drop out of the euro zone they may have to pay up to ten percent so that is a big big difference and politically economically i don't think dropping out of the euro zone is an option so they have to. come to pressure they have to do what the european union union demands them to. france islam managing director and senior holdings ltd joining us from hong kong thanks very much indeed for being here with us in the program. and as i tease peter lavelle and he's guests discuss the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there's great concern over the engine of the world economy the once mighty and now shrinking american middle class that are more and crossed

all coming your way at eleven thirty g.m.t. here's a preview. 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 that's a very 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 cost they along with the poor of people who make their money to the point where being employed means middle class well i once. did i know in both once said very powerfully that for him working class meant people who didn't want to work. was an option for you know what 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 a 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 asad but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides could backfire on its closest middle east ally israel or he's going to 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 you know iran is not an arab country the arab spring could spread to absolutely. and i think in many ways it's

a matter of time before that kind of change before and revolution occurs in the ones under the umbrella of 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 the 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 stays just like a dog for your 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're 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 to 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 actively fosters the process by pledging support for anti-government new. once 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'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 it thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that still in power last week objections storm peace really embassy and rage by the killings of five egyptian border guards in the lead here washington said what is 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 the palestinian statehood turkish political commentator yeah i was told r.t. that israel's current policy is leading it nowhere. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and these isolation no 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 and

hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly puts for forward the new image in the people of. the country to continue all to fashion and seize while the world around them in their need to be snooty is is really changing powerfully and radically on the ground in libya the national transitional council has given everyone in the besieged broken off a stronghold buying one and two days to leave or face a full scale attack last week opposition fighters launched an assault on the city by the offensive stoled in the face of fierce resistance rebels however claim they made against in the city of red valley sixty kilometers east of cut off is held town of sarat and even though the whereabouts of 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 you spout qaddafi as a nut but he's

a very clever nope 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. i'm sure he's avoiding those mistakes but he will make. a full interview with stephen rambam is coming up in the next hour here on r t. the leaders of the u.s. and romania have sealed the deal on 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 but this is only the first stage of a plan with more bases to be set up around europe the stated intent of the program is to plan for europe against attacks from rogue states such as iran and north korea according to pierre of your land 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 me size did not reach could not reach western europe so it was the deployment was scrapped in the czech republic not as a new deployment in rumania 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 to the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of 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 doubtful 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 and i'll be back with a wreath out of our main stories shortly before that there will take a look what's happening now while a business with helium. below and a very warm welcome to the business program fresh concerns about the european economy have cost another wave of turbulence and the global markets stocks when sharply by hundreds of points and while unless as awaiting 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 depends on the price of global commodities such as oil which depend upon growth in emerging markets such as china and into europe. 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 and as compared to other. countries i think russia has been 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. of a look at the markets oil prices are heading down pulling u.s. crude off six weeks highs investors concerns about the euro zone are taking

precedence over tightening supply mights which is trading at eighty nine dollars a barrel while branches at one hundred and eleven dollars bond european stocks are high and it's speculation china may still offer support for the region there is optimism even after comments from china's premier the eurozone must not reliable bailouts and also in focus is a conference call between angle more. prime minister george papandreou at eight pm moscow time they'll be brainstorming the continuing crisis looking for pointers the solution is on the horizon and here in russia the markets although just margin investors were waiting for the central bank's refinance rate decision which was left unchanged at eight point five percent now they are eyeing a slew of economic data from the u.s. and europe including the u.s. inflation figures to out to sixteen thirty moscow time. take a look at some index moves on the my six percent up the company has increased its

twenty eleven production cost by three percent to five hundred twenty billion cubic meters of gas financial corporations to stand by it's gaining over one percent the company has more than doubled its second quarter net profit to three hundred thirty two million dollars and drive the make up their farm is also up supported by stronger than expected results its net profit growth twenty percent to twenty nine million dollars. that's all we have time for now join me for another business update in less than one us time and get more stores more website our to dot com slash business.

decades back in time one thousand miles from the north pole. the iraqi team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on capella go. where twenty years after the us was ours collapsed the soviet way of life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a ghost town and where the soviet heritage has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition on r g. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not

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a baggage in our new line from moscow these are the top stories reviewing tara was british police may lose the power to randomly stop and search suspects as the government is put under pressure to revise controversial laws. to leave for paris for a wife of a stair ready as the government sits down to approve a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. the u.s. and rumania seal a deal paving the way for america to build new military bases in the former communist state that brings to fruition our bush era missile interceptor plan for you up. so the top stories news continues at the top of the hour meantime we invite you on a journey to discover russia this time we try.