the fact and fiction you know russia's rallies the election launches take a twist in foreign news coverage with fox news rolling using footage of the greek riots. future security at stake as russia and nato meet to tackle vital sticking points that european missile defense in the prevention of libya start military interventions. currency crunch time for the euro leaders who rode up their sleeves and prepared to slug it out to solve the debt crisis once and for all with a bitter pill may be too hard for some to smaller. and

the worse markets will open in about while the time i was really struggled but i reckon more market analysis to this is the ball that. broke arcing live from moscow twenty four hours a day you're watching on t.v. . news bulletins around the world have been following russia's election rallies but one channel stands out america's fox news has been sharing streets ablaze violent clashes and firebombs security offices but with one major problem the images are not from russia they're from greece. has been watching. america has its fair share of protests and political dissent to be dealing with instead of keeping an eye on the ball the country's mass media machine has turned to protests in russia and dropped the ball on reporting the facts. the protesters have gathered

in lost value lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real united russia party the only problem is that this video is not from russia fox news channel aired a video of fires and chaos in athens convincing viewers that this mayhem is playing out in moscow the fair and balanced network paid no mind to the greek lettering in the background in case you're wondering it says greek national bank what matters is that this is what moscow protests have looked like it's not surprising whatsoever that at the moment that there would be any kind of protest no matter how small it be in russia against the russian government that it would be greatly exaggerated in media and used by the u.s. government as well as a way to try to somehow push for a change in russia that would be more favorable to u.s. interests journalist and author eva golinger believes mass media is washington's most valuable weapon in encouraging revolt elsewhere under the mantle of spreading

democracy such as the so-called orange revolution in ukraine. or ruse revolution in georgia. most of the time those media reports are not for the country themselves they're for the international community so that somehow internationally a perception is created that something is happening in the country that's not right and that the government is somehow responsible and so therefore if that government ends up being removed it somehow is justified that you know the media has played a key role in creating a justification for regime change similar anti-government demonstrators have been reported and other city in russia u.s. leaders have. leveled harsh criticism against russia in the aftermath of sunday's parliamentary election and critics say its free press has worked to reinforce the narrative the media tends to march in lockstep with the government it tends to take

its cues from the government it tends to you know mobilize its resources to showcase what the government says is true even when later it turns out not to be true as was the case in this erroneous c.n.n. report well in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans writing in moscow over the killing of a fellow supporter the problem is that we showed the wrong pictures only after the error was repeatedly noticed c.n.n. owned up to its mistake to apologize to the ara the grateful to the many russian viewers who have pointed out the sloppiness of it or it is reflecting you know the lack of awareness of the journalists themselves many of them are completely uninformed about the world they have opinions that have no factual basis to him but it doesn't stop them because it's what looks good that matters more than what

really is true the truth is that america has its own social economic and political challenges to be dealing with and while washington works on getting its own house in order powerful mass media outlets can work on getting their facts straight during a port nine hour r.t. new york. reveal what's really been happening in the past twenty four hours where both pro and anti-government activists have been marching in key cities in the wake of the parliamentary elections supporters of the majority united russia party gathered to show their loyalty and. they today the opposition held its own rallies demonstrations in the capital and some petersburg here to have attracted to protest to previous days to riot police were on standby with dozens detained to. one sentient protest. turns into one of those promising women rights president has ordered all the points of election violations to be investigated. while the russian

rallies go viral across the u.s. mainstream media means americans aren't getting the full story of what's happening on the home front thing on t.v. for a first hand reports has over one hundred peaceful protesters arrested in washington and san francisco people the latest. russia's foreign minister is in belgium for the kremlin his latest push for security guarantees from nato for more on what's at stake his own tests our city. russian and nato officials are meeting at a summit here in brussels first of all they will be reviewing the progress of operations in afghanistan the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has reiterated the importance of the partnership between russia and nato especially when it comes to stemming the flow of narcotics from afghanistan and other issues will be discussing is currently there about five thousand five hundred peacekeeping troops over there and there have been plans to number in half by next year but those five hundred put on hold in light of the current situation very last few

months we've seen clashes between cost of and police some local services and so they will be assessing the situation in kosovo as well as it got a summer one of the main points and sticking points in fact between russia and nato are the table is that of the missile defense system this has been going on for some time now both sides stay firm on their ground maintaining their position as nato. alliance to deploy any of these defense systems will not be directed against russia nor will it undermine russian people every russia has not been satisfied with this in the past russia had proposed russia nato defense system its view of russia have been asking for legally binding guarantees especially just having those words of assurances on paper to satisfy moscow whatever that has not been done and in response russia put in place some military measures and moscow also said that it may be forced to deploy some a mortar weapon systems if its concerns are not taken seriously both by nato and

its allies namely the united states permanent. representative to nato of russia. had said that the talks at the summit will be quote rather serious and it's fair to say that we can expect just that. russia recently deployed the radar. in response to nato defense the kremlin stresses the facility. against the u.s. . washington seal the deal here. and space tells in its own tasteful the white house once written by twenty twenty some of that us think that's what the cloning total system is pushing up towards a new arms race. in the system won't provide any measure of protection against weapons in iran or north korea that they don't exist yet they might in the future but if they do will be able to defeat this system it's raising questions about what the u.s. long term intentions are and where where we had it good sure and i am i think it's

a very good thing that russia is sticking a harder line on us now i wish it would have done it sooner but better late than deadlier. because we certainly if the united states continues to go down the world is that it could trouble the real reasons that russia are concerned about this you have to do with the implications for space and with the implications for a future arms race that russia does not want to get into. sunny mexico the perfect which treat for many has slammed the door to one unwelcome visitor as r.t. reports online is pulled the rug from under another of colonel gadhafi sons trying to escape his house arrest and secretly move to one of the country's resorts. also on line some fashionable framing down japanese designer pens at a con a swaps clothes because turning his hand to paintings in exhibiting in moscow where he works on a website. the

euros survival is about to be determined that european leaders gather for a key summit later on thursday and examine proposals from the french and german leaders which could radically change how the years and works strict budget discipline in the common corporation tax for the seventeen single currency members are among the priorities for any new rules are likely to impact the binding european union and britain is threatening to veto anything which might damage london's financial sector he was already on watch for further credit downgrades if it is decisive the next forty eight hours do risk of genesis says that to escape the mood of new states going back to their own currency is. i think ultimately it's quite clear to me the euro has been

a failure and that the individual countries if they want to retain their sovereignty as i believe individual countries do then they're going to have to go back to their original country currencies the drachma to the to the etc and what we're discovering here i think is the playing out of a plot which has been going on for the last fifty years or so across europe which is in order to bring in a political union control from the center an undemocratic fashion of course we know that brussels is very very little democracy involved in brussels which is a kind of european dictatorship and what bothers me is that actually with we're already seeing this with greece and italy now run by goldman sachs effectively dictatorships as for what's going to happen to the week it's anyone's guess but i think we'll have another fudge these these big euro summit seem to me rather like press gangs where you've got a bunch of financial people just trying to bully our political representatives into

signing on the dotted line or else. to get a firm grip on europe's debt the summit over giving brussels the power to impose austerity on both our countries the deal of the blow to struggling southern europe which is suffering most in the crisis as millions of unemployed people in spain fight over what few jobs there are the young and talented are heading abroad. in starts off as a symbol to abroad for example to through or argentina or elsewhere but once they get their name the spaniards realize there are a lot more parties for them outside spain and for than latin american in some european countries present a modern day eldorado more than one half million spaniards presently reside outside of spain according to the latest statistics a lot of them left in the last couple of years like mary chel a journalist from madrid who moved to argentina two years ago and like a moment was already then people were losing jobs over my university friends either fired over looking for something or watch their salaries being this is she shows

that then now more than a year later it's when i was it's more than twenty four percent spain's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the eurozone paying a monthly mortgage bill is a challenge for many evictions have become an unfortunate but familiar sight no wonder many are starting to look for a way out of what seems to be a hopeless situation now people are taking a very bleak view of the medium and long term future and a lot of spaniards all looking at moving abroad and unfortunately for spain they seem to be precisely the kind of people who should be staying very well educated spaniards say under the age of forty or thirty five or so people who speak maybe two or three languages they might have a master's degree or even a doctorate and those kind of people don't see a future for themselves in spain as a one in naturally if there are no jobs in spain people have to go elsewhere be that you have a latin america in fact this iteration in spain seems to be so desperate this even

those who immigrated here several years ago like miguel indurain as i know also packing their bags and heading back home. a catch twenty two is that spanish citizens also cannot find a job so they get the preference to say nothing of the immigrant markets but i mean if many years ahead of positive migration of low that is more people are coming in now it's negative each family may. their own reasons for leaving but i believe the economic crisis which he has is the main reason. at the recent general elections saw the demise of the leftist socialist party who need to break with the right wing people's party but maybe quantum with agree no matter who is in charge they will have to follow the thorny path of implementing morris thirty measures meaning the bright young things desperate for a job will continue to seek opportunities elsewhere it in a goes carty madrid. struggle to get a head start is also being felt further east as we report later india's brightest

and pilots discover they need a foreign fallback as an investor places dry up. the clothes of a team that's been on the black sea coast for future developments depends on the good way. there are to go to the area first place too many fights champions and the most ambitious. song has ruined the lives of many innocent families across the region. where the oldest city in russia is found clocking in more than five thousand years. to dagestan russia close up on r g.

u. it's designed to keep you closed in your. world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like in a stress position. you have this fear of the unknown and this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica and slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood. those who are coming up here into iraq. johnny poor little body sort of for just

a rock n roll band he was fitting for the job we were doing. in the u.s. more than one hundred ninety corporate occupy protesters have been arrested in san francisco and washington is the latest effort by authorities to break up the movement which has been digging in across america for nearly three months and it if you can witness the crackdown in the capital. as far as i could tell there were around four thousand people on the street minutes away from the white house over seventy protesters were arrested in total this wednesday in washington there was a girl in a wheelchair among them police stepped up arrest when protesters mostly young people blocked the road they were dragging them towards the police cars one person

got nearly struck by a police force so seventy people arrested this is been the largest number of arrests in washington says the beginning of this occupy movement this was all happening on k. street which is known as the lobbyist street people were protesting what they see as widespread corruption in the government authorities and pretty much cracked down on this occupy movement against corporate greed and government complicity which seems a little of a chance of demonstrators from their occupy locations in california and in new york police used tear gas on people pepper spray run move all live sound cannons keep in mind it's been largely a very peaceful movement around five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months across the united states probably any country doing that would be internationally reprimanded for violating human rights but that doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to the united states. well some more news

for you now and syria's president denies he ordered the deadly crackdown on protesters that's reportedly killed four thousand people across the country michel assad refused to the claims during a rare interview to an american book he said he's not in charge of the security forces and gave no commands products and u.n. reports accuses officials of the military of the nigerian civilians syria has been hit by sanctions because of the ongoing violence latest from its former turkey. afghanistan is blaming a pakistan based group for a string of bomb blasts that killed fifty nine people on tuesday person because honor is promising to raise the issue with the pakistani leadership to have a tense relationship with pakistan is demanding evidence for the close the most powerful of the three blasts targeted shia muslims the front of kabul. and the tourists italian mafia boss has been arrested after being discovered in an

underground bunker his own town naples friends and had been on the run for sixty years was only given multiple life sentences for murder kidnapping drug trafficking is being hailed as the end of a particularly savage era series of this exhibit controllable by the area around lake wales. india is one of the world's few growth countries and it's got a burgeoning middle class to match there's only so much opportunity to go around especially when it comes to getting schooling for their children for many that means sending them abroad as pressure explains. with the one point two billion people trying to make it to the top in india can be tough most indians believe that the key to success is getting a good education but with one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world more people than ever can afford a college degree meaning competition for spots at the top universities is fierce

there are some schools which are just so you know academically oriented where you know and then extreme cases there's you know there's even suicides if you know the board exams if your results aren't you know a ninety percent plus percent entrance into india's colleges and universities is based solely on the results of a high school students board examinations this year students wouldn't even be considered for delhi university's commerce program unless they scored at least one hundred percent on their exams in a twist to india's traditional brain drain where india's top talent was looking to the u.s. or europe for better opportunities now india's smartest students are exploring the west as a backup plan if their dreams of getting into an indian institution don't work out so ironic because you know in the u.s. which is sort of like you know the go on for you know amazing secondary level studies i mean higher level studies is actually our safety as compared to india but

it does happen and it's in fact not a possibility it's a problem molecule powell is applying early decision to princeton university in the united states she believes she actually has a better chance of getting into the ivy league american school than she does at being admitted to a prestigious indian one and the u.s. admission process is much more holistic in the admission process it's literally just one mock and in an interview experts in indian college admissions are also seeing the trend of indian students heading abroad out of need rather than desire they say the india needs to focus on a stablish in more higher education programs. students but even when i was in college sure here in india i think there seem number of colleges would seem number of seats available though the drop in the number of colleges and number of seeds has really not kept up with the growth in the population for now pallas focusing on her princeton application in the hope that if things go her way she won't even have

to take the dreaded indian board examinations in the spring ideally i'd like to see myself in the us i know a lot of people who have been so relieved that they got there early decision and they just sort of slacked off when the boards rent and it was really that you know this they've got it placing her bets on the west to avoid the competition at home preassure either r t new delhi india. well up ahead the spotlight talks to the man who ran the u.s.s.r. state bank to ask whether he thinks things could have turned out differently twenty years ago when the soviet union fell first. the latest business news. carry a very warm welcome to the program markets here in russia struggled for direction on wednesday the big event at the end of the week is the e.u. summit investors are speculating where the euro zone will push for a federalized state to deal with its debt crisis meanwhile china is warning of

a slowdown taken collectively quantum is due to believe there are furious and to be optimistic. you do your piece. on that i don't see a near term solution we have. almost everywhere except in the top to pull a come please these austerity measures will stick to fiscal policies have a very. negative effect on goals and we expect to you or your goals next year to be negative and together we see a slowdown in china which is suffering for more exports which i do not do so well anymore plus. the housing sector will be the overall picture for the world economy is not supported by any anymore this is obviously a negative. and therefore also for for russia. let's have

a look at the markets oil is trading near one week low often unexpected gain in the us current inventories stockpiles in the us increased by one point three million barrels last week so for a forecast to decline by almost the same amount investors speculate growing inventories indicate demand will falter in the world's biggest consumer of the commodity. and in asia stocks a losing ground as investors are selling shares ahead of a key meeting in europe equity markets are trading in that region. in the red and the trading is choppy this week that's me to report some weather europe can come up with a strong solution to the debt crisis banks are fast to take the hit his p.c. is of one percent down in hong kong and a week of dollar is weighing on carmakers mazda is dropping one and a half percent in japan. and finally here in moscow trading skin to kick off in about one hours time russian bosses were treated on wednesday as we've just been reporting they are just lost one point two percent while the my sister closed on

this point seven percent in the red. the russian equities moved sideways on wednesday after posting have to correction earlier in the week mark rubenstein from metropole says hopes of a positive resolution at the end of the week should see stocks bounce the markets remember looking at is. the reports of any successful measures agreed up on in the european sovereign and i think there's a growing expectation that there will be concrete steps and measures announced as a result of this summit so the markets certainly going to be taking clues from that and but i think at the same time i think the markets are really gearing up to go higher as they saw or a slight correction earlier in the week and i think now they really want to move. and russian workers ought twice as likely to take the day off as in the west a top executive has claims they had all the patients who try and mitsubishi joint

some moscow plays such problems make russian comicon more expensive than in the west on average teacher out and again by telling our t.v.'s russian workers go missing every ten days. like this and in. western european countries and ten percent of all the of course in russia but look it is not only is the russian the really which is not to competitive because you have to add that in russia some benefits like capturing transportation i do. insurance but also you have to face up some days and i don't move are quite expensive the training cost russian. many people in costs are currently something like five percent i use on western europe cost. ok that's it for now europe today to can climb all stories online at www dot com slash business or

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