bonfire of the austerity and italian museum director starts to burn a works of art in protest of the state of the country thanks to europe's ongoing debt crisis. in syria rules are agreed upon for an international cease fire monitor mission but with the violence carrying on regardless and on our t.v. crew finds itself under fire in the city of daraa. russia will give nato extra help in the afghan war by allowing more supplies through its territory and seizes the troops caught up in a wave of violence and scandal in the war zone. it

is good to have you with us today here on arts he rule research and live in moscow . is the latest victim of the e used debt crisis the director of an italian museum is now burning works from around the world well in protest of the government's harsh austerity measures with the permission of the artists he's promised to destroy at least three pieces a week until the government listens to what he has to say with details artie's tester australia and brussels. well the museum director has started burning artwork he's calling this the article are basically it's a symbolic protest against the way that the economic crisis the european debt crisis is being handled until this point and he also says that over a thousand artworks are already doing to be destroyed anyway because of the government's indifference to their situation subsidies how big cuts to the cultural institutions and again this just brings about the message that no light and nothing

is spared from these harsh cuts being imposed by governments in europe because of the debt crisis and it's the same story you have here art and cultural heritage of italy being prized assets and it's going down the drain the same goes with its workforce its assets their human assets bearing the brunt of all these cots and this is a symbolic protest follows what we've seen recently already suicides and suicide attempts in greece and italy as well over pension cuts or loss of benefits or loss of jobs and this is the type of this is all the protests may be changing but it goes back to underlying that point that people are saying that they are in desperate need of their desperation at the dire situation that they're in especially in countries like italy and spain which are still hanging in the balance european leaders and markets still i it of whether it will be the next to receive bailouts and we all know what bailouts needed from international creditors it means even more a stary and even more desperation from the eyes of the people. so they're putting

patrick young v. executive director of investment advisers he says that although italy's protest could be treated as a joke other problems it highlights a very serious. the truth of the matter is that i think it's difficult to take seriously the idea of simply seeking attention through destroying our works when actually wouldn't be a great deal of a better idea to have these artists and indeed these artworks being sold so that they can actually go somewhere to try and help some of the pensioners i mean it strikes me that it is a rather ludicrous protest per se but it galls draw attention to the fact that the fundamental underpinning zp of many european states and that means that the vast amount of money that has been the spent on the the social status whether it be an art whether it be in pensions or whatever it is that is coming to an end europe and the euro zone cannot afford it socialism. watching r t a twenty

two million dollar fine the punishment for perhaps america's most controversial financial giant by the penalty came off the revelations that goldman sachs gave inside information to preferred clients allowing them an unfair advantage and as always the kaiser report has the lowdown the full show coming your way next hour here on our. it makes sense that the commission was able to negotiate a penalty settlement over four times the two thousand and three penalty soundman so yes goldman sachs already paid a penalty in two thousand and three for this exact same technical violation but they have more leverage now because of the financial collapse to plead with goldman sachs to pay a little bit more money and. more money for you lawbreaking in your group it'll be your dodos blue school biggest one if you.

must go to. you know this is outrageous that the f.c.c. is begging goldman to to write up the fine if they're comfortable with yeah it's sort of actually you know saying you know what you guys are shameless lawbreaking dogs banks they're scum and how about we bring it out of sparks and whack it out i love these chinese banks who give you know they take the beggars out back and they kill oh that's a deterrent death is a deterrent. to. reporters about an hour and a half from now here in our city there for the meantime syria and the u.n. have agreed on new rules governing in advance team of international monitors observers will support a secession of violence as sporadic clashes between regime forces and rebels continue despite a cease fire source on a boy who was forced to flee the city of daraa in the south west of the country because of intensified shooting. it is known here as the so-called cradle of the

serious revolution because it was the scene of the first mass rallies against the assad government this is probably one of the most militarized communities in syria these days you can see army checkpoints in almost every corner there are snipers on the roof of the government building buildings but despite these having a presence of troops. the situation the security situation and derek is highly volatile and watches take place on an almost daily basis and today wasn't an exception we arrived today or on the invitation of the syria information ministry which is now eager to show our reporters a bad life is slowly again getting back to normal and when be arriving to deceive the clashes intensify violence and time to fight it could hear the sound of gunfire the sound of machine guns and as a result our visit was cut short also know of that at the time r t who was in the

u.n. observers also introduced v.t. and local officials told us that the rebels are using any opportunity of these high profile visits to pro bowl down into military action what i was really surprised with is the reaction of the big people on the ground the cd is very sort of calm because you don't see too many people on the streets most of the shops are closed but those people who venture out into the sea when they hear the gunfire they rush to one side of the city or one side of the street or another to find refuge but two minutes off towards the go around their daily lives so it seems that these allied with the constant threat haven't seen gunfire has sort of become a new normal for many residents of. the source of work are reporting that while our foreign minister is with the friends of syria group which includes cube. western

and arab states today are gathering in powers to increase pressure on the assad regime but a short i mean there's a commentator on a political analyst covering the middle east says that it's time that foreign powers use the diplomatic influence to the other side towards peace as well when you're asking two sides to sign on to an agreement i mean and one side is a government it's fairly easy the syrian government signs on behalf of the syrian government on the other side it's a lot more fragmented and so not only fragmented in the opposition internally to syria but fragmenting off of this external to syria and beyond that you have regional external players and then you have international external players all who have something to say about you know the future of this mission so you know we can clearly say syria has signed on to this mission the other side is a question and the syrian government claims that it has it has the most to gain

from this because this is when you have international observers in these areas of conflict who will finally be able to ascertain for us who is initially in the violence which is still a question. from this is on three it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you in this program why activists join the chorus of those protesting against the world's biggest spy base in the u.k. . but will see these americans developing a new form of imperialism we explore what's fueling fears that operations in a british american center could lead to a new kind of international power game plus. excell will own russian reserves that fire in the arctic under a new deal reinterview the head of the american old firm imperiousness. and it's now worth ten minutes past the hour here in moscow nato is getting more help from russia in the afghan war at a ministerial meeting in brussels the sides discussed expanding the vital transit

of military cargo to afghanistan through russia's territory that moscow has provided the alliance with the air corridor always and railway routes the link is vital as pakistan blocked nato supplies from crossing its territory after an airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers that was now six months ago and as the alliance prepares to withdraw troops from afghanistan it finds itself in the midst of a string of scandals involving extreme breaches of discipline by u.s. troops washington says recently published photographs of soldiers posing with the remains of afghan bombers show an isolated incident of young people caught up in the moment but former army sergeant sure rue says that this is actually part of a trend. this congress please to change and it needs to stop revolving around a few bad apples or whatever it needs to start being be getting real about the fact that these aren't isolated incidents and furthermore it's only

a matter of time until they all cried out this is symptomatic of. a long history of war and the types of wars the us tends to write you know and vietnam we saw a lot more of my physical war trophies being taken way been years and years and tons and things like that. in this war it's autographs instead of taking perhaps things with then and they still do i know of examples and so does the media but you know more so than taking body parts taking pictures just a day off of those photos of american soldiers posing with afghan body parts surfaced you can watch a video of foreign fighters gone wild this time right here in iraq firing at civilians and running aside indiscriminately those details just a click away at our from the.

controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement all act has been dealt a heavy blow david martin a member of the european parliament and a key figure behind the treaty has now said the bill should be rejected as he told us earlier here on r.t. of the legislation meant to stop piracy has too many side effects. terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with that i think it's important you know it does protect us and to lecture properly but had a number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty on internet service providers to effect if we act as the european police force of the internet and i don't think that's right i think that's part of formal judicial authorities secondly i didn't like the idea that there could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently going or doing films and music and so on in the privacy of their own homes. back to save this should only be for

commercial purposes but commercial purposes are very weakly defined the other concern that people have about i care that it was a negotiator or five six year period behind closed doors the rights holder seemed to be involved in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be proud of that discussion and most of the members of the partly didn't really understand what they were signing up for i mean the british house of commons i don't one lame reported article which said that i did not met a debate on the floor of the house of commons and as an aside i actually demonstrates the importance of the european parliament and the european decision making process because without the european powers act they would probably know below that now that it's of a hero see the alyona show explores another controversial piece of land sea piracy legislation are this one being pushed by the us government i think you join us at one hundred g.m.t. you'll get the whole scope.

this is r.t. now india has successfully test fired its first long range intercontinental ballistic missile which could potentially carry nuclear payload to europe or even to china's major cities the country has recently been a defense budget amid a wider military buildup in asia and an increased tensions in the region while north korea's failed rocket launcher drew a storm of reaction last week india's test hasn't triggered anything like the same response asia expert explains why it has to do with. politic of the world is close to the united states certainly india is close to

the west in general india continues to be an adverse to the of china and pakistan so the noises you heard in the west. the firing of the rocket not you do not hear about india the other thing is india is useful to the west to counter china and therefore. it monster the west if it doesn't ignore it doesn't produce a the and yet either. in a few moments is the world update here on r.t. but for now one of three members of a feminist punk band arrested for hooliganism back in february will remain in custody for at least two more months a court hearing is currently under way right here in moscow at least twenty of the group's supporters were detained trying to stage an un sanctioned demonstration school band came to wide public attention when they rushed people from russia might

be true here in moscow and performed what prosecutors claim was a blasphemous song it could see them putting in jail for up to seven years the incident calls a huge public reaction of harsh criticism from russia's political church which. are starting with iraq we'll get to the r.t. world are paid out some other international news for you in brief a wave of bombings across the country killed at least thirty five and injured around one hundred officials say extremists launched both car and roadside bombs in the capital and the country's north the explosions in baghdad targeted mainly shia neighborhoods authorities believe security forces were also targets. bought and protests continue in bahrain as the country prepares to host a formula one grand prix security forces used stun grenades to ward off protesters who stormed a culture exhibition organized for the race a petrol bomb delayed

a racing team for making its way from the circuit back to its hotel and the latest report says that no one in the team was injured and it wasn't supposed to be the target. g.p. was cancelled last year due to antigovernment demonstrations. it's being called the largest spy center on earth and menwith hill in britain has been the target of protesters for decades jointly run by the u.k. and the u.s. the complex that monitors the communications of dozens of other countries but something seen as a symbol of security is also head out as a sign of hypocrisy as artie's laura smith explains. it's a little piece of america in the middle of the yorkshire dales it might look like some kind of theme park but it's actually a spy base and part of the early warning system for the ever expanding u.s. missile defense shield is a part of this huge kind of organism gripping the world and it surfaces you

different places like that which is connected to these the american military base peter pace in menwith hill since the nineteen sixty's growing all the time until the site now comprises thirty three of those goals like structures inside each one a satellite dish which collects information from u.s. satellites but also intercepts the communications of other countries that information is then fed back to the u.s. i've used in what they call intelligence led warfare which includes special operations and drone attacks. to keep up with new forms of warfare billions of dollars have been invested in man with hill over the last ten years it's enabled the base to remain a vital component to the global u.s. surveillance network men with watch or talk to steve schofield reckons the inner workings of around a hundred countries are closely monitored here something he dubs an unprecedented level of intervention the u.k.'s providing

a facility here it's involved in drone attacks that we know from independent assessment by killing and injuring thousands of civilians these are acts of war and normally when we have lots of you know parliament should normally inform people were involved in those who were not being informed were kept in the dark about this isn't news to locals they've been coming up here to protest weekly for decades but now their cause has drawn the attention of a global movement occupy helen alexander is from occupy leeds and sees a common cause in menwith hill to consider its. on our individual civil liberties the fact that they can listen to all of our phone calls they can and intercept our emails you know this whistleblower evidence is testimonial he claims that what goes on there is not only political espionage but commercial espionage it's a far cry from the land of the free rhetoric the u.s.

is famous for and critics see menwith hill as a symbol of that hypocrisy and of europe kowtow into u.s. power we're seeing is americans developing a new form of imperialism this isn't about protection of democracy if you look at the pattern of. the united states over the past twenty years it's about ensuring they have access to oil and other vital no. resources in africa in the persian gulf and we've got to challenge that we really have to start challenging force through it because the next stage is probably the attack on iran. with the us is the expansion plans for the ballistic missile defense shield up to twenty twenty five and with menwith hill already part of the early warning system this picking of america's nose into other people's backyards is stooping fears it could be the trigger to a new arms race nor a smith r.t. men with hill yorkshire. right now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow

sudan and south sudan are edging closer to resuming all out war as fierce clashes on the borders intensify last week the south less than a year of independence to seize the disputed oil fields now sudan in return branded its neighbor an enemy and promised to reclaim the oil rich region let's get some more on this now from a political analyst joining us live here on r.t. from the u.k. it's good to see you thank you for coming on our program today a south sudan and it got its independence less than a year ago doubt what's this new conflict ultimately about is it territory oil or power. well oil is sitting right there in the middle as normal with all conflicts but you know there's never been total stability in sudan i was there myself in khartoum healing with the people in juba which is the capital in the south the south of course i guess you've got a crusade type environment you've got a lot of sort of christian based people in the south and the islamic in the north

so that's the same problem we've had ongoing in most conflict areas right in the middle right on the border the oil fields the oil and gas fields with substantial investments from from china in particular and the french are in there the brits the normal scenario and and then just before independence for this region went through the system they were actually interviewing. poles locally on the border to see which segments wanted to move into the southern region and which wanted to go into the north and of course you've got a very strong tribal overtone here as well so a very complex scenario and and there's never been stability for itself which was manifested itself as a direct result of war we're talking about decades of conflict here yes there is ability within in a very unstable environment where you talk about decades of conflict going on in

sudan now sudan and south sudan where for a moment when r.t. i want to bring up the map the map of the border between sudan and south sudan actually shows shows where the oil regions are and as we can see there are two groupings of oil fields here and both of them bleed over from the south sudan into sudan themselves so it's difficult to understand exactly who he really does have proper ownership to these oil fields now but some say that south sudan try to capture this all region because it knows it has the unofficial backing of the west and america do you think that could be the case. it certainly is the case and having spent time there you can definitely see the split politically and the lean one part leaning obviously to the west and there's one leaning towards the islamic support and of course china. the biggest issue as i see it is that any reservoir that crosses the border of the sea makes that resource joint venture it's

owned by both north and south we have the same scenario in iraq with kurdistan it's almost identical so there's got to be some sort of sitting around the table and getting together because south sudan has one big issue it is totally landlocked so it requires the cooperation of the north to put the pipeline through to the red sea and export the product so without that you've got a viable market anyway it's interesting how you bring in the global implications here you mentioned china a few minutes ago there are worries that in case of a war between both sudan's it could ultimately split the un security council particularly between the us russia and china we know that china is the biggest consumer of sudanese that oil is there a real danger here of global implications do you think. yes i come back to the term the new world order because unknown to most people you've also got to understand in the background of all this of course is the israelis because the israelis have

carried out air strikes in should and before show that show there's another lien the new world order of course is predominantly controlled by the zionists and a lot of your emphasis as i have stated in the past is a very strong lean from america of trying to apply pressure in this region but you've got to understand that the new world order despite who's involved who the players are the actual hub the operational center for this interference is actually in london all right a conversation that deserves more time than we have available thank you very much for coming on r.t. today you're well i'll let our crossover structure the r.t. business that's going to speak to daniel bushell or find out how the markets are doing at this hour daniel over to you what's the latest with the numbers reading greens how's it looking you know the red because new jobless claims were higher than expected and that's pushed new york lower than morgan stanley swung to a quarterly loss and bank of america's posted lower profit as well but they'll slid

under thirteen thousand as you can see there. over sixteen hundred though the first gains in four days good news for russia's economy in the first two months this trade surplus jumped twenty eight percent year on year is the euro because demand for spanish bonds grows at today's alterable so that it's boring course is the biggest major pulls down because if one of the one cent of. all of bridges and exxon could reach hundreds of billions of dollars at the moment is just three billion commitment for initial surveys but this will ramp up quickly with a name to produce first twenty twenty head of american energy giant. they will be able to own some of the reserves they find. so when we discover. commercially available reserves the agreement does provide for us to be able to book those rigs or where one third working in russia live has a two thirds working year tourist so of course once we have paid our taxes paid the

fees that are due to the government we've paid our operating expenses then we will begin to repay the loans financing that may be required and it will be repaid only one third two thirds from working interest basis if you wait for the right market conditions you could wait forever that's the view of andre caused in about the government's privatization plan had to be to be rushed the second biggest lender believes the time has come to get on with it i don't think that the necessary to postpone for too long because the market is a market if you wait for the best price you can wait forever and then miss the chance anyway so i think that the time is not bets i think there's always a wheel which mutants for example recently one of the leading brazilian banks made a substantial placement and they compared purse with us on the global market because that's the financial situation from emerging market from weeks country so i think just that we should go ahead and throw today more stories on our website at

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