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news live from moscow city center this is artsy with me rory stewart shea. is the latest victim of the e.u.'s debt crisis the director of an italian museum is burning works from all around the world this protest at the government's harsh austerity measures with the permission of the artists he's promised to destroy three pieces all week until the government listens to what he has to say with more on this from brussels is artie's tesser our city. well the museum director who started burning artwork is calling this the art war 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 doomed to be destroyed anyway because of the government's indifference to their situation subsidies have been cut to the cultural institutions and again this just brings about the message that and no one

and nothing is spared from these harsh cuts being imposed by governments in europe because of the 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 cuts and this is a symbolic protest follows what we've seen recently already suicides of 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 the symbolic protest may be changing but it goes back to underlying the point that people are saying that they are in desperate need of their desperation the dire situation that they're in this actually in countries like italy and spain which are still finding that balance european leaders and markets still idea of whether it will be the next to receive bailouts and we all know what bailouts need from international creditors it means even more a stary and even more desperation from the eyes of the people. just roselli

reporting that. investment patrick young says that although it believes protests there could be treated as a joke of the 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 to destroying our works when i actually wouldn't be a great deal of a better idea these are just so and indeed these artworks being sold so they can actually go somewhere to try to help some of the pensioners i mean it strikes me that it is a rather ludicrous protest for her say thirty dollars draw attention to the fact that the fundamental underpinning of many european states and that means that the middle class to much of the money the thing that spent the form of the social state whether it be in art whether it be in pensions or whatever it is that is coming to an end europe and the euro zone how lot of ford it's socialism. this is

r.t. now a twenty two million dollar fine the punishment for perhaps america's most controversial financial giant the penalty came after revelations that goldman sachs gave inside information to preferred clients allowing them an unfair advantage and as always the kaiser report has the lowdown full show is coming your way later this hour here on out. it makes sense that the commission was able to negotiate a penalty settlement over four times the two thousand and three penalty settlement so yes goldman sachs already paid a penalty in two thousand and three for this exact same tactical violation but they have more leverage now because of the financial collapse to plead with goldman sachs to pay a little bit more money this time around. little more money for your law breaking in your career going to be your go through those who do school good reviews what do you. you know this is outrageous that the

f.c.c. is begging goldman that to write up the fine if they're caught the ball well yeah instead of actually you know saying you know what you guys are shameless lawbreaking banks are scum and how about we bring it out of sparks and wacky you know i love these chinese banks who give you know they take the bakers alpaca like they kill and that's a deterrent death there's a deterrent. to reports about twenty five minutes time here. for now syria and the u.n. have agreed on rules governing an advance team of international monitors observers will support a suspension of violence sporadic clashes between regime forces and rebels continue despite a cease fire talks on a boy who was forced to flee the city of belgrade that's in the southwest 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 at almost every corner and there are snipers on the roof of the government building buildings but despite these having a presence of troops there the situation the security station in jericho is highly volatile and crotches take place on an almost daily basis and today wasn't an exception we arrive to dare on the invitation of the information ministry which is now eager to show our reporters a bad life or slowly a gate getting back to normal and lambie arrive to this the clashes intensify violence and time to fight it but here at the sound of gunfire the sound of machine guns and as a result our visit was cut short we also know that a big time r t crew was embarrassed to be un observers also into this the. local

officials told us the rebels are using any have these type profile visits. into military action what out was really surprised with is the reaction of the 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 to one day hear the gunfire the rush to one side of the city or one side of the street or another to find refuge but two minutes afterwards they go around they live so it seems that at least a life with the constant repetitive gunfire has sort of become a new normal for many residents of the ira or he's also out of work or reporting what i mean so i'm a foreign ministers from the friends of syria group which includes. western and arab states today they've been gathering in paris to increase pressure on the assad

regime but i mean no one who's a commentator and political analyst covering the middle east says it's time that foreign powers use their diplomatic influence to urge the other side towards peace as well. when you're asking sides to sign on to an agreement and one side is the 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 internal to syria but fragmented 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 nation 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 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 initiating the violence which is still a question. and send it ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still ahead in the program occupy activists are joining the chorus of those protesting against the world's biggest base in the u.k. . we'll see americans developing a new form of terrorism we explores what's fueling fears that operations in a british american center could lead to a new kind of international power game plus. floyd performance. all the latest from the. 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 and moscow has provided the alliance with corridors and railway routes and the link is vital as pakistan

blocks the nato supplies from crossing its territory after the airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers six months ago and as the alliance prefers to withdraw troops from afghanistan. and it finds itself in the midst of a string of scandals involving extreme breaches of discipline by u.s. troops often 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 before my army sergeant mathis show ru says this is actually part of a trend this congress see needs to change and it needs to start revolving around a few bad apples or whatever it needs to start being really 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 that the u.s. tends to you know in vietnam. we saw a lot more of my physical war trophies being taken away being years and years and tongues and things like that. in this war it's photographs instead of taking perhaps things with them and they still do i know of examples and so does the media but you know more so than taking body parts there taking pictures . just a day out of those photos of american soldiers posing with body parts for us tonight you can watch a video of one fight has gone while other thoughts in iraq are firing at civilians and running cars aside in this woman to play those details or put away at r.t. dot com. the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement or act has now been dealt a heavy blow they would martin a member of the european parliament and

a key figure behind the treaty has already said the bill should be rejected and as he told us a bit earlier here on r.t. the meant to stop piracy has too many side effects. in terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with that i think it's important to europe does protect us and to lecture property 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 probably formal judicial authority and secondly i didn't like the idea that actor could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently done looting films and music and so on in the privacy of their own homes. back to says this should only be for commercial purposes but commercial purposes are very weakly defined and the other can say on the people how about that because it was negotiated through a five six year period behind closed doors the rights holders seem to be involved

in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be a key part of that discussion and most of the member states partly didn't really understand what they were signing up for i mean the british house of commons i don't one lane report in october said that i could have not met a defeat on the floor of the house of commons and as an aside actually demonstrates the importance of the european parliament and the european decision making process because without the european problem act it would probably no below. later today here on out see the alyona show explores another controversial piece of land sea piracy legislation at this time being pushed by the us government i join us at eight hundred g.m.t. to discover.

in just a few minutes as the world updater but for now sudan and south sudan are edging closer to resuming all out war as fierce clashes on the borders intensified last week the south after less than a year of independence seized the disputed oil field and sudan in return branded its neighbor an enemy and promised to reclaim the oil rich region political writer recent whatever says the conflict is escalating partly due to unofficial u.s. backing of the south i believe things are growing at the moment with suds declaring so. obviously. what they're not merely used to belong to them that is the . oil fields and it's usually very tense and i think it's great for a lot o. war. because when you're proud of this so in terms of military germination moment and probably it is because of taking the might be nice if. the

united states supreme people might you can convene one or two things like they are . reagan his majesty for support their position i would. not see them specially their place again we know in. the model looking at. it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow an hour to 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 under way right here in the russian capital at least twenty of the group's supporters were detained trying to stage an unsanctioned demonstration outside of course another band came to wide public attention when they rushed the altar of russia's christ they say because the church here in moscow performed what prosecutors claim was a blasphemous song they could see them put in jail for up to seven years now the incident cause issues public reaction and a harsh criticism from russia's orthodox church. are starting with iraq let's get

to the aussie world operates some of the global news for us relief a wave of bomb attacks across the country have killed at least thirty five and injured around one hundred officials say treatments just launched both car and roadside bombs in the capital and the country's north the explosions in baghdad it targeted mainly shia neighborhoods authorities believe security forces were also targeted in its. violent 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 cultural exhibition hall going to win the race one petrol bomb delayed a racing team from making its way from the circuit back to its hotel but no one was injured the team apparently was not the intended target the g.p. was cancelled last year due to antigovernment. because the largest

spy center on earth menwith hill in britain has been a target of protesters for decades jointly run by the u.k. and the u.s. the complex monitors the communications of dozens of other countries but something seen as a symbol of security is also head up as a sign of hypocrisy. 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 spider based and part of the early warning system for the ever expanding u.s. missile defense shield it's a part of this huge kind of organism that gripping the world on its surfaces you get from places like move with which is connected together is the american military base being a base in menwith hill since the nine hundred sixty s. growing all the time until this site now comprises thirty three of those goals like structures inside each one

a satellite dish which collects information from us that's lights but also intercepts the communications of other countries that information is then fed back to the u.s. i've used it 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 men with hell 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 real facts of war you know parliament should normally inform be.

people were involved in those who were not being 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 men with hell consider its implications 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 testimonials that will back up the 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 us is famous for and critics see menwith hill as a symbol of that hypocrisy and of europe kowtow into u.s. power but we are seeing is americans developing a new form of imperialism this is about protection of democracy if you look at the pattern of this investment by the united states over the past twenty years it's all

about ensuring they have access to oil and other vital not the resources in africa and the persian gulf and we've got to challenge them really have to start challenging force to 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 poking of america's nose into other people's backyards is still king fears it could be the trigger to a new arms race norris made r.t. them with hill yorkshire. a wealth of other stories online few twenty four years was lined up at r.t. dot com right now one of russian the opposition figures. time magazine's top one hundred of the world's most influential people this year he was

the zero. on the list. included online. you can now capture a criminal. you can find out how that works as well. these are the images. of canada. before we get to daniel with the business of it's time to step foot in one of russia's most remote regions in another installation close ups.

two thousand kilometers away from moscow to a village in russia's far north. but there are residents who rely on a team of medics to provide sometimes life saving. doctors on the. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is to to vladimir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot for the ride this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy world of us as a boy here suffering faber and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not warm but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to

a regional hospital for better care start lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go. that's the usual practice with those who live in the thunder they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so our medical problems simply fixed here in the tent. they used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air on balance of being treated for service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there has been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations ladder near firmly dismisses. it's not true in all the years i've worked here they have been very few full schools usually

because a perfectly justified sometimes we approach locals waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but let him it was confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north. tom watson party. well i think when i start tomorrow here in r.t. we carry on the journey to one of the farthest corners of russia. right on out to our head over to the r.t. business ask daniel woodrell is standing by across right now we understand that the big apple has swung into the black that's right your stocks have recovered in the second of trade over there off the telco horizon's results beat estimates that there was back above thirteen thousand points and the nasdaq is also a healthy half a percent higher for europe's falling off the it's really said that servicing costs would rise this year malone's bourse is dell one point two percent today russian markets posted strong gains first time in four days the over sixteen hundred in the

first two months trade surplus jumped twenty eight percent year on year good news for the economy there are several still finished among the main game is an annual profit of two billion dollars beating expectations after both closed higher as world carmakers launched an online all the service for its latest lot of models bucking the trend last almost five percent the state regulators filing a lawsuit against the company looking for compensation over its bills. change the euro's higher against the dollar here in moscow the rebels lost. both the greenback and the euro all prices are higher despite the u.s. government recently saying u.s. supplies grew more than expected but the report by the energy information administration also said just gasoline they want drop two point three percent just to motorists of filling up ahead of the summer driving season construction of russia second subsidy gas leak to europe will stop by the end of the year is intended to carry sixty three billion cubic meters of natural gas through the black

sea bypassing transit states like ukraine has to meet its cost up to twenty four billion dollars the gazprom said explains the time line. if you can do first commercial deliveries through the south stream will start in december twenty fifth we agreed to schedule with all our partners and to start construction of the pipeline in december today all the preparation is going according to plan and we have no doubt the project will be completed on time and now if you wait for the world market conditions you could wait forever that's the view of andre costing about the government's privatization plan the head of the russia second biggest bank believe 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 a chance anyway so although i think that the time is not bad i think there is always a we will continue to use for example recently one of the leading brazilian banker made a substantial placement and they compared with us on the global market because it's

so precious that you should from the merchant market from the country so i think just that we should go ahead and europe today more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business rory thank you very much indeed for that well i do stay with us here on r.t. the headlines are coming up and then we have the kaiser a poet. wealthy

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