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thanks for joining our team of us friday it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen. the survival of europe's single currency and the shock waves from its possible break up will inevitably dominate a meeting of the world's top eight political heavyweights leaders are gathering in the u.s. where they'll also discuss the situation in syria and pulling out troops from afghanistan president obama will also be balancing the small matter of his election campaign as artie's and so now i reports. there are several challenges for this year's g. eight summit one is facing its host obama who has his hands tied with an election coming up in november a lot of focus for him on trying to stay in the white house so he's going to have to balance domestic and international considerations at this camp. david summit

something that's never easy but even more so when you have voters to please and global leaders to reassure it's always a difficult thing to do even more difficult during the election he has in one sense to reassure american allies that america has remained strong and committed to the g eight and it has an important role to play at the same time he has to be sensitive to what his constituents in america are thinking about domestic concerns the economy unemployment housing all of the things that remain an issue the obama already told the world that more ready to compromise on global issues through the election given it was by accident in that hot mike sit down with dmitri medvedev but with that incident aside many experts say that it's very unlikely we'll see progress on bilateral issues with russia per se on missile defense or iran's nuclear program in the election year now another challenge facing the group as

a whole is the question many are asking does the g eight format still work it's true that most countries of the world see the g eight as outdated most countries in the world don't recognize. the singular leadership of the united states and its western european allies so in terms of what might come out of the g eight i think that again substantive policy decisions are unlikely rather this is going to be a much more much more geared towards padding obama's image as the host of this summit and showing the world that obama is this sort of a uniting uniting force rather than the divisive force that he has seemed to be for the for his first term now in terms of uniting one of the main goals and focus of this summit will be the euro crisis the goal there to try to get the new french president on board with all of the massive austerity cuts that we're seeing throughout europe this. something that european leaders will certainly be looking

for obama to try to unite all of them on how to move forward with that but again a lot of critics think the g. eight is an outdated format and then you have all the speculation as to why president putin didn't come perhaps it's because he doesn't understand how important the g twenty is especially when it comes to the financial turmoil that we're seeing across the world not of course will be held in mexico. reporting from washington and he's now way. they are rosen's debt woes are getting worse with ratings giant moody's slashing the scores of sixteen spanish banks while greece of the worst hit nation may well decide to quit the euro if the government is voted and next month the british prime minister has urged the seventeen nation euro zone to remain united but the director of the bruise group says member nations are too different to function as one. the european leaders aren't really doing what's necessary to generate economic growth within the eurozone and within the european

union there is a major problem with the euro but that needs a disorderly dismantling that's what is required at the problem within the european union and the eurozone is a problem of growth and despair and imbalances caused by germany and we can't have a common say union with many different disparate economies which need different levels of support different interest rates different fiscal policies but germany and the european central bank forcing on countries like greece and spain and italy and portugal as well as other countries which are and austerity cutbacks coupled with tax rises which of her economic growth a condom is already on competitive as a result of being in the euro and they just are now in a major economic depression that's what's happening in those economies with massive levels of unemployment and really no no future something radical that needs to happen otherwise there will be more of the same and the same is

a declining economy with ever increasing numbers of unemployment escalating money troubles however aren't getting in the way. of crowds as plans later in the program we need them and how much cash it's going down the drain. well given how much it costs to stick a civil servant behind in compared to a chief executive that microsoft. and a change for the worse the primary counts are leased by egypt's revolution or peaceful democratic change. the u.s. house of representatives is taking a hard line on iran dissatisfied with president obama's assurances that washington will not tolerate iran obtaining a nuclear weapon the house must be stopped before it achieves even nuclear capability democrat kusin it has voiced concern that this will only. complicate the diplomatic solution then push washington to war with iran and the u.s.

ambassador to israel has warned plans for a possible millis military strike already just stays ahead of a key international meeting about iran's atomic ambitions jamaal policy director from the national iranian american council says washington's prepared to strike. but we have to remember that this is one week out from when the next round of negotiations are going to occur between the u.s. iran and the other u.n. permanent five security council members but it puts pressure on the administration to not be able to make the deals necessary in order to achieve the real goal and the goal that the president has stated which is to prevent a nuclear armed iran so this really is congress sending a message that the united states is should take a very hawkish approach to this and the meaning of capability has for a long time and controversial and has been sort of code for no enrichment that having nuclear weapons capability is something that could be applied to any country

that has a civilian nuclear program by the congress passing a resolution that says we can't contain a nuclear weapons capable iran it sends a signal that. we may already be at a point where war would be necessary in order to. serve that goal. foreign mercenaries and al qaeda linked militants are fighting in the ranks of rebels inside syria according to government officials damascus has even released the names of the legit foreign terrorists it claims to have captured twenty are said to be arabs have confessed to working for all caught up the list also includes french and british citizens meanwhile washington tonight is a recent report it's called board meeting on for the syrian opposition through gulf states qatar and saudi arabia the rival say they've recently seen an influx of weapons from abroad the opposition remains split and anti-war activist jim brown says the syrian national council chief stepping down is just more proof of that.

clearly you have an opposition that is and there isn't a single opposition bloc and there are those voices that are clearly calling for for intervention and there are those who are clearly against it and i think these those two tendencies in particular are afflicted in the splits in the opposition be united states has its own very special interest anyway and it would to some extent it would rely on its local allies but on the other hand would never see complete control to them so they would be working in parallel the united states would prefer a regime change as it's preferred outcome they would like to eliminate its part of opposition to iran. and i don't think that they consider there's a possibility of a favorable outcome if the syrian government remains in power and whatever they say

whatever they talk about peace i think for them that's the dieties the bottom line and that is their objective. still to come this hour staring down the barrel. anger in america as the number of police brutality victims appears to rise by the day you can find out more about that in just a few minutes. is . the official delegation. from the.

video. on the dot com thanks for joining our revolutions don't bring freedom and human rights as a chip sons are finding out since last year's uprising the country has faced crisis chaos and a crime wave of burglary an armed robbery artie's it in a gold sky has the story from cairo. it's not just protests the disruptive peace on the streets of cairo just ask taxi driver. it was calm before the revolution one hundred percent where in a total mess now i used to drive anywhere wherever the waters came from never refused a customer now i park my car in the garage at six pm and go home with

a special security system on it so it would be harder to steal. robberies car thefts all have become part of a daily life in large cities like. this after the revolution many people say the police at times simply choose to turn away when a crime is being committed. all hell broke loose after the uprising i know some who escaped from prison there are still stealing in the us guys who steal cars from them and then use those cars to deliver cocaine and hash to drug addicts for the. people see this was something unheard of before the arab spring and the mayhem that followed the uprising of january two thousand and eleven many believe thousands of convicts escaped to unguarded prisons a crime wave has followed with egyptian media reporting more than twenty five hundred murders and some two thousand abductions since their revolution and the

police are accused of doing little or the police a lot of respect a lot of. the tools to work with like the weapons the cars of the different people for that this from that's been treating my. for the last thirty years i will say for a long time maybe for six years. this police is now nothing to us we are the police . and the minister charged with enforcing the laws. has a very different view saying the situation is under control. want to settle but like the shop you told the members of the people's council look at the results we managed to achieve in record time i'm sure that no one could have done as much as we had a total collapse of everything stability was nonexistent i delivered all numbers

regarding organized crime groups robberies and thefts they were committing and the achievements we've made. in the meantime until calm returns to egypt ibrahim and others will continue to close up shop early in his room before sunset fearful not only for their property and possessions but for their safety and lives in cairo in a ghost go. there are plenty more stories for you to explore. here's a quick preview. tear gas makes a peaceful protest crowd and capital. the mainstream media about the ongoing demonstrations. and deep impact now so warrants almost five thousand asteroids pose a danger to earth but most of these spacecrafts remain under the radar all the details are.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

here with our team at sixteen minutes past the hour and being new french president's first decision in office was to cut his own pay and the pay of his cabinet by thirty percent although the opposition says with fourteen extra ministers now in office the cost to taxpayers is actually increasing but splashing the cash for bureaucrats is nothing new to the e.u. party's tests are silly reports. good income great working hours generous benefits career growth and essentially a job for life it's no surprise that the tens of thousands of applicants across the european union vie for permanent posts and institutions are is one of them i applied because maybe i get the chance to become a staff member it's a job more secure can transfer to another position of their two years walking the halls of these buildings are thousands of men and women who run this massive uber schoonover managing the union for five hundred million citizens no doubt requires

manpower but so many people are quite far out were talks players money is concerned it costs between seven thousand and fourteen and a half thousand euros to simply go through the process of hiring one permanent staff there's an awful lot it's probably the same amount that a company would pay only creating a chief executive say a more personal but of course ridiculous by no means to fund the bill why is it that these stories keep on emerging i think in all honesty the e.u. officials who really matter they all seem to care i mean they might say certain things but at the end of the day they are asking for more money year after year after year this time the e.u. commission is asking for a budget increase of six point eight percent for two thousand and thirteen taking the total amount to one hundred thirty eight billion heroes about twenty three million of which will go to the european personnel selection office or eb so in charge of selecting potential permanent staff selected candidates are then placed

on a reserve list for about a year commission various e.u. institutions can choose if you keep people reserve list this list is only valid for a certain time off to which these people probably find jobs so where's the value added in that the cost of hiring people could be much higher we also need to select people on the broader. possible geographical bases so we need to make sure that people from all all you can through this be presented there is an additional cost for that she adds that in an exercise comparing the cost of each new hire and twenty nine international bodies including the world bank and the united nations episodes average cost per person is still lower but in this context. where millions of jobless e.u. citizens are hanging by a thread critics say that no amount of justification is going to make this

situation appear like taxpayers' money well spent yes or sylvia r.t. brussels. more developments from around the world this hour by loans housing go off to jail in honduras where armed inmates took control of the building and battled among themselves at least one person was killed and eleven injured when prisoners opened fire on each other in the city of sana'a. some women were also held hostage in a jail notorious for bloodshed in armed clashes thirteen prisoners died there in march during an uprising and prisons are infamous for overcrowding and rioting. thirty more people have been killed after a bus overturned and crashed into a river in central vietnam and it smashed through the rails of a bridge and plunged over the side of the bus was traveling from the central highlands to the whole cimon city in the south twenty one other people were badly injured. the world of music house been paying tribute to disco queen donna summer

who has died at the age of sixty three after a short battle with cancer summer's career had its peak in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's with singles like i feel love that girl's hot stuff she had attempted to keep the edge of her illness from her fans. there on the streets to protect and to serve but a rise in fatal police shootings across the united states is leading some americans to wonder where the real danger lies mundine a question of all reports from california. spectators in the small california courtroom gas that a video off a man lying on the ground screaming they're killing me while being severely beaten by police at first when thirty seven year old schizophrenia sufferer cally follows appeared on corporative the officers gave him

a terrifying warning. and. later in the video you can hear thomas repeatedly apologizing to the police and even crying for his father's house old. girl. they continued their assault with fests and tasers she lost consciousness and died in hospital five days later it sparked a series of protests across california and demanding justice for victims of police brutality yes this was no isolated case while police officers in a neighboring californians it's we are standing trial for the down the county thomas here in downtown l.a. people came out onto the streets to remember the first anniversary of rain now there is not will be shooting the killing of dale garrett it's with blood increasingly on the hands of police officers across the country many people here say police are using excessive force far more than necessary dale garrido was shot

by an officer twice in the back the police chief insisted the decision to open far fell within the rules but many here find it hard to understand how shooting a man from behind constitutes self-defense since nineteen eighty three the one california cop has been convicted with killing on duty after oscar grant was shot dead a new year's day two thousand and nine the auckland officer told his trial that he meant to draw in for his taser not his gun he was sentenced to the minimum two years he was free months. but. police shootings are on the rise across the state the latest just two months ago in the death of unarmed nineteen year old kendrick mcdade shot seven times during the watch turned out to be the false report of froggery community groups aids time the police came under the people's control

the laws and the justice system that applies to normal folks working people there's a whole different set of laws and justice that applies to the police i mean there's there's rarely any any form of justice that's brought to the police that i mean they make their own laws or they're above the law really cases of police using excessive force happened primarily in poor mainly black neighborhoods but cali thomis killing in a wealthy middle class town shows the badri so pretty smile and search shifting and californians one turn a blind eye anymore i do not question the archie reporting from los angeles california later in our visit to the kremlin as we explore the cultural areas around russia's main tourist and historic spot here's a preview. as kites lie in front of the kremlin walls and actors breaking their character costumes it's clear that everyone loves to walk outside take in the beach

surroundings and cherish the warm sun whether when it comes to walking the street you don't get much better than this. and don't worry if you don't know your bolshoi from your bolsheviks tourist spots aside moscow's entertainment scene is packed with a wide range of activities and places to go. on the sights of moscow in just over an hour right here on r.t. but for now we take a trip over to the business destiny tree joins us so how is the russian markets taking a beating as another yeah it is but the fact is that the european markets opened up with a national of downside of one a half percent and managed to recover after that so the russian market is kind of thinking why are we losing so much so the r.t.s. right now is down just three point one percent i was down around four percent

earlier on my six two and a half percent when we saw more than three percent drop at the beginning of the session secular what's happening among the stocks is burbank lost seven percent the previous sessions now down five basically banks and financials are some of the worst hit areas across the globe so that's in line but the price we're seeing right now seventy six roubles seriously around three weeks ago it was more than ninety roubles it's a very oversold stock some analysts are saying gazprom also down three percent as of course energy prices are not providing much support and polymaths always one of the you again is this. by just a notch now let's take a look at how the market has been doing the past month. basically now over the past week it dropped over the past month twelve percent opposed to months twenty percent now it's sliding because it's not feeling any support from the oil market as supply

is stabilized and demand that's under question given the situation in greece obviously now we are at a twenty eight month low more than two and a two and a half years almost you can understand the european markets as i mentioned they started off with a drop of one and a half percent that's on the back of moody's cutting the ratings of sixteen spanish banks and also fitch cutting greece's raising to triple c. which increases the chances of its bankruptcy but now they've kind of recovered to less than one percent drop for the footsie and for the dax and asia we saw a very very bad session with the nec a dropping three percent well it's feeling the chill more than other markets because it managed to gain in the previous session which is a luxury in the past two weeks actually for most markets and saying is feeling

a bit better than that down just two percent if you could say just about that on the currencies markets we are seeing the euro continuing its fall versus the dollar thirty eight points at one point two six now imagine just two weeks ago it was more than one point three one now the russian ruble is also continuing its decline massively against both currencies another percent loss to the dollar and to the euro busted and on the oil market no support seen there with light sweet and brant declining around half a dollar per barrel and that's all we have time for this hour we will be back of course next with an update all right thank you very much. shortly we discussed whether germany will keep its leading role in europe as one country after another suffers from economic difficulties that's after the headlines in just a few minutes.

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