the g. eight leaders publicly voiced plans to keep greece in the harness of the euro but talks behind closed doors suggest a different agenda for greece's financial strife we get live expert opinion on this shortly here on r.t. . germany's financial hub frankfurt is brought to a standstill as thousands of police flood the city in a bid to contain a fourth day of anti bank protests. opposite sides of the same plea the loss of loved ones brings israelis and palestinians together in a unique organization seeking better understanding between conflicting sides our top stories this hour.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is good to have you with us this hour the european financial gloom is casting its shadow over the g eight summit at the u.s. president will retreat near washington the leaders of the world's top industrialized nations have expressed hope that debt stricken greece will remain in the euro zone despite widespread fears it could soon put out. is that camp david. some of the most pressing issues like iran nuclear program and syria were certainly taj president obama spoke about that earlier this morning that basically the g eight countries are pretty much united on most of those issues but this the euro crisis really did overshadow the summit some might even criticize it took away from some other issues perhaps of course that million dollar question will greece leave the euro zone now although in the communique we're going to hear about this united effort that's going to continue to try to make sure that doesn't happen there's not a lot of guessing going on behind closed doors we heard very frank conversations

and also perhaps a lot more fear from these leaders that we see of course publicly this monster of we have to keep greece in the euro zone that behind closed doors it could be a much different story but again coming out of this camp david summit will once again hearing from leaders that they're going to do all they can to try to make sure that they don't exit the euro zone of course experts say that that's almost impossible at this point the russian economy is ok and president the old one hundred dollars a bow so the russian feels in a strong position so president putin couldn't really contribute. to a solution you could say right you have to solve your problem germany perhaps shouldn't extend to other members of the european union and so on but basically. most of the discussions would be economic. interests of the european union and also president obama because obama has realized that if there's

a you do fall out in europe he will affect his chances in america it will affect the u.s. economy skipping the g. eight summit has been really a big piece of focus for the media mostly most of the politicians here seem to not be very offended by it they know he's coming to the g twenty really a lot of the experts that we've been spoken to look at it quite logically it was pretty predictable that the euro crisis was. going to overtake this summit that's something that's not of grave concern to russia yes of course russia wants to help they want to be part of discussions but it's not something that russia sees that was as one of its most pressing issues that it should have to come out and deal with at a summit like this. and he said now if there were let's talk more on this and speak to international consultant and author of russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev it's pictured to give a talk in just a couple of hours from now what do you think russia could bring to this summit. no doubt russia can bring in some fresh air into the whole saga because if we look at

the g eight the club what the first seven countries except for russia are the ones that are mostly involved in affected by the ongoing economic crisis both in the public and the private sector and russia which is the member is far further away from the sources and from a real accountability and responsibility and these are on the in crises so whatever president prime minister rather. can bring to the table that will probably be a fresh different outlook and not what the u.k. france germany italy japan canada and the united states can bring in which is basically they are the culprits and they are the ones most involved in the source of the problem and in trying to micro manage it when as you say those e.u. really are dominating the talks with the g eight leaders trying to keep cash strapped greece in the eurozone but interesting is that really their intention some say the leaders secretly hope greece would drop the euro and pull out of the euro

zone well it's a two edged sword of the market these sort of speak because in a way if greece pulls out of the euro it would be a blessing in the way that a crisis affecting the euro would have gone away with it will disappear but at the same time as a precedent it will be terrible because the greece were to resolve its problems by reverting back to its sovereign currency which i think they should then other countries will be tempted to do the same if they are smaller countries like portugal and ireland well maybe that could be managed well what would happen if spain which is a very serious problems or italy which is in justice a serious problems too if they were to decide to do it and even worse what would happen if germany were to become fed up with the whole thing and they decided to pull out of the euro and go back to the mark they had a much better life at the time but that of course it's election year isn't it in america and president obama you know that his voters are watching him or we do see any major initiatives at all from the president during this meeting. i wouldn't

think so because america's trying to keep as far away in the booth as they can from the european crisis if anything we have to perhaps if we look at the very big picture what we are seeing is the gradual and perhaps controlled demise of the us dollar hyperinflation which will eventually have to face up with and of the euro through a fracture or a splitting up of the year old i think that we have to look at what the global power elites embedded inside america inside the europe and the u.k. have as far as a replacement global currency is concerned when the time comes and they feel that they are ready to introduce a replaced with a global player and so you might be called the global dollar then yes i think we will see how they will easily trigger the demise of the u.s. dollar because of inflation the demise of the euro because of its technical weakness and political weakness but they will tell the world don't worry we'll let the dollar go we can that the euro gold because we now have a global currency one way or another that's a very simplistic explanation of the scripts and but i think that in the next

couple of years that's where we are growing and they're just biding their time to do it at the time that will be best for the bankers and definitely it will be best for the peoples of all these countries to talk about her lot of financial worries here here this is the g eight meeting all these problems really better off to be addressed by the g. twenty more countries involved in this. not to a certain extent yes but to a certain extent no and i think there's a lot of political interest in this in that these are the g eight countries are the key countries or rather i should say the g seven countries are the ones that feel that they have the right to handle everything which is why i think president of your posting was so intelligent of he himself not attending which is a way of minimizing the importance for russia of the g. eight meeting because in a way it's even symbolic but the fact that the g. eight is followed upon immediately by the nato meeting in chicago in a way i believe it's something a message that these problems in the long run are be militarized just as we have

seen the u.s. of the u.k. and the european union militarized access and control over oil resources as in libya afghanistan iraq and hopefully it won't happen but iran has been a force in the stand i think that we are also seeing that monetary problems and economic problems may in the long run in the longer also have a military resolution or solution from their point of view which is really very bad for all countries in the world and i think russia something a very clear message to that effect that they do not accept militarization of all age and always could hear for thanks so much for your time joining us live there in argentina and while leaders settle into that g eight meeting we've just been talking about in maryland police in chicago are readying themselves for the upcoming nato summit. occupy chicago denies and demands that nato disband. demonstrators plan a show of strength on the streets in the hope of grabbing the attention of not just

those attending but the whole world. an expression that's what tens of thousands of protesters in the middle east are calling new arab union plans it comes after saudi arabia said it wants to form an alliance with bahrain paving the way for an e.u. style integration independent political analyst down glazebrook told me earlier why he thinks the bahraini government is so keen on the plan. bahrain's government is enthusiastic for the very reason that the bahraini people are an enthusiastic because it's going to legitimize and systematize the saudi involvement in crushing the bahraini revolution drowning the bahraini revolution in in blood seventy percent of the population sheer and increasingly actually systematically excluded from any positions of influence power effectively disenfranchised always have been in this regime and you know we have to ask why what's in it for saudi arabia and

answering that is crucial to remember saudi arabia doesn't have an independent foreign policy never has done its foreign policy like those of the other gulf states is formulated in washington and london so we really have to ask why the colonial powers britain france and of course now the u.s. why are they pursuing this course and i think we have to understand this in terms of the preparations which have been underway for several years now for an aerial strike against iran which is still on the on the table the crushing of the bahraini resistance is crucial to the war plans against iran because it was the biggest deterrent to an attack on iran is of course the fear amongst the west the elites in israel that actually the sheer population in other countries will rise up. and start to resist that attack on iran so actually what's the crushing of the bahraini revolution is all to do with trying to preemptively destroy any potential resistance to the coming attack on iran. and germany's anti banking movement

block party goes into its fourth day the country's banking capital frankfurt is in lockdown standing in battle lines and early morning thousands of police officers in bulletproof vests entrenched themselves around the city. in frankfurt. oh these protesters have taken to the streets of frankfurt to voice their displeasure at what they see as unfair all sturdy measures that are being imposed on the eurozone at the moment now right now among these people as they march towards the headquarters of the european central bank it has really been a center full protest against the current debt crisis in the austerity measures that have been imposed across europe but today on saturday is the largest of the demonstrations as you can see this group behind me around fifteen thousand people we were hearing from the organizers on friday were expected to turn up they could actually be quite a few more here it's quite difficult to see from where i am but it certainly

stretches back quite a long way now they're angry that it's the not the people who caused the debt crisis in europe that are having to foot the bill for it they blame the bankers they blame the. the people who risked the money in countries like greece in countries like spain that got people in got the countries in such trouble saying it's them who should face the the brunt of this not people who are going to suffer at the hand of austerity measures it's worth noting that this is been a very peaceful protest movement but despite that on friday around four hundred people would detained by very heavily equipped police offices that have been essential a blocking off the whole of central front first the movement itself has called themselves lucky pipe and set of occupy is they attempted to block people from reaching the banking sectors or the banking services of europe's largest banking

center in frankfurt this is the real hub of not just german banking but of european banking in general and as i say they had quotas of the european central bank located here. one of them herman who's at the protests also describes some of the police tactics which she saw that are saying that they go well beyond the law here is this. movement not allowed any mare anymore to enter the intercity yeah this is something that this completely new in this country that not only remembers police can be seen around the demonstrators but also bet that individual people are picked out names are listed before. the manifestation starts they are not allowed anymore to and that the city and this is a going down business sort of euro zone of democratic rights what happened is that they control the brocaded the street and then they control the everybody and

individual people said. we want to see your passport so then take control. of their database and said no you are not allowed to enter just square because we suppose you will do something illegal. common grief is uniting israelis and palestinians who have lost loved ones to the long lost in conflict between them it's a unique gathering of suffering parents who want to increase understanding and bring peace closer but their goal is all but out of reach is all to support us live reports. that the my son must cute was a very hot day for me i remember grabbing my son trembling all over and running to the bomb shelter. two mothers two testimonies each different but in the end the same. my son died in the line of duty death isn't a words it has a form and the form isn't pretty i've seen plenty of it so it takes a lot of courage to stay deaf in the face and then embrace one's enemy and yet for

nearly twenty years this is what these israelis and palestinians who've lost family members have been doing they meet on a regular basis talk with one another and show that we conciliation is possible it's meaningful for me that the palestinians hear about my brother brother the father of the army and they can listen i can empathize with my story and understand the pain that i went through i had it's brother was serving as a soldier when he was killed on the third day of the first lebanon war he was just nineteen people were put in a situation of a conflict thing everybody serves his side of the things they do. this is there and he took it through. here through their nation through their. belief. ahmed's two uncles were killed by israelis one was shot dead while trying to enter israel the other was force fed while on a hunger strike in prison and his lungs collapsed. from the time i was born i was part of this conflict for me and is really was a soldier or

a settler or an agent of the security services. and yet both ahmed and i have found their way to the parent circle where half the members of palestinian half are israeli but the parents circle is a minority voice the number of israelis and palestinians participating in dialogue has hit a low as many complain they see no point in the conciliation attempts while the peace process is at a stalemate as the legitimacy. of dialogue and coordination between the palestinians. is eroding. because the legitimacy of negotiations is not a road if the our governments which are ready to pay the price they will find it very big support in their people so there is no. in the numbers but there is an erosion in the in the belief that something like this can happen in

this is something that can easily be fixed but the hope lives on in these families who believe that through their pain and through their example change can come policy r t tel aviv. thousands of protesters have flooded chicago ahead of a nato summit on sunday a huge showdown is expected later with police already on high alert run a dozen activists were arrested on the eve of the government free were charged with conspiracy to cause terror. the windy city of chicago turned sunny turned paranoid the hometown of the u.s. president plays host to this year's nato summit nato is a u.s. commanded military alliance responsible for. and war crimes on a global basis already the most watched city in the u.s. . as thousands of protesters begin to descend on chicago the city is in security overkill mode you've got

a bunch of people processors here they spent millions and millions of dollars for this week alone i mean by absolutely absurd police have reportedly preemptively raided the homes of protest organizers they battered down the door and made several arrests and we believe these are politically based arrests millions of dollars spent on new police gear trucks ready to function as rolling barricades businesses too are taking no chances what looks like a foreclosed building is actually a hotel in the heart of chicago why what was put up in order to avoid windows being smashed by demonstrators flooding into town office workers have been advised to dress like protesters in order to not be targeted mustaches. are likely meanwhile activists there to express their outrage at nato is aggressive policies are blocked off and kept as far away from world leaders as possible we're talking about a peaceful protest and i mean by peaceful people but peaceful people dedicated to

the cause of peace against a military bloc the mightiest in human history and they are being portrayed as the force that needs to be protected while officials brace for riots know your rights trainings for demonstrators in their mind you know your bank meetings and street action against the military block kick off nato is organization no longer has a mandate to occupy chicago denies and demands that nato disband they have no more purpose they're spending our taxpayer dollars on wars and to bomb and destroy and murder civilians all over the world with ghana stand top of the leaders agenda protesters say it's time to put an end to the warfare at once the only reason we're still in afghanistan is for rare earth minerals. the same reason the only reason we went into iraq was secure oil fields for american oil companies these are purely economic wars that are sold to the american public purely on propaganda it's garbage the demonstrators want the money pumped into the summit and its security to

be spent on real needs there is no peace majority in the united states we oppose war we oppose the war in the world's preeminent war making organization. and we have a human agenda and a humane agenda that has no place for war but fences separating politicians from the people that human agenda is no more than a nuisance to be cordoned off and our t. chicago illinois twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world in the world out there for the people being killed in one injured in a road tunnel explosion in central china on saturday the blast took place when a vehicle was unloading explosives in a highway tunnel that's under construction in hunan province road accidents and explosions are widespread in china as a result of poor safety standards and badly maintained infrastructure. a school in southern italy has been rocked by an explosion coming at least one teenage girl and injuring up to

a dozen the bomb went off outside the building's entrance from people who were arriving for morning classes lebanese claim responsibility for the attack though officials believe the city's maffia could be behind it. the first commercial cargo flight was to deliver supplies to the international space station has been aborted just seconds before blastoff lift off it california based space x. company blamed technical problems with the engine of its dragon rocket and is now to the north for me the twenty second the u.s. government has given space x. a contract to keep the stocked with food and equipment. so defense courses in the u.s. teach people to protect themselves by punching kicking and even killing but should these tactics really be taught to everyone lottie's resident new yorker hit the streets of the big apple to gauge opinion there. former u.s. navy seal tim larkin teaches people how to kill and maim in the name of self

defense how much is too much when it comes to protecting yourself this week let's talk about that do you think it would be ok to kill someone if your life is being threatened. absolutely or has your life ever been threatened. now by a person of a what are the chances that your life will be threatened that you would need to know how to kill. one in ten to the twenty you're familiar with to mark and do you support his philosophy i completely support his philosophy he does he's not anything about trying to kill people he wants to help people be able to protect themselves but he does teach moves that are lethal yes the police teach moves that are lethal as well right but those people are in a job that's defending the public exactly you know what when you're in the military sometimes those guys come out and they're a little bit you know world still do you want them sharing their knowledge with

common citizens walking around. no no would come in citizens just people that maybe . are in the job situations where they're in dangerous positions in the world if you think you'd be able to kill someone if someone was threatening your life. it's tough to say until you there right yes but you probably happy you knew those moves then. well you know maybe but then if you hurt someone or kill someone no mother in what situation you can live you have to live with the forest of your life and that's the option each person has to make whether or not you think self-defense can go too far the bottom line is the world can be a crazy place whether you choose to prepare yourself for violence or not. imagine having your own garden where you can grow fruit and vege without ever picking up

a spade or even leaving your desk well that's a reality for muscovites you can now remotely tend their crops and have the fruits of their labor delivered to their doorstep that is your ordinary has the story. this is farmville played by tens of millions in the game you have to plant water and harvest increasingly exotic but ultimately two dimensional and lean edible crops but now anyone can play the game for real the russian entrepreneur has bought a greenhouse and designed a website to farm real plots of land from the comfort of their homes and offices. or. if you buy one of the plots you can choose what to grow on it then you can decide when to water it and how to fertilize it and real farmers will do the work for you you can control the lights and how often the ground is plowed we will keep statistics on how well you are doing and you can try to improve the eels or you can just leave it all to us and just get the harvest delivered when it's done then

you'll shop a cynic of says that his project isn't just about playing for fun but about their living people healthier forgot make food and it better be after all a six the plot will set you back two hundred dollars a month we want city dwellers to have a connection with the countryside in the future we want every city dweller to have their own garden early adopter beat that says he's addicted to watching his plans grow through the web cam but i think being able to watch the plot at all times isn't just something of a past time but creates trust between me and the people looking after the farm i know they will do their job properly and not use any pesticides for example all good but truly it's all this not just some sort of post-modern perversion i decided to prove that city dwellers are scared to get their hands dirty by volunteering for an hour in the greenhouse. getting other people to be

a god that's ridiculous. actually this is quite exhausting much rather just click some buttons on the internet. you're unnerve are to moscow. the spirit of the nineteenth century is hovering in the air of moscow tonight with the annual vinnie's ball taking place in the capital lottie's to be months it has dusted down her blood rags and will be bringing a taste of the glitz and glamor a little bit later here on r.t. . must does that splendid as it is that this is setting for the to be on the ball now this is where the end of the transformation for want to be a nice nasal this bends up all the while we're all here gathering had to experience the very top all belongs. that's a little later for you here on t.v. in the meantime a quick recap of the top stories in a couple of minutes after the next kaiser and stacey herbut will be discussing what

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