drinkin days in a euro zone championed germany endorsed ratings downgrade with fears the crisis is hitting the monetary union's biggest economy. military maneuvering russia miles closer ties with china while america promises to move most of its warship the asia pacific in the coming year. and protest peacefully or pay a fortune russia lawmakers passed a bill that sparked some of the most heated debate and set a new parliamentary. it's nine pm here in moscow this is our coming to you live from noosa now with our top

story the eurozone debt crisis is getting dangerously close to the monetary union powerhouse germany moody's has cut the ratings of several german banks including the country's second biggest lender austria is also affected here's our europe correspondent tests are cilia. granted that there's a lot of skepticism surrounding the moves or the motivations of ratings agencies what has just happened does confirm already existing skepticism on the health of the whole banking economy the whole economy at large of the euro zone and nations the fragility and the vulnerability of certain countries even economic powerhouses such as germany to what happens in the so-called periphery countries the losses countries like spain or portugal greece would be taking in now this downgrade happens on the back of some negative news coming from spain also the leaders of the g seven countries meeting together to find a solution to spain's increasingly dire situation spain had said that banks are

losing access to markets because borrowing costs have been going up so much this begs the question is there going to be another bailout what would this entailed once again and who's going to be bearing the brunt of it would it be the taxpayers once again now the previously a spanish ministers had said that spain can't come up with the money on its own but already some ministers are saying that in fact they will need some international help because of that there's a lot of skepticism jittery markets reacting to this now is certainly what has been consistent in this whole crisis is that one statement today of confidence changes at the next day a complete turnaround and therefore there really is no sense of stability a sense of confidence in any of the statements coming from the country what has been consistent is that there is no solution until now and found two or get out of this euro zone a crisis but actual analysts max keiser smells a rat in all this he told r.t. that the crisis is a chance for some to make a fast buck. that global elite love when these crashes occur they can buy all these

assets whether it's the all the assets in ireland all the assets in greece all across europe and around the world they love these catastrophes you know as somebody described it naomi klein it's disaster capitalism the austerity measures are the result of debts that are being imposed upon the population of debts that they did not incur and i'm very sorry to say to the people of wisconsin they are of came very close to throwing out that bomb paul walker but they balked at this at the last minute the same thing in ireland they almost voted against a treaty which would have crashed the euro and help their exports it would have been economically a boon if they voted no but they at the last minute they chickened out again but people in greece are on the threshold of a revolution but you know they don't seem to get it together yet to overthrow regime change get rid of this technocrat this morning the show i'm flying to athens tomorrow morning with billionaire hugo it's a lot of price we're talking to decide to resign or the new left wing government

about introducing a silver backdrop well along with the euro as a way to cure greece's problems. their t.v. business team is across the market reaction to the german taking downgrade. likes of completely stopped lending to spain its prime minister has revealed for the first time it also says it's too big to be bailed out by the e.u. toys for european business in twenty minutes. russia and china are boosting their military partnership including holding more joint trails president putin's currently on a state visit to beijing to forge closer ties with the asian giant but china's growing influence is causing worries for the u.s. which is shifting more of its warships to the asian pacific alexi or says he is in the chinese capital. not only the diplomatic and economic ties seem to be very strong between moscow and beijing but now we have it confirmed by vladimir putin and this is something he stressed in particular that the military partnership

between the two countries will also expand now it's already been very strong i mean here that russia and china have already conducted a very successful joint military exercises in the past and certainly the weapon exports from russia to china is also massive but now we understand according to put in that this cooperation will expand suddenly this is some kind of news which would hardly be very welcome in the west in the united states in particular which have been growing a very much war with china's growing military might and the recent visit by the u.s. secretary of defense mr panetta to the asian pacific region basically confirmed all these worries with producing statements like the united states must be vigilant in the face of. china's growing military power but beijing is also growing very impatient and very irritated with the actions of the united states which in particular this visit often that the saying that the growing military presence in the region may destabilize the whole situation we certainly are waiting to see

whether there will be any reaction coming from washington on these statements coming from beijing but definitely the fact that russia and china are growing their military ties certainly adds a very interesting spin to global geopolitics. meanwhile leon panetta is wrapping up his asian charm offensive with a lot stop in india brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says america's military focus on the region could have dangerous implications. it's because the united states wants to exercise had gemini in the asia pacific when it says it's pivoting towards asia which president obama announced in australia in january that should be considered a dangerous thing for asia the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred it invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution during world war two it's what most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states is for many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people

of the continent china is seeking to defend itself but does not have a global ambitions with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states plans their pivot towards asia is something very threatening. still ahead for you on r t a deadly wedding tragedy a fresh nato airstrike kills more than a dozen afghans at a marriage ceremony we look at the huge toll the u.s. led war is taking on civilians. but syria faced similar lethal foreign force america gives its clearest threat yet and the struggling peace plan expert opinion coming up here to. the attention of wiki leaks supporters has now shifted to an american military court where u.s. army private bradley manning

a suspected website contributor faces his latest hearing he's suspected of the biggest leak of government documents in u.s. history i charge his lawyers hope to see dismissed over as artie's machine a question of explains there are some leaks that will always go unpunished. from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash laws than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man's snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for both times when it suits them to do so one of those with what was written with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bagel bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of ben law last year at this time the film in question which is

titled as a zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood filmmakers were given access to proof the undisclosed information about the operation oscar winning director kathryn bigelow and screenwriter mark boal were even granted at tour around the fold as cia building where tactical planning for the raid took place the film is out in december but was initially due to be released just weeks before november's presidential elections bad facts all some flak fly the administration's way while the entire project has raised concerns over the way intelligence is being used it's best that this kind of information particularly as it revolves around what's surrounding this movie remains classified

it absolutely has to it's very unfortunate that it's coming out to be used for political purposes for a congressional election however there is nothing unusual about the defense department collaborating with the makers of hollywood blockbusters. it's a partnership that dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and it has proved effective the pentagon has what hollywood filmmakers won access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pentagon wants the insolence to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals long survivor and act of valor how for sift official assistance veteran hollywood reporter david robb assess the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better light and the american people are seeing hundreds and hundreds of thrones

and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more heroic than it really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some folks will get truly walked out others are trying to project patrick to some and propaganda on to the silver screen my integration archie reporting from las angeles california but just to remind you the world's top whistleblower julian assange has his own interview program here on r.t. and if you've missed any of the series you can always catch up online at r.t. dot com. breaching rules during public protest may now cost a pretty penny in russia as lawmakers approved a new bill supporting tougher punishment for violations it's yet to get signed off by the president but the bill's already caused

a storm among politicians and opposition groups and even set a new parliamentary record for the time it took to be passed. has the details. the draft significantly increasing the fines for violating the rules of taking part in mass rallies from the current seventy year olds up to a maximum of seven thousand euros for average citizens or around two hundred hours of community service so that's why it's caused such a wee fierce criticism and anger both from the official and unofficial opposition many of whom are calling this draft draconian but it's two quarters say very corresponds with western european standards and actually if we compare the figures to the penalties in some of western european states are often much more severe and the fines could be much higher as well reaching seventy five thousand euros the draft was initiated after a launch protest rally ended in clashes between some of the protesters and the

police we've seen pieces of concrete flying around small grenades and injuries on both sides it was more of them out for last night when it took eleven hours for the chamber of parliament the state duma to work through the draft because of a new tactic which is being taken on by the opposition which is new for russia but it's a practice which is similar to filibustering in the united states when some deputies try to be as abstract as possible to do real the vote but by around midnight it still ended up being passed to despite this fierce debate. remember we've got all the latest stories on our web site here's a taste of what's online right now digital doomsday and of. russian cyber security lab predicts the end to the world as we know it triggered by internet terrorism the details that are to dot com. because we investigate the mystery of an american

satellite which returned to earth after a year in orbit with its mission cloaked in secrecy. a morning nato air strike in eastern afghanistan has left at least eighteen people dead including women and children according to local officials who people living nearby say all those killed were celebrating a wedding native denies that claiming they took out eight military commanders in the strike the president of the pac nationalist form told r.t. that america will pay for the damage and misery it's inflicted. i would go with with the afghan government is saying and they're saying that civilians have been killed today the of gun people have lost more of their civilians in the first decade of the twenty first century then the united states lost on nine eleven it was a tragic event of nine eleven but this is no less a tragedy and frankly we don't see any justice in this that the of gun people could lose this many and of course nato in the u.s. military not guns done a very quick to condemn the taliban for their bombings in various cities where and

attacks of course were civilians are killed but how is the u.s. military and nato any different they kill as many civilians there we talk to a lot of gun activists and i think any future government in afghanistan after the americans are out in order to reclaim credibility i think they will have to initiate some sort of a reconstitution process whereby they would have to move some legal cases maybe go as far as the u.n. or the international court of justice and ask for compensation for what happened i mean of ghana's john will be left with with with wounds that would take decades to heal i mean just just thousands and thousands of civilians have been killed. the u.s. is threatening syria with a un security council resolution that could authorize the use of force washington says strong sanctions imposed on the contrary won't bring what the white house sees as necessary regime change in syria russia and china have previously vowed not to

allow any military intervention in the country via the u.n. but the u.s. hinted that foreign powers might consider bypassing the international body moscow is calling for a special international meeting on syria aimed at encouraging all warring parties to return kofi annan peace plan but many sexpert terakhir leave says u.s. and its allies would be interested in such a gathering. when they are americans and their vassal states like group some talk about transition what they are effectively mean is regime change that is what they did in libya with dire consequences as we can see in that country today in syria the plan to bring both sides to the table and have a negotiated settlement is obviously the best way to move forward but the united states and britain and their other allies have poured absolutely no pressure on the

other side to come to the negotiating negotiating table and start a process of talks so it would appear to me that what we now have is an end game situation where the united states has decided to remove this regime and will use everything in aspire to do so. as well as the scene of ongoing violence syria's also walk to a so-called information of war or to talk to the country's minister of information who told us how mainstream media coverage of the conflict often clashes with reality his full interview is coming up later on today for you here's a preview. of the very people responsible for the deaths filmed their crimes and sent to the media government for the atrocities of the recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage on syria has nothing to do with the actual

situation in the country it's all lies and fabrications again that there's a real information more waged against syria with real facts being substituted with fabrications these lies and the only way for them to achieve their objectives in their war against syria and how to massacre is a good example of that that as soon as the first pictures of the massacre were released everybody started accusing the syrian army and security forces that we all know who was really behind this crime today the people of syria are targeted by terrorists. and sponsored by regional powers like qatar saudi arabia and turkey as well as by western nations such as the us. hundreds of thousands of egyptians have packed into the now iconic tahrir square in cairo rallying for the death penalty for ousted president hosni mubarak and leading

to the protest where the country's islamists out in force ahead of a looming presidential vote in the country and eager to capitalize on the burgeoning unrest. there. thousands of protesters have converged here where in the center of cairo you can hear the sounds of protests reverberating around the square around me a real feeling of anger in the streets tonight and it's primarily focused around the verdict in the mubarak trial hosni mubarak egypt's former president is now going to spend the rest of his life in prison it seems unless the protesters get their way at least some of them wanting to do a bit more to the back than that and to give him the death penalty and what really set them off was six of his senior security officials who were acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters in egypt's revolution last year

this also added tension around these protests because very shortly egypt will enter the second round of its presidential elections but many people here are expressing a lot of frustration that they see the choice in those elections as being really no choice that's all one candidate mohammed morsi is from the muslim brotherhood he's been trying to garner support here at the protest going around the crowds saying that if he was elected president he would drag mubarak back to trial and try and how often executed which has struck a chord with some of the protesters however he has received criticism from a wide wide number of groups as well they see the muslim brotherhood as religiously conservative and warn that they may try and hijack this revolution the other bed shafique is mubarak's last prime minister and a former air force officer the protesters just as angry about him they say that he

could well be or should well be barred for standing in these presidential elections but his links to the old regime are simply. to close more international news headlines now hundreds of marched through longto in support of montreal students who have been rallying for months against tuition hikes since february hundreds of demonstrators were detained with almost two hundred thousand refusing to attend university wednesday toronto rally united local students and labor activists with another protest scheduled for a fortnight's time. north korean leader kim jong il has given his second public speech since taking power in front of tens of thousands of children wednesday marks the anniversary of the country's children's union the organization that helps ensure the young generations of loyalty to the regime becomes two days

after north korea warned their southern neighbor of military action over their critical coverage of children's festivals in pyongyang. and here's an enterprise space shuttle making her final is a journey along the hudson river to new york's intrepid museum and surprise never made it into space but has the honor of being the very first shuttle and we was used for test flights last month enterprise was loaded on the back of a jumbo jet and taken for a joyride above new york donated its retired shuttle fleet to american museum. let's check in with daniel bushell at the business desk in britain's banks are in much worse shape than previously thought aren't they don't know yes and he's a know this is a sixty billion dollars black hole as it's being called that according to new research the world bank of scotland was the worst. of its capital threats and

followed but h.s.b.c. bank. was being seen as the real reason why they are refusing to listen to business is still the economy the banks didn't dispute those claims. griefers taxpayers money will no longer bail them out new proposals from brussels say bank shareholders and creditors will be responsible for any losses but the new legislation is unlikely to come into force before twenty fourteen too late to protect taxpayers from the current crop of bank failures and france's new form is the law and ferb use has sparked a row with the u.s. there is they're saying it calls the euro crisis he said quote lehman brothers was not a european bank we should not shift responsibility france's new socialist government is seen as less friendly to washington the previous incumbent nicolas sarkozy. now of the facebook i.p.o. last month the nasdaq may compensate some of the lost is there's a new report shares in the social network have lost an estimated two hundred

million dollars all reports facebook he'd week four calls from potential investors and disney's excluding ads on its t.v. channels and websites that meet its new nutritional guidelines it's already taken mickey mouse off packaging for junk food with two in three americans overweight or obese first lady michelle obama backs disney's move. home though making false food chains target emerging markets burger king russia has teamed up with the bank to expand into the country's region's p.t.b. will invest up to one hundred million dollars over three years has had another storm on its market this economy continues to grow despite if you are a crisis aeroflot shares in particular restoring it plans to list in london this year investors say that will be a success as this one of the world's most profitable. could earn up to two hundred forty million dollars from the move on the world's most profitable airlines there and finally the currencies the rubles also strengthening against the euro dollar

russia central bank governor says that trend should continue this year he also maintained two thousand and twelve inflation target of five to six percent europe today for more news on the website all to dot com slash business. all right daniel thanks for that update and coming up in we've got ninety minutes in washington the capital account and the along or so here in our take next though a recap of our top stories after this.

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the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but because of the difference to use it as a threat all as an actual event that you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

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