you're watching r t live from moscow let's take a recap of the headlines breaking news this hour julian assange is granted asylum by ecuador the country's foreign minister said the whistleblower was fears of political prosecution knowledge admit while slamming britain's threat embassy in london to arrest the wiki leaks editor. and near the ecuadorian embassy kraals and sharing the decision despite london police air india detaining several supporters of julian assange. and rain another so-called enemy of the states and one of us on his recent interview reasonable ridge ad has been

jailed for three years which taking part in anti-government gatherings. next to r.t. interviews american economist todd up which also he says u.s. president barack obama doesn't care enough about the country's deficit and debt problems states. and then. with reese todd buchholz a former director of economic policy at the white house he was one of the first u.s. economist to forecast the two thousand and one a slowdown in the u.s. the two thousand and eight pop in commodity prices and the dell rate of the u.s. that's waiting thank you very much for joining me today you're welcome let's start with your latest book rush why you need and love the place you argue they are that competition is the one thing to keep us going and from you we build the problem

that exists right now in the society it's the reason the lack of desire to fight for a thing to fight for a good job a good education is that really sell we've had twenty years of focusing on self-esteem trying to make kids feel better about themselves and it didn't matter how they did on tests the test scores didn't matter what they knew or what they achieved the whole point was it didn't matter what the important thing was to feel good about yourself so in washington d.c. for instance they asked the students how they would assess themselves in mathematics. and the washington d.c. students felt that they had wonderful skills in mathematics they had the best sense of themselves they had great pride in their knowledge of mathematics but when you look at their test scores have turned out they knew very little of anything so we've spent twenty thirty years educating people that trying hard is not very

important and what's most important is just to feel good about yourself but that is just a complete confusion because the best way to get self-esteem is to do something worthy of a seed and i'm afraid that the younger people are now. i want to do some bandage in a pretty harsh economic climate. even before the great recession which began in two thousand and eight we were seeing over the course of the last twenty years of decline in the willingness of young people to simply move to another state in order to take a job we've seen a decrease in mobility so yes the great recession has made things worse has made people even more nervous and worried about their futures but these trends were in place beforehand do you think americans really are becoming those people who need a three hour in line you dump them as generation y.

for him to think that bruce springsteen in the one nine hundred seventy s. had a famous rock album in a song called born to run and he wrote about a generation that couldn't wait to get their driver's licenses couldn't wait to get on the road and explore the country and study have been recently we see that young americans are less interested in getting their driver's licenses in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's nearly every high school student once they turned sixteen or seventeen would have a driver's license now many are waiting till eight hundred nine hundred twenty and is that because of economic decline no but i think it is a symptom of a lack of motivation so instead of being born to run they seem born to sit on the sofa in front of x. boxes or play stations or their i phones of course there is a portion of the population of the young population that is very motivated highly

motivated that is very ambitious and very aggressive and certainly carving out great careers for themselves so i certainly not going to suggest that an entire generation is sitting on the sofa however we have especially in this harsh economic climate certain states in the united states which are prospering. where the job market is very healthy and other states where it's very poor. well you can rent a car you could hop on a bus it would only cost about two hundred dollars to get yourself on a bus from nevada a state with a terrible economic climate to north dakota where you would have a job almost as soon as the bus arrives and yet we're not seeing people making those sorts of moves they seem to be waiting in place for the jobs to come to them and i'm afraid that is not a very promising way to look at the job market these days so the go go days of the nine hundred ninety s. turning into the go backward state of the two thousand so where next the u.s.

economy is a bow what a pilot would call stall speed we certainly are growing fast enough i believe that we're not going to go back down into a double dip recession but the job market is painful the job market is very weak i think president obama has not done much to help the job market i don't think his stimulus plan was very effective the only thing a stimulus plan did was scare people into believing that we now have debts that will be unpayable and that the u.s. debt to g.d.p. ratio will simply be unmanageable. so we've got an economy that's slowly repairing itself but we seem to be avoiding tough decisions when it comes to how we're going to pay our debts in the years ahead can we expect another stimulus plan i don't think there's going to be another stimulus plan out of the u.s. congress certainly republicans will not be in favor of it because they see that

it's been a waste and president obama i think recognizes that the prior stimulus plans are no longer popular in fact i'm not even sure he will use the word stimulus anymore because now it has a tone of being negative because very few americans believed it has created any jobs except maybe for some government bureaucrats president obama. a year and a half two years ago pointed a commission to examine the u.s. fiscal deficit debt problem he appointed a well known former republican senator and a very distinguished. advisor to president clinton obviously the previous democratic president those two individuals with their staffs with congressional colleagues spent months studying the deficit and the debt it was the simpson bowles

commission and the president appointed them and they came back with a plan that was very tough that was very bold that would cut some tax rates to make the u.s. corporations more competitive but at the same time they would cut spending you know really across the board including in retirement schemes and the president was presented with this plan and even though he chose the members of the commission he walked away from the plan because president obama doesn't care enough about the deficit and debt and so i think until the president leaves office whether that's in november or in january or four years from january i think it's going to be very difficult to for the u.s. to tackle these difficult economic and fiscal issues right now like looks like almost nothing that we have a seem to be think can be taken to be think i'm talking here about the very currency that we need the biggest banks in the world what is safe now there's

always going to be some fear in the market except when there's a bubble well there's not a bubble now so there is some fear in the market and there's a big question mark over all paper currencies there's a question mark about the value of the dollar and the euro in the yeah and in the ruble in every other currency that is not backed by some hard assets so we have a positive sign next to g.d.p. that is a big right bold positive sign you know it's kind of fate sometimes it hides a little bit but i think. there's been a demonstration in the u.s. corporations are managed so badly after all and they can withstand a pretty weakened economy and so that will i think be giving investors a little bit more confidence in the stock market and of course that confidence all has already been expressed in a pretty healthy rally over the course of the last year more than tell you i think alan your book market shock even worried that the euro zone was unstable and having to why it's played called turmoil you also sad that the members of the eurozone

would stumble because of the differences and monetary policy so what is your forecast now i think the euro zone is like a really bad polygamous marriage with. old wives and one husband just disagreement and jealousy and fighting constantly but the eurozone is a mess because that they were never meant to be together ireland was a more deflationary place as was italy germany had low inflation they needed different monetary policies and now we've got this disaster. and it can't simply be solved by the e.c.b. writing some checks. greece is simply insolvent and uncompetitive if greece still have the draw it would have been devalued there'd be tourist dollars from germany flooding into greece bringing foreign currency

bringing their heroes to agrees the hotels would be filled instead what do you have you've got a an economy that has should have a big tourism base but tourists won't go because they're afraid of riots in the streets the prices haven't fallen because they're denominated in europe and so you have empty hotels throughout meekin osa and athens and saturated so it's very difficult to see how greece survives as a member of the eurozone and it may very well be on some busy weekend i don't know when no one's paying attention during go world cup match or something that greece will exit the euro zone hoping that nobody notices but it's going to be awfully hard to keep them in.

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hello welcome to the thursday for round up with me ok partridge having a solid start with three weeks to go until the start of the world cup qualifier as fabio capello begins his reign as russia coach they won one draw at home to ivory coast. while movers and shakers and van persie is bound for united margaret is set for a out and so hard to sunderland with two days to go before the start of the english premier league. no escape to victory the amazing story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose football and the freedom. that start with football and with three weeks to go before the start of their world cup qualifying campaign russia drew one one in a friendly with the ivory coast at the lot of stadium here in moscow fabio capello was denied a victory in his first game in charge after a late. goals

and went. ivory coast midfielder did is a chorus that his team was happy to have come away with a draw praising the level of russia's football you are so happy today because i believe you'd be a good one. for us even to put them to do it so capello's rain has begun with a one one draw with the ivory coast however more surprising was the fact that he left out andrea shouting from the starting line up and up instead to give the captaincy to ego denise zero zero seven did come on in the second half but was booed by the russian fans every time he touched the ball now this and many other things will give capello plenty of food for thought but he only has three weeks to get his team together before they start their world cup qualification campaign when they play northern ireland on the seventh of september you see marketing goes. well meanwhile there were more international friend raising third in world and european champions spain claiming a narrow two one win minutes quite a rico the house side are ranked one side the world's top one hundred and managed

to keep their industrious opponents in check for more than forty minutes however two quick goals before the break so with ended overstays challenges to take control as awesome new boy santi kept the love lost at home a long range cracka four sets fabregas and their second however midway through the second half substitute marks in front sight at least one local pride a go back to some of the cram into raptures but that was as much as the host the muster to moan this week. when elsewhere euro twenty twelve finalists italy lost to the side they knocked out in the quarter finals in london they came back from a goal down trying to decide a stunning late winner the netherlands travelled to neighbors belgium but surprisingly slumped to a fourteen defeat well there were no goals and the fans were of white encounter leo messi was on targets to help argentina beat teheran germany three more now i think you can love says the state has nothing to worry about. but if you cut short the

world cup qualifiers will be another story because the players will have played a few games even you season so they will be in a much better form they were getting tired in the second half so it was all this three weeks of preparations was not enough to play a full game. while back here in russia you because there has been named as the new head coach of the boundary following the departure of tampa tresco forty nine year old also manages the russia two national side which acts as a reserve for the main squad cousin john has previously managed and she want to go just give has been strongly linked to the return of the capital but the number is currently on holiday with his family to vacillate fall over in england manchester united have agreed an estimated deal of up to thirty eight million dollars for also another strikeout robin van persie the twenty nine year old is yet to undergo a medical degree personal terms before signing a four year contract and those he scored in english premier league best thirty

goals last season with an overall tally of forty four in fifty seven games for club and country with two of those coming against united. while another transfer news luis a heart has signed for sunderland on a one year deal the thirty four year old former france striker let top know at the end of last season and could make his debut at arsenal on some today while right on madrid are finally close to signing top of it so that you could want bridge after increasing their offer to forty seven million dollars the twenty six year old is expected to hold talks with the way out of facials and undergo a medical degree terms within the next forty eight hours new spurs manager and label ashcroft says the club would try to replace the window before the transfer window closes in a fortnight while focusing on saturday's tricky at newcastle. going to newcastle way is never an easy trip. give us your daughter to draw on but a difficult game as well. we're leading most of the to the final minutes ago of the

game so. you know i think it's it's two teams that want champions league qualification you could say that fighting for the same objectives we want to make sure that this year we can push through it and that. we will have to see if we are able to do that progressively. bases tennis and french open champion rafael nadal has been forced to pull out of the u.s. open to turn back in knee injury for two thousand and ten when it has failed to overcome the problem which saw him miss out on the chance to defend a very big brand in london earlier this month the world number three last played in june at wimbledon like the crash back in the second round to lesser known because russell hispania says he's sorry to skip the last grand slam of the season while defending champion the backdrop of each was full of support. i really don't know what the injuries and how susie's but obviously it's is that serious that takes him

you know from the tour for the last couple of months and. you know he's a great competitor. you know somebody i know really well on and off the court i'm sure that he was able to perform a new soap and he would he would come so. you know i wish him a quick recovery obviously. now uganda's only medal winner at the london olympics stephen cooper to received a hero's welcome from hundreds of fans as he landed back on his home soil cover ditch won the men's marathon to give the african country their first medal of any kind since the atlanta olympics sixteen years ago and uganda's first gold since the nine hundred seventy two games in munich however despite his success the twenty three year old long distance runner voiced his concerns to the countries also it is about the lack of sports facilities and funding for their athletes one america's more held up through talisman felix is already focusing on the next summer games in twenty sixteen the four time olympic champion won the two hundred meters in london

along with bus relay races helping teammates tiana madison bianca knight and carmelita jeter set a new world record in the four by one hundred meters with a time of forty point eight two seconds however felix is yet to win the olympic one hundred metres in her own right and have to amend that inria. definitely you know i feel like i want to be in rio and i'm going to do everything to get there and you know we have a road championships in between but i'm still just so motivated and you know i want to come away with another successful games. and finally to the story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose to spend an extra year in prison so he could carry on playing football in two thousand and. four sent to jail in chile for three years and the day after being caught carrying six kilos of cocaine inside children's books he intended to take to europe however the speedy right foot i used to play for a russian second division team to school and soon word of football skills in the

prison yard reached chile national coach club the award and former professional turned prison volunteer franklin lobos who arranged for the now twenty four year olds to train with local professional. morning mikey i don't know trains there every day accompanied by a gaunt before being back behind bars each evening this month he could have returned to russia thanks to an amnesty but would have been allowed back into chile for a decade or so instead he chose to finish his sentence and stay. or go and. it has been almost two years now playing football in jail we just play baby football and not every day so i need to work and work hard make sure i'm fine physically technically and we do everything so i can come back. and get us away you can make mistakes but if your life gives you another chance you have to take it and keep it through food book which is what he loves then it's even better and that's often the sports that's for this thursday.

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