european unity is good to the tears as cash charged griese begs for breathing space leaving the e.u. leaders deeply split on whether to show mercy. to the south civil war breaks across borders as syria's neighbors feel the heat lebanon is among the why step back to it with over a dozen killed in the follow up clashes. and how the deadly trend of our good forces turning their weapons against nature troops helping to train them is adding get more challenges to the country's dreams of the. new so russia and around the world this is r.t. with me you are sure of our thanks for joining us first long considered to taboo to even mention leniency towards greece is now at the top of europe's agenda battered

and bruised by austerity athens has bangerz the e.u. for breathing space and today the leaders of france and germany will meet to discuss whether to grant it but as aussies peter all of the reports it really is a divisive issue. well over the next few weeks greece could find out its fate in the country's future as a part of the euro that's certainly going to be something that's up for discussion when francoise the french president arrives here in berlin for chats with chancellor angela merkel now the two have differing opinions over how the debt crisis in greece should be dealt with as well as across the eurozone in general the chancellor merkel very very big on wanting to see cuts she said that greece must stick to a very rigid plan in order to find eleven over eleven billion euros worth of cuts before the next round of bailout money which is jus shortly francoise hollande in france saying this well they're

a little bit more flexible when it comes to greece now this meeting that's going to take place here is really to try and make sure that they're both singing from the same song sheet when it comes to what to do with athens it comes of course shortly before the greek prime minister heads to paris for talks with all and hopefully there will be a consensus between germany and france over what to do before then as far as the greeks the concerned they're looking for this next round of bailout money which is worth over thirty billion euros without which well greece is pretty much guaranteed to default and be kicked out of the euro zone all of this up for discussion as it stands at the moment which will be talked about here in berlin what is interesting is over the last few weeks we've seen greece really drop out of the headlines but the the bare facts are that well things haven't improved then it's not being jus two to good news economically that greece hasn't been making headlines things have

continued as badly as ever really with unemployment still on the rise the country is still in recession and turning over negative growth so the problems in greece haven't gone away the story may have disappeared from the headlines shortly but the problem still there. and that's what's going to be discussed when the french president meets with the german chancellor here in berlin. and regardless of whether greece is given more time its tactics to fight that will remain the same aggressive austerity privatization and cuts however andrew gavin marshall from the center research on globalisation things those reforms will do much more harm than good. if you actually look at the situation what some heiress is complaining about is that he needs more time to implement reforms what are the reforms there's three words which are use most commonly used austerity adjustment and growth if you simply take the rhetoric follow the policies and look at the effects you can actually translate the language into what it actually means so austerity means

impoverishment adjustment means exploitation and growth means private profits they undermine labor they cut pensions cut social security cut health care spending cut all social spending in general hire more people from the public sector privatized the economy privatizing infrastructure privatized the water the electricity so that foreign corporations can come in and buy everything up for cheap and this is also that they can get a bailout which the money simply goes to pay the banks just the interest on the loans to the banks so it's this massive scam and it's illegitimate for him to be saying that we simply need more time to impoverish our population. and for those with a friend simple financial scandals still ahead for you guys a report coming up at seven thirty and today also he's relentless corruption hunting g.-o. tony america's crisis point. imagine the cow

has a to detach from its utter into its mouth that's the ben bernanke is economic strategy is the sell feeding cal getting bigger and bigger so the quantitative easing is working the fat cats the fat cows on wall street they're getting fatter of course a fat cow generates more detritus through the theory of the cow which in this case is not fertilizing the economy it is burying the economy in layer after layer after layer of. waste. moving on now syria's neighbors are sounding the alarm as the country's protracted civil war pulls over the borders and threatens to spiral into a full scale regional conflict lebanon has reportedly deployed combat units to its north why around twelve people have been killed in a series of clashes between pro and anti assad supporters auntie's policy it takes

a closer look at this point rating and rest. the crisis in syria continues to spill over into neighboring countries several people were killed in the northern libyan his city of tripoli during clashes between alawite and sunni muslims this comes amid growing evidence that massive amounts of weapons are being smuggled through live anonyma portably also through turkey to the syrian opposition now moscow has condemned this in the strongest terms and urged nations not to supply weapons to the syrian rebels at the same time the turkish government is investigating possible syrian links to a car bomb explosion on monday that killed nine people many of them children in the south east of the country they're all growing concerns in that the kurdish workers' party known as the p.k. k. is behind this blast although no one has come forward and came to sponsibility the p.k. kate is regarded as a terrorist organization by and by the united states and by the european union and

ever since the violence in syria has spiraled there are growing concerns that they are extending their influence and increasing their activities here in jordan to the situation remains fluid there are at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees who have crossed over into jordan male currently being housed in a number of temporary refugee shelters along the jordanian the syrian border but jordan is a country with few natural resources it has its own problems of scarcity of water in its own fragile economy and it is struggling to deal with this influx of refugees the camps overcrowded we've also heard reports of the outbreak of tuberculosis and other health risks the international community is struggling to deal with the situation the american president barack obama has warned that if syria moves or uses its chemical arsenal united states will reconsider its decision not to launch any kind of military action in syria at the same time moscow has said

that they cannot see any kind of unilateral action that there needs to. an international response that is agreed to by all sides and that consensus is reached course there are amman jordan. and political analyst dan clore dr frank who is currently in lebanon's capital beirut size that is an overwhelming fear among its population the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment there been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even and it's a great deal of fear people are saying not since the civil war how have things been so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know there are two neighborhoods in tripoli the most certain for the the shia are alleyways and the delta bani section right down the middle ironically is

the name of the big street cause serious street and that really tells the tale up there but we have seen in beirut and other parts of the country a similar division things are very much on the edge and it's not only the spillover of fact it's the fact that lebanon itself is so fragile and not quite a state in terms of that having a real central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromised army. and also you spoke to syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs has warned some outside pero is against carrying out a threat so intervention and here's a quick load had been a full interview coming your way later this hour. yeah it might seem that military force can get you farther than anything else will but in reality it we've all seen that warfare doesn't get you anywhere politically in the situation in syria is very volatile or that any instance of armed combat will only escalate the hostilities

a war is that what we need is a civil taney a cease fire and what does that would be in line with the kofi annan plan or the geneva arrangement stance of our friends and the attitude of the syrian government is that which is published a resolution calling for national reconciliation what do you. terms that uprising stability in afghanistan have suffered as said by after a wave of attacks on western troops by are going soldiers around a dozen native service than have been killed in the last couple of weeks alone inflicting further damage to hopes for postwar peace and if the situation looks into the reasons behind the deadly trend. the u.s. war in afghanistan is known as the longest military conflict in american history and as u.s. officials hope for a successful exit strategy by the year twenty fourteen an alarming new trend is spiking on the ground indicating that this may not happen so easily u.s.

troops have been dying at record rates in so-called insider attacks at the hands of their afghan allies at least ten u.s. troops have been killed in these attacks in the last two weeks alone this makes up for over thirty percent of u.s. military deaths in august of last year there have been at least forty such deaths in so-called green on blue attacks where members of afghan forces turning against western troops sixty nine people were wounded and one of many attempts to tackle the increasing problem a top u.s. general flew to afghanistan this week to address the issue only to have his plane become the target of a rocket attack experts say it's yet another sign of growing discontent in the war torn country as u.s. president barack obama says more needs to be done to protect u.s. troops from attacks by afghans thought of as partners the question of how exactly this should be done remains an answer afghan officials have been attempting to spy on their own recruits to prevent these incidents but reports are growing that members of the afghan security forces are increasingly switching sides defecting to

support the taliban in one recent incident for afghan army officials were charged with supplying arms to the militants some experts explain the increased insider killings trend as a result of frustration with the length of the war others point to the fact that this comes after several scandals involving the conduct of u.s. troops on the ground from koran burnings to desecrating afghan bodies by you were needing on them and shocking videos that made headlines around the world the afghan wars and its eleventh year and the fact that this year has seen more deaths from insider attacks than ever before seen as a worrying trend for several reasons the attacks have highlighted the disconnect between the u.s. to exit strategy. to transfer most of the fighting power to afghan forces by twenty fourteen but the fact that the situation on the ground continues to be a lot more complicated that some u.s. officials try to downplay with chaos on the ground the question of whether the u.s. involvement deadline is feasible looms large as the party mosque and

a u.s. based on blow good day that swanson says washington has created a permanent state a war in afghanistan. this is a war that the united states taxpayers are paying for both sides of we are they not just back to stand but we are paying the taliban in afghanistan for safe passage down roads the taliban's number one source of income when you're paying for both sides of the war a war without end a war that is brewing and generating hostility toward your country in afghanistan and in fact a stand you know to look for logic is focused this is that this is the momentum of the military machine that eisenhower warned us about fifty one years ago and it shows no sign of letting up. and plenty more lined up for you in the program including trials by silence ptarmigan pairing at.

mentioning how they should take a look at protecting the cia's highly classified interrogation techniques. the peaceful way to transform military heritage as an abandoned soviet top secret base gets a new life with a unique on the wild side. that's right about now both jerkiness founders a legal team and aquittal a likely to take britain to the international court of justice the told body for disputes between states but it's only one option being looked at to secure the whistleblower a safe passage to ecuador which the u.k. has vowed to prevent and speaking exclusively to altie spanish channel ecuador's foreign minutes that reiterated his country's support for sound which all feeling would believe that great britain will realise how important it is to give the chance for a person to be saved so that he won't be living for years in an embassy and trust that nations government we also believe that london will accept ecuador's sovereign

decision if that doesn't happen will find a way out perhaps the only thing will be left with is going to the international court of justice in the hague so that we can grant freedom to the son to washington and the us is not our father or teacher to punish us if we have the same rights as they do julian assange is an example a symbol of freedom of speech but there are some countries which try to influence things and limit his freedom and even oppress him so that he stops doing what he's doing we want to make them understand that we're protecting freedom of speech as well as a right to life and personal integrity. and you can get a chapter on the truth and also a legal battle and find all episodes of his interview show on our website called one here's a look at what else is there for you right now if you were the protests on the streets of montreal paris where the demonstrators once again ahead of elections.

french kids tourists from that country get thrown in jail for their embrace over stay true in sri lanka. the united states has taken the protection of military secrets to a whole new level of good on time of day and always defending the chinese are outraged after being told they come to mention the torture that klein's went through so it's all apparently a part of an effort to protect highly classified cia interrogation techniques used on the inmates there noise through the plan to challenge the bond as soon as pretrial hearings the five men charged over nine eleven start so thomas b. won't a lawyer with is so

a man and standing always has defended gun tunnel bay detainees waited almost three years to be even allowed to see his clients and he told is that legal barriers and censorship jeopardize the whole idea of fair trial. i think that the united states is worried about disclosure of how bad their conduct was in guantanamo. sort of they. were describing the great basically they think that that's a very harmful thing for the united states but that is a cost of trying these people you know you need to clear the error with the truth to get a foreign go i don't think it looks good and it jeopardizes the credibility of the trials of the united states tries to do them to march in secret and it's part of the mistake of even trying these people before military commissions these people should be tried in federal courts which have credibility around the world and have

their procedures for protecting security but also being open and giving fair trials this is a mistake. a flooding tragedy has once again struck russia's southern cross nadar region four people have died after aruba busted spawns following heavy rains and it was caused by a tornado which carried water from the black sea power supplies account while the water and sewage system in three villages around the city have topsail wells are damaged officials say that could be they could have been more victims but for the recently installed early warning system in july the region was also struck by floods that claimed one hundred and sixty eight lives oh she's denis donaldson has mom. we are in the what we call of religion the russian black sea that was hit by wednesday's flash floods more than six hundred homes are affected fifteen hundred people had to be evacuated many of them are tourists that travel to this part of russia from moscow and other regions for many russians this is

a very popular tourist destination people were warned by sirens many of them heard loud sirens and emergency systems going off and they were able to run for higher ground to get to the second story as the situation however is not as bad as it was and chremes another city in trust the region that was affected by floods a little over a month ago and the number of victims here is significant the lower for people up to this moments are reported to be dead and three people are still missing. take a look at some other international news in brief for you this hour daily fifty people mostly women and children have died in a massacre in southeast kenya after hundreds of farmers attacked a village the bloodshed comes in an escalation of ongoing clashes between two rival communities of the land and resources is the worst hour break of violence is the post-election fighting four years ago. nasa is curiosity rover is

preparing for the ultimate road trip on mars to determine whether life ever existed on the red planet this comes after the agency reported a successful tell the driver of the probe there were others eventual destination will be the planet's mantra sharp at the end of the year. next year rumania will host elements of nato as missile defense system part of washington aspirants for a shield in eastern europe their lives plans to revamp their deserted soviet base to meet its needs but stay and nor the only ones doing this and he's our cells where have rebuilt these forward bases for totally different uses. explains. beyond the walls of this abandoned stop secret soviet facility in ukraine's republic of crimea it's a totally different world today to cold war times. a local entrepreneur has found a much more peaceful way to use thirty six hectic as of a new space but this used to be the area of the facility which was top secret here

satellite intelligence was gathered and stored on powerful computers nowadays the serious children's zoo there are many many polies here as well as monkeys bought this abandoned base six years ago and turned it into a huge safari park unique for eastern europe his animals occupy buildings which were once used by servicemen edger off now lives in what used to be a boiler room for the entire base while former top notch facilities have more exotic inhabitants. this spring used to be soldiers living who they were sleeping rooms here. point by monkeys in perth take a look at the coffee is not ashamed to capitalize on the widespread fascination for relics of the soviet era a former red army officer himself he knows that those bases were built to last and

this concept certainly sells well that's why his safari park is not only about enjoying a wild nature experience but also providing more quaint means of entertainment but . a vivid reminder of what exactly used to be here is this anti nuclear bomb shelter he had to say. this is a first and this is the second they could have withstood hit by a hundred fifty kilo ton bomb this still in great condition reserve point was located here when it was a military base now we've moved into a karaoke room you can sit here and nobody will hear you from behind these walls that most of the. bring it on the real me but clearly the park's main attraction is a large collection of african lions enjoying themselves in a record struct savannah alack took us for a rather thrilling walk inside but. the lloyd's of full report would work very

well in the crimean environment and it did today we have fifty four lions living in our thirty in the world and twenty four in cages it gives a great opportunity for scientific studies never before have we had such exclusive access to lawyers in this part of the world we have many difficulties with it's only our first year you know for three months now where by the way there's the. looking behind you there. right while former soviet bases are taking over by nato to become once again militarily operational zuckoff is now thinking of turning another abandoned facility in crimea into an animal theme park and despite having already opened several zoos across the peninsula he says he's not in it for the profit there was a modest but. this is. i guess you've got to have a military background and be a little bit crazy to take on the whole be like this and of course it's

a love of animals my main aim i guess is to learn to communicate with the animals and this seems to be working just fine. let's see russia reporting from crimea ukraine. they tried in the u.s. continues to worry about it and that says on to consumers and danielle that our business desk good morning your situation they indeed tell us more the problem isn't going away and there are now fears it will rest us to turn a pollack over ports. every year my weekly food stands is growing and much faster than my celery but there are fears that these here the price of food will increase sharply and not only because of a poor crop harvest in russia but also a bad drought in the united states corn prices have already this kind of rockets at sixty percent in the past two months but why should we care that's because most

corn is used to feed livestock and that means that very soon meat and poultry could also become more expensive as well as many corn based snacks and cereals global food prices jumped six percent in july alone the biggest monthly hike in three years and may not make you laugh if you live in europe all the united states as people there have more disposable income but in the developing world where people spend up to eighty percent of their budgets on food some war and that's a spike in the cost of basic product could even call the quiet and social on the rest as we saw in a similar scenario back in two thousand and eight. one expert from those in the states for food prices the worst could be yet to come. we could see maybe another twenty five to thirty percent to the upside the way it feels we could see it soybeans at twenty dollars we can see corn well over ten dollars it's very

difficult for traders when we start to see the market breaking out and and getting into a parabolic move to look for a a high but you know what i could see another twenty five to thirty percent just based off of the opinion of the farm community here in the states and again when you couple that with what's going on around the rest of the world and you hear what the glencore is of the world are saying then i think we have to accept that as maybe fact you know japan's tektites and shot three percent this morning on reports because another two and billion dollars in loans u.s. indices finished mixed on wednesday the minutes from the latest fed meeting indicate possibility of another round of monetary stimulus on the economy improves the euro is extended to the green but this as the. u.s. dollar and the ruble retreated to the main courses yesterday will give you more. time. six zero losses on wednesday officials call this year's inflation target six percent on realistic today so we'll have more for you next great stuff thank you

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