european unity is put to the turnstiles cash griese bags full breathing space leaving the e.u. leaders deeply split on whether to show the city. civil war breaks out calls borders as syria's neighbors feel the heat lebanon is among the worst affected but over a dozen killed and for our clash. and also this hour how the deadly trend of angin forces turning their weapons against major troops helping to train them is adding get more challenges to the country's dreams of the. of the u.s. now intro to russia's culture its green of its food prices are on the rise those the weather plays havoc with probes the business is in around twenty minutes. this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program long

considered to taboo to even mention leniency towards greece is now at the top of europe's agenda by bruised by a star as he arthurs has bagged the youthful breathing space and today the leaders of france and germany will need to discuss whether to grant it that as aussies piece or all of the reports it will bring the eighty's a divisive issue. well over the next few weeks greece could find out its fate and the country's future as a part of the euro that's certainly going to be something that's all for discussion when francois hollande 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. 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 to shortly francoise hollande in france saying this well they're a little bit more flexible when it comes to greece now this meeting is 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 a 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 been jus two

to good news economically that greece hasn't be making headlines things have continued this 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 tactic to find debt will remain the same aggressive austerity it promised has ation and cuts however gavin marshall from the center of research on globalization thing stirred 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 but what are the reforms there's three words that you use most commonly used austerity adjustment and croaks if you simply take the rhetoric follow the policies 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 the private profits they undermine labor the the tensions 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 something foreign corporations can come in and buy everything up for cheap and this is all so 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. with the finance people financial scandals still ahead for you now kaiser report coming up in about twenty five minutes this hour today aussies are endless corruption hunting geo

target america's quizes measures old line that. the magic of the cow has to attach from its utter into its mouth that's the bedroom aggies 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 the fact cowed generates more to try this through the posterior of the cow which in this case is not fertilizing the economy it is burying the economy and layer after layer after layer of. waste. now here is needed. are sounding their alarm as the country's protracted civil war pause over the borders and threatens to spiral into a full scale regional conflict lebanon has reportedly deployed combat units to its north where around twelve people have been killed in

a series of clashes between pro and anti assad supporters policy it takes a closer look at this parading 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 history and border but jordan is a country with few natural resources it has its own problems of scarcity of water and its own fragile economy and it is struggling to deal with this influx of refugees becomes 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 the united states will reconsider its decision not to launch any kind of military action in syria at the same time moscow

has said that it cannot be any kind of unilateral action that it needs to. an international response that is agreed to by all sides and that consensus is reached course there are two amman jordan and political analyst and lawyer dr franklin lamb on his currently in lebanon as capital beirut says there is an overwhelming and overwhelming fear and long 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 having to 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 that today we're hood's in tripoli the most certain for the the. 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 the region 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. bandar sees folks that syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs has warned some outside powers against carrying out threats of intervention and he has a quick look at the full interview coming your way next 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 and any instance of armed combat will only escalate the

hostilities a war is 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 range of stance of our friends and the attitude of the syrian government is that which is published a resolution calling for national reconciliation will. attend that finding stability in afghanistan have suffered a sudden by after a wave of attacks on western troops by are going soldiers around a dozen nato servicemen have been killed in the last couple of weeks alone and placating further damage the hopes of postwar peace. in a 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 unanswered 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 never 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 the u.s. based activist and blogger david swanson says washington has created a permanent state of war in afghanistan this is a war that the united states taxpayers are paying for both sides of a not just stand but we are paying the taliban in afghanistan for safe passage down routes that snowden's number one source of income when you're paying for both sides in the war a war without a war that is ruin and generating hostility toward your country you know and in the end you know to look for logic is well 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 not. plenty more lined up in the program including trials by silence gun ton of a detainees a pairing it's called alphabet and from mentioning how they will torture and

a toxic protecting the cia's highly classified interrogation techniques. plus a peaceful way to transform military heritage as an abandoned saudi a top secret base gets a new life with a unique walk on the wild side. of the songes a legal team and one like you to take britain to the international court of justice the top body for disputes between states but it's only one option being looked at to secure the whistleblower a safe passage to ecuador wish the u.k. has to prevent and speaking exclusively to punish channel acquittals foreign minister reiterated his country's support for a sandwich. all feeling good they would believe that great britain will realize how important it is to give the chance for a person to be saved so that he will be living for years in an embassy in 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 u.s. is not our father or teacher to punish us 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 of course you can get chants of us on the jury that a song should really go basilan find all episodes of his interview show on our website home on his look as well and it also is that fleet paper bags of press has sung in the streets alone true which compact with demonstrators once again ahead of the elections. and french heads tourists from about a country get thrown in jail for that embrace of the buddha statues in sri lanka.

the united states has taken the protection of military secrets to a whole new level and gone time of day that annoys defending detainees are outraged after being told they come discuss torture at the park a part of efforts to protect highly classified cia interrogation techniques he's doing nights they noised plan to challenge the bank as soon as pretrial hearing. speaking for five men charged of a nine eleven and one lawyer who waited almost three years to even be allowed to see his clients says it may be time the military is just trying to hide what's happening at its detention center is i think that the united states is worried

about disclosure of how bad their conduct was in guantanamo. sort of they. were just describing a grave basically they think that that's a very harmful thing to the united states but that is a cost of trying these people you know you need to clear the air or with the truth to get up behind you i don't think it looks good and it jeopardizes the credibility of these trials that the united states tries to do them too much in secret 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 nodar region four people have died after a river burst is buying swallow have the rains it was caused by

a tornado which carried water from the black sea power supplies were caught while the water and sewage system and three villages around the city of top set were also damaged officials say that could have been more victims but for the recently installed early warning system in july the region was also as trial by floods that claimed one hundred sixty eight lives has been a lot has while we are in the what we call of religion the russian black sea that was here why was these last words are 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 is the situation however is not as bad as it was and chremes another city in cross in the region that was affected by floods

a little over a month ago and the number of victims here is significant the war were for people up to this moment are reported to be. and three people are still missing and let's now take a look at some other international news in brave this hour nearly fifty people mostly women and children have died in a massacre in southeast kenya after hundreds of farmers are targeted village the blanchard comes in an escalation of ongoing clashes between two rival communities over land and resources is the worst outbreak of violence in the post-election fighting four years ago. also 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 test drive of the probe the rovers eventual destination will be the planet's manned shaft at the end of the. next year rumania will host

elements of nato as missile defense system part of washington's plans for shilled in eastern europe the alliance plans to revamp had deserted soviet to meet its knees but there were no they're not the only ones doing this and swear have rebuild these former bases for totally different uses of except your ships to explain. 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 when you space but. this used to be the area of the facility which was top secret here says a large intelligence was gathered installed and powerful computers but they were now days the scenario is a children's zoo there are many zebras and many pony seen as well as parrots and the monkeys. bought this abandoned base six years ago and turned it into 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 for instance used to be soldiers living quarters there were sleeping rooms here now they're occupied by monkeys and parents take a look at people. who cough 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 . if you would remind of what exactly used to be here it's these nuclear bomb shelters two sets of velma doing this is the first and this is the second.

one hundred feet circulates on the bunk this still in great condition i reserve point was located here where it was a military base to come on and we have removed into a karaoke room you can see here until dawn nobody will hear from behind these rules . but clearly the. park's main attraction is a large collection of african lions enjoying themselves in a record struct at savannah aleck took us for a rather thrilling walk inside but. i thought the saloon safari plant would work very well in the crimean environment and he did and today we have fifty four lines living in our park thirteen with twenty four cages it gives a great opportunity for scientific studies are never before have we had such exclusive access to loans in this part of the world we have many difficulties but we are fighting the sunni all first year the park has been open for three months now where by the way there's that back master looking behind you that. while former

soviet bases are taking over by nato to become once again militarily operational soup coffee is now thinking of turning an other 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 but. this has become my life still you know i guess you got to have a military background and be a little bit crazy to take a little bit like this and if it was to love animals you know my main aim is to learn to communicate with the animals and it seems to be working just fine. we are of one blood you and me on twenty. reporting from crimea ukraine. the drought in the u.s. continues to worry both investors and consumers and tell you is it our business to ask a tough situation indeed that daniel tell us you know the problem isn't going away

well so no fear of the situation will once again bring violence and social tension as touch on the politico reports. every year my weekly food stand is growing and much faster than my salary 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 who are in 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 on their accent 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 of the united states as people there have more disposable income but in the developing

world where people stand up to eighty percent of their budget on food somewhere and that the spikes in the cost of basic products could even cause the riots and social andress as we saw in a similar scenario back in two thousand and eight. and overhead of pulling in the u.s. totals the worst is yet to come with food prices. 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 quorn well over ten dollars it's very difficult for traders when we start to see the market breaking out and getting into a parabolic move to look for a high but you know what i could see another twenty five to thirty percent just based off of the in 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 here with the glencore of the world are saying then i think we have to accept that as maybe fact. europe's open slightly up on reports from germany greece is its

bailout terms the euro's extending gains of the greenback because the fed holds off more purchases for now more goods flowing as the price of oil is gaining almost a dollar to over one fifteen today and loveliest setting itself up as the world's next offshore power of choice with a big tax cut from next year the baltic states slashes rates and screw ups dividends tax in a bid to get global firms to set up their experts say the move has a good chance of success notably russian firms will shift money from current favorite europe today we'll have more for you next hour i'll go to la to hear them many thanks indeed for that update coming up aussies financial guru max kaiser and his co-host stacy have pull no punches on shady deals among banking elites first though her back with a headline. wealthy

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