divided they stand i cash trow griese bags full breathing space leaving the e.u. leaders deeply split on whether to show their city. border disorder theories neighbors feel the heat from the country's civil war with deadly clunkers and the growing flow of refugees. and also this hour how the deadly trend of am going forces turning their weapons against nato troops helping to train them is adding yet more challenges to the country's dreams of peace. and you saw russia and around the world this is r.t. with me our thanks for joining us long considered to tabu to even mention a leniency towards greece's in are something that is being openly discussed by europe's main leaders battered and bruised by austerity athens has bags e.u.

for breathing space and today the leaders of france and germany will meet to discuss whether to granted but as artie's 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 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 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 to 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 are 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 of 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 it's toxic to find debts will remain the same aggressive austerity prioritize ation and cuts however and you're gavin marshall from the center of research and globalization 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 but what are the reforms there's three words which are use most commonly used austerity adjustment and growth if you simply take the rhetoric all of 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 high 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. as a way that funds the financial scandals is still ahead for you this hour where action on base our case report at eleven says he g.m.t. i should said today all see is relentless corruption hunting do you know tony america's crisis pointing measures all aco. a matter of the cow

has a tube attached 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. as neighbors are sounding the alarm as the country's protracted civil war pools over the borders threatens to spiral into a full scale regional conflict jordan has lashed out of the syrian government following a cross border talk that wounded a child and sparked panic in a nearby village that's adding to an increasing influx of refugees to the country and want to stay is that for us i'm standing at the zaatari refugee camp on the

syrian jordanian border which is the first legal camp that has been established by the jordanian authorities in the desert what happens is that the refugees come to the border they are picked up there by the jordanian police and brought here to zaatari camp now depending on the levels of fighting in syria anywhere between a thousand and three thousand people are fleeing across into jordan each day the current figures stand at some one hundred and fifty thousand refugees who are currently in this country now the united nations refugee agency is preparing itself for the long haul and to this end has begun building wells in jordan where water scarcity is a huge problem the condition in the camps is alarming we're hearing from human rights groups they're talking about a crisis in the making we know that the camp is overcrowded people here are complaining about extreme weather conditions about does it storms and we've also heard a number of incidents of sexual harassment in addition to this the jordanian police

are investigating the first case of a person dying in the camp when a fire broke out now jordan is in a very difficult situation and finds itself between a rock and a hard place on the one hand it is providing assistance to these refugees but it has its own very limited resources it has a fragile economy and as i mentioned earlier it has a basic lack of water jordan also does not want to upset its bilateral relations with neighboring damascus and that is why to this end it does face a problem of thousands of refugees in coming into this country hating the syrian president bashar assad in addition to this some of the violence in syria. has spread across the border that is why residents of was in towns here in jordan have asked the jordanian officials to look after them particularly in light of a number of shells that recently landed in some of these towns injuring a number of people policy r.t. at this atari refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. lebanon has reportedly deployed combat units to its northern city of tripoli the area has seen

a series of clashes between pro and anti science the forces which claimed around twelve lives of the lebanese authorities have declared a cease fire that the situation remains volatile and political analyst and lower dr franklin lamb is currently in lebanon's capital barrett says there is an overwhelming fear among its population the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment they've been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even who to great deal of fear of people are saying not since the civil war how things is so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know the very rude hoods in tripoli the most certain of for the the. alloa use and the bible to bomb instructions right down the

middle ironically is the name of a big street called syria 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 that quite a state in terms of not having a real central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromise army. and arcee is the poster syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs has warned some outside powers against carrying out threats of intervention and here's a quick look at the full interview coming your way and they said they are. little. 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 to see 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 similar taney a cease fire and what does that would be in line with the kofi annan plan or by the geneva arrangement or a stance of our friends and the attitude of the syrian government as the which is published a resolution calling for national reconciliation what are you. attempts at finding stability in afghanistan have suffered a sudden carter away with the thompson western troops by afghan soldiers around a dozen natives servicemen have been killed in the last couple of weeks alone inflicting further damage to hopes for post war peace in the situation a look sort of 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 surveys done below get david 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 ruining and generating hostility toward your country in afghanistan and in pakistan 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 in the program including trails by a silence on the many detainees appearing at court have forbid it from mentioning

how they were tortured at times to aid at protecting the cia's highly classified interrogation techniques. the peaceful way to transform military heritage and abandon some of the top secret base gets a new life with a unique walk on the wild side. north satisfied with its missile shield in europe washington has announced plans for a similar weapon system in asia a pentagon official pointed at a perceived threat from north korea as the main justification of a congressional adviser said china is a target and more now on the shield and how its might affect the power balance in the region with political activist and head of the new guidelines that were not a ray it is not a thank you very much indeed for a time almost every north korean ballistic missile launch so far has been a failure so was a lot of there is this official line that north korea is a threat

a plausible one. well clearly the threat is exaggerated by the united states but we can see beyond the rhetorical that the real target here is china and the u.s. wants to justify rebalancing most of its troops. and we theel down the use of north korea the use of china as the usual skied. only intended to provide more just typically shown for the permanent and expanded u.s. from military presence in our region including our countries like the philippines which will soon be host to more u.s. troops in a war more you u.s. war machines. i live saying the pentagon is truly concerned china is carrot killer missiles right with the u.s. navy moving to asia on mars if this chill something we're should have expected. but again we doubt if china is really intent on projecting its military power outside

its own borders or if china poses a military threat to any country in the region and. the whole idea of u.s. rebalancing it's really questionable at this point it's incomplete to protect new security to protect the neighbors or is it just to project u.s. military might because the u.s. wants to maintain its. its supremacy military supremacy in the region and it wants to advance its own economic interests in this despite of the world so again the so-called threats emanating from china are highly suspicious questionable and are in fact being twisted just so the u.s. can justify sending more troops in ships here and in this region. china's response has been modest so that the u.s. is purposefully suppressing other countries' abilities to defend themselves do you expect a tough response as the shuttle goes up but that's that's another concern of. the u.s.

missile shield. provoke an arms race in the region would it provoke countries like china and north korea into taking at the her stands in competing with the united states in the growing more war machines are throughout asia and if that happens that would be a bigger threat to peace than what they telling us are coming from china and north korea and that would mean also dragging countries like the philippines into certain armed conflicts which are not in our interest and which will not. benefit any of the countries in the region it will not benefit the interests of your regional stability. in your country there philippa's could also end up hosting elements of the show wouldn't that make your country a potential target. that it's true that would put the philippines directly in the crosshairs of this military confrontation i'd like to point. the deception that you saw in the philippines in the in the beginning they were telling us that a land based reader would be set up for portably for maritime surveillance and

nobody was talking about the missile defense system being with us so this is quite a revelation for us that what seemed to be initially. installation of a bigger broader u.s. military missile defense shield which would eventually drag the philippines into any armed conflict the us was involved in were in otto rayas political activist and head of the new patriotic alliance thank you very much indeed thank you very much. the united states has taken the protection of military secrets to a whole new level at ground time of day and that law is defending detainees are outraged after being told they can't discuss torture is apparently part of efforts to protect highly classified cia interrogation techniques used on inmates the lawyers plan to challenge the ban as soon as pretrial hearings begin for five men charged over nine eleven and one lawyer who waited almost three years to even be

allowed to see his clients says it may be that the military is just trying to hide what's happening at its detention center this. i think the united states is worried about disclosure of how bad their conduct was in guantanamo. sort of the way they. were describing abu ghraib basic. they think that that's a very harmful thing to the united states but that is a cause of trying these people you know you need to clear the air or 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 tried to do them to march 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 and about our website altie dot com you can find any stories you may have missed on that and here's a taste of other stories online right now they were but also protests on the streets of montreal each patch with demonstrators once again ahead of elections. and also that russia's popular southern resort region is bonded by another deadly floods just a month after high water has killed almost two hundred people. thanks chere romania will host elements of nature's missile defense system part of washington's plans for a show in eastern europe that linus plans to revamp a deserted soviet base to meet its needs but then noted the owner was doing this as

he had rebuilt these former bases photos from a different well he's an exterior chef kicks playing. 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 settlers intelligence was gathered installed and powerful computers now days the scenario is a children's zoo there are many zebras and many ponies here as well as parrots and monkeys. 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 are occupied by monkeys and parrots take a look. the course 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 is this nuclear bomb shelter it sent two sets of velma do was this is the first and this is the second. hundred fifty kilo ton bomb this still in great condition i reserve command point was located here when it was a military base and now we have removed all did into

a karaoke room you can see here until dawn nobody will hear from behind these walls . but clearly the. park's main attraction is a large collection of african lions enjoying themselves in a record struct at savannah a leg took us for a rather thrilling walk inside but. i thought that a lion safari park would work very well in the crimean environment and it did today we have fifty four lines living in our park 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 loans in this part of the world we have many difficulties but we're fighting them it's only our first year the park has been open for three months now we where by the way there's the pack master lurking behind you that. 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 more but. this has become my lifestyle 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 to love animals you know my main aim i guess to learn to communicate with the animals and it seems to be working just fine. we are of one blood you and me on twee. r.t. reporting from crimea in ukraine. craig global was that posting harvest's at risk daniel that's how this is set with the details daniel over to you yes more than half the united states is now in grain exporter ross has just cut its harvest off the more flash floods we have this report on fears of violence in the developing world as food prices spiral out of control for ordinary people.

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 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 products could even call the riots and social andress

as we saw in a similar scenario back in two thousand and eight but exposed when the worst is yet to come even though prices for civil suits already. 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 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 here with the glencore of the world are saying then i think we have to accept that as maybe fact . is because you're slightly higher on reports france and germany greece is bailout the euro is extending gains to the greenback as the fed holds off purchases for now

most goes on a three month high as the price of bread grows another ninety cents today to you so far as the world's next. with a big tax cut from next year the baltic states slashing rates and scrapping dividends tax in a bid to get global firms to set up the explosives the move has a good chance of success notably russian firms could shift some of their money from . europe to the year that would have. testing great stuff daniel thank you very much indeed i have to go to lunch one day beautiful place and i'll be back with a recap our top stories shortly stay with us.

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