divided they stand to make castro degrees bags for breathing space leaving e.u. leaders deeply split on whether to show mercy. border disorder syria's neighbors feel the heat from the country's civil war with deadly clashes and a growing flow of refugees. and how the deadly trend of afghan forces turning their weapons against nato troops helping to train them is adding yet more challenges to the country's dreams of peace. hello and welcome to our team karen terrell to you with your top stories from around the world well long considered to taboo to even mention leniency towards greece is now something that's being openly discussed by europe's main leaders battered and bruised by the athens has begged the e.u.

for breathing space and today the leaders of france and germany will meet to discuss whether to grant it but as artie's peter all of our 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. 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 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 being jus two to good news economically that greece hasn't been making headlines things have continued as 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 regardless of whether greece is given more time its tactic to find debt will remain the same aggressive all starry privatization and cuts however andrew given marshall from the center of research on global sation thinks those reforms will do much more harm than good. if you actually look at the situation what's the maris is complaining about is that he needs more time to implement reforms or what are the reforms there's three words which are use most commonly used austerity adjustment and gross 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 that 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 trained that we simply need more time to recover shark population and for those with a fancy for financial scandals still ahead for you is our cause a report that's in the next hour today artie's relentless corruption hunting dual target america's crisis finding measures or lack of them. the magic 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 the 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. syria's neighbors are sounding the alarm. as the country's protracted civil war pours over the borders and threatens to spiral into a full scale regional conflict jordan has lashed out at the syrian government following a cross border attack that wounded a child and sparked panic in a nearby village that's adding to an increasing influx of refugees to the country artie's polis lior is there. 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 both 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 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 northern 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 armed clashes between pro and anti assad supporters which claimed around twelve lives although lebanese authorities have to clarity a ceasefire there the situation room is volatile political analyst and lawyer dr franklin lamb who is currently in lebanon its capital beirut 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 though it's a great deal of fear people are saying not since the civil war how have things been is so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know there are two very rude hoods in tripoli the most certain for the the. alleyways and the double to bomb is section right down the middle ironically is the

name of a big street called serious street and that really tells the tale out 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 not having a real central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromise army. spoke to syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs who's warned some outside powers against carrying out threats of intervention here's a quick look at the full interview it's coming your way later this hour. yeah it might seem that military force can get you further than anything else will but in reality it we've all seen that warfare doesn't get you anywhere politically the situation in syria is very volatile and any instances of armed combat will only

escalate the hostilities are always what we need is a similar tain years of cease fire and what does that would be in line with the kofi annan plan or the geneva arrangement of our friends and the attitude of the syrian government is that which is published a resolution calling for national reconciliation will. turn to its finding stability in afghanistan have suffered a setback after a wave of attacks on western troops by afghan soldiers around a dozen nato servicemen have been killed in the last couple of weeks alone inflicting further damage to hopes for post-war peace parties unless there see a child good looks into the reasons behind lead to the trend the u.s. war in afghanistan is known as the long as 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 throughout 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 war is in 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 with the fact that the situation on the ground continues to be a lot more complicated that some u.s. officials try to down with chaos on the ground the question of whether the u.s. involvement deadline is feasible looms large. mosque.

activists time blogger david. washington has created a permanent state of war in afghanistan. this is a war that the united states taxpayers are paying for both sides so we are they not just going to stand but we are paying the taliban in afghanistan for safe passage down roots that's no evidence number one source of income when you're paying for both sides of the war a war without end a war that is ruane and generating hostility toward your country in afghanistan and in 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 i've got plenty more lined up for you in the program including trials by a silence on china mode detainees appearing at court are for better or for

mentioning how they were tortured a tactic aimed at protecting the cia's highly classified interrogation techniques. plus a peaceful way to transform military heritage has an abandoned soviet top secret base gets a new life with a unique wall on the wild side. now the plan is fine 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 but political activist and head of the new patriotic alliance are not over says that apec that is a paper thin excuse. clearly that you read this being the senate exaggerated by the united states but we can see beyond their authority that the real target here is china and the u.s. wants to justify rebalancing most of its troops towards the region this so-called

threats emanating from china are highly suspicious questionable in our in fact just so the u.s. can justify sending more troops and ships here in in this region only intended to provide more just typically show and for the permanent an expanded new military presence in our region that's another concern of ours. missile shield. to fall on farms freeze in the region or the world countries like china and north korea into thinking of the her stands in competing with the united states in deploying more war machines. throughout asia and the that happens that could lead to a bigger threat to peace. over at our web site r.t. dot com you can find any of the stories you may have missed on air here's a taste of some other stories we have on line right now. there were a birth of protest on the streets of montreal which are packed with demonstrators once again ahead of elections. last russia's popular southern resort region is

battered by another deadly flood after high waters killed almost two hundred people last month. both joy and a songes legal team and or are likely to take britain to the international court of justice they tough body for disputes between states but it's only one option being locked out to secure the whistleblowers safe passage to ecuador which the u.k. has vowed to prevent speaking exclusively to r.t. spanish channel ecuador's foreign minister reiterated his country's support for assad's. 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 up so that he will be living for years in an embassy in trust

that nation's government we also believe that london will accept ecuador's sovereign decision if that doesn't happen will find a way out of 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 a son in washington and the u.s. 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 are protecting freedom of speech as well as a right to life and personal integrity. but that the united states has taken the protection of military secrets to a whole new level at guantanamo bay their lawyers defending detainees are outraged after being told they can't discuss torture that's apparently part of efforts to protect highly classified cia interrogation techniques used on inmates they lawyers

though plan to challenge the ban as soon as pretrial hearings begin for five men charged over nine eleven one lawyer who waited almost three years to even be allowed to see his client says it may be that the military is just trying to hide what's happening at its detention centers. i think the united states is worried about disclosure of how bad their conduct was in guantanamo. sort of a. words describing 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 error with the truth to get a foreign go i don't think it looks good in a jeopardizes the credibility of these trials of the united states tries 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. time to take a look at some other international news in brief. nearly 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 overlearned and water resources it's the worst outbreak of violence the since the post-election fighting four years ago. now says 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 mount sharp at the end of the year. next year romania will host nato's new

a space in eastern europe part of washington's expansive plants in the region the alliance is to revamp a deserted soviet facility to meet its needs but they're not the only ones doing this and through z s elsewhere have rebuilt these former bases for totally different uses. of scale 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 when you space that. this used to be veery of the facility which was top secret here says lies 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 ponies here as well as parrots and the monkeys. bought this abandoned the bay 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 parents 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

two sets of amadou was this is the first and this is the second. hundred fifty killers on bond this still in great condition i reserve command point was located here where it was a military base and we have removed into a karaoke room you can see here until dawn nobody will hear from behind these walls . but clearly. park's main attraction is a large collection of african lions enjoying themselves in a record structed savannah a leg took us for a rather thrilling walk inside but. i thought the saloon safari plant would work very well in the crimean environment and it 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 i never before have we had such exclusive access to loans in this part of the world we have many difficulties which we are fighting very soon your first year the park has been open for three months

now where by the way there's a little back nasty looking behind you that. while former soviet bases are taking over by nato to become once again militarily operational zuckoff is now thinking of turning and the other abandoned facility in crimea into an animal theme park and despite having already opened several zoos across the peninsula he says he is not in it for the profit there was more of this but. this has become a long still you know i guess you've got to have a military background and be a little bit crazy to take a little bit like this and of course 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. r.t. reporting from crimea in ukraine. where it seems that global weather is putting a harvest south were risk daniel is our business to ask tell us more of the united

states now in drought grain exporter russia's 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. 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. not only because of a poor crop harvest and 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 foreign based snacks and cereals global food prices jumped six percent in july alone the biggest monthly hike in three years it 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 something more and that's a spike in the cost of basic products could even call the quiet and social on breast as we saw in a similar scenario back in two thousand and eight but the worst is yet to come says the head of paul in the states even though prices for many foods have already hit record highs. 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 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 here with the glencore of the world are saying then i think we have to accept that as maybe fact

folk can make a deal first off profit has jumped to pushing the food the higher the euro's extending gains to the greenback as the fed holds off for more bond purchases for now heading for the three months high as brant oil grows a dollar to one hundred sixteen today and despite china's economic slowdown it because of u.s. businesses was soaring a new report finds a billion dollars in chinese takeovers this year bucking the sluggish global with a more kids china's economy still growing at eight percent compared to america's one point five and the world's next. as the baltic states. from next year the baltic and scripts divisions text to get global firms to set up the russian companies in particular to to shift some of the cash from current favorites cyprus europe today carol of morphine all right many thanks daniel and i will be back with a recap of our top stories shortly stay with r.t.

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