breaking news on r.t.e. ukraine's high court rejects you it has appeal against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power of late to gas deal signed with russia in two thousand and nine. with millions in that you use sinking into poverty and able to afford basic necessities companies are forced to produce smaller cheaper goods for the struggling masses of the age of austerity. and as a wave of accusations by governments and rebels follow a deadly funeral car bomb in syria we'll look at how tactics adopted by the opposition are being sabotaged in the mainstream media.

fortune i did not mean to you live from moscow i'm marina josh and that would begin with our breaking news this hour ukraine's high court has rejected you would appeal against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power a link to a gas deal signed with russia in two thousand and nine she was sentenced last december but maintains her innocence saying the case was politically motivated. well later we can now talk to our correspondent. who is in ukraine for us and can bring us more alexy tell us was this decision a shock. well this wasn't so much of a shocking decision for many because there have been very few optimists who believe that the court the high specialized court of ukraine may actually say yes to

tymoshenko appeal and set her free and now we have it confirmed by the court that this decision has been rejected they feel has been rejected and huge machine co will continue spending her seven years in prison unless there will be a further appeal we also know that ukraine defenders of you know tymoshenko her defending lawyers brought this case to the european court of human rights and the sessions on the on this case started just yesterday in the european court of human rights in strasbourg and maybe if the european court deliver some kind of decision on unit emotional then maybe the authorities in ukraine will have to act and maybe reconsider her current sentence but as it stands you did so much anger will continue spending her prison term of seven years that she received for the abuse of power during signing gas deals with russia back in two thousand and nine and definitely this case as very much spice to the political life in ukraine

alright alexie thanks very much indeed for the summit and course we'll be crossing back to you for more ice here have comporting there from kenya now the e.u. is facing up to a new era of becoming progressively poor and increasingly desperate it's forcing big companies to rethink their strategies and how they can sell their goods to people with nothing to spare r.t. says are cilia reports. with more than eighty million people in the e.u. would risk of poverty including twenty million children this has become an all too common sight in european cities as a debt crisis and its effects dragged on for madrid to athens and even brussels twenty three year old the wrong is one of many jobless and homeless europeans when he's not out looking for a job he sits at this corner reading his favorite classics hoping to receive enough money from passers by to buy some food for himself and his dog. before the crisis i

had an apartment i worked as a group leader in youth camps there hasn't been much of a difference for me since then except the bread is more expensive everything is more expensive to from meet someone who gives me an opportunity and tells me ok you can work next week i'll say yes ok i'll try and if it works it works if not the nevermind. but the numbers don't paint a nice picture for people like no home and share everything is increasing and defeats almost all indicators the offer of the job thing for a sofa is in thing everything is fine if it has it's property. the child a bitch choir's know how to kind of kick a fence or touch the most. this means it's my business that hire consequences for people. and big companies are taking notice take you to lever for example the company behind a slew of consumer products from shampoos to ice cream has started to look at

europe from a different angle they had of its european business told the financial times deutschland that poverty is returning to europe multinationals in fast moving consumer goods are seeing the state of poverty in europe as more than just a passing trend the thinking of readjusting the strategies they use here and in point those that they use in developing countries such as asia where you find packaging like this one from this asian store and what you call sachets for each piece is a. cheaper than a bigger packaging and therefore easier on the pockets of consumers a practice the company has already started doing in spain and greece people have to store savings on their most basic needs. shampoo foods so that's really showing you. what the crisis really means for many struggling people in europe there's rather a disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing

fear do you rate. the on the most basic problem so that everyone uses it in their daily lives i'm sure this has a huge effect a crippling effect on people like simone a homeless woman a pensioner who only has three euros to spend each day when i can't feel different so i try to live where i can i don't see much my doing too much a tool if you will because if the you're right many people have problems because it's a crisis problems that make the target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least twenty million people over the next eight years seem further out of reach tesser sylvia r.t. brussels financial inspectors are in lisbon reviewing how well the country is following tough austerity measures and evaluating the state of its battered economy in may portugal became the third european country forced into taking a bailout and this one worth seven

a billion yours many experts doubt the country will be able to repay its debts with the interest rate on its ten year bond now over nine percent of the portuguese euro ampere always have ourselves the bailout system is creating a vicious circle. our deficits targets our target targets will not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the portuguese or the economy is self-defeating the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge crowd on tax collection the portuguese government gives again. and balanced budget which was after all the main point of having the money from the from the troika i think that there is an invasion on the part of mainly burly men and barriers to help greece as the sole example of the medicine not working so in

order to achieve that it is very important to portray portugal as a country that is not that is unlike reese islanders a country that is unlike greece and everybody else has it as countries that are and like greece so to say the problem that the greek problem then reconnect arose as a problem for the greek political ethos of the greek god ministers of greek history or culture or whatever the recession and austerity is not working either in greece portugal or ireland that seems to be the way out. there watching r t coming to life from moscow and next in the program campaign the cops new york police are targeted by civil rights groups after six years of spy operations on muslims would turn out to be guilty of nothing. wealthy british style that. is not on the rise.

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a deadly car bomb attack on a funeral procession in damascus has sparked

a wave of mutual accusations by both the syrian government and rebels there are still conflicting reports but it's thought as many as twenty seven people were killed the opposition claims the government staged at to divert attention from its other alleged largest. these the fighting across the country shows no sign of easing at a high profile member of the regime syrian national council has resigned she suggests divisions within the opposition prevented from serving the wishes of the syrian people and are losing confidence now reports much of the mainstream media coverage isn't serving the interests of the whole country either. it was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the syrian war a truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of syria's largest city. but the men that are loading it aren't assad forces they're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the free syrian army and their captive is said to be a member of the should be a militia with very close ties to the us that government the video filmed by the

new york times and turn into an on air segment by the b.b.c. captured what human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law video of rebels from the free syrian army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on government forces now the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission he simply thought that he was being given his freedom the very next morning he was said to have a scaped after the bombs failed to detonate and the b.b.c. had aired the story on august twenty second but this glimpse into the darker side of some of the tactics now being used in the uprising never aired again the story was also pulled from the b.b.c. website the network told me that this was due to copyright issues and this very video raises the question about whether such tactics may be more widespread among the opposition than what has been previously documented they have yet to draw the same level of scrutiny as the crimes committed by the government were challenged in

syria is met with more whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and he said he further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war lucie county no four r.t. and moscow american author and former university lecturer kevin brat says it's not surprising that the parcel can push the media into wiping out all traces of what they believe the public mustn't see. it's pretty obvious what happened which is that the b.b.c. reported some news that higher ups in the western intelligence apparatus don't want them to report so they force them to take it out and that doesn't surprise me at all that's just one example of many examples of b.b.c. complicity in this military agenda you know the b.b.c. is heavily complicit in this series of wars of aggression that were triggered by the events of nine eleven and it's very sad because western journalism used to be more independent and today everybody and all the big outfits located in the big

english speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty . later this hour our team has more insight on the syrian crisis and we hear from a man who knows firsthand when operating in a volatile region is like. it's a movie where the good guy the good go boy can. make everything quiet and this is it hitting just two or three bad guys and. at the end of the movie. the beautiful woman in there there's a lot of to know and it's but since story it's middle east it's a huge wrong and after all these why. what are the would be the with the reader would be to read out. if there were about. the problems of go on reading. events could be influenced is to iran it's between

iran and you have. been one problem which is not so far so normal one to be involved. now republicans in the u.s. have officially nominated mitt romney to challenge president obama in the race for the white house recent opinion polls show romney and obama locked in a tight race with republicans accusing the president of causing points and high taxes the party's main convention in florida was pushed back today amid fears hurricane isaac might disrupt the proceedings the storm has now hit louisiana unleashing floodwaters and putting residents on alert for evacuations political blogger richard spencer says it doesn't matter who takes office as neither will solve the country's economic woes. it's wrong it's a believe that a president really any president has so much power that he can with

a magic wall and make the dow jones industrial average go up or increase in oil or no president can really do this and another thing that's connected with that is that a lot of these economic cross. i'm quite long in the making and if you're going to look back at what caused the financial crisis in two thousand and eight it was a horror george bush's policies to get anyone with a paulson to hold it into a thirty year mortgage but it was also this the federal reserve policy of essentially giving up free money to banks when it comes to low interest rates and also bailouts and things like that these problems or or more structural in their deeper than just having a different face in the oval office and if you really think about it presidents get interchanged they they come and they go but these bankers seem to me. today york police department is under fire from civil rights groups who say they

broke federal guidelines on information gathering for over six years informants in the big apple spied a muslim americans watching them pray work and talk on the phone and as art is more important i reports all that peeping came to nothing. in a post nine eleven world it's no secret that the u.s. has exponentially expanded its surveillance practices in the name of national security however recent revelations indicate that local and federal officials have wasted many years and enormous amount of tax dollars and feast no consequences over targeting muslim americans according to court documents the commanding officer of the n.y.p.d. intelligence division has testified that the department's so-called muslim spy program has not produced even one more terrorism investigation in the past six years now the new york city police department following the september eleventh

attacks created a demographics unit this according to the press that unit mapped unmonitored muslim owned businesses and also had police officials infiltrate mosques and muslim student groups throughout the city of new jersey according to reports the n.y.p.d. was also eavesdropping on conversations taking place between muslim americans now many civil rights lawyers say the n.y.p.d. violated any laws and civil liberties by targeting people based on their ethnicity or their language they also argue that laws were broken because officials were trying to gather information on people that did not commit any crimes so here we are nearly eleven years following the september eleventh tops and america's most powerful arms of law enforcement still appear to be targeting muslim americans this

is of course left the f.b.i. and the n.y.p.d. producing very little results but critics say it's also left us citizens with very little accountability marina for nine r.t. the. but you know if you live from moscow and if you've missed any of our stories can always find them online r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what else is there today defending internet freedom twitter refuses to release information about an occupy wall street activists saying its users are people to find invalid government requests. plus education protests in chile gain momentum we've got a timeline of the movement at r.t. dot com and our you tube channel as well. now the summer olympic games in london past was a great fanfare and now it's time for the paralympics outhwaite to shine and the british capital. and it seems you know the russians have their sights have their

sights set on a record breaking performance they certainly do arenas since nine hundred ninety six russia has progressive league golf better in the medals table in the parlor picks they finished if last time in beijing they say we are going for glory this time i want to finish on the podium china they're the number one team probably will be again this year russia said we are going are going to go at it you know there's plenty more to look forward to not just the whole teams there's oscar pistorius will he win the one hundred to two hundred on the four hundred meters that is all ahead i've got more in the in sports today in a row and twenty five minutes time don't miss it we will and you know thanks very much indeed in fact we're looking forward to that in the meantime let's now carry on that was the other stories that we are following for you here on our. and pirates have seized a greek own oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four crewmembers on board all of them russians the hijackers exchanged gunfire with total security

forces but escaped on the ten according to the international maritime bureau less than two weeks ago a similar incident in the region saw the crew released after the oil inboard was stolen piracy has escalated in the west africa with six vessels seized this year. now take a look at some of the stories from around the world in canada police have arrested eleven people at the university of montreal after students clashed with security guards at the protest against tuition fees attempted to disrupt classes after the autumn term started on monday the quebec provincial governments has passed a bill forcing classes to reopen with fines for those trying to block access stude rallies have seen scores of arrests are out quebec this year. times have reportedly attacked a military outpost in pakistan's border with afghanistan killing nine soldiers and that's after two days of violence and the country's largest city reportedly claimed the lives of at least twenty four people the violence is being linked to pakistan's

branch of taliban who recently issued a warning to the government in response to an offensive in the militant stronghold north waziristan. french prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the death of former palestinian leader yasser arafat's his family filed a complaint last month after swiss scientists hired for a documentary found traces of radioactive polonium in some of his belongings he was reported to have died of a stroke near paris in two thousand and four but rumors about poisoning happened during since his death. move would have to run to attend the sixteenth summit of the nonaligned movement despite strong objections from the u.s. and israel secretary-general says he's planning to use the visit to address concerns about terrans nuclear program as well as the crisis in syria officials from one hundred twenty countries not connected to any power block are expected at the gathering. watching r.t. he's reminded our breaking news story ukraine's high court has rejected those

appeal against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power linked to a gas deal signed with russia in two thousand and nine she says the case is politically motivated. still to come here on artie's of stay with us for that if you can. right now that we're crossing to the world of business and syria's moving to dodge western sanctions danielle has more and that is it is. the most. exposed including crude. oil the country's economy chief jamil has recently been in talks. of assistance in return. now investors watching how it's a lead that will sell its latest milan is down on the news credit rating of the united states will be called if it doesn't slash the u.s. fifteen trillion dollar national debt point next year says fitch ratings at four

months he is expected to unveil good results today on the world all will has been drilled fifteen times the height of the only suspect but the boys bush relief of the twelve thousand made to show off was done by exxon mobil at its second one deposits in russia's far east six of the world's deepest wells are in the region may just force to go over further in this search for crude now the twenty four team as the six has become the first of a hundred world premieres that today's most international call show one the most important events for global manufacturers and l.t.e. katie pilbeam is there for us. this year's most go oldsmobile siloam is now on and it's a chance to come acres across the globe to become a a show off and of course do some business as well now the russian consumer becomes very popular in these times of economic uncertainty and that's because elsewhere in the world you've got people reigning in the spending whereas here russians tend to

indulge and that's out of fear of the russian ruble valuating as i've done so and post economic crises now that's no surprise that you've got the likes of being. out the ohio today to make some kind of impression also with consumption high here in russia spurring growth which e.d.p. now at four percent for the second quarter of this year when compared to other parts of the world that are dealing with less than one percent plus it is also now a member of the world trade organization and that means that import tariffs and now going to be gradually reduced to the consumer that's fantastic news because it means a cheaper more affordable foreign cars for the comic if it means this competition and they're going to be on the pressure to make better quality cheaper cars in order to compete well with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced here today is going to be polenta ample opportunity to do that it's already out today very new levels for sweeteners absolutely beautiful cars

beautiful women and surely lots of good deals there well daniel thanks very much indeed and plenty to come here on our t. including a discussion on where the arab spring will and toss just after that slate of sports news with you and stay with us.

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