ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko will not walk free after the specialized court rejected her appeal against her seven year prison sentence with hundreds of our support just protesting outside the court building. with millions in the e.u. sinking into poverty unable to afford basic necessities companies are forced to produce smaller cheaper goods for the struggling masses of the age of a staring. as a wave of accusations by government and rebels follow a deadly funeral car bomb in syria we'll look at how ugly tactics adopted by the opposition are being sanitized in the mainstream media. and the book for me is the most go kosher kid new to kids that they details in the business in twenty minutes .

this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie crane's high court has rejected his 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 cesky has details. this wasn't so much of a shocking decision for many because there have been very few optimists who believe that 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 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 defenders of unity mustang defending lawyers brought this case to the european court of human rights and the sessions 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 you tymoshenko then maybe the authorities in ukraine will have to act and maybe reconsider her current sentence but as it stands units i'm ashamed to 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 protesters have been in the streets ever since you know so much anger was jailed a year ago and definitely today is no it and that exception about two to three hundred people gathered outside the court chanting that you must be released another tent camp is still there in the central part of kiev where people demanding that former prime minister to be released this case certainly has been drawing a lot of attention everywhere in the world with huge amounts of international reaction on your agenda sankoh sentence and still many countries in the world in the european union are condemning. those imprisonment we are certainly waiting for

any more reactions to come on on this decision by the high specialized court of ukraine to leave us in the same go behind bars for this for the next six years six and a half years and i surpassed you point out now i've been following a case of ukraine's convicted former prime minister at our web site r t dot com so log on to find the full background on your ex-wife. i'm going to force a lot of other stories including banning internet freedom twitter refuses to release information about it on my wall street activists saying its users should be able to fight invalid government requests. plazas education protests in chile gain momentum we've got a timeline of the movements at r.t.l. com and our you tube channels well. it's easy. to.

download the official r.t. up location so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its food all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any toy other than. the e.u. is facing up to a new era of becoming progressively poor and increasingly desperate is forcing big companies to rethink their strategies and how they can sell their goods to people with nothing to spare artists are selling your 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 drag on from 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 of 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 different needs 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 here poverty is increasing and defeats

almost all indicators the offer of the child thing for a sofa is in thing everything is fine it has its property. the. beach require snow kind of pick a fence or touch the most so this means it's right this is a higher consequences for people to work with and big companies are taking notice take you 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 was a big 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. much 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 their role their disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing fear the rates view 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 tool it's all because of the human 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 . tests are still here r t brussels financial inspectors are in lisbon reviewing how well the country's following toughest area matters and evaluating the state of its battered economy in may portugal became the third european country forced into taking a bailout that's one of worth seventy eight billion euros many experts down the country will be able to repay its debts with the interest rate on its ten year bond now over nine percent portuguese the euro and piero to bar says 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

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 is 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 a need these are not part of mainly believe in 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 does not that isn't like greece ireland was a country that is unlike greece and everybody else has as countries that are unlike greece so to say the problem that the greek problem then reconnect arises as a problem for the greek police going in cause 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 there seems to be no way out. they watching actually live in moscow coming out of the program capping the cops new york police are targeted by civil rights groups after six years of spy operations on muslims who turn out to be guilty of nothing. would be soon which brightened if you move on from feinstein pression these. from.

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you're watching r t a deadly car bomb attack at a funeral procession in damascus has sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both syrian government and rebel so there are still conflicting reports but it's thoughts as many as twenty seven people were killed the opposition claims the government staged it to divert attention from its other alleged large scale atrocities the fighting across the country shows no sign of easing and a high profile member of the ends of the regime syrian national council has resigned she suggests divisions within the opposition prevented from serving the

wishes of the syrian people as artie's lives a couple of 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 a 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 further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. for r.t. and moscow american author and former university lecturer kevin brown says it's not surprising that a powerful can push the media into wiping out all traces of what they believe the public must and 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've forced 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 propaganda twenty four seven three sixty five. prime just over an hour or two he has more insights on the syrian crisis and we hear from a man who knows firsthand what operating in the volatile region has lived. but again it's not the. 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 demanding that they have a lot of to learn it's not really since story it's middle east it's a huge wrong and after all these why. what are the would be the good the reader would be the real. focus for you and. there were about. deployments of go on. even getting influence is to doff iran it's between iran and you have. been one problem which is not so far so normal one to be involved. the 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 employment and high taxes the party's main convention in florida was pushed back a day and it fear is hurricane isaac might disrupt the proceedings the storm has now hit louisiana unleashing five waters and putting residents on alert for evacuations but a blogger returned sponsor says it doesn't matter who takes office as neither will solve the country's economic woes. it's wrong to 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 for every 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 problems quite moral in the making and if you're going to look back at what caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it was a horror george bush's policies to get anyone with a polson 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 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 in or change they they come and they go but these bankers seem to me. now the new york police department is under fire from civil rights groups who say they broke federal guidelines on information gathering for over six years of informants in the big apple spied on muslim americans watching them pray work and talk on the phone and as our team is more important than our 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 muslims by 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 has of course left the f.b.i. and the n.y.p.d. producing very little results but critics say it's also left u.s. citizens with very little accountability. for nine artsy. pirates have seize a greek owned oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four crew members on board all of them russians the hijackers exchanged gunfire was told was security

forces but escaped on the tanker according to the international maritime bureau less than two weeks ago a similar incident in the region saw the crew released after the oil on board was stolen piracy has escalated in the west in west africa with six vessels seized this year. a look now at some other stories from around the world in canada police have arrested eleven people at the university of montreal after students clashed with security guards to protest against fees attempted to disrupt classes after the autumn term started on monday the quebec french will government has passed a bill forcing classes to reopen fines for those trying to block access student rallies have seen scores of arrests throughout this year. taliban militants have reportedly attacked a military outpost on pakistan's border with afghanistan killing nine soldiers that's after two days of violence in 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 murder investigation into the death of former palestinian leader yasser arafat's his family filed a complaint last month after a swiss scientist hired for a documentary found traces of radioactive polonium on some of his belongings it was reported to have died of a stroke near paris in two thousand and four but rumors about poisoning have endured since his death. ranchi banki moon has to iran to attend the sixteenth summit of the nonaligned movement despite strong objections from the u.s. and israel secretary general says he is planning to use the visit to address concerns about iran's 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. now that syria's moving to dodge western sanctions

danios our business desk. stepping up trade with russia starts a boy damascus says it will ramp up exports including crude and food locally will the country's economy chief quadri jamil has recently been in moscow for talks syria has asked for loans of assistance in return now traders are watching how troubled italy's will so this latest auction of the bulls is down on the news the credit rating of the united states will be cut next year if it doesn't slash its fifteen trillion dollars this is fitch ratings and most emerging markets falling all fears that ben bernanke you won't bring more stimulus when he speaks on friday underworld premiers will be unveiled at the moscow international poll shows starting today is one of the most important events for carmakers at all t. is there for us. this is most go automobile siloam is now on and it's a chance for comic has across the globe to become a

a show off and of course to 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 tens of indulge and that's out of fear of that russian ruble devaluating as i've done so and post economic crises now it's no surprise that you've got the likes of being. out of the overhead today to make some kind of impression also with consumption high here in russia spurring growth we g.d.p. now at four percent in the second quarter of this year when compared to other parts of the world that are dealing with less than one percent forces also now on the world trade organization and that means that import tariffs are now going to be gradually reduced for the consumer that's fantastic news because it means more affordable for foreign cars for the comic if it means more fierce competition and

they're going to be on the pressure to make better quality cheaper cars in order to contain well with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced here today is going to be poland will put you to see to. its you mentioned the world trade organization called makers were tipped to cut prices after russia joined the chair last week and cut imports global chief stefan jacobean told us new taxes are offsetting any gains. we face the challenge. the release which we have with the entry of the w three zero almost offset by a scrappage or utilisation i think this is the right approach to be very frank in that respect we should give the benefit supports the customers and not offset this for other duties or texas. today we'll have more stories for you nick absolutely don all thanks very much indeed and of course plenty more coming your way including the top stories which i'll bring you very shortly stay with us for

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