the euro zone's we can nations are striving for growth the middle. people left are unable to afford the basic essential. key in solving problems in the middle east this according to the un secretary general in tehran while washington aims to downplay the meeting of states not the u.s. or nato. and ukraine's former prime minister will not walk free the country's high court reject her appeal against her seven year sentence for abusing.

party is broadcasting worldwide news live from moscow. and welcome to the program a number of tough choices facing the eurozone struggling southern states as they battle to stay afloat germany has praised italy's efforts to reform as chancellor angela merkel has been meeting technocrat prime minister mario monti monti is seeking help to help. costs he's also praised germany for improving governance in the eurozone but more may be on the cards. spain's leader is waiting for action from europe central bank before deciding whether to ask for help or one of its regions catalonia as meanwhile run out of money. and i.m.f. inspectors are in portugal to rule if the country has tightened its belt enough to receive more cash in may when it was forced into asking for seventy eight billion euros worth of rescue. our deficits targets our. targets will

not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the party is the economy is soft if you take the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge gout on tax collection the portuguese government is again. and balanced budget which was after all the main point of having the money from that from the troika i think that there is an invasion on part of mainly berlin and barriers to have greece as the sole example of the medicine not working so in order to achieve that it is very important to portray portable there's a country that is not that is unlike reese ireland as a country that is unlike recent everybody else as countries that are and like greece so to say the problem that the greek problem then ruby characterized as

a problem of the greek political ethos of the greek government is searching of history or culture or whatever the recession and austerity is not working either in greece portugal or or ireland that seems to be no way out. now it looks like the austerity programs imposed across europe have done little to stem the spread of poverty that's forcing companies that have long been making a profit on the european market to drastically rethink their strategies to cater for people struggling to make ends meet artie's tester australia 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 if i 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 then never mind. but the numbers don't paint a nice picture for people like no home and share everything is increasing and defeats almost all indicators for the child thing bristol is and think everything is fine it's as if the property. be the chops to the beach choir snow kind of pick a fence or touch the most so this means it's right this is a higher 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 the head 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. much cheaper than 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 a crisis really means for many struggling people in europe there's rather

a disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing fear the rates fear t. on the most basic products other everyone uses 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 in weight i can't feel different so i try to live where i can i don't see much my doing too much a tool it's all because of the you're right many people have problems because of the crisis problems that make the e.u. is target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least twenty million people over the next eight years seem further out of reach. so sylvia r t brussels. and as our europe is struggling to pull itself out of the crisis political maneuverings in the u.s. are trying to do the same probably look at whether

a change of president can lead to a change of fortune and help battle unemployment and high taxes more later this hour the republicans place their hopes on mitt romney. the united nations secretary general ban ki moon has arrived in tehran to take part in the summit of the nonaligned movement that's a bloc of countries that don't consider themselves in union with the u.s. and washington has voiced fairly loud criticism of the u.n. chief's a visit to iran and of the gathering in general just a bit earlier here on r.t. r spoke to our u.n. correspondent anastasio all about this. we have the united states really screaming at the top of their lungs weeks before the summit started that bunky moon doesn't need to go that it's really unbecoming for somebody in his position to go to the summit because it's being held in tehran and we've heard this from israel from the west everybody says. so we've heard it from the from the fairly standard groups israel the us you know he has america not attending a global summit but we know that in the past it's been hosted in venezuela it's

been hosted in bolivia now which in turn braun and all the alarms go off and straddle him hard about it is that this is a rotating summit this is the sixteenth time i think that it's taking place and the only noises coming because of iran this is a rotating presidency like anywhere else like the security council like a journalist and as they always say when the any subject comes to iran. and its nuclear issue america started to be successful with iran to be opposed to shut it shut down its nuclear program then we must follow the isolation but here we have one hundred twenty countries zero in on terror on seems to me who's being isolated here in my books for example if somebody invites a party and one hundred twenty people show up i don't think that's isolation the people who are not going are being isolated in this case it's the united states and the west and you know we know of course that all of these countries are in fact supporting what's going on and they are discussing nuclear nonproliferation in iran that the u.s. is complaining about they're talking about which as you said is

a big subject that america always zeros in on the crosshairs but also that syria iran saying that with this group of the not aligned movement they want to work together to get a solution on syria or that america or the u.n. they basically tend to stick to the democracy by bombing campaigns absolutely while everybody you know is criticizing the summit the topics they're actually discussing such as syria that the whole world is you know completely puzzled about what to do they are planning to put together some sort of peace plan on syria and maybe the united states is afraid. an alternative could come up and that one hundred twenty countries could actually sign up to something else is it possible here i dare say i might be moving a bit beyond my balance here as a possible. the world's policeman has got a case of sour grapes own i think you might be right absolutely because you know the u.s. in the west to staying away from less while iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control you know and run in the sand such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran we were hoping that one came and would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and on traditionally for him

it's surprising that they were expecting this because he's a very soft spoken diplomat that the u.s. was saying hopefully he'll go and he'll be very aggressive and tell iran off but what actually ended up happening was one came and said look iran could be a very effective mediator when it comes to middle eastern issues and that's what he said and something the u.s. i'm sure wasn't expect. me to buy petro kennison a geo political analyst from the u.k. colum website in london says that iran is just trying to get what is so far it has been refused to the u.n. . who for iran this gives them a diplomatic stage and puts them on equal footing with other competing nation's economic lee and diplomatically they're not afforded this sort of stage in new york city obviously the united nations is dominated by the sort of middle countries and the agenda is always a military one at the forefront and everything else at the back so this is a good opportunity for a rare and clearly from the one who is

a very happening and to run. isolates israel the u.s. the u.k. france and all the sort of nato allies in terms of diplomatic strategy. now or the un chief ban ki moon has said that he's planning to use the visit to address the crisis in syria just a few minutes to r.t. we look into the latest developments in the country and how the world powers can make the media withhold information they certainly don't want the public to see. now ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia timoshenko against her conviction for abuse of power to were sentenced to seven years in prison last year for her role in agreeing on gas deals with russia which the governor current government says we can do cranes economy which i believe the case against her is politically motivated a claim backed by washington in europe. reports from kiev.

ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is now spending seven years in prison will not where free this is according to the high specialized court of the country which rejected her appeal which had been running for several months now in fact it started in may it had been postponed on several occasions now the court has delivered its decision and it believes that the initial verdict which was given to you to assange we're told will last year will stand and there is there are no reasons whatsoever to counsel the decision of the court like reminds one of you is that you are too much sankoh has been present to seven years for the legit abuse of power when she was signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine now certainly this case has been causing great political resonance and social resonance in the country with hundreds protesting against one president today was no exception indeed several hundred of us supporters gathered outside the high specialized court to voice their protest against the imprisonment believing this

case was completely politicized now we also know that to you it's a mistake was defending lawyers took this case to the european court of human rights in strasbourg which has already started hearings on this case but it is expected that its decision will be delivered no less in two or three months from now but clearly the fact that this decision in kiev has been delivered may haste in the process of the decision in the european court of human rights will just have to wait and see whether this decision will be will come out any time quicker a lot of international criticism has been drawn because of. case victory on the coach and the authorities in ukraine have been fairly criticized by the european union namely by the german chancellor angela merkel who even refused to come to the euro twenty twelve football championship because of the tomasz ankle case certainly today's verdict may today's decision by the court may provoke more negative reactions coming worldwide and certainly will be key. of all these reactions i

would be delivering all the latest news to r.t. if you would as we get it indeed r.t. course one of the right there will of course will be tracing the continuing controversy on that story on our web site r t v dot com let's have a quick look right now and see what are the in store for you. for example an indian businessman causes uproar after opening a clothes shop called. the claims it was a nickname given to his grandfather find out why he's unrepentant despite the. plus the u.s. navy seal releases a new book which casts fresh light on the killing of osama bin laden is the start of compound those details also when our website. george's interior ministry says its forces have killed eleven suspected militants near its border with russia three troops also died and five others were wounded in an exchange of gunfire the officers were sent to the region to aid local police in tracking a group of gunmen from russia's republic of dagestan who had taken

a number of local people hostage georgia says all hostages were released in the operation which continued with the troops surrounding six militants in a caucus a caucus is a mountain gorge. now syria's president says more time is needed to win the war against rebel forces and warned against the threat of a no fly zone being imposed over the country as the opposition claims government forces intensified airstrikes on rebel held areas heavy shelling reported in damascus on the north western province of idlib a deadly car bomb attack on a funeral procession on tuesday that killed dozens of people that sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both warring factions and as artie's lucy catherine of reports much of the western media is painting a different picture to the one president assad is trying to present. 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 this should be a militia with very close ties to the outside government the video filmed by the new york times and turn into an on air segment by the b.b.c. captured about 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 a 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 talented 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 of american author kevin barrett says it's not surprising that powerful forces can push the media and their withholding pictures or information they don't want the public to say. 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 in all the big outfits located in the big english speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty . just a bit later here on r t a former french intelligence agent who served in the middle east tells r.t. that whatever the outcome of serious conflict is it's doomed to more violence. if we go into syria in between be a nightmare. good to see some indigenous services probably the british my six. maybe the french maybe the americans. involved the level of. in the support of the opposition when you thin indigenous people even

if they are killed that you can say yes but i don't know if we were to do is tell us of june eighth and i don't know i'm not involved with the main prospect of you that's the secret service that's a good i don't think is the possible when you go up with arms down planes you could not make when it's not a game it's not the. movie it's middle east it's this very same age. and after these. people would be do do do we know you will. there we will see settlements of. killing. people and killing in someone. you can see the full interview with the former french intelligence agent claude money k. in about an hour and twelve minutes from now the. pirates have seized a greek owned oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty three russian crew members and the greek captain on board the hijackers exchanged gunfire with

security forces from togo but a scaped on the tanker ship owner got in touch with the captain shortly after the attack to learn that the crew's lives were not in danger and that's according to the russian foreign ministry which is now are trying to resolve the situation a similar recent incident in the region saw the crew released after the oil on board was stolen piracy has escalated in west africa with thirty six attacks so far this year including several hijackings. all right into the arty world out there we go for you right now we'll start with saddam it's where a plane is on its way there which was reported to have been hijacked it's now safely landed at the airport the spanish airline it belonged to says the incident was sparked by mis communication between the pilot and the control tower and the aircraft is now being searched by security earlier it was reported that hostages were on board and i'm saddam scramble two fighter jets to accompany the plane to

its ship port. egypt says it will extend its offensive against militants in the sinai peninsula the campaign was launched off the militants attacked and killed dozens of border guards a month ago but the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of arms into the area near its border with there over strictures on weapon deployment under a current peace treaty a sign our region has seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. a military outpost on pakistan's afghan border has been attacked by taliban militants eight soldiers reportedly killed it comes amid unrest that gripped the country's largest city karachi for a second straight day and so far claimed the lives of twenty four the violence is linked to the pakistani branch of the taliban which threats in response to a government offensive in the military stronghold of north waziristan. thousands of students have clashed with police in chile capital santiago after

a demonstration in demanding better public education turned violent protesters set up fire barricades and threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas water cannons and paintball guns activists say the state education system is low quality expensive and unfair. new orleans is bracing itself for hurricane isaac as high winds and heavy rain battering the city it comes on the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina which killed nearly two thousand people in louisiana meantime over one hundred thousand have been left without power it is one of four u.s. states at risk with president obama warming residents to heat evacuation warnings the storm has already claimed the lives of twenty four people in haiti. well meanwhile this time of severe weather could not stop republicans from officially nominating their candidate for the race for the white house mitt romney will face barack obama in november election but political blogger richard spencer says it

doesn't matter who takes office as neither will solve the country's economic well. it's wrong to believe that a president really any president has so much power that he can with a magic wand make the dow jones industrial average go up four or eight or increase and fall in that no president can really do that and another thing that's connected with that is that a lot of the economic problems quite long in the making and if you really look back at what caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it wasn't part of george bush's policies to get anyone with a pulse into a hole meant into a thirty year mortgage but it was also the federal reserve policy of at sensually giving up free money to banks when it comes to low interest rates and also bailouts and things like that these problems or are more structural and there's deeper than just having

a different face in the oval office and if you really think about it presidents get interchanged they come and they go but these bankers seemed to think. well it's a sad day for russian sports left fans of the country's olympic team in a state of shock the national women's volleyball coach sort of. died at the age of forty three the course reported to be suicide more details in our sports bulletin that's in about twenty minutes. for us to get a meeting with the army put a stop they could to see you my friend sirius moving to avoid western sanctions are details on that yeah that's right well in order to keep things running smoothly basically syria is now boosting trade with russia so damascus is says that it will ramp up exports including crude and foods like all the oil country's economy chief has been in moscow for talks in return syria has asked for loans and other assistance. let's move to the markets now from here we look at europe and the

pictures change this now flat and mixed with the dax moving up forward this is on the still expectations was some kind of hint we might hear from ben bernanke yes to a possibility of quantitative easing of volume three or another way of but basically government funds are spent to support the economy as economic data comes in more positive than negative this is still quite unlikely over on the currency is market the euro is dropping slightly versus the dollar as you can see there fifteen points but compared to the growth of more than seventy points in the previous session it's still a minor technical correction as you can see and the russian ruble continues its decline although its pace is slow down against the basket of currencies. on the russian market another one hour remaining on the r.t.s. my six other climbing within half a percent you are just

a bit of breaching that mark as you can see one of the few getting there is on the my six is is burbank it's gaining the percent that's after putting its. first profit actually. by eight percent but apparently that was better than expected and that's according to the fire for us. well one hundred world from years of new cars will be unveiled at the moscow international auto show which is kicked off today and it's of course a very important event for producers both for russian and for foreign ones operating here very own or is there. this year's most go oldsmobile siloam is now on and it's a chance for comic has across the globe to come and 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

rioting in the spending whereas hey russians tens of indulge and that's out of fear of that russian rubles de valuating as i've done so and post the economic crisis now but also surprise that you've got the likes of b.m.w. toy an audi o'hare 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 boss is also now a member of the world trade organization and that means that import tariffs are now going to be gradually reduced to the consumer that's fantastic news because it means cheaper more affordable foreign cars for the comic his hand out it means more competition and that could be under pressure to make better quality cheaper cars in order to compete well with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced to today that's going to be poland he'll opportunity to do that one of

the main trends of today's. hello is that great friendly cars out here in russia not particularly popular because the suv was simply new and the idea of buying an electric car was quite frankly it was on us because as an eco friendly conscientious consumer you go also produce a phase two of these two stations to charge up your electric car also you've got the weather to do with bad rides with green bay in the main color scheme for today's event it's nice to see that ross and often make is a made me laugh but the color of the night. i think a too difficult to unplug to go before getting your. oh she's going to get you for that to retreat. see you soon. back in the headlines in just a moment here on r t do stay with us though we put up the side of what's being called the world's worst industrial disaster see you in a second. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from this. room today.