the euro zone's we can nations are striving for growth amid a cycle of. more and more people are left on able to afford just the basic essentials. iran is key in solving problems middle east the u.n. secretary general right. by washington aims to downplay the meeting of states not aligned to the u.s. or nato. and ukraine's former prime minister will not walk free as the country's high court rejects her appeal against a seven year sentence for abusing power. thanks for joining us here on our to you today. live in moscow

a number of tough choices are facing the eurozone struggling southern states as they battle the stay afloat germany has praised italy's efforts to reform as chancellor angela merkel has been meeting technocrat prime minister mario monti seeking to help curb soaring costs he's also praised germany for improving governments in the eurozone but more bailouts may be on the cards spain's leader is waiting for action from europe central bank before deciding whether to ask for help but one of those regions that have catalonia has already run out of money. and i.m.f. inspectors are in portugal to rule if that country has tightened its belt enough to receive yet more cash in may lisbon was forced into asking for seventy eight billion euros worth of rescue. 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 party is the economy is self-defeating the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before 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 truck and i think that there is an invasion on part of mainly berlin and barriers to having 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 ireland does a country that is unlike greece and everybody else has as countries that are and like greece so to say the problems that the greek problem then root directory as a problem are 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 there seems to be no way out. well 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 caitiff a people who are struggling to make ends meet as a tease tester australia now reports with more than eighty million people in the e.u. what risk of poverty including twenty million children this has become an all too common sight in european cities as the debt crisis and its effects drag on from madrid to athens and even brussels twenty three year olds are wrong as 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 was 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 it and if it works it works if not the nevermind. but the numbers don't paint a nice picture for people like your home and here everything is increasing in beefeater almost all indicators for the child thing press is and think everything is fine if it has it's property. the. beach choir's know how to kind of take a shine sort of 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 package 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 while there are a disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing

fear the rates fear the on the most basic problems so 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 and 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 if you will 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 tests are still here r t brussels. and there we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow and the united nations secretary general ban ki moon has arrived in toronto to take part in the summit of the nonaligned movement that's ultimately a book of countries that don't consider themselves in union with the u.s.

i washington has voiced criticism of the u.n. chief's a visit to iran and of the gathering in general just a bit earlier here on the program i spoke to our u.n. correspondent. all about this. we have the united states really screaming at the top of their lungs weeks before the summit started that van koon 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 in israel for us who you know he is american 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 it's in turn on and all the alarms go off and surround it with part 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 of generals and as they always say when the any subject comes to iran. and its nuclear issue america's that is to be successful with iran and 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 ziering 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 and which as you said is a big subject that america always zeroes in on the crosshairs but also that of 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 really an alternative could come up and that one hundred twenty countries could actually sign up to something else is it possible here i did say i might be moving a bit beyond my balance here as a possible to the. world's policeman has got a case of sour grapes oh i think you might be right absolutely because you know the u.s. in the west is staying away from this while iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran and here they are discussing these issues that the u.s. would like to be part of but is left behind we were hoping that i 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 wouldn't expect. our u.n. correspondent us to see a truck going to just a bit earlier. than a jew

a political analyst for the u.k. a column website in london says that iran is just trying to get what it has so far been refused at the u.n. . well 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. the united nations is dominated by these sort of nato 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 around for clearly one of you in this very happening in iran now isolates israel the u.s. the u.k. france and all the sort of nato allies in terms of diplomatic strategy. well our u.n. chief thank you man has said that he's planning to use the visit to address the ongoing crisis in syria even as for the political developments in the country and how world

powers can make the media withhold information they don't want to make public. now ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of power to a shank or was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for her role in agreeing gas deals with russia which the current government says we can get cranes economy reporting from kiev r.t. as i like said a chef skin. ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is now spending seven years in prison will not work for 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 and had been postponed on several occasions now look at what has delivered its decision and it believes that the initial verdict which was given to you to tell us that we're not told last year will stand and there's no reason whatsoever to counsel the decision of the court

like remind what he was that you know tymoshenko has been prison to seven years for 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 her bosom and today was no exception indeed several hundred of our supporters gathered outside of the high specialized court to voice their the imprisonment believing this. it politicized now and we also know that you it's a mistake was defending the lawyers took this case to the european court of human rights as to 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 a lot of international criticism has been drawn because of. case on the coach

and the authorities ukraine have been fairly criticized by the european union namely by the german chancellor angela merkel but even refused to come to the euro twenty twelve football championship because of the trauma shango case certainly today's verdict my today's decision by the court may provoke more negative reactions coming worldwide and certainly will be keeping track of all these reactions i will be delivering all the latest news to all of these viewers as we get it. yeah not just on air but online as well we'll be tracking the continuing controversy of that story at our dot com here's a quick look at what else so we've got in store for you there right now an indian businessman causes an uproar after opening a closed shop called hitler he claims the name was a nickname given by his grandfather and why he's unrepentant despite vocal outrage . plus a u.s. navy seal releases a new book which casts fresh light on the killing of osama bin laden and his

pakistan compound all of that on our website as well. georgia'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 who reportedly entered georgia from russia's republic of dagestan then took a number of local people hostage georgia says all hostages were released in the operation which continues with troops surrounding six militants right now in a mountain. let's turn to discuss that with 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 was reported in damascus on the north western province of italy a deadly car bomb attack on

a funeral procession on tuesday that killed dozens of people has sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both warring factions and is at his loosely careful 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 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 and

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 escaped 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 and american author kevin barrett says it's not surprising that powerful

forces can push the media into withholding pictures or information they don't want the public to 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 beginning speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty but. american author kevin barrett talked to us a bit earlier from the united states. now pirates have seized a greek own to oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four russian

crewmembers on board the hijackers exchanged gunfire with security forces from togo but did a skate on the tanker it's believed no crew members were hurt and the latest reports we have here at r.t. say the tanker has been found but is still under the control of pirates near nigeria a similar incident in the region recently saw the crew released after the oil on board was stolen piracy is rather common in africa both office west and east coast's. buy into the r.t. well doubt they will go will start with amsterdam where a dutch police say a mix up between the pilot and the control tower was to blame for ports of the plane had been hijacked on its way from spain to amsterdam the reports turned out to be false and military police searched and released the aircraft after it landed at the city's it shifts airport the dutch defense ministry had scrambled two fighter jets to accompany it to the airport when a possible hostage situation was reported. egypt says it will extend its offensive

against militants in the sinai peninsula the campaign was launched after militants attacked and killed dozens of border guards a month ago that the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of the area near its border where there are restrictions on weapon deployments under a current peace treaty asuna region has seen widespread disorder since the overthrowing of hosni mubarak last year. a military outpost on pakistan's afghan border has been attacked by taliban militants eight soldiers are supposed supposedly killed it comes amid unrest that's gripped the country's largest city karachi for a second straight day and has so far claimed the lives of twenty four and the violence is linked to the pakistani branch of the taliban threats in response to a government offensive in the militant stronghold of north waziristan. thousands of students of clashed with police in chile's capital santiago after a demonstration demanding better public education turned violent protesters set up

fire barricades and threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas and water cannons activists say the state education system is low quality expensive and. isaac has hit new orleans pushing floodwaters over a protective wall south of the city it comes on the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina there which killed nearly two thousand in louisiana meantime one hundred thousand people have been left without power that's one of four u.s. states at risk with president obama warning residents to heed evacuation warnings as the storm turn into a full blown hurricane when it hit the main. new york's police are facing heavy criticism of the claims they violated the civil and religious rights of muslims a new report shows that for the past six years the city's mosques shops and communities were targeted by surveillance activity that's all under the guise of

a fight against terror not a single arrest was made as a result of the program. reports. 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 this superseded 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. in the n.y.p.d.

producing very little results but critics say it's also left us citizens with very little accountability for you know point nine artsy. dimitry soon with the business for now though it's a sad day for russian sport had left fans of the country's olympic team certainly in a state of shock enough womens' of one of the coaches in the call has died at the age of forty three the course reported to be suicide more details in our sports bulletin coming up in about eighty five minutes. for this dimitry as promised good to see you again in trouble as western sanctions are starting to bite or any any alternatives for what syria can do to avoid the pinch well it's now focusing mostly on countries with a more friendly approach and one of them is russia obviously well damascus says that it will ramp up exports including crude and foods like all of the oil country's economy chief quadrature meal has been in moscow for talks in return

syria has asked for loans and other assistance. rise move over to the markets traditionally which starts with the united states second hour of trading there and it's looking downward and flat still a waiting game for friday's jackson hole meeting where the chairman's of the chair men of central bank will be present including a ben bernanke he the head of the fed and he's expected to give a hint yet again as to whether there will be a will there not be a new wave of quantitative easing but consensus has a that. chances are pretty slim for that over in europe also five minutes of trading there with the footsie and the dax going also down within half of the cents the foot sea driven down by miners such as rio tinto and b.h.p. billiton while on the dax we are seeing some positive movement from pharmaceuticals firms like bear. and on the currencies markets everything of course depends on that

friday summit with the euro still declining against the dollar but it has. if you remember the past two weeks it has gained a lot against the greenback including yesterday session on tuesday gained around seventy points versus the greenback so this twenty nine drop is just a correction as the russian ruble continues losing and this is the closing picture for the currency markets in moscow and same applies for the russian stock markets are also closed this is the closing bell picture with the r.t.s. down more than one percent to one point three as you can see there now on the my six one of the few again there's among blue chips up just point zero five percent is burbank after released russian standards reports of for the first half showing that their profits declined going to five percent. all right more than one hundred world from ears of the newest cars will be unveiled at the moscow auto show

international show which is kicked off working today on our very own katie pilbeam is there. this is most go oldsmobile siloam is now on and it's a chance for a comic is 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 crisis now but it's no surprise that you've got the likes of being. an hour today to make some kind of impression also with consumption high here in russia spurring growth which 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 is also now a member of 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 a cheaper more affordable foreign cars for the comic his hands out if it means my face competition and that could be on the prices to make better quality cheaper cars in order to meet up with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced here today certainly currency of opportunity full of ads. why that's what i have for you already tonight or a pleasure thanks might see you soon. well back with the headlines here and i would say that as part of al cross talk.

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