lol. euro zone's weaken nations are striving for growth amid a cycle of carts and bailouts while more and more people are left unable to afford basic essentials. iran is key in solving problems in the middle east so says the u.n. secretary general to turn around while 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 projects her appeal against a seven year sentence for abusing power. online on screen international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow a number of tough choices are facing the eurozone struggling southern states as

they battle to stay afloat germany has praised italy's efforts to reform the leaders of the two states met in berlin italian prime minister mario monti is seeking help to curb rooms soaring borrowing costs he's also praised germany for improving governance in the eurozone but it's not talk to journalist and writer miguel and your manado. going to merkel monti they certainly make sure to praise each other when they but key issues such as joint boring for the eurozone and austerity measures remain unresolved so is there really good reason for them to pat each other on the back well i don't think so i think that we haven't really tackled the problem with the euro so we just have a program of austerity for all the different countries to reduce the deficit don't is certainly not an ask is not working. i fling growth which is an even worse problem and we are in the midst of a recession certainly here in spain and very soon in many other european countries

so no i don't think so unless we have a clear idea of how to reform the euro now. we are not. talking about reform chancellor merkel is keen to create a more united eurozone so she says she wants to reshape its framework a move away from bailouts is that realistic. well the problem is that. we're not talking here about more european integration in a political sense where we're talking about a country that has lent a lot of money that once to rewrite the rules to make sure that it will get its money back is not exactly european about that i think is the problem that germany i'm sure a very pro european country right now is thinking in purely german terms when he talks about european unity let's talk about where you are playing we've got that region there in your country that accounts for a fifth of spain's economic output catalonia it's run out of money from madrid it's

always been a prosperous autonomous region stressing it can actually do without madrid things must be pretty bad for its capital barcelona to admit it actually needs help now from central government yes it's true but we have to see the east the way in which. system works it goes this way. it is the central government that all the taxes actually ninety five percent of them and then distributes them among the different regions. following these. as they call it the reach of regions get less money and the poor regions get more money so. actually as you said it's one of the richest region seeing spain. gets back very a small amount of the money it keeps to the central estate and that is why they have huge steps so what they say is that there is not really there there is that they have to at this point it's a state of the debt that the spanish estate has decided them to have so what they

want as they put it not alone not not. monny from all the other people's pockets but they won just more money from their own pocket saying that they're saying look give us some of that money back but at the same time it is a problem isn't it a fifth of the spain's economic output now in the debt of something like forty two billion euros what's gone wrong in catalonia when you think of all the industry there of course a top tourist region with barcelona but what's happened whether it's news is a secular or a saying that there is an imbalance in physical terms between the money that is collected in get a loan by the central estate and then the money that goes to catalonia this is a lot of work but it's not just that is it i mean it's economic and something's gone wrong. absolutely the economy of spain is now at a standstill we are in a recession and get a loan you have been the engine of the of the spanish economy. is in the same situation and that is why i think the spanish central government is interested in

solving these cuts alone your problem as soon as possible because they want like the idea of catalonia being talked about in international markets as a bankrupt region spain is setting up a fund to help struggling regions and i understand that six out of the eighteen billion euros it has a coming out of the country's national lottery in effect people actually funding the problem does this suggest spain is really struggling now to find the cash and perhaps will need that bailout well it's of course is struggling and the idea that we have to resort to lottery well it's sort of a metaphor of the situation in which we find ourselves but it's not just the economic crisis it's also the economic policies spain he's. is now performing a very hard agenda of austerity cuts and that is actually bites in all sectors of his final economy and the problem is that it's not working it's not bringing down the deficit which is the main target and then as i say he's damaging all the

aspects of spain so just finally yes or no a bailout for spain is next yes sure we get i'm told what other thank you very much great to talk to you once again joining me live in madrid. 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 cater for people struggling to make ends meet as this report 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 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 a vis 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 it 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 everything is increasing and defeats almost all indicators the call for the child to rest isn't thing everything is fine as it's putting. the child to the beach require snow kind of pick a fence or touch the most so this means it's my business that hire consequences for people to work with 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 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 start saving on their most basic needs. shampoos. 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 near the on the most basic products out 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 afford to rent so i try to live where i can i don't see much my doing too much to all it's all because of the year 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. tesser cilia r t brussels. 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 book of countries that don't consider themselves in union with the u.s. washington has voiced criticism of the u.n. chief's visit to iran and of the gathering in general what can we research and talk

to our u.n. correspondent understand you're going to for some insight into this we have the united states really screaming at the top of their lungs weeks before the summit started that ban ki moon doesn't need to go that it's really on becoming 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 u.s. 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 it's entire on and all the alarms go off and surround it with heart 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 like this is a rotating presidency like anywhere else like the security council like of generals and as they always say when any subject comes to iran they immediately say over 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 further isolation but here we

have one hundred twenty countries zero in on terror on seems to me who's being isolated here in my box 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 action 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 their. democracy by bombing campaign absolutely while everybody you know is criticizing the summit the topics they're actually discussing such as syria that the whole world is 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 that one hundred twenty

countries could actually sign up to something else is it possible here i do see i might be moving a bit beyond my balance here is a possible 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. from the west to 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 would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and untraditional a for him it's surprising that they were expecting this because he is 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 the u.n. chief ban ki-moon has said he's planning to use the visit to address the crisis in syria but in a few minutes we're going to get to the latest developments in the country to help

world powers complete the deal with hold information they don't want any part. that's still to come but first ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of power she was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for her role in the green gas deals with russia which the current government says we can do ukraine's economy what is it like she has to keep your shifty reports now from kids. ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is now spending seven years in prison will not wear 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 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 to remind our viewers

that you are too much and has been prison for 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 imprisonment today was no exception indeed several hundred of our 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 you have some assange 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 hasten the process of the decision in the european court of human rights a lot of international criticism has been drawn because of. victory on the coach

and the authorities in ukraine have been really criticised 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 we'll be keeping track of all these reactions i will be delivering all the latest news to our viewers as we get it. well of course we'll be tracking the continuing controversy on that story on our web site or to dot com and here's a quick look at what else we got in store for you there at the moment should you go on right now an indian businessman courses uproar after opening a closed shop called. she claims was a nickname given to his grandfather on why he was unrepentant despite local outrage . the u.s. navy seal releases a new book which calls for fresh light on the killing of osama bin laden in his pakistan compound all the details on that at r.t. dot com. georgia's interior minister ministry says

its forces have killed eleven suspected militants its border with russia three troops also died and five others were wounded in the exchange of gunfire the officers were sent to the region to aid local police in tracking a group of government who reportedly entered georgia from russia's republican dagestan they then took a number of local people hostage ga says all hostages were released in the operation which continued with troops surrounding six militants general mountain a good. view of this. syria's president says more time is needed to win the war against rebel forces and want to get to the threat of a no fly zone being imposed over the country this is the opposition claims government forces intensified airstrikes on rebel held areas heavy shelling was reported in damascus and the north western province of. 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 as you see covered of

reports much of the western media is painting a different picture to the one president said 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. love you 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 a 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 about human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law review 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 taliban 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. in moscow. well later a former french intelligence agent who served in the middle east tells r.t. that whatever the outcome of syria's conflict it's doomed to more violence. if we

go in. between be a nightmare. but we'll see some indigenous services probably the british game i said. maybe the french maybe the americans. involved but the level on the dollar in the support of the opposition when you send indigenous people even if they are killed it you can say yes but i don't know if we were the tories tell us a very nice and i don't know what i'm looking for the men prospect of you had to stick with everything to get done is the possible when you put his arms down planes you cannot make them it's not the game it's not the. movie it's middle east it's a very savage who are after this what are they what would be to do do we know you will. there were. settlements of. killing.

revenge killing and so one. hand you can see the full interview with the former french intelligence agent claude mckay in ten minutes from now here on r.t. . pirates have seized a greek owned oil tanker of the west coast of africa with twenty four russian crew members on board the hijackers exchanged gunfire with security forces who target but escaped on the tanker it's believed no crew members were hurt they just reports say the tanker has been found but it's still under the control of pirates near nigeria a similar incident in the region recently saw the crew released on the all on board was stolen piracy is common in africa both of its west and east coast. now to some other news making headlines around the world egypt says it extend its offensive against militants in the sinai. incident the campaign was launched after militants attacked and killed dozens of border guards a month ago the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of arms into the air in the air its border where there are restrictions on weapon

deployments under the current peace treaty sinai region seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. but police say a mix up between the pilot and the control tower was to blame for reports that the plane had been hijacked on its way from spain to amsterdam the reports turn out to be false military police searched and released the aircraft after it landed at the city's skiffle airport the dutch defense ministry had scrambled two fighter jets to accompany it to the airport when a possible hostage situation was reported. thousands of students a clash with police in chile's capital santiago after a demonstration demanding better public education turned violent protests to set up far barricades and threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon activists say the state education system is low quality expensive and unfair . american isaac has hit new orleans pushing flood waters over

a protective wall south of the city it comes on the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina there which killed nearly two thousand people in louisiana over one hundred thousand people have been left without power it's one of four u.s. states at risk with president obama warning residents to heed evacuation warnings as the storm turned into a full blown hurrican when it hit the mainland. meanwhile this time severe weather couldn't stop republicans from officially nominating their candidate for the race for the white house but romney will face barack obama in november election political blogger richard spencer 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 wand make the dow jones industrial average go up four or eight or increase of holiness 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 to the polls to do a whole men into a thirty year mortgage but it was also the federal reserve policy of potentially 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. the third day for russian sport is the fans of the countries and limpy in a state of shock the national women's volleyball certainty of injury called has died at the age of forty three with who is reported to be suicide for details on that in all sports put in in about twenty minutes from.

what the beach was next with the business news and gas prices put the development of the giant gas projects on hold interesting development was that well it is the most significant gas field of the past decade and has been put on hold apparently because gazprom and its partners believe that the costs of running this project are now too high well a gasp from france's total and noways stats while i've been and talks for years over the details of the best plan however their dream did not come true after the cheap shale gas was explored in the united states the primary export market for stockmen plus slowing european economies fifth the the demand for gas making russia export forecast by around ten percent. brothers move over to the stock markets and is looking rosier on the us markets now that the g.d.p. forecast for the. first half of the year has been revised to one point seven

percent from one point five it was pretty much in line with expectations now investors are kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for friday with the jackson hole summit where ben bernanke you had a vet is expected to provide some clearance over what is going to happen with quantitative easing will there be another wave or will there now. let's move over to europe and this is the closing bell picture there with the footsie down point five percent driven down by miners like rio tinto and b.h.p. billiton losing around three percent and the dax was held up slightly by pharmaceuticals bayer for example was up point seven percent at the close now on the currencies markets if there will be one that it is. the situation between the dollar and the euro could become even more unstable for now the euro is losing slightly versus the dollar but that's a correction after a big gain in the previous session of the russian ruble ended down against the basket of cards. on the russian market this is also the closing picture of the r t

s m i six descended around one percent that's on the back of. slowing the oil prices and also one of the few blue chips which was gaining at the close was burbank just i'm not as it reported better than expected first home for sale. around a hundred new car models have been unveiled at the moscow international motor show which kicked off today it's a very important event both for russian car producers and for ones operating here. kitty pilgrim reports. this is the most go oldsmobile siloam is now on and it's a chance to accommodate those across the globe to come by a show off and of course do some business as well now the russian consume up 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 hey russians tens of indulge and that's out of fear of that russian rubles devaluation

thing as i've done so and post economic crises now but it's no surprise that you've got the likes of being. an ohio 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 boss is also now a member of the world trade organization and that means that import tariffs are now going to be gradually reduced because that's fantastic news because it means cheaper more affordable foreign cars for the comic his hand out it means more competition and they're going to be on the process to make better quality cheaper cars in order to compete with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced to today assessing the currency of opportunity full of ads for a bill that's what i have for you tonight thanks

a lot more from him about enough not to be true now still to come this hour for you here in o.t. discussion where the arab spring will end first i'll be back with headlines.