the euro zone's weaken nations are striving for growth amid a cycle of cuts 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 in tehran while washington aims to downplay the meeting of states not aligned to the u.s. support 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. online onscreen international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow

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 the leaders of the two states met in berlin monti is seeking to help curb rome's soaring costs he's also praised germany for improving governance 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 its regions catalonia has meanwhile run out of money it's seeking five billion euros of rescue cash from madrid a journalist a writer and i spoke to him a little earlier he says the usually prosperous region is suffering the foreigners out of the country's unfair policies. the way in which the space tax system works it goes this way. it is the central government that's collects all the taxes actually ninety five percent of them and then pretty stupid them among the different regions. following the great t.v.

as they call it the reach of regions gets less money the poor regions get more money so cuts alone which actually gets back very a small amount of the money it keeps to the central estate and that is why they have these huge steps so what they say is that their dept is not really there that is that dept of this money to state of the debt that this financial state has decided them to have so what they want as they put it not alone not not the money from all the other people's pockets but they won just more money from their own pockets of spain he is is now performing a very hard agenda of a steady two cats and that is actually biting all sectors of his funny economy and the problem is that is not working is not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all the aspects of spain's economy. it looks like just thirty programs imposed across europe have done little to stem the

spread of poverty that's forcing companies that have long be making a profit on the european market to drastically rethink their strategies to cater for people struggling to make ends meet to syria has this report 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 a debt crisis and its effects drag on from madrid to athens and even brussels twenty three year old overall is one of many jobless and homeless europeans when he's not out looking for a job he sits in 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 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 share everything is increasing and defeats almost all indicators the offer of the job thing for us is and think everything is fine as it's property. which requires no credit card if occasions are touched the most. this means it's my business empire consequences for people. 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 most. the nationals in fast moving consumer goods are seeing the state of poverty in europe as more than just

a passing trend is 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 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 rather a disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing fear the rates fear the on the most basic problems of everyone uses 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. 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 tess or sylvia r t brussels. united nations secretary-general ban ki moon is in tehran to take part in the summit of the non aligned movement that's a bloc of countries that don't consider themselves in union with the u.s. which intimates voice criticism of the u.n. chief's visit to iran and of the gathering in general well let's discuss this with author and journalist should return see he's joining me live from london russian washington didn't want ban ki-moon to go to iran at all but he's not just attending the summit he's also meeting with the country's president mahmoud ahmadinejad as

well as top officials including the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei so what are his intentions here. well certainly the leaks we're guessing or people from the state department desperately tried to get in touch with ki-moon that he didn't go to tehran i have to say this is a moment of great courage by blanking moon as the united states tries to ramps up the pressure along with nato countries because he and one hundred eighteen hundred twenty nations are all showing that courage by going to tehran and saying look we don't want to other war a little east. and the u.s. state department said it really didn't think that iran was deserving of this high level presence of those attending what do you make of that statement i mean quite unbelievable that a country that has created so many wars since even the last nonaligned summit they have ministerial summits they have leaders summits i was actually at one in tehran

not a few years ago myself and at the same time that this summit was going on in tehran with different world leaders or visiting the mainstream media of the west saying iran was increasingly isolated i think with one hundred twenty countries represented i think we can see who is isolated. and presumably that's why washington desperately didn't want a banking to go there so what about the tensions in the middle east syria in particular on upon arrival essent the islamic republic does actually play a crucial role in dealing with regional and international issues like syria in what way does it. feel iran is on now proposing a syria plan and let's remember one of the regional powers there we have the iraqi . head of state with. afghanistan i would cause a little in latin america it is the global self meeting together like they did i

suppose arguably nine hundred fifty five. summit against the old cold war and their views. regarding any type of peace in the middle east will hold far more sway than any imposed views from london washington or brussels and i suppose the way that they react is by not covering it in the mainstream media as much as the news here in london is about mitt romney and his wife they will be covering the summit the u.n. security council has clearly failed so far over the syrian crisis do you think some sort of resolution some sort of idea a concrete idea could come out of this meeting interop well it'll be thwarted attempts we made to force any new deal and any new peace talks that come out of what is happening in tehran because the united states and nato do not want any type of or sovereignty to remain a normal. nations it's a great pity and i hope those capitals those nato capitals will get increasingly

more frightened by what is happening as the global comes closer together in their attempts at withrow what is basic western germany but the danger lies. ever present danger as a bomb a step so it is a proxy israel to try and destroy any kind of peace they could be in the middle east of course and tensions don't just lie with iran's alliance with syria but of course the nuclear issue iran's president interesting enough has granted permission for front allegations attending the summit to visit the nuclear enrichment facility in the ten thousand that's one plant at the heart of the country's nuclear dispute just briefly after how do you assess that move could that perhaps ease tensions over the nuclear issue. well i'm going sort of conflicting reports on that because they did say that. i think they've gone back on it so we're not absolutely sure that it's happening as i understand it but banking mood is showing that whatever

pressure you get from nature is un security council members except for trying to rush or to try and create a war in iran of of suppose that nuclear weapons a banking move in visiting the country. hopefully to people his staff technology at the i.a.e.a. in vienna that he doesn't want the bombing of iran by nature because of allegedly nuclear weapons really good to talk to action thank you very much indeed for joining us live and learn author and journalist action. thank you. well the u.n. chief thank you muna said he's planning to use the visit to address the crisis in syria as i've just been discussing with action the town see there in a few minutes will be looking into the latest developments there in the country and how the world powers can make the media with hold information they don't want made public. that's still to come but first ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia

timoshenko against a conviction for abuse of power to mission to was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for her role in the green gas deals with russia which the current government says weakened crane's economy bodies and reports now from camp. 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 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 time 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 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 had some assange was defending 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 victory on the court which and the authorities you great have been really criticised by the european union namely by the german chancellor angela merkel 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 authors viewers as we get it. there of course we'll be tracking the continuing controversy on that story at our website dot com and here's a quick look at what else is in store for you at the moment an indian businessmen causes uproar after opening a closed shop. she claims was a nickname given to his grandfather find out why he's unrepentant despite local outrage. plus a u.s. navy seal releases a new book which casts fresh line to me killing of osama bin laden and his pakistan compound all the details at all to dot com. 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

a local police track and 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 continue with troops surrounding six militants in a mountain of greenwich. 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 this is the opposition claims government forces intensified airstrikes on rebel held areas heavy shelling was reported in damascus in the northwestern province amid a deadly car bomb attack on a funeral procession on tuesday that killed dozens of people and sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both warring factions and it's loosely couple 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. you know love what i do

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 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 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 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 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. pirates have seized a greek owned oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four russian crew members on board the hijackers exchanged gunfire with security forces from togo but escaped on the tanker it's believed no crew members were hurt latest reports say the tank has been found but is still under the control of pirates nigeria well for more on that i'm not joined by nick davies his the c.e.o. of gulf of aden group transit that paris has been a major problem off the east coast of africa but how big

a problem is it now off the west coast. where some of the west coast it's getting more and more intense as each and every week goes by and certainly in the last three to five months we've seen a major increase in the amount of attacks in that region so it's definitely getting a lot worse and as things are drying up in east africa somalia it's really picking up in the gulf of guinea so you're saying that the the tactics employed against pirates off the east coast is actually reduce the number of hijacks there and is there any other reason though why we should see an increase off the west coast because obviously off the east coast you got failed states like what somalia for example but that's not quite the case politically off the west coast is it you know with west coast there's still far more oil oil is is kind of the root of all evil really in some places there is a massive investment in the amount of infrastructure and the amount of oil that's there and when it benefits and the benefits are not passed down to the local

communities and sometimes causes problems but it's very very different to the piracy off of east africa. that are only in west africa after the cargo so they tend to steal the actual ship take it to another ship cross and transfer what we call s.t.s. ship to ship transfer all of the fuel into a new empty tank and fuel or then goes out into the black market so it's very much a different and everybody complies with. you know those still incredibly scary all use suggesting that what's happened off the east coast has been as a result of a successful operation of patrolling of those the naval vessels and also of course vessels from china russia japan and if that's the case should we now see those resources being deployed off the west coast. or certainly am is completely different west coast has an awful lot of governance around it has navies. somalis had nothing really indian ocean sea you know to the tune up million square miles in

space that is a fairly big order to patrol the east african with all of the navies with armed security massively helped the pirates getting less and less successful in their attacks in the somali area gulf of aden area. but certainly the guys west africa a lot more coordination needs to happen there is an essential resource that you can call and call for help and it will ship comes rushing over to you there's plenty of all ships there we know that there's a french warship in very close proximity to the energy century and now so all in all i think greater intelligence a greater coordination and probably some offshore protected zones where tankers can wait because this is all based around oil this is not about the the attackers wanting anything at all to do with the crew they just want the cargo some naval experts are saying that the fight against piracy is not really an interest of the military even the united nations it's the insurance companies they're making

a lot of money out of this and it gives them in a true also a chance to have a presence in the region but what do you make of that. it's a lot of people make money out of out of anti piracy there is no doubt about that we provide a service you know armed guards are a very difficult subject to to actually do with the coalition forces and the not nato forces themselves played an absolute major role in you know kind of suppressing and reducing the piracy like say west africa. completely different needs a different skill set. needs a lot more coordination however with the countries involved i think everybody when you comes to oil and the revenue that's generated from that it's a completely different will just make i just want to ask you you've been following this particular incident what do you think is going to happen over this latest capture of the ship. to be honest with the cargo is in short no transfer it keep

the crew arrived and then stop the next one i think it's too late to try and put any military intervention in place we don't want anybody killed it's unnecessary only after the cargo ships go away and cross transfer the fuel try and stop it again put the president close it's not worth the loss of lives nick davis c.e.o. of gulf of aden group trans it's really good to talk to you thanks for joining us live there from southampton u.k. thank you. well to some other news making headlines around the world now 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 the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of arms into the area near its border where there are restrictions on weapon deployment under a current peace treaty in a region seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. dutch police say a lack of communication between the pilots in the control tower was to blame for reports that the plane had been hijacked on its way from spain to amsterdam was

when radio contact with the spanish aircraft was lost in a true police search and released the plane after it landed the city's schiphol airport the dutch defense ministry scrambled to fighter jets to accompany it to the airport when a possible hostage situation was reported. thousands of students clashed with police in chile's capital santiago after demonstrations demanding better public education turned violent protesters set up barricades and threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon activists say the state education system is poor quality expensive and. hurricane isaac has hit new orleans pushing floodwaters over protective wall south of the city comes on the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina which killed nearly two thousand people in louisiana over one hundred thousand have been left without power it's one of four u.s. states at risk with president obama urging residents to heed evacuation warnings as the storm turned into a full blown hurricane when it hit the mainland. what

a sad day for sport has left fans of the countries. in the state of shock the national women's one of all coaches died at the age of forty three with the cause reported to be suicide more details in our sports person in the next hour from. twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital which is next with business news gazprom dimitris put his joint gas project stockman on hold tell us what about well basically gazprom and its partners believe that now the costs of the project are too high for it to go ahead gazprom noways stats oil and france's hotel have been in talks for years over the details of the investment plan however their dream did not come true after cheap shale gas was explored in the united states the primary export market for stockmen plus slowing european economy hit the demand for gas making russia cut its gas export forecast by around ten percent.

move over to the stock markets in the u.s. is looking even more positive than last year with the dow jones nasdaq now adding point two percent that's up to g.d.p. for the u.s. in the first half was revised from one half percent to one point seven percent growth but that was kind of in line with expectations now on the other hand investors are not trading actively volumes are lower than usual because they're all on standby head of friday's jackson hole summit where fed chairman ben bernanke is expected to unveil or not unveil any information on the quantity of easing a new wave that investors are really hoping. that over on the european markets this is the closing picture with a fifty declining driven down by a mining shares rio tinto b.h.p. billiton losing around three percent each and the dax was helped up by pharmaceuticals companies. and on the currencies market the euro continues to lose

versus the dollar. this is a technical correction after a massive gain in the previous session ground to double the volume of that it's losing right now and the russian ruble continues its decline against the basket of currencies on the russian market also not a very optimistic day with the obvious declining more than one percent of my six not far behind one of the few stocks of which was up at the close on the my six was russia's main bank's burbank it was up by just a notch having unveiled better than expected first half results even though they did show a slight decline of point five percent in net profit for the average. now hundreds of world premieres of new cars will be unveiled at the moscow international motor show which is kicked off today verio and katie pilbeam as their. this year's most go automobile siloam is now on and it's a chance for comedy because across the globe to come a

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 here russians tens of indulge and that's out of fear of that russian rubles de valuating as i've done so and post economic crises now that's no surprise that you've got the likes of b.m.w. toyota and ohio today to make some kind of impression also with consumption high here in russia spurring growth we pay 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 for the consumer that's fantastic news because it means that chief of more affordable foreign cars for the comic is hand out it means more competition and they're going to be under pressure to make better quality

cheaper cars in order to contain up with the likes of eighty five new russia some models being introduced here today certainly currency of opportunity pulled out. for a build a car show will last till the end of next week so if you have any interest in an automobile so you can always pay a visit here good idea it looks good to me thanks very much dana we'll talk a bit later and just ahead we'll be looking at the latest global financial problems the u.s. treasury bubble and china's slowdown all in a couple account program from washington but first the headlines.

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