lol. the euro zone's we can nations are striving for growth amid a cycle of cuts and bailouts while more and more people are left on able to afford basic essentials. iran is key and 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. or nato. and ukraine's former prime minister will not walk free of the country's high court rejects her appeal against a seven year sentence for abusing power. line on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow

a number of tough choices of 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 italian prime minister mario monti is seeking help to curb rome's soaring boring costs he's also praised germany for improving governance in the euro zone 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 journalists writing to get lunch and has told me that easily prosperous region is suffering for now until the country's unfair policies the way in which the space tax system works it goes face way. it is the central government that collects all the taxes actually ninety five percent of them and then pretty stupid among the different regions. following the. great t.v. as they call it the reach of regions gets less money the put every chance get more

money so that's a load you're actually gets back. very a small amount of the money it keeps to the to the central estate and that is why they have these huge steps so what they say is that their debt is not really there that is the depth of this money sustained over 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 and he said it is now performing a very hard agenda of a steady two cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his funny economy and the problem is that he's 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 . and it's not just thirty programs imposed across europe and done little to stem the spread of poverty that's forcing companies that of long been making a profit on the european market to drastically rethink their strategies to cater

for people struggling to make ends meet 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 a 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 said so 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 and 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 defeat almost all indicators the call for the job thing for us is and think everything is fine as it's. the. beach choir's no credit card if acacia answer to the most. this means that this is a dire consequences for people. and big companies are taking notice take you deliver 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 seen. 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 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 a crisis really means for many struggling people in europe there's while there are a disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing fear do you rate 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 when i can't afford to rent

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.'s target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least twenty million people over the next eight years seem further out of reach. r t brussels. and as europe is struggling to pull itself out of the crisis political maneuverings in the us are trying to do the same with the change of president to a change of fortunes and help battle unemployment and high taxes more later this hour as the republicans place their hope on mitt romney. the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon as arrived in toronto take part in the summit of the nonaligned movement and that's a bloc of countries that don't consider themselves in union with the u.s. washington as voice criticism of the u.n. chief visit to iran and the gathering in general when my colleague talked to our

u.n. correspondent and started for some insight into 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 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 it's entire 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 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 correction which as you said is a big subject that america always zero zero in 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 but america all 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 that 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 but as 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. in the west to staying away from. 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 one came one 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 no issues and that's what he said and something the u.s. i'm sure wasn't expect. despite iran's willingness and ability to help find a solution to the syria crisis any ideas put forth by terror on could be met with resistance or journalist action returned poor owners are now proposing

a syria plan and let's remember that it is one of the regional powers and their views regarding any type of peace in the middle east will hold far more sway than any here 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. the major force any new deal any new peace talks at all what is happening to their own because the united states and nato do not want any type of or sovereignty to remain normal. nations so it's a great pity and i hope those capitals as major capitals will get increasingly more frightened by what is happening as the global comes. together in their attempts at

withrow which is basic we're still in germany. thank you moon as again called for a stop to supplying arms to the warring sides in the syria crisis in a few minutes we'll look into the developments there in the country and how world powers can make the media withhold information they don't want made public. but first ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of power to mission who 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 ukraine's economy but is it actually 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 that 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 tell us and we're not told the 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 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 still obliquely 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 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 keeping track of all these reactions i will be delivering all the latest news to our viewers as we get it. course we'll be tracking the continuing controversy on that story on our website dot com and here's a quick look at what else we've got in store for you there an indian business courses are opening a closed shop called hitler which he 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 cost fresh light on the killing of osama bin laden in his pakistan

compound all the details at r.t. dot com. 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 aleppo and the northwestern province of. deadly car bomb attack on a funeral procession on tuesday that killed dozens of people sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both warring factions and as you see couple of reports much of the western media is painting a different picture of 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 the 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 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 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 challenged in syria is met with more whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and he further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. for r.t. and moscow. american author 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 big in which speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty. 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. in syria i think it would be a nightmare. but we see some indigenous services probably the british pm i think. maybe this time maybe the americans are 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 he was the tories tell us of joys and i don't know i'm looking for the men prospector beauty secret service it's good is possible when your arms tongues planes you

could make print it's not a game it's not the only movie it's middle east it's a very savage i after this one people will be to do we know you will. there were able. to two months of. killing. revenge killing in some one. and you can see the full interview with the former french intelligence agency in ten minutes from now on r.t. . pirates have seized a greek owned 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 escaped on the tanker latest reports say the tanker has been found but is still under the control of pirates near nigeria the c.e.o. of gulf of aden security for nick davis things that spite of it's to tackle the

problem there are many people who make money out of piracy. but west coast there's still far more oil oil is kind of the root of all evil really and 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 see the benefits are not passed down to the local communities that sometimes causes problems but it's very very different to the piracy off of east africa this is all based around although this is not out to be the attackers wanting anything at all to do with a group they just want the cargo 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 actually deal with the coalition forces and the not nato forces themselves an absolute major role in going to 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 ball game. 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 and tracking a group of gunmen who reportedly entered georgia from russia's republic of dagestan and then took a number of local people hostage were just as all hostages were released in the operation which continued with troops around the six minutes it's been a month i'm going to check out consulate will be over that part of the church every day and some other news making headlines around the world now in a while the egypt says it would send its offensive against militants in the sinai peninsula the campaign was launched after medicines attacked and killed dozens of

border guards a month ago the operation is raids fears in israel about the movement of arms into the air in its border where there are restrictions on. and deployments and recover peace treaty so in a region that's seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. dutch police have communication between the pilot and the control tower was to blame for reports of the plane been hijacked on its way from spain to amsterdam it was sounded when radio contact with the spanish aircraft was lost military police searched and released the plane after it landed at the city's schiphol airport 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 to set up barricades and threw rocks at police responded with tear gas and water cannon activists say the state education system is poor quality expensive.

and also. hurricane isaac has hit new orleans pushing floodwaters over a protective wall self 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 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 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 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 forward we're increasing oil

and no president can really do this and another thing that's connected with that is that a lot of these economic problems quite mall in the making and if you really look back at what caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it was in part george bush's policies to get anyone with a polson to hold it into a thirty year mortgage but it was also the federal reserve's policy of essentially giving out free money to banks when it comes to low interest rates and also bailouts and things like that he's problems or or more structural and there are deeper than just having a different face in the oval office and if you really think about it presidents get in or change they they come and they go but these bankers seen again. so a day for russian sport is their fans of the countries and then picked in a state of shock the national women's volleyball has died at the age of forty three with a cause reported to be suicide more details in the sports bulletin about twenty minutes

from now. dimitri is next with the business news and gazprom has put its giant gas project on hold why is the well basically the gas monopolist standards partners now see the project as hard to go with because the costs are too high or gas from norway starts well and france's total have all been talks for years over the details of the investment plan however their dream did not come true after a cheap shale gas was explored in the united states and that's the primary export market stockmen plus slowing a european economies have hit the demand for gas making russia kind its gas exports forecast by around ten percent this year. all right moving on now us a beige book so-called beige book report has shown that the economy grew modestly moderately in the months of bird july and august mainly driven by retail sales and

plus the g.d.p. has been revised for the first half of the year to grow not one half percent but one point seven percent but in line with expectations so this is driving slightly the market's forward as you can see there with. adding some modest gains of point two percent. over in europe everyone is of course monitoring the situation in the us economy plus the upcoming jackson hole meeting on friday where the central bankers will be gathered in wyoming to discuss the state of affairs and the ben bernanke is expected to make some kind of hint as to whether there will be or not a new wave of quantitative easing in the u.s. . those investors of course of very much waiting for but the dax was up four point one percent at the close of the european session driven by pharmaceuticals while the footsie was pushed down by mining shares however volumes were quite low on the

currencies market the euro continues so they're climbing slightly versus the dollar but you could call this a correction after a big boost it received in the previous session on tuesday and the russian rubles the decline against the basket of currencies on the russian market this is the closing picture of wednesday's session with the out years on my six declining around one percent the r.t.s. even more than that with my sex being the sole exception among blue chips that sperm bank it was up by just a notch on better than expected first half results even though they did share their profits declined by point five percent first time. all right then one hundred world premieres of the new car models will be unveiled at the moscow international motor show which kicked off today in our very own katie pilbeam was there. this year's most go automobile siloam is now on and it's a chance for comedy because across the globe to become 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 their spending whereas here russians tend to indulge and that's out of fear of their russian rubles devaluating as i've done so and post economic crises now but it's no surprise that you've got the likes of being. out of the overhead today to make some kind of impression also with consumption high here in russia spurring growth which e.v.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 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 hand out it means more competition and they're going to be under pressure to make better quality cheaper

cars in order to compete with the likes of eighty five new russian models being introduced here today the certainly currency of opportunity pulled out. all right bill i'm back in fifty five minutes time with one final wednesday business update right things look to retreat good to see next we discuss where the arab spring will end that'll be off of the headlines coming up very shortly stay with us live from moscow this is.

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