the western nato to have a negotiated settlement the ultimate purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for pipeline searches by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross lie. and also we can be blinding to plunge into the sewer and debate it with julian assange promising millions of really to emails be published in a rare interview the whistle blow gave to upon latin american t.v. network he also pointed to a clear manipulation of the media over the syrian conflict also defenders of the weekly except seriously saying that unlike us actions in afghanistan and iraq no one was hurt as a result of the website's publications and he said he has never bought all sold information and insisted everything his website ever revealed was the truth is a song also touched upon surveillance via the internet suggesting the u.s.

maintains its plane at work for google the whistleblower tomatoes he may have to spend from six months to a year holed up in ecuador was london embassy until there's a diplomatic solution also we didn't drop the case against. some had for you this hour germany brings out the old gardens some stories still in the queue behind them are being used to cover some of the economies of holes. in the business bulletin later this hour china suggests boosting biological trade with russia by breeding deals in the national currencies this story and more in about ten minutes.

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after going over the song and good morning we will remember that we will. this is he will combine with the eurozone seeking

a financial savior you're as big as his her uncle a muckle has turned east they german chancellor is in china clutching billions in contracts to be signed in beijing and how the skin ninety from the european council on foreign relations believes china is a country while spending some time with to make friends. the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism. the chinese. offer lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example how much the chinese invested in europe involved in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably won't know so there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of a bus we see this is

a european company and so it would benefit not just germany but also france and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off the german companies are all going to european companies and so in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries and i would generally seems to be winning that competition and of china doesn't ride to the rescue of the euro germany's already has a back to the plan. details of berlin's old school savings. here in germany the don't try are still very much alive and kicking in fact in a store in central berlin the good old they market is still accepted as legal tender when it comes to purchases with an exchange rate of around two dogs marks to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it went on to name the reason we accept which marks

is there are still plenty of people with the old currency we get quite a few people wanting to spend them in our store for us from ft it's not just in shops that they're accepted if you find a few demarche coins down the back of the sofa germany's public telephones will happily take them off your hands in germany they surely dropped the old money for the euro over ten years ago in two thousand and eleven alone though over eight million marks were brought to the bundles bank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. he had to doesn't have any one of my ugly relatives gave me the school and it's a gift so i decided to send them into something it could spend on television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting democrats changed or there are those though who say they won't part with their deutsche marks as a minister yeah i've got some i keep them as

a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro and according to the blunders bank there's still more than thirteen billion dollars each marks in circulation they say they get returns from as far away as brazil and new zealand so unlike some euro zone members the bank won't place a time limit on accepting old money. so we will continue to take them as long as people can bring them it's something of a tradition here that currency from years and years ago will always be exchanged for legal tender there are conspiracy theory. though you say that the banks bolts are trillions of marks being stockpiled should the crisis deepen so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for a rainy day what happens to it and once the exchange is complete those deutsche marks the shredded ending their days is very expensive confit peter all of a r.t.

. and of course you can find plenty more stories on our website and here's a taste of what we've got there for you right now pussy riot may have been the inspiration for more than just protest down why the russian punk band has been linked to a grisly double murder. also that sports results a cake recipe or maybe the latest updates on the u.s. military drone attacks all available within the i phone. to the u.s. now where the republican candidate for the presidency metro many has been laying out his case for office he has some strong views which would could warrant some onlooking nations but he's now got much of a reputation for training his stance on

a shoes it's hard to know exactly where he stands on anything and he's a guy and can is here to tell us more. well you hear mitt romney is now officially broke obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough you know throwing rocks verbal rocks not only at the president but also of nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney told did not fail to once again highlight his animosity towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense he referred to president obama's hot mike moment when the president told me that amid a bit of that he would be more flexible to discuss the issue after the election mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone and of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geo political enemy that they need to reset the

reset that's actually what he says on the website is part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney comes makes up for lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration when he was for giving them legal status then he was for deporting them mitt romney is full of flaws have been widely discussed and endless source of inspiration to comedians and well this one is from the tonight show with jay leno he says mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change directions that any moment there are tons of jokes about mitt romney and his backbone issues apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk you know full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this

november election. guy thank you very much indeed for your insight. well both kind of the have been keen to mention american supremacy and its responsibilities in the wall in their campaigns but is the country's still the greatest power in the world or is that just election rhetoric so that's the topic of heated discussion in today's crosstalk in the next hour. let's take a look at a very well known clip from h.b.o.'s program newsroom. just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there's some things you should know and one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world we're seventeen literacy twenty seventh and twenty second in science forty ninth to life expectancy one hundred seventy eight to infant mortality thirty eight median household income number four and labor force the number four in our exports we lead the world in only three categories number of incarcerated citizens

per capita number of adults who believe angels are real and depends upon doing a lot of the facts mentioned there are correct ok they're easy to find and they've been known for a long time now is america still number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state an eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. and

let's now check some other stories making headlines around the wild two hundred seventy south african miners have been charged with the murder of sixteen full their colleagues despite the fact it was the police that. prosecutors say officers only opened fire because they were under a time by and protest is more than one hundred fifty of the miners being how it claimed to have been beaten up in custody the canings at a strike of this became the bloodiest incidents since the. fall of the apartheid regime. the pentagon is threatening legal action over a book describing the details of the seal raid that killed osama bin laden in may last year the department of defense or the also is a former u.s. special forces officer had violated agreements not to divulge military secrets the book published next week a perfectly contradicts the official account the want top and. all the. time not to cross over to the business desk in the tossers that the top and those

like poland could be the next victim of the. it's certainly starting to feel the squeeze tell you all about it just a second first let's check out the equity markets and they are actually recovering in the second hour of trade after opening below the line a higher metal prices helped the miners on the footsie in germany the banking sector is outperforming the downs traders anxiously anticipated speech by the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke gave the markets for the most part i'm not really expecting any quantitative easing but some clarity would be nice it would be what they would be looking for one of the european union's few growth stories poulan is feeling the squeeze of the downturn the country's second quarter growth eased to two point four percent that's the lowest in three years and is significantly below forecast poland's g.d.p.

kept expanding over the past few years while much of the e.u. showed negative growth but a series of gloomy economic indicators now show that the so-called economic miracle is coming to an end. and back to the equity markets let's see what's going on in of russia at noon and what we're seeing there is that it's actually recall bring some ground lost on thursday when stocks fell to the lows that about a week the movers of a. the blue chips include off to bob's chairs let's see the movers they're. billing cooed after vas. they will start assembling a new version over its famous and popular we know logan and next year why should carrier air flaw it is down its passenger traffic grows by about a word in the first seven months of the year and that's apparently not enough for investors and normals bunches shot up twenty percent on reports of financial corp

week c.e.o. was considering the bank shares and a lower crude hurt the russian equities on thursday dropping to a two week low on worries that hurricane isaac subsided but we're seeing a different picture of this hour it's actually seeing some modest gains which is helping russian equities and onto the currency market at the moment the dollar is retreating to the europeans currency and the russian ruble is gaining to the currency banks get it privatization of russia's state assets could soon go online the state has agreed to terms of selling its properties through electronic auctions analysts say that would make the privatisation process easier and more transparent but online sales don't necessarily exclude privatizing state assets through the more traditional me and saying with the high tech sector russia's largest free email service mail dot ru has brought out bought out its ukrainian namesake mail

dot usa the companies didn't disclose the financial terms of the deal but analysts say it's about half a billion dollars the move should boost melgar use positions in ukraine where it's already pretty popular. and the china wants to boost its trade with partners in its national currency the yuan beijing already uses it to trade with hong kong which has the hong kong dollar and also single for but it hopes latin america in the middle east could be next meanwhile russia has long been . asking to move away from dependency on the dollar and toward trade in the national currencies hong kong's financial secretary john sung explains to business r.t. how it could all work out what is happening now is a great deal of trace settlement in the national currency so in

terms of for example between russia and china they would be doing a lot of settlement in un or in ruble this way you can we reduce the currency risk that might incur and that is already happening i think we should expect to see a lot more of that and as these two currencies become at some stage of currency for for the rest of the world. and staying in asia let's see how the asian equity markets are performing toward the end of the set trading session and we're seeing the losses there japan's nikkei is the hardest hit it's losing more than half a percent mainly on disappointing july industrial output numbers metal producers are also hurting the sour and that's all latest from the business team will be back in about fifteen minutes but if you can't wait that long you can always find a lot more stories on our site r.t. dot com slash business so limited thank you so much for that natasha and i'll be

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welcome back this is the part of. london called who will give its verdict in the multi-billion dollar legal bansal between two russian only gold living in person. and the long term of it is we want to make a is full of accusations dirty dealings and. so i could push this through the u.n. security council to intervene in syria militarily to protect the civilians that has a person who refuses to rule out taking action beyond the organization is most powerful body. and syria's one of the topics and truly in all songs or is a later thing to view that was to blow up promises more we can leaks revelations and claims the media is being manipulated over what's happening that has got his

own predicament a song he might have to spend six months to a day in the ecuadorian embassy in london. that's the headlines our special report coming up here and i'll see in just a couple of. playing football in the scorching july sun of the iberian peninsula is senseless torture for some of these men others see it as a simple warm up before more difficult contest on dry land they see their rivals face to face but at sea competitors are nothing more than a blip on a radar screen. wind and waves of the only tangible evidence of their determination to win.

the crew of the russian three masts sailing ship mir has little time to prepare ahead of the second phase of the two thousand and twelve tall ships race nevertheless they find five minutes for a brief meeting ceremony thank you i would like to congratulate you today as we begin our voyage out to sea i hope we'll have a good start this time too i urge you all to do your best like it was. the crew success is a matter of honor for the captain and instructor of mir he will soon be celebrating his seventy fifth birthday and has devoted a third of his life to the world's fastest sailing boat victory would be the perfect gift that the crew will need to give it their own way the first phase of the two thousand and twelve tall ships race ended with a discouraging result from the air. of the killer actually we were the first to come in after the first lap but after time update we turned out to be third in our class of ships there miller jersey and frederic chopin polish sailboats where head

of us our sister ship from poland will be our main rival both ships have similar designs and sails according to the time correction will last about thirty minutes during the first phase i. think again a thirty to ninety minutes will be enough for us to win here to give a long blast get. that. long one by. by noon more than thirty sail boats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles they will need to make up for the time she lost in the first place before she reaches the spanish port of kiss the crew unfurls mears sails all three thousand square metres all.

over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mere has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skilful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project from there the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet and they learn how to set sail climb the rigging and timing knots although in the age of nuclear vessels such skills seem as useful as speaking latin. your best out there show them where you. will get your any semen must have practiced as well as theory decides they need to have certain character traits epaulets as well as sailors are sent to other sail boats because these people need to make the right decision in the nick of time the sail boat offers the best schooling and character training.

day fowle of canada knows what the person of his mainsail wants him to do their commands and not translated into english after spending several months on may he's used to the routine and was. so expect it of him indeed sometimes he copes with his assignments better than his russian comrades this is not my first time on this type of vessel is still aboard a vessel called the picture council on the around the world voyage and doing this made me realize i want to sell all the tall ships a for a living and so i went to school to be a navigator and this was not one of the opportunities for our work term was to come on the ship that. there were about twenty trainees like dave on the ship like the sailors they keep watch and they also share courses with the crew there's only one thing that sets them apart they have to pay for the privilege of floating democracy even the old superstition about women on board being a bad omen is ignored right you know twenty young female cadets some trainees are

taking part in the race. my name's lee am i from hamburg germany and yeah this is my second time on the air i would say that the big guys help us but we try to do our best like calling the ropes and so on it's not difficult but it hard they like to think we are right now including the position in the atlantic ocean on route events and that's i plotted every half an hour i feel great about it we all work together as a team and we help each other through it also makes it ok. the portuguese pilot steering me and leaves the bay at two pm there is less than an hour to go before the race starts to motorbikes form a starting line none of the participants in the race is allowed to cross it until a certain moment the most difficult task is.