book area shelves it's a long held plans to adopt the euro saying it is not ready to take part in the continuous bailouts and face and uncertain future with of the struggling bloc. the u.k. is accused of safeguarding of the riches of the ousted egyptian regime with the assets of some key figures in hosni mubarak's inner circle staying on top despite international sanctions. and a long arm of the copyright industry reaches all the way to cambodia with one of the founders of the pirate bay a file sharing site now facing extradition to sweden. also two of the world's largest armies of those of india and china unveiled plans to work more closely leaving western countries on the edge over the dros

a growing rich. why from our moscow this is our t.v. let's get your top headlines the european union's poorest member state of bulgaria has shelved plans to join the euro zone and its prime minister cited the continent's deteriorating a financial climate and fears for the euro's future as the reasons behind the single currency snub are he's a brussels correspondent has arsole has the latest details. will carry a is opposing the latest blow to the embattled currency you know it has put on hold its long held plans are joining the euro bloc and interesting we bulgaria in contrast to a lot of bigger economies has managed to reduce its budget deficit to two point one percent of its g.d.p. and that is safely within the three percent rule less set by the e.u. a number consistently met mentioned by german chancellor angela merkel but now that

they've actually qualified and met all the rules they don't they want to back down put this on hold on the prime minister of bulgaria as well as the finance minister had. uncertainty of the future of the euro in the block it's clear it's been going on for a couple of years now and also the deteriorating economic conditions are still the clear way out of the crisis and secondly and i think importantly for the leaders of that country is the changing of public opinion in bulgaria people there asking the very same questions that the citizens of creditor euro zone countries are asking who else are going to be allowed and for bulgaria's point of view who are we going to be allowed once we join the euro and also the country has been through three years already it was measures cuts in pensions it wages and we know for the last year especially the term a stare it is almost a key word when discussing the eurozone or the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week

the prime minister has said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that that is at this point very unclear when the state will be coming and also latvia has has lost and boozy as it's changed its tone in terms of looking at the process of joining you be a euro now what this all underlies it goes back to the same point the vulnerabilities the weaknesses that we see in the euro and from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see countries in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposing conditions and then you have a stare be imposed on the people and you have angry and desperate citizens of those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that bulgaria made that decision which is to socially reporting force there and patrick young of the investment consultancy dva advisors joining the euro no would come with disastrous consequences for ball duryea or any other nation. well isn't this truly

a case of the tail wagging the dog here we have twenty seven the poorest economy in the euro zone has turned around and said we don't want your year over because your ground design is deeply flawed it's built on sand it's a catastrophe and i actually the finance minister himself made a great statement today he said our citizens are worried that if we join the euro we will know who we have to be a lot i'm not a very poignant point because of course he knows that neighboring countries such as for example slovenia have been plunged into a huge financial rep or questions asked of the slovakians and indeed others because they've joined the euro as the kid mainly at higher as they've joined the euro they've been forced to end up spending money to subsidize the pensions of people in greece who are actually getting a higher pension than the pensioners are in these countries that would be a suicide move for any nation that wants to join ultimately the prosperous twelve the euro zone has turned into a very bitter battle amongst few drunks over who is going to get the last measure

of all the undone is not a way that any other government is going to be happy in being complicit with the economic mismanagement of a crumbling field single currency's of well still ahead for you as a robust response moscow warns london that it faces diplomatic repercussions if the u.k. bans dozens of russian officials from entering the u.k. over their alleged role in the magnitsky case the top lawyer died in police custody in two thousand and nine. one time original rivals india and china now wants to bring their armies closer together beijing's top military chief is on a visit to new delhi aiming to boost cooperation between the two asian giants but news of this alliance is already causing concern across the pacific as artie's pressure either explains this is a historic trip for india as the chinese defense minister hasn't. visited this

country in nearly a decade and the top priority for the list of things to discuss on this trip are strengthening the india china border and promoting a stronger cooperation between the two countries armed forces many people believe that india and china because they have two of the fastest growing economies in the world should be rivals but a lot of analysts i've spoken with have actually said that a partnership between the neighbors actually makes more sense with forty per cent of the world's population and at a time when these two countries' economies are growing while many of the traditional western powers their economies are decreasing many people say that a partnership between india and china could actually be detrimental to a country like the united states the united states actually exports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and if india is actually the number one importer in the entire world many people say the united states is

interested in india to counterbalance china's growing influence in this region and to have a strategic ally here when the united states plans to withdraw its troops from afghanistan twenty fourteen so while other countries might have an interest in what kind of relationship india and china has all signs are pointing to stronger military and economic ties between the two countries. his story and the researcher of south asian us both to explore china india alliance is key to countering america's trading growth sponsor. the country will interest will. not have definitely be the united states if it wants to be you ambitious. in its efforts and set up will china will well that be doing it so it's good news that

china and india and improve their lives and increase trade at a time when you when the economies of the west are suffering. coming up for you later this hour striving for sovereignty. the issue of independence for a comeback is dominating regional elections as pro independent candidates said the pace with around a third of the population supporting the cause. media reports have surfaced suggesting that the u.k. has failed to freeze some of the assets of top officials in the regime of former egyptian leader the move targeting hosni mubarak and his inner circle was introduced in february last year after the leader stood down amid mass rallies professor of international relations marc thinks a london may be using the assets as a tool of political manipulation. to

her. medical political leanings so it's a reward. for those who will. whom you can bring perhaps ground zero to. some of the counting all the dubious of the money as it. goes into the banks and into the property sector particularly the high end property in london and the southeast it would be a huge sure we could continue to do that already so the government here has international role. but also for the rest of world which are very. swedish pirate party m.e.p. a million under starters there's always been a lot of pressure to see the founders of the pirate bay behind bars. there was really really big international pressure at the time. that i didn't they try to make us

a harsh punishment to the three essentially young men that were buying it or in fact going to get there in their time that i don't they have been there if i mean for the right to be in speed and the way that they needed. to question their relationship with knowledge and sharing and how they save and. displace you're still lingers on the lake and there's major industrial nations in the valley think are still lying behind harm think it is going to ensure our own and other countries do in local and international interest as. the democratic national convention has kicked off with of thousands of delegates gathering in north carolina the meeting is expected to combine it with barack obama confirmed as the democratic party's candidate for the white house it comes hard on the heels of last week's republican convention of that's a harsh criticism of obama's four years in the oval office just the alexander meyerson a contributor to the truth our website believes that whoever wins the november

election can only make things worse for america. the republican opposition to obama's agenda in congress has really prevented the democrats from putting forth the agenda that they wanted however i will note that obama came into power at a time of severe financial crisis and was inherited this incredible recession and didn't do well enough about it at first light stimulus here and slight stimulus there really haven't been able to cut it there hasn't been regulation of the banks in a sufficient way and that the main crisis affecting the united states which is to say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate stranglehold on the political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from the coalition that led to that in the first place the way to think about what's happening to america and essentially the north atlantic coalition in general is that things are getting very very much worse somewhat slow and if president obama

were elected they would get much worse if they continued slow rate and if the president if there were a president romney that would get much worse out of recovery i mean that's essentially the way to look at it the shift of money and power from the bottom to the top what excel are at under romney condition for working people for women for you know communities of color that are subject to mass and incarceration for. countries of fraud that are plagued by drone strikes we get much worse under mitt romney and they're already going to get right that under president obama. turning to yemen know where a recent u.s. drone strike that claimed the lives of thirteen to civilians has sparked outrage across the country the attack which was supposed to target the car of a suspected al qaeda militant hit two other vehicles instead such strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemen campaign against terrorist networks in the country for more on this we're

joined live by unicef a researcher and scholar at columbia university. mr eunice i thank you very much for joining us. and let's get right to the questions the u.s. claims drone strikes are an effective tool against terrorists how far would you go along with that. well first of all i don't know if it's really targets terrorists or just i mean people that are perceived as terrorists and there's a big difference between the two the terrorism is in the eye of the beholder at the end of the day we just have to believe the party who said that that person is terror is that it's a terrorist which is a strange way of doing things. it's again issue that i will talk about is if it's really effective i don't think it's effective because it's been going on for almost two years over two years and we still have more and more attacks we have them in pakistan who have their own guys somalia and yemen and that means it's not effective and in general this war on terror since the. george bush

administration has caused more and more suffering around the world and we haven't seen any end to it so i don't see why people claim that it's. more why does the yemeni government back of this policy when it so often ends in the death of their own citizens that's a very good question that should lead us to discussing the relation between states and its just citizens in the arab world most of these states if not all of them don't represent their citizens and actually don't really care about the citizens. that's why you have all these arab spring that it was in the first place and the second thing for us and during the era of for presidents are less was use in the car the fall qaeda and terrorism to get more funds and to get help from the united states do its job and it says that when he wants to target people that are opposed to of regime he could get the americans to do it so it's a very shady relationship there well more about that relationship what has brought

the u.s. to yemen and particularly. well that could be applied to many other places where the u.s. is involved but in the case of yemen yemen is a very troublesome country especially with a major ally no states which is sort of arabia any instability in yemen or and control instability in yemen could influence or impact the richest region in the world in terms of oil and credit and the stability of saudi arabia so that it does one of the main reasons why the u.s. is there the second is the of course the public one which is after nine eleven al qaeda in most people from the qaeda are doomed or deemed to have to come from yemen so that's why the u.s. is trying to. to and nip it in the bud basically way attack in people in yemen we touched on this a little bit before but has washington not learned its lesson after what happened

in pakistan when the people turned against america so very strongly after the same type of tactics. unfortunately i think empires do not learn lessons we've seen this time and again in history and it's seen that the u.s. is doing the same mistake it's creating more and more hatred by doing this for instance when does thirteen people were killed probably most of them if not all of them are not involved in any way or another in any terrorist activity so that creates more resentment and pushes more people from did really to take up arms and become activists against the policy if they see it in the region so unfortunately i will see why at the the american leaders of the american arabs that it was that do not see that this is a policy that is going nowhere just creating more and more hatreds around the world are appreciate your thoughts on the subject mr yunus are valuable thank you very much for being with us thank you for. the us has allegedly promised iran that it

will not assist israel is. the netanyahu government chooses to strike tehran's nuclear facilities the report in an israeli newspaper also claims the deal comes with a catch that the islamic state would not damage any american interests in retaliate tory strikes this comes as the obama administration says it's implementing measures it hopes will prevent an israeli attack on iran stephenson as professor of. international studies at the university of san francisco thinks war with iran will devastate both sides. i think there is an awareness. in the white house and elsewhere that war with iran would be a disaster i mean even putting aside the moral concerns the legal concerns about such a conflict the word games and other scenarios that have been looking at all come out to the same conclusion the qassam badly outweighed the benefits and so the united states is concerned as they are about nuclear about iran's nuclear program

one should do whatever they can to avoid war the israeli general staff the time generals i've done some of the calculations of the pentagon has and recognize that it really would be a nonstarter that it would be disastrous for israel as well unleash you know thousands of rockets into israel iran so has no nuclear arsenal of missiles or if you do a lot of damage and and certainly on balance israel could do more harm to iran that iran could be to israel and certainly would not send back their nuclear program to any substantial degree in fact if anything it would give the iranians a motivation to go actually branched off from what's far as we know so far is the billion program and to actually develop a nuclear weapon. another fly in the oid meant for russian british relations london has apparently followed in washington's footsteps and approved a blacklist of russian officials prevented from stepping on its soil the

individuals are accused of human rights abuses in connection with the case of sergei magnitsky a russian lawyer who died in custody more on that from marty's. russia's ambassador to the u.k. wants an explanation from the u.k. foreign office after it emerged in the sunday times that the u.k. home secretary had sent a list of around sixty russian officials to the british embassy in moscow in order to ban them from traveling to russia now the list contains the names of russian judges prosecutors and intelligence officials who london believes are involved in the death of the russian based lawyer so again magnitsky he worked for the london based company hermitage capital fund and he died in pretrial detention back in two thousand and nine in moscow now that he was jailed for tax evasion and awaiting detention his family say that he died because of repeated beatings and being

refused medical care now the investigation into the case in russia is still ongoing but it's had a big resonance both at home and abroad earlier the u.s. said that it had also banned around sixty russian officials from traveling to the u.s. speaking often magnitsky is death then president dmitri medvedev he said that the people who are accused of economic crimes and tax crimes in particular they should not be put into pretrial detention and of course more severe says death is a big tragedy but they've called on other nations not to stage a political show regarding the matter and they've promised a tough response to any foreign sanctions that could be put in place over the case . the separatist movement is brewing up a storm in canada with a pro independence party looking to win the election in the french speaking province of quebec the. chua has consistently led in the polls capitalizing on

disenchantment with the establishment and anger at austerity michael for him a reporter for tell it is. radio says if anything voters are left with much of an alternative. i think what it really comes down to is that the backers will be choosing the lesser of three evils and for many people especially people the younger popular population they feel that that helped to get back why is a movement to step forward maybe towards more of a progressive message in the province a lot of the polit party politics you seem between the three parties they do they have very very many of the same policies in this and they're spending from the liberal party in terms of you know you saw the tuition protests going on a few months ago and they're even still going on now but i think when it comes down to it people are just making a choice based upon dissatisfaction with the with all of the three major parties and when it comes to i mean austerity measures well yeah there have been cutbacks and but i mean i think that's been across the board for most canadian provinces in the sense in terms of you know the support of separatism across the province i

think across the board of people really just don't care anymore i mean canadians used to care we used to care or you know if it was somebody in a bird or in terror we had family out there friends and they'd say to us you know are you guys really going to be voting to leave and i think even in the past few months we saw polls it was a poll done asking canadians you know do you care of chemical leaves and half of canadians said no we don't care. next our tea and talks to the former grand mufti of jerusalem and palestine about his fears over the future of one of the most sacred sites in islam. stay with us for this.

with me i have. the mufti of jerusalem thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. israel allows was limbs to make program lead to mecca but on the other hand it forbids men under the age of fourteen from entering the mosque during ramadan to pray on fridays how do you explain this contradiction. this contradiction is due to the fact that they let our brothers who live in the areas bind in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight carry out the harsh. legal rights here there also is some political benefits or blood gain affinity demonstrating that there is freedom of religion and also the. rules of the street is there since it's on their territory for love it was situated somewhere else you know such measures would be taken against it now the focus is on. the occupation authorities on criticized only for

that the most of their actions are always a criticism and you have said that jewish authorities are trying to sensitize was them sensitivities to access why do you say this. hell israeli or cubans are trying to make it seem like the al aqsa mosque is not really that important they say the museums have the holy city of mecca and medina so they don't need to. they also want to weaken the link in palestine since i lack so connects one point five billion muslims were to jerusalem and palestine this link is made of belief i think that they think that if they weaken that link muslims are going to lose interest in our own reality though what the muslims that don't live in our stone who are closer to it because they know it's in danger as are their beliefs and so whatever the occupants do to diminish alex's significance or was bound to fail fashion you have also said that if the israeli government and

fanatical jewish groups since a week was in reaction they see this as a green light to move forward so what in fact should muslims do now and sadly muslim countries are now more concerned with their domestic issues neglecting the issue of imax or in jerusalem and allowing israeli or keep insta carry out their hostile plans and they have quite a few of those including the jewish or ization of jerusalem and taking control over . there making the most of the numerous domestic problems that the arab and muslim countries are busy addressing right now so they can carry out their plans without any resistance. in what way and why are is where your priorities are harassing you and other spiritual leaders tony if. israel wants to carry out its plans gradually step by step without much faster objection but we keep bringing it up and by doing so we have exposed the plans of the occupation authorities that's why they

use media and press conferences to pile the pressure on us. to crush those who stand in the way of the occupiers only proves that there is no freedom or democracy in israel the. we have democracy for the jewish people or that it doesn't apply to us whatever. the palestinian issue being resolved in the future but boy there is still no sign that this issue will be resolved in the near future killer lee with a new in yahoo cabinet in power they want to start negotiations from scratch israel does all it can to obstruct install the process to prolong the existence of its state these talks didn't make any difference who palestinians in these talks are a waste of time or we can talk about talks with decades that's why i don't think they make any sense if they're. what do you think about the way that the palestinian authority is handling the issue of gaining independence.

for the palestinian authorities are weak what the hell they're looking for a solution and they want to prove they have achieved something but the talks have actually been a failure and so at the moment we don't have any solution on the horizon it means we need to unite to revive our economy and science to be invincible windy day the moment for a solution come as the year for the fighting is it fair to say that israel is trying to obliterate the arab islamic identity after a send him to hell a little. bit of israel's policy on the ethnic issue is based on the jewish organization congress going to have lands and a lot of construction of settlements so they're working to increase the size of the jewish population and cut the number of arabs there but they do it by putting pressure on their own merchants and arabs in general to push them out of jerusalem into the suburbs or other towns by referring to a crisis in the housing sector israel stopped giving permits for construction so

when a young man grows up and decides to set up a family he will not be able to find or build a home or a legal even if he finds one the rent will be too high to afford let he will be of health and leave so even without declaring. intentions israel is reading jerusalem of arabs of israel doesn't talk publicly about this but according to my observations the population of jerusalem is growing in the one nine hundred sixty seven there were seventy thousand arabs today there are more than three hundred thousand and in one of these prophecies in hama it was asked about where his followers should go after he leaves and he said that muslims should stay in baytown the card us plants in jerusalem where they lived at the time in this way people are still generations to come to live in this city. this. subway thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. .

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