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

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us one of the european union's poorest member states bulgaria has shelved plans to join the euro zone 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 artie's bussell correspondent has all the details. bulgaria is posing the latest blow to the embattled currency know it has put on hold its long held plans of 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 set by the e.u. a number consistently met mentioned by german chancellor angela merkel but now that

they've actually qualified and all the rules they don't they want to put this on hold of the prime minister of bulgaria as well as the finance minister had both said that there are two main reasons for this one is the increasing of vulnerability and 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 credit 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 you know for the last year especially the term 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 the 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 stary imposed on the. people have angry and desperate citizens of those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that border area made that decision. patrick young of the investment consultancy devi advisors says joining the euro now would come with a disastrous consequences for bulgaria or any other nation. well isn't this truly a case of the tail wagging the dog here we how 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 won't know who we have to be a lot and that's a very poignant point because of course he knows that neighboring countries such as for example slovenia have been plunged into huge financial repr questions asked of the slovakians and indeed others because they did join the euro as the kid mainly it was 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 a few doing drama over who is going to get the last measure of vodka and that is

not the 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. still ahead for you a robust response. moscow warns london that it faces diplomatic ripper cautions if the u.k. bans that dozens of russian officials from entering your view carry over their alleged will of the magnitsky case the top lawyer died in police custody in two thousand and nine. the one time original rivals india and china 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 preassure explains. this is a historic trip for india as the chinese defense minister has been visited this country in nearly a decade on 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 outsports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and 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 our . then a stand in 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. depok tree parthian historian and researcher of south asian and u.s. politics believes that china india alliance is key to countering america's tightening grasp on south asia the country will interest. not definitely be the united states if it wants to be you ambitious. in its efforts to and set up china. well that lead to a. new china and india.

at a time when when the economies of the west are sort of. coming up for you later this hour striving for sovereignty the issue of independence for québec is dominating regional elections as pro independent candidates set the pace with around a third of the population supporting because. media reports have surfaced suggesting that the u.k. has failed to freeze of some of the assets of top officials in the regime of former egyptian leader hosni mubarak the move targeting hosni mubarak and his inner circle was introduced in february last year after the leader stood down. professor of international relations mark and thinks london may be using the assets as a political tool of manipulation. you. know all this he said to her. political reasons it's

a reward not to crucial to see who will. whom you when perhaps grounds voted. in some of the counting all the dubious farms of the money as it's almost who goes into the banks and into the pockets to cleveland ohio and property in london and the southeast it would be a huge sure we could call need to do that already so the government here has its international role with its memories. but also for the rest were it's all very weak. at the moment. cambodia is reportedly working to extradite one of the co-founders of the file sharing website the pirate bay to sweden. was arrested by local police following a request from stockholm where he was sentenced to a year in jail for copyright offenses the country's pirate party m.e.p. a million other starter says that there is always been

a lot of pressure to see the founders of the controversial site behind bars. there was really really big international pressure at the time. that i didn't they try to make us arash our mission meant to. be essentially young men that were burning 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 in speech and the way that they needed. to question their relationship with knowledge and sharing and how they save and. this pressure still lingers on the leg and there's major industrial nations in the body think are still lying behind hard think it is going pressure on. other countries to . intellectual interest as. the democratic national convention has kicked off with thousands of delegates gathering in north carolina the meeting is expected to culminate with barack obama confirmed as the democratic party's candidate for

the white house that comes hot on the heels of last week's republican convention and so harsh criticism of obama's four years in the oval office jesse alexander meyerson a contributor to the truth out 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 first slight stimulus here and slight stimulus there really haven't been able to college there hasn't been regulation of the banks in a sufficient way and that the main crisis acting 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 so 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 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 who are. you know communities of color that are subject to mass 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 that under president obama. the u.s. has allegedly promised iran that it will not assist israel if 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 any retaliatory strikes this comes as the obama administration says it's implementing measures that it hopes will prevent an israeli attack on iran stephen zoonosis professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco thinks war with iran will devastate both sides. i think there was an awareness. in the word 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 flicked the word games and other scenarios you 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 you are about nuclear programs including a program what to do under the 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 is really on the story that it would be disastrous for israel as well on leash you know thousands of rockets into israel iran so you know nuclear arsenal of missiles are to do a lot of damage 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 to actually branch off from once more as we know so far is the billion program and to actually develop a nuclear weapon another fly in the ointment 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 public wake up.

russia's ambassador to the u.k. wants an explanation from the u.k. foreign office after it emerged in the sunday times that their u.k. home secretary had sent a list of around sixty russian officials to the british embassy in moscow and wanted 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 space 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 death then president dmitry 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 mostly says no as 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 . turning to yemen no recent u.s. drone strike that claimed the lives of thirteen civilians has sparked outrage across the country the attack which was supposed to target the car of a suspected al qaeda militant two other vehicles and such strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemen campaign against terrorist networks in the country however you know. a researcher and scholar at columbia university says far from writing the code

reading the country of terrorists the strategy actually inspires some to pick up weapons against the u.s. . in the case of yemen yemen is a very troublesome country especially to the major ally elfs united states which is so they really have any instability in yemen or out of control instability in yemen could influence or impact of the richest region in the world in terms of oral and credit and the stability of saudi arabia so that's the one of the main reasons why did the u.s. is there the second is the of course the a public one which is after nine eleven. would be 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. get to the the nip it in the but basically way attacking people in yemen 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 it creates more resentment and pushes more people from their relatives to take up arms or become activists against the policy of places in the region so unfortunately i'll see you why the the american. leaders of the american arabs that it is that do not see that this is a policy that is going nowhere just creating more and more hatred around the world . the new international peace envoy to syria has described his job as a near impossible law went on to say that not enough is being done to stop the violence both on the side of the government and the rebels meanwhile another car bomb explosion rattled a christian neighborhood in damascus today killing four people including

a child and as the syrian death toll rises so do the streams of refugees are fleeing syria to join the hundreds of thousands who've already left sanctions to make it make ordinary life difficult in syria with a can of alone ramping up its measures against damascus ten times this year there's a report it's now up to syrian farmers to act as a last line of defense against a humanitarian catastrophe. reaping the harvest of economic isolation and a good one farmers across syria are is busy as ever collecting the fruits of their labor decades of economic sanctions haven't taught syria to rely on no one but itself at least when it comes to agricultural production and there are no sour grapes about it now while the political pressure on syria is mounting this country is still fully able to feed its people. almost everything that ends up on syrian tables is growing here in the country south far from the clashes and this year

spared the usual drought these fields are probably the government's best had against all sorts of foreign pressure aiming to undermine its support base. syria has experienced sanctions since the 1980's and it is told the country to be self-sufficient. agriculture is well structured and we have all the seeds fertilizers of water they haven't been damaged by the sanctions or by the ongoing clashes i can say that agriculture still remains among the sectors least affected by the clashes well this place still looks like a sanctuary of peace the actual war is heard here all too well seventy three year old jimmy label has some. says he understands the young who want their country to change what he contacts is their means and what. people who are misled and hold weapons by the government and destabilize the country are wrong i hope they'll calm down we all need peace to return to syria. polarized in so many levels the

syrian conflict has also drawn the line between villagers and city dwellers as violence continues in urban areas people in the countryside are working hard to feed the two warring parties attacking villagers out in rural areas isn't going to really help them in accomplishing their task which is to try to get assad out of out of power and so i think that's certainly not going to get the syrian people on their side so i think that the attacks are being concentrated in urban areas where they have the greatest chance to affect syria economically and potentially to strike at a military targets in aleppo clashes are still the order of the day but twenty kilometers west mohammad is trying to preserve one of his family's to be colonies the other new homes is thought to have been destroyed they couldn't access it for more than six months. they don't want to come into politics it's too dangerous now it's all they can see they think using weapons was the biggest mistake of them the

. syrian beekeepers are absolutely convinced that a superior to all foreign spaces and that ability to withstand hardship and the blood of their pastures and as clashes in the north continue taking that toll on the industry many here hold that there is the only answer of syrian peace will also be transferred today kippers it's not r.c. syria. when next r.t. talks to the former grand mufti of jerusalem and palestine stay with us for the interview. thank you.

what we i have said. the mufti of jerusalem thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. israel allows was limbs to make programmer to mecca but on the other hand it forbids men under the age of forty 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 in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight carry out the harsh lessons is their legal right to him there also is some political benefits would be again i feel demonstrating that there is freedom of religion out. of the. rules of the strictest since he is on their territory for love it was situated somewhere else no such measures would be taken now the focus is on. the occupation authorities on criticised 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 that we 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 stands a weak muslim reaction they see this as a green light to move forward so what in fact should muslims do now but sadly muslim countries are now more concerned with their domestic issues neglecting the issue of imax or in jerusalem and allowing israeli or cubans to carry out their hostile plans and they have going to 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 i guess not to crush those who stand in the way of the occupiers the only proves that there is no freedom or democracy in israel the. we have democracy for the jewish people there 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 particularly with the new and yahoo cabinet in power they want to start negotiations from scratch or israel does all it can to obstruct install the process to prolong the existence of its state or these talks didn't make any difference for palestinians 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 of the year for the for the 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 eyes ation conversation of 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 sort of giving permits for construction and

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 little bit 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 the car does not see in jerusalem where they lived at the time in this way he passed all 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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