buying prophecy and default a move for greece as coalition leaders fail to agree on a french multi-billion you are austerity package that the prime minister says is vital to rescue the crippled economy. a deadly car bomb rocked the syrian city of aleppo shortly also and al qaida links and militant pledged support for the syrian rebels as fears months that the country's conflict is getting increasingly troubled by foreign forces. meanwhile out of the they made least becomes the largest by old u.s. and weapons look at how the volatile situation is helping america's own sales should a record. break away kosovo region is still formally gaining sovereignty

as a group of countries recognizing its independence prepares to remove all of the signed a move many believe could threaten to escalate ethnic tensions. international news life or most go this is all she was me thanks for joining it's getting a new vital cash injection from the e.u. trade greece is far from a done deal the leaders of the coalition government has failed to agree on stimming cuts worth roughly twelve billion euros that the prime minister insists are crucial to avoid bankruptcy but his allies in the government object to across them and would not so on wages and pensions and also criticised plans to trim disability benefits at the same time greece's foreign lenders who are currently in the country to assess their. progress on meeting the bailout terms also rejected pass

a bill status and measures with talk set to continue by the fiercest opposition because had a vote come from the greeks themselves on the. greek prime minister antonis samaras isn't sugar coating his message after spreading pain who can lead to the hurt that there is no other way. it would seem that the greek public don't agree with the pm. this weekend saw large demonstrations in the country's major cities and when you look around those cities you can see the effects of the crisis on every corner this was once thessaloniki busiest market now like a ghost town ok costas has run this coffee shop since the one nine hundred seventy s. he lays the blame for the current troubles on a political class are looking at the greek interest if the politicians don't care

about the people they care more about what germany is than what the greek people need big the people on the street and invariably the conversation will turn to talk of tax as pensions and wages have been slashed prices and taxes have soared when the cuts from from face failed and in the same time very increase taxes it's very very difficult to pay some bills for the. water from the fall of a food with unemployment at just under twenty five percent and fears that it's just a matter of time before it passes the thirty percent mark people take where they can find it constantine works in a factory that produces industrial lubricants a university graduate with degrees in nano technologies and biology this isn't the work he was trained for that counts himself lucky to have it we all thought to share situation is bad but this work allows me to provide for my family and i enjoy

. as unhappy as the vast majority of greeks are with the current situation if the country is to remain in the euro zone an extra eleven point five billion will have to be cut from greece's deficit to make sure it receives e.u. bailout money that means more pain ahead for the greek taxpayer but despite their end. lity towards tamara says plans even the harshest critics of the government fear that a return to the drachma would open a pandora's box of fresh financial woes but here is the bottom line is we must stay in the euro no doubt we have to stay is a simple as that going back to the old currency would be futile. r.t. this will only keep greece. and the chorus of those blaming political and not financial woes in europe for those spread of the economic crisis is growing and at

the age of pacific summit in russia's far east over the weekend all he's peaceful about brought together leading experts to discuss what's wrong with capitalism and how to fix it and you can watch part two of the special panel here on l.c. later today. that is. the question and it's going to be. capitalism without bankruptcy is like christianity without. a car bomb ripped through syria's largest city of aleppo killing at least seventeen people and wounding forty others according to the state run news agency the blast occurred just hours after a jordanian militant leader links to al qaeda warns that his extremist group was

launching deadly attacks to help assad fighters and member of the syrian social club groups says they conflict in the country's no longer just a syrian revolution. it has turned into a more regional wider conflict krapp's even some sort of international war on syrian soil. i personally. witnessed first a demonstration on the seventh of may the phone to the eleven. for muslim extremists outside the syrian between london shouting very clearly islam only and that doesn't need any explanation does it so it is not surprising what we see or hearing that they are jihadist who were coming into syria because western powers have poor long time seen this conflict as the same model or the same you know viewing point just like they did with the understand three decades ago the problem

we're having basically is that they took so long to acknowledge that jihadist. you know element after i think it was too late the us might have abstained from supporting bin syrian rebels when sorry at least openly but is actually flooding the surrounding nations with weapons it's been revealed that the middle east is now the leading buyer of american arms as fears mount that a conflict with the syrian government's main ally iran could be on the cards again education reform. the world may be terrified of a potential war with iran but for arms producers tensions fear is good business so it is for the united states according to a recent congressional research service report within just one year the u.s. has tripled its arms sales tripled here's how it looks in numbers just around twenty billion dollars in two thousand and ten and over sixty billion dollars in two thousand and eleven so this is six point three billion dollars to be exact

according to this report as far as the u.s. share on the global market is almost eighty percent of all worlds arm sales have to mention this congressional service research they arrived the numbers from unclassified arms sales reports now who provided the spike in sales that is mostly the persian gulf state half of what the u.s. sold last year went to saudi arabia eighty four advanced f. fifteen fighters a variety of ammunition missiles and the just tick support dozens of attack helicopters but why this spike looking at the graphics one might thing something is brewing here apparently many experts think the same with spoke with daryl kimball of the arms control association here's what he said we often see conflict emerge after a group of states in a particular region with tensions have bought or built weapons

so this does not necessarily ensure security but clearly the insecurities of the region the doubts about maintaining peace between states in that region are driving these wealthy countries in the middle east to buy u.s. weapons. there is already a war going on in the region the civil war in syria saudi arabia and other gulf states are actively involved in the war there funneling weapons to the rebels in the strive to bring down all sod iran's longtime ally in the region many experts talk about syria as a stepping stone to iran in a sense the war on iran has already started the spiking arms sales could be a graphic sign of it is hard to claim that arms sales is the end game for the u.s. although he does profit handsomely from the sales in february nine hundred forty five president roosevelt at a meeting in egypt with our little bill as he's been souled the founder of modern

saudi arabia pledged to defend the kingdom in exchange for a steady flow of oil up to this day u.s. actions in the region have been consistent with that goal the us has armed the gulf states to the teeth turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations like of democracy terrorists turning a blind eye to a lot of things the question is whether the world is ready for another devastating war in the region i'm going to check on our. under age europe is also on the radar for top pentagon contractors who are on a trade delegation to cairo and made him the prize will discuss what could be behind america's largest commercial trip to the arab world that and more coming your way just in a. minute

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you to know you can loose here want to be appearing to be in a manner of me saying that it's time to go. and i would lead him into this to the best chamber. college days after they were dating. welcome by the breakaway so i've been the region of course a while will officially gain all the rights of sovereignty late on monday despite

belgrade refusing to recognize pristina as independence and international group consisting of twenty five countries which did that years ago i was preparing to make it formal now and this means that under western supervision something that sparked fears of ethnic subs being prosecuted in the region but john this new voice i'm on it says it's a cosmetic move that'll hold the decrease foreign involvement. tensions are have been constantly in a state of escalation since last since last years since the attempt of the thirty's to assert control of the northern part of the province and the foreign supervision as i said it's not so much decreasing as it's changing venues now all of the context is going to be directly between nato and the sponsors of this so-called independent state of course of all. the so-called government there the changes purely cosmetic this is this is entirely for show the e.u. police mission that came in in two thousand and eight was supposed to support supply and the un mission and the nato so-called peacekeeping force has been there

since one thousand nine hundred nine only the names are shifting around and it's basically just the shifting of the scenery but the but the screenplay and the lines of the actors remain the same and we've got plenty more stories for you on our home if you've missed any on our likely challenge catching bad government over a barrel by booking that constitutional right to keep the appliances promise of iraq its way. so that the south and protects and to the bay traffic rules u.s. officials are clamping down on those guilty of running a red line think losing twenty five percent. of the name calling of manhattan kind my friends on the internet so i had a line to find out how in the only had to be artistic great intricate monster.

some of america's largest corporations have had to egypt hoping to bring new business ties in the wake of the country's uprising if the largest u.s. trade delegation ever to travel to the wild the push for new market comes as washington has sweetums. deal with the pledge of one billion dollars in debt relief for cairo egypt's foreign policy has been largely in line with that of the duats expressing sympathy for they are prizing in syria and demonstrating support for bahrain's ruling family and journalist around seabird has written extensively about developments in the arab world the american trip to egypt has an agenda that stretches beyond the economy. is only by the u.s. government although they are insisting the political aspect is a minor aspect of this move is not so far removed from the i.m.f. negotiations with egypt so what egypt is trying to get about four point eight

billion dollars is not far removed from what the qataris and the saudis and the turks frankly have been doing which is offering all these supposedly free money to egypt to billions of dollars worth of investments billions of dollars that are actually going to pay the salaries of ordinary egyptians all of this is tying the hands of the egyptian government even surely morsi and his government no matter how we intend of use is going to find himself in a situation where it's going to become extremely difficult to escape all these strings that are controlling him and controlling his policies and controlling his government. and while cairo let's big corporations squeeze its economy even hold their hard pressed to being pushed up to walk find to work to find work abroad i should say but it's risky with thousands working illegally to make ends meet because for them it's far better than staying at home as point to explain. their

country may be in danger of crumbling but here they are rebuilding someone else's hundreds of thousands of egyptians are putting bricks to mortar for their neighbors future every few weeks another building goes up in a month with a toil nearly a quarter of a million egyptians are scattered throughout the kingdom next door but many shouldn't be here at all in the chaos and disappointment that followed egypt's revolution thousands of egyptians fled here to jordan with no visa and little more than the clothes on their back while it might still be too soon to say what will be the long term effects of the revolution no one here is in a hurry to return back home just like muhammad he sold his wife's jewelry and borrowed neighbor's money to pay for nearly one thousand american dollar work permit but it's long since expired now he's working on borrowed time the bottom line i can't afford another work permit. because i want to eat egyptian society is

very divided and all of. us were not searching. for just one food for families it's jordan's worst kept secret more than one hundred thousand desperate illegal egyptians lining the pockets of jordanian businessmen who exploit loopholes in the law have been is that are a lot of people in the edge of the plain where the papers promise the best permission but then when the labor is come here they don't know what the permission is for exactly and who is in there but it's corruption between from their gyptian side the laborers themselves the jordanian government because that gets a lot of mine from fighting with people and the business owners their own world surprisingly jordan's labor ministry does not deny this but insists it is cracking down trying to organize on the time what with the kind of some of them. on the understanding that the tourist. and this is but when they when they're here in the

country they try to fit torques and jobs and they kept looking for jobs all the time without in vain. has been working here for nearly two years he's got a degree in social work but the only employment he can find is to wait tables in amman his salary pays his rent the race to send home for his wife and children there's nothing left for a new visa. every six to seven months the police make a check during this time i stay at home and isolate myself for about ten days to two weeks the police are starting to get more strict but i'm not thinking about going back to iraq right now because the security situation there is no unstable whatever hardships they face here in jordan they families back home depend on if we dollar sent back across the border for now the risks far outweigh returning to a country where the prospects of work or stability or even gloomier policy r.t. amman jordan. on to some other top stories in brief now

a peaceful march in chile is over so to remember victims of the military dictatorship of general agree still pinochet has ended with violence under a number of arrests dozens of most protesters barricade as the area surrounding santiago's general cemetery the tree from crushing the thirteenth officers responded with water cannons and tear gas no injuries have been reported and. the u.s. has formally transferred control of background prison to afghan authorities the facility holds more than three thousand taliban insurgents and suspected terrorists believe the hand over is largely symbolic as the fate of the inmates were mainly unclear including fifteen forages foreigners not covered by the agreement the u.s. military still wants to run a section of the jail which has been labeled afghanistan's gone tano with prisoner abuse and torture and. prison lies within one of the largest bases of the nato led forces in afghanistan and later today were revealed upscaled danger that

exists that those soldiers themselves. i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains are been getting worse no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with he was. always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects.

and let's check on business now marina's that marina investors are cautious before making any moves to say they waiting for. the that we are not seeing any drastic movements at all it's a lackluster performance across the board and that's because there are two key events which will take place this week you can take a look at the european figures as i tell you this on the wednesday germany's constitutional court is expected to make a ruling on the legality all thing you have a rusty fund also the following day which is thursday the federal reserve is extract that it's a latest policy actions and everyone is waiting to hear about another round. of course we will see what happens but i will be monitoring that as you can see the footsie and the. not much happening today and the move on and take a look at the often markets are pretty much reflected in the mood that we've seen around the world the asian markets as well which we'll get to in the second you can see the r.t.s. is setting up more of

a facade and i'm i said slightly behind then of course or oil prices when it comes to the russian markets have a made for effect. let's take a look at how crude this performer right now is still trading near the highest level in almost a week and it's as speculation that the u.s. and china will add stimulus to their economy. slowdown which of course a rotten fuel demand so that's what we're seeing right now light sweet and the bread line going up this hour as we see because we see a mixed picture and it was like it's about some point let's switch to gas but there's almost there's a gas problem bush's independent gas producers have now been left without their main distributor that says gas from has stopped buying gas from other companies and the most news paper says this way the monopolist aims to support its own production because of falling demand however independent firms will still be able to use gas pipelines and gas to its subsidiary. all right now let's continue with other

international markets and look at currencies there the euro is still weak in against the u.s. dollar similar picture for the ruble weakening against both major currencies this monday now we move on and take a look at the asian markets for one final time as the markets there are now officially closed as you can see a mixed picture there there was a lot of reports that we got from them first we had from china over the weekend of rising inflation and the slowdown industrial activity and just earlier today we got a report that said that basically there's a trade surplus there were more imports and exports for the month. now and exporters were struggling quite a bit and that's because of a different report that showed that basically there was weakness in the economy i want to stay with the asian thing because of that was also one of the main topics at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit and russia's far east and the country has now decided that it's

a better to look east for investment opportunities and our very own. was there for us and he explains why this new trend is coming now. the apec summit here and. the wind of change not just for russia but for the global economy void yet another crisis. needed and they need it quickly china's outgoing president hu jintao says he's very much concerned with notable downside risks to a slowing economy this is coupled with the fact the e.u. is still in a deep debt crisis so russia is naturally turning to asia boosting trade in the pacific rim to twenty one percent. but the e.u. remains a. fifty one percent present wants to very much. concerned with the recent investigation into gas. and. i think the main reason for this investigation is the difficult economic situation in the euro zone mainly

talking about eastern european countries and the problem is. when they join the european union liabilities to subsidize those economies but if someone in the european commission decided that we must assume. that europe's wants to maintain its influence and things that we should. strive. for russia the apec summit is not so much about the business deals it's about building bridges on the sidelines of the foreign president vladimir putin held negotiations with new zealand to form free trade zones and although it may sound surprising as they're not exactly the most significant trade partners from moscow china has also done the same thing because it sets a precedent that deals and now is the right time because russia is a. member pledges to boost transparency. and fight protectionism. and another from the summit. in the us and.

that's what their partner the conger of the russian. vacs of uk said and vladivostok over the weekend another possible buyer of. russia's state oil giant ross left. and that's what i have for you this hour you don't have a great day thank you a few to marina more from you now is time. also the headline is why law gets too tough for troops in afghanistan stay with us.

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