why don't what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. relations between washington and connor are in for any major task as president morsi is in the u. was amid growing tension between the two over the waves were found on american protests. and in europe filled with fear response to the first while and says seen in greece muslims continue to run their anger in the arab states. also uproar in the u.k. over a billion spent on foreign aid and huge salaries to british consultants and to the programs are struggling households at home brace for future and further benefit

cuts and price hikes. hello and welcome to our t.m. karen broadcasting to you from our studio in moscow where it is two o'clock as anti-american sentiment across the arab world gathers pace tension between washington and the largest regional powers also grow the biggest question mark is over the future of american and gyptian relations and president morsi is first visit to the u.s. for the un general assembly which might clarify certain issues ahead of his trip morsi accused washington of having a biased policy in the region and vowed to demonstrate more independence from the us than his predecessor parties paula slayer gauges the possibility of of that actually happening. mohamed morsi came to power on promises to make could the

capital of palestine and open up egypt's corridor with gaza his presidency promised his supporters a chance to reclaim egypt some pride especially on the international stage one of the curious things is that the americans have been to egypt since morsi was elected and they congratulated him but morsi didn't rush off to united states he went to china instead and also to iran which was a diplomatic snub to united states but the snub it seems more of a token gesture because when angry egyptians took to the streets to protest against the united states the muslim brotherhood kept in the background and president morsi is criticism of the u.s. was muted dr saeed sadik a longtime observer of egyptian foreign policy says morsi cannot replace the united states with another world superpower but godless of how much he might want to change your foreign policy or restructure it it's a big process and you need i'll turn it on and the alternative is not i don't think

china is ready for. being a policeman the fact is there for egypt to prosper and solve its economic problems it still needs washington cairo receives close to two billion u.s. dollars a year in economic and military aid and so two and a half months into his presidency the new muslim brotherhood president is having to maintain an increasingly delicate balancing act his hardline supporters on the one hand the waist and washington on the other prompting many observers to ask what if anything has changed since mubarak's era egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era were quite strong the u.s. is an important partner in economic partner for egypt and it would be very difficult for us to any president coming in during the nomic crisis to rock the boat but the recent violent demonstrations. the real talks of

a proposed one billion american dollars in debt relief to egypt and although washington stresses this is merely temporary and there's no major shift in u.s. aid to egypt and the relationship between the two countries remains strained this wall was erected several days ago to prevent protesters from reaching the american embassy on the other side but there is no sign of anyone wanting to take it down a physical reminder of the growing barrier that now exists between cairo and washington but it's a barrier that neither side wants to make permanent because while morsi might be pulls apart politically from his predecessor on the international front he's trading remarkably close policy r.t. . in europe outrage over an american film marking is engulfing new countries clashes have no erupted in the greek capital as muslim protesters try to break through to the u.s. embassy and our parents forty people have been detained it follows the unrest in france where muslims took to the streets after

a french magazine published caricature of the prophet mohammad police in paris or arrested twenty one people for defying a ban on protest rallies and reacting to the publications hundreds of students gathered in tahrir rant to call for the explosion of the french ambassador ryan brands based journalist robert harness says paris only has itself to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government is in a very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is large all french leaders like most european leaders are in the in the nato buying they've committed themselves to nato tied up with nato france under sarkozy committing yourself more strongly than any time since general de gaulle to a nato. air is the usual sore stick and carrot trum from washington so that there's another aspect of it i'd also they want to. appeared to be punching above their

weight to use a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in leftwing circles that the government's policy is nonsense you cannot support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it again on wednesday they're playing it both ways they don't want to enrage the the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand they got to stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is only allowed in france on certain subjects it's the ongoing syrian conflict has made many nations in the region fear its repercussions but in neighboring lebanon people are already feeling them clashes between those supporting and opposing syria's president assad have become a common sight on lebanese straights and everything points at the country being dragged into the war even further parties are sick often of explains.

another day another battle in syria. it's a war that has taken on increasingly sectarian tones that some fear could in gulf neighboring countries it's the state's outside more vulnerable the neighbors of syria that could be said to be more vulnerable than syria itself called for gratian and. lebanon stands right in the path of the blast waves lebanon fought its own civil war on to terry and lines for fifteen years and now the syrian conflict is literally spilling across its border syrian troops have carried out incursions into lebanese territory while rebels take shelter in lebanese towns it is aggravated i'm healed wounds from the past string fears of a new civil war that already have had effect here in lebanon it is. the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in

tripoli it is resulted in. skirmishes that have happened in beirut lebanon of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict lebanon sunni's mainly support syria's rebels including the powerful militant group hezbollah tend to back president bashar al assad a member of the alawite sect is divided between the groups that support that the syrian syrian regime and those people who actually. hoping and corrupt allies and go in there for what they scald the free syrian army nowhere is that divide more violently visible than in tripoli on the streets of lebanon's second largest city and sunni gunmen have been battling it out this is been a flashpoint for years but the fear is the violence could spiral out of control and spread across the country when we arrived a shaky cease fire was being monitored by the lebanese army but we spoke to fighters on both sides who showed no willingness to disarm. ok.

you know this is the leader of a sunni militia here in tripoli is babble to ban islam i asked him whether peace with his opponents is possible. as long as assad remains in power there won't be peace in syria lebanon or iraq or palestine through be no peace while he is in force and neighboring general must send an alawite fighter shows me the destroyed remains of his home when asked to explain the recent fighting with his sunni neighbors this was his response not the dollars just we are defending ourselves against machines of terror in their series who have been brought in from the grid. even the push to defend islam is most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of shias to the streets days later a hardline sunni cleric who gathered his own supporters in the capital they may

have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt which side of the syrian divide they're on for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm season is that you guys are going to go. they're going to have their start they can start their careers in the streets here and that. that what they're going to fight it's not so it's never going to get this shelled out building stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades divided this city journey lebanon's bitter civil war of christian communities lived over here to the east muslim communities lived across the street to the west but as the armed conflict in syria continues to escalate just across the border many here in lebanon fear that the fragile peace could yet again be shattered and that sectarian tensions could once again plunge this nation of nearly four million into another civil war for our team and lucy california in beirut. coming up later this hour in georgia. thousands of people

people out there protest against the police abuse of inmates several georgian officials some already lost their jobs but it's not welling the anger of the people who are demanding all those involved in the scoundrel be held accountable. and in the business bulletin later this hour legendary investor jim rogers is a very bullish on the bull story and a lot more at about ten minutes. while many households in the u.k. struggle to make ends meet the government is tightening its grip squeezing out additional cash to meet its international status britain's now top the list of g eight foreign aid spenders but as artie's polly boyko reports a multimillion pound contracts are being signed on the backs of the poor. i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith international according

to that website they provide consultancy on economic and government reform well the website doesn't say is that i want of the number of firms to have profited heavily from the british government's foreign aid budget last year alone the u.k.'s department for international development spent over five hundred million pounds on international projects abroad that's allowed the executives in the company behind me to pocket six biggest salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighty million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they themselves provide two billion pounds worth of international aid each year at a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s wondering whether all this time scales money should be spent on what they call questionable foreign aid the department for international

development has said they're going to stop giving aid to india but that hasn't stopped them building a new office and you know this going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money on furniture now this isn't the kind of spending the taxpayers want to see given the pressure on their own budget so hard for critics of the u.k.'s substantial foreign aid budget there's more bad news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that's going to mean critics contracts the so-called hole the tea barons that run consultancy from like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling to households to brace themselves for the price hikes in food and fuel with poverty here in the u.k. predicted to increase over the next eight years many struggling households are going to be left wondering whether all that money spent abroad on what many call questionable foreign aid might be better used to home. watching our team the rest

of the day's international news and much more is heading your way after this short break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there a friend in nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them apart and therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives will go when professing

designed his first brain bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is alive both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be always out of center nowadays seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many

countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states . financial considerations were one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to western siberia main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america average age is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so eight centimeters would have brought me right to our very very what is the average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal i think a guy is like you expect to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite india ink yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're

normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. welcome back to r.t.m. karen taraji china will reportedly use on men drones to monitor a cluster of islands in the east china sea which are at the center of an ownership dispute with japan tension is escalating between the two sides as beijing sent three patrol ships into the asia pacific to watch over the waters around the contested land dozens of fishing boats from taiwan are also heading towards the islands as it too claims ownership now and lives on the islands though it's believed to be rich in natural resources the u.s. has played its hand and they stand off as well building up military activity in the region and backing tokyo in the dispute defense analyst believes washington's

actions could found the flames for conflict. but it does say the secretary of defense that he fears that there. could be a war between china and he also expressed that the united states is going to support so that means that if you come to blows let's hope let's see the chart that would send the labor force to try to appreciate as they serve each force or be change for the good of course charge that tries to follow their first like try to locate. further so then the united states. and the two major regional war leads to. us at once they'll be. plenty more stories waiting for you on our website our team dot com you can head there for the latest. fatal conjecture a double amputee who has been shot down by

a police man after pulling a head on the officer one more at our team. plus after israel ramped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program it's now rattling sabers saying it's not only tel aviv which can strike first learn more about that after. the leak of a shocking prison abuse video in georgia has left the government scrambling to save face but they were rolling wave of protesters only gaining momentum archie had a chance to talk to the man who filmed the videos and he claims the president wasn't tiredly aware of what was happening in the facility. the public is in fact still so shocked and angry that the comparing to be footage from georgian prisons would vary from guantanamo except it convenes suspected terrorists while here we're talking about ordinary georgian inmates another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the ordinator is all peaceful protest movement

got to take more yeah he was detained on saturday by traffic police officer we were not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he wasn't even the crime be wheeled off before stopped by the police early our team managed to meet old american started all this really good videos i was going to be the crowds that we used to be one of the senior staff members of the the baddie for that in b.b.c. claims that personally shot many of these videos because those are the georgists interior minister should the video was to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people once he take you to prison you are nobody you have new dignity this is why these videos cost such outreach in georgia all of this is definitely a huge blow to be a mutual theo gordie's since to be election oh to parliament is going up on the first of october in aborting to the leaders in. both president saakashvili and the

ruling party have already lost up to twenty percent of all supporters. parties you've got this going all continues to follow the latest developments in georgia as more rallies are expected on monday you can check his twitter feed for all the objects in one of his latest tweets report says protesters are telling him they won't back down until their demands are met meaning the arrest of a former police chief and then only some activists from jail. taking a look at other news from around the world us our at least eleven people are dead and as many as thirty eight others still missing after an avalanche had a group of climber. it's on a himalayan mountain it's struck on mt among us lul in northern nepal with the world's eighth highest peak the autumn climbing season comes right after the end of the monsoon rains making weather conditions on predictable because of the avalanche is still being investigated. religious celebrations turned to tragedy as at least

nine people were killed and thirty injured in a stampede in the indian city of our local officials say hundreds of worshipers were crushed as people flooded into a temple for morning prayers stampedes during only festivals are common in india was another occurring just a day ago near the city of new delhi killing three and injuring twelve. all right time for the business news with natasha so experts say the ruble could be a good investment absolutely including a legendary investor jim rogers he really believes in the ruble all the details in just a moment but first let's check out the equity markets european shares are in the red almost three quarters of a percent for the dax as you can see u.s. futures are pointing to a lower opening on wall street a major slide for the russian shares this hour not surprising considering the global sentiment and asia closed firmly in the red of concerns that the euro crisis

is far from being resolved on the currency market the euro is reflecting these concerns weakening to the u.s. dollar and the russian ruble is extending last week's slide to the major currencies a legendary investor jim rogers recently said he is interested in buying into the ruble sergei grier from russia's new konami school says it could be profitable. in an economy like russia currency is a function of david allowed loan price both things are very volatile so it's a cave it profitable as well it does much it would be much worse if central bank defended the ruble or or kept it from appreciation i think it's very good it is determined by the market russian this is so generally known that it and as he said the russian government do realize the potential of russian economy will be a good building floor and those who come to earth will make a lot of money and that i think is understood by jim rogers. russia's

a top ten lender p.s.v. will go public the bank will reportedly offer up to thirty percent of its shares in moscow in london by mid october raising around half a billion dollars. and that's all the latest from us here at the business desk i'll see you back here in fifty minutes thanks for that update. and coming up shortly on to discuss is the rolling wave of anti-american protests with al star crook director of the conflicts forum and in beirut. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v.

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sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again fled the flu these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day.

was optimism surrounding the arab spring has been replaced by worries about the

arab fall as a wave of anti western protests and violence sweep across the muslim world. but for one former british spy in the recent events brings to mind unheeded lessons from the past in his thirty years of british government service alastair crew has operated in trouble spots all across the globe from helping them with fighters in afghanistan against the soviets to working with rebel political groups in northern ireland cambodia and colombia as a former special envoy to the middle east he has brokered a number of cease fires between israel and the palestinian movements fatah and hamas he now serves as the director of the conflicts forum in beirut where r.t. set down with him for an exclusive interview thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us what is the wave of recent violence the anti-american a wave of protests across the middle east do you see that as a coordinated effort or or perhaps just a reaction to what's going on on the ground it seems to me that what happened in libya was well planned well conceived i mean very well planned.

and was certainly not something that happened just out of the blue and it coincided of course with the anniversary of nine eleven. and seems to be more serious i don't think that necessarily suggests that everything else that this that occurred during this period. was therefore coordinated or well designed or or or or well planned and what it did touch was a real lady to a sense of anger at what people see as the continuing aggression this place here against their traditions of games culture against their way of being in the three by western state the recent events the sudden outbreak of salafist violence in libya itself in bed and the the very seeds of what you.