breaking news on our t.v.'s hour the turkish parliament votes in favor of military operations beyond the country's borders following wednesday's deadly shelling from syrian territory. does the was to russia is to blame president assad for the call suborder violence moscow calls for restraint on both sides and highlights the lack of global condemnation for the terrorism that's killed dozens and unless. and africans are rockets as protester of storm the greek defense ministry and the latest show of despair in a struggling country. thank

you for joining r.t. were rebring you the latest we start now with breaking news turkey's parliament has just approved cross border military involvement following the shelling of a town from syrian territory on wednesday tension on the border is worsening with turkey renewing its retaliatory shelling of its war torn neighbor for a second day in retaliation his middle east correspondent paula slayer brings us more. into the early hours of thursday morning turkey launched military fire against civilian targets this follows overnight operations in which the turkey military continued to fire on to the syrian side now the whole incident was sparked when a mortar bomb was fired from syria into turkey as territory it hit

a residential building killing five members of the same family and injuring another thirteen we don't yet have a clear information as to who fired the mortar we don't have exact information as to the extent of the turkish retaliate freak accidents but certainly this is intensifying situation on the ground we are receiving reports that a number of syrians have been killed by the turkish operations now in the past week turkish military has moved into northern iraq to root out of there kurdish militants and what some people are noticing is a parallel action where you almost see now that syria is moving into countries to deal with rebel fighters there turkey certain wasted no time in going on that offensive immediately contacted nato as well as the united nations have called this a bomb an act and has urged the international community for immediate action now on wednesday night an emergency meeting of nato was held in brussels the syrians did

issue an apology they offered their condolences to the family and both sides have called for restraint at the same time we do expect that the turkish call for the united nations security council to meet immediately will be dealt with today what we're hearing from the turkish is that the needs to be immediate and urgent action to what they call syrian aggression so the situation on the ground quite fluid and remains to see to be seen what happens in the coming hours. while turkey approves cross border military operations mall scholars calling for calm on both sides and to engage in dialogue more all of that from thomas. take us through russia's reaction. certainly russian foreign minister sergey lavrov speaking at a press conference from pakistan on the subject of syria. in reference to the cross a border skirmish which started on wednesday called on both sides to establish a lines of communication that is that syrian and turkish authorities should

establish open lines of communication in order to resolve the border tensions and also discuss topics like the flow of refugees now the international community hasn't been quick to condemn the actions of syria but sergey lavrov a calling on a more reasonable diplomatic and restraint a reserve approach if you will he says that both sides are it's important for them to engage in dialogue specifically in the flight of the recent events where turkey has approved military involvement to go across the border now he also says that if a syria isn't to blame for this incident on wednesday then they should make a public statement saying as much now damascus has in turn stopped short of claiming responsibility but it has said that this was a tragic mistake and is assured that they will work hard to try and prevent mistakes like this from happening in the future now this also comes at during a week of much more violence in syria specifically in aleppo

a town near the border which saw four blasts and thirty people dead in relation to this usually the west is quick to condemn a. terrorist actions like this but when it comes to syria they seem to turn a blind eye this is what sergei lavrov had to say about that. we cannot ignore other aspects of the syrian tragedy yesterday a series of terrorist attacks kills dozens of people but for several months our partners at the u.n. refused to condemn terror attacks on syrian territory the u.n. security council always stresses that there is no excuse for terrorism and the fact of their western colleagues refrain from that position now regarding why. terrorists do in syria is a very worrying signal. specially in light of recent events where the turkish parliament gringo that they're allowed to use military across the border into syria two important focal points number one the international community has to

acknowledge that there is terrorist activity in syria and number two syria and turkey need to open their lives of communication and discuss things so things don't get out of hand with the latest developments between the two countries sean thomas live from moscow thank you. and of course a turkey isn't the only syrian neighbor affected by the conflict there artie's discuss the crisis with iraq's prime minister nouri al maliki shares his thoughts on who was instigating the violence you can watch his interview with r.t. dot com. now greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters trying to storm the country's defense ministry five people have been injured in the clashes the latest show a fury has been staged by a shipyard workers complaining they haven't been paid for here police have arrested seventy people it comes as greece is negotiating a fresh cut package with international lenders in exchange for another cash

injection investment analyst patrick young says the country's government had no control of the situation. you know the troika these people who come along and demand cuts they've been coming for the last several years every time they go away they think they've got a deal and the greek side people do stick to it so this time around everybody's finally got to the point where they realize well they might make a deal that might not make it do it but actually we've got all these shows coming along ridiculous pieces of information grohl pretty sure it gets billed to the greek hinterlands with money the truth is the greek government is just out of control it is the ultimate vodka object in a pool of vodka. the children of greece may be too young to understand the country's debt plight but they're increasingly paying the price as parents are forced to abandon their own kids because they can't afford to feed or clothe them that story just ahead plus. and the deputy head of the russian central bank shares

his views without see on point to the easing of the fates of the russian parents see all that and more after a short break. u.s. authorities are accusing employees of an electronics company some of who are russian secretly working from moscow the firms headed by a businessman born in the u.s.s.r. and its allegedly illegally funneled fifteen million dollars worth of cutting edge technologies for the russian military moscow's dismissing that it's a spy scandal calling the case purely criminal artist part reports the russian government considers this just a standard criminal case involving business malpractise and doesn't go as far as espionage the company involved on the russian side apex system sais that it only deals in electronic components for civilian use alexander fishing co the executive of the company in the us electronics and ten others have been

charged with illegal exporting of electronic components fishing co himself has also been charged with operating in the us on registered agent of the russian government be illegal exporting according to the indictment began in two thousand and eight involving millions of dollars worth of tiny electronic components in july two thousand and ten u.s. law in four enforcement began surveillance and according to the indictment and prosecutors they heard how bush and co with his so. see it's used a web of lies to try and of a u.s. export controls including for example telling suppliers u.s. suppliers that components they were buying would be used in traffic lights when in fact they could be used in missiles guidance systems and others would be used for

fishing when in fact they could be huge for antique submarine warfare u.s. prosecutors say that they have devastating evidence collected against those charged including purportedly a letter from a tree run by russia's federal security service the f.s.b. complaining of a defective component to stay with us more international news is on the way from our team of moscow. this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter founded setting up his ute the traditional two

fenian round tent made of disc ins. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says there are still there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here probably most of us simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's

government is having to act making the life of the herd in more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. hello and welcome back to our tea with me. while unemployment and struggling to make ends meet are bad enough for any family but at greece parents are having to make a b.

heartbreaking decision to put their children in care it's because they can no longer afford to feed or clothe them peter oliver reports on a charity trying to shield the young from the crisis. to young to understand why but on the front line of the debt crisis rampant unemployment in greece and the slashing of social benefits has left their parents with money to provide even their most basic of needs what may seem unthinkable has happened these children are being taken into care. for during the past two years we have seen a large rise in the number of children coming to us because their families can't support them because taxis and prices have risen things like food clothing schooling and housing have become too expensive. before the financial crisis this children's village which is run by the organization s.o.'s children usually looked

after kids who'd been the victims of abuse now they say almost all new cases are as a result of the debt crisis this center privately funded through donations is also feeling the pinch. we've seen a significant drop off in donations people get what they can but that is getting worse and worse also we are taxed on what we receive making it more of a burden to buy things we need like fuel for heating. the charity says there's been a seventy percent increase in requests for help this children's village is home to forty youngsters near to thessaloniki and is operating at close to maximum capacity i met one mother who asked not to be identified because of the stigma attached she says she was forced to give up her young daughter after losing her job. it was a norful decision to have to make what could i do there was no money and no work i

asked her if she thought they would ever be reunited as a family i know things are going from bad to worse here it could be ten years before greece is back feet s.o.'s children makes a point of trying to keep youngsters in contact with their biological parents for this family that means one emotional meeting once a month. organizations like this one of becoming increasingly important to help protect a generation of children ripped from their families due to greece's financial failings. with the greek government facing having to make fresh cuts of over ten billion euros the children's village expects to be receiving more pleas for help in the future for this mother and daughter the help they get allows them to appreciate the fleeting moments they can spend together peter all over our greece financial trouble across the atlantic as well as dishing out discipline for

those responsible that's coming up in the casa report later today. here attorney general eric schneiderman has filed a civil suit against j.p. morgan the complaint contends that bear stearns and its lending unit e.m.c. mortgages defrauded investors who purchased mortgage securities packaged by the companies from two thousand and five to two thousand and seven so max investors lost twenty six percent of their investment in just the two thousand and six and two thousand and seven bond that is twenty two point five billion of eighty seven point five billion of bonds that bear stearns had packaged and sold up to pension funds and others made you do it to me why did you lose those people twenty six percent of their money knowingly brutally. why did you do it you know did. all right the white house contenders are back in their corners with the first u.s.

presidential debate wrapped up with no clear winner but it seems barack obama took more blows in fact his challenger mitt romney pushed hard enough for the latest c.n.n. voters' poll to show obama is now the underdog candidates lashed out over failed policies on realistic proposals on employment as well as taxes and health care things spiced up when romney weighed into the president's plan to cut the military budget for weakening national security but the director of the come home america group believes that when it comes to real combat power a line between them. but there are very different at all you know president obama as drone commander in chief using these kill war we will drones and we could ever imagine george bush if you started wars in in libya where there was no u.n. mandate. it was own. going to do the same thing is they're both in the free water table as far as attacking iran. russia is

obama's encircled them obama's also encircled china he's also increased their military presence the united states and. all these military issues they're both of recipe for those of the u.s. military empire and i don't say you know one of them are coming back the military is going one of us historian gerald horne told us that it will be hard to choose the right or wrong candidate because there is almost no choice at all. unfortunately this debate is one reason why nowadays there are those who say that what we haven't learned states is not democracy but a mockery that is to say what happens then to states is that all the candidates of the left such as the green party are barred from this kind of presidential debate and as a result the kinds of policies that president obama has been acting that are subject to withering criticism from the left for example bailing out the banks but not

bailing out homeowners for example this war against libya where they are not able to be criticized adequately by his opponent mr romney and as a result you have a very very tepid debate that takes place how can you have a realistic debate about the problems that this country faces the many problems that this country faces when the kinds of analysis and critique from the left are basically excluded basically this debate comes down in many ways to a choice between tweedle dum and tweedle dee. u.s. authorities are accusing employees of an electronics company some of who are russian are secretly working for moscow the firms headed by a businessman or in the u.s.s.r. and it's a letter to illegally funneled fifty million dollars worth of cutting edge technologies for the russian military moscow's dismissing that it's a spy scandal calling a criminal artie's time barring reports the russian government considers this just

a standard criminal case involving business malpractise and doesn't go as far as espionage the company involved on the russian side apex system sais that it only deals in electronic components for civilian use alexander fishing co the executive of the company in the us our electronics and ten others have been charged with illegal exporting of electronic components bush and co himself has also been charged with operating in the us has an unregistered agent of the russian government the legal exporting according to the indictment began in two thousand and eight involving millions of dollars worth of tiny electronic components in july two thousand and ten u.s. law in foreign force mint began surveillance and according to the indictment and prosecutors they heard how bush and co and his associates used

a web of lies to try and of a us export controls including for example telling suppliers u.s. suppliers that components they were buying would be used in traffic lights when in fact they could be used in missiles guidance systems and others could be used for fishing when in fact they could be huge for antique submarine warfare u.s. prosecutors say that they have devastating evidence collected against those charged including reportedly a letter from a tree run by russia's federal security service the f.s.b. complaining of defective components. america's deadly drones have a new destination in sight watch out libya they could be heading your way soon r t v dot com has more details. plus ambition or upsurge it to

the story of an egyptian woman political wannabe was planning to get to the top of the conservative traditionalist muslim brotherhood. our time now for more world news headlines south africa's mining crisis is snowballing with the nationwide strike it's spreading rapidly and unions refusing to reopen wage talks on thursday the entire industry has been struck by action from furious workers sparked an august when a wildcat strike turned deadly at the platinum mine police violently dispersed the machete wielding crowd killing thirty four workers but leaders were slow to blame police for the deaths. an explosion of hezbollah's weapon depot in eastern lebannon has killed nine people including members of the shiite group and migrant workers the movement confirmed that the blasts destroyed the four story facility soldiers and has cordoned off the area blocking all access to journalists.

all right let's switch to financial matters now dimitri's our business desk for us what are investors looking at today dimitri well first they're waiting for the european central bank to make some kind of decision on its main benchmark rate but it's kept a unchanged so now they're all waiting for an imminent report from the labor department in the united states was take a look at how the markets are faring ahead of that report it's looking mildly positive as a as i mentioned the e.c.b. kept its rate unchanged that point seven five percent so investors basically are seeing that something they were expecting and we're seeing a mild optimism bias next group and we have group of the top gayness on the footsie they're up more than two percent. move over to russia where the mood is less optimistic rather pessimistic i would say one percent losses are based on a lower oil price and even luke oil is shedding two percent despite the company's

head by giving a bit of announcing that he has been having negotiations with the iraqi will officials about speeding up the progress on the west koenigsegg project. on the currencies market the euro's strengthening against the dollar as the rates are kept unchanged while the russian ruble is mixed against both currencies the deputy head of russia's central bank has said that so far as stimulus has not been providing support to the russian ruble added he shared with r.t. his views of what needs to be done to make the ruble stop. with her see a lot of sure what the presumed free zones are with good friends in the rear see the logic of balances it's a good balance and really you know first wave all the truths into the markets but there's not enough would have to see news coverage right the first time now we were both very much lots of already very much dependent on the capital account we want

to salute to be kept to for instance zero zero by. you know push for a boat to. one of the largest steel makers in the country and russia has announced they will buy an indirect controlling interest in response which is the russian producer of coking coal and its subsidiaries the deal could make give ras the company i'm talking about is the largest producer of coking coal in the country the company is currently valued at around five point three billion dollars. and russia's engineering construction firm stroy trans gaz has its first project in the arctic now it's one attended to build an oil terminal for gazprom spoil on gas probably next obviously daily newspaper says the cost of the project could reach one billion dollars and may provide story finance gas with other projects terminals currently planned to be built by two thousand and fourteen . and that's what i have for you this hour but i'll be back in fifty five minutes

time to bring you more as more of course on our website audio come forward slash business thank you dimitri coming up a remarriage economist robert skidelsky explains while staring he's failing and why governments need to factor in human nature. well the true story is technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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then you crave something higher. and when you reach stuff you. go do whatever it takes to get on the top of the world on ours. today i'm talking to north robert skidelsky he's a professor of political economy and also the biographer of john maine arcanes widely considered to be the most influential economist of the twentieth century we'll be talking about what keynes could bring to today's economic crisis notes could ask you first could you explain to me in layman's terms what the government

is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think their policies of made things worse. the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like a very slow leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a stimulus but i think they're quite new initiatives and it's too early to say how much effect they'll have but in general i don't think they will have very much effect and so i don't think at the moment they're doing anything very much to help because there's an awful lot of talk about prioritizing the economy and it's the main thing that we have to work on but on at the same time you say that not very much is being done at all one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves first of all it.