shooting itself in the food us media reports suggest that secret american casually were used to the afghan government have been ending up in the hands of warlords drug barons and even the taliban insurgents that nato has been battling against for the last decade. a russian passenger plane as reportedly come under a missile fire in syrian air space but one hundred fifty nine passengers flying home from egypt narrowly escaped unharmed. cash for cuts greens gets a multibillion dollar be out in return for slashing fifteen thousand state sector jobs as the e.u. braces itself for a new unemployment figures. in the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states raising questions about its priorities as a cozies up to genes with poor human rights records. as

a.t.m. in the russian capital watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program how the u.s. has for years been calling for crack down on corruption within afghanistan's government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have played a driving role in the shadowy deals there media reports suggest that millions of dollars in cash are regularly shipped to the afghan leadership in return for u.s. influence and running the country president hamid karzai has confirmed a shipment of claims that there is scope is being exaggerated details from our she's got a. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has

received billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cash to fuel corruption in the country the cia apparently delivers the cash every month in suitcases backpacks and plastic shopping bags. much of the money goes to paying off more lords and politicians many of whom have ties to the drug trade and in some cases the taliban the result. appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats online foresman agents say they're trying to hold president karzai was asked about the ghost money you. get he basically dismissed the payments as no big deal saying those are monthly small amounts used for various purposes as the cia declines to comment and other u.s. official has been quoted as saying the biggest source of corruption in afghanistan was the united states afghan officials quoted in this new york times were poured

said a number of senior officials in the afghan national security council are individually on the cia's payroll there was an interesting story with the administrative chief counsel mohamed. ali he was arrested in two thousand and ten in connection with the sprawling american led investigation that tied together afghan cash smuggling tele been following is seeing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the cia helped persuade the obama administration to back off the option. possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington. anti-war campaigner richard bakker says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan have in no way helped the country's population. it's really amazing

when you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the one nine hundred seventy nine in the one nine hundred eighty s. the cia largest operation and sometimes history was carried out in america is there and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand their team again to stand ranks exactly lasts so it really indicates what the corrupting influence that the cia intervention is head over all of these years and continues to have today and they're spending a vast sums of money the real the us military budget this year overall will be over a trillion dollars and we have a candidate in the united states virtually half nearly forty percent of the population according to the government itself is now in the live in poverty or as low income and the interest of the people have been sacrificed on the altar of militarism. now the united states takes action to ease the alarming situation

that's developing at guantanamo bay extra doctors are being sent to the camp where detainees are on hunger strike but key human rights concerns remain unaddressed and that's ahead for you here in our teeth. now greece has been handed twenty two point eight billion euros that's the. and money it desperately needs to avoid the fall the cash was unlocked after athens did away with fifteen thousand state jobs to meet budget demands set by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . but the mood could get grimmer yet as the european commission draws up the euro zone's a latest on ploy mandate up well after last month's disappointing figures expectations aren't high well as you can see here the most indebted states have been jobless numbers soar and use unemployment is roughly double the overall rate but as our

reports it takes more than just numbers to see the truth stan of the damage. the unemployment rate in years and this resulted in a certain record twelve percent of those age twenty five in the world countries like spain and greece that number is a slight as more than fifty percent during a sign of any economic improvement and for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to climb aboard many of the right to leave their home countries like niccolo wriggles e a biology graduate from italy now working initial in brussels and the situation in italy was when you leave the office because the only thing everybody needs to get is a really sure contract for three months or six months with absolutely move to sydney to your room now for any. industry most of them were to be unpaid the situation room is super heads ditch and you can't really think of your future he says

it wasn't a walk in the park a budget either as many companies require a working knowledge of both french and dutch a barrier that may be hard to mccomb but perhaps still more attractive for some of the going back home i mean if you really do it in two thousand and twelve percentage of young people in the greats from italy grew up by thirty forty percent in two towns and i think really what you'll know work eat into the future and it's not just the citizens feeling the pitch foreigners would come to europe to seek new opportunities started their will business is building their lives to now will also change their minds threads iana this meant leaving greece and david all the way back to her native ecuador and while homesickness was the initial reason for the move she has no regrets about making that decision the sixth one fails allison and many foreign is decided to leave grace and move to countries like

germany and switzerland but the greeks who stayed behind are saying that the. situation is really difficult there for instance serviceman he used to get one and a half thousand euros are now paid just nine hundred m. our place has been open for two years even though it's still new i believe we have very good prospects for the future. something she says just isn't possible near right now to trent if you look at the figures in countries like ardent some people argue that a whole generation has left and perhaps for good you know go to. an office or are you going to stay here for the same day or so soon you are team brussels. now the crisis in golf in europe maybe starting to literally cost lives academics behind a major study say that as many as ten thousand people have committed suicide due to financial ruin dr david suppler oxford university who is researching the impact of

steering nomics on public health says politicians are risking more than they realise. what we've seen in studying recessions over the past century and the focus of the present crisis is that recessions hurts but when politicians respond with deep cuts so vital social supports they can turn those recessions legal in the worst case we see greeks after rate cuts malaria prevention budgets we saw a return of outbreaks at the country of their control for the past four decades the same hiv infection spiked by over two hundred percent at a time when the hiv budget was caught similarly we've seen across europe already produced series of epidemics from suicide to form on access to health care to hurt yourself proves that you can get fever so far europe's leaders have been and denial of the human costs of the stereo policies that pursued across europe

and assuming for america what this question or recently asked of what we need to do is take into account the health effects that i had on the policies had ouster even rhyme it like any other drug trial it would have been discontinued because of it is so excited it's now with a scandal over a loan rating between the world's top banks stock results and new converse is brewing in the financial world yes agents are investigating huge sale raid manipulation on the entrance market and many of the war lengths are once again implicated well here's my take on it and we've got the full show in your way at seven thirty g.m.t. . the current scam is being perpetrated by barclays and these other banks are happening in real time and they're reported every day in the paper you don't need to go beyond that you don't need to see who's anywhere connected to this criminality other than the actual criminals themselves i don't care about the

burglar because we don't need to have a conspiracy theory about people that might or might not be committing crimes when we have actual criminal behavior being committed in real time openly tauntingly it's just i think people who are upset to build a bridge i think it's an excuse for them not taking action instead of taking action against the guy runs i kept there saying oh we have to go after the build a bridge because they're too timid to go after the actual criminal they're too lazy to go out actual criminal. and influential british think tank believes the country should send more troops you have in the persian gulf region this is a time when the u.k. military is at its smallest and two hundred years the royal united services institute conclusions come as a surprise to many who fear such a move would further destabilize an already troubled region as police boyko now reports. ri c. is a world renowned defense think tank that credited with really influencing government

defense policy so these recommendations and what they're talking about in this paper to be taken lightly the paper talks about the fact that it might be britain might be considering stepping up its military presence in the gulf states especially next year after they pull out from afghanistan now that would be quite a departure from forty years ago when they actually shut down a string of defense bases in the gulf states and they say that might be wise considering that the rest taking place in the arab states at the moment they might want to preempt trouble if they're based in the gulf states at the moment on the other hand there is of course the problem of some of the human rights records of some of the countries that they might be dealing with that might be good for since it and of course being about returning to the middle east in terms of military presence might force some observers to talk about to retire to imperial powers and

imperial aspirations so to talk about britain's presence in the gulf states. i'm joined in the studio by chris bambery he's a political analyst quests the recent paper says that increased military presence in and of would be justified considering the instability that we're witnessing at the moment in the region what do you think was the british military presence in the gulf could only instability rather stabilize what is the instability the gulf states the movement internally to the gulf states what we're talking about is a democracy movements we've seen. is a pretty good interview against democracy move to minute human rights and sometimes on a nation nor. would she would be told what to do with what we're seeing at the moment so i think so from sanctions against iran. it's all. an american builder. in the persian gulf which is deliberately as part of attempt to build put

pressure on the regime what about the question of money we know that britain is very strapped for cash the arab states are swimming in it if you've got a cash cow why not well david cameron and they're all farmers you mention and your have been milking the big banking bull ridden potential asking for money and selling anything they can return for that's actually a very cool between you know that emirates and bruce that some forty million pounds build what once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of the actual gas i think they'd be killed and developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put it in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial policy which has been spearheaded by the united states with britain trailed behind and the decision to a increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thank you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan the gulf will become the u.k.'s

main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially if according to resee they could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. while you can find more on the condition of the inmates and read what their lawyers have to say on r.t.e. dot com also on the website a russian couple wins a legal battle for their child who was taken in by californian child protection workers after a dispute in a hospital. and if you live in the u.k. you could soon lose control over your fridge a british national grid suggests computers should shut down your home lines was one the energy level is low this is more on our website.

a russian passenger plane has reportedly been shot at in syrian air space the pilots managed to avoid to surface to air missiles saving the lives of some one hundred sixty people on board because of the three four pts. it was a norway and air bus a three twenty we know that it had landed safely and its destined destination which is the city of cazan in one of the russian republics that was leaving the resort city in egypt there had been some conflicting reports about potential missiles but that is not something that we've been able to confirm all we can say is there was some sort of an incident and according to russian officials the pilots themselves had reported seeing some sort of military action that they felt could be a danger to the plane and they would boarded we took a base of actions show officials have said that they're going to investigate this issue and try to get the bottom of it we have to keep in mind of course that over

the past more than two years now syria has faced rather dire state of civil war where the embattled government of president bashar al assad has been growing fighting a growing insurgency various groups of rebels who have been rebelling against the government it's been a serious state of civil war with that has claimed more than seventy thousand lives and of course heavy weapons on the ground both within of course the military of president bashar al assad and also with the rebels there have been some reports of anti aircraft weapons in the hands of the air the rebels we will of course keep you updated on all the latest as the details come in it remains unclear whether the people on the ground knew they were firing at a russian civilian plane however syrian rebels earlier said they consider any aircraft belonging to countries that they see as backers of president asa to be legitimate targets danny maki from the syrian youth movement suspects the attack was the most. of which could have happened was rebel fire from missiles which could

have been given by regional countries can from government forces it's very hard to define whether it's intentional by accident but it probably would be intentional. forces would fire a missile off an airplane a civilian aircraft without it being done in country b. the history of rebels using. missiles to fire again fifteen especially in the south of syria so we need to know the principle. which probably would have been committed by rebel forces and should gain condemnation from all the states all throughout his career who actually commit this. but it does show that these are not the liberal forces which the west wanted to arm in the first place and the thought that they would even consider the atomic russian airplane showed that the limit of the barbarism because russia is a political solution in this area because they would be another target for rebel groups for any russian civilians or iran. especially inside of syria including arab and almost three months after the hunger strike started to spread among inmates at guantanamo bay prison camp the u.s.

is finally taking action over the situation there now it's and some forty medics to the camp to help those detainees who are refusing food that's more than half of the prisoners more than twenty of the protestors are being force fed and some have been hospitalized meanwhile the key issues raised by the starving inmates out of indefinite detention and human rights abuses remain on addressed by washington so most of the guantanamo detainees are being held without charge a man he have been cleared for release terry psychiatry professor at their right institute things the best way to keep the inmates alive would be to give them more humane conditions. when one or two people go on a hunger strike it's an extreme act they're taking the risk of their life and they have a message that they want to deliver they are joss that all of the possibilities to communicate and have a voice when a hundred people or twenty seven people even go on a hunger strike you've got a major problem with the harsh conditions and the and the answer is to settle with

the prisoners and improve the conditions instead they're playing a extremely dangerous military playing extremely dangerous game of letting them starve to death and then the question of whether they should be force fed or not which is not really the real question the real question is why not address their demands. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world believe u.s. constitutional court has ruled that current president ever more all is going to run for a third term in december next year the court said that the country's updated constitution which allows only one reelection came to power after a morale is the second ten years started and doesn't apply to use for sturm this has caused outrage among the believe you know opposition which claims the decision is biased. queen beatrix of the netherlands is to abdicate from the throne in favor of her son will i'm alexandra become the first king ever once in a war of in a century celebrations have a ready grip the country with crowds paying tribute to the outgoing queen.

what ash has refused any international support in dealing with the consequences of wednesday's factory collapse hundreds of people are believed to be still trapped under the debris as the death toll of almost one hundred people is expected to climb it's believed a factory collapse as it wasn't built properly while the owner is facing seven years in prison the incident was followed by a massive protest over safety conditions. cost of a five people have been found guilty of human organ trafficking the court handed down the maximum sentence of eight years to the head of the clinic and christian where the surgeries took place he and he's an accomplice is found poverty stricken people from eastern europe and central asia to buy their organs the clinic was closed in two thousand and eight after a turkish maddest kidney had been removed collapsed at the airport. i roadside bomb has killed one and injured two more french troops serving in

northern mali brings the total death toll to six since the beginning of the campaign in the country in january deployed forces there to help government troops stop coddling militants from taking the capital about four thousand french troops still remaining in the country. now with the boston marathon bombing investigation ongoing various theories have emerged around the store you with one suspect data the other in the custody of professional pundits are all having their say about the facts of the case one theory is that the elder brother tom or launcher knife was captured alive and then deliberately killed by police the suspects mother is a proponent of that one as she claims her songs were manipulated by the u.s. government others even say they have proof of the whole tragedy was staged with actors playing the victims in pain instead of blood well meanwhile investigators have found female d.n.a. on one of the bombs of the individuals and danity remains a mystery as well as whether she was involved in the tap and as artie's medina koch

now reports fresh revelations are also emerging from the nation of georgia. and speculation continues regarding where exactly the elder brother at the middle on saturday became so interested in radical islam and russia's north caucasus during his six month visit or in the united states where he lived for over a decade if the possibility third country being involved is known circulating in the media and that third country is georgia which tomorrow allegedly managed to visit during his trip to russia back in two thousand and twelve now this theory is fueled by the latest revelations coming from georgian prime minister. he believes that the previous government led by president ford dissolved some of its powers was involved in recruiting and training a group. chechens and these camps were later set up to send trained militants to

russia's volatile north caucasus to further destabilize the situation there now prime minister believes that there are strong suspicions that the authority us work closely with terrorists. booklets and so it is possible that terrorists had been trained in georgia but the investigation is under we let's wait for its results we will get a lot of new information maybe even some shocking findings there are suspicions that authority has worked with terrorists and militants so if this information is confirmed this will be shocking some say that the investigation will hurt the countries of the countries even if it will only be if somebody else conducted the investigation so far it remains unclear whether this ricin news has sufficient grounds on the one hand it could just be the latest twist in the ongoing political rivalry between two political factions in the country president mikheil saakashvili

and the new government led by prime minister when you should really on the other hand it's really well known that georgia wasn't ready on friendly terms with russia after saakashvili came to power so there could be some real grounds for the speculation so now investigators must establish whether there is a new frontier opened up in the terror trail and whether this takes the boston bombing choir you know new direction now as the investigation for seeds new details are emerging every day the state to stay updated log on to our website or to call for the most recent developments on the boston marathon attack. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations rule the day. now to syria and the rest could soon move closer to israel's border the conflict has forced damascus to pull thousands of troops from its part of israel occupied golan heights that's left an area well suited as a staging ground for armed jihad is a progress israel finds rather worrying. reports. technically israel and syria are still at war but paradoxically for the last forty years the occupied golan heights have proved to be relatively peaceful until now. i believe seventy six. ok it's. it's open no one you know. the jews

a religious minority very distantly connected to islam were split by the un mandated ceasefire border in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven when israel occupied the golan heights since then those who live on the israeli side of the fence have been paying close attention to the events on the other side recently their reasons for worry have been supplied as news of a major reconnaissance mission by syria broke in early april the information came from western diplomats who said that the recent redeployment of syrian troops in the area was perhaps the biggest one in more than forty years some say that as many as twenty thousand highly trained soldiers have left the golan heights leaving behind what could be described as a security vacuum which could soon be filled by none other than the syrian rebels who have already tried taking shots at the druze villages in the golan heights. the druze say is there was fighting in syria target them as followers of a cult. and visit us.

just. some of the. very very. very. on top of that jihad is militants operating in syria seem to be now getting a helping hand from within israel itself the israeli internal security service shin bet said instances of israeli arabs sneaking into syria to fight alongside radical islamists have increased in recent months something they insist that the. almost never occurred before they go and decide not just to join the syrian opposition but to join the islam is sectors and more specifically the sell off areas and more radical part of the salafi which like the a lot for a front which as we know i've recently pled to alliance to al qaeda so it's the same reasons that have driven people in the past to join jihad in in iraq even the un peacekeeping force finds the situation for other unsettling conflict is always

possible everywhere yet is the sounds of gunshots from the border with syria get louder and seem to move closer to home is really fishes are already showing signs of getting close to hitting the panic button saying they're ready to hit back militarily if the situation in the golan heights becomes critical and that may mean yet another war for israel in the golan heights in a ghost r.t. and right after the break a partridge will bring you the latest from the world of sports stay with us.