shooting itself in the food us media reports suggests that secret american payments 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 has reportedly come under a missile fire in syrian air space but the one hundred fifty nine passengers flying home from narrowly escaped unharmed. cash for cuts greece gets a multibillion euro payout in return for slashing fifteen thousand state sector jobs as the e.u. braces itself for new unemployment figures. and the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence and the gulf states raising questions about its priorities as

a cosy result to regimes with poor human rights records. nine am in moscow you're watching r t with me marina josh. the u.s. has for years been calling for cracking down on corruption within afghanistan government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have played a driving role and 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 the shipments but claims that their scope is being exaggerated details from marty's got it. 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 of u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cash went 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 of that appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats online for spent agents say they're trying to dismantle president karzai was asked about the ghost money and he acknowledged receiving it 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 to another 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 with board 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. leahy 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 and the opium trade person karzai heavy released within hours and the cia help persuade the obama administration to back off. 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. and how we're campaigner richard bakker says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan

have in no way helped the country's people. 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 hundred seventy nine in the late eighty's the cia the largest operation in entire history was carried out in america is there and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand and thirteen afghanistan ranked exactly last so it really indicates what about the corrupting influence that the cia interventionists head over all of these years and continues to have today and the spending over various sums of money the real the us military budget this year overall be over a trillion dollars and yet we have today in the united states virtually half nearly forty percent of the population according to the government itself is now in the living in poverty or as low income and the interest of the people and sacrificed on

the altar of militarism now the united states takes action to ease the alarming situation is developing at guantanamo bay extra doctors are being sent to the camp for detainees are on a hunger strike but the human rights concerns remain on addressed as i have for you here in r.t. . greece has been handed two point eight billion euros the latest tranche of its second bailout and money it desperately needs to avoid default the cash was unlocked after athens did away with fifteen thousand state jobs to meet budget demands had by the e.u. and beyond math. but the mood could get grim error yet as the european commission draws up the euro zone's latest unemployment data after last month's disappointing figures expectations aren't high well as you can see here the most and data states have seen jobless numbers soar and youth unemployment is roughly double the overall

rate but there are tests are still you know reports it takes more than just numbers to see the true extent of the damage. the unemployment rate in years and this recent history record twelve percent of those cities twenty five of her countries like speed racer that number is a surprise more than fifty percent her side of any economic improvement for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to find work many are the time to leave their home countries like niccolo wriggles e a biology graduate from italy now working initial clytie in brussels and the situation italy was the israelis will keep the truth the only thing every student to get is really sure contract for the next three months or six months with absolutely new facility to do all through enough again in my industry most of them were to be unpaid the situation this super heads gets you can't really think

of your future he says it wasn't a walk in the park in beijing either as many companies require working multiple such a barrier that may be hard to overcome that perhaps still more attractive for some than going back home i mean if you really didn't mean to tell us in trail how critical for young people any greats from you tell you grew up by thirty forty percent in two towns and i've read what you don't know what he'd be interested in and it's not just e.u. citizens feeling the pinch foreigners would come to europe to seek new opportunities starting their own businesses and building their lives have now will also change their minds freddy yana this meant leaving greece and go all the way back to her native acquittal or and while homesickness was the initial reason for the move she has no regrets about making that decision as expected also many

foreigners 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 thing. for instance servicemen who used to get one and a half thousand euros are now paid just one hundred m. our place has been open for two years even though still new i believe we have very good prospects for the future. something she says just isn't possible right now to trent she look at the figures in countries like ardent some people argue that a whole generation has left and perhaps for good you're not going to say i don't think so you know they're still here for the same tests or sylvia r.t.e. brussels. the debt 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 stock lore of oxford university who is researching the

impact of the sterett economics on public health says politicians are risking more than they realise. what we've seen in studying recessions over the past century the focus on the present crisis is that recessions hurts but when politicians respond with deep cuts to vital social supports they can turn those recessions legal in the worst case we see greece after rate cuts malaria prevention budgets we saw the return of outbreaks of the country and kept under control for the past four decades the same age i.b.m. parachute spiked by over two hundred percent at a time when the h o b budget was caught similarly we've seen across europe austerity breed a series of epidemics from suicide to form on access to health care to go south groups and even can get bigger so far europe's leaders have been denial of the human costs of the stereo policies that he pursued across europe and soon in

north america but this question recently i asked him what we need to do is take into account the help that i had on the poles had a house dirty but rhyme it like any other drug trial it would have been discontinued because of it is the outside of us. now with us carol over a loan rate thanks in between the world's top banks still unresolved a new converses brewing in the financial world u.s. agents are investigating huge scale rate manipulation on interest markets and many of the world's leading banks are once again implicated well here's next geysers take on it and we've got a full show coming your way at seven terry t.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 and i don't know i don't

care about build a bridge group 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 the people who build a bridge i think it's an excuse for them not taking action instead of taking action against a guy around i kept there saying oh we have to have to build a bridge because we're too timid to go after the actual criminal they're too lazy to go after the actual criminal. now russian passenger plane has reportedly come under fire and syrian air space to surface to air missiles are said to have narrowly missed the aircraft which had around one hundred sixty people on board are to lose confidence reports. it was a norway and airbus 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 in

egypt there have 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 the 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 russian officials have said that they're going to investigate this issue and try to get to the bottom of it we have to keep in mind of course that over the past more than two years now syria has faced a rather dire state of civil war where the embattled government of president bashar al assad has been growth 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 well it's remains unclear whether

the people on the ground knew there were firing at a russian civilian plane however syrian rebels earlier said they consider any aircraft belonging to countries they see as backers of president assad to be legitimate targets daddy mckay from the syrian youth movement suspects the attack was intentional. the most amazing concept which could have happened was rebel fire from missiles which could have been given by regional countries or taken from government forces it's very hard to define whether it's intentional by accident but it probably would be intentional no global forces would fire a missile at an airplane a civilian aircraft without it being done intentionally there's history of rebels using. missiles to fire against civilian aircraft especially in the south of syria so it can essentially another reprehensible act which probably would have been committed by rebel forces and should gain condemnation from all the states after it is clear who actually committed this. but it does show that these are not the liberal forces which the west wanted to in the first place and the fact that they

would even consider to attack russian airplane shows that the level of our barbarism because russia's specific question in this era crosses they would be another target for rebel groups for any russian civilians or any russian. especially inside of syria including arab and now the syrian conflict is becoming a security haddock for the entire region the pull out of government forces problem is a major concern for israel as jihad is militants have started flooding the uncontrolled area right next to its border. well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. speak your language anything about the war not a day in. the news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. there's a little turn to angle stories. you hear. in spanish to find out more visit. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow now an influential british think tag will leave the country should send more troops to go through terror arab state and all region this at a time when the u.k. military is at its smallest and to honor yours the world he nodded services in such

its conclusion calm as a surprise to mattie who fear as such a move would further destabilize an all right direction is probably boycott now reports. ri c. is a world renowned defense think tank that credited with really influencing government defense policy so these recreation 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 it might be based on rest taking place. 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 human rights records of some of the countries that they might be dealing with that might not be good for britain's image and of course talking about returning to the middle east in terms of military presence might force some observers to talk about retiring 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 the gulf 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 can only instability rather be stabilized what is the instability in the gulf states that woman internally to the gulf states what we're talking about is the democracy movements we've seen. or is a pretty good interview against a democracy movement domonique human rights and so on to other nation nor i think

the real word she wouldn't talk which ability to run and what we're seeing at the moment i think is cool so from sanctions against iran. use is also an american one. no should build a bridge 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 they're all farmers you mention and you have been. begging bowl ribbon potential asking for money. in the can return for that very cool between the united arab emirates and some forty billion pounds worth of trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of the actual gas development to dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial polar sea which has been spearheaded by the united

states with britain truly behind and therefore decision to 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 war bunkie ukase main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially if according to resee there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. 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 it sent some medics to help those detainees who are refusing food and that's more than half of the prisoners well more than twenty are the protestors are being force fed and some have been hospitalized while the key issues raised by the starving inmates those of indefinite detention and human rights abuses remain on addressed by washington and

most of the autonomy of detainees being held without charge and manny have been cleared for release terry colbert's a psychiatry professor at their right institute thinks 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 exhausted all the possibilities to communicate and have a voice when off one hundred people or twenty some 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 is playing extremely dangerous game of letting them starve to death and then the question of whether they should be forced better or not which is not really the real question the real question is why not address their demands. you can find out more on the condition of the inmates and what their

lawyers happens say on our website as r.t. dot com also mind today a rough couple wins a legal battle for their child who was taken in by california child protection workers after a dispute in a hospital. if you live in the u.k. you could soon lose control over your fridge the british national grid suggests computers should shut down your home appliances when the average level is low and this and more on our website are two dot com. thanks. thanks thanks. thanks thanks thanks . now take a look at some other stories from around the world and believe u.s. constitutional court ruled that the current president have a moral is can run for

a third term in history next year the courts have that the country's updated constitution which allows only one reelection team out of power after all is the second ten years started and doesn't apply to us first term this has caused outrage among believing opposition which claims the decision is biased. roadside bombs killed a french soldier serving in northern mali and injured two other troops that brings the total french death toll to six since the beginning of the military intervention in january paris deployed forces in the west african country help government troops there stop as honest militants from seizing the capital around four thousand french troops remain and mali. cost of five people have been found guilty of human organ trafficking and court handed down the maximum sentence of eight years to the head of an illegal clinic in pristina where the transplants played and he and his accomplices recruited impoverished organ donors

in eastern europe and central asia the clinic was closed in two thousand and eight after a turkish man whose kidney have it removed collapsed and an airport. by 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 rubble and the death toll of almost four hundred people as expected to climb it's believed the factory collapse due to faulty construction the owner is facing seven years in prison and the incident was followed by mass protests over worker safety conditions. the syrian rescued soon moved closer israel's to israel's border and the conflict has forced the mask is to pull thousands of troops from its part of israel occupied golan heights to fight rebels in other parts of the country that's left an area well suited as a staging ground for armed jihad is a protest israel finds rather worrying as art is ridiculous can our courts. technically israel and syria are still to war but paradoxically for the last forty

years occupied golan heights have proved to be relatively peaceful until now. i believe seventy six. right ok it's. it's open no one you know and you can feel. 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 multiplied 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 islamists fighting in syria target them as followers of a cult. and. some of the very very. very shoot them you know. 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 the. that has 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 law first and the 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 iraq even the un peacekeeping force finds the situation for other unsettling. always possible everywhere yet as the sounds of gunshots from the border with syria get louder and seem to move closer to home is relief issues are already showing signs of getting close to hitting the panic button saying they're ready to head back militarily if the situation in the golan heights becomes critical and that may mean yet another war for israel in the golan heights r.t. . on back with more news in the half an hour or so coming right up the syrian refugees who have found a new home and south russia. most

people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially creates second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or black starting apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow areas in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people in the e.u. with their modern sensibilities would find these practically bob baer american backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these

non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of apartheid the non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect to participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think that people would be outraged over segregation but what happens to russians and russian speakers is just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion.

my name is that. i am from syria and i did the work that you see that i like a war and just i don't go to see my friends and my family in syria. my name is to show. i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be kilmer russian citizens. why name it.