international there in the very heart of moscow. shooting itself in the food us media reports suggest 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. cash for cuts greece gets a multi-billion the euro payout in return for slashing fifteen thousand state sector jobs as the e.u. braces itself for a new unemployment figures. at a russian passenger plane has reportedly come under missile fire in syrian air space but the one hundred fifty nine passengers flying home from egypt narrowly escaped unharmed. and 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 regimes with poor human rights records. eleven am and the russian capital you're watching r t. the us has for years been calling for a crackdown on corruption within afghanistan government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have to play a driving role with a shadowy deals their 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 asking for him to shipments claims that there are scope is being exaggerated details from artie's got its to come. 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 the official said much of the money goes to paying off warlords 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 first went 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 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 report said a number of senior officials in the afghan national security council or individually on the cia's payroll there was an interesting story with the administrative chief of the act council mohammad. mr saleh he was arrested in two thousand and ten in connection with the sprawling american led investigation that tied together afghan cash smuggling tele been financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the cia then helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push 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 were campaigner richard backer says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan have in no

way helped the country speak. 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 and the nine hundred eighty s. the cia largest apparition and it's entirely history was carried out in afghanistan and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand and thirteen afghanistan ranks 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 they're spending a vast sums of money the real the us military budget this year overall will be over a trillion dollars and yet we have today in the united states virtually half nearly forty percent of population according to government itself is now even living in poverty or as low income and the interest of the people have been sacrificed on the

altar of militarism. united states takes action to ease the alarming situation that's developing i go on top of a big doctors are being sent to the camp were detainees are in hunger strike but he human rights concerns remain unaddressed and that's had for here in r.t. . greece has been handed two point eight billion euro that's 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 stay jobs to me budget demand said 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 latest unemployment data after last month's disappointing figures expectations aren't high well as you can see here the most indebted states have seen jobless number soar as greece spain portugal in a bit and youth unemployment is roughly double the overall rate but as artie's test

our city now reports it takes more than just numbers to see the true extent of the damage. the unemployment rate in the years old has recently been a certain record twelve percent of those aged twenty five and countries like spain increase that number as a slight as more than fifty percent of the general signs of any economic improvement and for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to find work many adults like to leave their home countries like niccolo wriggles e a biology graduate from italy now working in a show in brussels and the situation in italy was that it's really the coffee because the only thing everybody needs to get is really sure contract for the next three months or six months with absolutely move to sydney to your room now for any . industry most of them were to be unpaid he says reshoot this soup it gets

and 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 knowledge of both french and dutch a barrier that may be hard to overcome but perhaps still more attractive for some of the going back home i mean if you really do it in two thousand and twelve the british offer a young people to any great detail he grew up by thirty forty percent in two towns and i think we really don't know work eat into the future and it's not just the citizens feeling the pinch foreigners would come to europe to seek new opportunities starting their will businesses and building their lives have now will also change their minds freds iana this meant leaving greece and going 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 six times had also allison

and many foreigners decided to leave grace and move to countries like germany and switzerland but the greeks who stayed behind are saying that the sea. to asian is really difficult there for instance servicemen he used to get one and a half thousand euros are now paid just nine hundred 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 than you are right now to trend 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. i don't think so or. going to stay here for one thing does so sylvia our team brussels. while the debt crisis in golf in europe may be starting to literally cost lives academics behi a major study say that as many as ten thousand people have committed suicide due to financial ruin dr david stockleigh of oxford university who's

a researching the impact of a sterile economics 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 on 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've seen greeks after rate cut its malaria prevention budgets we saw the return of outbreaks of the country and kept under 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 austerity produced series of epidemics from suicide to form on access to health care to tuberculosis south proves that you can get fever so far in europe's leaders have been and denial of the human costs the stereo policies that he pursued

across europe and soon in north america but this question recently passed. what we need to do is take into account the health benefits that i had on the polls had austerity been rhymin like any other drug trial it would have been discontinued because of it is to outside the us. now with a scandal over loan rates between the world's top banks still unresolved and new controversy is brewing in the financial world u.s. agents are investigating huge scale rate made of many fallacious on the entrance market and many of the world's leading banks are once again implicated wealth here is next kaiser is take on and we've got the full shell coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. . scams 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 the 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 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 after the actual criminal. and russian passenger plane has reportedly come under fire in syrian air space and to surface to air missiles are said to have narrowly missed the aircraft which had around one hundred sixty people on board are just like here chefs he has details. there are so many conflicting reports that it's actually hard to say what's true what's not but we do know for a fact that and nor do we in the airlines

a russian plane egypt the russian republic of thought that. led safely in the long run airport but there was information that violet's saw some kind of military threats to aircraft and that's why they had to increase they often should know to avoid a missile hit now this is the official line the official line the fourth child not been confirmed in this is most especially at the moment we're waiting to confirm is that the passengers of the plane actually saw explosions in mid air and that the pilots of this aircraft literally had to do evasive maneuvers in order to avoid to get hit by a missile coming from syria now we spoke to the ideation expert who said that something like this scenario like this would not be possible with a civilian aircraft but one of the passenger planes on very maneuverable and the u.v. shot from the signs are from below something the crew of a passenger plane can't possibly see and an oncoming missile is going too fast for

civilian aircraft to don't. there's already been an incident in january twenty third scene when syrian rebels fired at the iranian plane there was no information about whether there were any passengers or cargo on board that plane but we know that that time the syrian rebels used machine guns and manned weapons not missiles and the plain old though received some some damages but eventually landed safely moreover we heard from the syrian rebels in september last year that any civil aircraft landing in damascus or aleppo would be considered a legitimate targets the syrian rebels believe that the countries who are supporting are using those airplanes to deliver weapons and ammunition to the assad government to the troops now obviously this means that this is a great danger for all civilian aircraft according to the to the head of the russian tourism union the latest incident although it hasn't yet been confirmed

will probably lead to a russian aircraft or companies abstaining from flying over the syrian territory we already know that the biggest russian airline aeroflot has already seized their flights to damascus along with several other major companies so now 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 they see as ak or it's of president asif to be legitimate targets that iraqi from the syrian youth movement suspect 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 noble forces would fire a missile at an airplane a civilian aircraft without it being done intentionally the history of rebels using . missiles to fire against civilian aircraft especially in the south of syria so it

is actually another reprehensible act which probably would have been committed by rebel forces and should gain condemnation from all the states also it's clearer who actually committed this act but it does show that these are not the liberal forces which the west wanted to arm 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 supports a political solution in this area crosses they would be another target for rebel groups for any russian civilians or any russian. specialists inside of syria including arab and now the syrian conflict is becoming a security had for the entire region to pull out of government forces from the golan heights is a major concern for israel as jihad as militants have started flooding into the lawless area right next to its border.

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the international in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our t.v. on influential british think tank believe the country should stand war troops to go for tarion arab states in the persian gulf region this even though the u.k. military has been downsized to its smallest in two hundred years there were united services institute conclusions come as a surprise to manny of fear such a move would further and stabilize an already troubled region as are now reports. 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 not be too 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 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 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 could only instability rather stabilize what is the instability in the gulf states woman internally to the gulf states what we're talking about is the democracy movements we've seen. a pretty good interview against democracy movement demanded human rights and the nation nor i think real and she wouldn't talk which there were trees around and what we were seeing at the moment so i think it's because of so from sanctions against iran. you is also an american should build. in the persian gulf which is deliberate 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. you have been. begging

bowl ribbon potential asking for money selling anything they can return for that very cool between the united arab emirates and some forty million pounds worth of trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of actual gas i think if you kill in the developing 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 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 will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory especially if according to resee there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. almost

three months after the hunger strike started to spread among inmates had guantanamo bay prison camp the u.s. finally taking action over the situation there and home and send some forty medics to the camp to help those detainees who are refusing food that's more than half of the prisoners or more than twenty of the protesters are being forced somehow been hospitalized meanwhile the key issues raised by the starving inmates those of indefinite and from human rights abuses romeo addressed by washington most of the guantanamo detainees are being held without charge very have been cleared for release terry cooper is a psychiatry professor. and the right institute thinks the best way to keep the inmates alive will 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 should all of the possibilities

to communicate and have a voice when one hundred people or twenty seven people even go on a hunger strike you've got a major problem with the harsh conditions in the end 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 force fed or not which is not really the real question the real question is why not address their demands why and you can keep up with how the inmates are faring and read what their lawyers have to say on our t. dot com also online today a russian couple wins a legal battle for custody of their own child who was taken in by california child protection workers after a dispute in a hospital. and a few live in the u.k. you could soon lose control over your fridge the british national grid suggests computers should shut down or home appliances when the energy level is low this is more like. i was hearing rescued soon moved closer to israel's border the conflict

has forced a mask is to pull thousands of troops from this part of the israel occupied golan heights to find rebels in other parts of syria that's left an area vulnerable to arm due to many a prospect israel finds highly warring parties or read english can now 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 and you can feel. the jews 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.

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 some. thing they insist that has almost never occurred before they go and decides not just to join the syrian opposition but to join the islam is sectors and more specifically the law firms and the more radical part of the law office which like the eleuthera 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 get over of conflict is always possible everywhere the 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 isn't a ghost r.t. now is a look at some other stories from around the world believe it is constitutional court has ruled that the current president have a moral wrong for a third term in december of next year the courts out of the countries of d. a constitution which allows only one reelection he would have power after all is the second ten year started and it doesn't apply to his first term this has caused outrage among the believe in opposition which claims the decision has bought. in cost or five people have been found guilty of human organ trafficking and cord down the maximum sentence of eight years to the head of an illegal clinic in parishioner where the transplants took place cos of all benny and dr vishy 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 kid may have been removed collapsed at an airport. well you have to take now and stay with us for the kind of report that's coming up next. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially create 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 errors in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these facts to be 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 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.

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