after. the u.s. government shuts down following an unresolved standoff between democrats and republicans over the new budget set to lose millions of dollars from their wage packets. those prime minister uses his meeting with barack obama to warn against iran's charm offensive to pushing to end the decades of silence with a phone call. or two considered pulling out of the european human rights convention with senior politicians claiming rights were standing in the way just as our top stories this hour. live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned at nine pm this

is. the u.s. government has partially ground to a halt for the first time in seventeen is squabbling democrats and republicans couldn't find a way to agree a new budget clashing over. the current administration's high profile reform of the health system the essential elements of the government such as the military and national security will continue to operate but eight hundred thousand workers are being put on unpaid leave and over a million have been forced to work despite their pay being delayed experts estimate the political stalemate could cost the economy up to fifty five billion dollars that's as much as the effects of hurricane katrina back in two thousand and five services such as the colts transport and the mail will continue to work but they expect to experience difficulties and delays more now from our political commentator. parks closed around around the nation in part in particular here in d.c. museums closed and all these things are going to have compounded economic effects

it's not just people with lost wages when people aren't getting paid they can't spend money businesses start cutting back so the longer this lasts the more and more the economic effects pile up on each other and we haven't even talked about the debt limit which is in two weeks the government shut budge shut down is a known quantity we've been here before we know the economic price tag on that government shutdown that's an unknown quantity and economists fear it could be billions more and immediately plunge the world economy into a recession again a government shutdown look we're talking about money coming out of working people's paychecks that's that's a form of austerity if we get to the debt limit that's an even harsher form of austerity because then the government's going to have to prioritize its payments and only pay certain debt obligations and not other obligations would force even more spending but it's important to keep this in perspective this is the seventh budget showdown between president obama and congressional republicans and each of the last six austerity hawks in congress have one we've had austerity spending resolutions for two and a half years now in this if there's

a resolution of this government shutdown in the next few days it's going to be another austerity spending plan republicans have already won on the spending numbers here democrats have caved the only issue here is obamacare so yes there's going to be more austerity coming and we're starting to see the same effect here in the united states that you see in the european union with working people's wages going down public services being cut suicide rates spiking and ultimately deficits getting even worse. well the u.k. government has risen down a number of times in recent years but lawmakers have always managed to avoid it by the skin of their teeth let's look back at the closest schools in two thousand and eleven government closure was averted just one hour before the deadline after a painful legislative standoff a budget deal was finally agreed the debt ceiling was another nerve racking issue in the summer of two thousand and eleven that made nervous markets in america and around the world tumble but the sky didn't fall in as it was agreed upon a whole two days before the time was up now it's been seventeen years since the

last time the government partially ceased operating but it's actually the eighteenth time the u.s. has taken a so-called spending gap in one thousand nine hundred seven the government was shut down three times in as many months when london based market strategist mike ingram has told us that america keeps stepping on the same rates makes them look like idiots quite frankly. i think previously details. of the government just about managed to avoid a shutdown two and a half years ago and at that point in time credit agency standard poor's downgraded u.s. debt from its aaa status and one of the reasons they gave was they said all that you know this country is becoming ungovernable there's no visibility on what your fiscal policy is that politicians are just playing with fire year after year and here we are again now two thousand and thirteen in the same situation and i would have to say that even once a deal is finally thrashed out this time around and one would hope that that will

actually happen we're probably going to be in the same sort of situation next year british prime minister david cameron meanwhile believes the u.s. shutdown poses a risk to the world economy jeffrey summers is an associate professor at the university of wisconsin milwaukee told me earlier that the image of the united states as a front runner in the global economy is being further undermined. confidence in the united states is beginning to erode because it appears more and more ungovernable and that is directly linked to the issue of dollar senior age so of course for the past thirty five years the united states has spent at it the us dollar being the global reserve currency as people have confidence in the united states as the most stable country or stable economy in the world that diminishes of course then we have this problem of people choosing to park their assets in other vehicles tell us more about what people in america themselves say like what kind of cars the

most vulnerable right. well for the past really thirty years as well but especially the last ten years the working class and the middle class have taken a beating in the united states financially so they've seen their living standards stagnate or even a road and this will just further that because it takes demand out of the economy so this past march for instance we had the crisis with sequester. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimated that that has cost the united states some one point six million jobs that's really huge in a time of this continued and unsteady economic environment so this just further adds to these pressures and again it contributes to this idea that the united states is increasingly ungovernable and unstable so it's a very very unwelcome i think development. much of our government must now shut down until congress funds it again.

britain's slow drift away from the rest of europe continues prime minister david cameron said the u.k. may well withdraw from the european convention on human rights rulings such as allowing foreign criminals to remain in the country indefinitely has long irritated the government and the public on his pretty boy explains. british home secretary theresa may told the conservative party conference that the current immigration system in the u.k. is like a never ending game of snakes and ladders and that questioning the european convention for human rights might be a route that the government chooses to go down david cameron has already endorsed that option that the opening of the tory party conference now the reason they are so worried about this is that at the moment suspected foreign criminals well they have seventeen different routes to appeal if they are meant to be deported under the proposed plans the home office would fast deport suspected foreign criminals and then hear their appeals after they've been deported the winners foreign

criminals and immigration lawyers while the loses all the victims of these crimes to the public where there is no risk of serious and irreversible harm we should deport foreign criminals first and their appeals later now the conservatives view is that the european convention for human rights simply prevents them from dealing with famous cases like that of radical hate preacher abu qatada who famously avoided extradition from the u.k. for over a decade because his lawyers argued that it was against his human rights to return to his native jordan where he could face torture there now that was an extremely embarrassing case for the u.k. government and gives you an indication of why they want to tackle the issue but this is a country already that hasn't been immune to accusations of human rights abuses itself only recently the u.k. government was criticized for detaining glenn greenwald's partner david miranda at heathrow airport glenn greenwald as of course the guardian journalist who uncovered

much of the n.s.a. scandal and his partner was held by police that he through our ports and most of his documents all of his documents was seized and human rights watch called it a shocking act that was aimed at punishing or intimidating journalists and in terms of the reaction. see the conservatives latest proposals well they're already there is highlighting that these plans could may well be illegal under cover and laws and that ultimately they could be the first steps towards the u.k. government simply ignoring the human rights all of people as and when it suits them well there's more ahead for you this hour including leaving a disastrous legacy must be pulled out of nato troops are going to start approach as we take a look at how the drug industry and goal for the country and is now spreading across the world that and other stories after this break.

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video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. if you live in moscow with the twenty four hours a day return to our top story now the polish will shut down of the u.s. government following the failure of washington's lawmakers to agree on a new budget for more on this let's talk live with ivan eland he's an analyst from the independent institute joining us from washington i haven't a bomber is speaking right now so what should he be saying and what can he do to resolve this crisis well i think there right now the republicans and obama are at loggerheads because the republicans least the conservative ones would like to guide his health care program and you're using the budget to do that but of course his health care program is a signature program of his administration so that's why they're at loggerheads.

politically who's going to come out of this would it do any favors all the republicans any favors bearing in mind a future election the electorate. well i think it's going to hurt the republicans more there are some people in washington remember the shutdown of in by the republican congress of the government in one thousand nine hundred five when bill clinton was president and of course that really hurt the republican brand and i think that's what's happening now it's going to hurt the republican brand as well this time and it's very predictable what does it do for the political branches as a whole the political process in washington many countries many people baffled by this that we have a dispute over the funding of health care on hundreds of thousands of people losing their wages as a result i mean what sort of reflection is that on washington's law making process . not only foreigners are baffled by this but america the american people are

baffled by the fact that they're their own politicians can't keep the government open and are using it as a hostage and it's not going to get any better there is a debt ceiling in two weeks that's going to come up come about and that has to be raised or the u.s. can't borrow the government can't borrow any money so i think this is going to be an extended crisis and i think both foreigners and the u.s. citizens i'd ask why a superpower can't manage its affairs domestically better than it's doing a specter professor of economics a little earlier from london he was talking about the massive expenditure on military spending why couldn't some of that have been sacrificed a portion of that sacrifice in order to save these people's jobs. well of course this is a temporary shutdown but you're absolutely right the u.s. spends what the next twelve or thirteen countries do combined on defense and so some of that could be cut but in fact president obama's already signed the law that

says that the military people will get their pay even though. agents or air traffic controllers or other vital people won't so that's a very it's a mystery why why the military can't take it as well and we're this is hopefully a very temporary measure and it may be just a matter of days before it's result but nevertheless what sort of impact would it have now in just those who are losing their wages in the moment but what a society that well i think it you're right it is a temporary thing but the problem is these this step this chip battle of chicken as we call in the united states where the two parties are. face to face and they're looking for one to blink it just goes on it just keeps coming up every time we have one of these debt resolutions or fiscal year start of the fiscal year and developed country can't run on the basis of continual conflict over this these

temporary things and so it's not this one instance but it's the repetition of the standoff and they're using the this time it's the health care sometimes the republicans want reduced spending on government it's always something over the debt ceiling negotiations and that's so it's a chair it's a game of chicken and it's really bad for a developed country to to have this happen and i'm grief leave the health care reform and we'll bomb a compromise and any ways are going to back down because after all he got in the last election as that being part of his major manifesto so it isn't something that much of the american people do want to see. well i think at the head no the health care law is very unpopular what the republicans are concerned with is that it become popular once the subsidies start flowing to various constituencies and that's why they're making a last ditch effort to stop it but other republicans tell them that they won't be able to do that and it's pointless to try so it's very it's

a very complex law and not everybody understands it and i think that's why the republicans are taking advantage of that to try to kill it but they're not going to be able to kill and i don't think obama can really compromise too much on it since it's his signature accomplishment if you want to call it an accomplishment some people don't but it's his signature for isn't ministration so i don't think he's going to he may give them a token. bit of. you know compromise on some of the most of it he just can't do it or he'll end up looking like a fool thanks for this one from independent from washington d.c. thank you tom thank you well earlier i spoke to you again the abortion he's the chief economist at the russian based investment house and asked him about how he thinks the public is in the world economy how they could actually be affected by a lot of this. china is is

a very important trade before the united states if growth in the united states slows down which is the likely. government shutdown definitely the whole world will soften simply because of strong in the store the united states through financial markets and in the case of such important countries like china through trade flows in the longer term depends on the structure just adults of. china brazil india russia for example if we diversify if we decrease the amount of exposure to stated we may be three pieces along but don't start to. want to learn more about how the government shutdown will impact america you can head to our website right now at all dot com. and as i say that is all available for you right now on our web site now the u.s. and its allies head out of afghanistan next year but they'll leave behind

a deadly legacy since the start of the war on terror twelve years ago the drug industry that has thrived and it's not only for internal use afghan made not appearing the world of what he's going to teach can investigate. a war that kills without weapons silently with harrowing its production has increased forty times in the family stone since the nato started its war on terror in two thousand and one before that the taliban as brutal as they war heading forced the ban on poppy growing they declared it was against their religion so hereon production was very low when the u.s. and allied forces invaded the country they allowed afghans to grow poppies they saw it as a way to win locals hearts and minds the u.s. and allied forces have maintained that opium production provides a livelihood for afghan farmers but it's been destroying their lives the lives of thousands of children around three hundred thousand afghan children are now drug addicts my colleague visited one family in afghanistan three mothers all three

addicted to opium heroin and marijuana they blow opium in the face of their children to make them fall asleep so that the grown ups can cater to their own addiction they give marijuana to their very young children they buy drugs before they buy food here's what their daughter said the fear of the night my mother told me let's go to the bazaar i want to buy something for you i said really we went and my mother said to this man do you want to buy these he got to give you and give us a hand written out so we went to buy some dry bread another day my mum needed money and took my sister we were crying sue notch then she tried to show me again i begged him not to and she said that if i go to people's houses and beg then to keep me so that's what i do the u.s. and allied forces have been doing little to stop opium production in afghanistan is killing more and more people and not just in of gunston but far beyond its borders

of ghana's that produces around ninety percent of the world's opium supply the bulk of the eight hundred and twenty tons of heroin that comes out of afghanistan every year ends up on the streets of russia and europe. that drug money feeds organized crime all over the globe kossovo drug dealers for example have become a predominant crime group in europe that is because seventy percent of heroin that goes to europe goes through the cost of a channel in the meantime opium production is growing in afghanistan last year they expended poppy cultivation almost twenty percent compared to the prior year and also what kind of a nation building was bad when it's clear with these afghan children it was anything but that in moscow i'm going to check out what is estimated that forty thousand tons of opiates a stockpiled and that's going to stun something that according to drug watchdogs is

going to worsen in the coming is between two ten and colonel tony schaeffer from the center of a violent stiff in studies he's been to afghanistan to see the situation himself but he's nature completely lost the war on drugs that what you see here is a situation ripe for both corruption and expanded production of opium when i was there in two thousand and three in two thousand and four. there was no effort to prevent the crop from becoming a major economic source of income for the afghan people it was just ignored the drug problem became severe two thousand and four two thousand and six because no one is paying attention to it the u.s. and national international part partners attempt to crack down on opium production has been a dismal failure we have spent billions of dollars on trying to deal with securing afghanistan and dealing with the crop problem for ten years so if you just measure

the amount of money spent by nato i safford united states versus the output of opium now it's a complete failure it's not going to get any better once the u.s. forces and nato forces paired down and leave over the next to yours. israeli prime minister has called iran's new president hassan rouhani a wolf in sheep's clothing insisting the country still committed to israel's destruction but even then you know he was talking at the u.n. general assembly off to urging u.s. president barack obama not to fall for what he called it rolled sweet tool to the latest now from multis port and she joins me live from new york who says the offensive is just a smokescreen to get sanctions lifted tell us more what he's said what he meant. well the israeli prime minister address the world body saying that he does not believe all of this optimism and conciliatory words that have been brought to the united nations by iran's new leader. he believes that iran is

continuing to use its nuclear program to eventually build a nuclear bomb he says that if iran nuclear program is only being used for peaceful purposes why would they continue enriching uranium at such a high grade why would they continue having hidden underground nuclear reserve judgment and also pointed the finger straight president rouhani saying that he was the mastermind of a. strategy to advance iran's nuclear weapons program and he even quoted from president rouhani his book that was published in two thousand and eleven now netanyahu said that the only diplomatic solution that would work with iran is one that will lead dismantled iran's nuclear program and that is not even an option because iran's leader said that iran is ready to be more transparent more engaging with the international community but iran is legally allowed to have a nuclear program for peaceful purposes and they will not concede that they will

not give that up netanyahu also referenced his speech from last year when he pulled out a cartoon diagram of a bomb and drew his red line he said that when he has been very careful not to cross that line so far but at any moment they. crossed that line with its nuclear program he urged the entire international community to keep up all the sanctions against iran not to agree agree to a partial deal and only begin easing the same sions when iran fully dismantles its nuclear program he said it would be naive to think that iran is only using it for peaceful purposes referencing north korea's promises many years ago saying its nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes who spoke for a little interest thirty minutes for twenty seven minutes the bulk of his speech was about iran about. convincing the international community he says not to believe the words that have been spoken by president rouhani and he says that if israel is forced to stand alone it will stand alone if it has to make sure that iran does not

develop a nuclear weapon presumably all this rhetoric is being driven by the sort of relations between washington and tehran. absolutely look i doubt that israel is very happy about the fact that we've seen a lot of positive steps taken in a very short time between between the u.s. and iran i mean let's remember just four days ago when president obama and rouhani had a historic fifteen minute phone call that was the first time in thirty four years that the nation's leaders have spoken and president rouhani when he came to new york he did generate a lot of buzz a lot of reaction and positive reaction from the media from the international community there was also a successful meeting that took place between the five permanent members of the security council in germany and iran's foreign minister a lot of steps have been taken to try to engage iran again iran has been taking the

lead in that u.s. president barack obama when he was meeting with with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on monday at the white house reassured netanyahu that when it comes to u.s. u.s. interests in the middle east that all options including including military options are on the table but the u.s. leaders did say that the iranians are ready to negotiate and diplomacy has to be put to the test so here you know israel now finds itself in a position where the us peons are engaging iran are taking a run up on its offers of being more transparent or working out a deal on its nuclear program and israel of course is not happy about this renewed thanks very much indeed from new york. one of about a new team of morphine and just have a huff enough in the meantime in india for millions forced to live in poverty affordable medicines are one of the few things in life that can be counted on stay with us here on aunty for a special reports on that after the break. recently

the ministry of internal affairs of russia declared that they're going to address to increase operations in and around the moscow subway system with a major emphasis on illegal immigration there is an odd paradox when people talk about dealing with illegal immigration in terms of what the police should do people want the police to deal with it but any means of trying to actually do anything or generally taboo any form of asking people to see ideas viewed as an invasion of privacy or racial profiling well i don't know how exactly anyone can prove they are or aren't a citizen without id and if you're looking for people who are forward and thus different then how can you go about looking for illegals without looking for people who are different profiling if you were looking for

a criminal of slavic origin in uganda when the police be wrong to stop me due to standing out from the crowd i don't think so that's not racial profiling it is just common sense obviously it is best to fight the causes of illegal immigration rather than asking for id in moscow subways but they have to do something so i guess id checks are here to stay but there's a big difference between looking at someone's passport and doing stop and frisk or involuntary blood and urine tests that is what immigration control goes over the line but that's just my opinion. i.

get. i i thank. the majority of india's population does not even have access to primary health care it's. many cancer patients gain access to the treatment through an ngo the.