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good morning. and welcome to the program. america's federal shutdown is beginning to take its toll the world's largest economy has already lost around three hundred million dollars on the day the u.s. government seized operating it's now estimated the loss will only with no sign of the lawmakers resolving the budget crisis with more from new york. day two of the us government shutdown is underway and experts say for every hour that washington remains power lies it will become increasingly painful for american citizens and the nation's economy to the shutdown erupted after the republican controlled house of representatives failed to come to an agreement with the democratic led senate on passing the federal budget the core issue obama's affordable care act known as obamacare

a group of republicans refused to fund the government and possible unless the president's health care plan was dismantled or defunded and as the government overseeing the world's largest economy and military remains closed for business experts say the global reputation of the world's superpower may suffer the worst damage there's literally nothing the u.s. government can't and won't do for unclear reasons sending whatever shock waves they feel like sending into the u.s. and global economies i can't imagine a recipe that would undermine confidence in the dollar of the u.s. or particularly the u.s. government faster or more effectively than what we see on every news channel in the world every day for a week and count down the last government shutdown in one thousand nine hundred ninety six under president bill clinton that lasted twenty one days and white house officials say cost the country some two billion dollars now this shutdown will not end until president obama and congress agree on a budget but

a bigger worry is that if washington remains polarized the u.s. may be on the brink of defaulting because in a few weeks another battle over the debt ceiling will begin reporting from new york . party. leaders being the u.s. politicians are. trying to bring the government back on track and in the meantime americans themselves are getting increasingly stressed lives well now find out how washington is feeling the pinch. it's really frustrating for the american people and for myself to see you know our government be so inefficient local businesses say they're getting worried we depend on the government here especially for this business and we have a lot of agencies around here so we're just going to turn a little quiet around here he is among the businesses offering special shutdown deals we don't know with the purchase of a donor with a government id the. tourism is at a standstill with iconic landmarks shut down most of the places.

closed today thousands of people come to d.c. each year to visit the monuments and museums but today at many of these places like here at the natural history museum they're greeted with a sign like this one announcing that they're closed this family traveled from arizona to do some sightseeing we drove our kids from arizona thousands of miles across the country hoping to. you know show them the national treasures and teach him a little bit a little bit about american history and show him how great this country is instead we're learning about government the world war two memorial was closed off to visiting veterans until members of congress came to help break the barrier among them congresswoman michele bachmann maybe eight to twelve of us members one member had a scissor cut the tape and then we just passport at veterans bachmann blames the democrats

for the shutdown we haven't even gotten return calls most of the time from the president or from harry reid even the last one the last bill said will fully fund the government by which you sit down with us so we can hire an out some concerns that we have harry reid said not to do that you just take our way or no way but many others point their finger out the republicans they're the ones who put the obamacare bill into the funding bill that has no business being there the hope now is that a deal comes through. so everyone can get back to business as usual in washington liz wahl r t. the us government shutting down is sending shock waves across the world stoking worries and fears in europe asia even australia and financial experts young explains my colleague bill dodd that when squabbles in congress and up suspending the government of the world's biggest economy it's a looming bad omen for the investors this is just another example of how difficult

it is to trust the american government machine but ultimately what do we want to see as investors well we like to see leadership i'm not one of the problems we have at the moment unfortunately mr obama seems to be occupying the white house but he doesn't give us any confidence that he's actually leading the united states of america ultimately right now investors aren't taking any for their knee jerk action but of course what we're warming up to is going to be another couple of weeks' time somewhere between i think the seventeenth and the twentieth of october where actually the american government is going to reach the point where it has to go and borrow more money and the problem with that is it's been drinking vodka like an alcoholic for forty or fifty years and the bar tab needs to be paid but in the meantime they're hoping to get some more credit there's a lot of overreaction here isn't that this this crisis may not last very long and of course the u.s. economy is showing signs of recovery so it's not looking that bad for the future is it. oh gosh you know it's very important to understand where we are in this

perspective and that is of course that in the little bubble which is washington d.c. and the capital politicians love to try and make a drama thing that they possibly can we're seeing this incredibly amazing entrenched found off and you know what's really happening is actually ultimately while obviously there are problems for those million people who aren't getting paid at the moment and indeed the eight hundred thousand who ultimately have been furloughed for the time being actually what we have here at this in between what looks like frankly a few needy but instead they're the government of the united states of america big over something in their backyard of which we really shouldn't need to have an argument whatsoever and with the u.s. government shutdown continuing now into its second day and the alarms are ringing over its negative effects piling up on america first of all let's discuss the issue the loss in federal wages essential services are continuing to operate but with pay delayed for about an estimated eight hundred thousand people the workers who have

been stood down won't be receiving their latest paychecks and let's not forget about the soaring business uncertainty in the depressing confidence of consumers a money lost by federal workers on unpaid leave alone roughly amounts to a billion a week but moody's analysts say if the shutdown continues for a month it will cost around fifty five billion dollars roughly the losses caused by hurricane katrina include excluding i should say property damage charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news he believes the u.s. lawmaker is completely disconnected from the people. this is united states of america the richest country in the world we have forty nine million people who are living in poverty forty eight million of them are on food stamps now the last government shutdown ninety five ninety six where you sit in it it under a trillion dollars in sovereign debt today we sit at seventeen trillion dollars in sovereign debt you know twenty million people unemployed is there a disconnect that is an absolute understatement in a washington d.c.

i truly believe does not understand what the average person in this country is going through most people even in the mainstream are starting to understand that washington d.c. does not serve the people that elected them and sent them there in most cases it's not saying all five hundred thirty five members of congress are out to get their constituency but it sure seems like the people that stay there for decades at a time they control legislation to decide what's to be talked about on the floor of the congress or on the floor of the senate you know these people are there so long it's obvious that they're special interest driven you know they're there to make sure that the crowd when the tax dollars for the special interest that help fund them and keep them in the position of power. is one of the nonessential services affected by the government shutdown and is now officially grounded on its fifty fifth anniversary ninety seven percent of its employees have a day off today but they are probably not in the mood to celebrate we spoke to tom jones a former nasa astronaut. i experienced the same thing myself back the last time we

had a government shutdown in one thousand nine hundred five and i was an astronaut and i was told i was an essential part of the agency so i did report to work during those days but it is frustrating because everyone has deadlines everyone has a schedule to keep and be told to just mark time and lose this time and makes everyone feel that they are there or not they're not able to do their job. and you can head to our web site with the story online team constantly updating a minute by minute news line of america's federal shutdown have a look at it dot com if you like. much more government shutdown until congress funds if you. are to ten minutes past the hour here in moscow for senior members of greece's far right golden dawn party appeared in court of charges relating to criminal activity

down the political group was sponsored by the killing of an anti fascist musician last month allegedly carried out by a member of golden dawn reporting from athens. while the crackdown against golden dawn continues hey scimitar heavy police presence and paste in the party have appeared in court here in athens charged with being part of a criminal organization a total of six have been arrested along with its leader the cost me kill only of course and that followed police making a direct link between the party and the death of an anti fascist rapper and while that action did quell a wave of public on the rest following that death it has also produced a backlash from golden dawn and also from their supporters one of whom spoke to r.t. anonymously. to show my support for the golden dawn. it's unfair of the government to abuse charges and it will backfire we demand because at

the moment we don't have the golden dawn will continue and it will remain strong as the ideology not its people what you have to remember that despite all these events golden dawn still remains the biggest political party increase it has eighteen elected m.p.'s and getting rid of them will not be easy it is against the law to ban any political party here in greece and even if you did put the politicians in jail they would still remain pays what's more golden dawn is now threatening to remove all of its politicians from parliament and that would trigger by elections and perhaps destabilize an already fragile coalition and in turn could jeopardize greece's chances of securing more european bailout money but the country already waiting to hear if it will receive the latest tranche of e.u. i.m.f. money worth one billion euros andrey farmer from athens much more

news to come still on the program here what are. fighting to survive reform and how farmers in portugal setting up patrol groups and their own attempt to combat metal thieves in the region who are stealing their farming equipment. and a widening crackdown on egypt's muslim brotherhood as is the mists accuse the government of being too harsh and of pushing the country deeper into crisis. there's a nine story building i noticed that standing on the troops was a man in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. to say something that offends so they really do they use blank or wooden shells but the building was

burning through my how much time it took to restore it. we voted for yeltsin in the referendum deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us out of all we have to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. three couldn't take three. years three. months three. three. three. three broadcast quality video for your media projects free media are to tom. are the world's top headlines this hour here on r.t. an advance team of u.n. inspectors have now kicked off their mission in syria arriving in damascus to oversee the elimination of the country's chemical stockpiles the experts though

have a tough task ahead to find and destroy about a thousand tons of toxic in a country that still at war the u.n. security council approved the mission last week as part of a syrian chemical disarmament run. aleutian that's after all ghosts poison gas attack outside damascus and the deadline to destroy all facilities is the first of november many find that timeline a bit too ambitious it is the narrowest window that the u.n. team has ever faced in any nation russia's ambassador to the world bodies the tally china can he told r.t. the narrow time frame will work if indeed all sides take part. this is a difficult schedule but i think there is reason to believe that this is a realistic schedule provided there is cooperation from the syrian government which we see as lear and also provided there is required cooperation from various apposition groups one important element of this resolution twenty one eighteen is

that it makes demands and not only on the government of syria but also about is a position groups there must also play their part it will create a political momentum which will allow us to move. from an agreement on chemical weapons in syria to agree to an agreement on a political settlement of the crisis in that country and convening the geneva two conference and that was just a preview of our exclusive interview with russia's ambassador to the united nations and the full version available for you on friday in our sophie and kosher. not just on air but also online all the time you can find out what our web team is lined up for you. including a peace prize for putin politicians political scientists and activists want the

russian president to get a nobel prize for his role in result resolving the syrian chemical weapons crisis. making and historic find molecules containing plastic i discovered on one of saturn's sixty moon since the first time they've ever been detected outside. thanks for joining us here on our teachers the moment on the world update fernald

violence erupted at a rally by islamist supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi as they gathered in cairo's tahrir square for the first time in over two months meanwhile egypt's military chief has called for a speedy political transition but the muslim brotherhood is accusing the army of an escalating crackdown on their activities saying it will only drive the country into a deeper crisis reporting from cairo. egyptian security forces stormed to cairo incumbents for ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tents are torn down over six hundred people are killed a month on brotherhood activists like mr. say they have been driven underground. i have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed and show it's not tracked now i can live in my apartment if i move from one place to another life has become very

difficult for over a month this was the site of one of cairo's main pro morsi citizens after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing but there activists like mr fair they say they aren't able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's court order banning them as a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and it's. related to the muslim brotherhood this is a week of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood or anything but supporters of the interim government say there is documented evidence the brotherhood uses violence so silencing its membership they say is necessary to ensure stability and the transition to democracy to hang with the ministry in the thirtieth of june

revolution which was the second wave of the twenty fifth of january revolution muslim brotherhood killed a lot of egyptians they had no problems killing innocent people they proved they were to push egypt into civil war morsi supporters maintain they are being prevented from peacefully protesting the brotherhood's newspaper was also shut down its website announced this week they had to move operations to london due to the escalating crackdown. there rather than stifling the meat mints. activists say it makes them more determined than ever the tension pushing egypt. a bigger crisis. to libya we go to open up the r.t. world update now a new u.n. report says that torture and ill treatment often leading to death a widespread in libyan prisons the means of abuse is said to be the most frequent way to get confessions right off the arrests during the first days of interrogation

about eight thousand prisoners are held behind bars without any trial on suspicion of having fought for the ousted leader moammar gadhafi or the un's investigation has shown in the least twenty seven people have been tortured to death in the prisons eleven of them this year alone all being done by militias triumphed in the eight months civil war. the us has excelled three venezuelan diplomats from its territory just a day after caracas booted out the same amount of american officials from its country ivan is where the need nicolas maduro to accuse the envoys of plotting to sabotage the economy of the u.s. embassy deny the allegations just last week my daughter counsel to speech at the u.n. general assembly claiming his life would be in danger in new york america and venezuela where they do have a long history of difficulties of being without ambassadors in each other's capitals since twenty ten. a peaceful teacher protest in brazil turned violent after police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds in rio de

janiero latin american countries undergoing an educational crisis shortage of teachers estimated three hundred thousand overcrowded classes as well government rallies have been rocking brazil since june with demands for more public spending on schools public health and transportation in response president dilma rousseff has since approved a law that would reserve seventy five percent of oil profits for education the measures failed to appease. protesters. and three miners are being killed after a gas leak caused an explosion in a salt mine in eastern germany four others were rescued after being trapped inside the powerful blast occurred in a seven hundred meter deep following an earlier controlled detonation of the mines managers said that while carbon dioxide leaks are an everyday occurrence this happened in extent they were not expecting. the local farmers in portugal taking up arms they've set up

a patrol to stop thieves from stealing their equipment and the problem of metal theft is not new but it's getting worse forcing the farmers to take matters into their own hands. as the report. thank the farmer militia a rural community fighting for its survival these local portuguese farmers struggling to protect their learnt from metal. we've already had so much storm and it's almost time to harvest the crops. so we decided. to protect our property. everyone who takes part in the patrols to keep calm to only use their weapon if their field. we set out with them on a patrol despite new laws pulls in last year to try to deal with the growing problem thirty say of arrests for metal have increased to an average for a day compared to just a few cases each month

a couple of years ago this fantasy become so incensed the lack of progress with catching the things that they've essentially taken the law into their own hands and have gone out on patrols some of them carrying what the farmers don't want us to film them with their weapons although they tell us all the guns are licensed they know the patrols skirting on the edge of legality. the thieves have been targeting the farmers metal irrigation taps used to water crops the tops them selves not worth the huge amount but when stolen. so the phone is telling us that around six hundred of these irrigation taps are being stolen at a cost of a hundred thousand euros and if you just take a look he told us when the caps were stolen all the water came gushing out on to the learned in front of it and you can see the damage that has been done as

european countries did in and out of recession global demand for the metals has remained high making stolen cables a metal a worldwide growing. market. this large metal recycling company tells us the black market trade in metal is booming copper will fetch a thief around four to five year a pick kilos in iron about three year overkill they say these typically targeting smaller scrap yards were less likely to ask questions and it's an industry that's incredibly hard to regulate there are a lot but as with all also it's possible to get around them. a new law was passed just last year granting police more powers and tightening industry requirements these countermeasures include the implementation of a cashless system meaning to sales of more than fifty year zero scrap yards should

be required to write a check despite the new measures being introduced metal thirty cost the state an estimated twenty million euros last year. metal first is a growing problem in lots of countries in europe since the crisis we're hoping the new measures will be affective part it will take time for them to take effect. but until the problems force under control pharma militia val to continue fighting back against the growing wave of metal thefts. i see portugal. thanks so much for joining us here on our team this morning it's nearly half past nine moscow time just a moment on our special report what about the events that shook russia two decades ago black october ninety three in just a second. is

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