the shutdown shock roughly three hundred million dollars goes down the drain in the first twenty four hours of the us federal hole experts warn of losses in the billions. m.p.'s from greece's far right golden dawn party or in court on criminal charges following a public wave a fury over the killing of an. musician. and behind the scenes of syrian diplomacy. exclusively to russia's ambassador to the un. about what needs to be done to the road for peace.

headlines with. moscow welcome to the program today america's federal shutdown is beginning to take its toll the world's largest economy has already lost around three hundred million dollars on just the first day the u.s. government seized operating and it's been estimated the loss will only accelerate with no sign of the lawmakers resolving the ongoing budget crisis. has been finding out how americans are 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's among the businesses offering special shutdown deals we don't know with the purchase of a donor with a government id big but i still think the tourism is at

a standstill with iconic landmarks shut down most of the places they. closed today all 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 gilbert arizona thousands of miles across the country hoping to. you know show him 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 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 asked corded 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 our team. and you talk about reverberations of the u.s. government shutdown of sending shock waves across the globe stoking worries and fears in europe asia and even as far as australia and the u.k. prime minister david cameron has said that america's budget bickering is a grave risk to the entire global economy and the headlines around the globe are

echoing exactly that sentiment in fact the french daily hall said the shutdown is a blow to the credibility of the united states and a comment from germany dutch spiegel calling america a super power power lies in itself i want to china's major news portals scolded the lawmakers for holding their own country hostage and the australians pointed out that washington's struggle to agree on the budget does not speak well about the world's largest economy as a financial expert petrie young explains when squabbles in congress end up suspending the government of the world's biggest economy it's a bad sign for investors. 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 i actually think 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 to the 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 between what looks like frankly a few needy tain agers but instead they're the government of the united states of america becoming over something in their backyard over which we really shouldn't need to have an argument whatsoever and with the u.s. government shutdown continuing into its second day of the alarms or wringing over its negative affects piling up on america for example let's give you an idea about the loss here and federal wages essential services are continuing to operate but with their pay delayed however there are an estimated eight hundred thousand

workers who have been stood down and will not be receiving their paychecks and let's not forget about the soaring business on certainty and the depressing confidence of consumers money lost by federal workers on unpaid leave alone roughly amounts to about a billion dollars per week but moody's analysts say if the shutdown continues for a month it will cost about fifty five billion dollars roughly the same as the losses caused by hurricane katrina and sandy excluding property damage charley mcgrath the founder of the wide awake news he believes u.s. lawmakers are completely out of touch with the members of the nation. 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 it's not 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 that decide what gets 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. and nasa is one of the nonessential services affected by the government shutdown it's now being left grounded on its fifty fifth anniversary ninety seven percent of its employees now have a day off today likely though they're not in the mood to celebrate and we spoke to tom jones a former nasa astronaut. i was 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. they can always head to our web site for more on this story of online constantly updating a minute by minute news line of america's federal shutdown just check it out of. your own leisure. much more government shutdown until congress funds or you. are let's zero in on athens here on the program of the leader of greece's far right golden dawn party

set to appear before magistrates to face charges of criminal activity for senior members of the group have already made preliminary court appearances a climb down on the political. by the killing of an anti fascist musician last month carried out by a member of golden dawn. farmers in athens. while the crackdown against golden dawn continues to pay 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 can lower your costs and that followed police making a direct link between the party and the death of an anti fascist rapper while that action did quell a wave of public come arrest 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 level these charges and it will backfire we demand a rise because at the moment we don't have a 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 the 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 and for athens it's all right now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow a lot more to come for you in the program including fighting to survive a report on how farmers in portugal are setting up patrol groups. to combat the metal thieves in the region who are stealing their. falling equipment. and a widening crackdown on egypt's muslim brotherhood in the mists accuse the government of being too harsh and of pushing the country deeper into political deadlock. being an expensive car saloon. the new fashion show. also designed.

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it's also a lot from moscow a russian investigators have started to file formal charges against a group of greenpeace activists being held for attempting to storm an oil rig in the arctic stuff five of the protesters have been charged with piracy let's not cross live to watch he's able to piss going off for the latest on this developing story here on a go to good to see you back to. being handed a formal charges what's the latest on the story can you bring us up to speed while the investigative committee began filing official charges against greenpeace activists and they are being accused of piracy if found guilty then they could face up to fifteen years behind bars for the say that their actions didn't only threaten the lives of the oil rigs workers but the environment as well greenpeace denies all the accusations claiming that it was a peaceful protest just to remind you on the eighteenth of september a group of the organization's activists tried docking to an oil rig in the russian north several tried climbing on board to leave or arrested by the federal security

service and then all thirteen were brought to the northern city of more than once where most of them remained today's arrest was prolonged for two months spending an investigation and earlier we heard from president vladimir putin who said he didn't see or didn't view the activists as pirates but calling to him the still of violating the law and i was green peace says that this is the biggest attack on the organization assumes the french security service destroyed its rainbow warrior vessel and killed an activist protesting against nuclear tests in the pacific ocean all right alex he's going to thank you. we're coming to live from moscow and advance team of u.n. inspectors have kicked off their mission in syria arriving in damascus to oversee the elimination of the country's chemical stockpiles the experts there have a very tough task ahead they have to find and destroy about

a thousand tons of toxic arms all in a country that's the war the un security council approved the mission last week as part of a syrian chemical disarmament resolution that's after all costs poison gas attack outside damascus the deadline to destroy all facilities is the first of november many find the timeline just a bit too ambitious it is the narrowest window that any u.n. team must have to face in the nation but russia's ambassador to the world body vitaly churkin told r.t. the challenging time frame will work only if 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 the year and also provided there is a required cooperation from various opposition 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 on but 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. that was just a preview of our e'squus of interview with russia's ambassador to the un the full version available for you on friday in our sophie and co program. no i just want to get online all the time you can always find out what our web being lying up for you are by the hour for example right now there's one story that talks about a peace prize for putin politicians political scientists and activists want the

russian president to get a nobel prize all this for his role in resolving the syrian chemical weapons crisis . and storage find molecules containing plastic to discover one of saturn's sixteen moons is the first time they've ever been detected outside of. art to cairo we go where violence has erupted at a rally by islamist supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsy as they gathered in tahrir square though this time 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. true reports from cairo. egyptian security forces stormed to cairo incumbents ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tends to tone down over six hundred people killed

a month on brotherhood activists like mustafa say they have been driven underground because. 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 so it's not dropped 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 kyrie's main sit ins off the august body dispersed by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing by their activists like mr they say their own able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's courts or whatever. there is a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. rights organization say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and its fusions or its.

related to the muslim brotherhood this is of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood also will not do 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 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 movements mr arthur and his fellow activists say it makes them more determined than ever the tension pushing egypt further towards a bigger crisis. for r.t.

cairo and the story is libya to open up the r.t. world update with a new u.n. report saying that torture and ill treatment often leading to death a widespread in libyan jails the means of abuse are said to be the most frequent way they get confessions right after arrest and during the first days of interrogation about eight thousand prisoners are held behind bars without any trial or on suspicion of how having fought for the ousted leader moammar gadhafi at the u.n. investigation has shown at least twenty seven people have been tortured to death in their prisons eleven of them this year alone all done by militias that triumphed in the eight month civil war against that. the u.s. has expelled three venezuelan diplomats from its territory just a day after caracas booted out the same amount of american officials from its country venezuela leader nicolas he accused the envoys of. the

economy at the u.s. embassy deny the allegations and fearing an assassination attempt last week canceled his speech at the u.n. headquarters in new york a diplomatic spot nothing new for venezuela and america and both have been without ambassadors in each other's capitals since two thousand and ten. a teacher protest in brazil turn violent after police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds in rio de janeiro or latin american countries undergoing an educational crisis with a shortage of teachers estimated at three hundred thousand and massively overcrowded classrooms and 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 measure so far as failed to appease protests. three miners have been 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 on a seven hundred metre deep following an early a controlled detonation of mines managers said that while carbon dioxide leaks are an everyday occurrence this time it happened to an extent they did not expect. local farmers in portugal are taking up arms they've set up a patrol to stop thieves from stealing their equipment the problem of metal theft is nothing new but it's getting worse and it's forcing the farmers to take matters into their own hands. investigates. thank meet 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. again so we decided. to protect our property. everyone who takes part in the patrols to keep calm to only use their weapon if they feel the risk to call the police first we set out with them on a patrol despite new laws both in last year to try to deal with the growing problem with thirty say arrests were met with their having creased 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 weapons 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 taps and 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 these 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 in and out of recession global demand for metals has remained high making stolen cables a metal a worldwide growing. markets. this large metal recycling company tells us the black market trade in metal is beaming copper will fetch a thief around full to five year a pick ely about three year actually they say these typically targeting smaller

scrap yards are less likely to ask questions and it's an industry that's incredibly hard to regulate a lot but as with all laws it's possible to get around them. and the law was passed just last year granting police more powers and tightening industry requirements these counter measures include the implementation of a cashless system meaning to sales of more than fifty year a scrapyard should be required to write a check despite the new bases being introduced a metal theft cost the state's estimated twenty million year last year. to metal theft is a growing problem in lots of countries in europe since the crisis we're hoping the new measures will be effective parts of it will take time for them to take effect. but until the pope is under control the militia val to continue fighting back

against the growing wave of metal that. surface i see portugal. it's been a pleasure having you with us here in oz he said i'm wrong research a stepping aside for you. before yulia gets here though a special report on the events that shook russia two decades ago get ready for black october ninety three in just a moment on. the music. to build a. mission to teach me.

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