the u.s. government shutdown begins to bytes with hundreds of millions of dollars trickling away each day of the stalemate while washington's mall makers showed no sign of finding a quick resolution. three senior members of greece's far right. released pending trial three more remain in custody following the killing of an anti fascist rapper last month. so this russian investigators charge fourteen greenpeace protesters with piracy after their attempt to board an oil platform as part of an anti drilling campaign in the arctic our top stories this hour.

from studio center here in moscow where it's just ten to eight pm this is. washington's struggle to govern itself has already cost the american economy hundreds of millions of dollars on the first day of the government shutdown and things alone to get even more expensive with neither republican nor democrat lawmakers willing to back down from their stance on barack obama's signature health care bill sachs as the latest from washington d.c. . lawmakers here are pretty open about saying they have no clue how they're going to resolve this government shutdown the sticking point remains obamacare as you said with house republicans saying they'll only fund the government and reopen it if president obama's signature health in iowa is defunded or delayed by senate democrats are saying no way that's going to happen there yesterday and today there were attempts on capitol hill to provide partial funding the government just partially funded veterans administration and to fund the park service is but those

aren't going anywhere as other lawmakers say they will take full funding of the full government and nothing less despite the government now being shut down there's a lawmakers who want to defund obamacare still going to have leverage because in a few weeks the united states hits its debt limit deadline and there too these lawmakers are saying they'll only raise the debt limit if obamacare is de lay's war or defunded and the president has said repeatedly that he won't negotiate over this and if the government is shut down for another few weeks until the debt limit we're looking at tens of million dollars in economic consequences one of the agencies affected by the shutdown is the national institutes of health and it announced today that they can no longer add any new patients to its lifesaving cancer clinical trials there about two hundred cancer patients including thirty children were expected to be added to these clinical trials this week they now won't be and any new patients won't be added in the coming weeks as this shutdown continues so

also the food stamp program it's not just children with cancer were affected it's impoverished children too the food stamp program is shut down many impoverished families and children will be receiving the sort of food benefits they need and this is sort of a common theme that working class people in impoverished people are being most affected by this government shutdown we're also hearing that. f.d.a. food inspectors have been furloughed many as many as eighty through deplaned. every single day are going without necessary inspections we have immigration courts closed around the country and we have the eight hundred thousand federal employees who've been furloughed now for the second day we're going to be cutting back their spending businesses are going to be hit by that we're looking at a cost of three hundred million dollars a day and if the shutdown lasts two to three weeks it could shave a full point and a half projected economic growth in the fourth quarter for the united states so really pressure is building on lawmakers to do something and do something quickly

but those who have a vehicle with obamacare just don't want to drop a grudge just yet the u.s. government shutdown sparked by a disagreement on capitol hill it's been brewing for years it is alarming those across the world relying on america's economic and political leadership european central bank president draggy said there is a risk to recovery for both the u.s. on the world echoing the concerns of britain's prime minister and headlines around the globe went along similar lines as the french daily figure rose shop the said that the shutdown is a blow to the credibility of the united states in germany speaking online called america or a superpower paralyzing itself and one of china's major news portals pointed out that bickering u.s. lawmakers are holding their own country hostage and the australian thinks that washington is not inspiring confidence in the world's largest economy well next

front wolf he's an economist says that washington is so caught up in its internal squabbles it doesn't see the damage being done. the truth here is what the federal government the united states congress and the white house have exhibited rather aggressively over the last several weeks including through the shutdown is that 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 and 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 counting we're already starting to see hundreds of thousands of people get an involuntary unpaid vacation those hundreds of thousands of people are going out to dinner they're not going to the dry cleaner that are buying a new car or going to have trouble making house payments are going to have trouble making mortgage payments and grants and all the rest and we know the money they didn't get today and tomorrow on the next day is money that they're not spending

now and if they get paid later it will still be damaging to the economy when early in the code to get a vote of the spirit to cut a hole from the u.s. national libertarian party who explained what she thinks the government can do to fix the situation without hurting the public. the federal government is spending about twice as much as the entire russian economy that's just insane it's much too much government spending we need to reduce it immediately and this will this will create economic stimulus and job growth in the united states and tell us more about that american people american people are reacting. well american people very much want the federal government to cut its reckless overspending and this is where they're not listening to the american people people want less government lower taxes lower government spending and this will create private sector jobs which is probably the number one issue here to americans and american voters in particular if they're listening really listening they are going to slow

down the government more and cut spending more and stop these tricks where they close the tourist destinations and other things that they are making tremendous theater out of rather than getting to the real waste in government that is marbled throughout government spending they can certainly cut military spending they can cut entitlement programs but rather than starting with the people who are most in need and now dependent on government there's many many areas they can cut that don't affect poor folks or people in need at all for starters government pensions and government perks which are enormous and typically double what people get in the private sector. loom he's an independent challenge especially as he says if the crumbles it would go to a lot of countries. only the leadership but the whole of china is watching. you wouldn't because. if that is what democracy is supposed to work then fewer

people would want it america's economy is in to twine with so many other you calling me so it's not very good news now if there should be a risk called the fault this would of course hasten the remenant based pace. for it to be political but it will become one of the was of currencies. along. with the queen back. and also china has sunk a lot of money in u.s. treasuries and u.s. treasuries because at the moment it into the dollar so and many other countries are also holding the u.s. dollar as part of the reserve currency polio so the impact would be very very large you would be all over the world. meanwhile in a wide range of social sectors and services are being affected by the political stalemate ninety seven percent of nasa employees are neither working nor being paid on the agency's fifty fifth anniversary we spoke to tom jones he's 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 although 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 we're following the developments on capitol hill head to our web site online team it's constantly bringing you the latest updates on america's federal shutdown that's waiting for you right now at r.t. dot com. much more government must now shut down until congress funds it again. for leader of greece's far right golden dawn party is in court to face charges of criminal

activity and three senior members of the group are being released pending a future trial linked to the murder of a left wing activist and rapper ortiz under a farmer is in athens. well the crackdown against golden dawn continues pay scimitar heavy police presence and pasting a party have appeared in court here in athens charged with being part of a criminal organization 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 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 court to show my support for the golden dawn. it's unfair of the government to level these charges that the party and it will backfire we demand because at the moment we don't have the golden dawn will continue and it

will remain strong the party has the ideology not its people well 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 try and shift e.u. i.m.f. money worth one billion euros and farmer for athens. live from moscow with twenty four hours a day this is r.t. still ahead in the program this hour the conservative party conference in britain concludes with

a grandstanding speech from the prime minister david cameron boasts about the economic achievements of his government but after the break we look at whether behind the optimism has actually made much ground. i told you my language at all but i will only react to situations spoke i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i'll leave that to stick to comment on your place. to carry out a cause i'm not talking. no more weasel workers when you made a direct question and he prepared for a change when you thought you should be ready for a. pretty tough speech. down to freedom to.

keep right on the same keep her strict limits and i think the church. reformers. instantly. please. to be in the. news continues here in r.t. russian investigators a file formal charges against those who took part in a greenpeace protest in which they stormed the oil drilling platform in the last month so far for the group of being charged with piracy which could land them in prison for over a decade. as the details. the investigative committee has begun pressing official charges on the activist are being accused of piracy if found guilty they could be

looking at up to fifteen years behind bars and authorities say that their actions didn't only threaten the lives of the oil rig staff but the environment as well greenpeace denies all the accusations claiming that it was a full protest and just remind you on the eighteenth of september a group of insight into his tried climbing onto an oil rig in the north of russia they were arrested by the federal security service and then all thirty were taken to the northern city of one square most of them are right now but their arrest was prolonged for two months spending an investigation we've heard earlier from president putin who said he didn't view activist s. pirates but he did say that they violated the law and it's not the first time that this particular platform is targeted by greenpeace in august two thousand and twelve another group of its activist actually didn't manage to dock to the oil rig but back then they criticize it for

a lack of security saying that it could potentially become a target for terrorists and now a lot of people are also raising the question of why did they decide to target this particular war rig for the second time since clearly it's not in operation while there are others in the same region belonging to other countries which are in operation and finally from the technical points of view this particular wall rig is stationary which is in general considered to be a much safer technology compared to other similar sea platforms obviously this this discussion this court process is going to continue and of course we will be monitoring how it develops further. and in the latest protest greenpeace activists interrupted a football game in switzerland i descended from the stadium roof unveiling banners with slogans against gazprom a sponsor of one of the teams called for the forty activists held in russia to be. released. a new u.n.

report says torture and ill treatment often leading to death is widespread in libyan jails and estimated eight thousand prisoners are being held behind bars without trial on suspicion of having fought for the ousted leader muammar gaddafi well the report also says that torture is most common straight after arrest or during the first days of interrogation in order to extract confessions in some cases armed groups freely admitted and tried to justify the physical abuse of detainees the u.n. fears that if firm action is not taken there's a danger torture will become institutionalized across the new libya british political activist john rees thinks the ghosts of the nato led intervention of the reason for what's happening there. the truth of the matter is that the western intervention in libya destroyed any process or organic transfer of power from the gadhafi regime to the to the opposition if you come to power under the a goose of a nato air bombardment you aren't necessarily going to have the popular that

legitimacy that is necessary to be able to found a stable the mind of just ministration and that's the and that is now the legacy which the west intervene intervention is because he used the libyan people they bequeath to a state which doesn't have a popular legitimacy which is challenged all on all sides by militias which is breaking apart which is the market at which many of the jails are actually not won by a factor of state control it's all. supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi held a rally in cairo's tahrir square for the first time in over two months it was altered in clashes with police and he is the midst of crowds the muslim brotherhood is accusing the army of escalating a crackdown on their activities while the military says it wants to hand back power to a new government already built through reports from current. egyptian security forces stormed to kyron companies for ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed

morsi back in august tents are torn down over six hundred people were killed a month on brotherhood activists like most of the teep 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 to show it's not a truck 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 promo see citizens after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing but there are activists like mr furze 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 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 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 them and was free 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. rather than stifling the meat meant to stuff and his fellow activists say it makes them more determined than ever the tension he pushing egypt

gets aboard a bigger crisis. for r t cairo. in our world update the al shabaab militants behind a shocking malls in nairobi last week a threat to increase their attacks on kenyan soil used to pull out its troops from somalia al qaeda linked group claimed responsibility for the attack at the westgate shopping center in which over seventy were killed it took the authorities three days to clear the mall of insurgents. in brazil a teacher protests turned violent after police used tear gas and stun guns to disperse crowds from the streets of rio de janeiro since june demonstrators have been demanding more public spending on schools public health and transportation president dilma rousseff has approved a law that would reserve seventy five percent of all profits for education protest is skeptical about the legislation. u.k. prime minister david cameron has portrayed the labor opposition as out of touch in a speech to close his party's annual conference in manchester he also took swipes

at coalition partners the liberal democrats but was very complimentary about the performance of the conservatives on his door smith tells a small. i just want to start by referring back to ed miliband speech last week the leader of the opposition everyone trumpeted that as this as some people said it was the best speech of all time but it's kind of easy to make a speech if you're the leader of the opposition because all you have to do is talk about what you would do if you got into power if you will david cameron if you're going to talk as prime minister about what you're going to do unfortunately you've also got to refer to what you've failed to do so far what you just haven't got round to your shortcomings if you like so what do you do well david cameron started by trumpeting his considerable in some cases economic achievements so on employment in the u.k. is down construction manufacturing that op there are good figures in inward investment good figures in retail sales buildings on the increase business and consumer confidence all up fabulous but then of course you have to talk about the stuff that you haven't done yet of course you can try and blame it on the previous

guys but ultimately it's down to you now your prime minister to for example in this first world country he's talking about this nation he's got to tell us that a number of primary school children so eleven year old children who leave primary school without being able to read or write so essentially illiterate so he says we still need to eliminate literacy in this first world country and given this land of opportunity that he kept on referring back to give those children a chance we also have a massive north south divide in this country which david cameron referred to the north is way less economically active than the south in fact unemployment in the north east is according to some figures twice what it is in the southeast so in london the surrounding areas the tories are looking at addressing that but how are they doing it they're doing it with this highly controversial high speed rail link will called h s two and if you go to any town or city that's being affected by

h.s.t. practically on any day of the week you'll find a small or large demonstration and of course the debt crisis it's not only. yet three years in three years of cuts in we still have in the u.k. one of the biggest deficits in the world and the damning prognosis made by david cameron in his speech is that of course if you don't deal with debt what follows swiftly afterwards is the rising cost of living really what matters is what people thought of the speech and as far as we can see at the moment it's a stark contrast to what they were saying about ed miliband speech last week they were bloggers are calling it a holding speech they're saying it's ok and solid so not necessarily what david cameron's going to want to haring driven to the edge by metal thieves local farmers in portugal are taking up arms to do something about it they set up militias to stop the theft of their equipment or to sort of first join them on a patrol. meet the farmer. a rural community fighting for

its survival these local portuguese farmers struggling to protect their learned from mess with the. 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 the 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 arrests the matter of increased to the average full day compared to just a few cases each month a couple of years ago these bonuses become so incensed that 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 they 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 this huge amount but when stolen. so the phone has been telling us that around six hundred of the irrigation taps have been stolen at a cost of a hundred thousand euros and if you just take a look he told us when these cuts 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 the metals has remained high making stolen cables the metal a world wide world. market. this large metal recycling company tells us the

black market trade in metal is beaming copper will fetch a thief around four to five year old picky. about three year old actually 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 a lot but as with all laws 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 the sales of more than fifty euro scrap yards should be required to write a check despite the new measures being introduced metal theft cost the state estimated twenty million euros last year. if it meant metal theft is a growing problem in lots of countries in europe since the crisis we're hoping the

new measures will be effective but it will take time for them to take effect. but until the problem is under control pharma militia val to continue fighting back against the growing wave of metal that. i see portugal. well that brings up to date for the moment with a news team in just over half an hour from now the meantime with hundreds of thousands of americans left hanging by the government shutdown next and breaking the set abby martin asks if lawmakers are willing to sacrifice their pay packets to . this point being the expensive car saloon. like new clueless a new fashion show. also designer bags and shoes in the best shop windows. luxury is the school.

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what's going on we're going to break in the. latter days of figuring our do nothing congress has decided to do nothing about the government shutdown so here we are for the first time in seventeen years capitol hill is technically closed for business but don't worry as there is still spying on you in the military still drone bombing coverall national parks are closed and services like flu monitoring by the centers for disease control are shut down until further notice to top it off eight hundred thousand other federal government employees are out of work with no pay indefinitely and one of the lawmakers who calls the shutdown. of the unit all we did or you are both are just a moment you are both paid one hundred seventy four thousand dollars a year that's your salary would you be prepared to add some kind of a rider or an amendment onto a continuing resolution that would take you out of the essential services category and stop payment on your paychecks in order to get.