from the. book. the u.s. government shutdown begins to bite with hundreds of millions of dollars trickling away each day of the stalemate while washington's lawmakers showed no sign of finding a quick resolution. russian investigators charged fourteen greenpeace protesters with piracy after their attempt to board an oil platform as part of an anti drilling campaign in the arctic. are reporting three senior members of greece's far right golden dawn party are released pending trial three more remain in custody following the killing of an anti-fascist rapper last month.

live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm this is r.t. first we go to some breaking news just learning that militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of libya reports say gunfire and grenade explosions were heard around the building and according to russia's foreign ministry been no casualties when last year the russian diplomatic mission was also attacked by government following moscow's veto of a un resolution on syria we'll bring you more on this story as soon as we get the details washington 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 are likely 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 is defunded or delayed the 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 those lawmakers who want to defund obamacare are still going to have leverage because in a few weeks the united states hits its debt limit deadline and they are to these lawmakers are saying the only raise the debt limit if obamacare is de lay's or or defunded and the president has said it 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 in 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 meaning as many as eighty three plants. 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 this 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 buccal with obamacare just don't want to drop a grudge just yet the u.s. government shutdown sparked by a disagreement on capitol hill that's been brewing for years is alarming those across the world relying on america's economic and political leadership well the european central bank president mario draghi he said there is a risk to recovery for both the u.s. and the world echoing the concerns of britain's prime minister and headlines around

the globe went along similar lines the french daily figaro said the shutdown is a blow to the credibility of the u.s. and germany spiegel online called america a superpower paralyzing itself and one of china's major news portals pointed out that bickering u.s. lawmakers holding their own country hostage and the australian things that washington is not inspiring confidence in the world's largest economy well max fraud wolf is 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 of united states of 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 rents and all the rest and we know the money they didn't get today and tomorrow and 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 only michael to get a shot of a spoke to call home from the u.s. national libertarian party who explained what she thinks the government can do to fix the situation without letting the public. 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 how will this whole thing affect america's reputation as the walls leading economic power well depends on who you talk to other politicians in the world may buy into this theater because they want to keep their budgets high in their countries as well but

people around the world don't want big government they want peace they want small government they want to be left alone to live their lives as long as they're not harming anyone else this is the leadership that the american lawmakers can choose to demonstrate to the world and we need to urge them to do that. well we're following the developments on capitol hill had to a website where he was constantly bringing you the latest updates on america's federal shutdown but his words if you write no at all to dot com. much more government must now shut down until congress funds or you. back to our breaking news the. militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of libya. has the details now live joining me in the studio what do we know at this early stage well this is really news just in with just

barely received confirmation from the foreign ministry and they did say that a group of unknown men right now did tend to enter the premises of the russian embassy in the libyan capital thankfully no one was injured and well officially this is all the confirmed information that we have but earlier. was reporting that correspondent there heard gunshots and explosions of rocket propelled grenades coming from around the area but once again according to the foreign ministry thankfully no injuries have been reported the embassy staff but a year ago around two hundred people did manage to break onto the premises they took down the russian flag that was after russia and china rejected the second u.n. security council resolution on libya girl so obviously at this stage very scant

details you're keeping abreast of the situation and bring us more developments as soon as we get it thank you very much into you got to live there and now joined by chandan he's an activist and journalist on the line from london of course the question is who could be behind the attack and why would they attack a russian embassy there in tripoli. well ever since the fall of moammar gadhafi jumma government we've seen in libya be more the rule of countless militias or death squads or whatever you want to call them and all of most of them who fought against gadhafi and alongside nato. have had and have a visceral hatred for the russian government because of the russian government stuff foreign policy or protecting the independence of the global south countries and also for the russians are they general as well which was the only channel in the whole satellite all the satellite channels in english language that had

a critical narrative in relation to the nato operation there i mean me myself i was in tripoli three times during the nato bombing through twenty eleven and i can tell you when tripoli fell if anyone was associated with russia today or the russian government in any way you would be in literal mortal danger so that so who knows who could be behind this will soon find out which means which particular militias behind it but also it's not just the perceived enemies of the death squads that they go after they go after their own senior colleagues does well including the former ambassador christopher stevens who was lynched last year on september eleventh and you got this is happening in libya but of course russia is very vocal about developments surrounding syria could that have any connection at all. absolutely. many many of my colleagues say that syria is but a slow motion replay of what happened to libya and the deaths of two four in in libya have all gone over to syria and so there is this this nexus on this common

interest at the death squads again supported by nato between libya and syria so definitely the syrian situation feeds into the situation in libya and this tragic. development obviously against the russian diplomatic building because we'll be reporting about really incidents of violence a lot of deaths recently in libya just how difficult now is the security situation for the country and the people there. there is no security here unfortunately last month or so libya has seen around forty seven young women kidnapped and so there is no security whatsoever this is going to play out but the hope is once that death squads have exhausted themselves and and the people which is the case the libyan people are increasingly perhaps whispering at the moment but the whispers are growing louder that things one actually saw god under the mama gadhafi government so some thought perhaps in the future they'll be

a new libyan movement that can cleanse this whole mess of a situation and rebuild libya like which that was rebuilt and the poorest country in the world to the country with the highest h.d.i. of living standards index and all of africa that is at least the hope ok so you can thank you very much indeed for your immediate reaction to what's happening there in libya second chandan activists and joining us on the line from london just to remind you then about our breaking news story this hour and that is that our militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of libya and reports say that gun fire and grenade explosions were heard around the building according to russia's foreign ministry that there have been no casualties and as we've already already been discussing last year the russian diplomatic mission was also attacked by gunmen following moscow's veto of a u.n. resolution on syria so that's our breaking news this hour we'll bring you the latest on this developing story more news after this short break this is r.t. live in moscow stay with us we'll be back with you very shortly.

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our. news continues here now to the u.k. prime minister david cameron has betrayed the label opposition is 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 his own conservative salahi's laura 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 there are 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 i 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 you're the prime minister. in this first world country is talking about a nation he's got to tell us 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 and 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 well really what matters is what

people thought of this 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 is going to want to haring so now i get reaction from one of cameron's political rivals paul nottle he's deputy leader of the u.k. independence party and also an m.e.p. joining us live from brussels paul cameron said the economy is turning the corner is right isn't it because the figures are showing that the economy is on the rise. while things like growth point six percent which in my opinion isn't great at all in australia it's a growth of two percent and they're saying it's a crisis so i'm not sure we've really turned the corner from a working class area open the north of england and we're not seeing the fruits of any sort of economic recovery at the moment because it may be happening in the south but it certainly isn't happening and happening within class communities and i

must say cameron's speech that was followed. but actually there were no positive policy rollouts at all so in my opinion he has of the been a severe missed opportunity or a missed opportunity so what should he have said what are the main things you think he missed out on. well quite frankly i believe that he should have brought the referendum on the european union forwards into this parliament and the problem that we also have is that this government is spending those mauch as the last labor government not getting to grips with the deficit as a whole and if you look at national debt it's going up with an astronomical amount not just per hour it's going to go and. we are in a severe crisis here in the u.k. and this government do not seem to be getting to grips with spending sixty billion pounds a year on quangos spending fifty three million pounds they are more our contributions

to the european union and twenty five million pounds a day to foreign aid i would like to see those areas flushed out of the european union something close to your heart that something is actually united the party over has you not managed to win back those euro skeptics. no you just look at how you keep is doing the poll in the polls at the moment we're still polling in the mid teens but a number of conservative m.p.'s who would like to do with deal with you care so we don't stand against them or the next general election this doesn't look like a party which is united to me and quite frankly i don't believe david cameron is a conservative voters the problem he's a social democrat he's in coalition with bedfellows in the liberal democrats he was a more modern and he's not uniting the party because the grassroots are the polls generally what they become in trying to do particularly on wind farms particularly on gay marriage and particular. you're saying you keep is looking fairly robust but hasn't stolen your thunder in many ways is increasingly tough now on immigration this is one of your main manifesto so part of your manifesto this is something he's

taken away from you isn't he. nobody's not you see this is the point i mean they made say that immigration is down by five hundred thousand people came to the u.k. last year that's a city the size of bristol quite frankly if the conservatives are trying to sow immigration control they're lying in a speech. getting. away by causing their benefits and telling you now if you want to any city in the u.k. you will find the. poll. are filled with people from eastern europe people who are . armed population. people it's people from eastern europe and quite frankly you can't force people back when the jobs are there if you want to get people back into work particularly young people you've got to get immigration under control and you can't get immigration to control well to members of your own people you just briefly head out against labor rivals you mentioned labor what about twenty times i think all men are bad but no mention whatsoever of your nigel farage clearly is

still doesn't take you keep seriously why should he. well because well the thing into their votes and quite frankly we will cost the conservatives a huge amount of seats in two thousand and fifteen hopefully we're going to go on you know political commentators suggest that we'll go on and win the european elections next year and maybe get somewhere in the region of hundreds of councillors elected on the same day if it was david cameron i'd be very worried the reason why you as a mentioned is because he wants to pretend that we don't exist and quite frankly we're on the verge of creating a. british politics next year. great to talk to here and r.t. thanks so much your time live from brussels that's paul not all the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party and also thanks. well now we're going to remind you of all breaking news story this hour here in r.t. armed militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of

libya reports a gun and grenade explosions were heard around the building that's according to russia's foreign ministry and they are saying that there have been no casualties and last year the russian diplomatic mission was also attacked by government following moscow's veto of a un resolution on syria well middle east commentator and blogger cult shero joins me live now from london for his reaction on this latest development so call who could be behind this attack. while there is no point really speculating about this specific group i think what we need to be looking at is the deteriorating security situation in libya which is a reflection of the overall kind of political bankruptcy and the lack of political momentum for change towards let's say a stable democratic future and this is only one manifestation of a whole stoner range of manifestations of that complete divorce divorce reality

between those who supposedly exercise and fail office and exercise but democratic power and those who have their guns on the streets you see all sorts of abuses i mean there are the kidnappings there are the various attacks there is the implementation of their own laws there's attempt production so we're looking at a horse problem is that libya is far from even stepping in the right direction towards a transition and that's what we're constantly produce and incidents like this in the absence of any clear political control and yet many will wonder following the tragic death of those american diplomats in benghazi last year we're seeing the u.s. diplomats being targeted there and now we're seeing russia being targeted where is the explanation for that do you think. i mean it's quite clear with the role of the russia has played and i think it's partially a role that hasn't been really explained properly in the arab word so i think

russia has its own strategic interest in the area but also it wants to prevent precedents from being established for using military intervention outside the united nation frameworks and ultimately as i said it it's trying to work towards preserving its strategic interests so that is seen perceived particularly through syria and at the role they played before in libya it's. going to stick by our i mean i wouldn't exaggerate if i said at a certain level yeah it's kind of russia's no playing there all that or is it being perceived the way the united states used to be perceived perhaps a few years back. so i think there is partially there is a failure of the russians to actually explain what they're doing but they had at the same time it cannot but come across that a certain segment and out of world hostile policy and that's obviously in instances where you look in libya for example to make it very clear target the words the

usual suspects and see just why they call the libyan authorities so protect foreign missions embassies that diplomats operating in the country. well that goes back to the nub of the question i mean we see in a four minute formally what looked like a democratic process that elections happened and people were taking power through negotiations but that's all completely divorced from the stew ation on who actually controls you know this word the monopoly over who controls the means of violence the arms the weapons on the street which are the militias and in order to discuss that you have to go back to the story of how the libyan uprising developed how their systems the military help from the west who did it end up in the hands off and more of these people that weren't known at all and they didn't necessarily represent the complexity and diversity of the of the libyan people or the libyan nation so you end up creating a situation of bias in the ground or

a force on the ground that's heavily tilted towards largely independent militias that are not willing to submit themselves to any kind of political authority so that clearly explains the lack of the ability of the libyan government to not only to protect foreign missions even to protect its own citizens and institutions and stablished men thank you very much i think this is really a dangerous situation right we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for media reaction to that culture a middle east commentator and blogger live from london well to remind you our breaking news story this hour militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of libya reports say that gunfire and grenade explosions were heard around the building and according to russia's foreign ministry there have been no casualties we'll bring you up to date on those developments in less than half an hour from now the meantime a special report on the events that shook russia two decades ago like october ninety three that's after the short break.

good. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are today. the white house says muscovites no it is the building at the very heart of the city . it's now the headquarters of the russian government but it was once home to the supremes soviet of russia the main legislative body in the country. hundred ninety three russia was on the brink of civil war with one side and boris yeltsin and his supporters on the other. two days of street fighting left hundreds dead and injured.