a u.s. default is looming that's the warning from president obama scolded republicans for undermining the credibility of the u.s. as america's government shutdown shows no signs of ending. fifteen greenpeace activists charged with piracy in russia after trying to storm an oil rig in the arctic talks to a former leader of the environmental group who feels their protest. and a group attacked the russian embassy in tripoli opening fire on the building and attempting to storm their way inside.

thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi live in moscow let's get straight to our top stories for you right now barack obama has warned america may be moving towards a default this is the u.s. government shutdown drags on with lawmakers failing to agree on the budget and the president slammed the republicans for undermining quote the full faith and credit of the united states he said the country is in real trouble when only one faction is willing to default on the government's obligations and he warned wall street that he should be getting seriously why read about this congress also has a much bigger issue than the federal budget still they had to resolve and washington is running out of cash and therefore needs to bump up the entire debt ceiling meanwhile experts say at least three hundred million dollars going down the drain every single day of the federal seizure and the losses are expected to accelerate the shutdown depressing businesses and consumers are rocky anderson a presidential candidate for the justice party he believes the congressmen are even

capable in the first place of fixing the problem. we do not have a functioning democracy we have a bunch of yahoos in congress who are acting only for their own self-interest to please a very narrow set of people to keep them in office on emotion who people continue to buy as their way into office and it's all contrary of course to the interests of the american surat the country what we need is a mass movement in this country we we can't depend on our elected officials to do the right thing any more we know that they're the bought and paid for by the moneyed interests we know the role of corrupting money in our political system we the people regardless of political affiliation need to join together and draw our line and make it clear we will never ever support these people again and those

feeling the biggest pinch from the shutdown some of them took to the streets in washington federal workers or so-called nonessential services protested against the leave of absence and more than eight hundred thousand employees that currently affected by the federal stoppage here's what max keiser the host of oxys kaiser report had to say on the budget crisis. america from the outside of course looks like they're trying to commit financial suicide to outcomes either eg the federal reserve bank will increase our monthly buyback of bonds or maybe five billion a month to one hundred twenty or one hundred thirty billion dollars a month or america defaults on its sovereign debt like it did in one nine hundred seventy one when they close the gold window those are the two outcomes so what we see here is jockeying between these two powerful sources in washington congress in the senate by the way they all own stocks they were insider trading is legal they're all trading on this information they're on their little phones and they're trading stocks up and down and making money at the expense of the american people

because they are financial terrorists as well america is the most watched soap opera in the world right now it's a huge hedge fund you've got c n.b.c. covering it like some episode from breaking bad to a lot of people will get hurt but the people in washington consider the american public to be expendable they don't need the american public they don't need their taxes they don't need them working because when they need money they just print it it's like saudi arabia and america or saudi arabia well they need money they just pump more oil they don't need the population that's why they live in destitute that's why there's so much poverty in saudi arabia same thing in america there's a huge amount of poverty because that top princes class in america when they need some cash they just get ben bernanke you know printed. in the meantime the n.s.a. and the u.s. military a complaining the government shutdown is undermining their work with intelligence chiefs calling for load employees a recruitment dreamland for foreign spies more details on that right now.

much more government shutdown until congress funds it again. it's on the line from moscow another greenpeace activist who's been formally charged with piracy by a russian court fourteen members of the group what happened at the same charges a day that part of thirty arrested after attempting to scale an oil rig in the arctic last month in protest of offshore drilling in the region greenpeace insists their actions were not violent. they posed a serious threat to the security of the oil platforms they could now face up to fifteen years in prison for their actions and my colleague bill dog. who's a former greenpeace leader he believes the activists should have found a better way to express the message. you can't expect to have people allow you to continue to storm their oil rigs oil rigs are a very serious operation with really big safety issues and you start scaling the

rig and then people have to come and try to get you off it puts them in danger and so i can certainly understand why they were apprehended and finally towed away from the site the other thing that's quite ironic is greenpeace is using a diesel powered ship to. occupy a or oil rig and so they you would they needed oil to get there if they had sailed there or rode there in a boat maybe it would make more sense i do tend to agree with president putin that they are not pirates it's pretty obvious i think their intentions were not to loot the rig or anything like that but they're still putting people in danger and it is a serious situation. but let's just quickly talk about the oil rig itself it is static as opposed to floating offshore platform is it true to say that this is actually a much safer way of extracting oil for the environment it's my understanding that this is the first oil platform that is done zines specifically to withstand ice the

intention is to make it a safer way of extracting oil but you know when it comes to oil this is this this is the problem with the greenpeace situation their tactics i know they're not trying to hurt anybody but their policy is ridiculous they live in this dream world we're now they are against fossil fuels they're against hydroelectric energy they are against nuclear energy which between the three of them supply about ninety eight percent of the world's energy and they seem to think that civilization can operate on wind and solar alone these technologies disappear for five days at a time when there's no wind and no sun how do you run factories and schools and hospitals and businesses and homes with this kind of energy so i think it's their policy that should be rejected but all that concerns justified when it comes to the elop take it is a pristine the last remaining wilderness it is in danger is it and also of suffering environmentally by this exploitation the arctic environment is no more

fragile than the tropical environment or the temperate environment or the environment of england or the environment of anywhere else in the world it's it's just you know mostly ice as most people know which is not alive they talk about how the glaciers are dying and all of this is if these things are alive they're not alive and the world might actually be a better place if there wasn't so much ice and it's not exactly unusual for greenpeace to be grabbing the global headlines with a stunts i spoke to all it's easy to go to prison off to explain three main points of contention over the tactics. besides the action and the drama it's also full of controversy for instance the same exact oil rig was already targeted by another group of greenpeace activists in august two thousand and twelve back then they did manage to climb onto it and didn't get arrested but later greenpeace itself criticized russia for failing to provide the proper security saying the oil rig could become a potential target for terrorists second guessed from this platform is clearly not

enough peroration unlike those used by other energy companies working in the arctic like norwegian and also this particularly rig is static which means it's standing on the bottom of the sea this technology is widely considered to be much safer than that used in floating offshore platforms so many are raising the question why is all the attention focused on this particular one we have a many more headlines coming your way here on r.t. this hour for example cash for a couple of israel off its students a job is under propagandists as part of a so-called digital diplomacy program but full story is just just ahead with the rest of this hour's headlines. well. it's technology innovation all these developments from

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a group of. trying to force their way into the russian embassy in libya's capital tripoli. on the diplomatic building on the flag as well. right from the scene exclusively provided by video. plays by the militants who are reportedly. launches russian officials say no one has the situation under control of the raid on the russian embassy comes a year after four people died in an assault on the american consulate in benghazi in which the u.s. ambassador was killed political activist. instability in the country is a direct consequence of the nato led intervention. 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 nato air bombardment you aren't necessarily going to have the popular legitimacy that is necessary to be able to find a stable never mind a just ministration and that's the and that is now the legacy which the west into the intervention is because he used the libyan people they bequeath to a state which doesn't have popular legitimacy which is challenged all on all sides by militias which is breaking apart which is the market and which many of the jails are actually not run by effective state control at all or just a few clicks away online you can always get the best stories from our web for example this hour that includes that of opposition unrest as ukraine's rise police to lash out at thousands of activists trying to take over the city council in kiev or the graphic detail that's at the invision section of r.t.

dot com. and while you're there you can look at this rather harrowing footage of british cyclist narrowly avoiding being capitated as the train was ignoring the rules of the road that cyclist right there you can check it out on our you tube channel already boasting a billion hits. or it's you were telling me you've now as cash strapped is ready students have found a new way to relieve their financial plight they can get easy money by simply posting positive tweets for the government and clicking the like button and after authorities came up with the idea of offering youngsters salaries and even scholarships for protection of the government's interests in finding anti semitism on the web i want to tell you though the father of the digital diplomacy program has come under fire for posting racist comments the very thing he was meant to be combating. takes up the story. public opinion against israel is at an all time low the recent wars with gaza and the seemingly never ending occupation have left the

country waging a p.r. war this is a very massive wave of these false propaganda and attempts to do to the legitimize our right to defend ourselves and even our rights relieved. you know as sort of we have to do everything to tell the truth for sixty five years israeli diplomats have struggled in their posts in the modern world they need all the help they can gate into the undergrads the idea is to pay students to tweet pro israeli propaganda leadoff has been doing it for a while but as a volunteer it's another way to a student to give back to society even in israel you have a bunch of people a few people there foreign affairs minister office. who do social media for their living so it's ok for people to getting salary on this

kind of work the new student sales force will share a p.r. commission part of nearly a million dollars and in universities across the country they'll eventually even receive scholarships for waging israel's digital diplomacy but before these new recruits could even start tweeting or hash tag he was a p.r. blunder the guy tapped to head the social media advocacy has a way to be put to pasture take a look at his facebook page daniel seaman is known for being abrasive to the foreign media but that's not all seamen called palestinian stupid and an expletive laden rant critics pounced taking the opportunity to question the basic ethics of the new approach. so you're basically turning a human being into human commercial we are going on is a second year philosophy student who says he won't be signing up he's angry with his government trying to tell him what to think stead of trying to make. a good

democracy for instance giving out scholarships for people that will try to make this place a better place gives out scholarships for people to say that it's a good place i mean if this was such a good place then these people would tell it anyways those in opposition say they would be some major white washing and using students to tweet pro israeli propaganda is part of that i think the prime minister's office is trying to cover up the human rights violations that are happening by paying young folks to be involved i think you'd be better off investing the funds. in education infrastructure and community development that he hasn't done in decades israelis are no stranger to war but at the online front line it's in an interview bill battle to turn public perception of israel from zero to site. policy r.t. tel aviv not far from the r.t. world updates for now the hunt for syria's chemical weapons is on the international inspectors beginning their mission to disable the country's chemical production

facilities after their first day one team has managed to secure the sites where they will work that's just a stone's throw away from deadly clashes between rival factions on the edge of damascus opposition fighters are trying to seize the area hoping to get closer to president assad center of power it demonstrates the immense security challenge that dozens of disarmament experts have to face it was just last week their mission was endorsed by a u.n. security council resolution a bit later here on r.t. in our program worlds apart on a boycott discusses the issue with the u.n. high representative for disarmament of. do you think it is the sole responsibility of syria is syria the only party that is responsible for making sure that this is armament initiative is indeed successful. according to the chemical weapons convention yes it is according to reality and to practicalities we know that it cannot be so there is an effort by other member states to help the effort along and

if you look at the security council resolution it's asked the secretary general in consultation with the director general of o.p.c. w to make recommendations to the security council by next monday and then the security council will decide on exactly what will be the mandate there are questions that are as yet unanswered. well you can what that was susan that was a quick preview there of the interview with the u.n. high rep for the affairs but the full version is coming up throughout the day here on r.t. just joined. and the program worlds apart. right into the answer you will drop it we go now at least sixty two people reported dead after a boat carrying asylum seekers from somalia the italian island of lampedusa the

victims included children and pregnant women and the vessel had more than five hundred people on board and many are still said to be in the water a rescue operation is ongoing it's the second deadly sinking this week alone on top of the near daily arrivals of boats from north africa italy has become a target destination for people fleeing from war torn syria. and iraq where at least nineteen people have been killed in a wave of attacks across the country and the crew of an army helicopter died when that was shot down also a car bombing near a government building in cook left two dead and fifteen injured u.n. report shows nearly one thousand iraqis were killed in september loan that's one of the highest monthly death tolls in. and riot police in mexico city scuffled with an angry crowd of protesters who describe themselves as anarchists the mosque wearing rioters through fire bombs and rocks at police twenty officers injured twenty people detained clashes broke out during

a demonstration commemorating the forty fifth anniversary of a student massacre back then it was claimed anything from a dozen to several hundred students were killed by government forces in the city square just ahead of the summer olympic games and the owner of those who died teachers and students have been blocking one of the main arteries in the city. and to egypt where clashes between the backers and opponents of the ousted president morsi have turned deadly after a high school student was killed in the city of suez on the same day muslim brotherhood supporters held a rally in cairo's tahrir square for the first time in over two months brotherhood accuses the army of escalating a crackdown on their activities and the group was recently banned by the courts following a military coup that overthrew the islamist government. the head of iran's cyber warfare program has been shot dead in a suspected assassination. it was found with two bullets in the heart in a wooded area just outside of tehran he was last seen on saturday leaving home to

go to work in time iran is accused outside forces of the killing this is the sixth attack of its kind targeting the country's security and military services. europe's powerhouse is looking east reaching out to asia germany is boosting its international economic ties with china which is now its third largest trading partner and with beijing poised to grant birth in special access to its markets and the rest of europe is in danger of being neglected as peter all of the reports. when china wants to speak to the e.u. berlin is the first number beijing calls not brussels germany has the most pivotal role right now to kind of defining and shaping how europe will interact with china coming years at the moment that role is more trailblazer than economic shepard's close to fifty percent of e.u. exports to china come from germany trade between the two was with almost one

hundred forty five billion euros last year leading to talk of a special relationship i mean it's very difficult for any country to ignore china at this point it's in europe's interest to make sure that no one gets left behind but some of germany's partners have been left behind as they're being battered by the impact cuts austerity is never a solution to a crisis like this it just made the matters worse and in that context. the german export industry started targeting china as it was a growing market it's not all plain sailing between germany and china questions have been raised over which side berlin is on in the trade disputes over low cost chinese solar panels flooding the european markets and concerns germany is ignoring china's human rights issues in favor of the sting trade jimmy's car giants have grasped trade with china with both hands and to sports car manufacturer a porsche it's regarded as one of their top three targets for the last seven years

we have put tenfold in greece and cars sold in china and right now we have to extension from fifty six horses centers to about one hundred times over the next three years we are very happy to have a very broad relationship and customer base in china not only for us i think it's true for all german car industry which is. the leverage for having also local production and for the best producers the car industry is the driving force behind the german economy twenty eleven figures show it was were. three hundred fifty billion euro willed white twenty percent of total german output a good piece of that's coming from trade with china and it's not just that bae is in beijing a queuing up the german luxury items like this chinese companies already establishing more than just a foothold inside european markets. we already sell

a lot of parts to europe there is no reason why we shouldn't see more and more chinese made vehicles on the roads of france and germany. despite the lack of buying power of some of the member states germany remains firmly mowery to the e.u. however it continues to send more than just flow glances to its trading partner in the east as part of their special relationship peter all over germany and many more of the world's top news headlines to come your way in about half an hour's time with. a finale though i am stepping aside folks on a boycott and as promised a program well it's a pot. you

know i'm old enough to remember reruns when gomer pyle used to cry citizen's arrest when he saw something wrong in mayberry and a new law in russia could allow our city average to do the same thing by helping to enforce laws in the country this law allows citizens to protect public order by becoming volunteer workers deputy policeman and even foreign peoples militias which will in theory prevent crime or at least allow the police to be informed more quickly and accurately of course this like any project which sounds nice on paper is all about the implementation so we'll see how these deputies and militias will work overall i think this won't have much. an effect on crime but it could have a huge impact on non-criminal bad public behavior you know i am not the bravest guy on the planet and it's hard to confront a group of five drunk guys who are just as big as you who are acting like idiots on the street but doing so with ten stone sober militiaman buddies could provide a much more convincing argument for the drunkard's this could be a big step forward for democracy when you actually have at least

a scrap of power control over the events in your neighborhood then you were sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. 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 believe that they do use black cool wooden shells but the building was good for him 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 at all we had to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war.

part of the kind of american ideology is that is the believe that the united states is really in this as of this world something right to be or an obligation to be about without a body else. alone of welcome to welcome part. and a team of international and factories arrived in syria on tuesday to or see the destruction of the country's chemical weapons herculean task indeed in the meantime questions remain about when and where and by whom some of those weapons may have been used and to try and answer some of them now i'm joined by alula can be un high representative for disarmament affairs and i greatly appreciate your being on the

show thank you for us and your son a happy to be here well i know that your team of experts just wrapped in the other trip to syria and as far as i understand that trip to go down to six various neighborhoods where chemical weapons were allegedly used now it seems that this investigation is attracting far less media attention and is certainly being conducted in the rather different geo political environment compared to the investigation of the incident i wonder if it was any easier for your colleagues to do that job this time around i think what happened is that they were of course in damascus at the time the incident happened and they were investigating three incidents that we had agreed with the syrian government would be investigated and that is when i last saw that which happened in march and two additional incidents and they were investigating those when who to happened and i had flown to damascus to ensure that the syrian government would agree to us investigating as well the

hotel incident because that was not part of the agreement earlier made so they did agree to the team deployed to the two neighborhoods where chemical weapons were alleged to have been used and what happened then is that the team was so exhausted after the end of the very five six very intensive days in forty degrees plus temperatures to go into the rebel held areas to interview victims to visit hospitals talk to first responders health care workers visit sites that it was necessary to really give them a. yes to pull them out and we promised the syrian government at the time that they would go back as quickly as possible which they did and they did the report on the east august twenty one incident they went back wrote the reports and they basically came back and of course none of us could have anticipated the dramatic development of the agreement between the russian federation and the united states.