president obama the danger of default the republicans are putting america's economy at risk with no progress being made to freeze paralyzed government. thirty people in charge of piracy in russia greenpeace protests in the arctic sea one of the organizations leader says the campaign to save the region by targeting other oil rigs will go on. and off the whistleblower edward snowden is put on the short list for a european human rights prize the former n.s.a. chief jokes he should end up on a very different list of top stories this hour. live

from our studio center here in moscow where she just turned ten pm this is. barack obama has called on the republican opponents to show some common sense warning that if congress is not able to agree a budget there is a very real risk of a national default mean one an estimated three hundred million dollars going down the drain every day the government is shutdown. has more now from washington d.c. . last night at the white house between president obama and congressional leaders failed to yield any deal to end the government shutdown now in its third day and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president and congressional leaders want to include an increase in the debt limit and i'd like to end a government shutdown as well because the debt limit is the real serious issue here this government shutdown is having effects on our economy the longer it goes on the more effects it will have on our economy but failure to raise the debt limit and the u.s. still waiting on its would be absolutely catastrophic to put it in perspective in

two thousand and eleven when republicans just made the threat of defaulting on our debt we saw the u.s. credit rating downgraded we sold job creation so we saw the economy slow and we saw about a billion dollar hit to the u.s. economy that was just the threat of a default so here we're looking at the very real possibility of a default which many economists think it could be on par with the financial crisis like we saw in two thousand and eight. right now we see between both parties republicans and democrats with this default looming over their heads no closer to a deal they're both digging and we've heard from the democratic side words like republicans are acting like an artist's speaker the house john boehner needs to grow up he needs to act like an adult and from republicans i just want to read this quick quote from a republican congressman who said we're not going to be disrespected so that's where we are today and we have to get something out of this i don't even know what it is yet so we have republicans saying we need to get something out of this

democrats saying we've given you everything that you're going to get out of this meanwhile the country races towards this default in a few weeks which would be a really a self-inflicted economic recession. so what happens if the u.s. fails to raise its debt ceiling while president obama would have to find money to service the national debt from somewhere else most likely that will be done by shutting down some of the most costly government programs another possibility is the raising of taxes now that's meaning americans would feel the cold hand of a sturdy but what happens if those measures are not enough while washington would have to announce it was defaulting or politicians and experts say a default would be devastating for both the american and global economy it would affect all countries holding us debt now the u.s. government is obliged to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars each month and that would be put seriously at risk because washington wouldn't have the funds confidence in the u.s. would be severely hit making it much harder to borrow money now that would be one

of the world's most indebted countries without a financial safety net further increases in interest rates taxes and unemployment likely to follow possibly undermining the u.s. dollar as a global reserve currency or is the global reserve currency where you have a list of what it is the head of the analytical department of deutsche bank in russia says global economies are hoping the u.s. will resolve its crisis for everyone's sake. we believe that at the very last moment probably but there will be a breakthrough an agreement will be reached i think there is too much at stake in terms of what the faults. or for there are delays in reaching the compromise would mean for the american economy so this is the case for the u.s. economy this is the case for the global economy as well as for russia as we've seen before with similar cases in two thousand and eleven. certainly the main

transmission mechanism is through will prices so pressure on commodities pressure on oil prices would signify essentially pressure on russia's economy and financial markets and then the other channel of course is capital outflows those may intensify further delays in reaching the compromise in the us to a place is washington's position as the global economic and political elite are threatened this is certainly something that undermines thord t. and the. role of the us and leading the world economy out of its current predicament and going forward of course the hope is that some sort of a working arrangement is worked out in the u.s. so that cases like that in the future are avoided however robert oulds chair of the n.t. european union think tank the bridge group says that washington is between

a rock and a whole place when it comes to solving the crisis. the carbon crisis with the shutdown in of the us government and public servants not being paid that will harm economic growth that undoubtedly just raising the debt ceiling is not an answer that will just store up further trouble and will be the same situation just a few years down the line again there was a similar crisis in two thousand and eleven where the. steps then of course led to a downgrade in u.s. debt since then boy when costs for america have actually or did actually decrease but of course we're now just two years later we're seeing the same thing happen and it's just amazing that seeing once again would just mean just further down the line they'll be severe problems america has very severe financial problems raising the debt ceiling is not an answer but of course austerity as we've seen in the european union doesn't work either so america is in a very difficult economic position. much of our government must now shut

down until congress funds of the go. thirty people involved in the greenpeace protests have now been charged with piracy by a court in russia's north western port city of mt they were arrested after attempting to scale an oil rig in the arctic last month in protest over offshore drilling in the region peace lawyers are appealing the decision insisting that there was no violence involved that authorities say they posed a serious threat to the security of the platform despite facing up to fifteen years in prison activists are still refusing to give testimony well earlier i spoke to ben ayliffe he's the head of greenpeace is arctic campaign and he believes the region should be off limits for any oil drilling company. bring peace has a long history of peaceful protests that was perfectly obvious to the coast guard to the operator of the platform that this was a peaceful protest and the response that we've seen in the subsequent charges today

i'm afraid are extreme and completely disproportionate but is there not a better way of getting your message across. quite frankly there you've taken a risk and you should be there for prepared to suffer the consequences greenpeace has spent a lot of time in russia talking to the orthorexic he's talking to gazprom about the specific risks that this rig platform posed at every stage we've been ignored we've written letters we've sat down in conferences said you shouldn't do this time and time and time again we've been completely ignored this platform is about to start drilling they're about to start the pumps working it is a reckless process project and yet and i've been talking to say this is a long wait it's gas from would be compliant don't please me on able to deal with any sort of spill in this region they're completely unable to deal with the deepwater horizon spill so until they're willing to say ok we don't think we're going to go ahead with this project then dialogue is fundamentally pointless all right so what about the fact that this is a static rig not a floating one and i was talking to an expert yesterday saying this is

a much safer method this platform has been cobbled together from decommissioned oil rigs that rusting in the amount shipyard for nearly two decades we haven't published a full oil spill response plan so there's no way to independently verify that this this platform is capable of operating in what are the most harsh conditions imaginable on the planet there is no technological way anywhere on the planet of cleaning up oil but it's spilt in ice so you could say the same about the role that shell operation in alaska always and also norway stat all operation would be targeting them along with the russian target. of course greenpeace has run a big campaign a very public campaign against shell in alaska for instance we've run it for over the past eighteen months and luckily we were able to shine a spotlight on shell because of their fiasco essentially in trying to drill for oil in alaska of course the same for canned energy in greenland for starters all in the barents sea it's very interesting actually that you mention shell that they're

about to become partners in the arctic with gazprom and you really couldn't think of two more reckless companies that you wouldn't want anywhere near what is probably one of the most unique and fragile environments left on the planet at the moment alternative energy when source and solar energy just cannot supply the energy needs of the world we're not saying to people turn off the gas taps turn off your tank but if you look in places like western europe in north america demand for oil is actually flattening so this idea that we're going to need more and more and more oil until now we're completely sated i'm a free isn't true there is a flattening demanding key demand centers and oil companies i think have to respond to that by realizing that going into the ever more risky front here areas like the arctic is that is a gamble too far and i also spoke to patrick moore he's a former greenpeace leader in l. thinks the organization should have done a better way to convey their 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 loyal 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 that 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 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 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 also of suffering environmentally by this exploitation the. 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 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 were alive they're not alive and the world might actually be a better place if there wasn't so much ice greenpeace has become known around the world for stunts like the one it pulled in the arctic is you got to see you know looks at the criticism of the groups tactics this story has all the elements to be able to storm into international headlines like the arctic greenpeace russia and armed men in masks but besides the action and the drama it's also full of controversy for instance the same exact oil that 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 record

become a potential target for terrorists second guessed wrong is clearly not in operation on like those used by other energy companies working in the arctic like norwegian stat and also this particular 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 reason the question why is all the attention focused on this particular one. it has nothing to do with. gambling but israeli students are running money. from. the break we'll tell you why the. form of the. that is the believe that. something right. be.

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the decision to put fugitive n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden on a short list for europe's human rights prize has received a less than positive response from the direct former agency. joins me live now from new york to explain take us through exactly what was said here. well according to reports former n.s.a. director michael hayden recently joked about putting. whistleblower edward snowden on a different kind of list while speaking at a washington post panel discussion on that cyber security america's former spy chief acknowledged that mr snowden has been nominated for a human rights award and then reportedly said quote i must admit in my darker moment over the past several months i'd also thought of nominating mr snowden but it was for a different list unquote now some journalists including

a brandin from the hill blog have interpreted mr hayden's words to mean putting snowden on america's kill list joke or not many would argue that this is probably the worst time for any or any former current top u.s. official to speak sarcastically about snowed in why because journalist jeremy scahill and glenn greenwald are currently working together on a joint investigation on how the us national security agency has been involved in wider overseas assassination programs run by the obama administration both of these journalists are known for their hard hitting investigations of the u.s. government and their collaboration will reportedly they say reveal how the vast surveillance network of the n.s.a. operates in conjunction with clandestine operations run by u.s. military or the cia now for those who don't know the heart of prize that snowden is nominated for was established by the european parliament to honor individuals or

organizations who have dedicated their lives to the defense of human rights and freedom of thought it is considered among the highest e.u. human rights awards associating snowden's name with a kill list would mean in theory that a whistleblower and internationally recognized human rights campaigner would have a mark on his head now this is a circumstance that many would argue is no laughing matter. arena thank you very much indeed for that live update in new york ati's marina. well off and antiwar activist david swanson i spoke to him a little earlier he says politicians in washington should think about what they find funny when you joke about killing somebody with an axe your viewed as a sociopath when you joke about killing people with a million dollar missile you are considered a big powerful person who knows lots of secret stuff and so your rage is directed in particular at people who reveal that secret stuff so we've arrived at the point

of putting whistleblowers and those who leak information for whatever reason on the list of enemies as if they are fighting a war because they are revealing the secret information including embarrassing and humiliating information it is of course outrageous criminal and in fact sociopathic and i think the timing is the same timing of the past weeks and months in which this has become a top problem in the u.s. government the audience laughed when president obama joked about using predator drones against his daughters boyfriends joking about war in u.s. culture is acceptable people talk seriously about new wars and people who claim to oppose it don't speak up with outrage. right now in. farewell to the queen gambia announces it no longer has anything to do with the british

commonwealth and is leaving for good you can head online to find out what is motivating the rulers in this tiny african nation. plus take a plane life jacket with you never leave footprints on toilet seats the communist party publishes some guidelines for chinese holiday makers more bizarre advice from the sixty four page manual right now website and also. russia marks twenty years since the country's constitutional crisis left over one hundred people dead in two days of bloodshed the timeline of events is available for you right now at r.t. dot com. cash strapped students in israel can now get easy money by simply praising their government online and clicking the like button in the right places youngsters are being offered salaries and even scholarships for furthering official interests and fighting. on the web but the man behind initiative has come under fire for posting racist comments the very thing it was meant to be combating reports. 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 ourself 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 a post 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 of it 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 their 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 donnas 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 and liking or hash tag he was a p.r. blunder the guy tapped to head the social media advocacy has a way to been 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 a human commercial we are going on as a second your 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 and 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 who 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 really hasn't been decades israelis are no stranger to war but at the online front line it's an enviable battle to turn public perception of israel from zero to site christ policy r.t. tel aviv russia's foreign minister has demanded

a guarantee of safety for diplomats and their families in libya following wednesday's attack on russia's embassy all members of staff have been evacuated to neighboring tunisia and on group a techno building in revenge for the death of a libyan air force officer who was stabbed by a russian woman tackles at a car ablaze before opening fire on the mission and tearing down the flag last year the embassy was also targeted by government following moscow's veto of a un resolution on syria commentator and blogger culture shero says this attack shows the political reality now in libya. looking are 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 range of manifestations of that complete divorce a divorce reality between those who supposedly exercise. and exercised

democratic power and those who have their guns on this. you see all sorts of abuses i mean there are the jews that are the various the barracks there's the implementation of the laws there's. oil production so we're looking at a host of problems that libya is far from even stepping in the right direction towards a transition and that's what we're constantly produce in incidents like this in the absence of any clear political control. we start off a world update with tragedy in the mediterranean these two hundred fourteen people to be dead and scores more missing off the overcrowded boat caught fire and capsized near the italian and have not produced the vessel was carrying around five hundred african migrants mostly from eritrea the number confirmed to have lost their lives is expected to rise accidents like this are not rare as thousands of desperate job seekers trying to reach europe by sea packed unsafe.

in iran an investigation is underway into the alleged death of the head of an elite cyber warfare unit but he was reportedly found with a bullet in his heart in a wooded area outside to run it was some suggestions it could have been an assassination that assumes a link to iran's revolutionary guard says it's too early to say five iranian scientists working on the nation's nuclear program have been murdered since two thousand and seven. protesters clashed with riot police in mexico city leaving dozens injured. as thousands marched to mark forty five years since a student massacre most rotted through four balls bottles and rocks at police used tear gas in response and a verse for the killing of schools of students in the city square ahead of the one nine hundred sixty eight summer olympics is often marked by violence. that brings up the moment i'll be back with the news team in just over half an hour with more. witness accounts and recollections of the end of the pile up of russia's supremes.

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