moscow prepares to greet the olympic torch a spectacular ceremony in red square will set the flame off on an epic journey across the twenty fourteen winter games host country. u.s. military forces carry out separate operations in somalia and libya aimed at seizing senior terrorist leaders. and other stories that shape this week the netherlands demands that russia stop the prosecution of greenpeace activists for piracy while moscow insists the activists attempt to scale an oil rig pose a threat to the crew and the environment. and u.s. government shutdown and a looming default threaten to severely damage the country's economy and stand shivers down the spine of international lenders.

coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program moscow is poised for the arrival of the olympic torch for the twenty fourteen winter games in less than two hours time the flame is due to touch down and the russian capital. while the flame is doing red square from athens for a ceremony that will kick start the russian leg of the record breaking relay artie's granted to count reports on how moscow plans to welcome the torch. thirty three years ago was the last time russia hosted the olympics it was the last time when the olympic torch was on the red square to be pretty sure it was not

accompanied by bikers from the airport all the way to the red square and that's exactly what we're going to see some day when the flame by moscow some of the hands of we we've been dressed like an olympic goddess into the hands of russian men in leather jackets on roaring motorcycles so maybe a touch of spice to the classic ceremony. last term will include william was in russia was a long term view and we don't know when the next time will be that it's all right here district at night we are going to can avoid the olympic flame is a very honorable mission before the olympic torch makes its final destination sochi it will go through eighty three russian regions and two thousand nine hundred towns and settlements will see it climb all the way up mt elvers the highest peak in europe will see dive to the bottom of the russian lake by called the oldest in the deepest lake in the world we will even watch the olympic torch blast off to space

the russian so used rocket that torch will do a lot of things it hasn't done before and as many who work in russia hope it will shed light on what the country has to offer literacy but if. you want it it is a very important event first of all for russia's in the nation and for its regions it is a chance to show their own culture traditions and investment opportunities the limbic torturously will grab the attention of the whole world through the most media it is an important factor in the cultural social and economic development of the russian legions of course for every single person who will carry the torch it will be a very special problem and any will change thousands thousands i think about fourteen thousand hands in russia before it arrives to the brain new olympic stadium right in time for the opening ceremony of the twenty second olympic winter games on february the seventh in sochi. and what we bringing you every stage of the torch is journey today as well as of course the spectacular ceremony in red square

stay with us for that. the olympic torch is on a big journey to structure. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand to one. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others say. a limpet torch relay. national coverage on our. u.s. military forces have conducted to raise on foreign countries targeting senior terrorist leaders in somalia u.s. navy seals stormed a villa of a leader of the al-shabaab militant group responsible for the delhi attack on an iraq the shopping mall last month at another operation was carried out in the libyan capital tripoli where the military seized a suspect in the one thousand nine hundred eighty u.s.

embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania well i spoke with peace activist ryan dawson who says washington is only against those who oppose its policies the us has no problem supporting terrorists all over the rest of the world so for them to be fighting terrorists in somalia sounds a little disingenuous when they're supporting. al-qaeda in syria as well as our nursery and many other terrorist groups all over the world but why do you think of such double standards as you just mentioned i mean what's the reason behind all that well the war on terrorism has really replaced the cold war to justify massive military spending and so when they're supporting a dictator like hadi and a man who want to election because it is the only name on the ballot or they're supporting al-qaeda or getting mercenaries in syria or whether it's in the being in afghanistan or any of these terrorist groups or drug cartels and so on if they are supporting us policy in the region then it's not terrorism it's not spoken of if they're opposing neocolonialism in us and they're terrorists it's not about how

they act or who they kill or what they do that makes them terrorists what makes them terrorists in the eyes of washington is are they obeying washington. and suggest to us that is accused of supporting terrorist organizations russian diplomatic sources have suggested this week that a saudi backed terror group was behind the august deadly chemical attack in syria it is claimed the assault was aimed at provoking foreign intervention in the conflict and a pattern is that eric james corbett says it's no surprise foreign players are havel involved in what's widely seen as solely a civil war mistaken assumption that's often purveyed in the media that what's happening in syria is some sort of civil war as some sort of internal conflict and a lot of the narrative has been framed around that that frame but i think it's fundamentally false to assert that i think we have to understand what's happening in syria as the planned result of a nearly decade long intervention foreign funded foreign armed foreign supplied foreign trained intervention in syria that has been arming and training syrian

opposition groups on the record documented leap back to the bush administration as far back as two thousand and six they were starting to fund and train the opposition forces in syria so we have to understand that this is not some sort of spontaneous uprising and that as a result there are many different outside forces including the united states including the saudis qatar ease and others who are fight funding and financing their own fighters to go into this conflict and many of them are motivated for different reasons and are there for different opportunities and some are motivated as mercenaries others are motivated by jihad jihad and the chance of establishing an islamic state but just because they all have the same end goal of overthrowing the assad government does not mean that they're there for the same money. and coming up through this hour the victim or the victim or egyptian authorities continue their crackdown on the muslim brotherhood but the islamist movement appears to grow only stronger as a result. and the killing of an unarmed woman this week by police in washington

comes under scrutiny as manning claim the use of deadly force was unnecessary and that's coming up very shortly. the u.s. house of representatives has approved back pay for the eight hundred thousand federal workers laid off due to the government shutdown once it's over and there's no sign however of a budget deal between the democrats and the republicans over raising the country's debt ceiling to avoid a default economists wolf so the dispute is sending shock waves across the world the truth here is what the federal government the united states the 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 are 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. now some of america's cutting edge programs have also been disrupted by the shutdown considered to be non-essential most u.s. space agency staff have been sent home george abbey who used to oversee the international space station for nasa told us repercussions are likely to follow. there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months fairly critical motions or imagines that robotic rights are going to the planets they have a launch windows that have to be maintained and if the workers are that working and

being done and so there is going to be an effect on the line and i was the director of the johnson space center and we were flying the space shuttle and of course flying missions to time so we had to maintain a schedule so i managed to keep the work orders. working and we kept the work going on in the johnson space center and the kennedy space center in florida and we didn't really have an impact but this time with about ninety seven percent of the workforce at the johnson space center laid off there will be an impact on the wind but it's not the first time washington is holding its service workers hostage over political discord in fact shutdowns are quite familiar to the american public in less than four decades there has been eighteen of them in some cases several times a year london based market strategist mark ingram told us washington will be looking for another thrill even when the current crisis is

a verdict. makes them look like idiots quite frankly. i think previously details. the government just about managed to avoid a shutdown two and a half years ago and at that point in time credit agency standard pulls down graded u.s. debt from its aaa status and one of the reasons they gave was they said all that you know this country is becoming ungovernable there's no visibility on what your fiscal policy is that politicians are just playing with fire a year after year and here we are again two thousand and thirteen in the same situation i would have to say that even once a deal is finally thrashed out this time around and one was told that that will actually happen we're probably going to be in the same sort of situation next year . much of our government must now shut down until congress funds are given. coming out party looks how the

latest in a confrontation between greenpeace and russian authorities after activists tried to scale an oil platform in the arctic that's a more just have a hearing r.t. . this point being an expensive car soon. the new fashion show. also designer bags and shoes in the best shop windows. luxury is the school. this is the last car. constantly on our cheap. right to see. first street. and i think you're.

on our reporters' twitter. instagram. welcome back this is our t. the never once has a filed a lawsuit against russia with the international maritime court claiming that attention of twenty greenpeace activists and two journalists was unlawful the activists were detained after the attempted to scale a russian oil rig last month they were arrested on board the dutch registered ship the arctic sunrise and face fifteen years in prison on piracy charges russia says a was acting within international law and repeatedly requested the vessel to hold its

activities meanwhile greenpeace supporters staged vigils across the globe protesting the actions of a. authorities insist their actions posed a danger to the crew and environment foreign greenpeace leader patrick moore believes it is should have found a better way the activists rather should have found a better way to get their message across. 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 boil 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 it's my understanding that this is the first oil platform that is done zines specifically to withstand the intention is to make it a safer way of extracting oil and my colleague bill dodd spoke to bang ham greenpeace's arctic campaign he says it's the gas from oil platform that poses a threat to the fragile environment. greenpeace's spent a lot of time in russia talking to the office or at least 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 think completely ignored this form is about to start drilling they're about to start the pumps working this person on your platform has

been cobbled together from decommissioned oil rigs that rusting in a mound shipyard for nearly two decades we haven't published a full oil spill response plans but isn't it reckless to storm an oil rig with all those safety issues at stake. well i think we did not storm the platform we tried to put a team of two climbers up the side of it to protest the war gazprom were doing and the threat that this region the platform itself poses to the arctic region our people were very well trained we have expert climate at no point was there any danger of anything happening to the platform police in washington d.c. will launch an investigation into the use of deadly force by officers who shot an armed woman miriam carey was killed on tuesday following a high speed chase through the heart of the u.s. capitol police went after her as she tried to ram our cars through barricades at

the white house details now from our g. sand sacks. we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut reportedly suffering from mental illnesses including postpartum depression she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist she tried to gain access to a secure area near the white house here in washington d.c. just really a block away from the studio here she was confronted by police she did a three point turn striking a police officer and sped off to the u.s. capitol where she was again confronted by police shots rang out she alluded police again where she drove another few blocks near senate office buildings the car was then crashed and police opened fire killing her only then realized killing her in front of her one year old child it's worth noting she was completely unarmed the only shots fired during this entire incident were from the police and some people are saying this could have been a misunderstanding if you know this area around d.c.

there's constantly drills going on there security checkpoints going on. you know it's hard to drive around and figure out if someone made a wrong turn and were confronted by police someone who might have a history of mental illness could get confused and drive off it's tragic that it would end someone's death will be investigations into this i mean we're talking about the two most secure locations probably on the planet the u.s. capitol the white house which might be why police were quick to jump to lethal force but a lot of people be saying you know why he why didn't police try and shoot out the tires when they had the vehicle cornered why wasn't another police car brought in to further box in the suspect's vehicle and one of the suspects car was immobilised the third time why was she just shot dead and really on a week to week basis unfortunately in the united states where we're hearing stories of police shooting unarmed people who they perceive as a threat and weren't so this is just another tragic instance of that unfortunately

here in the nation's capital while you can see how. now the change in the foliage throughout central washington by taking a look at this map starting at the white house the suspect advances all the way to the capitol building coming under police fire the pursuit and about three kilometers away from the white house where the driver was killed brian becker director of the answer coalition against war and racism says u.s. police are too quick to reach for the gun there's five or six police officers just inches away from her head with guns drawn and that's when she starts to flee she runs from them she's running away and they start opening fire and they keep shooting and finally when she's when her car is immobilized she's riddled with bullets why the police now terry gainer who is the sergeant of arms of the u.s. senate formally the chief of capitol police he said there was no possibility at all that she could have gotten access to the capitol grounds because there are so many

barricades so if her car is disabled and the police chief or the sergeant at arms says there's no possible way for her car to pose a danger to congress why then did they open fire i mean it's because they shoot first ask questions later the police in washington and around the country have a license to kill they know there's never a prosecution and as we saw in congress the congress members just cheered they cheered over this slaughter and it really was the slaughter of an unarmed black woman in front of her baby muslim brotherhood protests are expected in egypt today on a major military holiday as a country remains highly volatile three months since the ousting of the islam is president mahmoud morsy deadly clashes rocked the capital this week as riot police dispersed brotherhood protesters in cairo killing four people it was part of a government crackdown on the organization which saw its activities banned last week but as belcher reports the pressure only helps build cohesion within the group . 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 are killed a month on brotherhood activists like mr. say they have been driven underground so . i have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed so it's not tracked 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 pro morsy sit ins after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing but their activists like mr fair 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 members of brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh. activities of the muslim brotherhood.

and it's. related to the muslim brotherhood this is of course so that as a collective punishment restriction. muslim brotherhood also will not lead to 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 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 movement mr arthur and his fellow

activists say it makes them more determined than ever but tension pushing egypt further towards a bigger crisis. for r.t. cairo. and next hour exxon boyko is sits down with gyptian new movie star an outspoken activist of the twenty levin revolution to talk about the dramatic situation in the country and here's a quick preview of worlds apart. if you thing that getting rid of mohamed morsi and in these way is acceptable why would one piece supporters try to do a similar thing i mean they can turn to the streets next year they are not they have the right to you do not for example you do not. open a job for him. to clean the office and you come to morrow morning find him made himself the general manager and if you don't like it because you that's not democracy when you defend your political movement or political ideology through

holding guns and pointing them. army officers and soldiers and policemen then you know you are no longer have a political case you have a criminal case. and a quick look now at some other stories making news around the world four soldiers from the nato led coalition have been killed by insurgents in afghanistan and the other was shot down by a security guard and what's believed to be an insider attack the incidents follow a nato air strike on saturday that reportedly killed four civilians. some five hundred pro british loyalists have taken to the streets of belfast in northern ireland in defiance of an official ban for tapster strike to complete their july twelfth orange order for a rate that was blocked by local authorities the ban on the july march through areas separating loyalist and nationalist communities result of five nights of clashes and dozens of injured fully submitted. to spain now where hundreds have

rallied for an anti-corruption demonstration in madrid people voiced their anger over the ruling party's use of public money to repay debts incurred by private banks for task there is also calls for the nation's prime minister mariano holy to step down and recent figures show. the unemployment rate in the country has topped twenty six percent and. coming out we look at the toxic environment surrounding the worker stat provide european markets with cheap leather watching r.t. . 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 law in the country this low 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 of 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 or control over the events in your neighborhood then you are sure

feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. i. mean today the european consumer has no way of knowing be origin of the leather he bites. can feel the heat a number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and

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over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for let the production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country and in has very bad suburbs the capital deca around three hundred tanneries occupy a field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in this slum warehouses and tanneries sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible was she.