this you know. president obama says no talks with republicans until they agree to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the federal government with just over a week left until a possible default. unexpected alliance israel and saudi arabia are reportedly coordinating their policies in the region this despite the two countries having no official diplomatic relations. can watch the birds because it's certainly watching you unmanned aircraft camouflage just birds of prey joined a vast area of surveillance gadgets on the market.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome president obama has refused to discuss the budget with republicans until congress reopens the government and raises the debt ceiling that's hafter eight days of federal hall and just over a week to go until the u.s. runs out of cash and default on its debt and as our reports americans partisan politics are pushing the nation and the global economy to the brink of disaster. i nine day government shutdown with the credit default looming in the wings washington's failure to so far agree on a budget or how to pay its bills has given an entirely new meaning to american exceptionalism hundreds of thousands of americans are losing paychecks and social benefits because u.s. officials elected to lead this country are engaged in a bitter fiscal deadlock on tuesday president barack obama said he would be willing

to negotiate on budget issues only after republicans agreed to reopen the federal government and raise the debt limit without preconditions republicans meanwhile are insisting on deficit reduction talks as a condition for raising the federal debt by october seventeenth members of the party have demanded also that obama's health care be delayed or defunded in return for approving funds to end the government shutdown now president obama warned the public that an economic shutdown the first in history would be dramatically worse than the current reckless government shutdown and while washington's temper tantrum remains on full display economist max wolf says the world is watching with oil and growing less impressed with the economic and political experiment otherwise known as the united states i do think we will see the debt ceiling get resolved however with each day where the dysfunction is more obvious more out of control and larger it becomes harder to have faith tomorrow it becomes harder for the markets it

becomes harder for americans it becomes harder for the population of the world to have faith in brand america government america and people begin to unfortunate and unpleasant and unflattering questions about america's future now china which owns a reported one point three trillion dollars of the u.s. government debt recently reminded washington that the clock is ticking and urged u.s. lawmakers not to repeat the mistake of two thousand and eleven that's when the debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling led to america's credit rating downgraded and japan's finance minister also recently. a failure by the u.s. to quickly resolve its political deadlock over government finances could damage the global economy in the meantime the u.s. government shutdown has reportedly delayed trade talks between washington and brussels it has also forced president obama to skip and asia pacific economic cooperation meeting this week ceding valuable ground to china reporting from new

york r.t. . america's budget crisis is sending shock waves across the globe with manic calling it irrational and even surreal the federal hold has no went inside with both democrats and republicans refusing to back down well let's see how it works in democracies when lawmakers can't agree on a budget astray had a shutdown one thousand nine hundred seventy five after all the budgetary squabbles the queen of england god to fire everybody they had new elections and no problems like that since and when congress failed to pass a budget in brazil about seven years ago it was no big deal at all just some limits to salaries and current expansive in israel if they don't get a budget by the thirty first of december deadline they automatically revert to one from the previous year however it appears in us democracy there is no such mechanism to resolve the deadlock renowned american intellectual noam chomsky explains how it evolved to keep your. democracy.

there have been significant economic changes in the past generation the way the economy's structured the time to go into it but one of the sets of these changes specifically the new liberal programs and they're having the same kind of a sector. is the. direct wealth to a very narrow sectors the increasing inequality. as an immediate effect on politics in a parliamentary democracy as parent gets more concentrated political power as well so by now elections almost it's simply talk of democracy both political parties are the right the u.s. is still one part of the state the business party. meanwhile hundreds of thousands

of people are on paid leave due to government shutdown but officials have made an exception for some federal workers to learn more and abby martin's pregnant sat in less than thirty minutes but here's a sneak peek for you. eight hundred thousand the federal employees have been lingering without pay for national parks monuments in the store graveyards all closed why do you handfuls drum circles ordered and kindergarteners plainly both o'keefe but there is one group of federal employees deemed as so moved by it all to this country that they have been ordered back to work now you probably think i'm talking about food and safety inspectors considering how ninety one percent of imported seafood isn't being checked and the fact that three miners have already died since the shutdown because of lack of oversight on the job but no i'm talking about the industry that this government favors the most defense secretary of defense chuck hagel recently ordered most of its three hundred fifty thousand

civilian defense contractors back to work citing that they are so critical to protecting national security they have got to keep the military industrial complex move and keep them happy after all war is what's funny in this economy am i right. the the. attack on our online team is closely following developments in the u.s. budget crisis so how to r.t. dot com for our regular updates. right see. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters.

as uprising a lines forming in the middle east between israel and saudi arabia as reports say the countries are negotiating a union against iran despite sharing common rivals there is no official diplomatic relations between the states and the two clash when it comes to saudi arabia support of the palestinians has the details. there's an unexpected union forming right now in the region between israel and saudi arabia unexpected because on the one hand while the two shape common rivals in egypt and syria saudi arabia particularly recently has been pouring millions of dollars of aid into palestinian projects both in gaza and in the west bank the potential impact of such an unlikely union cannot be overestimated israel brings to the party excellent propaganda skills saudi arabia on the other hand is able to tap into vast reservoir of petro

dollars israel too has unparalleled influence over american foreign policy and the result of these two countries working together is shaping international responses no doubt about it rumors are reports about. corporation secret meetings started to appear following the second lebanon war two thousand and six. when it became clear the iran is to become a major player here in our immediate region but also. in the gulf but this cooperation between israel and saudi arabia is problematic because saudi arabia gives so much support to the palestinians just recently it gave some ten million dollars to enrich the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees this is in addition to an extra two hundred million dollars that was

donated to palestinian infrastructure projects one such project is in russia in gaza where homes are being rebuilt for palestinians whose lives were destroyed during the last israel will the result is that on the one hand you can see them. cooperate prizzi's and when it comes to iran on the other hand they had close contact with hamas on the one hand they initiated there are a peace initiative. on. supporting directly and. this is the ambiguity you can find in the. saudi policy many are asking the question whether israel isn't shooting itself in the foot by forming and the nines with a country that supports its enemies policy r.t. east jerusalem well a closer look now at what brings israel and saudi arabia together syria is a major issue as both countries agree that the us a government shoot go another

reason for cooperation is their mutual animosity towards iran and the two states also share support for the military backed government in egypt investigative journalist robert perry says this alliance could prove to be problematic for u.s. influence in the region. it had this building up of mutual interest between these two very significant powers in the middle east so it raises the question of whether this very significant although unlikely or a sort of fairly unusual odd couple relationship between saudi arabia and israel might present might create a new superpower in the in the middle east if saudi arabia and israel could figure out a way to work together you would have you could have israel providing its very tremendous sophisticated political operations involving both the israel lobby back in the united states it's six if it's to get a propaganda technique with what the saudis have which is vast amounts of money

united states would might find this problematic in that while while both saudi arabia and israel are american allies if the two of them more to collaborate more formally on some of these issues like a syria for instance or ran or egypt that could put the united states in a position of not being able to work its will with quite the freedom that it's had in the past. now more stories ahead for you including an ego i hate observer and you drone the camouflage as a bird of prey hits the market boasting the capability to fly a hundred meters above the target without detection we're going to look in just a few minutes. and then is planning another kind of double decker this time six food under as british burial space becomes scarce authorities have come up was the

idea of making plots multilayer the full story is just to have. the world. science technology innovation all the movies developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered wealthy british style. that's not on the front. end of the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. dramas that's trying to be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice.

the faces changing the world. so picture of today's no longer from around the globe. look to. welcome back this is r.t. moscow has expressed disappointment with another once after it failed to deliver an explanation for the treatment of a russian diplomat in the hague the police reportedly broke into the fish oils house and beat him in front of his children before briefly detaining him russia's president described the assault as a blatant violation of the vienna convention on diplomatic relations and earlier russia has demanded an apology over the incident which has yet to be given russian affairs analyst mark macaulay believes the case deserves an explanation. the usual

thing then is to. leave. and if that happens then the dutch will expel. a russian diplomat from the netherlands tit for tat that's a normal thing in diplomatic development behavior. and they obviously are very annoyed by this because it's an extraordinary case it involves a russian diplomat in his own flat. the fact was untouched of. the russian federation because he wasn't in the embassy so technically he was in dutch or to the dutch police for the right to break into his flat arrest him and then take him to the taken down. despite the fact that he declared apparently it is flat but even if he was a russian diplomat he had diplomatic immunity now peaceful protests or reckless assault greenpeace's attempt to storm a russian oil platform in the arctic has been stirring controversy it's highlighted

the issue of how far the battle to protect the environment can go and whether it's only about ecology that's what peter lavelle and his guests are debating cross talk coming up later today. it's chiefly known the last couple decades now is just an environmental pressure group whose basically sole existence at this point are cheap publicity stunts and this kind of what you'd call it you know you could almost border on eco terror is the phrase i would use or just trespassing and lawbreaking you know just in august they went and destroyed golden rice crops and i fell a pains that destroyed a whole trial test of them they don't have the concept of property rights they don't have the concept of legality the former head of the former co-founding member patrick moore the ecologist has come out and basically said greenpeace is acting immoral and he left the organization back in the eighty's because greenpeace at that point was opposed to chlorinated water and some of the greater public health advancements so i think given what's happened with greenpeace it's almost become

even in our pop culture it's becoming more and more sort of the butt of a joke it's an ex it's known as an extreme organization i mean one of the things i mean i guess kind of all of it all of us are kind of children of greenpeace when i look at our when we look at our ages here i mean i have nothing against you know greenpeace stopping people killing baby seals and protecting dolphins and porpoises i mean i are we all like that ok because we think that senseless here but isn't this really just a promotion greenpeace generally has been fairly can fool to balance to. go with this particular incident in the game. it went. further than it should have been legally but it didn't really do anything particularly violent. and on the sidelines of the apac summit that's just wrapped up on the indonesian island of

bali russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov took some time out to speak to our exclusive interview he discussed the syrian crisis. the situation really deteriorating. groups will be opposition or are becoming. more and more. and he says of the dismantling of council weapons is not enough to put an answer to the bloodshed while extremists continue fighting in the country head to our web page for that for interview. also online for you an opposition t.v. station under attack in the mel dies the station was set ablaze after masked men chased away a security guard is an hour in motion section on r.t. dot com. the birds may be watching you and that's not paranoia and new surveillance drone dressed up as an avian predator and same flight performance is being marketed to armies across the globe

are the sarah first went to check it out. is it a bird is it a plane well actually if you guessed. you'd be right this is one of the newest trains on the market is this company maxim's defense unit x l this behind the creation of this unmanned aerial vehicle o u a e d this is a drone with the differences being designed to look like a native birds that was already in operation as a bird strike avoidance system but let's say that they want to expand its uses as a surveillance drone it could also eight firefighters all be used in drug trafficking operations. known as shepherd mill was showcased at this year's international in london the average price is one hundred thousand euros and giving

a whole new meaning to bird's eye view the company claim it's so well camouflaged compared to standard these the fly about thousand meters and take to destroy you can fly just one hundred meters above the enemy without being seen in fact in the sky the beach this is thing has. one of the front of the other at the bottom. in real time information to the ground station to decide what to do or send information to a bush. or simply to. the drones being tested by the spanish military but expo say that they're already in talks to sell it to several other countries armed forces the drone is currently not available for civilian purchase expelled told r.t. . his boots the birds but by the end of the year they hate to sign two important.

although they won't disclose with. pain is a concern and this is yes and not the development that could make it harder to was no authority keeping their eye on you. now look at some other stories from around the world thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. calling for congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill police officers arrested two hundred protesters with at least eight house democrats among them as demonstrators blocked traffic in front of capitol hill so-called camino their car rally was aimed at promoting the adoption of legislation that would allow twelve million undocumented immigrants to receive u.s. citizenship. a fire at a clothing factory here the bangladesh capital has killed at least ten people and

left over fifty injured the cause of the blaze has yet to be officially identified and the country's garment industry is a poor safety standards more than sow's and people died in april when a factory outside dhaka collapsed some of the. six workers at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan are reported to have been contaminated by radiation after a one of them stay can only remove a pipe connected to a water treatment system this is the latest in a string of mishaps at the crippled daiichi plant which suffered triple meltdowns in twenty environmentalists are concerned that toxic water from the plant is leaking into the pacific oceans eco system damaging the world's food supply chain. in an increasingly crowded u.k. rush hour has struck for the country's cemeteries graveyards are rapidly running out of space and are predicted to be full was in the next few decades up to the

task authorities have come up with the controversial idea of simply reusing down but as artie's or smith reports it seems britain's will still have to stand in line for a final resting place while they are on this side of the grave. as the saying goes nothing is certain but death and taxes and while u.k. government's very good at collecting tax it's not so good at providing for its citizens inevitable to molly's because on this small island with soft running out of space to bury the dead according to a recent study of barack outsells almost hall said burial space in that areas would run out in the next twenty years and a quarter said they only had ten years left and it's no surprise graham confined to london cemeteries like this one several rural councils already say they're full meaning people will have to go elsewhere for their thought i know resting place and

all that despite the fact that already seventy four per cent of people. symmetries in the sustainable when the food local authority has some difficult decisions to mike does it build another symmetry. capital cost and then of course it's gone another symmetry to mine tying increased my costs so there's a pressure to increase fees and be a solution would be to open more cemeteries but the limited amount of space means that's just a holding tactic you could force people to be cremated it's also not workable which only leaves a very emotive option reusing graves by digging up any remains and then taking deeper to make space for more burials and the disturbance of human remains without lawful authority at the moment is an offense in the ministry of justice won't give a loss and it's to create a new burial spice although they'll give

a lawson's to clear a church yard and perhaps build a supermarket or a car park which seems a little bit old. at the moment reusing grace is only allowed in london cemeteries and although it's an issue that affects literally everyone. it's not exactly a vote when i say typically governments just avoids talking about it but experts say those in power must come up with a workable proud on burials rather than just burying their own heads in the sand. next as promised abby martin blasts the us establishment over its home and foreign policies and breaking this at. all.

if you leave the. economic up and downs in the final months they should learn to deal sang i and the rest because i was doing the case you will be every week. while going to break in the set i'm having martin all guys it's been eight days and

the government shutdown and closing stores because of this and then eight hundred thousand federal employees have been lingering without a national parks monuments in the store graveyards all closed what is candles drum circles ordered and kindergarteners plainly both pokey. but there is one group of federal employees deemed is so vital to this country that they have been ordered back to work now you probably think i'm talking about safety inspectors considering how ninety one percent of imported seafood isn't being checked and the fact that three miners have already died since the shutdown because of lack of oversight on the job but no i'm talking about the industry that this government favors the most defense secretary of defense chuck hagel recently ordered most of its three hundred fifty thousand civilian defense contractors back to work citing that they are so critical to protecting national security you have got to keep the military industrial complex movin keep them happy after all war is what's funny in this

economy am i right look i'm not knocking the fact that people are getting their jobs back that's a good thing what's ridiculous is why defense is more of a priority then is safety and education what's absurd is need oil barons to keep headstart afloat you heard that right an ex enron executive just pledged ten million dollars to allow the underprivileged preschool program to continue operating amidst the shutdown sham and really that's what the shutdown is one giant sham just of the suckers are us. the the. people are they are very hard to take that. long. ever had sex with her but there are those. that believe.

that. this country is just days away from an unprecedented default on the debt and that might just be our easiest problem to deal with so right now america's wealth gap between the rich and the poor is the widest it's been since the great depression and although predatory corporate banks are largely responsible for the dire state of the economy not one they can executive assume inside of a jail cell obviously the current crony capitalist system is broken and are ripe for.