president obama says no way with the republicans until they agree to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the federal government with just over a week left. and expect the law in saudi arabia coordinating their policies in the region now this despite the two countries having no official diplomatic relations. because it's certainly watching you. camouflage. for a join the vast array of surveillance gadgets. hello

two pm wednesday lunchtime here in moscow thanks you company here. then president refused to discuss the budget with republicans and so congress reopens the government and raises the debt ceiling to eight days a federal holding just over a week to go now until the u.s. runs out of cash and defaults on its debts let's stop the excuses let's take a vote in the house let's end this shutdown right now let's put people back to work that vote could take place today shutdown would be over then serious negotiations could proceed around every item in the budget but i'm not going to do it until. the more extreme parts of the republican party. stop forcing john boehner to issue threats about our economy. well in response republican house speaker john boehner slammed obama for refusing to negotiate demanding the talks dog as

soon as possible and is on his way to reports the america's partisan politics of pushing the nation and the global economy to the brink of disaster 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 all 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 being downgraded and japan's finance minister also recently said 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 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 many calling it irrational and even surreal the federal hold has no end in sight either with both democrats and republicans refusing to see it work some of the democracies when lawmakers can't agree on a budget should we well. how to shut ones back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five after the budgetary squabbles and the queen of england got to fire everybody they had new elections of similar problems since then when congress failed to pass

a budget in brazil of seven years ago it was no big deal at all it would just assume limits to summaries and current expenses it israel if they don't get a budget by the december thirty first deadline every year they then automatically revert to the one from the previous year however it appears in the united states democracy there is no such mechanism to resolve the deadlock around american intellectual noam chomsky explained how devolve. some of the problem and to democracy. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation with the economy struck no time to do it but one of the effects of these changes specifically the new liberal programs and they're having the same kind of effect. as the. direct will to very narrow sectors the increasing inequality.

as an immediate effect on politics in a parliamentary democracy as power begets more concentrated political power does as well so now elections are almost it's simply talk of democracy those political parties have drifted to the right the u.s. is still one party state the business party meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people and i'm paid leave of course to to the government shutdown but officials have made an exception for some federal workers you can learn more about that maybe not it's breaking the set next show and having to i was time. eight hundred thousand the federal employees have been lingering without pay for national parks monuments of the sort graveyards all closed what is kim drum circles orders and kindergarteners plainly both looking for there is one group of federal

employees deemed 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 and i write. the book. almost too close to follow developments of course in the u.s.

budget crisis from what you've had to auto comb for regular updates. right to see. her street. and i think that you're. on our reporters. and. longtime enemies maybe finding some grounds for cooperation these days reports say is rather saudi arabia could be coordinating policies against iran despite share in common rivals there's no official diplomatic relations between the states and the two clash when it comes to saudi arabia support for the palestinians and his pulis leah's got the story. 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 a 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 that 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 a mafia in gaza where homes are being rebuilt for palestinians whose lives were destroyed during the last israeli war 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 contacts with hamas on the one hand the initiate there are a peace initiative. we've. worked to support him directly or.

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 an alliance with a country that supports its enemies policy r.t. east jerusalem let's take a closer look shall we what brings israel and saudi arabia together syria is a major issues both countries agree that the assad government should go another reason for cooperation is their mutual animosity towards iran as well and the two states also share support for the military backed government in egypt investigative journalist robert perry told is 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 it's very tremendous sophisticated political operations involving both the israel lobby back in the united states it's like supposed to get a propaganda technique with what the saudis have which is vast amounts of money united states might find this problematic in that while while both saudi arabia and israel are american allies if the two of them were to collaborate more formally on some of these issues like 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. a lot more ahead this lunchtime including an eagle eyed new drug

colorful the bird of prey uses the market boasting the capability to fly a hundred meters above the target without detection we're on its case in a few minutes london's putting another kind of. six feet on the. burial space in britain becomes scarce thought has no fear of making. blogs say about full story ahead. with. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we. covered. activism politics in a cold place and a whole lot of media publicity what is greenpeace all about today is it a small gain self promoting or

a brave environmentalist group opinions vary and at the very center of the debate surrounding organizations such as greenpeace is the question whether they have the right to operate outside the law. dramas trying to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. the faces changing the world. through pictures of today's. politicians from around the globe. moscow's expressed disappointment with the netherlands after a failed to deliver an explanation last night for the treatment a russian diplomat in the hague the police reportedly broke into the official's house and b. to b.

in front of his children before briefly entertaining him to dutch police cited alleged reports of mistreatment of children by the diplomat russia's president described the assault as a blatant violation of the vienna convention on diplomatic relations he also demanded an apology for the incident which is yet to be given russian affairs analyst martin mccauley told me he believes the case deserves an explanation the usual thing then is to ask a dutch diplomat to leave. and if that happens then the dutch will expelled a russian diplomat from the netherlands tit for tat that's the normal thing in diplomatic and 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. flat was untouched not the target of the russian federation because he wasn't in the embassy so technically he was in dutch soil to the dutch police have the right to break into his flat arrest him and then

take him to the taken down and quiz him. despite the fact that he declared apparently in his flat that even he was a russian diplomat he had diplomatic immunity ahead surely peaceful protest all reckless a soul greenpeace's attempt to storm a russian oil platform the arctic spinster in controversies highlighted the issue of how far the battle to protect the environment can go and whether it's only about a college e paid lavelle is guess debating in cross talk it's on air just over an hour of fact. it's chiefly known the last couple decades now is just an environmental pressure group who's basically sole existence at this point are cheap publicity stunts and this kind of what you'd call 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 sell a pains that astroid 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 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 x. it's known as an extreme organization and one of the things i mean i guess kind of all of all of us are kind of children of greenpeace when i look at our 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 perhaps further

than it should have been legally but he didn't really do anything particularly violent. more from the team soon than i am reporting on lying today as well on the sidelines of the apec summit that just wrapped up on the indonesian island of bali russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov took some time to speak to us in the exclusive interview discussed the syrian crisis. and this is should use a review that the real reason. the groups of the opposition. are becoming police bora-bora he says the dismantling of chemical weapons is not enough to put an end to the bloodshed while extremists continue fighting in the country we've had to a website for the full interview for interesting i also like to an opposition t.v. station under attack in the maldives the station was set ablaze after masked men chased away a security guard the footage is an hour in motion section today at r.t.

dot com. the birds will be watching you and that's not paranoia a new surveillance drone dressed up as an avian predator and with the same flight performance indeed is being marketed to armies across the globe r.t. sarah firth went to check it out. is it a bird is it a plane well actually if you guessed. you'd be almost right this is one of the new strains on the market is this banished company maxim's defense unit x l this behind the creation of this unmanned aerial vehicle o u a v but this is a drain with a difference is being designed to look like a native birds now it's already in operation as a bird strike avoidance system but next say that they want to expand its uses as a surveillance drone they could also eight firefighters all be used in drug

trafficking operations the known as shepherd milk 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 texted this train can fly just one hundred meters above the enemy without being seen in fact in the sky this a big advantage this is thing has got. one of the front of the other at the bottom for transmitting in real time information to the ground station to decide what to do or send the information to a bush. or simply. pushes

the drones being tested by the spanish military but expo say that they're already in the senate to several other countries armed forces the drone is currently not available for civilian purchase extel told r.t. that. his boots the bird but by the end of the year they hate to sign two important country. well they they went displays with him and he drank champagne is a concern and this is yet another development kit make it harder today when and how dorothy's keeping their eye on the third party would use a brief nervous lunchtime 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 the so-called camino americana rally was aimed at

promoting the adoption of legislation that would allow twelve million undocumented immigrants to receive u.s. citizenship. but to stand supreme court granted bail to the embattled former military ruler general pervez musharraf who had been under house arrest for the last six months that comes after an appeal in the murder case of baluchistan leader . he was killed in an explosion in two thousand and six cheering a military crackdown ordered by a sheriff who was president and army chief at the time. fire at a clothing factory near the bangladesh capital's killed at least ten and left over fifty injured because of the blaze is yet to be officially identified the country's garment industry is notorious for safety standards more than a thousand people died in april when a factory outside dhaka collapsed. all from the fukushima now six workers there that nuclear plant in japan are reported to have been contaminated by radiation after one of them mistakenly removed a pipe connected to one of those water treatment systems there it's the latest in a string of mishaps at the crippled daiichi plant which suffered triple meltdowns

in twenty eleven environmentalists are concerned that toxic water from the plant is leaking into the pacific oceans ecosystem damaging the world's food supply chain. in an increasingly crowded u.k. rush hour is struck for the country's cemeteries we can report graveyards are rapidly running out of space and are predicted to be full within the next few decades up to the task authorities have had to come up with a controversial idea the move simply reusing them but as artie's laura smith reports it seems britons will still have to stand in line for a final resting place while they're on this side of the grave. as the saying goes nothing is said but death and taxes and while a 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 recounts 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 them confined to london cemeteries like this one and several rural councils already say they're full meaning people will have to go elsewhere for their thought you know resting place and all that despite the fact that already seventy four percent 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 now the symmetry to mind increased costs so there's a pressure to increase fees and also 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 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 soroti 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 churchyard 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 sands. more news from eight in just over thirty minutes time here on our team coming up

next though james brown takes part in all military trying to be one of russia's toughest regiment as let's say we get saudis in after the break. if you refuse economic up and downs in the final months day the deal sank i and the rest because i was doing the case you'll be every week me.

the russian paratrooper regiment smoke so it's nobody but. blue berets will push you harder than you've ever been pushed in your life. they say once a pound he weighs a pound to many of the conscripts like a permanent reminder. that's all i'm going to do you see you're one of us now. right dress right. dress right attention. and hand

combat maneuvers on my count by division. one. three zero four my new regiment another receive heavily focused on combat training and every day we're out on the square learning our unarmed fighting drills at the moment we work individually but it won't be too long before we're facing off against each other. it's the elite. station a real man has to be ahead of everyone to be the best or the one i think that the paratroopers of the greatest. just like him to look everyone is assigned various responsibilities each day i'm back and gone to see although this time i'm at the front of the base rather than in the barracks. was because you see god for the control points reason for your visit returning to base your documents. security is paramount

every vehicle that drives up has to be thoroughly checked even our own trucks nobody takes any chances here it's only after we've looked into every nook and cranny that they're allowed on the base. i'm not sure whether it's the benefit of experience but everyone seems more confident here and it's a good thing because a live fire exercises are about to be ramped up it's a tough job for the man in charge. and sometimes i get tired of ordering people it happens from time to time the guys don't obey me but i was given the task of commanding the company and i have to do it so in any case i'll remember this time with a smile it was tough sometimes but everything will be fine i'm sure we'll do our military duty. today the war game.