a moscow suburb becomes a battleground after the killing of a local man fuels massive anti immigrant riots with almost four hundred arrested. the us government shutdown sparks angry scenes in washington as the world bank warns deadlock is just days away from causing a global financial catastrophe. to blast terror to mask is one targeting a government t.v. station the other going off near the hotel where chemical weapons inspection team is today we have the latest from the capital. whistleblower edward snowden raises his head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance in months outlining modern day threats to privacy.

to it in moscow i met bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news massive riots shook a neighborhood in the south of moscow where crowds spilled onto the streets after the killing of a local man almost four hundred people have been arrested as mobs went on a rampage protesters claim the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants has turned the area into a big crime scene artie's lucy cavanagh reports from the troubled suburb. or in the southern moscow all available moscow police crews had been called to this area to try to calm the tone down the on the rest this was the scene of violent clashes between protesters and riot police following a demonstration over the murder of a young local man here they stormed a shopping center they also came here broke up a vegetable stand and what you're seeing right now massive damage to cars completely flipped over in

a show of anger when this group of young men had come here clashing with riot police in what sparked all of this was again the murder of a young man by. the migrant worker not confirmed evidence on thursday he was stabbed to death after a quarrel over his girlfriend's by an unidentified male and to have fled the scene police have offered an award of up to thirty five thousand dollars for any information leading up to his arrest starting tomorrow i want you to intensify the welcome bringing the storage industrial areas to their constant source of tension mosco especially in the neighboring areas of murder did spark a mass of tensions in a neighborhood that's already been the scene of some problems between russians and some ethnic minorities over the past few months reporting from southern moscow for our team. to the u.s. now where there's four days left until washington might default on its debt that is

unless lawmakers and two weeks of deadlock that's seen hundreds of thousands placed on unpaid leave and vast swaths of the government shut down even the world bank's chief declared the situation desperate warning of impending disaster meanwhile anger over the continuing standoff has led to protests at the u.s. capitol take a look. as a group of veterans they're accompanied by politicians who converged on the world war two memorial in washington it was closed to visitors during the shutdown like other national monuments and parks the crowd broke through the metal barricade surrounding the landmark and then carried the pieces of the fence to the white house gates and obama protesters have made the landmark a rallying point in the white house for the continuing impasse in budget negotiations. u.s. president barack obama's signature health care legislation is supposed to provide to millions of americans with the medical coverage they desperately need but the political debate over obamacare has also ironically created

a life or death situation for hundreds of citizens for each week the shutdown continues roughly two hundred patients cannot be accepted for clinical treatment at the national institutes of health that's nearly four hundred sick americans desperately in need of medical treatment and the and i each says among the patients being turned away includes roughly thirty people with cancer and many of them being children about seventy five percent of and i his employees thousands of people have reportedly been furloughed because of washington's self-inflicted shutdown as a result michelle langbehn who is battling sarcoma a rare form of cancer was supposed to begin receiving medical treatments at the beginning of this month until the october first shutdown forced and i to temporarily turn her away langbehn a new mothers started an online petition to put pressure on congress to reopen the government the movement has garnered more than one hundred thousand signatures in

an interview with r.t. langbehn says she's been able to restart her treatments after receiving financial donations but says hundreds of other people in her position have been denied a chance to live because of washington's political partisanship it's a matter of life. death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just an air taishan for us i have heard a couple of instances where they find that this is just that the game between them and that it's a matter of winning and i'd like to say that it's not a matter of when or lose i mean it's a please listen to the people and know that it's affecting so many us leaders who have the power to change this situation have so far failed to agree on a budget a political deadlock leaving the lives of cancer stricken adults and children in limbo reporting from new york marina port ny and artsy let's get more on this from jeffrey summers an associate professor of political economy at the university of wisconsin milwaukee thanks for joining us here so if the government shutdown leads

to a default in the u.s. debt what could that lead to what could be the effects of that well of course the most dangerous aspect of this is that it affects the united states its credit rating and united states of course is an economy which which lives on global credit and the foreign purchase of its treasury bills so this puts it in a very precarious position moving forward in terms of the ability to fund a many of its programs domestically. looking at the way things stand right now how likely do you think it is that we will get to that situation that there will be a default well it's very difficult to tell there are significant pressures of course working to ensure that we don't actually cross that threshold however one has to say about the tea party has acted very irrationally at times and so it's rather difficult to say whether or not they can be curved. more moderate elements or i should even say more elements within the republican party certainly that

effort is already underway the koch brothers figures like paul ryan very big new players like scott walker in the wisconsin republican party have all worked to try and bring an end to this impasse and to have this not cross that threshold. do you think the backers of the tea party like the koch brothers for example have created say a frankenstein's monster or something that was outside of their control they funded the tea party they brought into existence but they didn't realize that there was all this other baggage that would come with it this very strong anti government sense. of the way i mean so they've unleashed in the most short of sense of the term these populist elements that have the torches and pitchforks to use your frankenstein metaphor and they are rather difficult to control as it turns out my guess is that they will be arraigned in but. it's proving far more difficult than the koch brothers and their organizations such as a like anticipated. what about the global business community i mean aren't they all

crying at this point for the for this impasse to go to go away and for the debt ceiling to be raised this is all very unsettling for the global credit markets and in particular countries like the united kingdom for which finance is so important so for those countries in which finance is a very very big player within their economies they're very very nervous but really for all economies i mean this is very very troubling because it threatens the disruption to global credit which then of course impacts demand on the economy which even for economies which are more manufacturing based really results in a loss of sales for them so yes i think everyone wants this demand how do you think this could affect the u.s. as a global ties for example we have china already calling for the introduction of a new reserve currency aside from the dollar well i think it just gives further fuel to that move and of course china has been trying to see if it could coordinate a new order which would be less dollar based and of course we have china which is

now importing more and more of its oil more of it of course directly from russia and as well as plans to import more natural gas and so my guess is there are going to be more pushes from china for a bilateral trade it were. just bypass the dollar altogether and i want to make it difficult for the united states in terms of funding its social obligations at home all right we have to leave it there jeffrey summers resister professor of political economy a u.w. milwaukee thank you very much for your time. edward snowden's return to the media spotlight this week breaking a silence for the first time since july wiki leaks releasing a video where he's seen getting an award for integrity and intelligence work by a group of fellow u.s. whistleblowers in moscow are reports. for over two months this footage of edward snowden leaving moscow's sheremetyevo airport was the only evidence he's alive well and in russia since after getting in that cab the only thing we're told about him

is that he's somewhere in a safe place well this week america's most wanted man returned to the public eye snowden appeared on camera and meeting other former u.s. security service officials turned whistleblowers they flew into moscow toward him with the same atoms prize for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards. this time snowden leaked his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets. you know relationship to god where we have an executive mark just on the last. night is lying to congress and they want but they'll stop the. first someone pull the trigger. the whistle blowers who would have him paid a visit to our moscow studio as well but it was a long awaited family reunion that was likely to have been the highlight of his

week i cannot speak for my son and really the legal issues here i'm a father mr snowden sr was finally able to make it to moscow after months of being separated from his son washing his feet played out in global headlines but i don't want to really share my opinions at this point in time i'm shipley thankful that my son is safe and free free in russia but wanted at home before arriving in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport the former n.s.a. contractor leaked thousands of documents with details of how u.s. security services spy on officials and ordinary people all across the world washington has been calling for his extradition accusing him of espionage but russia granted snowden temporary asylum lawyer say his father may not be the only family member heading over to visit since it's really unclear why. the former n.s.a. contractor will ever be able to return to the u.s. again. moscow and say whistleblowers fate was up for discussion in our studio this

week we interviewed a group of former u.s. officials who exposed a few secrets in the past and were in moscow to present snowden with his award and discussed how the u.s. fugitive is being used is getting used rather to his dual life in russia and what his main concerns were i think doing remarkably well under the circumstances in which he came here and we've we've obviously came to find out personally i was you know what are you looking at these days. i thought he looked great he seemed very centered and and. brilliant smart funny very engaged. i thought he looked very well considering the amount of pressure. do you think that's taking any toll at all and the psychological toll i think it would in ordinary circumstances but this is an extraordinary person he's made his peace with what he did he's convinced that he put he did was right he has no regrets and he's willing to face whatever the future holds for him is that the person you saw in

front of you kohli yes actually we discuss this intel integrity and intelligence issue quite extensively and we talked about prior examples of great people in history that had themselves been under this type of pressure and he's remarkably centered i found that continuing pattern the more secret the us became and the more we grew into a surveillance state the more people who were willing to just do their job and tell the truth and obey ethics rules were getting in trouble so while i suffered i was under criminal investigation and put on the no fly list things like that i thought were very draconian i could never have imagined in a million years that president obama would begin indicting and prosecuting people like thomas drake and edward snowden and bradley manning and john kiriakou and a number of other people under the espionage act which is the most serious charge you could level against an american what was the reaction from snowden last night

when you told him that he had won this civil war he already knew because we awarded to two months ago the problem was getting it to him and it is our tradition starting with colin that we physically present. it sort of like an emmy or not what it is is a candlestick holder for someone who has shone bright light into the dark corners. so he knew he was he didn't know about the candlestick holder he knew that he had the award and he knew we were coming and the reception we got was just so for the warming it was a person who now realizes that he has very senior people alumni you'll find some of the size senior people who speak for a lot of people still within these organizations that admired greatly what edward snowden has done and hopefully will summon the courage to follow his example. r.t. also discuss edward edward snowden with julian assange and wiki leaks co-founder

explaining why he thinks a journalist helping snowden could be in jeopardy the full interview with our website r t v dot com. still ahead a global day of action against genetically modified crops as biotech firm monsanto faces a major backlash from consumers who say they're scared for their health that and more after a short break. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he's the only fool the criminal what do i believe you said here oh my belief he's drifted from his heart that he feels some goodness that he wants to be truthful to the american people that he believes in and loves his country america so strongly and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing.

seventeen minutes past the hour now two massive blast have torn through damascus one of them apparently targeting the hotel where the chemical weapons inspection team is staying or his policy or reports from near the site of one of the explosions. two massive blasts have ripped the heart of the syrian capital damascus

they happened just minutes apart at the square which is not far from the syrian state t.v. building as well as the hotel where foreign experts are staying now these experts have been in the country for a little more than two weeks they are investigating syria's chemical weapons stockpile we are some two hundred meters from the scene of these blasts and in the last hour the ambulances have been here in forward and backwards we can still smell this heavy explosiveness in the air and we're starting to see dramatic footage of did bodies on the pavements in front of the syrian state t.v. building at the same time there is a massive fire as you can well imagine there's a lot of confusion the crowds are gathering and the this part of the city is in lockdown all checkpoints in and out have been closed this is a hotspot just hours ago there was a warning posted online by armed rebels warning that they're going to target the syrian state t.v.

building and just yesterday they were mortar bombs that were fired at this hotel where the foreign experts are staying now all of this comes just hours after syria's top opposition group announced its refusal to take part in peace talks in geneva the mood in the syrian capital as you can well imagine is one of extreme nervousness confusion and trepidation. and we heard from berlin based journalist memoir arcsin a writer who says the syrian rebels who he thinks are interested in negotiations and will do everything they can to prolong the unrest. we have this already in the past we if we think we know that you will and we ease where. we had the u.n. inspector team which was investigating in. a couple of weeks ago which we are attacked by sniper fire so it's not in the interest it's not at all in the interest of the so-called armed opposition those teams can approach but we don't want there

is coming a calm time of agreements and. negotiations this is what they want to prevent and they will prevent it with wyland. or there's always more authority dot com including this who needs phonebooks not the employees of the u.k. ministry of defense it seems they've racked up a phone bill of more than a quarter of a million pounds just by calling directory inquiries and top end the talking clock . and a case of selling off the family jewels on a grand scale italy plans to put many a story castles villas even if an asian island on sale in a bid to plug holes in their budget the full story on that in r.t. dot com. activists held dozens of rallies as part of a global day of action against medically modified foods with biotech giant monsanto bearing the brunt of their anger organizers say four hundred cities across the

world from australia to the united states were involved they say crops grown from seeds made by the company can be dangerous to human health peter all of our reports from berlin where hundreds turned out to put pressure on the g.m.o. food industry. well what we've seen is that demonstrates is all around the world not just here in germany coming out to say no to genetically modified foods people saying that they don't have the dangers that they could pose that they write for human consumption over two million people turned out on the streets across the globe in may of this year for a similar demonstration to find out why people are demonstrating against g.m. foods why people say no to i'm joined by dr dietz to. thank us correct. what could be the potential hazards of g.m. foods genetically modified foods have been on the market for about fifteen years now and only last year we've seen the first long term animal study from france and

i have the pictures here we're showing the rats that were fed these are the corn that is genetically modified for their lifetime all animal studies until then have been for ninety days only and usually not much shows in those ninety days even though there are subtle signs of organ damage even in ninety days but in two years . the lifetime a life time of a rat is shortened they have massive organ damage massive west to immerse in the female rats and that is really really frightening recently a study from australia has shown that pigs that are fed these corn products get massive stomach ulcers and in north america where a lot of people live a lot shorter life than in europe and the health care system is. costs of g.d.p. . more and more people have chronic stomach upset which i have seen in my practice and it's probably in part to do with the genetically modified foods which are for

the average consumer in about sixty to seventy percent of the food products from the supermarket know how does not transfer to what we see in humans well in humans the effects will only not show for another twenty years speaker as we have a much longer life span than a rot so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of g.m. most we've got to wait or we should just shut this down test these things properly thank you very much a huge issue and what we're seeing here in berlin as well as around the world is people coming out and saying no to genetically modified foods riot police dispersed protests against the sunni ruling family in bahrain's capital managua the rally started at the funeral of a shia detainee who died in a prison hospital security forces reportedly used buckshot tear gas and sound aides injuring several demonstrators dr nada diy the head of the bahraini and rehabilitation antiviolence organization says the police often target shia funerals . it's a it's getting like

a common practice by the security forces that attack the funerals of the. relations specially in the did one is this is really going to lead to a political. comedy in this image to ease the mass. joining the the funerals there are many. or give a talk and what happened as a common practice is. taking a look now at some other stories making global headlines a stampede on a bridge at a hindu temple in northern india killed at least one hundred ten pilgrims more than one hundred others also injured as huge crowds attended the religious festival reports say police battalion batons to restore order which caused an even greater panic a stampede started when a group claimed the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up queuing. in iraq at least forty two people killed dozens wounded in multiple bomb attacks

across the country most of the blasts happening in a busy market and bus stations not clear yet who was behind the killings militant groups including out carried out similar attacks in the past according to the u.n. more than five thousand people have been killed the militant attacks this year alone. elliptic torch has started its long journey from moscow to sochi and the two thousand and fourteen winter games the flame embarked on a four month relay covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia and space in greece it was then taken to russia by plane last sunday as a score to read square by a two hundred strong cavalcade of bikers president putin personally lit the ceremonial cauldron kicking off the rally relay rather the torch then toward moscow for more two more days before setting off on its trip across russia it was a nearly three thousand cities and towns will scale the country's tallest peak and descend to the bottom of its deepest lake leaving be taken for a space walk for the first time in history and on february seventh twenty fourteen it will finally end in sochi to herald the start of the games you can see the

highlights and the reports from the relay ceremony on our website at r t v dot com . coming up to get some perspective i mean n.s.a. leaking scandal from apple's co-founder on worlds apart with oksana boyko stay with us. switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult citizen two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in

switzerland fear that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not working at all and sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of auditing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this plan is making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but

that's just my opinion. as afghanistan prepares for. presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak with the country's first democratic transition but it's less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground where the karzai is angling to succeed him so the powerful presence of the taliban so whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. how long welcome to all the part it came to the promise of liberation from hard labor but soon turned into yet another and direction is technology getting humanity more than it's taking from it well to discuss that i'm now joined by

a co-founder of apple and a gold like figure in the world steve wozniak he said was nick thank you very much for being on the show i know that you describe yourself as an agnostic or an atheist but it seems wherever you go you worship doesn't fail. you know what i am so glad that technology has gone so far as change your life so much that people actually feel a kind of a love and a club and they look for a symbol to worship and i'm an accidental symbol i was just you know a lucky great engineer at one time well you know i don't think it's so accidental and speaking about apple and worshipping i think apple was one of the first companies to really put man and human experience in the center of the design of the company and really try to create a god that would be the extension of human skills human capacity it's very comfortable obviously but on the other hand. isn't there a danger of that we will lose our ability to innovate because you know it's been

said many times the necessity and maybe even the frustration is the mother of invention i think if i get that right it's like everything has been done for us so well that oh my god i think i'm becoming more lazy and yes becoming laser we don't have to think we. i don't have to innovate. i disagree because all of the factors that are making it possible for our products to do these things it feels like wow i used to have to work and i used to think hard those still lead they need thinking to get developed so hey at least become one of the developers. you know and apple's always had this mission a mission to make things that are easier for the human put the human first and that means saving us exercise from physical labor saving us from mental labor saving us from thinking hard and i really i really like it i enjoy it i think i'm getting a lot more use out of my products when i just sort of speak naturally to them and get done what i want to do will we get to will it get worse than it is today are we on a trend towards.