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 the deadlock is just days away from causing a global financial catastrophe. two blasts ripped through damascus one targeting a government t.v. channel the other going off near the hotel where chemical weapons inspection team is staying you have the latest report from the city. and in the week's news whistleblower edward snowden raises his head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance in months outlining what he calls modern day threats to privacy.

for am in moscow i met treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news massive riots have shaken a neighborhood in the south of moscow where crowds spilled onto the streets after the killing of a local man almost four hundred people were arrested as mobs went on a rampage protesters claim the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants has turned the area into a big crime scene or he's lucy coughing off reports from the troubled suburb. in the southern moscow all available moscow police crews had been called to this area to try to calm down the on the rest this was the scene of violent clashes between protesters and riot police following a demonstration over the murder of eight 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. a migrant worker not confirmed evidence on thursday he was stabbed to death after a quarrel over is broke friend by an unidentified male and to have fled the city in a 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 work on bringing all these stories industrial areas to their constant source of tension. especially in the neighboring areas of murder did spark a mass of tensions in a neighborhood that's already been seeing some problems between russians and some ethnic minorities over the past few months reporting from southern moscow for our team. in the u.s.

now where warnings have been sounding that the country is in danger of dragging the low the global economy down amid the ongoing standoff on capitol hill the world bank chief calls the situation desperate saying it could spell economic disaster that is unless lawmakers and two weeks of deadlock and a raise the debt ceiling to avoid default the shutdown is seen in vast swathes of government close in hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent on unpaid leave public anger is led to protests in washington itself take a look. group of veterans accompanied by politicians converged on the world war two memorial in the heart of d.c. it was closed to visitors during the shutdown like other national monuments and parks the crowd tore through the metal barrier surrounding the landmark and then carried pieces of the fence to the white house gates and obama protesters made the landmark a rallying point blaming the white house for the continuing impasse in budget negotiations the impact of the political crisis widening with each passing day. i

reports. u.s. president barack obama's signature health care legislation is supposed to provide 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 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 was employees thousands of people have reportedly been furloughed because of washington's self-inflicted shutdown as a result michelle langbehn who is battling sir coma 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 or 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 the game between them and 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. in the reporting

from new york marina fortnight artsy. or now an american academic and a left wing political commentator noam chomsky tells r t he thinks the us has turned into a one party state ruled by big businesses super human history for a moment with democracy. it's interesting to see which. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation. but one of the sort of leads to use specifically neo liberal programs and they're having the same kind of. direct will to very narrow so there's increasing inequality it doesn't make use of. the democracy.

higher because it's more concentrated political power those will. well know elections are almost void so the plutocracy of. both political parties and the right. one party state the business already still ahead for you this hour on r t a global day of action against radically modified crops and biotech giant monsanto faces a backlash from consumers saying they're scared for their health loss. in bahrain security forces unleashed another harsh crackdown is tear gas and stun grenades bring down on pro-democracy campaigners details later in the program. but first edward snowden returned to the media spotlight this week breaking his silence for the first time since july we can leaks released a video where he's seen getting an award for integrity and intelligence work by a group of fellow american whistleblowers

a mosque up. 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 to warn him with the same price for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards. this time snowden leaked his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets. you know. where are we exactly mark just on the last. night this line to the summit. but they'll stop at the. first

song all the courtly 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 his father mr snowden senior 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 simply 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 see his father may not be the only

family member heading over to visit since it's really unclear whether the former n.s.a. contractor will ever be able to return to the u.s. again you've got to skim off moscow public the n.s.a. whistleblowers fate up for discussion in our studio this week we talked to 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 they discussed how the american fugitive is getting used to his new 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 you look like 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 on 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 because of the person you saw in front of you colin 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'd 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 this it's sort of like an emmy or an oscar what it is is a candlestick holder for someone who has shown a bright light into the dark corners. so he knew he was he didn't know about the candlestick holder he knew that he had received the award and you know 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 know 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 discussed edward snowden with julian assange and wiki leaks explaining why he thinks journalists helping snowden could be in jeopardy vailable on our web site r t dot com more news coming your way after a short break stay with us. disagree . but i believe america is exceptional.

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sixteen minutes past the hour now twin bomb attacks ripped through damascus one of them apparently targeting the hotel where the chemical weapons inspection team is staying or his policy reports from near the site of one of the blasts. 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 last three ambulances have been hearing forward and backwards we can still smell this heavy explosiveness in the air 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 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 trip edition. meanwhile the red cross announced seven of its workers were kidnapped by gunmen the sunday in northern syria earlier we spoke with berlin based journalist and syrian crisis expert oxon writer who thinks the rebels are uninterested in negotiations and will do everything they can to undermine international peace efforts. we have this already in the past we if we think we know that u.n. employees where were captured by rebels we head to the un inspector team which was investigating in gotta

a couple of weeks ago which were 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 that those teams can approach a wait they don't want that there is coming. on time of agreements and of negotiations this is what they want to prevent and they will prevent it with islands. also on our web site r t dot com a new report revealing an apparent conflict of interest behind some public debate over military intervention in syria several major u.s. made media outlets. talking to nearly two dozen guests about military action against a mosque is but not revealing the experts connection to the defense industry out on line for the details on that. and a case of selling off the family jewels on a grand scale italy planning to put many historic castles villas even to island up for sale in a bid to plug holes in the country's budget full story. activists

around the world held dozens of rallies as part of a global day of action against genetically modified foods with biotech firm monsanto bearing the brunt of their anger some four hundred cities across the world from australia to the united states were involved protestors saying crops grown from seeds made by the company can be dangerous to human health peter all reports from berlin where hundreds turned out to put pressure on the genetically modified 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 know 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 monsanto i'm joined by dr. thank us correct. what could be the potential hazards of g.m. food genetically modify its 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 to. time all animal studies until then have been for ninety days only and usually not much shows in those ninety days even though there settles 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 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 burdened by seventeen percent 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 speak us we have a much longer life span than a rat so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as

a result of 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 monsanto itself says it makes a disease resilient made makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow when companies also maintain that many people already consume genetically modified food with no ill effect jeffrey smith who's written extensively about what he thinks are the dangers of what he calls franken foods says this couldn't be further from the truth. when you look at the animal feeding studies of genetically engineered foods the american academy of environmental medicine they said there's gastrointestinal problems immune system problems think celebrated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are going wrong with the animals

that are being fed g m o's and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population since g. of those were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world eradicating poverty so this is just been a public relations ban and they spent two hundred fifty million dollars over five years trying to convince americans that they needed to accept g m o's because it would feed the world i ask farmers all the time what do you think about santa even those farmers that use monsanto seeds often hate monsanto or fear might send or both so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. riot police to disperse to protest against the sunni ruling family in bahrain's capital my mama the rally started at the funeral of a shia detainee who died in a prison hospital security forces reportedly using buckshot tear gas and sound

grenades injuring several demonstrators doctor not to die if the head of the bahrain rehabilitation antiviolence organization says 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 be relation specially the did one is this is related to political. comedy in this it mysteries the mass who is joining the the funerals there are many. attack and happen as a common practice. tensions were really killed in egypt this week as dozens died in a running street battles between muslim brotherhood supporters and those rallying behind the interim government. and western carmakers sneaking into

iran despite current trading bans the country is managing to keep its automobile industry afloat despite mounting economic sanctions that coming up later this hour . but before that economic news from around the world coming your way in venture capital with katie pilbeam stay with us for that. 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 it's 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.

of the gaza strip should not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians yet to a palestinian leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment in judea and samaria so israel is not willing to be. just sucker of the middle eastern people and to make long term concessions sacrificing the security of its own citizens musical only to find out in the end the conflict isn't over that is going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position.

and i welcome spent kept on k. to believe this week we talk about the us sat down and the effects it has on. as well as that we are a singapore based alice for his take on the situation the view of a russian all agog clubs courtney's a common law in house investments is on thomas he's back he was sick last week but we're going to see how healthy he is called a always professor start with a story that has been dominating the find out who had lions this week so the day that the us will exhaust the boring capacity is looming but what is the own going deadlock made for china the largest foreign holder of u.s. debt china's vice finance minister voiced his concern earlier in the week saying that the u.s. has a responsibility as a result the debt ceiling round china is primarily contending that expressed his concern on the chinese it is according to the situation to get resolved in order to

ensure the safety of chinese investments in the united states which stands at around a quarter over one point two trillion dollars taking over from japan in two thousand they sell added to this china also have three and a half trillion dollars worth of u.s. doll those are another reason. for beijing to worry about a potential u.s. default now in total thailand has roughly sixty percent of its foreign currency reserves invested in the u.s. let's get over to singapore now and hear from what really for all of finance david it is for more insight into us david can you tell me what are the dangers for chinese investments right now. china is concerned china is very conscious of the fact that it is holding a lot of you really treasury in china with that margin in that position. so therefore it is consciously trying to move an economy where.