the powerful presence of the taliban so whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. with the world's largest borrower just days now from defaulting on its debt international lenders begin to panic about the consequences of america failing to reopen its frozen government. in the south of moscow that led to violent riots with hundreds arrested after angry mobs chanting anti might word slogans storm a shopping center and then clash with police. also syria's key opposition group bails on russia u.s. brokered peace talks with look at how the lengthy conflicts devastated once prosperous cities and force people to take up arms to defend their families.

well over a good morning she just joined us just after nine am now here in moscow this monday morning this is our team on names kevin now in our top story in just three days in the u.s. will be forced to make a decision that will affect the entire global economy if lawmakers don't find a way to reopen the frozen government and then agree to raise the national debt ceiling america will do fold on its debts and if that happens the shock will be felt well beyond its own borders in this in our reports. well there's been no headway over the weekend between democrats and republicans coming to some kind of agreement on how to raise or whether or not to raise the debt ceiling without said without a us budget in place the government has run out of money to pay thousands of federal workers but that's nothing compared to what we'll see possibly see on thursday october seventeenth at midnight if the u.s.

doesn't secure a debt arising of its debt ceiling will have to default on its over sixteen and a half trillion dollars of borrowings and that threatens to thrust the global economy back into recession you have the rest of the world very wary they're panicking you have the heads of various major financial organizations global financial organizations like the i.m.f. the world bank speaking out i.m.f. chief christine lagarde talking about how american legislators need to be responsible but this bickering is ridiculous they need to find a way to get through this to the rest of the world doesn't have to pay for these dire consequences you have the head of the world bank speaking about how our default would affect developing economies as well as the developed world and then you of course have u.s. trade partners who are watching very closely some of them terrified countries like china huge economic partners what will happen to them if the u.s. does go head into fall will according to experts whether or not it happens on

thursday china is still going to rethink the way it does business with the united states here's jeffrey summers of the university of wisconsin milwaukee and united states of course is an economy which leads global credit and the foreign purchase of its treasury bills to put it in a very precarious position moving forward in terms of the ability to fund many of its programs domestically for those countries in the late shift line and see very very big play within their economies they're very very nervous so i think it's just you further if you will. of course china has been. trying to see if you could coordinate a new order which would be less dollar based and this first u.s. shutdown in seventeen years has seen eight hundred thousand or so federal workers not have work basically receiving no pay not being called in and then you have reports of thousands of others workers basically being threatened with dismissal if they don't work for no pay so people here of course are not happy you have protests

breaking out especially in the capital here over the weekend a group of truckers came in towards the u.s. capitol covering the beltway really blocking traffic trying to get awareness there you had veterans this sunday coming together and coming to memorials let's not forget that parks and landmarks are being closed due to the shutdown because there's no one to work there no one to keep up the maintenance so there was thousands of protesters who in fact broke through a barricade on sunday to try to get to world war two monument they were peaceful just chanting slogans like break down these walls singing patriotic songs but yet there were riot police there ready to go to control these veterans the veteran saying that military personnel and their colleagues are being used as political pawns in this government shutdown and if the u.s. does go ahead and default of course those protests are expected to get worse not to mention the effects it will have on the rest of the world they're going to change

the way they see the united states the rest of the world is not going to forget these couple of days leading up to this to fall whether or not it happens the u.s. economic reputation has of course been changed. but while the u.s. looks to stave off economic disaster for some of the countries it's too late later this hour we report on the lead a situation in greece where the country's oldest university is no going out of business. must have riots erupted in the south of moscow this last weekend where thousands joined protests over the murder of a local resident that was played on a man from russia's north caucasus almost four hundred people were arrested as mobs went on the rampage storming a shopping center and clashing with police is fun i want to. join us live from the center of moscow this morning warning to you just how violent were these riots over the last few days and what about the injuries well we know at this point at least about about at least five police personnel who were injured and ten or

eleven other people non-police just now also reported injuries none of these injuries are life threatening however the riots when you look at them they really did seem like violent though it has started out. very differently in fact after a young twenty five year old man was murdered in the russian district of getting over local residents have come out over the weekend in order to express their agitation and concern with the situation and wanted to find out how the investigation was going but that not even the rally and meeting was essentially hijacked by representatives of nationalistic groups as well as football fans who came out crashing everything in sight they decided to raid a shopping center while some of them were smashing storefront windows others are being are said to have been looting stores inside afterwards they took to the streets where they were clashing with police overturning cars destroying

a kiosk selling watermelons which provided for some colorful and it was somewhat eerie pictures and then they were. to the produce warehouse nearby they were stopped by riot police however there were concerns that they will be joined those who are already in the southern district of moscow will be joined by many more nationalistic groups and football fans there were reports that more and more of them are be are coming in from other parts of moscow and there weren't fears that. well into the night over by midnight police have declared that the scene was essentially cleared of all rioters. arrested however some of them were released almost immediately after the arrests last night and of course this point there's some of the some of the russian capital officials are still keeping a vigilant eye out on what is going to happen later in the day however their hopes

that the violence has essentially died down this isn't the first time we've. called such a backlash what was absolutely essential the almost exactly three years ago in december of two thousand and ten to be precise murder of a football field by a representative from the from the northern caucasus region of russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow this time on when there's no square around five thousand people came out most of them again football fans and not nationalistic groups also shouting racist slurs. they also were confronted by the by police who have also where there are some capital of the mayhem which they were extension subjecting this city to so the tension is subsided but definitely there is still some apprehension being in the air thanks to the very top is really going to get there from the central ministers. and if you'd like to keep

across more about the broken front of a bit more about it for the moscow to warn our web site r t the home front some dramatic pictures there from the riot that ended in clashes and hundreds of arrests in the last forty eight hours. in syria a peace conference planned for geneva will not be attended by a leading opposition group the syrian national council moscow and washington are both staking a lot of those talks as a way to try to find a solution to the deadly civil conflict that still rages on because the longer it lasts the more once peaceful cities become war zones and once peaceful citizens take up. the reports next from the embattled city of homs. this is the frontline as watched by a syrian army sniper that you know of when they see somebody and shoot. after a thousand days of war this is what victory looks like and the eerie silence of what once was the vibrant quarter of. twenty meters from here rebel fighters hold

their ground while the army does the same squeeze between a few streets that throw up unexpected heroes from among the rubble have been less had an account and this was unknown and syria before night i knew nothing of this before the war icicles of. two and a half years ago last summer was a school teacher of the twenty nine year old signed up for war that it suddenly shattered right inside his castle and he saw some volunteered his pain passion for kalashnikov. that something happened with him while i was teaching at a mortar shell landed in the studio there were a lot of victims who were held i remember as i held one little girl who had been killed and seeing our blood i felt so sorry for her family. my fear they seem to like beheading even icons and start chances are they mean these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army was based years ago there was no military cheers only in the sense of. some people here were praying for peace and this is

one of the bombs that fell the one of the bombs that caused all this devastation this is their message to put it here just as a reminder of. the church of babel shum was built in eight hundred eighty five four hundred twenty six years it served as a house of sanctuary overnight it became a house of salter. this yard is for the children it was also for many families as well they were killed because they refused to be the militants were from a sufi and a couple of of the all the militants have been cleared out of this quarter but we're still here and we keep up a presence to protect the area and prevent the terrorists from returning we're also trying to get the area back to normality to what it when we defeat them we will rebuild this church and children will once again your prayers will be heard was with any animal today a handful of families are starting to return in the ravaged streets the sound of children's laughter punctuates the rumble of machine gunfire. and i remember when i

used to play football just like them you know i have to carry a gun just sort of they can play here safely when i was their age i dreamt of being a professional footballer and i'm sure they've got the same dream for protecting them so nobody comes along to destroy their dreams. they were approaching sniper value it's about twenty metres from here are the snipers and. explaining to me right now we're going to go swimming i think it's going to take my hand and we're going to run. ok. ok he's telling me not to be afraid and i don't know if it. was the ok ok i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok two three. if i can i cannot do that participating in the best interest we've got across but. if i was to

do apparently one person was killed here bet i'm ok thank you. as night falls the streets of bubbles become more dangerous the soldiers light fires every few metres to help them see as i leave but some asks me to pray for him and his comrades most of us he says will probably not be here the next time you visit policy r.t. . homes syria. meantime the work of international organizations in syria is going to more difficult by the day seven aide workers from the red cross and red crescent were kidnapped by gunmen in the northeast of the country on sunday and twin car bombs rocked the center of the capital damascus to one near a hotel where chemical weapons inspectors were staying monologues reuters an expert on the syrian crisis he says some rebel groups are working to undermine international efforts we had this already in the past we if we think we know that u.n.

employees where were captured by rebels we had the un inspector team which was investigating ngata 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 be a proper way it would mean that all the difference which gave the syrian government as well as the whole earth which was almost expecting a regional war or even overt war in that area would complete. the situation and this is in the interest of the rebels coming up a first for black gold rapid economic growth forces china to become the largest oil exporter in the world after the break then we look at the prospects and pressures that rising demand is placing on the far east giant and.

some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. with. the. choose to. choose the stories but if you.

choose. to. want to break away from the european union will be angered by a new study suggesting migrants will across the e.u. are flocking to britain let's take a closer look at the news will see what pans out in two thousand and six the u.k. was home to over four hundred thousand unemployed immigrants since the figures increased by forty two percent there are currently over six hundred thousand of them that come with a hefty price tag for britain's health care system costing around one and a half billion pounds a year now you compare that to france and other european countries a large foreign born population it spends less than one percent of that on health care for immigrants. director of the u.k. based. group he says native britons are becoming less well off because of

uncontrolled immigration. situation where people are coming in from predominantly eastern europe such as poland and no doubt more will follow from mania from the first january when they can seek employment here is of course undermining native british people and of course they are working for less so the wages are being depressed and of course british people are finding that they're left on the scrapheap so to speak that will stop everybody coming here is actually coming here for work someone coming here to use the national health service which he's free some are claiming benefits and of course there's also pressure on school walls and housing in london the cost of rents has gone up enormously because there's just so much demand we need to. see that british needs and where we can supply services for those who are actually contributing in the u.k. than it's open to approach we have at the moment. as i was of course a plug for

a web t.v. as well there is service twenty four seven reporting this morning the cultural heritage is up for sale italy's playing to put its historic castles of a nation island on the market in a bid to keep it playing to calm me afloat want to read up more on that on our website night raids in extreme temperatures just a few of the methods used by the guards in america's guantanamo bay prison to break up but ongoing detainee's hunger strike and find out more from. all imports of china make you the biggest energy importer on the planet the rapid

growth of industry infrastructure is created it is social demand for fuel. looks at the benefits of implications next of china's ambitions yet again china is number one this time surpassing the united states as the world's biggest importer of oil what's more according to u.s. government findings china is expected to remain the top global gas guzzler well into the next year part of that reason is china's economy is growing as well as rising auto sales that has increased demand as a result china has used more oil than it can actually produce having to turn to outside sources in order to fill the gap americans still consume more oil per person but china is slowly catching up on the one hand it is a sign of progress the economic boom has raised incomes and boost to china's influence around the world china's economy may be cooling but it's still expected to grow by nearly eight percent this year which is well above forecasts for the united states but this is one a world beating achievement to the chinese leaders may not actually want they've

seen the experience of the united states economy often hostage to political instability in the middle east importing more also means less energy independence it's forcing china to rely on countries like saudi arabia as well as a wrong un and communist leaders see that as a weakness because of instability in the gulf as well as iran's political isolation well over and over again china has proven its capacity to surge ahead and to beat out rivals the question is whether china will be able to avoid its rivals mistakes . of r t moscow. so you said one is a brief a small u.s. registered ship seized on thursday disputed waters off guard in the score to now to port by venezuela's navy vessels reportedly conducting studies for a texan all company awarded a contract to search for oil close to guyana but venezuela claimed that entered its territory recruiting five americans will be held on board while the owners say they're working with the u.s. government to try to secure the release which. at least forty three people are now

known to have died in a boat accident in mali the tragedy was caused when the small vessel which was believed to be overloaded at the time broke up and sank on the niger river so far only two hundred people have been rescued but many remain unaccounted for. in china take a look at this traumatic video showing dozens of people plunging into the water when this the wooden bridge used to board a ferry collapsed fortunately nearby park employees were able to throw floatable life rings in pretty quickly ten people did need hospital treatment and investigations being held into why the bridge was recently opened last september collapsed. the economic crisis in greece has forced the oldest university now in athens to close down along with several others to the administration says they can no longer function after government cutbacks slashed staffing levels and now students who should have started a new academic year have been left in limbo that andrew farmer's got the story.

students have studied at athens university since the middle of the nineteenth century but today they carry placards not books youth will fight austerity it says the message is black and white america the anger aimed at government cutbacks but you force the university to close. of course i'm concerned right now a lot of the students you know in schools in universities feel that they have no future here. the protesters are heading towards the greek parliament among them administrative workers who've borne the brunt of the redundancies archivist treasury employees and security guards standing alongside students who should be starting a new academic year across town it's a similar story at the national technological university so this auditorium should be full of students right now it has absolutely fortunately it's because of

a serious cutbacks in administrative personnel and in public subsidies we cannot work we are to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corridors can be seen in eighteen of the cities across greece all deciding to shut is cut back slash their admin staffing levels by as much as forty percent back at the demonstration one lecturer shows me a letter being sent to universities around the world asking for their support there is a serious threat against greek universe it's against greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands for a deal she. truck with the e.u. and i.m.f.

to secure funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed isn't going to happen without a fight this latest demonstration has ended had sought the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i fear that cut backs all the way through the process they have been singing chance including people will know it by that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expressing themselves they have done today can make a difference and. athens. real nice it's coming to nine twenty five in the morning here this monday morning in mosco coming up from the break we'll look at the concept of u.s. exceptionalism i would affects the rest of the world.

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. 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 wealth inequality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees there 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.

except american exceptionalism is a testimony to american exceptionalism and exceptionalism the united states is indeed exception america is exceptional what makes us accept this except. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for

our own. mera self-interest but for the interests of all. i agree america is exceptional but what's exceptional about my country is that. we do exceptionally bad things we do it well. we do it often. we do it and no one else can. taking action and doing things without accountability that other nations cannot get away with. the standard of international norms when we ourselves do not adhere to the same standards it's something many of us take pride in self-appointed right to dominate destroy. and take control. only that's not what it's called here it's called american exceptionalism and it's been around for a long time could be original meaning of it of course comes from the us communist

party which in one thousand twenty seven was telling stalin that they were having trouble trying to get american workers to make revolution against capitalism because of american exceptionalism nope. even further back to the beginning the true american exceptionalism i think was during the founding generations when they wanted a limited government that didn't interfere in other people's business so the phrase has been completely turned around. so what exactly is american exceptionalism today well remember this yes we can yes we can yes we can yes. yes. that's it yes we can do whatever we want you should do what we want. and if you don't. we'll make you. president after president this idea of exceptionalism.