the powerful presence of the taliban or 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's failing to reopen its frozen government. i. heard there in the south of moscow that leads to violent riots with hundreds arrested after angry mobs chanting anti migrant slogans storm a shopping center and clash with police. to syria's key opposition group bails on russia u.s. brokered peace talks we look at how the lengthy conflict devastated once prosperous cities and forced people to take up arms.

for good morning from moscow it's telling them you know monday morning when i was kevin zero in this is our top story that in just three days 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 default on its debts and if that happens the shock could be felt well beyond its own borders artie's innocent now it has the details. 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 side 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 out 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 so 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 the dire consequences you have the head of the world bank speaking about how 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 so this puts 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 it's a very very big player within their economies they're very very nervous so i think it just gives further fuel to move and 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 a 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 be 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. or they will while the u.s. looks them to stave off economic disaster for some other countries it's too late to this so we reported the situation greece where the country's oldest universities are going out of business now. next the roads ruptured in the south of moscow with thousands joined protests over the murder of a local resident was a man from russia's north caucuses almost four hundred people were arrested as mobs with. a shopping center and clashing with police really good as the details of the riots when you look at them really did seem quite weiland even though it has started out. very differently in fact after a young twenty five year old man was murdered in the southern district of that 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 doing this to get us going but that not even a rally a 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 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 kind of somewhat eerie pictures and then they wanted to head on over to the to the produce warehouse nearby they were stopped by riot police however we know several police personnel have actually been wounded at least one of them received a blow to his head with

a broken bottle work fears that words could last well into the night over by midnight police have declared that the scene was essentially cleared of all rioters almost exactly three years ago in december of two thousand and ten to be precise murder of a football fan by a representative from the from the northern caucasus region of russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow this time on monday as news where around five thousand keep. all came out most of them again football fans and not just nationalistic groups also shouting racist slurs. they also were confronted by the by police who have also clear there are some capital of the lady which they were essentially subjecting this city to so the tension is subsided but definitely there is still some apprehension hanging in there. correspond to their will for more on the chaos that broke out in so the moscow we invite you to go to our web

site r.t. dot com you'll find some dramatic pictures from the riot as well as reaction to what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well and keep abreast of as i say we're going to our website if you get a minute. the syria peace conference planned for geneva will not be attended by a leading opposition group the syrian national council moscow and washington of both been staking a lot on those talks as a way to try to find a solution to the ongoing deadly civil conflict because the longer it lasts the more once peaceful cities become war zones and once peaceful citizens take up arms artie's paul asli 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 they 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 of us had been less had an account on that this was unknown and syria before night i knew nothing of this before the war because 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 car. some volunteered his pain passion for kalashnikov. that something happened because i was teaching at a mortar shell landed in the schoolyard there were a lot of victims 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 me these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army was based years there was no militant years only innocent civilians some people here were praying for peace and this is one of the bombs that fell and

one of the bombs because all those 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 sautter. so you hate. this yard was 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 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 to 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 to hear that i'm prayers will be heard doesn't matter any more than 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 we're protecting them so nobody comes along to destroy their dreams. they were approaching sniper valley it's about twenty metres from here the sniper is. explaining to me right now we're going to go through i mean i think he's going to take my hand and we're going to run yes. ok. ok his telling me not to be afraid and i don't know if it. was that you ok ok i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok two three. if i can i cannot participating in the. if i was to do apparently one

person was killed here betts 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 believe that some asks me to pray for him and his comrades and most of us he says will probably. the next time you visit policy r.t.e. double shot holmes syria. meantime the work of international organizations in syria is getting 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 then twin car bombs rocked the center of the capital damascus to one near a hotel where chemical weapons inspectors were staying near locks and reuters an expert on the syria 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

you n. employees where were captured by rebels we had the un inspector team which was investigating ngata 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 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 become the largest oil importer in the world we talk about that after the break we look at the prospects and pressures the rising demands placed on the far east and giant.

actually nothing very good is happening now afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political leaders don't like to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is a kleptocratic corrupt. state but we should reframe the question so as only just stays there there will be violence there will be chaos because this is not the pine power it again you know the u.s. wants to keep a footprint there but the longer its footprint is there the more well with lin had to say the violence will continue because of occupation you know just the fact that the afghan government has not yet been able to convince the afghan people that it provides a better alternative. may

disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. just we. were. just.

going to turn sixteen this monday morning in moscow this is our take now those in the u.k. who want to break from the european union will be angered by a new study out suggesting jobless migrants from all across the e.u. are flocking to britain let's take a closer look oh pans out in two thousand and six the u.k. was home to over four hundred thousand are employed immigrants since then that figure is increased by forty two percent now there are currently over six hundred thousand of them they come with a hefty price tag too for britain's health care system costing around one and a half billion pounds every year compare that to france another european country with a large foreign born population spends less than one percent of the on health care for immigrants robert oulds is director of the u.k. based anti e.u. bruges group he thinks native britons have becoming less well off because of uncontrolled immigration. situation where people are coming in form predominantly eastern europe such as poland and no doubt more will follow from every rumania from the first of january when they can seek employment here is of course undermining

the 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 and of course not everybody coming here is actually coming here for work some were coming here to use the national health service which is free some are claiming benefits and of course there's also pressure on school also in housing in london the cost of rent has gone up enormously because there's just so much demand we need to push for a ship policy that suits british needs and where we can supply services for those who are actually contributing in the u.k. while other than this open to approach that we have at the moment. don't forget if you are not near t.v. by computer both got a lot more stories on line few as well from our channel r.t. dot com reporting now cultural heritage up for sale in fact it's at least plain to put it's a story castles village and even a nation island on the market we're here in

a bid to keep its plate economy afloat going read up more about that it's online plus night raids in extreme temperatures just a few of the methods being used by the guards it's america's one time of a prison break at the detainees ongoing hunger strike again find out how that is progressing to go on for a long time r.t. dot com. well imports are surging in china making the biggest energy importer on the planet you can see here beijing's increased oil purchases steadily in recent years finally produced in the u.s. just last month the rapid growth of industry to infrastructure has created new

sociable demands of fuel from of looks of the benefits only implications of china's ongoing 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 that 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 the world being 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 this week after an elf r t moscow so will do the briefing of the smaller u.s. registered ship seized on thursday disputed waters of has been a schoolteacher by venezuela's navy vessels reportedly conducting studies for a texan old company awarded a contract to search for oil close to guyana but but his whaler played it and hit its territory and the crew including five americans will be held on board well the owners say they're working with the u.s. government to try to secure the release of the ship. in china this traumatic video

showing dozens of people plugging of the water after wooden bridge. used to board a ferry collapsed over sudden fortunately the nearby park employees are able to throw inflatable life rigs in pretty quickly ten people did need hospital treatment and investigations being held at the y. the bridge which is only open it's collapsed some two million muslims of travel to saudi arabia's holy city of mecca to begin the annual five day hodgepodge images a central pillar of islam and includes a march to medina where the prophet mohammed married this year the number of pilgrims has been restricted by the saudi government though because of concerns over respiratory virus centered on the arabian peninsula. the economic crisis in greece has forced the oldest university now in athens to close down along with seven others the administration says they can no longer function after government cutbacks slashed staffing levels and i was students who should have started the new academic year have been left in limbo through pharma reports. 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 which you force the university to close. of course i'm concerned right now a lot of 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 the

serious cutbacks and minister of the of personnel and in public subsidies we're going to 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 it eighteen of the cities across greece all deciding to shut this 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 over 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 more 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 though it isn't going to happen without a fight well it's a just demonstration has ended had sought the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i fear that cutbacks all the way through the process they have been singing chants including people will know it by that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expressing themselves a lot i have done today can make a difference and three farmer. things. up ahead here on earth say the next people about his guest discuss whether the next year's elections in afghanistan will bring any positive changes to the violence plagued nation numb but with more news in twenty six minutes time.

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 says in 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. and because getting

a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of the odd thing 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 wealth equality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve pay ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion. michoud free cretaceous free in-store charge is free. range was free. three stooges free.

download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media don carty dot com. real damage and complexity of this oil spill is not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward. corrects it is toxic as it looked like spray. it

was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to i don't want dispersants to be the agent of. this. hello and welcome to cross talk of all things considered i'm peter lavelle as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak of the country's first democratic transition this may or may not be true what is less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground whether karzai is angling to succeed him self the powerful presence of the taliban and whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan.

to cross like the upcoming election in afghanistan i'm joined by john glaser in washington he's a contributing editor at antiwar dot com and a columnist for the washington times community section also in washington we have michael copeland he is an associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and in philadelphia we crossed england in he is a political commentator and a writer or gentlemen cross-talk rosen a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want john the reason if i go to you first in washington the reason i want to do this program is number one always make the american people and western publics remember what we did in afghanistan that's always a top priority for me and number two looking at the headlines democratic transition this is the first democratic transition in afghanistan and i'll give my opinion about that later but don't you think that the that's the wrong focus here is that actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan.