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news live from moscow this is all she was meek you national park hello and welcome to the program a car bomb in northwestern see where has killed at least twenty seven people and wounded many others the powerful blasts came just a day after twin car bombs rocked the center of damascus one near a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors are staying. reports now from the syrian capital. eg car bomb has exploded in a rebel held northwestern town in the province of italy which is not far from the syrian turkish border the explosion happened at a busy marketplace all of this coming just hours after two massive car bombs exploded here in the heart of the syrian capital on sunday night they took place in

front of the syrian state t.v. building and not far from the hotel where foreign experts who are investigating and overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons stockpiles are staying a short time ago the head of their team criticized the opposition for not allowing them access to some of the sites where rebels have control now there has been a number of warnings posted online by rebel fighters that they will use water shells to rain down on damascus all of this is hampering peace efforts and the two sides continue to dig in the hills nowhere is more evident than in the city of homes we traveled there and visited the quarter of god shun where we found that the two sides are often just meters away from each other this is the frontline as watched by a syrian army sniper. shoot. after a thousand days of wall 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 there's a kind of this was a moment syria before i knew nothing of this before the war. two and a half years ago was a school teacher to twenty nine year old signed up for war that it suddenly shattered right inside his classroom some volunteered his paint brush for kalashnikov. but something happened i was teaching when a mortar shell landed in the school yard there were a lot of victims i remember as i held one little girl who had been killed and seeing a blood i felt so sorry for her family for a few they seem to like beheading even icons and start shoes these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army wasn't based here there was no military here

only innocent civilians some people here were praying for peace this is one of the bombs that fell and one of the bombs that caused all this devastation this is their message to put it here just as a reminder. 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 saud. this yard is for the children also for many families as well they were killed because they refused to be the militants so. all the militants have been cleared out of this quarter but we're still here 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 when we defeat them we will rebuild this church and children will once again please here i'm prayers will be heard 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 so that 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. we're approaching sniper valley it's about twenty meters from here are the snipers and. explaining to me when i have it on right now we're going to go 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 that you ok ok all right i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok two three. if i can i

cannot participate in our best interest to get across ok. if we still 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 meters 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. . syria. a key opposition group has refused to take part in the geneva peace talks planned for november the russian foreign minister has blamed the western backers of the group for not putting enough pressure on them to participate in the talks made least complex analysts. believe it's next to impossible to bring such a chaotic group to negotiate they've not come to the talks in june which was

scheduled for june this year that they don't have leadership long term coherence strategy and they did not enjoy any popularity among the civilians or the syrians within syria so. secretary kerry can get anyone from the syrian national council to a turned because they haven't been able to dust far and they're not the americans have not been the honest broker in the whole process so. that the talks will be held in november as a result in a fresh development in syria and kidnappers have released part of the humanitarian aid group of doctors on sunday three international red cross workers and an arabic red crescent volunteer have been freed says they had of i.c.r.c. operations in the middle east but three more are still being held by the gunmen

they gave the kidnapping took place in the same province that was shaken by today's deadly car bombings. britain's not afraid of china and is willing to take its money to prove it declared finance minister george osborne in beijing is leading a trade mission there at a time when london is vying for china's favor and billions to kickstart the u.k. economy and as our cities point a boy career pours perks in it for beijing. britain's doors are open to china and more importantly the u.k. is recession hits economy is ready for chinese money to start flowing in that's the message that the u.k. chancellor george osborne is sending on a trade mission to china this week he told students at a beijing university that unlike some other western countries he doesn't want to resist china's economic progress or put up trade barriers but he wants britain to

share in the economic progress that means seeking chinese investment in british infrastructure such as british airports and water and energy and eight hundred million pound deal for a chinese company to develop manchester airport has already been unveiled george osborne said that he's determined to open a new chapter in u.k. chinese relations and make britons see that the chinese economy is no longer low wage or low tech one of my tasks this week is to explain to the british people just how far china has come sophisticated your businesses are how would grant you all in the fields of high tech and science and one of my principal goals this week is not just to increase british investment in china but to increase chinese investment in britain the u.k.'s current visa regime for the chinese has been criticized as colonial because of excessive red tape and application forms the u.k. is estimated to get just

a seventh of the chinese tourists that visit from several year as a result britain is thought to be losing out on over a billion pounds annually chancellor george osborne wants to bring that money into britain and announced visa rules would be simplified he even announced a twenty four hour super priority visa for chinese businessmen for economists the u.k. government's relatively recent enthusiasm towards making friends with china is easy to explain china's economy is one of the foster growing. in the world while the u.k. is struggling to emerge from a recession and it looks like the guys in there have finally decided that if you can't beat him if you're not even close you most certainly join them. r.t. london. chinese investment has been a hot topic in europe and recent years with one side eager to woo beijing and its riches there are those more wary pointing to africa as an example so why cautions

needed when taking chinese cash and more now with a former member of the european parliament mr forde welcome to r.t. it's good to have you where best we know rich chinese will now get special xpress visas britain's really serious about it isn't it. yes. of course we have been losing out we're not part of the showing an area in terms of future regulations for the european union so the chinese to be picking up visas which basically allowed to visit all of the e.u. apart from the u.k. and ireland and understandably when they're making their travel plans. to go monk's the you know the dozen states where they do. with application form. right and will these are good enough to trunk chinese heavyweights all will take

more. oh i think i really don't think someone who's thinking of investing hundreds of millions of euros in the u.k. economy is going to be impeded by if you want the visa regime what the visa regime is of on his attracting me the tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of chinese tourists going after you spend something like two thousand euros each own. on goods and services when you know when they visit the european union. the other issue in terms of anybody investment is going to be much trickier we've got an e.u. china summit coming up in an inventor it's currently churchill and that issue is going to be a big. e.u. china investment treaty that's going to be far more significant in terms of inward investment from trying to in the coming years and decades to a change in the regime which is serving a different purpose right ted said to african states such as unco and gonna have

had poor experiences with chinese investment. so what needs to be done to stop it happening europe well let's say that certain african countries are fairly bad experiences with british and other european investment over the years i think china's made its mistakes as well china is now looking to invest some of its sovereign wealth fund more widely the house in the past it's not looking to the european union and to the united kingdom is just putting two hundred million pounds i think into into my just a report but of course we need to get this in proportion trying to ease investment in the european union is less than five percent of u.s. investment so this is this is growing rapidly but from a very low base and clearly of course we want to see where they go where they want to buy into and what kind of industries. right forward former member of the

european parliament mr forde thank you very much indeed for sharing it with us. stay with us for more international news out of the break. israel is the country iran threatens to wipe out those are done with them give it up to the iranian leadership openly says so in this sense there is no difference between rouhani enough but it is good good as a vehicle for his visit to new york rouhani publicly declared that their goal is to annihilate israel. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the see bush is secure. your party there's a good. news that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from

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an isa now explain to us just how serious the consequences could be. 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 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 borrowing 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. talking about how american legislators need to be responsible that 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 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 which of finance 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 it could coordinate a new order which would be less dollar based you have protests breaking out especially in the capital here over the weekend a group of truckers came in towards the u.s. capital you had veterans this sunday coming together and coming to memorial 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 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. talks in the senate according to latest reports are not going well with republicans and democrats deadlocked over potential spending cuts and earlier i spoke to equity strategist and economist peter westin about the situation and he says a default would be nothing short of devastating. default would be a catastrophic event you would have the increase in the cost of borrowing for. around the globe you would have inflation in the u.s. increasing on the back of a very sharply falling dollar. and it would basically affect every single country in the world given that the dollar remains from the key reserve currency looking at a congress that is basically run by children. and you know the fortunate thing is

that the people that believe that the default could be manageable is very tiny but it's a question of winning them over but given the seed time and time again these political crisis appear in the u.s. i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependency in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil but it has to be a very slow and sort of gradual process and beijing is the single largest holder of u.s. debt with washington owing it's about one point three trillion dollars andrea the only independent specialist on china says the asian giants making great progress in striking out for economic independence. the situation is changing because china's surplus and falling down as a reserve is mounting and the us seems to be printing money with no end in sight

the us dollar has lost. obvious value. for the reserve was established and there was little return for huge diversity and then with china's brutalize trade opportunities opening up in terms of resources you know times of. china has been diversified we are seeing that china has their special. in shanghai and i call to speed up the process of. of the roman bay at the international currency so all signs point to the fact that the renminbi is likely to become political world of all maybe within that there could and coming out of greece's stunning views from one crisis to another this time a sweeping new run universities start dance forces teachers out of strike and students

into the streets protesting with their. brother thousand suspected illegal migrants have been detained in southern most co following a raid on a shortage industrial area came in a direct response to local outrage over the scale of an official workers in the area people say they're sitting on a power day care citing a catastrophic lapse of security and angry crowd of people wreaks havoc overnight as protests were sparked by the murder of a local resident. the rides didn't start off of violently in fact they started off as a gathering of local residents who are concerned with the investigation of the into the death of a local man who was killed last week in the only witness in his case was his girlfriend who said that the attacker was of known slavic origin those who have shown up the rally over the weekend most of them seem to have been members of

nationalistic groups as well as football fans and they have essentially hijacked the rally shouting ethnic as well as racist slogans and they have turned their anger against migrant workers a lot of whom are working at the shopping center as. warehouse. while some of them wish now seems store front 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 income it was 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 a personal have actually been the wounded at least one in the received a blow to his head with a broken bottle their work here's the wires could last well into the night their anger towards migrant workers from central asia is essentially indicative of the

ethnic as well as racial tensions which have been simmering in russia for quite some time recently something very similar happened about three years ago he said because each of you very much was it would be five or six different from the from the northern caucasus region of russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow to someone when there is no square around five thousand people came out most of them again football fans and not just nationalistic groups so the tension is subsided but definitely. there are still some upper henchmen hanging in the er. and for most of the chaos that broke out in southern moscow you can go to our website dot com and you'll find a timeline showing what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well as dramatic pictures. also the israeli intelligence in the dog its main story iran begins the trial of

a group of alleged secret agents who go to descriptions of the supposed spying mission online. the world wide know to jam day as protesters spill onto the streets not so-called frankenfood which they blame for harming people to help. several major universities in greece us still closed as a strike by teachers stop continues well into a fifth week they say they're not going to work until plans to fire more than a thousand administrative workers are scrapped and was no lectures to attend undergraduates are venting their anger in the streets on cheese and your farm 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 but 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 have borne the brunt of the redundancies archivists treasury employees and security guards standing alongside students who should be starting a new academic year across time it's a similar story at the national technological university so this auditorium should be full of students right now it has some saluki fortunately it's because of the 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 it eighteen of the cities across greece all deciding to shut this cut bank slashed 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 firm a deal struck. 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 it isn't

going to happen without a fight but it's a just 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 i have been singing chance including people will know it by that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves i have done today can make a difference and. say things. i'm coming up next have are not as it was the hard questions to israel's deputy foreign minister. 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 all doing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland living in. second of 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 pay 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 a 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 self the powerful presence of the taliban and whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. a little.