as a wave of bomb attacks rips through syria and. talks we visit. the president. just days away. to get their way. panic among. the american. public. the murder.

just turned ten pm this is. a car bomb in northwestern syria has killed at least twenty seven people and wounded many others a powerful blast just a day to twin car bombs rocked the center of damascus one hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors. 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 as more evident than in the city of holmes we traveled there and visited the quarter of that sham where we found that the two sides are often just meters away from each other this is the front line 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 throughout the unexpected heroes from among the rubble there's a kind of this was unknown and 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 paintbrush for kalashnikov. that something happened because i was teaching in 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 a blood i felt so sorry for her family. they seem to like beheading even icons and start me these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army was based here there was no military hears only innocent civilians with some people here were

praying for peace and 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 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 saud. this yard is for the children it was also for many families as well they were killed because they refused to be the militants and. 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 doesn't matter any animals will be 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. we're approaching sniper valley it's about twenty meters from here the sniper is. explaining to me 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 i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok to three. if i can i cannot do that participating in the best interest we've got across the table but.

it was the 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 and most of us he says will probably. 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 rebels for not putting enough pressure on them to participate in the talks middle east conflict analyst rufe believes 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 they don't have

a coherent strategy and they did not enjoy any popularity among the civilians or the syrians within syria so. secretary kerry can't get anyone from the syrian national council to attend because they haven't been able to thus far and they're not the americans have not been the honest brokers in the whole process so i doubt whether the talks will be held in november as a result kidnappers have released four out of seven aid workers abducted in syria on sunday they were captured during an attack on a convoy or working in the rebel held it province the same region hit by today's car bombing three people remain in captivity in red cross spokesman sean the choir told us no one's making it easy for the humanitarian effort. on all sides of the conflict there has been a misuse of. of of the right to humanitarian assistance i think

we've seen on all sides of the conflict that medical leave has been denied to people who need it the sick and the wounded. and there are areas being besieged by both the government and opposition forces so we're seeing this sort of denial of the right to humanitarian aid which is which we would be expecting to see observed we've seen that being denied by both sides by all sides in this conflict already shut down the united states government now verges on another crisis although this one could go global washington has less than three days now left to raise its debt ceiling or else face default but lawmakers are refusing to budge holding any possible deal hostage to their own interest in the snow explains 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 they'll 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 curious 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 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 memorials 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 equity strategist and economist peter weston says a default would be nothing short of devastating oh it falls 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 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 that we see time and time again these political

crisis a period of us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependency on 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 beijing is the single largest holder of u.s. debt with washington owning it about one point three trillion dollars and independent specialist on china says the asian giant is making great progress in striking up the 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. its value since the reserve was last averaged and there is little return for. investment and then with china

scrutinize trade opportunities opening up in terms of resources in terms of assets so china has been diversifying we are seeing that china has that a special feature a zones in shanghai and in chennai and hong kong to speed up the process of. the roman bay at the international currency so all signs point to the fact that the renminbi is likely to become fully convertible maybe within a decade. with china looking to wind down its american holdings the u.k. is making it clear that it is a perfectly good alternative chinese firms political puck super visas and access to the u.k.'s most lucrative projects and exchange for beijing's billions coming to britain. and also still to come. from one crisis to another this time a sweeping new round of universities cuts teacher strike and students into the street protesting with them.

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a pleasure to have you with us here today. news continues here on r.t. britain is not afraid of china and is willing to take its money to prove it declares finance minister george osborne in beijing he's leading a trade mission there at a time when london is vying for china's favor and billions to boost the u.k. economy as artie's pretty book reports there are perks in it for beijing to. britain's doors are open to china and more importantly the u.k.'s recession hit 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 britain's see that the chinese economy is no longer a low wage or low tech one of my talks this week is to explain to the british people just how far china has come how sophisticated your business is how would grant you are 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 that 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. join them. chinese investment has been

a hot topic in europe in recent years with one side eager to beijing and its riches the other though is more wary point into allegations of china taking advantage of angola's all sectors all flooding the market to garner with counterfeit goods as examples of why caution is needed well ben harris quickly he's chairman of the group think tank also warns the u.k. should be very careful with this new initiative. there is something to worry about where regards core infrastructure things like energy and security those are areas where i think there is a concern about any foreign power having control or investment and i think there are absolutely needs to be protections to ensure that our energy for example is not run from abroad in that we have control over it is there for structure george osborne has been out in china lecturing the british about why they need to change their attitudes to china as opposed to a proposition of often lecturing the chinese on human rights abuses or other issues

so now i think we're talking about moving to china in a bit of business context as opposed to a foreign policy context more than a thousand of suspected illegal migrants have been detained in southern moscow following a raid on a storage industrial area it came in the response to local outrage over the scale of unofficial workers in the area and people say they're sitting on a powder keg citing a catastrophic lapse of security and the angry crowd of people retallack overnight as protest was sparked by the murder of a local resident. brings a small. their rides didn't start off 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 as 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 by 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 it was somewhat 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 personal have actually been wounded at least one of them received a blow to his head with a broken bottle there were fears that riots 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 something very similar happened three years ago december of two thousand and ten after a murder of a family representative from the from the northern caucasus region of russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow this i'm on when there's no square around five thousand people came out most of them again with ball fans and not just a nationalistic goof so the tension is subsided but definitely there is still so. prehensile hang in there. well for more on the chaos that broke out in southern moscow you can go to our website r.t. dot com it's online all the time they will find a timeline showing what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well as dramatic pictures also online. israeli intelligence in the dockets minute verse rerun begins a trial of a group of alleged secret agents called the full details of their supposed spying

mission. and a worldwide note to g.m. day is protesters spill into the streets marching against so-called frankenfood which they blame for harming people's health. several major universities in greece is still closed as a strike by teaching staff continues well into a fifth week they say they're not going back to work until plans to far more than a thousand administrative work is a scrapped and with no lectures to attend and the graduates of venting their anger in the streets artie's andrew farmer 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. the anger aimed at government cutbacks which 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 stand 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 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 his 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 a thing 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 with. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout 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 although it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i for the cutbacks all the way through

the process they have been singing chants including people will not obey and that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves they have done today can make a difference andrey farmer. another look at some other world news in brief opposing football fans of class following the match in brazil supporters from the home side came to blows with fans from corinthian outside the stadium the bus was attacked with bars and ropes and police were forced to use rubber bullets to break up the crowds and more than thirty people were detained. a group of u.s. senators both republican and democratic calling on barack obama to be more aggressive with iran during upcoming nuclear talks they say in a letter any easing of economic sanctions should only come if tehran freezes uranium enrichment immediately they've also called on obama to reaffirm the military threat against iran talks due to start tomorrow to bring a foreign u.s.

iran relations following june's election of a more moderate president in the islamic state. italy says it will triple at sea and air patrols in the mediterranean after more than three hundred eighty migrants have been killed in the past week increased naval and surveillance of started south of sicily and patrolled reportedly before migrant rescue rather than trying to force them to stay where they are many people flee african countries in boats to travel to europe in the hope of finding a better life. or so i welled up at this hour for the malaysia has been known was lim's from using the word to refer to the gold term is used by all faiths in the country christians argue that they have used the word for centuries two thousand and nine the government had to launch an appeal when it was sued by a catholic newspaper which had been banned from using the word. that brings up today about with a news team with more for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime. talks to israel's deputy foreign minister that is after the break.

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 a 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 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 limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this point is making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't do motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealth equality also if the boss is 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.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. showing corporations to rule the day. hello welcome to sophie and co on sophie shevardnadze israel may be losing its cause with the us because of a pretty unexpected drive on iran president obama after his failed attempt to strike syria welcomed the chance to be remembered for possibly opening a new iran relations with the islamic state israel's alarm calls over aidan's nuclear.