as a wave of bomb attacks rips through syria and a key rebel group refuses to. be citizens of the conflict and forced to take. the president to global crisis is now just days away at the whim of u.s. lawmakers who are threatening to renee. to get their way reporting the fear and panic among. american the world's economy. and. the public.

from. a car bomb in northwestern syria has killed at least twenty seven people and wounded many others the powerful blast came just a day off to. the center of damascus one near a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors a standing. reports 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 god else 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 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 misrata mokoena this was unknown and syria before night 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 and some volunteered his paintbrush for kalashnikov. but something happened i was teaching when 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 our family. 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 hears only innocent civilians 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 shame 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 was for the children it was also for many families as well they were killed because they refused to be the militants or from a sufi mock up over the all the militants have been cleared out of this quarter but we're still here as 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 watching at 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. we're approaching sniper valley 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 that you ok ok i trust him and we're going to make a run first ok two three. if i can i cannot do that participating in the best interest we get across. if it 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 believe but some asks me to pray for him and his comrades and most of us he says will probably not be here the next time you visit policy r.t. . homes syria. position group has refused to take part in the geneva peace talks planned for november the russian foreign minister is blame the western backers of the rebels for not putting enough pressure on them to participate in the talks middle east conflict analyst moonroof 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 i doubt that secretary kerry can 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 in syria have released three red cross workers and a red crescent volunteer they're part of a group of seven aid workers abducted on sunday they were captured during an attack on their convoy working in the rebel held province the same region hit by today's car bombing three people remain in captivity red cross spokesman sean maguire told us that no one is making it easy for the humanitarian effort. on all sides of the conflict there has been

a misuse of. of of the the right to humanitarian assistance i think we've seen on all sides of the conflict that medical aid 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 in shut down the united states government now verges on another crisis although this one could go global washington has less than three days left to raise its debt ceiling or else face default but more makers are refusing to budge holding any possible deal hostage to their own interest he's a nice and i explain 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 precarious position moving forward in terms of the ability to fund many of its programs domestically for those countries in which finance it's a very very big player within their economies they're very very nervous well 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 and quickly strategist and economist peter weston says a default would be nothing short of devastating or 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 or the key reserve currency looking at a congress that is basically run by my 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 appearing to 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 regime is the single largest holder of u.s. debt with washington owning it about one point three trillion dollars and independence specialism china says the asian giant is making great progress in striking up for economic independence. 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 by the reserve was ice that rushed and there was little return for. investment and then with china's

group of lies 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 the hong kong to speed up the process of. the roman bay i think 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.'s making clear it is a perfectly good alternative london office chinese firms political put soup of visas and access to the u.k.'s most lucrative projects and exchange for beijing's billions coming to britain. also still to come. from one crisis to another this time a sweeping new round of university. forces teachers strike and students into the

street protesting with no stores and still to come. as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak of 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. so we leave the. shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. good three. three. three.

three. three. three. video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. continues here in 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 and salties party boy reports there are all perks in it for beijing to. 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 ports and water in 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 tasks this week is to explain to the british people just how far china has come sophisticated your businesses how would rants 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 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 lure beijing and its riches the other though is more wary pointing to allegations of china taking advantage of angola's oil sector or flooding the markets of ghana with counterfeit goods as examples of why caution is needed ben harris queenie'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 on to 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 who's been out in china lecturing the british about why they need to change their attitudes to china as opposed to privatization 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 foreign policy context more than a thousand suspected illegal migrants have been detained in southern moscow following a raid on a storage industrial area it came in direct response to local outrage over the scale of unofficial workers in the area people saying they're sitting on a powder keg citing a catastrophic lapse of security an angry crowd of people retallack overnighters protests were sparked by the murder of a local resident on he said in english brings a small. 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 by while some of them wish now seems 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 income 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 and personal have actually been wounded at least one of them received a blow to his head with a broken bottle works here is that why it's good laws to 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 about three years ago and we tend not to a murder of a football fan by a representative from the from the northern caucasus region old russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow the somme on one there's no square around five thousand people came out most of them again football fans and not nationalistic groups so the tension is subsided but definitely there is still some upper henchmen hanging in the air. well for more on that broke out in southern moscow you can go to our website dot com there you'll find a timeline showing you what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well as dramatic pictures also online of the moment israeli intelligence in the dockets main in iran begins a trial of a group of alleged secret agents we've got the full details of their supposed spying mission. the worldwide no to g.m.

days protesters spilled on to the streets marching against so-called frankenfood which they blame for harming people's health. several major universities in greece are 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 one thousand administrative workers are scrapped and with no lectures to attend undergraduates are venting their anger in the streets as 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 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 in administrative personnel and in public subsidies but 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 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 struck. 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 very 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 that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression

themselves they have done today can make a difference andrew farmer. thins. now look at some other world news in brief this are opposing football fans of clash following a match in brazil supporters from the home side sao paolo came to blows with fans from corinthian outside the movie stadium a bus was attacked with bars and rocks police were forced to use rubber bullets to break up the crowds of more than thirty people were detained. a group of ten u.s. senators both republican and democrat of calling on barack obama to be more aggressive with iran during the upcoming nuclear talks they say in a letter any easing of economic sanctions should only come if to iran freezes uranium enrichment immediately they also called to reaffirm the military threat against iran the talks to just start tomorrow hope to bring a thaw in u.s. iran relations following june's election of a more moderate president in the islamic state. italy says it will

triple its 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 and started south of sicily the patrol will reportedly be for 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. course in malaysia has banned normal muslims from using the word allah to refer to their god that term is used by all faiths in the country christians argue that they have used the word for centuries in 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. from in the news team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime peter lavelle and he's going to discuss whether next year's elections in afghanistan will bring any positive changes to the violence plaint nation.

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 to hunt 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 inequality 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. and issues. cretaceous free storage free range chickens three. three. three. moseley braun video for your media projects

a free media. hello and welcome to cross talk where 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.