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that was. washington wrangling to secure a budget deal keep the world economy on edge but little final conclusion just two days before it could cause a catastrophic default. peppering the servers major frozen governments to make room for to get good data beyond the reach of the n.s.a. turning to localize connections three shock waves of criticism. and attention in moscow as muslims prepared to mark one of its london maybe college days but in the shadow of sunday while an ethnic next in the capital.
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live from moscow you're watching r t you're with me to on the day it's good to have your company this morning to our top story now. the united states is only two days away from financial collapse unless lawmakers can strike a budget deal to avoid default rival democrats and republicans have been stuck in a new for over two weeks with most government work crippled and so now a report on the deadlock that could spark a domino effect around the world. this self-inflicted shutdown is causing panic around the world as washington scrambles to avoid default the global economy is at risk of being thrust back into recession while at home millions will have to cut their losses either way deal or no deal businesses that were unable to work at full capacity for public sector contracts which will see delays in payment and unemployment which is already on the rise due to the shutdown but possibly the most ironic thing about this government shutdown now in its third week is that it's not
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saving money it's costing america at least one hundred sixty million dollars a day and given the crisis has entered its fifteenth day the overall cost could be as much as two and a half billion dollars and that number of course is expected to grow and the political debate is hampering a rise in the debt ceiling but also leaving sick americans out in the cold for each week of the shutdown hundreds of patients cannot be accepted for treatment at the national institutes of health including cancer patients seventy five percent of the staff is not working because of the shutdown and it's the patients in need of medical treatment that are suffering veterans are outraged at the closing of public parks and war monuments due to this shutdown the government has run out of cash to pay some eight hundred thousand federal workers during the deadlock over the weekend thousands came out in d.c. and stormed the barricades at a world war two memorial calling for the government to stop using veterans as political pawns in this battle for the budget while another group of retired
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military personnel are set to protest here in washington d.c. this week again starting their rally at that war memorial the department of veterans affairs is seeing the backlog of disability disability claims grow along with the frustration and uncertainty among the military community also prominent faith leaders are set to join locked out workers at republican offices to pray. and march for an end to the suck down they're expected to call attention to each representative stance on the debt ceiling encouraging them to vote to end this standoff so as this sat down continues we are seeing more and more protests in the capital and more people in different groups demanding the government do their job and get a budget passed. the executive director at the american jobs alliance told us how lawmakers have and that claim to moderating the public did not win the nobel prize in economics today you may have noticed but it does seem to be that it could have
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quite a catastrophic effect we're talking about global economic financial chaos is what he described and. i prefer not to play roulette like that the depths of human folly are fathomless i would hope that they wouldn't but we're talking about politicians now so if the deaths of human folly are fathomless with politicians it's even worse i do like the fact that we have democracy here and a back and forth between branches of government. but i do hope it's principles that they're standing on ego and not a desire to save face like human folly the capacity for self-delusion is also limitless. days by washington's floundering a very thin economic disaster china is calling full
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a deal americanised world us to falter would strike a serious blow to the asian paul house which is sits on more than a trillion dollars in u.s. treasuries i want to export energy all says beijing already cutting loose from its binding burden. 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 since the further reserve was established and there is little return for huge investment and then with china's group all eyes trade there are opportunities opening up in terms of resources in arms of assets so china has been via versifying we are seeing that china has that a special feature a zones in shanghai chen high hong kong to speed up the process of.
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of the remember a i think international currency so all signs point to the fact that the renminbi is likely to become fully convertible maybe within a decade. reducing reliance on the u.s. dollar has been discussed ever since the credit crunch struck back in two thousand and eight late on r t the kaiser report assesses china's aspirations five years on . the criticism of caustic ridicule on washington the news agency called the u.s. civilian slayer prisoner torture and meddler and others affairs and said the pax americana was a failure on all fronts well i mean china should walk the walk instead of just talking the talk so kicked out mcdonald's kicked out kentucky fried chicken kicked out coca-cola they're making their citizens obese and you're getting diabetes so you know they talk the talk but will try to walk the walk simultaneously let's say they want to deal merican eyes the world here's a here's
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a country that has huge exposure to exports to america is the basis for their merc until this rise of the twenty first century why would they be cutting the nose off to spite their face unless they're ready to come out and say we've got enough gold at this time to cut the dollar loose. foreign governments and businesses affected by the n.s.a. surveillance that edward snowden revealed taking decisive steps to prevent future spying brazil is creating an encrypted e-mail service to shield official communications from u.s. snooping and germany's the biggest telecoms firms is planning to switch to exclusively domestic connections to protect they use this private data and the details from our correspondent in berlin. they are inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan that they hope will protect their customers information from the prying eyes
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of security services telecom has announced that they will only be using german servers for all communications inside germany in the future this is something they have said perhaps they would like to roll out to across europe but for now it's only going to be here in germany that information e-mails and phone calls and text messages will only travel on german service now this comes out following the revelations of just how much germany was spied on as part of the by the n.s.a. and british secret service is all of this coming out from the the leaks that edward snowden revealed to various media outlets in fact just to sum up how much germany was spied on one leak that was revealed in big old news magazine in june of this year showed it's around a billion e-mails phone calls and text messages were intercepted in germany in the average month the announcement by telecom is actually probably prompted all the
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major operators to say that yes they want to follow suit vodafone among them as well. telefonica said they would also try to roll this out for their customers however there are some that are skeptical of whether it could work due to the the nature of the modern communications however telecom is saying that they're determined to protect their customers information from the prying eyes of the spy use. another way for businesses to ensure confidentiality is to move away from the dot com domain one company taking that trade off to the snowden revelation as a major malaysian investment firm and i talked to the head of the company about its online a tentative. this is one of the new. or server rooms of the heart of the russian internet the dots are you demain and now these shelves of glowing boxes will have several more as the major malaysian investment firm has decided to relocate its
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servers into russia becoming the first foreign company to register within the dot are you denying the man running the company sas has done that because of recent revelations by edward snowden which seemingly have not only left high profile politicians like the brazilian president offended but also prompted some businessmen to take practical steps to talk about it we're joined by the president of the majority and partners company mr. thanks for your time and joining us here my first question why did you choose to move your service to russia not anywhere else to be on a normal company and we just think that if we hear. from prove we the world got from mr snowden that certain organizations in the west are listening into medical records of their own citizens and the e-mail traffic of g. mail yahoo hotmail i do believe it's time to say goodbye to dot com and has an excellent service that safe if i have a service which i pay for all i want is good customer service i want safety off my
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network or my server if appropriate for this reality congress over the lucian it's time to wake up so the malaysian businessman believes that putting his service into the russian domain he will feel more safe where that is so lost the people running the russian internet so given off from the essential sygate is it really secure is that the really wise move by the malaysians to move the service here we can see it is more secure because. foreign intelligence agencies for example the u.s. intelligence agencies of course. has. less opportunities to control the equipment that is placed in the russian foreign service they are located for example in great britain in germany in sweden. and intelligence agencies of the united states has more or more cooperation with the steer countries than with russia so it's more difficult to control when the equipment is created is what he did in russia.
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chris keith whose company provides encrypted internet services is another entrepreneur has moved all the firm's data to another country he told us earlier how washington's approach to security only fuels to security only fuels uses demands more privacy. really what's happening here is that they have a different strategy instead of targeting the people who they know or suspect of being terrorists are crossing bad things there they're expecting everyone to be a terrorist and that of course is not true so really what we're doing is we're offering a service that allows people to find the truth i mean really what's happening is people can't they're getting their e-mails blocked they're getting things censored and this is a way to get through that and get around it and you know most ninety nine point nine percent of the usage on a service like ours is going to be i'd say substantially it's going to be innocent usage so should you shut down ninety nine point nine percent of the world just
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because point one percent are bad people i don't think so we're actually getting calls from friends of mine who run businesses that store data for large multinational companies consumers are demanding this this is what's driving it's not about just me thinking it's a good idea for marketing or that we're going to find all the fringe paranoid people everybody wants privacy for their data. a website has the latest n.s.a. related revelations from by the snowden expose a the agency is reportedly collecting hundreds of millions of e-mails and instant message contacts from uses address books in order to map out social circles around the mall and that dot com plus check with us on twitter for instant updates on the constantly unfolding surveillance scandal. right the machine. first street. and i were being put.
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on a reporter's twitter. instrument. to be in the. lobby. there are security concerns there in moscow with thousands of muslims i suspected together for one of islam series holy days eight months the end of hostage and the end all pretty good marriage to the city of mecca here in russia it's also known as a wire em but it comes in the wake of sunday's massive ethnic protests in the capital. joins me now with a more details then at what's expected to happen in moscow for this holy festival today. programme byrom literally means the feast of this second of five city takes place about seventy days after ramadan the
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holiday commemorates just a little bit about the holiday and the holiday commemorates it it brought hume's willingness to sacrifice his son ishmael to show his faithfulness to allaah so on this day the muslims they kill or should i say a separate fires the sheep that were a goats they give to me to be the poor and share my family and neighbors says you would imagine not everybody's all right with the sight of and it was being killed in their backyard so as gordie's moscow have specified special locations farms outside the city where muslims to practice the ritual of separate fires on this holiday this year you could also order the sheep at a local mosque three days in advance say you would get it delivered to your door on this day the special holiday of the second prize there's a very big muslim. indeed russia and in moscow for say across russia it would be around twenty million people of course these celebrations coming just days after
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the riots in moscow's bit over district that you mentioned hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice for the killing of a young man you push it back off a day and to express their attitude towards migrants say that the whole thing turned into into riots they cost have a good a shopping center and of the local storage facility it's not clear who that man oh who was who was with the man who killed you border is but this is the t.v. footage shows are embedded with dark hair in his thirty's seemingly for more than carcasses or central asia but the monsoon of course aired while the police have identified yet of course at moments like these all immigrants are down slide with appearance in russia fear that the incident can provoke more hate crimes and russia is not immune to that especially with tensions over illegal immigration and there are lots of other issues that we've heard russia's islamic leaders religious
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leaders call for russia's muslim community to help. find him to help a investigate to give a shit about those murder as much as to you know they they called for the community to help investigate this a good portion of those murder as much as they can and also not to allow themselves to be provoked and so you can imagine that in the wake of those riots the security is tight here in moscow we know that around four thousand people line force officers were deployed to make sure that the celebrations are peaceful and safe for the public. and that is advantage and you can join me live now from moscow on a that celebration of cool in a fire here in moscow. right and they're all challenges ahead in destroying syria's chemical weapons will mean for. struggling to
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access rebel controlled areas but that the getting full cooperation from the government. putting a price on the sunshine. tax. break. that could call.
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one. hundred thirty. thousand people or sixty five. in a record setting trip. on march the coup. well the british study done. by.
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the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. thanks for staying with us here watching are to me the nobel peace prize winning group in charge of destroying syria's chemical arsenal says damascus officials are corporator and giving them access to whatever they want to see now the same can be said about being allowed into some rebel held territories through the head of these special teams as are they being held back by ongoing fighting and has renewed calls for all sides to cooperate meanwhile a car bomb in that the northwest has killed at least twenty seven people and
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wounded many others the powerful blast that came a day off to twin car bomb struck the syrian capital when your hotel where the international chemical weapons inspectors were staying the explosions interrupted a live iraqi t.v. broadcast from damascus let's take a look at the video that's emerged online. video here with. the hot dog. not not oh oh. from a lot of us a lot of. them analogous imo while equal. a lot. of really dramatic images they are showing the challenges of being inside syria now there was also underlined by the kidnapping of six red cross workers and a volunteer on sunday for them have been released but the others are still in
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captivity red cross both men are shown maguire told us no one's making the humanitarian effort any easier. on all sides of the conflict has been a misuse of. of of the the right to humanitarian assistance i think we've seen on all sides of the conflict medical aid has been denied to people who need it the second 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 you observed we're seeing that being denied by both sides by all sides in this conflict. syria's largest opposition group is refusing to take part in the geneva peace talks that. are in motion for a transitional government but u.s.
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secretary of state john kerry maintains that the conference needs to be held as soon as possible little east conflict analyst imo enroll for believes the opposition will not negotiate this time just like before. they've not come to the talks in june which was scheduled for june this year they don't have leadership they don't have a coherent strategy and they do 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 thus far and they're not the americans have not been the honest brokers in the whole process so. the talks will be held in november as a result and i were asking for your thoughts on our war in the nobel peace
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prize to the chemical was tasked with destroying the country's toxic arms and let's take a look at what you've been saying a so far. thirty seven percent of you believe it it's no surprise given that president obama got one almost at the same number think nobel committee actually meant to give it to president putin but came up way with a way not to do so but about a first of you think that the committee have betrayed the nominees who are defending human rights and only a small number of people believe this was a ride thing to do and i hate to r.t. dot com to cost to let us know which think. turn into some other global news headlines and now the summer and fall of you has been struck by a seven point two magnitude earthquake it's a thought at least four people have died the victims were apparently buried under debris while the number of injured is now being assessed by rescue troops the
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epicenter of the quake was almost sixty kilometers of our boy island but no immediate tsunami warning was issued. nationalists in ukraine have must through kiev to remember a group which at one point for the alongside the nazis during the second world war around four thousand turned out to moderate the foundation of the so-called ukrainian insurgent on me which is also responsible for time atrocities including ethnic cleansing there were calls for a national holiday in tribute to the unit and for its a day to be awarded the funeral of ukraine. industrial andras in spain where police have failed to break a picket of hundreds of workers at a large a bakery strikers block the access to the facility northeast of barcelona protesting at the layoffs of almost two thousand workers and deep cuts to wages the blockade started on sunday after unions denounce of the company's moves.
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spain's austerity will soon something that has been free and available to everyone since at the dawn of time the sun other countries going to tax it slapping a little levy on solar energy to plug twenty six billion euros of debt a surfer it reports there's an argument hotting up in spain right now with the country still moiety in financial difficulty the government's come up with a rather unusual proposal calling for attacks all solar energy just like make up privatization of the sun. the sun is also some of the government with some spanish cities enjoying an average of three thousand hours of sun each year the nation's been one of the leading providers all solar energy the trouble is they're pretty things so in much the production capacity now exceeds the market by sixty percent and that's when the government found itself in that produces to the
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cina twenty six billion euro so in a big go back the use of solar panels the government decided to attack those who you. you know their way of tackling the very behavior it's been the last decade trying to encourage critics of the proposal say this will damage things progress towards meeting european renewable energy goals and kids set a dangerous precedent for other struggling e.u. countries like greece who are remiss to be contemplating a similar tax spain's energy regulator agrees and his called the proposed toll economically viable and discriminatory in most blindsided by the idea of people like pedro he invested his money in installing a solar panel in his home. with the new taxes there making it cheaper to buy your energy from the big companies rather than use the power from your panels the government argues that the tax is fair and those using solar energy still require
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the use of the conventional energy grid and say this tax will contribute to the cost of maintenance but the solar lobby say the new tax will extend the time it takes the solar panels to pay for themselves from eight to twenty five years. we have to twenty twenty twenty twenty. twenty twenty years ok. we kind of understand this. as for the fine that could be levied if people like don't pay up well that's been set at a mind boggling thirty million year oh i already know people who are removing their solar panels protesters say that simply to scare people into submission but as to whether it's working for padre.
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you know. when the laws against your rights you have the right to refuse to do with the government tells you i'm going to continue with and i'm not going to be. with such strong resistance across the sunny state governments may have a fight on its hands and could be left wondering if the proposed tax is such a bright idea. so. what's going on on our website right now is a further tightening the screws on the empty government defense head to our table. in motion. video. quality demonstrating. we've got the story of a notorious molly pilot he was captured after twenty four tricked.

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