you know for your media projects c.e.o. don carty dot com. qatar detains journalist for documenting poor labor conditions for world cup workers we talked to one of the reporters about what they discovered prior to the air arrest. a lad off for russia's most prominent opposition activist on the scene of ali's jail term for embezzlement is commuted to a suspended sentence but his conviction remains unchanged. and no respite in america's debt standoff as lawmakers stall on a decision with just over a day until default could strike well look out there was waiting in line to get what's left of the budget.

this is already coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program tara isn't brawled in a fresh scandal over its twenty twenty two world cup preparations two german documentary makers were detained there after talking to out there taking and talking to and filming migrants building the events infrastructure they were investigating claims that labor conditions in the gulf kingdom border on slavery and have led to dozens of migrant workers dance party talked to filmmaker peter del who told us about his attention and shared some of the video that led to his arrest . first we got arrested by the federal police in a hotel rooms were taken to the headquarters which is an doha city and we were questioned and interrogated for a couple of hours and just after midnight we got cuffed our equipment cameras all the memory sticks we had everything was taken from us and we were taken to

a state security prison right in the suburbs of doha where we had to spend the nights in separate cells my cameraman and me. we were in there in that prison in those separate cells for a total of twenty one hours the bad thing about those twenty one hours was we weren't even allowed a single phone call not to our embassy not to families no one was there to tell us what the charge was really so we were kind of desperate in there not having any contact with the outside world obviously your investigation which could tell. us to the end in full but what did you find out there with your own eyes. well in those two days we had until we got arrested we were able to talk to some human rights workers down there locally on the ground as well as quite a number of workers as it turned out one gentleman there for twenty twelve years i

think working as an air come in addition specialists ironically his ark of addition itself doesn't even have a vent fan but this guy told us he said i think thirty five about him not getting the salary and his bonuses for a number of years now and his main difficulty was to fight the case against his. against his boss and his firm he was working for as they see a specialist so the best thing is the boss took his passport from him so his problems fighting the case and called us problems getting back he's not making the money he's supposed to make for the flight home back that's a that's a bad devil or circle he said in that was one example of the people really got it isolated another bunch of. another bunch of guys let me just tell you that you'll be might be seeing in the pieces well four of them they haven't got paid for seven

months in a row right now trying to file the case as well all of those workers have one major problem they have to work within the so-called system let me try and explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm he's working for the cup ration . and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors obviously take the past post away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands. in the miserable situation now the widespread mistreatment of workers building facilities for the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar has triggered mass calls for the country to be stripped of the tournament altogether well let's take a closer look now at some of the figures that have been causing alarm while forty

four workers died at a construction site in the space of just one and a half months the summer so roughly one migrant worker every day now more than half of those fatalities resulted from heart attacks and workplace accidents that information comes from the nepalese embassy in doha as most migrant workers in qatar come from that country and international trade unions predict that up to four thousand workers could die before the world cup kicks off in qatar in two thousand and twenty two if nothing is done to improve their conditions while workers' rights are abused in different ways with wages withheld for several months and implores routinely confiscating their passports or refusing to issue anti i.d.'s plus some workers claim they are being denied access to drinking water in conditions of extreme heat. well the ne main condition is that the nepalese workers are enjoying four guitars world cup come up and abby martin spreading the set which you can

watch later on r t v dot com this is a country of two million people there are currently three hundred forty thousand nepalese migrant workers many of which been assigned to world cup construction but according to several reports released by the guardian the workers face brutal working conditions long hours lack of pay and wretched living quarters just yesterday it was confirmed that seventy napoli's labors have already died while working on projects yet both the nepalese and qatari governments refuse to acknowledge this massive human rights problem so if you're sick of world powers treating migrant laborers like garbage and tell fifo to pressure qatar and put an end to this modern day slavery. and jail sentence against russia's opposition figure how the scene of ali has been

just overturned back in july they were announced anti-corruption activists was given five years in prison on embezzlement charges but that's now been commuted to a conditional sentence for more on this let's now cross live to respond next here. and actually do tell us why exactly is an evolving case so significant give us some background. well indeed from one of the most popular bloggers online to one of the most notable figures of the russian opposition not only became known as a blogger exposing a fraudulent schemes and corruption on his blog just several years later he was already running for the mayor seat in moscow garnering twenty seven percent and being placed second eventually in the mayoral race that was after he was convicted to five years in prison for embezzlement at the cute of this organization when he worked as an aide as an associate to the governor of the cuba of region and he keep the belief and the irony here this. there has been noted by many over the years that not violently has been involved and has been found guilty of

a criminal act which he has been fighting all along corruption certainly. and did of course this isn't come as a surprise at all many have been indeed surprised by such outcome of the court session of the included himself he's been saying that he never expected such a decision especially after the judges overturned all appeal claims from his defending lawyers eventually replacing the actual five year prison term for the violin a four year prison term for his associate. suspended sentences not only in an interview just twenty four hours before going to the town of cuba for the court session said that he was packing all his belongings in case he was to be transferred from the courtroom to the prison directly certainly such a decision by the court leaves a huge room for debate whether his political career would continue but the blogger himself declared himself unhappy even somewhat of a positive decision coming from the court and he said that he will still appeal against this decision decision demanding

a full and complete acquittal of himself he's very likely thanks very much indeed for bringing us across the developments they are there. now the fault within two days is now on the cards for the united states unless squabbling lawmakers come up with a wild bill solution to the political stalemate most of the government's now been behind mothballed for more than two weeks unable to provide services or pay the bills preamble oring reports on some of those worst hit by the deadlock. we are here now at the world war two memorial where the military coalition just held a press conference there calling on congress and president obama to strike a deal and to end the government shutdown now the military coalition is a group of thirty three service member and veterans organizations they represent about five point five million people this includes the active service of veterans retirees and their families now the president signed into law the pay our military act on september thirtieth just hours before the government shutdown is though was

supposed to ensure that our active military members would intend you to get paid if the government did in fact shut down but the bill didn't include a lot of programs that military members and veterans rely on now i spoke with gary augustine he's from the disabled veterans association and he explains exactly what's going on there many veterans especially veterans who are injured or ill because of their military service that solves the income that they have coming in every month with those benefits being paid they won't be able to mortgage their will be able to to bills many of them won't be able to put food on their table so that is catastrophic for many of them now another issue that's surrounding d.c. right now is the debt limit and what a lot of people don't understand here is that if we hit the one that without reaching it without extending out not going to automatically default on the debt what would happen at that time if we don't raise the debt ceiling is the government would have to start prioritizing. the treasury brings in about two hundred billion

dollars per month in revenue our interest payments are close to around twenty billion dollars so there's plenty of cash on hand to make our interest payments but there's not enough money to pay for all government programs now earlier i spoke with jonathan mann and he's facing very tough financial decisions right now he doesn't know if he can pay his rent even though. he's prioritizing payments as a billion employee i'm not able to work collect my salary as a drilling reservist i'm not able to drill. and as. full time student my g.i. bill payment may not go through and first move them november so it's been an entire kind of income loss. of course i can't travel or do anything or visit family at town so right now i'm just in a holding pattern on paying the rent and eating so the military coalition has said that congress and the president are using the military as hines and that the shutdown is jeopardizing our military readiness and while we're at war it

jeopardizes our security had to find the military and if he's no bases as you can see it's causing a lot of people to fall through the cracks in washington d.c. perry and boring r.t. . for more we're now joined live by dr william wilson economist at an emerging markets thing tank and skulking outside moscow welcome thank you so much for joining us here and to discuss about this so what is the probability of a default in your opinion. i think the probability of the fault is zero i mean never say never but the fact is if i were to occur later this week the results would be catastrophic you'd see the credit markets freeze up. we're talking about sixteen point seven trillion dollars worth of government debt this would be the largest default in the history of the world and it would freeze up the financial system like you saw in two thousand and eight except this time it would be

a lot worse so the likelihood of this happening is i would say it's close to zero. but if the decision is delayed then what's going to be happening and how much longer can the federal government continue to fulfill its vital obligations and you know functions how much longer can people live in financial suspense so-to speak. i think the government shutdown is really hurting both parties and they know it now so i think they'll come to some sort of. a solution sometime within the next few weeks i don't think the the debt ceiling may not be raise for another few weeks but as mentioned before you have two hundred billion dollars worth of revenue coming in for a month so the government can prioritize its spending it may not pay the u.s. department of defense the money it needs so security recipients may not get paid for a week or two but the shutdown is hurting both parties a great deal now they have a very strong incentive to reach this impasse but under no conditions do i think do

you see a default and not right default on government debt it would be catastrophic now what about the investor to be there i mean why are some investors still keeping their money in the united states i mean what's going to be happening there what sort of predictions can you make at this point as to the you know inflows and outflows of cash and investment. right now to me over the last two hundred twenty four years the u.s. government is only defaulted on its debt once during the the war of eighteen twelve and so the situation of course is a lot different two hundred years later with the u.s. debt market so big the the u.s. debt market is the the core and central of the global financial system and under no condition could they let that shut down so i think the smart money is placing the odds of a default close to zero and right now the fact is this the u.s. economy is growing at a pace twice as fast as that of europe it's growing now faster than that of the

russian economy and so a lot of investors you have the u.s. stock market double over the last five years so a lot of investors are still confident about the future of the u.s. economy so what about you know some investors a living eastward so what about that tranda do you think there will be more you know businesses going eastwards and looking there to you know look for more opportunities there instead of say going westwards what would be the balance here. your question is eastward i didn't i didn't hear the kind of a lot of investors are looking eastwards like looking at the markets like singapore china hong kong you know and what's going to be happening there is the strand well the strand continue what will be the balance here. yeah actually what we've seen the last twelve months is a big selloff in emerging market secure you know securities we've seen the

indian stock market decline a big collapse in the indian rupee the fact is the chinese stock market is trading fifty percent lower than it was five years ago. brazil's economy may not even grow this year and so we've been and we've seen a big drop off in growth in a lot of the larger emerging markets because we've seen liquidity dry up and the fact is a lot of these larger economies what we call these bric economies have not made fundamental structural economic reforms over the past four or five years and it's hurt. well you mentioned earlier smart money so speaking of smart morning do you think that other currencies might challenge the greenback now and it's actually you know some some of the markets will be looking at diversifying their currency portfolios and investing in other currencies instead of the dollar. not in the short run because in the short in medium run if you're an investor looking at alternative currencies were you go. you don't go to the euro land

because there's a prospect of the the. monetary union may not exist five five years from now the japanese economy continues to be sluggish. and so there's really no else to go but i think longer term if the us federal government continues running these massive structural deficits then in fact you'll start seeing alternative currencies one of those would be over the next five to ten years if they liberalize their financial markets will be the japanese currency the yuan. wilson thank you so much for sharing your views with us here that wasn't qantas and emerging markets think tank outside moscow very much appreciated. it watching r t coming to you live from moscow now on our website we're asking who do you think will suffer most if the u.s. defaults while more than half of those who participate in our on line vote think that it's the american people who will suffer the most if the government fails to

find a way out of the shutdown if if believe it's america's creditors and bondholders who should be worrying as they will see their investments decimated well as little as things that it's brock obama who bear the brunt of the president who let the world's largest economy fail and finally nine percent of those who voted think it's the republicans and the tea party movement will be the biggest losers because default will cost him votes in future elections or to dot com is where you can add your voice and let us know what you think on this issue. now after the break an attack on a dodge diplomat in moscow strains relations even further between the two countries . about the worry of violence deception and intrigue as a dutch official is attacked here in moscow we'll bring you the twists and turns of the deepening diplomatic spat between the netherlands and russia. an explosion in

syria kills over twenty civilians the latest in a string of bombings and kidnappings our correspondent reports from the war torn nation. where is the trust element here because even if they even if we have these internet groups break themselves away or attempt to break away from the n.s.a. they have other ways of finding getting into data in any way there's a bunch of ways it could take to become a doctor and i think one of the things that's really surprising about what the n.s.a. tried to do is that they tried to find every possible way of getting data but we all know that other governments have surveillance and that governments are actually working with them so it's not just you know the states it's governments you know if you're among what is what do we think doing to bomb them all those kind of things that still happen the way before the internet so i agree with you completely but raise the difference is the u.s.

government says we don't do these things and we keep finding out that they do these things and even more. money it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i. welcome back this is r.t. at least twenty one people including women and children have been killed in southern syria after a minibus they were traveling in hit a landmine opposition forces say the area is controlled by government troops but so far there's been no official comment on the incident obviously or reports from damascus. happened in a civilian law case which is why all the casualties are in fact civilians and from the reports we're receiving the part of the province where this explosion happened

is being controlled by the variables it does follow a string of attacks over the last few days on monday some twenty seven people were killed in the northwest province of idlib that also happening in some in rebel controlled territory but we do expect the number of did it to climb as many of those who have been injured are in a serious condition a few days ago armed rebels posted will be on one line that they will grain mortar shells down on the capital city of damascus and sends them almost every hour where one can either hear mortar shells exploding or the rumble of the syrian artillery well it certainly doesn't seem that there's any sign at the moment of this war letting up relations word from the largest group in the syrian opposition is that they will not be participating in proposed peace talks in geneva this despite the call from the international community for there to be some kind of dialogue and some kind. of east negotiator the situation on the ground for foreign workers is

also increasing the dangerous for you all to seventh grade cross workers who were kidnapped over the weekend has been released this comes as the human rights watch issues a report saying that the atrocities that have been committed are being carried out by rebel groups in this report it says and i'm quoting that the findings strongly suggest that crimes against humanity has been carried out by the rebels at the same time you have your foreign experts who are inside damascus overseeing the destruction of this country's chemical weapons stockpile now the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has said that their work is being hampered because they're not being given axes to some of the areas where the fighting is taking pay. and where the stockpiles all being held in territory controlled by the rebels they have issued a call for there to be some kind of short term cease fires so that they can at

least access these sites or the growing strains between russia and the netherlands after a dutch diplomat was beaten by unknown attackers who broke into his apartment in moscow a similar incident happened in the hague earlier this month when a russian diplomat was attacked by police earlier the netherlands launched legal action against moscow demanding the release of thirty greenpeace activists whose dutch registered vessel arctic sunrise was seized are often it has the details. blitz an incredibly bizarre story the dutch diplomat is recovering this is after two men broke into his apartment and beat him up allegedly also scrawling a heart on a mirror in lipstick with the acronym l g b t for lesbian gay bisexual and transgender now the sixty six year old diplomat elden bosch is an assistant to the dutch ambassador and according to reports he had returned home to find the lives not working two men and electricians uniforms were inspecting the fuse box

when he opened his door according to reports he was allegedly attacked the motive for that attack unknown at this point is now the dutch foreign minister said the diplomat had been lightly wounded he added that he had summoned the russian ambassador over the incident now this of course follows the arrest earlier this month of a russian diplomat. on suspicion of mistreating two young children which prompted a massive diplomatic spat with president vladimir putin demanding an apology the government the dutch government did apologize for that incident although i should say that diplomatic relations between the two countries were already strained even before mr broadens arrests we have to keep in mind that the netherlands had launched a legal action to free about thirty people from several countries who were detained in russia after the dutch flagged ships belonging to the environmental group greenpeace was boarded over a process of protest on a russian oil rig in the arctic the activists and journalists on board had been charged with piracy this is something that the netherlands had been protesting over so a series of sort of diplomatic spats here between the two countries ironically twenty

thirty and had been the year that the netherlands and russia had celebrated their good diplomatic relations so we'll have to certainly see how the events unfold but the assistant dutch diplomat is recovering and only slightly injured as far as we know so far. now suspects been arrested in the moscow murder which sparked ethnic rioting the trouble lead to dozens of his attackers target of migrants at r.t. dot com and our you tube channel we have a video of the suspects arrested including some exclusive images. of families are used to watching their children grow up and fly the nest in greece though it's the opposite biting cots are seeing parents have to take work abroad and leaving their kids behind as andrew farmer has been finding out. on the surface and from a distance it looks like a normal time in northern greece but if you look more closely you'll find things

a very different afternoon the times central square children play but in the background a much older generation is looking on here grandparents take the role of parents who've left the time to find work abroad over half of achilles one hundred children are brought up in this way fourteen year old anna maria is one of them. to a boy but if i understand my parents left to find a better life i also understand if they return they would be unemployed but i think in a few years all of greece will be like a town of course it is difficult to leave here because i need the love and affection of my parents my granny and grandpa do their best but they cannot offer me this grandpa is now seventy but except his new responsibilities his own kids emigrating to austria to open a restaurant after failing to find employment to do our town as abandoned it is

a cruel reality in the forest my children to emigrate many locals have gone abroad in search of a better life take a drive down any street and you will see what he means shutters are permanently down on dozens of homes the plight of the time this teenager to act making an award winning film about the problems her parents' friends are facing. and there were examples in your film where in the playground the child was called an orphan cruel words from the children that these sort of things do happen. and their everyday lives. howard so a lot. of the cool thing is that they believe it was sad that. despite

the playground taunts academically the children don't seem to be held back though the local head teacher says that's because they know they have to succeed for their future or he'd be the same a way that these children whose parents live abroad make a special effort they want to show they are trying often their dream is to leave greece and to be with their parents if that happens hilaire will continue to shrink just under three thousand people live here after a similar amount left over the last decade increasingly those that remain at the young and the old a reminder greece's financial problems are also changing the social landscape andry farmer take on coming out peter lavelle and his gas take on the challenges the world faces.

some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. just like the. work that i. think. about. this.