it's to. look to. defending its image at all costs guitar detains to journalist investigating the harrowing conditions faced by migrant workers preparing the nation for the twenty twenty two world cup one of those reporters tells us what he uncovered. that was just hours until a potentially devastating us dead to fall to her it is already being felt from a looming credit rating downgrade to international frustration u.s. lawmakers have done what few atomised could put the dollars very future on the line . and russian opposition figurehead alexina vali avoids a five year jail term as a court overturns of his sentence while upholding his conviction for embezzlement.

coming to life from moscow with memory josh welcome to the program qatar is taking a zero tolerance stands an anti probing into its human rights record to german reporters investigating the slyness conditions facing workers at twenty twenty two world cup construction sites were detained in the middle of their investigation one of them peter has described to us what happened. first we got arrested by the federal police in hotel rooms with 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 cameramen and meet. we were in there in that prison in those separate cells for a total of twenty one hours the best thing about those twenty one hours was that we weren't even allowed a single phone call not to embassy you know to families and no one was there to tell us what the charge was really so we were kind of desperate and they're not having any contact with the outside world. well here is a glimpse at the heavy toll the world cup preparations are already taking and the gulf kingdom according to rights activists over the past summer one worker died every day on average and more than half of those cases involved heart attacks or workplace injuries temperatures that construction sites in qatar frequently soar above forty five degrees celsius and asked to meet suggest up to four thousand people may die before the first ball is kicked in the twenty twenty two tournament pitas al got a firsthand look at the workers' plight in qatar. 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 for twenty twelve years i think working as an air coming specialists ironically his arc of a day sion 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 he was probably fighting the case and called us problems getting back he snapped 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. and the bleak picture facing migrants doesn't end there are many of the laborers from nepal bangladesh or india hoping to san man money back home don't see paychecks for months on end but if they decide to cut their losses and quit the often find themselves unable to escape as their passports are withheld without any alternative form of identification they are effectively stranded and to add insult to injury construction staff are even forced to work without basic necessities like drinking water bit of a cell explained what he sees as the root of the problem another bunch of guys i'm 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 room right now trying to file the case as well and all of those workers and have one major problem they have to work with in the so-called cut fellows 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 is working for the cooperation. and the sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors of the state take the past post away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation and adding margins also on the case and breaking the set investigating the inhumane conditions facing nepalese workers toiling away in qatar you can see the show over on our website 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 and just yesterday it was confirmed that seventy napoli's labors have already died while

working on world. projects yet both the nepalese and guitar governments refuse to acknowledge this massive human rights problem so if you're sick of world powers treating migrant laborers like garbage then tell fifa to pressure qatar and put an end to this modern day slavery. and i'm president of global economic calamity could be just hours away at hand just now on those who sparked a crisis u.s. lawmakers and fighting between them has brought the world's richest nation to the brink of default very important 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 veterans retirees and their families and the president signed into law the pay our military act on september thirtieth just hours before the government shutdown is that was supposed to ensure that our active military members would continue 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's all the income that they have coming in every month with those benefits being paid they won't be able to pay mortgage there will be a group of 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 limit without reaching it without extending i'm 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 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 like my salary as a drilling reservist i'm not able to drill. and as. full time student my g.i. bill payment made on this one first november so it's been an entire kind of income loss. of course i can't travel or do anything or visit family in town so right now

i'm just in a holding pattern on a ranch 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 at zero a final military in a few stone 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. . failure to raise the debt ceiling will not necessarily mean an immediate default the us has plenty of cash reserves and can also cut social military and government budgets to pay off creditors dr william wilson an economist with think tank in russia's high tech hub skolkovo says he believes a default to be unlikely probability of the fault is it was never say never but the fact is if by default order her 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 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 the u.s. step market is the poor and central the global financial system and under no conditions would be like that shut down and the dad of the united states now stands at just under seventeen trillion dollars an astonishing some that's growing by about a trillion a year economist in academic told us that excessive debt only empowers the elite. the idea that the whole world is sustained by growing american debt there has to be more and more borrowing in order to you know make everybody prosperous it doesn't work by the way unemployment rates or horrific rates all over the world of what's going to world none of us feel comfortable economically we're all worried about the

future the government is is it is harming us so the idea that you know less government is somehow harmful it's just the reverse this is of course keynesianism but we have to have more government more spending more debt perpetually and that will make us all wealthy no it doesn't help the banks but helps the government helps the military industrial complex and you know all the big companies associated with the government it hurts regular people if they really are worried about you know they don't have enough money or they should shut down the n.s.a. and stop spying on everybody one of the of bring the troops home from afghanistan and iraq and yemen pakistan and all the rest of the places stop killing people that would say could really in dollars that would solve all the budget problems that's my advice to mr obama on our web site we're asking who do you think will suffer most if the u.s. defaults so far more than half of you saying that it's the american people who will bear the brunt if a government fails to find a way out of the shutdown

a fifth believe it's america's creditors and a bond holders who should be worrying as they will see their investments hit or slightly less than that think it's barack obama who will suffer the most as a president who led the world's largest economy fail and finally just to tanzania say it's the republicans and the tea party movement who will be the biggest losers because default will cost him votes in future elections well the let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our web site r t v dot com. now just ahead here in our team syria is convulsing again and a minibus packed with civilians including women and children is strong by a mine in a rebel held zone it's the latest incident in a string of bombings and kidnappings i'll correspondent reports from the war torn nation. plus we report from a great town populated by the elderly and children the left behind when parents have been forced to leave them more on the way for you.

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consensus. choose the opinions that you think. choose the stories that impact. chose you. welcome back this is our team now russia's most prominent opposition figure on the scene of ali can breathe a partial sigh of relief accord that gave him a five year jail term back in july has overturned its decision handing down a suspended sentence however his conviction for him has one hundred mains in place and are asking reports in a volley doesn't see the latest ruling as a cause for celebration 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 cure of this organization when he worked as an aide as an associate to the governor of the cure of region. and the irony here that something has been noted by many over the years that now finally has been involved and has been found guilty of a criminal act which he has been fighting all along corruption certainly 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 b.p. that that if it's a suspended sentence as many have been in the surprised by such outcome of the court session of finally included himself he has been saying that he never expected such a decision obviously in an interview just twenty four hours before going to the town

of cuba where 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. and coming up here on r t double dutch russia launches a criminal investigation after a diplomat from the netherlands is beaten up in his apartment by two man pretending to be electricians and that's just ahead. in southern syria a minibus has hit a roadside mine killing at least twenty one people nearly half of them women and children activists there reported the incident took place in an area apparently controlled by opposition forces leader is in the syrian capital damascus with the

latest. it happened in a civilian marketplace 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 rebels 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 are also happening in some in rebel controlled territory so it doesn't seem that there's any sign at the moment of this war yet enough relations word from the largest group in the syrian opposition is that they will not be participating in proposed strikes in geneva this despite the call from the international community for there to be some kind of dialogue this comes as the human rights watch issues a report says and i'm quoting that the findings strongly suggest that crimes against humanity has been carried out by 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 have not been given access to some of the areas where the stockpiles are being held in territory controlled by the verbals they have issued record for there to be some kind of short term cease fires a few days ago armed rebels posted a warning online that they would drain mortar shells down on the capital city of damascus and since then almost every hour with one cannot be sure since reading over one of these syrian artillery the mood here in damascus is extremely tense i can tell you that can call a lot and senator and then they're going to say just a week ago. now the man who helped n.s.a. leaker edward snowden reveal his secrets quits his job rang greenwald says he is turning on the guardian newspaper to set up his old news outlet funded by and even

a billionaire. stories online for you. and pilgrim so throw stones at a pillar represents satan as festival gets underway go to our site to see the photos as hundreds of thousands of muslims iran in mecca. and a blast from the past the largest piece of meat here i had yet to be recovered is fished out of a lake in central russia after it blazed a trail across the russian sky earlier this year the full video is on our t.v. dot com. now russia has expressed regret over an attack on a dutch diplomat in moscow and he was tied up and assaulted in his apartment by unknown assailants it's just the latest in a series of incidents that have seriously tested relations between the two governments over the last couple of months artie's lose it off enough has the details. well it's 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 no elder and bosch is an assistant to the dutch ambassador according to reports he had were turned 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 and this of course follows the arrest earlier this month of a russian diplomat dmitri burrowed in 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 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 it 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 take a look at some other stories from around the world the number of deaths from a seven point two magnitude quake in the philippines has risen to one hundred forty four the quake hit the tourist bohol and disability on monday triggering stampede as buildings and historic churches collapsed nearly three million people have been

affected by the disaster with hundreds injured and a man is still missing a military spokesman says relief supplies are being flown in by the air force. protests turned violent when more than five thousand teachers demonstrated in rio de janeiro on tuesday evening mass use smashed shops and started fires as they clashed with police who used tear gas and struggled to regain control of the city center riots were also reported in some power teachers have been on strike for more than two months demanding better pay and conditions. the funeral of nazi war criminal eric priebke in rome was folded on tuesday when angry protesters clashed with sympathizers the vatican banned catholic churches from holding the burial but a splinter group agreed to carry it out died on friday while under house arrest and he was jailed for life for his part in the massacre of three hundred thirty five

civilians during world war two his body is now being held at a military airport. now families are used to watching their children grow up and fly the nest in greece though it's the opposite biting cuts are seeing parents having to take work abroad and leave their kids behind as enter farmers been finding out. on the surface and from a distance it looks like a normal town 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 their time to find work abroad over half of achilles one hundred children are brought up in this way fourteen year old ana maria is one of them this guy at the mall you know boy but if i understand my parents left to find

a better life i also understand if they returned 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 gran and grandad as 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 a lot of town is abandoned it is a cruel reality to force my children to emigrate for many locals of going to brawl in search of a better life take a drive down any street a nickel yeah and you will see what he means shutters are permanently down on dozens of homes the plight of the times this teenager attacked making an award winning film about the problems her parents' friends are facing.

and there were examples in your film. in the playground the child an orphan cruel words from the children but these sort of things do happen. and their everyday lives are. the. howard so long. the cool thing is that they leave us out there are parents 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 here goes the same day to get 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 it 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 below which reminded greece's financial problems also changing the social landscape andrey foma take. i have next as part of the big fix looking into the dark secrets behind one of the worst oil spills in history in the gulf of mexico. in a recently published united nations report it is found that about forty percent of the world's population soon will be connected to the internet at the same time their survey would stay frozen power when we log on to the internet there are boundless opportunities as well as for the powers that be to watch every move we

make even read our thoughts there's a media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same person security for your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . well if you're in a lot of the policies i think you're right you. should have been with.

the after the b.p. spill. were in. which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on it. that is just what's on the table before you even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to

a number of chemicals including to be toxic. axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha come. being in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now law able for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as colds and flu. acts on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials b.p. is following pretty closely everything that.