reason why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. defending its image at all costs qatar detains two journalists 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. was just hours until a potentially devastating us debt default the hurt is already being felt from a looming credit rating downgrade to international frustration u.s. lawmakers have done what few animists could put the dollars very future on the line . russian opposition figure had only seen a volley avoids a five year jail term as a court overturns the sentence while holding his conviction for embezzlement.

this is coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program now qatar is taking a zero tolerance stance on any probing into its human rights record to german reporters investigating the slavish conditions facing workers at twenty twenty two world cup construction sites were detained in the middle of their investigation one of them peter does al describe to us what happened. first we got arrested by the federal police in the 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 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 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 while here is a glimpse added having told the world cup preparations are already taking in of 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 involve heart attacks or workplace injuries temperatures a construction size and guitar frequently soar above forty five degree celsius and estimates suggest up to four thousand people may die before the first ball is kicked in the twenty twenty two tournaments peter example got a firsthand look at

a workers' plight in qatar. but i 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 twelve twelve years i think working as an air come in addition specialists ironically has our commendation itself doesn't even have a vent fan but this guy told us he said i think thirty five about him not getting the salaries 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 this passport from him so his could be 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 an oblique picture facing migrants doesn't and there are many of the laborers from nepal bangladesh or india hoping to send money back home don't see paychecks for months on end but if they decide to contour losses and quit the often find themselves unable to escape as their passports are withheld without any alternative form of identification they're effectively stranded and to add insult to injury construction staff or even forced to work without basic necessities like drinking water peter israel explained what he sees as the root of the problem. 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 room right now trying to file the case as well all of those workers and 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 workers it comes into catawba 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 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. abby martin is also on the case and breaking the set investigating the inhumane conditions facing natalie's workers toiling away in qatar well you can see the show over on our website 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 a world cup projects yet both the met police and qatari government refused to acknowledge this massive human rights problem so if you're sick of world powers treating migrant laborers like garbage then tell fifo to pressure qatar and put an end to this modern day slavery. and unprecedented global economic calamity could be just hours away at hand just now on those who sparked the crisis u.s. lawmakers and fighting between them as brought the world's richest nation to the brink of default parian boring reports on some of those worst hit by the debt.

and to their families now 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 intended 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 line 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 reach their will be able to get 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 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 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 a full time student my g.i. bill. first. it's been an entire. income loss. of course i can't travel or do anything or visit family and right now i'm

just in a holding pattern on the rent and eating so the military coalition has said that conga. yes 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 final military in a few races and 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. a failure to raise the down ceiling will not necessarily mean an immediate the fall the u.s. has plenty of cash reserves i can also cut social military and government budgets to pay off creditors dr william wilson an economist with the 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 for later this week the results would be

catastrophic you see because the 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 a big step 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 could be like that shut down now the data of the united states now stands at just under seven hundred trillion dollars and astonishing some that's growing by about a trillion a year economist and academically rockall told us that excessive debt only empowers the elite. the idea that the whole world is sustained by growing american debt that 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 or the western world none of us feel comfortable economically we're all

worried about the future the government is is 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 it helps the banks that 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 you bring the troops home from afghanistan and iraq and yemen pakistan and all the rest of the places stop killing people that would save a could really in dollars that would solve all the budget problems that's my advice to mr obama. adding our website we're asking you who do you think will suffer the most if the u.s. defaults well let's take a look at the number so far at this point to a more than half of those of you who voted on our website think that it's the

american people who will bear the brunt of the government fails to find a way out of the shutdown effects of this point believe it's america's creditors and bondholders who should be warring as they will see their investments hit while slightly less than doubt saying it's barack obama who suffer the most as a president who let the world's largest economy fail and finally just of a chance of you say it's the republicans and the tea party movement will be the biggest losers because default will cost him votes in future elections well do it us know what do you think of this issue by logging on to our tea dot com. now switzerland is moving further away from its renowned banking. secrecy it signed a convention allowing the sharing of financial data with dozens of other countries and what's being described as an attempt to crack down on tax evasion patrick county executive director of t.v. advisors an emerging markets advisory firm joins me now live from more perspective

on this thank you so much patrick for joining us here and talk about this so how would you assess this move i mean is this a step forward for everyone involved. well it's a very interesting move i mean from a general sense of natural justice it seems entirely logical why should certain people be allowed to open bank accounts in somewhere like switzerland of void paying any tax on the money take it out of the country in which they've earned etc so therefore there's obviously strong logic in that sense at the same time we have to have you know an eye on history why do the swiss have such strong privet c. laws and private banking laws actually they were developed in one nine hundred thirty four as a reaction to the nazis in germany they were an attempt to try and help fleeing refugees stop having their money confiscated by hitler of course at the same time in the modern era people are very concerned government does not have enough money

in order to function it's proving increasingly difficult to raise more money whether you're in the united states of america or western europe and therefore there's been this big move towards some degree of transparency and forcing switzerland to open up and frankly large swiss banks have this coming to them you have people like u.b.s. and credit suisse opening massive branches in u.s. cities such as new york in the middle of manhattan there was a complete city block effectively devoted to u.b.s. this private banking division it was ludicrous to think that in some way shape or form sooner or later the i.r.s. the american tax authority wasn't going to get interested in what was happening in that particular building and there have of course been scandals people smuggling rather james bond style diamonds in toothpaste has been brought by private bankers from switzerland to the likes of the united states of america forgive me for interrupting you will certainly interesting background gave us to the banks in switzerland and they are secrecy but you know what does this move actually mean i

mean is it really dictated by the reality which one has to adjust what's happening elsewhere and the pressure from other countries i mean what does it stand to gain or lose for that matter. well switzerland essentially stands to lose a great deal because of course it has a massive banking situation i mean the banking industry in switzerland is way larger than pro rata the population way way larger than say even the size of the banking industry in london the major financial capital of europe so therefore there could be obviously massive amounts of funds that will suddenly disappear from all of the count towards particularly zurich and geneva and that would obviously harm the swiss economy. all right patrick thanks so much of for giving us this insight patrick young actor director of the advisors and emerging markets advisory firm. now just to add that syria is convulsing again and

a minibus packed with civilians including women and children is struck by a mine in a rebel held zone it's the latest incident in a string of bombings and kidnappings i'll correspond to reports from the war torn nation. plus we report from a greek town populated by the elderly and children left behind when parents have been forced to leave them more on the way for you here in our. little lights. that. you. paint for the young girls camp all for the future harder. between two and three

hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes that is the law or you know i mean this teaches them a lot of rote sponsibility and simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children for our future what is the country will say. welcome back this is our team now russia's most prominent opposition figure on the scene of a. can breathe a partial sigh of relief accord that gave him five year jail term back in july has

overturned its decision hanging down a suspended sanity however his conviction for embezzle meant remains in place and as our reports and vali 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 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 which 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 associates that are set up by suspended sentences many have been indeed surprised by such outcome of the court session of finally included himself he has been saying that he never expected such a decision that only in an interview just twenty four hours before going to the town of 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. coming up in the program double dutch russia launches a criminal investigation after a diplomat from the netherlands is beaten up and he's apartment by two man

pretending to be electricians that's just ahead for you here in our team. 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 are supposedly or is in the syrian capital damascus was a 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 also happening in some in rebel controlled territory so it doesn't seem that there's any sign at the moment of this war lifting up the 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 for me 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 quine's 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 they work is being hampered because they have not been given axes to some of the areas where the stockpiles are being held in territory controlled by the rebels they have issued a call for there to be some kind of short term cease fire is a few days ago armed rebels posted a warning online that they would bring mortar shells down on the capital city of damascus and since then almost every hour where one can either hear the source

exploding or the rumble of the syrian artillery the mood here in damascus is extremely tense i can tell you that people are looking for it and then they say just a week ago. the man who helped n.s.a. leaker edward snowden revealed he quits his job when greenwald says he is free to use back on the guardian newspaper to set up his old news outlets funded by and a billionaire. is in line for you and. a blast from the past the largest piece of meat to ride yet to be recovered is fished out of a lake in central russia after a blazed a trail across the russian sky earlier this year the full videos are dot com. russia has expressed regret over an attack on a dutch diplomat in moscow he was tied up and assaulted in his apartment by unknown assailants it was just the latest in a series of incidents that have seriously tested relations between the two governments over the last couple of months. has the details. 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 hard 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 elder and bosch is an assistant to the dutch ambassador 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 and 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 legal action to 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 a plane crash in laos has killed thirty nine people allow airline aircraft crashed

into the mcallen river just before landing in bad weather the plane was in a domestic flight from the capital of and to the south. the greek parliament has stripped half a dozen far right m.p.'s of immunity as police press various charges against them all six belong to the end immigration golden dawn party and are accused of running a criminal organization the government began a crackdown on the party rhesus third largest after the murder of an anti-racist rapper by one of its members. the pair of us territory that originally allowed golden dawn to come to power is now it tearing apart even the sanctity of the family in greece unemployed parents are leaving their hometowns in droves to find jobs elsewhere but given the tough circumstances many are forced to leave their children behind in the care of aging relatives are sandra farmer reports. on the surface and from a distance a hill 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 ana maria is one of them. 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 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

a lot of towners abandoned it is a cruel reality to force my children to emigrate for many locals of going to broaden search of a better life take a drive down any street in a color yeah and you will see what he means shutters are permanently down on dozens of homes the plight of the times this teenager to act 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 there are everyday lives. 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 way these children whose parents live a broad base 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 the old i remind you that greece's financial problems also changing the social landscape andry pharma take. now coming up here lavelle and his guest take on the challenges the world faces don't go away.

as it splits divides the syrian opposition party takes a close look at life on rebel ground is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus it is like a state within a state free syrian army it's all in this area they still in military cannot enter artie's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group on our team. they are not talking about language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for unlike the british no i will leave that to the states are going to comment on your latter point to say. to carry out a car is on the docket you know guys. like you know more.