fanning it's an image at all costs guitar 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 young covered. with just hours until a potentially devastating u.s. debt default the hurt is already being felt from a looming credit rating downgrade to international frustration a u.s. u.s. lawmakers have done what few enemies good for the dollars very future on the line. russian opposition figure how to explain a volley avoids a five year jail term as a court overturns his sentence while holding his conviction for investment.

coming to life in moscow a marina joshie welcome to the program qatar is taking a zero tolerance stance on any probing into its human rights record to german reporters investigating claims conditions facing workers at twenty twenty two world cup construction sites were detained in the middle of their investigation one of them peter his l. described 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 camera man 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 embassy you know to families 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 and a heavy toll the world cup preparations are already taking in the gulf according to rights activist over the past summer one worker died every day on average more than half of those cases involve heart attacks or workplace injuries temperatures a construction site and guitar frequently soar above forty five degrees celcius estimates suggest up to four thousand people may die before the first ball is kicked in the two thousand and twenty two tournament peter has 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 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 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 has 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 that's a that's a bad devils circle he's in and the bleak picture facing mine grins doesn't and there are many on the laborers from nepal bangladesh or india hoping to sam money back home don't see paychecks for months on end but if they decide to cut their losses and quit you often find themselves unable to escape as their passports are withheld and without any alternative form of identification they are effectively stranded and to add insult to injury construction staff are even forced to work with basic necessities like drinking water heating is al explained what he sees as the root of the problem. other 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 row now 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 cuff system let me try and

explain to you about that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that 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 say take the past post away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation i mean margins also on the case and breaking a step investigating the inhumane conditions facing nepalese workers toiling away in qatar and you can see the show over on our website r.t.e. 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 corners and just

yesterday it was confirmed that seventy napoli's labors have already died while working on world cup projects yet both the nepalese and qatari government 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 unprecedented global economic calamity could be just hours away it's hinges now on those who sparked the crisis u.s. lawmakers infighting between them has brought the world's richest nation to the brink of default theory and boring reports on some of those worst hit by the down log. 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 as includes the active service of 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 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'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

kevin straw 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 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 a for. time student might you have painted me not this year and first in november so it's been an entire kind of income loss. of course i can't travel or do anything

or visit family 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 pawns and that the shutdown is jeopardizing our military readiness and while we're at war it jeopardizes our security had to find the military in a piecemeal basis 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. now the data of the united states now stands at just under seven hundred trillion dollars an astonishing something that's growing by about a trillion a year economists an academically rockall told us that excessive down only empowers the elite. the idea that the whole world is sustained by growing american debt that it has to be more and more borrowing in order to you know make everybody prosperous it doesn't work by the way unemployment rates are horrific rates all over the world

the western 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 it 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 say could really in dollars that would solve all the budget problems that's my advice to mr obama and on our website we're asking who do you think will suffer most if the u.s. defaults i'll take a look at the numbers so far that we have and more than half

a years you can see thing that it's the american people who will bear the brunt if the government fails to find a way out of the shutdown now if if all the responders believe it's america's creditors and bondholders who should be worrying as they will see their investments hit while slightly less than that think it's brought obama who will suffer the most as a president who led the world's largest economy fail finally small fraction just a tamms of you believe that it's the republicans and it's tea party movement who will be the biggest losers because default will cost them votes in future elections will do let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website article. now switzerland is taking steps to lift the veil on its a tory asli secretive banking system it's signed a convention allowing the sharing of financial data with dozens of other countries and what's being portrayed as an attempt to crack down on tax evasion but is this good news for the global economy financial markets asper patrick young doesn't

think so the situation in the euro zone much like the usa is the government is essential an alcoholic it drinks too much vodka it wants over more vodka a new mother what happens it seems to always consume endless endless amounts more vodka in that sense it's government spending governments are spending too much throughout western europe in the united states of america they simply cannot afford to go on with that sort of spending therefore we have this frankly ludicrous nerve approach with the belief that the ending of private banking anonymous private banking and switzerland is solely going to see us have a huge wall of money appear that will pay for government the truth is even if all of that money was repub it wouldn't be enough to save the government from having to go through more a stare of cutting back on their spending the overall reality also is that no matter what you do in these circumstances money will tend to leave the countries

that tax it too highly and therefore western europe has a huge crisis because let's face it it would be much easier for us all to go and live in say moscow and pay only twelve or thirteen percent flat rate tax compared to the swindling writs that are being charged in western europe at the moment. now iran has reportedly signaled to its willing to make some concessions on part of its nuclear program and this comes after two days of meetings in geneva with the p five plus one group that's made up of russia china france britain and the u.s. plus germany the details of the talks are still being kept secret but the parties involved have suggested they all meet again at it in several weeks all of it with me now to discuss this in more detail what i have how they are for us ya be an expert on iran's foreign affairs and former advisor to its nuclear negotiations team thank you so much mr first you happy for joining us here in r.t. to discuss this so can we say now that the talks have been a success absolutely and i think that the fact that both sides expressed

satisfaction constructive talks that has you speak to them to draft a joint statement announcing a follow up talking genuine november and that has been very positive and in addition to the multilateral meetings we've had a number of constructive bilateral meetings including. the foreign ministers of iran and russia duce morning and overall i think that this is behind this. meeting as a result of the. putting forward to construct a plan of action to resolve the. crisis that focuses on the endgame with a number into immediately confidence building steps and i think that the ball is now in the lap of the wisting governments led by the united states. has asked what

a new attitude on the part of u.s. governments all right well we certainly have seen some movement here forward hopefully and as we know we've you've worked with a man who is leading these talks as a former minister of iraq so do tell us what he is willing to compromise to get the sanctions lifted. well he has already has stated publicly that the issue of the year a medium in richmond with respect to the level and dimensions the number of centrifuges and so on is up for negotiation iraq will not fall with its right to. money its soil so you know it isn't there's a great deal of flexibility demonstrated by iran to address the issues are concerned by the international community in addition to that list. personally as a stated that iran is really to implement intrusive additional protocol. as part of the end game the problem how it is that what iran wants to be part of

the final package the western powers the us in particular want to see as the into a media area steps and there's less focus on the end game by these powers than than iran and russia and china all right well mr purcey i.b.u. mentioned earlier that you consider these talks a success however publicly we know very little information so far as to what the sides have agreed on why is there so much secrecy surrounding the stocks in your opinion. well i would i would interpret it as actually a good sign because you know iran has asked who are secrecy with respect to their package or proposal because you know the western media has counterproductive role in the past and when it does not and needs to be kept out of the media lying like to some extent in order to a law serious ongoing negotiations the foreign minister is that if at the same time

that is being cautiously optimistic has a stated that he anticipates a difficult and bumpy road ahead and this is not going to be resolved in one negotiation and it's been going on for eleven years actually and hopefully the next meeting in geneva would be held at the level of forty ministers and in the interim there'd be some discussions among the technical experts in order to finalize. greenman whereby you know iran would be respected with this enrichment rights and all these issues of concern on the part of the international community will be addressed in our coming ever see army expert on iranian foreign affairs think it's much for sharing your views with us here on our quiz. and just ahead here on r t syria is convulsing again. animated bus packed with civilians including women and children is struck by a mind and a rebel held zone it's the latest incident in

a string of bombings and kidnappings our correspondent reports from the war torn nation plus. we'll report from a great town populated by the elderly and children left behind when parents have been forced to leave them more on the way for you. with. science technology innovation all the leads developments from around russia we've got the future covered. languages all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point the monthly. car is on the dock you know. they do no more work.

when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you know you should be ready for a. pretty tough speech and a little bit of the freedom to wash. come back now russia's most prominent opposition figure i'll explain a volley can breathe a partial sigh of relief accord they gave her a five year jail term back in july has overturned its decision handing down a suspended sentence however his conviction for imbalance remains in place and as are. reports of ali 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 off so he was convicted to five years in prison for embezzlement at the cute offense organization when he worked as an aide as an associate to the governor of the cure of region and he keep the belief 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 suddenly the judges overturned all appeal claims from his defending lawyers eventually replacing the actual five year prison term for nonviolent a four year prison term for his associate b.p.

is that a bet that i could set up by a suspended sentence as many have been indeed surprised by such outcome of the court session not finally included himself he's been saying that he never expected such a decision and i finally 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. 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 his decision decision demanding a full and complete acquittal of himself. and international team of experts in syria have started destroying equipment for chemical weapons production at six sites as well as some of the government toxic arsenal the deal to dismantle syria's stockpile of such weapons was brokered by moscow and washington meanwhile there's been more bloodshed on the ground in syria in one of the latest incidents and

minibus 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 in the south are useful as 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 are 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 north west province of give me a better also happening in some rebel controlled territory so it doesn't seem that there's any sign at the moment of this war lacing 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 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 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. as 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 can either hear all sorts exploding or the rumble of the syrian artillery the mood here in damascus is extremely tense i can tell you that people are a lot and then they were say just

a week ago. families are used to watching their children grow up and fly the nest in greece so getting caught are seeing parents having to take work abroad and leave their kids behind as andrew farmer has been finding out. 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 this guy take them all here 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. our town is abandoned it is a cruel reality of the forced my children to emigrate many locals have gone abroad in search of a better life take a drive down any street in it and you will see what he means shutters are permanently down on dozens of homes the plight of the times spurred 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 schooled an orphan cruel words from the children but these sort of things do happen. and there are everyday lives. howard so once. the cool thing is that they leave without their 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 because it's a myth 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 are the

young and the old a reminder greece's financial problems are also changing the social landscape andrew farmer for r.t. . and up next it's the big fakes looking into the dark secrets behind one of the worst oil spills in history. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air and sea another space. a lymphatic torch relay. on archie's archie dot com.

will writes. the. pain of the young girl's cammo for the future hunter. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the plaza sound is a large you know i mean this teaches them a lot of for a responsibility to simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children alone for our future what the country will save.

the story be beaming ins in iran. the british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take and they formed the anglo persian oil company and made a deal with the iranian monarchy. they guaranteed itself all iran's oil. shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil. the war ships the projected british power all of the world were now running one hundred percent wrong. and then in one thousand fifteen to go ronnie and decided to take their oil.