drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more addicts coming through their doors but as laura smith reports the cash strapped government is not so keen to pay for their rehab. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. on account. of people. between drugs and crime and no know his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction here's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. we live on social. knoll did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn'

hand in hand and in our land growing drug addiction is among the many difficulties that artie's laura smith explains a government struggling to keep the country's economy afloat is also struggling to foot the bill for getting people off drugs. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. come on count. more record. takes off. between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he says a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . and i'll be back with a recap of today's highlights of this week's top stories shortly stay with r.t. . if you're followed up on my day no better than this. sunday's are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would wipe out of their forces in the wild west and pick up these future dates important into the sheriff for prosecution i don't think much of an e-mail. to. me and when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad can. get good. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others are to me a dollar bill for his arrest. without superheroes we can be killed too you know in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hit and run you know never go back to hide nothing else. sigrid lumbered sure to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission. to teach religion why you should care about human to. this is

the shots counting down the way i'll be bringing you a first tally of the results as they come in laura smith reporting their government exit poll has suggested the treaty has passed with a margin of more than sixty to forty percent aspire to low voter turnout in the referendum declan ganley founder of the liberty party campaigning for a no vote says europe needs to find an alternative to dump and huge debt on the irish people for massive bank losses they didn't cause. the chances of real a real return of vitality in the european economy i think is somewhat slim particularly in peripheral countries ireland for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debt that was social lives just after it fell down the rest of the european union and we did that in two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten in order to start to save the euro to prevent contagion from spreading so what needs to be done now is that europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spreads it across all of the european union or writes it off in some other form but to leave t

laura smith reporting the meantime declining gonna leave the founder of the liberal party campaigning for a no vote says that europe needs to find an alternative to dumping huge debt on the irish people for massive bank losses they did not cause the chances of real a real return of vitality in the european economy i think is somewhat slim particularly in peripheral countries ireland for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debt that was social lives after it fell down the rest of the european union and we did that in two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten in order to start to save the euro to prevent contagion from spreading so what needs to be done now is that europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spread to the across all of the european union or that writes it off in some other form but to leave that stark on the irish taxpayer money that our government never borrowed that cannot stand i call for serious moves to be made to create a. united states of europe constructed in a federal way from the bottom up that

what people are asking is the point of the heavy artillery if the park itself is left wide open laura smith london. and as promised are going over to marina now for the ali good to see you again but i understand there's a new report claims that there will be nine million job vacancies in russia in a decade's time not enough people to fill them it's not all doom and gloom or can you possibly find a silver lining there is a silver lining salaries will go. for those who do manage to fill those vacancies they'll be getting a lot of money and that's of course great well i'll talk about that a little bit later first let's start with the markets and see how traders are feeling what they're thinking what's happening basically on the markets with the footsie and that's our add in there from strength to strength every banking stocks and drug makers are among the top gainers but investors are mainly waiting to see what will happen when there is need for their summit on thursday when other will be discussing a firmer fiscal integration as well as this of a banking union will of course be following happ

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smithr t w. well. being for the business of haiti it's all about oil then for russian investors today it is indeed a we know how reliant the markets are here almost all important prices carry and today even more so we've got trading floors really fixated on it and that's because we've got a meeting between the organization of petroleum exporting countries is happening later on today another group accounts for over forty percent of the world oil production as you can see why it's so important so let's see those or prices for now just see what the situation is you can say they all rebounding out from the lowest close in eight months and that's ahead of that meeting now alice is saying that it's likely they're going to keep the output ceilings of the amount they produce the same so it's not expected to change parts we're going to be monitoring the situation and we'll certainly see and whatever comes out of that meeting we're expecting those prices to respond to them so let's see how the russia

deal with a growing truck abuse problem public spending for rehab clinics has been slashed and as laura smith reports the results could prove just stress it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week when people have less disposable income on account find work or can't find you know if you. have more recourse. you know turned. off people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community more was single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. to.

help those inside the olympic park because basic security there isn't up to scratch as artie's laura smith investigates. london two thousand and twelve is almost upon us and with just one month to go it's not just the athletes who are going up a massive security operation is also getting into gear we've got battleships on the river thames with. we've got pilotless drones with. missile batteries dotted around the city personnel with untold numbers of firearms are you've got to question the probe proportionality of this london two thousand and twelve is actually starting to look more like a security event. not a sporting event. a security event with a little bit of incidental sport on the eleventh cakes this is the u.k.'s biggest ever peace time security operation and the numbers of personnel. on the ground during the games they'll be twelve and a half thousand police officers supported by the occasion by the way that a whole thousand soldiers but insiders are saying basic security here at the olympic park is seriously lacking investigative journalist lee hazeldean is under cover with g four

people the situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words laura smith. and moscow washington seem to come closer in their positions on syria this week at the twenty summit in mexico both sides pointed out syrian should choose their next government in a statement by president obama on tuesday it was the first face to face meeting since the russian leader returned to the kremlin in may talks however. exposed to more rough edges than resolve this she's the u.s. and russia still feel washington's plans for a missile defense shield in europe moscow has once again it's a call for shared control of the system as a solution to the impasse based on corp a former member of the reagan administration paul craig roberts please obama doesn't have as much room to maneuver on the issue as he might like. i'm convinced that putin does not want conflicts with washington he wants to resolve the issue of the missile bases that are surrounding russia he doesn't want conflict and obama. he doesn't want any conflict either but he is just one member of a government that wants r

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts communities and for society laura smith r.t. . next the scandal between russia's top investigator and a leading opposition paper has come to an amicable end we're hearing now with the two sides apologizing to each other if you've been listening in on the deal no been talking about it earlier the newspaper claimed the official it's taken one of his journalist to a forest referred to kill him while investigated for his part the other side in ny the allegations calling him the ravings of a madman it's been heated peter oliver is across this story for us as a st pete it looks like at the end of the day thankfully haven't shaken hands of the story's over but remind our viewers of just joined us what this was all about. if you could hear me i don't know you can't know we can't hear me i generally get some pizza later i won't go into the whole story no it's too complicated we will come back to it later but there's a bit of good news in the air all right now if you missed any of the stories we're covering on i wouldn't catch that o

is now at the embassy while reporter laura smith is near scotland yard both in london and i talked to them just a little bit. over hind these closed doors and julian assange is taking refuge at the moment you can see some of his supporters have gathered outside here this morning now still a clear indication of exactly what the decision is going to be of course a huge amount of speculation at the moment now a little earlier on investigative journalist government body and from city university had come out of the building and he had spoken to some of the reporters here and said that the atmosphere inside was warm and that there would be a statement later on today so we left speculating at the moment of course the embassy here said that evaluating his request it wasn't going to be long before in a song he's going to have to present himself to the british authorities and then he faced extradition to sweden where of course he faces questioning the sexual assault allegations that he's never actually been charged in all at the end of last month to the u.k. supreme court rejected his appeal ag

and is the only country to vote on the far reaching measure from where laura smith now reports. through friday votes are being counted and at the end of the day will know whether it's going to have a european imposed all stare a c. hristian in which we don't know whether it's joining the growing and see austerity backlash has brought people out into the streets all over europe it's widely expected that the yes side will win though they're having spoken to some votes as yesterday that's by no means some told me they'd been intending to vote yes only to change their minds at the last minute and vote no and that's a symptom of a general malaise in the country many are tired of all sterile city and tired of feeling wait for the dow down to the you could the european union if the irish do agree to the treaty they'll be sacrificing economic decision making so princely as some say is in exchange for the financial assistance is the part of least resistance than the one most main political policies to support but it is used by not to help but it's not guaranteed to promote europe increas

laura smith reporting that meantime ecuador says it is weighing up the possible consequences of sheltering a songe some suggest it might be coming under pressure from washington sibel edmonds is the founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition and one of the circle thousand supporters who signed the petition for ecuador to take in the wiki leaks she now explains her concerns but mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the. letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of also made them sent tracts from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is. ecuador plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the canonical and whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and beyond hoping that their decision will be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana signage but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering tha

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. dublin. and i'll be back with a recap of today's highlights and this week's top stories shortly stay with r.t. . if you're followed up on my do. gooder than good. times are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would write out of their forces in the wild west and pick up these huge debts important into the sheriff for prosecution of the of what company may well feel guilty. and when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. will and. we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind how does the to me dollar bill for his arrest. we're not superheroes we can be killed two you know they should be in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hundred men you know never go back done anything else. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build removes most sophisticated robots which will unfortunately doesn't.

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . grim picture there is no ok pretty prisoners trailer's culture with the. last oh you're telling us about imports of oil per you're talking about oil you've got more on the price of oil from credit suisse and of course also this big news from spreading those borrowing costs of december cent we're going to stop for a plenty to talk about let's start with the oil situation because as far as russia is concerned that's top of the agenda kevin now as you say credit suisse they've got some pretty dismal figures coming out for the russian investors they're forecasting creep prices to reach fifty dollars per barrel more on that later this first they start with the oil prices and see what they're looking like ahead of the organization of petroleum exporting countries the opec meeting in vienna is going to be six pm last time we're going to have some analysis on that later on as you can see it's mixed up. now they're not expected to change their feeling on the production for the second ha

will he be given safe passage to ecuador for coverage on the ground in london or to correspondent laura smith joins us now to give us an update on the situation thanks so much for joining us laura could you give us an update on what's going on right now. well in the building behind me which is the ecuadorian embassy here in london julian assange which is in there somewhere to be fooled by the sort of luxury nature of the building i'm sure it's very nice inside but the ecuadorian embassy itself is very small so the ecuadorian ambassador's unlikely said what julian assange has to stay for any length of time having said that we haven't seen any decision made today he is in a tricky situation really as long as he remains inside the ecuadorian and to see the police until out to go in and get him the british police can only enter the territory open embassy with specific permission from the ambassador can see so that he remains inside he's ok but the moment he steps outside the door actually regardless of whether he's being a grant a granted asylum in ecuador the police could arrest him so that is a

he's laura smith reporting right there preceded by our very own a sara now just a bit earlier in the program we did speak to julian assange just mother christina songe she told us it's being abandoned by his native country that's now led to the current tide of parents i would like to say is truly in government stand up and had some independence from us foreign policy and to know. what you're doing is accusing a journalist has not been charged with anything and you're on this commitment and done nothing wrong they should have stood up they should have a copy of that the swedish ambassador to the sec but that breaks to iran and they could slice it and take that your pay to respond when they shouldn't they should have protested the immensely to be. the u.k. government it's disgraceful display during a hearing that should persisted to the u.s. that calls are being sought on my son they should have protested over things they've done nothing that i did at the base of the u.s. in persecuting my son. let's not discuss further what might be in store for the world's most famous whistleblower w

they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . so if a prisoner is not ok he said we are to the business desk for a skate to wall or europe deals with a surging borrowing costs to get more of it here in russia investors are focused on those oil prices what you call yeah exactly right here in russia as you say it's all about oil because we know the markets they are focused on it because they fear a much rely on them and today it's a big day kevin because you got the opec meeting and well they're expected to keep their production quota on changes the organization of petroleum exporting countries as a pattern they're meeting in vienna today at around six pm more scary time so investors are holding tight for that one of the real kind of heavyweights in the oil world really because they account for over forty percent of the production so let's see the all price is now is what the situation is and they are dropping as a society so they're still hovering around those eight months alone as you can see just as i say they're expected

and the buck has stopped with the irish taxpayer on the hook the ninety billion euros in bailouts laura smith r.t. . well it is a good to have you with us here on r.t. today or that latest edition of julian assange is interview show that's coming your way in about eight minutes time he sits down with iran can pakistani anticorruption activist and politician to talk all about the controversial war on terror of course pushed by the u.s. the show will air right here in just a few minutes but do stay with us for that for now though a preview. is that you will. actually want to as well. if you lose that. this is that there is the word this is the. only was known as close to do that it was used by this. race it's a bull run society then it was. whatever million is used. to use the american civilians. one would already know which is different. instances marilyn's is doing this in the rumor again and expecting a different result story there is no military solution only with political solution . barring the political solution we do need. a good. will start a political. stunt if you understand. the hou

abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more things coming through their doors now and as laura smith reports the cash strapped governments not so keen to pay for their rehab it's a tale of two cities the happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists stop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin to me gagin runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week what happens is when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. or conning you know who to turn. people off. between drugs and crime and noll not his real name is recovering from the years of drug addiction he says his story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. what i was saying and more to say this is i know we lived on s

ecuador for political asylum now first we're going to get in on the ground report from marty's laura smith who's currently in london and then will host a panel talking about what this entire episode means in light of the obama administration's very aggressive war on whistleblowers and the freedom of the press then believe it or not yesterday the first ever congressional hearing was held to address the issue of solitary confinement within our prisons and jails that's despite the fact that an estimated eighty thousand inmates are held in long term solitary so we're going to speak to one of the foremost experts in the field who studies the effects of our prison system and who gave members of congress his take in the hearing yesterday all of that and more theater night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media decided to miss. all right so today starting at about ten am there was a big announcement that came from the white house in regards to this whole fast and furious hold eric holder in contempt scandal that's being discussed on the hill. the attorney gene

he's laura smith reporting right there one i don't forget we have a lot more stories at r.t. dot com let's have a look and see what's awaiting for you on our web site right now spanish mine is scuffle with police during a demonstration of nearly ten thousand in the capital they're angry about budget cuts putting their jobs at risk. and look out lactic allision the entire milky way is going to crash with the neighboring andromeda galaxy and that would certainly dramatically change the view from the night sky from earth but when i find out the numbers at r.t. dot com. well at least six people have been wounded in northern cause of in clashes between protesters and peacekeepers nato run troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets while attempting to dismantle roadblocks put up by the local serbs now let's discuss the developments with political analyst alexander which are now joining us live from belgrade good to see you today the barricades as we all know were set up last year cause of your thought he's trying to enforce a trade embargo is anything being done to resolve this ongoi

they might even be staying the night say they're not going anywhere that was our correspondent laura smith and ron paul not winning the g.o.p. nomination is not stopping his supporters from taking the establishment on once again this time with litigation they call themselves lawyers for ron paul and their group and affiliated with the official campaign their beef the fact that unbound delegates will have to vote for romney instead of their conscience simply because their states voted that way to explain more about the lawsuit and what it all means i'm joined by austin peterson director of production for freedom works. thank you very much for having me thank you austin so breakout of last year really quickly and the whole i'm bound bound elegant thing for everyone sure absolutely i should preface it by saying that i'm not a lawyer but i have read over the details of the case and it does appear that what they're trying to do is to prove that the delegates are not actually bound by federal law to vote for any of a candidate the only problem with this is that the republican party is a private

to buy one however experts know claim roughly hoth of all works of art sold today a fake artist laura smith caught up with one russian collector who is happy to share the forgeries he was tricked into buying. very important works of art go under the hammer every day in london's west end but how can our love is be sure of what they're buying according to scotland yard a staggering fifty percent of all art sold is fake what we're looking at these days is a very considerable increase in faking of twentieth century art i've seen a number of provincial auction houses and of those. so fakes. are considerable and i think it's something that we will accept a lot of forgeries are also sold on websites but it's not just internet bias he can be taken in by the full which is brush the latest auction house to come into the spotlight with christie's which is involved in a high court battle with russian tycoon victim back so he paid more than two and a half million dollars for a painting he thought was by prominent russian artist buddies costello death only to find out later that it appears to have been s