you know you share you they count for lauren lyster r.t. patterson new jersey. and with officials the figures showing up forty three million americans are currently living below the poverty line max wrong will an economist at the new school university says the numbers could be even worse. well seeing numbers this large one in seven american adults living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is in so many households and so many neighborhoods and so many cities so many states so many towns there's every indication from the data flow that next year will be worse than this year because the numbers that we're looking at today and in two thousand and nine and we're already three quarters of the way through two thousand and ten and every trend that made the poverty the severity of poverty worse last year is very much in place this yea

that we may see that if you don't use their you very carefully lauren lyster r.t. patterson new jersey a suspected russian criminal mastermind is being treated in a moscow hospital after an attempt on his life nicknamed the grandpas son who is thought to folding a victim to a gangster wall right in the center of the capital that you go to first going offers up the crime scene. of incident happened at around eight pm moscow time on thursday evening when the us long also known as grandpa sun got to be a major criminal lord in russia i arrived at one of the buildings on fire sky street in the very center of moscow it's reported that he wanted to visit his son who lives here in the neighborhood and asked grandpa assad and his bodyguard were approaching the entrance to the building several shots were fired the bodyguard went down first and according to some reports from the witnesses grandpa haasan actually tried dodging some of the bullets but ended up getting wounded in the stomach when i thought the scheme the found a suspicious looking window in a building nearby and when the

recovery they do know her area you may see her you know you share your very character lauren lyster r.t. patterson new jersey. and the poverty will be one of the top issues discussed at the un general assembly session in new york next hour r.t. asks the people in the city what results there expect from the gathering. probably won't accomplish anything at all or probably it's just another chance to tell everybody hey we're here look we're doing do nothing and in the meantime they take up our parking spaces are direct traffic for everybody congestion if we all stop believing in that water what's really the other option i guess i mean if martin luther king said you know it is the i have a dream or the avenue i nightmare yet a dream so i think that what we all hope for is that we don't have that fatalistic view that we hope there's all. a possibility to change. the center of moscow witnessed a mafia clash this week the man thought to be the godfather of most of russia's criminal groups was shot and seriously wounded r t z e got a piece going off reports from the scene. with a click of a trigger this c

know you still you they count lauren lyster r.t. patterson new jersey. coming your way in about fifteen minutes as our debate shall cross-talk peter the well with his gas will be discussing the rise of china on the international stage and the release some lively discussion around the reasons driving the contraries rapid growth. not so much the chinese want to be thought. the chinese want to be humiliated here they speak of the hundred years of humiliation the japanese of asian opium wars you know from the outside world and they just are so sensitive about this kind of humiliation that's what drives them in here and that's what what they hate they feel that it's a top down relationship the west this is talking top down to the chinese lecturing them about how they should develop what they should do. i. think. afghans are heading to the polls this weekend to vote for the conferees part of them and the taliban have stepped up attacks aimed at intimidating voters and candidates ahead of the ballot dozens have been kidnapped prompting serious concerns about ho