the rating agency has doubts about rome possibility to implement their austerity program and they said there is an underlying problem of stagnant growth. silvio berlusconi is defiant. he says that the downgrading is mostly a reaction to media reports. italyossible debt burden is running at 120% of gross domestic product. -- italy's debt burden is running at 120% of gdp. s&p does not think that the targets can be easily achieved. growth is forecast at 1.1% this year. there is widespread speculation that the forecast will be scaled back to 0.7% for the year. traders on the floor of the milan stock exchange say that this might have a positive impact in the long run. >> maybe this a valuation will force the politicians to implement reforms that they have not put into place. >> average italians seem to have lost all confidence in their government. >> we have had enough of this joker berlusconi and the rest. they need to be sacked. >> if rome can implement their austerity package is, many will lose their jobs. unemployment among the country's youth is already 30%. >> european stocks when hig

the parliament in rome approved the austerity package. aims to cut the deficit by 54 billion euros over the next three years. even as parliament approved the austerity plan, demonstrations turned violent outside of the parliament building in rome. hundreds of demonstrators clashed with riot police, setting off firecrackers, setting off a smoke bombs, and setting trash cans on fire. the italians are not the only people angry about a europe that is moving quickly towards more austerity. on wednesday, greece took to the streets to protest the budget cuts that athens is pushing through. >> another day, another strike in the greek capital. civil servants and longshoremen took their turn in a vocal demonstration against the government's ever tighter austerity measures. this has become a daily occurrence over the past few at the same time, the european task force is in athens with the aim of supporting efforts to introduce vital economic reforms. >> to help the technical preparation and corp. and assistance, which is needed in order to implement

rome o, to miles austin.r six, austin, nine catches, 143 yards and a three touchdownsed. a late field goal and we go to overtime. niners win the toss, couldn't move the ball. rome othrough a wide open jessy holly. 77 yards to the one. and then dan bailey boots in the chip shot for the win. niners let it get away. 27-24 the final. >> we played well enough to win, we played well. >> i felt like the second half, just negative plays. >> seemed like every series, one negative play, whether it be a sack or loss or a penalty, put ourselves in second and long or third and long, it was tough to overcome. >> it's a hard loss. we prepare so hard. we let it slip through our hands, and gave up too many big plays. >> mike: it's early in the season. the raiders trying to win two straight on the road for the first time since 1798 -- 1982. they blue an eight point lead letting the bills off the hook. the explosive bills. raiders struck first. mcfadden bangs it in. 123 total yarded and two touchdowns. second half, bills ignite

susanne carella sigra lives in rome with her husband alessio and her son orso maria. [translator] i work because i was brought up to do so. my mother always taught me that independence is a fundamental, even for a woman, so when i finished studying, i started to work immediately. [speaking italian] women now do lots of things. they take responsibility for a lot of things, always according to the family problems that they may have. undoubtedly, women without children get around more easily and get involved in more things. also, they have more time available, and therefore they can produce more and commit themselves to more-- both to their own job and to their different interests. [speaking italian] probably women like that can have a career and have more interesting jobs. but people with children who are tied to the family with one or more child-- they're always limited because they have someone else to think about, another type of duty, and so they can't do more than that. [speaking italian] i work until 2:00 in the afternoon, and then i help my husband, family commit

twenty meeting and if you look at that you've got a real deal of the world's wealth basically well rome economies as well as the u.s. and britain all writing in and saying to the french g twenty presidency you've got a you're all wrong it's a disaster unfortunately and the greek people are basically being are normally alter of essential eat pig headedness amongst france and germany refusing to understand the problem all right patrick young executive director of investment advisory firm devi advisors thanks for a perspective. of course you can get more on this in our business bulletin coming up in about five minutes as the greeks are protesting against pressed for russian austerity cuts the finance minister has been trying to restore public calm saying the country has no choice but to bring in austerity but his comments didn't sit well with the greek people or our financial pundits max keiser and stacy her. we want to stabilize this situation if we want to adverse default you don't

beach county the that has its own a ruler and even prince its own cash is a benzo break away from rome. global markets slumped monday over fears that italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament for the final debate the government plans to make changes in the way its rural communities are run but some people are starting to lose faith in the government's ability to make the right decisions for bennett one one to one a rebellious town hoping to break free of the rule of rome. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money a man on the new note says town mayor lucas solari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when you're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants all towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundre

stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour the italian town that wants to run from rome fed up with battered by the rest italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community it's a siding to go it alone plus. taking an exclusion excursion meet the sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite radiation risks. but first russia and its key are a p. and gas customers sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pop russian gas straight into europe around moscow has spent the last four years agreeing on the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supplies the flow had been disrupted several times in the past along current pipelines due to spats between russia and transit countries belarus and ukraine south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers german french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be finished by twenty fifteen and energy analyst julian elise says europe is still wary of beco

and still ahead for you this hour the italian town that wants to run from rome. battered by the likes of italy's plan to ring economy one sleepy rural community is decided to go it alone. and taking an exclusion excursion meet the traditional tourists for their health for a holiday despite the radiation risk. a party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all votes now counted the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russia supporting party has led the polls in the former soviet state since it became independent what speculation is growing that rival lot of politicians may form a coalition to keep the pro russia party out of government about one third of the country's population are russian speakers but many of them are non-citizens and have no voting rights. of russia and its key european gas customer sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week for the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe all year round moscow

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. >> tuesday's demonstration in rome ended with a rally at the coliseum. and the thousand had been marking -- marching under slogans about not meddling with employment laws. many italians feel that the proposed spending cuts are unfair. especially after silvio burlesque only dropped the plan to end taxes on the wealthy. >> an austerity drive of 45 billion euros. >> the biggest union in italy said that they went on strike because they are on the brink. >> the country is in a difficult situation. it is important to move fast. what many politicians from the ranks of the opposition joined the protest, including one important italian leader. >> if it was a normal country, the government would have revived a long time ago. >> the upper house of the italian parliament spoke on the debate. the government has indicated that passage of the measure will be tied to a vote of confidence. >> the swiss franc plunged on tuesday after the central bank intervened. the bank wants to keep the exchange rate below 1.20. they have been putting their cash into less risky assets,

and so, when in rome do as the romans do. win in the caribbean do as the caribbean stew. and that involves accepting tobacco and when europeans involved, right, the same thing was chocolate. chocolate part of the sociability rituals of these groups. but there's kind of the split reaction. i'm making it sound like they were immediately very welcoming to that and that wasn't the case. on the one hand, they sort of were exposed to it and sort of consumed in situations, but they also were very suspicious of it as well. tobacco, smoking a something for them a sort of reminiscent of things they thought about as witchcraft. and they also clued on pretty soon the tobacco and chocolate were not only important, but were also part of native religion. and part of the mission of these europeans was to bring their religion to a. and so it was very disconcerting to look at the substances, they described it as kind of idolatry and daemonic diablo some and so forth. so you have this kind of almost schizophrenic reaction on the one hand on the frontier they are using it. on the other hand,

it will be like athens or rome or something like. thousands of people come and go and see the heritage. >> it was a cold war conflicts that lasted two decades. the vietnam war left millions of dead and ultimately ended in failure for the american's desire to crush communism. she is a dancer who sang to soldiers on the front line of the conflict. >> an unforgiving war. 20 years of brutal and bloody onslaught. these are the men who risked their lives in the fight against communism. and these are the women on the other side, whose stories were buried in the chaos and conflict. the women who sang to console their wounded fighters, bringing comfort with their voices. >> in these words, the subject is about the memory of the war. people told me that the nature of human beings is like this. we live and we destroyo an and e fight. and they say that is the nature of human beings, which i really do not believe. >> but these performers are not professional dancers. they are the women themselves, from tiny villages in the north, farming communit

now the residence of rome are up in arms about a statue dedicated to the late john paul ii.evered by millions of catholics in life, the bronze version of the polish pontiff has been roundly criticized. our correspondent explains. >> throughout his life, he was loved by millions around the world. in death, he has been fast tracked toward sainthood, but in the italian capital, pope john paul ii is remembered by this. the five meterronze statue was unveieiddnayay.. it had itsts critics and even a newspaper linked to the catholic church says it has to change. here is the artist behind the work. he laughs off the criticism. >> not even the sis teen chapel was well received at first. >> the sculpture says he'll make minor adjustments, not a new statue. people who knew the pope says the current sculpture isn't close enough to the original plans. >> a commission made up of art experts at the vatican suggested that the artist should be given the time and the means to complete the work and make it as similar as possible to the original. >> designing a statue that doesn't look out of p

employers start to fold the response from the united states to nine eleven was was so catastrophic to rome. some of them love my dog and what he wants but people all around the world are being affected so poorly so badly by u.s. policy lots of people in the global south still remember how their countries are being distorted or destroyed in so many ways by american ground i think of american intervention in afghanistan and the other previously the soviet union has proved again and again very dangerous for the suit involved and afghanistan is not an easy place for america to take over and i think you more if as i say his first responsibility is really a carousel and people would say that probably and then to the wider region not to the united states so the idea that the united states can take succor from what's happened in afghanistan i don't think so and as true democracy building democracy building needs to be created from the ground up but it took a huge toll on the american economy as well and it's a sad day for some to study for those who believe in the constitution the original constit

decisions which is of a bennett went to one rebellious town that wants to break free from the rule of rome. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of a cli that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money a man on a new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred filipino and its mayor of the chop. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing they should get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. is second highest in europe but unions a furious with

month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands guillotine is the source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy. it has warned israel it faces grabbing isolation in the region as they text prime minister has for egypt where the one is expected to cement closer ties this congress with bus countries experiencing recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night ever a genome in the gyptian capital stormed sunscreens rain embassy forcing style to meet on this well difficult for few steps apologized for killing several egyptian security force members by mistake last month expelled israel's ambassador last week i let a country's refusal to say sorry for gunning down nine actually it's going to take a ship trying to bring aid to blockade. they talk piano says that talk was a fool but his country chose to refrain from aggression and political analyst from talking. that egyptian talking have. you killing the egyptian soldiers by. force. for poor of the. ongoing. so that's w

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stay with us here on ars he's still ahead the italian town that runs to run from the rome fed up with being battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy rural community is trying to go it alone plus. taking an exclusion egg scourging to meet their noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite the radiation wrists. but first in latvia a party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap problem entry election with almost all the votes tallied the harmony center part you won twenty nine percent it's the first time russia supporting parties led the polls in the former soviet states since it became independent but speculation is growing rival lobby and politicians may form a coalition to keep the program party out of government about a third of the country's population are russian speakers but many of them are non-citizens and have no voting rights. russia and its key european gas customers sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pump russian gas treaty in eu

spending cuts in italy the mayor of one italian town as it unilaterally declared independence from rome and chose to go it alone. the u.k. and russia look to put differences aside with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week the leaders of both countries agreed to unresolved issues shouldn't stand in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british prime minister in six years relations between the two nations soured over the murder of former f s b officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and the dmitri medvedev agreed to the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees real potential. russia's first steps in establishing the new business center establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement is going to be absolutely key in terms of development companies development and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into

town in italy that has its own ruler and even prince its own money as it plans to break away from rome. but before we get to that back to our breaking news story more talk on the explosion at the nuclear facility in france i drive by yon hover camp and nuclear power expert for greenpeace. thanks for joining us here on r t so the blast happened at a nuclear waste processing facility how potentially dangerous could that be. well the blast happened when nuclear waste was mixed and that means probably that there was some explosive material within the waste. the the risk could be that some of the radiation would come outside of the building and would pose a. threat to the people around it people on the sides are at the moment inside are kept inside is one casualty and three people have been wounded so it's not a proper nuclear power plant but it still processes nuclear waste so is there a potential for a leak from that. has been an explosion so you never know whether whether the building itself is still completely airtight and if it isn't then of course some radiation could leak out site. a

still to come the italian town that wants to run from rome but up with being battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community is deciding to go it alone. taking an exclusion excursion to meet the sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite radiation risks. but first in latvia a party backed by the large russian community their one majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all the votes in the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russian supporting party has led the polls in the baltic state since it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one following the soviet union's collapse but speculation is growing that arrive a lot of the in politicians may form a coalition to keep the pro russia party out of government about one third of the country's population are russian speakers many of them are non citizens and have no voting rights. russia and its key european gas customers sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week the soon to be built south stream pipeline

rome on the road to the euro zone's third largest economy takes a hit as inklings credit rating it goes down sparking fears of and in the deep financial crisis up across europe. israel calls for peace talks with the palestinians but plans mines on their border rather the palestinian bid for a seat at the u.n. this friday could open a pandora's box. and multiculturalism under the microscope the turkish president visits by trying to break down a wall of issues facing immigrants in germany. this is the line from moscow and he's credit score has taken a knock financial ratings standard and poor's has downgraded the country by one notch deepening figures owns economic worries the agency also gave a gloomy forecast for the country's ability to self out of trouble with these promises he's criticized the decision calling it out of touch with reality but i simply said it was prompted by if you use weak economic growth and fears the government will fail to deal with its huge debt despite parliament recently passing an austerity budget well it sounds great now means it could be more expensive ital

this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos the sorts of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy. remember we're on air and on line around the clock in our t. dot com where there's plenty more stories blogs and analysis here's what's a click away right now. in the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest at the banking system that's left many jobless and homeless with a demonstration occupy wall street lots. of it being seen to be green world carfree day coming up in the rushes even launched an eco week aimed at getting its many many drivers off the roads and onto the saddle of a bicycle. seat. of all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic destinations for sure noble nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance twenty five years after the world's nuclear world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in or out of driving them away but authorities like say are ships he repo

italy that has its own rule or any even prince and so on the money i said plans to break away from rome. but first global markets one died monday over fears that italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro are staring package goes before the lower house of parliament the proposal whose changes to pensions government spending cuts and a special levy on the rich for more on this i'm joined by your husband over adult editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine the trends who is live with us in brussels good to have you with us again the surface so italy is the euro zone's third largest economy should we be worried about its debt crisis and getting over getting out of hand like in other countries including greece for example as of course if the price is. also italy would be very bad but i think at the moment the main worry in the markets are concerned with the greek situation and even more so with what i would call the good german issue. mean the fact that you are going to strike the executive committee member of the european central bank left the ce

it was sort of like rome under nearo. of course his most infamous son was cesare borgea and there was a mysterious borgea as well. >> you said that his son had siffluss? >> yeah. it was going around. it had been brought in. people speculated it had come over with columbus' ships. and when the french armies invided, the italians assumed they brought it with them. i don't know if it's fair but seemed to coin side with the french invasion a year or two after it becomes a serious problem in italy and around the rest of europe and the italians called it the french pox. >> you said that pope alexander's the son committed the deadly sins of greed, wrath, lust, gluttony and pride? >> hum hmm. >> and he was not -- one of the refreshing things is that even more of his predecessors were equally corrupt he didn't care who knew it, he felt confident enough in himself and his power that he could get away wit. and given the track record of people who went around murdering political enemies, it was pretty safe to assume that he could get

the latest updates interviews and videos and at the moments we're bringing you live pictures from rome just one of the many cities around the world holding special events to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks. and see that the coliseum has been illuminated in remembrance of those that died and you can watch the pictures from rome they're streaming live on our website at r.t. dot com. the terrorist attack that became synonymous with. the senseless slaughter of it was three people stopped for. a vision of a living. ten years old just. to. look back at nine eleven to see. this week russia's sporting world was rocked to its core when one of its best hockey teams was all but wiped out in a blink of an eye they died on wednesday when looking more to vegas levels plane crashed on takeoff on saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say their final goodbyes to the victims and sean thomas witnessed a city in mourning. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country ordered the lives of some of the city's brightest

later this month to stave off the rebellion but he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos a source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants i've given it r.t. filipino italy as financial words echoed deeper inside the euro zone fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro unable to contain its debt crisis you have of a developed the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine the trends thinks that greece should jump ship. but the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment at seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that greek and greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can say fo