well i think there's enough blame to go around all of washington. it's a shame that is come to this point. our view i believe is that congress should work together to put forth a. bill that the president will be willing to sign so that we get the government up and running. there are many issues. as we understand that but veteran shouldn't be held hostage and should be used as pawns in the negotiations between congress and the white house obviously you're going to represent your guys but of course you could also have that argument with the parents maybe of sick children getting the life saving drugs etc all that's on hold at the moment shouldn't you be that you served your country another how deep this must have been should you be there to shoulder this problem along with everybody else well there's no doubt that a shutdown doesn't help anyone it's causes problems for everyone in the country obviously we're veterans advocates so our main concern is how our veterans and especially ill and injured veterans that have problems associated with their milit

heaping criticism and caustic ridicule on washington the news agency called the u.s. civilian slayer prisoner torture and meddler and others affairs and said the pax americana was a failure on all fronts well i mean china should walk the walk instead of just talking the dogs kicked out mcdonald's kicked out kentucky fried chicken kicked out coca-cola they're making your citizens obese and you're getting diabetes so you know they talk the talk but will try to walk the walk simultaneously and they say they want to d.m. merican eyes the world here's a here's a country that has huge exposure to exports to america is the basis for their merc until this rise of the twenty first century why would they be cutting the nose off to spite their face unless they're ready to come out and say we've got enough gold at this time to cut the dollar loose. now there are security concerns in moscow where thousands of muslims are gathering for one of his most holy days it a lot marks the end of hodge which is the annual pilgrimage to the city of mecca well here in russia it's also known as

government following the failure of washington's nor makers to agree on a new budget for more on this let's now talk live with curtis ellis he's executive director at the american jobs alliance now we're still waiting for president obama to speak on the first day of the shutdown i believe is it going to be speaking about ten minutes from now so what should he be saying what does he have to say to resolve this crisis. well he should be speaking directly to the house republicans who for the last two years have been complaining about the degree of uncertainty that the job creators face because of obamacare or increased regulation or this or that so he should tell them that this government shutdown and brinksmanship creates another level of uncertainty. peers and businesses hate and politically this but what's it going to do for the republicans this is going to win in the long term over this what will the republicans actually suffer here right here. well that's that is the question we ask about who's going to be affected and how does this affect unemployment people are really wondering ho

keeping this is an acrostic ridicule on washington the news agency called the u.s. civilian slayer prisoner torture and meddler and others affairs and said the pax americana was a failure on all fronts well i mean china should walk the walk instead of just talking the talk so kicked out mcdonald's kicked out kentucky fried chicken kicked out coca-cola they're making your citizens obese and you're getting diabetes so you know they talk the talk but will try to walk the walk simultaneously when they say they want to deal merican eyes the world here's a here's a country that has huge exposure to exports to america is the basis for their merc until this rise of the twenty first century why would they be cutting the nose off to spite their face unless they're ready to come out and say we've got enough gold at this time to cut the dollar loose. coming up here on our t.v. our correspondent reports on how easy it is being mugged in moscow also the challenges ahead in destroying syria's chemical weapons. report and a chemical weapons watchdog which says inspectors are strugg

catch its breath but leaves the country back on the verge of collapse in just a few months more from washington in just a moment. to see the plight of migrant workers getting the nation's world cup together shines a light on the suffering of other foreign employees in the wealthy gulf states. and a look behind the barbed wire. and rare axes inside the natori is one tunnel prison . heard about it like several movies but you don't really this is a place that people forget about we don't ever think about it we talked to the working in the one tunnel detention camp you see the actually love their jobs. live from moscow this is our team you with me tom woods it's good to have your company with us to our top story this morning. the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the skin of its teeth president obama has signed a long awaited deal that puts the government back on track and raises america's borini limit but it's just a temporary fix as a niece and now reports now from washington d.c. . well just hours before the deadline the so-called eleventh hour really comin

to keep our eye on the situation in the capital for now i mean it's now way in washington. currency crisis continue the system the president reserves to the ocean. the longer this goes on the worse of. your working story your mercury carbon and lipstick getting. trapped and terrified migrants in qatar have been speaking about the desperation of am doing there are more than eighteen million in the country many of whom are working flat out to get the prostate is a world cup event ready cadotte is not the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals and i both qatar and the united arab emirates have migrant population they go beyond eighteen percent in kuwait today the region's other leading all produce about seven out of ten workers they are foreigners as to in oman and saudi arabia migrants make up almost thirty percent of that population now in. if we take a look at the whole region as a whole the number of the migrant workers there is about eighteen million out of a total population of just forty two million now that's quite a high numb

people are furious businesses are enraged and the world economy is held hostage but for lawmakers in washington it's career over country less than forty eight hours remain for the united states to and the deadlock and avoid the folding audit seventeen trillion dollar debt. and an uneasy celebration in moscow as over one hundred thousand muslims gather for one of his launch holiest days this fall sunday's violent affleck riot provoked by the failed stabbing a russian man. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program america's national security agency could soon see its global surveillance powers curtailed as foreign governments and firms move to bolster the or cyber to francis brazil's leading the charge with an encrypted e-mail service while germany's biggest telecom company is planning to reroute users data away from the n.s.a. spying on ice are just peed all over explains. they are inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan that they hope will protect their customers information

people are angry businesses are enraged and the world economy is held hostage but for lawmakers in washington it's career over country forty eight hours remain for the united states to and the dead log and avoid defaulting on its seventeen trillion dollar debt. and an uneasy celebration in moscow as over one hundred thousand muslims gather for one of islam's holiest days this fall sunday's violent asyik rioting provoked by the fatal stabbing of a russian man. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshua welcome to the program. america's national security agency could soon see its global surveillance powers curdled as foreign governments and firms move to bolster the air or cyber to fans of brazil's leading the charge was an encrypted e-mail service while germany's biggest telecom company is planning to reroute users data away from the n.s.a.'s prying eyes are the spear all over explains. here inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan that they hope will protect their customers information from the pr

reports from washington. the e.u. delegation came to get answers from the n.s.a. and they got nothing keith alexander told members of the e.u. delegation that they are not spying on european citizens on a massive scale obviously there is no way of checking it i caught up with some members of that he says this is sort of like trying to get from some information. don't clarify. the situation. we are lies the mass of the violence cannot be based on the question against the terrorists and of course in order to do do you have information about the telephone or fungal or medical it cannot be justified in the fight against terrorism here the figures we have seen the europeans have how to collect information about as a regions of afghanistan yemen and so on not overall. figures. in terms in german need to give in to the french if you germany. would have done. it so keep alexander told them whatever intelligence european agencies are sharing with the n.s.a. is from war zones again no way of checking any of that so was that just a symbolic gesture on the part of the e.u. de

catch a breath but leaves the country back on the verge of collapse in just a few months more from washington in just a moment. controversy the plight of migrant workers getting the nation's world cup together shines a light on the suffering of other foreign employees in wealthy gulf states. and a look behind the barbed wire our t. gets where it says inside the notorious one tunnel prison. we've heard about it like several movies but you don't really this is a place that people forget about why they don't ever think about it we talked to those working in the guantanamo detention camp who say they actually love their jobs. a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us on our team with me to one would say we're live from moscow to our top story this hour the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the skin of its teeth as and obama has signed a long way to deal that puts the government back on track and races america's borrowing limit but it's just a temporary fix as i mea sonali reports from washington d.c. . well just hours before the deadline the so-cal

the actual location washington d.c. for creating this sort of empathy gap between what's actually the problems americans are facing today and the problems that congress is focused on is there's something in the air in washington d.c. that inhibits our empathy we're receptors. no it's just that this is where it happens this is where the groups coalesced in and they have these interactions but i think that what will happen is that either members of congress will realize that we're all part of a bigger group and have to come together or the larger group that is america the citizens are going to remind them through their votes that that you know this is this is not an acceptable behavior to sabotage the normal operation of government and i think by and large people don't accept that there's something that actually psychopathic about choosing to be a politician choosing to go to appeal to people for you know ask for votes all the time i mean there's been studies one percent of the population is believed to be psychopathic so

heaping criticism and caustic ridicule on washington the news agency called the u.s. civilian slayer prisoner torture and meddler and others affairs and said the pax americana was a failure on all fronts well i mean china should walk the walk instead of just talking the talk so picked out mcdonald's picked out kentucky fried chicken kicked out coca-cola they're making their citizens obese and you're getting diabetes so you know they talk the talk but will try to walk the walk simultaneously when they say they want to d.m. merican eyes the world here's a here's a country that has huge exposure to exports to america is the basis for their merch until this rise of the twenty first century why would they be cutting the nose off to spite their face unless they're ready to come out and say we've got enough gold at this time to cut the dollar loose. i have here on our g.l. course one hundred points on how easy it is being mom to in moscow also the challenges ahead in destroying syria's chemical weapons ports on a chemical weapons watchdog says that inspectors will struggling

giant monsanto reporting from washington and you see now way. monsanto has been defending its products saying the food it produces is the only way to feed the world a growing population they also say that many people already consume g.m. foods with no ill effects or to use marine important takes a look. in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that owns its notoriety largely to the agriculture giant monsanto a multinational billion dollar corporation generating global criticism revolving around the safety of its products and growing a monopoly over the world's food supply they are able to patent the genetically modified foods with a very strong patent for farmers can only be the seed from monsanto each year and they can save the seeds that researchers have documented dozens of health risks associated with the consumption of modified foods and the majority of americans have campaigned for g.m.o. foods to be labeled just like these organic fruits a

giant monsanto reporting from washington and you so now we are. well the company itself says it makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow one son to also maintains many people already consume genetically modified food with no ill effects but jeffrey smith who's written extensively about the dangers of so-called franken foods says this couldn't be further from the truth. when you look at the animal feeding studies are genetically engineered just the american academy of environmental medicine they said there's gastrointestinal problems immune system problems like celebrated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are going wrong with the animals that are being fed g m o's and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population since g m o's were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world eradicating poverty so this is just been a public relations and they spent two hundred fifty

i did the meantime tempers are running high in washington. now as lawmakers cost their votes to break the government's standstill an extraordinary performance played out in the house of representatives a stenographer began shouting as well the house approved the number of votes needed to pass the bill without what witnesses described as a quote a crazy look on her face and how the incident prompted a moment of chaos before the woman was removed from the chamber and of course we've also been discussing america's a narrow escape from a defaulter with a panel of guests. america did not default to house and the fold to believe that even if it is not. certainly if you think that they will get on with their play to something you know they know you got it but that's just a quick taste or you can catch more debates and opinions from moscow hong kong and london in a few minutes. also coming up a reg limbs inside one tunnel as our correspondent gets unique. that's a decade of fear and a fury stay with us here on our t.v. from all those stories. we're a

people are furious businesses are enraged and the world economy is held hostage but for lawmakers in washington it's career over condrey less than forty eight hours remain for the united states and the deadlock and avoid defaulting on its seventeen trillion dollar debt. and an uneasy celebration in moscow as over one hundred thousand muslims gather for one of islam skoal these days this fall sunday's violent asyik rioting provoked by the fatal stabbing of a russian man. this is already coming to you live from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program now america's national security agency could soon see the global surveillance powers stoned it as foreign governments and firms move to bolster their cyber to fans as brazil's leading the charge with an encrypted e-mail service while germany's biggest telecom company is planning to reroute users data away from the n.s.a.'s grasp are just bitter all over explains. here inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan that they hope will protect their customers information from the p

global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. because that's not in households with a common more not an option to. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play that anybody more we're not usually you money at any price the scare sparked global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ir

the washington post points to a possible reason for why the u.s. government shuts down like no one else they right but it could possibly have to do with something we called the reversion value for annual budgets in the u.s. if congress doesn't pass a budget then the budget for the next year equaled zero in other countries if their politicians are too polarized to reach an agreement then the budget just reverts to the previous year's budget not in the us as the rest of the world gate at the us with both incredulity and fear of economic repercussions our congresspeople flat out refuse to pass a spending bill because they are nothing more than partisan puppets who put their self interests before the interests of their country puppets who still get paid while the government is shut down and they do nothing but make idiotic speeches no other country in the world has that kind of governing body and that's what makes america so damn exceptional tonight to talk about that following me on twitter at their resident. burglar we've all seen this commercial fro

so now there's a i would say a minimum of salt called debate in washington d.c. about or maybe the n.s.a. overstepped their bounds on top of it we cannot believe in any seeing general keith alexander chief of n.s.a. says he is an orwellian functionary you know defending you pretty realistic myth of all of g. fact it's complete it's beyond surrealism because it doesn't make sense if you don't have the ground tell you cannot fight what was called the war on terror and the obama administration started to call overseas contingency operations all c.e.o. you cannot do all c.e.o. with without boots on the ground in terms of intel just very briefly if you watch homeland the american series you know that. just briefly much of this has been centered of course on europe but your asia times correspondent there based in london of course asia has been missed out on all of this because apparently australian embassies were being used to intercept calls on behalf of the n.s.a. so not just asia but also the fact the embassy is being used to mean that countries should be very wary

pushes washington for more transparency over its deadly drone program. for am in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story demonstrators are marking frak down day with activists around the world urging governments to put an end to the controversial extraction method say hello to what's been happening at some of the protests the state of pennsylvania has become a symbol for gas development gone wrong with numerous fracking accidents in recent years that sentiment particularly strong in pittsburgh and philadelphia in new york protesters demanded authorities change their ways of thinking about the environment they say across the atlantic spanish activists campaign for renewable energy sources and a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight concerns about how the younger generation could be affected by the practice artie's laura smith reporting that british authorities are still saying yes to the technique. it's going to make household energy bills she says it will create loads of job c. and we'll pay you

reporting live from washington d.c. and of course we'll bring you more details on the shooting incident as soon as we get them here. on r.t. that's our breaking news this hour. thirty people involved in a greenpeace protest have now been charged with piracy by court in russia's north western port city of moments they were arrested after attempting to scale an oil rig in the arctic last month in protest over offshore drilling in the region of greenpeace lawyers are appealing the decision insisting that there was no violence involved and authorities said they pose a serious threat to the security of the platform despite facing up to fifteen years in prison activists are still refusing to give testimony when earlier i spoke to ben alias and he is head of greenpeace is arctic campaign and he believes the region should be off limits for any oil drilling company. but increase has a long history of peaceful protest it was perfectly obvious to the coast guard to the operator of the platform that this was a peaceful protest and

editor at antiwar dot com and a columnist for the washington times community section also in washington we have michael copeland he is an associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and in philadelphia we crossed england in he is a political commentator and a writer or gentlemen cross-talk rosen a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want john the reason if i go to you first in washington the reason i want to do this program is number one always make the american people and western publics remember what we did in afghanistan that's always a top priority for me and number two looking at the headlines democratic transition this is the first democratic transition in afghanistan and i'll give my opinion about that later but don't you think that the that's the wrong focus here is that actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan.

we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut reportedly suffering from mental illnesses including postpartum depression she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist she tried to gain access to a secure area near the white house here in washington d.c. just really a block away from the studio here she was confronted by police she did a three point turn striking a police officer and sped off to the u.s. capitol where she was again confronted by police shots rang out she alluded police again where she drove another few blocks near senate office buildings the car was then crashed and police opened fire killing her only then realized killing her in front of her one year old child it's worth noting she was completely unarmed the only shots fired during this entire incident were from the police and some people are saying this could have been a misunderstanding if you know this area around d.c. there's constantly drills going on there security checkpoints go

or at a washington now where the iraqi prime minister is asking the u.s. to bring all its airborne might to his country in a desperate move to finally tackle snowboarding tara and sectarian violence more than four hundred people have been killed in the state this month alone and my colleague bill daughter spoke with karen and. she was in the u.s. air force and believes that more weapons will only worsen the situation. airpower is not the solution to the kind of security and strife that you're seeing in the urban areas. all it's going to do is what it's done for twenty years it's going to destroy buildings and people pollute the environment it doesn't work very well and you mention collateral damage well that's the rule that's kind of the rule when we use air power we expect and we get plenty of collateral damage and you can't you can't really make up for that by saying i'm sorry you said earlier that only pointing the finger of blame at the political system that the prime minister there but just how much is the u.s. responsible for the situation now in the

global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. because i sucked in households who did come in more nuts and up she did a little bit ago. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later. that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price the scare sparked global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the u.s. i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for i

more grants to dictators and terms in relations with washington. the turkish government. of course negotiate this situation with americans but the americans have to make this point station that turkey is taking part in the production mechanism process until now it was already offset fairly. in turkey this was their new way of thinking a new set of confidence that turkey wants to be part of the entire process meanwhile another issue turning heads in turkey is still the e.u. membership bid and that tensions are running high as marina flush now reports. always the bridesmaid but never the bride progress over turkey's accession to european union could be best described as. this is like a. platonic love affair the europeans doesn't want turkey to go away totally but there's a war in the house the talks started in two thousand and five but brussels still says turkey is not yet ready with the eurozone debt crisis raging turkey's membership plans look far less tempting everybody's concert. in new further enlargement of the european union whether it's on the balkans or in turkey .

this self-inflicted shutdown is causing panic around the world as washington scrambles to avoid default the global economy is at risk of being forced back into recession well at home millions will have to cut their losses either way deal or no deal businesses that were unable to work at full capacity for public sector contracts which will see delays and payment and unemployment which is already on the rise due to the shutdown but possibly the most ironic thing about this government shutdown now in its third week is that it's not saving money it's costing america at least one hundred sixty million dollars a day and given the crisis has entered its fifteenth day the overall cost could be as much as two and a half billion dollars and that number of course is expected to grow and the political debate is hampering a rise in the debt ceiling but also leaving sick americans out in the cold for each week of the shutdown hundreds of patients cannot be accepted for treatment at the national institutes of health including cancer patients seventy five percent of the staff is not working because of

which is joined as a pm here in moscow mid day now in washington and with the deadline looming u.s. lawmakers have reportedly agreed on a deal to raise the country's debt limit and reboot the government if confirmed it will go to a vote between republicans and democrats in fighting between who have brought the world's richest nation to the brink of default let's go to washington artes and this is now he's standing by for us there and this judge of boulder currents we're expecting to hear an announcement where the times say within the next minute or two year. that's right but the one thing i think we've learned from this shutdown is you never know how far u.s. lawmakers will let it go we're coming pretty close to the wire here the deadline the seventeenth. but we are hearing reports that senate leaders have come to an agreement to ovoid default works back to hear from them any minute now from capitol hill the problem is whether or not this will pass in the house that's where you're going to see most of the more i should say aggressive opposition to this passing this deal would at lea

fighter was injured in an order he says they need more money and american military aid washington has conceded a limited assault on syrian military bases over august's chemical attack. if they strike with just ten rockets the regime of bashar al assad will fall by itself but america changed track after moscow pushed washington to agree on a peaceful way forward pulled its warships spec from mediterranean and put its tomahawks on hold it didn't please everyone. seeing us all of them are liars the americans the arabs all of them i don't know how i can express it better and we're not hoping for anything from them. with army forces struggling to come but fighters haydon in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks artillery and. the country's at a deadly impasse is neither side prepared to blink first marty's morea for reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. too. coming up america's a man killing machines are on their radar as a senior u.n. official urges washington for the land raid in its drone program stay with us for

and some other news in brief now thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. calling for congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill police officers arrested two hundred protesters with at least eight house democrats among them as demonstrators blocked traffic in front of capitol hill the so-called commit amerikana rally was aimed at promoting the adoption of legislation that would allow twelve million undocumented immigrants to receive u.s. citizenship. a fire at a clothing factory near the bangladesh capital has killed at least ten people and left over fifty injured because of the blaze has yet to be officially identified as garment industry is the tory is for poor safety standards more than a thousand people died in april when a factory outside dhaka collapsed. six workers at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan are reported to have been contaminated by radiation after one of them mistakenly removed a pipe connected to a water treatment system this is the latest in a string of mishaps at the crippled daiichi plant which suffered triple meltdown

global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to congress and house votes to come in and more not finished up she did. have to act on it. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price the scare sparked global evaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the u.s. i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for i

giant monsanto reporting from washington and you say no way archie. the company itself and since its playing a key role in freezing the world's rapidly growing population monsanto also maintains that many people already consumed through it with no ill effects but calling knew from and drove the center for food safety says profits are not health to giant corporations like. these marches are raising awareness about the issue and bring awareness not only about monsanto and its influence in agriculture but also other chemical companies that have become major agribusiness influences on capitol hill i think we see an overwhelming influence in governments and that really has to do with money that these are major chemical companies the top i mean fifty three percent over fifty three percent of seeds are owned by just a handful of these major agribusiness chemical companies so they exert tremendous influence in politics and have millions upon millions of dollars to spend to ensure that their products get spread through reviews and also to ensure that consumers

police in washington d.c. will launch an investigation into the use of deadly force by officers who shot an unarmed woman marion kerry was killed on tuesday following a high speed chase through the heart of the u.s. capitol police went after her as she tried to ram her chorus through barricades at the white house details now from our g. sam sachs. we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut reportedly suffering from mental illnesses including postpartum depression she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist she tried to gain access to a secure area near the white house here in washington d.c. just really a block away from the studio here she was confronted by police she did a three point turn striking a police officer and sped off to the u.s. capitol where she was again confronted by police shots rang out she alluded police again where she drove another few blocks near senate

military in a few stone bases 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. . failure to raise the debt ceiling will not necessarily mean an immediate default the us has plenty of cash reserves and can also cut social military and government budgets to pay off creditors dr william wilson an economist with 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 her later this week the results would be catastrophic you'd see the credit 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 and eight except 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 would be like that shut down and the dad of the united states now stands at just under seventeen trillion dollars

global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. because that's not in households who come in more nuts and up she did. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price the scare sparked global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appeared in the us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically

i think that there is reason to believe that the police in washington d.c. way way over reacted that there are alternatives to respond to situations short of deadly force you know speeding car it's a variety of ways it's stopping them the tires heavier and then they can be punctured by various means to put strips from the vehicles they can shoot out the tires because they have these rope things that they don't have a lot of time but all this whole situation is that the police had no evidence that she had any gun and she had not used any weapon at all she was using a vehicle that vehicle must receive attention yes of course we are closely following this story for you here what you can always had online where we've got the latest developments on the photographs from the scene of the shooting. a very short break here on out so we traveled to underground mosques in greece and head to a palestinian village where it's weapons that are starting to see you in just. with the averting of war with syria at the last second and the opening of some kind of dialogue with i

people the theory of spirit is really raged in the world economy is held hostage but for lawmakers in washington it's career over country less than forty eight hours remain now for the united states to end the deadlock and avoid defaulting on its seventeen trillion dollar debt. and at least fifty people were detained here in moscow during disturbances of the nationalist rally it says the capitals was lim celebrate one of his lambs main festivals unfazed by the weekend's ethnic rioting. there are good even shooters joined as is nine pm they were moscow this tuesday evening my name's kevin and you're watching r.t. our top story america's national security agency could soon see its global surveillance powers stunted as foreign governments and firms move to bolster this cyber defenses brazil's leading the charge with an encrypted e-mail service while germany's biggest telecom companies playing to reroute users data away from the n.s.a.'s grasp parties paid all over as the latest. here inside one of the main offices of germany's largest telecommunications operates and they are coming up with a plan t

behavior but a lot of people are blaming washington d.c. the actual location washington d.c. for christmas sort of empathy between what's actually the problems americans are facing today and the problems that congress is focused on is there's something in the air in washington d.c. that inhibits our empathy we're receptors. no it's just that this is where it happens this is where the groups coalesced and they have these interactions. but i think that what will happen is that either members of congress will realize that we're all part of a bigger group and have to come together or the larger group that is america the citizens are going to remind them through their votes that that you know this is this is not an acceptable behavior to sabotage the normal operation of government and i think by and large people don't accept that this is something that actually psychopathic about choosing to be a politician and choosing to go to appeal to people you know ask for votes all the time i mean there's been studies one percent of the population is believed to be psychopathic something li

the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. music. looing in a concentration camp they're being picked on this is off what kind of to be shown how long before someone driving. s.u.v.s and this is how the being targeted and at the same time do not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there is therefore a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in

pushes washington for transparency over its deadly drone program. five am in moscow i match resident good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story demonstrators marking a frock down day with activists around the world urging governments to put an end to the controversial extraction method steak a look at what's been happening at some of the protests now in the state of pennsylvania it's become something of a symbol for gas development gone wrong with numerous fracking accidents in recent years and fracking sediment particularly strong in pittsburgh and philadelphia in new york protesters demanded authorities change their way of thinking about the environment on the other side of the atlantic spanish activists have been campaigning for renewable energy energy sources and a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight worries about how the younger generation could be affected by fracking as artie's laura smith reports british authorities still say yes to the practice. it's going to make household energy bills she says

live from washington d.c. i mean he said now with special coverage of the government shutdown now the deadline to block will has possibly come to an end america just barely avoiding default and agreeing to raise the debt ceiling at the last minute so the u.s. can keep borrowing beyond its almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt well sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession this deal would reopen the government and fund it until january fifteenth allowing it to continue borrowing until february the seventh so really it's just a temporary fix well to discuss this joining me are gerald levin publisher of the journal and curtis ellis executive director of american jobs alliance in london we have mr keith boy field a researcher for the center for policy studies and here in ross washington with me is neil mccabe senior reporter at human events thank you all very much for joining me i wan

right now washington d.c. venting their fury against the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance practices the organizers say will be the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history let's get more from our he's got a chance you can she's with the demonstrators got a hi there. day for the rally by the looks of it what exactly are they asking for what do they want and what are they hoping really to achieve end of the day you. and i were. no object we've been given you're only answer three years why do you concede defeat of all your. people leave with the win in the name of fighting here if you like this. they also say that they are tired of the lies that the government is telling to cover up their mass spying program just earlier this year the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked about whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard is that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than o

to be struck by the end of the year you nations have warned that a lack of trust with washington could damage future intelligence corporations a u.n. resolution to restrain american spying has been proposed by germany and brazil which was also targeted by the n.s.a. last came from the private party says the government's reaction to the news shows who they really are protecting revelations of the monitoring of world leaders from the showed the breathtaking double standards of our ruling elite suddenly when it's a case of. telephone being trapped then we have the likes of kiefer speaking out and saying it's a real scandal. actually when it's a case of ordinary citizens that's what the real scandal is the real scandal is the true extent of mass violence in the e.u. and of course beyond mr kay also pointed out that british prime minister has been quite reluctant to take a firm stance global surveillance. what's been clear is that david cameron is not willing to speak up in defense of britain and the british people when it comes to mass surveillance and indeed we've seen the extent of g.c.

official urges washington to reveal and rein in its probe program. leaving ten pm saturday evening here in moscow when i was kevin owen you're watching on t.v. now our top story global frak days on saturday marks a worldwide protest uniting all activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction for activists is the co-author urging the governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby there's been plenty of action so far let's take a school run in london a group called young friends of the earth are sending a message to the people in charge to stop and think about the generation of the picture he sussex meantime there activists have been demanding that authorities change their ways of thinking about the environment and move on to renewable energy sources the u.k. prime minister sees things differently though he's become a vigorous advocate of fracking is laura smith reports. it's going to make household energy bills cheap he says it will create loads of job c. and uses we'll pay you if you let us do it in your area u.k. prime minister david came

european union think tank the bruges group in london says that washington's been a rock in the whole place when it comes to solving the crisis. the common crisis with the shutdown in of the us government and public servants not being paid that will harm economic growth undoubtedly just raising the debt ceiling is not an answer that will just store up further trouble and will be the same situation just a few years down the line again there was a similar crisis in two thousand and eleven where the. on its debts then corso led to a downgrade in u.s. debt since then boiling costs for america have actually or did actually decrease but of course we've now just two years later again we're seeing the same thing happen and it's just lazy. just maine just further down the line they'll be severe problems america has very severe financial problems by using the seating is not an answer but of course i see as we've seen in the european union doesn't work either so america is even for be difficult economic position. much more government must now shut down until congress funds or get. people involve

is in washington. many cities across the u.s. took part in this second organize march against the agricultural giant monsanto protesters rallying against the company's use of genetically modified organisms and trying to raise awareness about its corporate practices some protesters told us that even though the government is shut down monsanto lobbyists are hard at work here in washington many pouncers by actually came up to activists what we were standing there holding anti g.m.o. signs and asked what is a g.m.o. so awareness is very low in terms of what exactly genetically modified foods are let alone the dangers they cause in the capital the protests began with activists going into large grocery stores and retailers trying to ways raise awareness about controversal insecticides which affect the nervous system and have been repeatedly linked to deaths well the demonstration then made its way to the white house all sorts of activists students even young children our gannett farmers caterers chefs so real wide range of people there

global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to. the congress and house hopes to become in more not finished she did. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price the scarce part global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shu

the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions according to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the war blanket because they gave the native americans disease still blankets to kill them and they block their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant tho

in washington have dismissed obama's all. branch out of hand many in iran are just as mistrustful is this quest for peace a fool's errand. to your common life. the face i think you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. welcome back this is r.t. the questions are being raised over the actions of police officers who fatally shot in an armed woman marion barry was killed in front of her a one year old child after she tried to ram her car through barricades at the white house it's still on known what led to her actions details now from our sam sachs. we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut reportedly suffering from mental illnesses including postpartum depression she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist she tried to gain access to a secure area near the white house here in washington d.c. just really a block away from the studio here she was confronted by police sh

giant monsanto reporting from washington and you so now we are. well the company itself insists it is playing a key role in feeding the world's rapidly growing population and maintains that many people already consume g.m. food with no ill effects but jeffrey smith who's written extensively about the dangers of g.m. foods begs to differ. when you look at the animal feeding studies on genetically engineered foods the american academy of environmental medicine they said there's gastrointestinal problems immune system problems excel aerated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are going wrong with the animals that are being fed g m o's and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population since g. of those were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or about acute and poverty so this is just been a public relations fin and they spent two hundred fifty million dollars over five years tryi