RussiaToday-Video-News-World:Re-orientation: UK woos China as clock ticks toward US default

The clock's ticking towards US default - but some Western nations are wasting no time in turning east. China is catching their eye - and even America's closest ally, Britain, has been sending the country's top brass to woo Beijing. China earlier called on the world to start to, quote, 'de-Americanise'. Polly Boiko reports on the shifting attitudes.



Prominent opposition figure Aleksey Navalny and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov have been given a suspended sentence in their embezzlement trial. Navalny has indicated that his team is going to appeal the sentence.


America's National Security Agency could soon see its global survillance powers stunted, as foreign governments and firms move to bolster their cyber defenses. 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 NSA's grasp. Andy Müller-Maguhn, founder of Bugged-Planet Dot info - a Wikileaks partner website - thinks that merely rerouting data is not enough to ensure privacy.


Don't miss RT's special report from Syria on October 18, 19. Maria Finoshina reports from fragmenting rebel-held territories.


With the deadline looming US lawmakers have agreed on a deal to raise the country's debt limit, and reboot the government. It will now have to be approved by both Republicans and Democrats infighting between whom brought the world's richest nation to the brink of default.


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