the greek government is said to approve more unpopular taxes as a tries to convince european lenders to hand over another slice of the bailout to avert a looming default. greek prime minister is heading to berlin to hold talks with european leaders as the country's debt crisis spirals out of control. the u.n. security council were there is just submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition despite fierce objections from israel and the u.s. with the veto the move. and as the u.k. struggles to create new jobs i made a star horizon unemployment it emerges that nine out of ten positions are being

taken by immigrants. eight am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story greek lawmakers are expected to approve an unpopular property taxes the battle to show that they're serious about tackling the country's debt crisis it's part of the austerity measures that are put together to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to hand over an eight billion euro bailout loan without the funds greece only has enough money to see it through till mid october after that the country could face a fall as part of the latest eurozone rescue plan the e.u. leaders are considering writing off half of greece's debt this comes as the country's been hit by another wave of protests against the cuts later we'll speak with our reporter sara furthur to get more details from apple's. un security council. decided to postpone further discussions around the palestinian bid for

full membership to wednesday this is washington refuses to back down on a promise to block the move in support of its ally israel but artie's marie an important i reports that the palestinians could still gain an elevated status if the world body. the worst kept secret is the fact that the united states says it will veto the palestinian bid for un membership and statehood but nonetheless the palestinians how of submitted an official application for statehood with the united nations now at this point what the palestinians would need would be nine out of fifteen of the security council members to support this application no vetoes but u.s. president barack obama did state last week when he was addressing the general assembly that the only way there could be an independent palestinian state is through direct negotiations and and peace talks between israelis and palestinians washington said

it would cast a veto if it had to but let's remember that u.s. credibility and influence in the middle east is at stake here u.s. president barack obama has been seen supporting the so-called arab spring the tunisians the libyans the egyptians and so for the u.s. to cast a veto now against the aspirations of the palestinians would be as some critics have said hypocritical the palestinians to have another option and that would be to take the vote before the general assembly where they do have the majority of support that would only raise palestine's status at the u.n. to observer state a nonmember observer state but they would be able to file lawsuits at the international criminal court and participate in many forums but at this point it is stuck within the security council with washington pressing very hard for the palestinians to back down and not with them in a position to custody to palestinian envoy riad monsoor address the media following

day one of security council consultations here's a bit of what he had to say we all know in the security council this is this is an exercise in which there will be pressure but so that the number of concrete. on members of the security council but we trust that we have many friends in the council and the relationship between us and a lot of friends is a solid relationship and. the pose of put a sign and they are supportive of justice for the palestinian people palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would return to negotiations only only if israel wants its settlement construction and since that has not happened and since the statement made by the quartet did not include that then the president of palestine said that there is no point in talking this can't be business as usual russia is

a part of the quartet russia the u.s. u.n. and you know russia is one of the many countries that he when that said they would support the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and stay put at statehood but at this point. president abbas is saying that there is no point of returning to negotiations that have continued on for nearly two decades have not resulted in anything no peace plan nothing and just resort back to the way everything has been proceeding so while the international community is trying to come together right now to get both sides back to the negotiation table it seems that the palestinians are really driven and determined to decide the fate of their country. as the u.s. continues to stand by israel washington is coming under fire for a new revelations of its dealings with the country and its claim the white house sold dozens of bunker buster bombs tell of you weapons suited for destroying underground nuclear facilities in iran a deal to buy the bombs during the bush administration in two thousand and five

foundered over concerns that israel had passed technology on to china but now claims have emerged that the weapons were secretly released shortly after obama took office in two thousand and nine observers fear the move could possibly lead to war. obama is putting himself in the position of whether he wants it or not he very well may face a flight of israeli f. sixteen to over raqi airspace and a phone call from benjamin netanyahu saying it's on what he's going to do he's not going to do anything about it or obama has given them everything they need to get us into a war with iran a war that would be a disaster for american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan and bahrain for example for a navy in the persian gulf and for the entire global economy and who knows what kind of repercussions certainly israel will have a whole new fight on their hands with hamas and has a lot their borders and cetera you know if israel was run by secret agent traitors

that had taken over the country they couldn't do worse than they're doing with benjamin netanyahu in power over there and the same thing for netanyahu here in the united states of america they are hell bent on isolating both of us from everyone else in the world on this issue and everything else and if it comes to a war with iran which is very well could with benjamin netanyahu and the prime minister chair over there it would be an absolute disaster but everyone else seems to know that this is a really bad idea and specially when there's nothing to fight about when there just is not a nuclear weapons program one just zero seven this national intelligence estimate of two thousand and eleven came to the very same conclusion again that they're just not making nukes all the hype you hear to the contrary notwithstanding. back to our top story greek lawmakers are expected to approve an unpopular property taxes they fight to show that they're serious about tackling their country's debt for more on this we go live to argue sarah for standing by for us again thanks for being with us sorrow so how exactly is the prime minister planning to convince the e.u.

leaders to hand over the bailout money where austerity measures are we talking about. what we're going to see it has for the. the weekend he's going to be voting as he said i'm not very unpopular property tax here in the country it's going to prove that it's. going to ok so way to close the deficit they have and hopefully to convince the eurozone leaders can save it that ten point eight billion dollars cash injection is going to be needed to keep inflation the prime minister just package a thanks be holding talks in berlin this evening about that really the question here is not whether greece is going to be staying that it's doing these things in passing these measures it's whether or not they're actually going to be able to deliver on that since it is extremely unpopular here in the country the people at the very least at this in these measures are coming again against growing anger here in the country that really is not a case where people want to pay

a lot they simply can't they can't she's really been taken to the brink now in extremely serious situation there's been a lot of talk of greece's eminent before bizarre looking like we have this point. well publicly the line still very much the eurozone leaders that are certainly not thinking at this point greece exiting the euro so that's still very much the public like that privately. people are now planning. on trying to fold if not i can play exit from the usa altogether knows peking professor of constitutional law here in greece yesterday i was talking to him about the meeting away from the financial jargon but what exactly control people even means because it seems always a contradiction in terms of having at a time when the situation seems so out of control have a listen to what is that either we're going to craft a default i default to that we can organize and protect our interests or we're

going to have a kind of bankruptcy you know there were brussels and through the windows i was going to do you is trying to avoid the domino effect so. i was really passionate. from me because the figures from maybe were going to be. sacrificed for them in order to solve this problem is going to force through to measure something necessarily not followed by good work and then disaster is the only possible way you have. well what are you saying about the state there is really very interesting because that's what a lot of experts have been talking about is that really the youth in lead is iconic foods to let greece leave the usa because if greece can go then anyone can go and spectators will then be telling this country such a state and italy and then you really do have a very dangerous situation which could result in the collapse to the entire money

for union together so it does seem that the elite is looking at this control now as a very realistic plan b. and remember right at the very beginning of this there goes the official line again for me his new plan b. . backtracked on that and really a mistake and this growing concern that the situation is going public anger people are now really wondering whether the usa leaders have the political capabilities will even anymore to see this through and to avoid this crisis situation right r.t. sorry for us live for us in our science without. syria's foreign minister has accused foreign governments fueling the unrest in the country this comes as international pressure on syria is growing with us urging more u.n. sanctions russia's approach rivals the u.s. backdraft are urging the warring sides towards dialogue you are now says that more than twenty seven hundred people have been killed by security forces in the

government crackdown this year but if you were him aloof from jordan university says the conflict is being fueled from from abroad with foreign countries financing the opposition. well i think the mosque has already proven that it is very serious a lot and still gaping reform has initiated a series of regulations regarding the media a multi-party system what the opposition unfortunately has been refusing to sit down and dialogue with the regime so the problem here is not the syrian leadership by the opposition which is being encouraged by interference from abroad whether by the gulf cooperation council or the nato will be a kirky especially and other groups working on the ground so i don't know what you define as military intervention but if you have an armed mutiny that is being financed and supported from abroad i don't think you can call that

a peaceful uprising. a little later this hour former nato chief george robertson tells r t that foreign military intervention in syria should hardly be considered as an option. because you can't intervene everywhere doesn't mean that you should intervene with you can't you know the ball is out of the resolution there was a un security council resolution neither of these things apply of the woman to what's happening in syria but then so we at the end it will stay just as it is and it won't take some time to work on their own lives which could be economic political diplomatic let's the period for the mix of cronies and all of. the women of last resort is the military they for the economic diplomatic use political influence to achieve the needs of trying to protect.

the u.k. has been trying hard to reduce its debt but the spending cuts are forcing growing numbers of people out of work how it's come out that what few job vacancies there are going almost exclusively to immigrants who are taking nine out of ten of all new positions or better reports. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since may competitions fears that fathers it's agencies now working for each job so you just find that you know it looks like this that they will get shortlisted a better look at salaries slightly less maybe you can actually go out to college and maybe there's that parts on unemployment now it's eight percent the highest for fifteen years but no matter how hard jamie tries the odds are stacked against him job centers like this one help fill one hundred eighty thousand new vacancies in the last twelve months but only eight percent of those once

a british workers with foreign nationals more successful in the job market nine times out of ten reversing that trend was a key election pledge of a new government promising to slash immigration but a year on it's only increased migration was nearly a quarter of a million last year up to twenty percent on two thousand and nine and britain second biggest annual total ever way off the governments by the target i think we're probably over promising given restrictions that they face didn't make sense to promise a number down to an arbitrary level relation having a more honest debate about the limits on what they could do the government claims its target can be met by capping not on e.u. immigration but that ignores how most are coming from within the e.u. where restrictions don't apply entry numbers to eastern europeans rose point eight times in the last year alone as they continue to cash in on the open borders it's

unlikely that a top of the measures are better now target might come close but it is unlikely to meet it further measures are necessary for others the problem lies at home pretty patel's an m.p. and from an immigrant family herself she knows what it takes to succeed. it says most. thirty forty years ago when you've seen immigrants come to this country what they want to do is they want to work hard and guess hone in on if they really do the families think that sure you know they come pottery you have a tremendous work ethic in this country really it is i think we basically lost some of it was easy to see that at the job center where most i meet with migrant workers the problem is that a lot british people. and they get used to not doing the minimum wage jobs so they need to be forced into taking these jobs and the government claims it's now doing just that it says we are reforming the welfare system to ensure that we in the

benefit dependency which is tracked so many people finally ensure work pays but once the long term unemployed can be forced to look for jobs there's no guarantee they'll get them coming back to the immigration problem the government simply can't keep on keepin its. london. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead a walk in the wilderness for citizens of the streets bergen archipelago in the orchard find out why polar bears have become a much beloved symbol an invaluable source of income but also what hurts. first russia is now looking for a new finance minister after the surprise dismissal of alexei kudrin on monday it's become the first fallout of a plan to reshuffle at the top of the country's politics while your putin has announced he's running for president in two thousand and twelve and holds current president dmitri medvedev would become prime minister couldn't reacting to the news saying he would not serve in the new government if it's headed by

a bit better but medvedev said anyone who doubts his leadership should resign find out more about the possible successors to cruder in our business gordon your way in less than ten minutes. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's new leaders have approved measures to abolish the country's state security. prosecution and courts in hopes of getting rid of the remnants of the old regime this comes as the news that former libyan former rebels breached the colonel qadhafi his hometown of sirte this is been under assault for the last several days with hundreds of civilians fleeing the violence in the area going civil war in libya has claimed the lives of an estimated thirty thousand people. yemeni anti-government activists about to revolt until the end of fall when president ali abdullah saleh speech in which he failed to promise to step down more than one hundred forty people have been killed across the country in the last week in violence that escalated since the president returned to yemen after undergoing

medical treatment abroad more than fifteen hundred people are thought to have died since clashes between anti-government activists and security forces began. three men opened fire on the egyptian pipeline to israel and jordan in sinai causing a large explosion that injured one person and cut off the gas supply it's the sixth such attack on the pipeline since february when former egyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted the extent of the damage caused by the blast is not yet known as you should officials launched a security operation in sinai in august to eliminate hundreds of suspected militants believed to be behind the attacks on the pipeline on the peninsula. a powerful typhoon assad has slammed into the philippines bringing with it heavy rain and wind and wind several fishermen were ported missing well it's also because of the death of a baby who drowned heavy downpours and winds about one hundred seventy kilometers

an hour prompted the closure of government offices and schools in the capital manila scores of domestic flights were cancelled in dryland ferries grounded more than one hundred thousand people were evacuated from flood prone areas. brutal but beautiful for the citizens of the icy arctic archipelago of spitzbergen the polar bear is a common sight despite the obvious dangers there are draw for visitors or kings are cited boyko reports on those who get close to the world and it's in the region's most famous inhabited. bear watching and bearing being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an airport the king of the arctic never lets you know if you sight which is you collecting your bags from the belt and browsing in the souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen spectacular scenery or simply doing the crusher in the plug there is cult of personality here it makes some dictators down south look like team affairs even the archipelago. polar bear is

a good picture. promoting small but. its surroundings since it's also restricted us to you cannot. for polar bears it has become a symbol for this region. but people here always bear in mind big gains longer pm has a higher percentage of gun ownership than any other municipality and don't rate it can't be debating tighter gun controls following july still camp massacre but here are the rules for granting firearms have been a nice. big deal the local taxi driver says he often leaves his cell phone it home but never his reference yet it was little. my friend and i were driving our snowmobiles in the countryside when we saw a polar bear we got pretty close to him even started walking toward us and i realized that i left my signal goodness home it was a close call no i tried to be more careful but home encounters had a happy ending

a seventeen year old british poor was killed and for a few companions injury and a hungry polar bear rampage through their camp in early august. just days before they had left an extended post in a blog post having seen the beer from a distance danger for people traveling in the day they could pray it's very rare i mean have been which has. seventeen police report is yet to be released but local experts believe functioning rifles may have been to blame with twenty five hundred people on three thousand polar bears living on the skids bergen archipelago security is obviously an issue to keep in mind and while locals and tourists are strongly advice to carry firearms at all times being loaded for bear is definitely not the way to go here well the chance of the british teenager shot locals some few killing the very responsible

necessary. the notion that. it's because it's human life it's the only nation with polar bears here from sweden. i. never miss anyone living here realizes that aiding a rifle. is like shooting yourself in the food i think. it's always a scary of the right. based on the dangers of greed and very crudely know the perfect recipe for peaceful coexistence for the majority of spitzbergen on two legs and four side by side and both communities. are long.

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after the problems of the after he publicly stated it would not work on time and that if in the next administration he can meld chief economist at morgan stanley says there are a few candidates to succeed couldn't but all will find it hard to not cut the confidence he inspired. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code knew how to pull of potations on paper but perhaps a personality to be the minister of finance visit last year the central bank governor of new works in the ministry of finance business you can it was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor first of all could reach the president's economic advisor those deputy ministers are going to define it such a store track you have a capacity to suit your fulfill the role want to be treated as the track record he has the credibility and you don't build it up overnight on russia needs a steady hand almost just until today. taking a look at the markets now oil prices are heading up amid speculation that the

european central bank may alleviate the region's selvin debt crisis boosting growth and fuel finance by sweetness trading at eighty one dollars about this hour while brant is at one hundred five dollars per hour and markets in asia are on the rise after reports that policymakers are considering new plans to support european countries struggling with debt or national stocks are leading the rally in a cave balls with the syndrome usually and you can be sure financial groups gaining around three percent and commodities sector firms are among the best performers in hong kong only incorporation of china as of five percent an all time group over six percent in the uk. and it's less than two hours before the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets closed makes gold monday the r.t.s. and it floods negative on my sixty one and cents. russian market saw swift and two positive start to the week out news the finance minister alex inclusions resignation was under creepy fco at rangers capital says investors

should brace themselves for further bad news from the e.u. . yes there's morning when students just call the t.v. station in the f. and. d. students will not just invade the problem and. everything will be fine i think that movement can continue. for the moment when the next make it through for news from here was and will count eyeballed the voting in germany yes it will not be that smooth but it mostly depends on the position or frontal america. officials over you central bank and your money. we'll see by the markets that's why we get in the interest of the street and then they think that. it's not over. that's a business update for this hour from all stories check our website www dot com

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in two thousand and ten the special economic zone for industrial production was established in russia similar region with a total area of six hundred sixty ekta as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a fleet customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of information sees the some our region as he said is currently witnessing a surge in infrastructure construction.